[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al":3,"chapter-apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-chapter-192":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1713706,2189,"Chapter 192: 192: Encounter a Test?","apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-chapter-192",192,"\u003Cp>Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Encounter a Test?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get out of the way!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the midst of alarmed shrieks, that speeding Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon tore through the oppressive darkness of the world like a rose-red streak of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Already crowded with people standing, sitting, or lying down, the scene outside the base entrance was chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those people, upon seeing the car coming out, had pupils that contracted, but while their minds reacted, their frozen bodies clearly did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They panicked, trying to get up to dodge, but there were still those who were too slow; they were hit by the car with a “bang” and sent flying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ow!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My leg!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mommy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, screams of pain, wails of anguish, and cries filled the air continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the right bank, which had also been crowded with people, the bloodied scene prompted everyone to hurriedly clear a path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Mercedes turned sleekly around the corner, the window on the passenger side opened slightly, and a hand with delicate fair skin and brightly polished nails “smacked” a ripped bag out of the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the window rapidly closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The contents spilling from the bag appeared to be corn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden kernels of corn mixed with the black dust, garbage on the ground, snot, spit, and other contaminants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one was put off by it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crowd surged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the scramble for the corn, a flurry of punches and kicks ensued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stirring up a cloud of black dust and splashes of blood among the crowd, the car sped off toward the other side of the bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It swiftly disappeared from everyone’s sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan, witnessing the entire scene, couldn’t help but take a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warriors at the base entrance and the staff in the containers acted like statues frozen in place, turning a blind eye to everything that had just occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those who were injured didn’t ask for their help at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were too busy fighting over the contaminated corn on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s mine! This is my compensation for getting hit! Don’t you dare steal it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s mine! My mom’s leg was crushed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little bitch! Gimme that!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arguments, curses, and the sound of fighting once again erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first one to reach the corn bag was a young boy, but he was quickly overpowered and knocked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bag then ended up in the hands of a middle-aged man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, a man and a woman, poking eyes and nostrils, wrestled the corn bag away from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two, grabbing the bag, got up and sprinted away frantically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest pitter-pattered after them in pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Dai stared, speechless for a second: “This—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others were also taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan had only seen such absurd scenes in movies and TV shows before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she never imagined that one day it would happen right beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cough cough cough!” Those without coverings for their mouths and noses, who were already coughing, now coughed even more violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These people—” Song Qian clenched his fist, wanting to chase after the Mercedes, but was held back by Sun Jingtao, “Brother Song, don’t be impulsive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, no one could outrun a car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the child who had been crying and making a fuss had scrambled up from the ground, dodging the rose-red Mercedes in a rush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group that had been preparing to accost them was also scared into huddling together by the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed to be very afraid of that vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t simply the fear of getting hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was more of a dread and fear you could see in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan and Ye Qing had quickly stepped back a few steps the moment the car crazily drove out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car was very fast and its side and windshield were tinted dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outsiders simply couldn’t see whether the driver was a man or a woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Jiang Yan managed to make out the license plate, Xiang Base 1-88888.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a standard license plate from before the apocalypse—it looked more like a homemade plate from Xiangcheng First Base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that hand that threw out the corn, painted with nail polish, slim and pale white, obviously belonged to a woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman who, even in such apocalyptic times, could still live a pampered life, unaffected in the least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She narrowed her eyes and turned to Old Xue, “Old Xue, do you know who’s in that car?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I, I don’t know,” Old Xue’s gaze trembled with fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where are they headed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I, I don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Xue was reticent, repeating his ignorance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then, what’s in the direction the Mercedes went?” Jiang Yan switched her question, nodding toward the direction the rose-red Mercedes had gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where they stood wasn’t truly a riverbank but more like an area of a city that had been partially submerged after the flooding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the direction the Mercedes drove toward appeared to be the outskirts of the base, apart from spiked roadblocks, there was nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Xue’s eyes flinched before he spoke in a low voice, “To the communal bunk B area, or maybe the mine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the dust began to settle, the whispers and chatter of the surrounding people picked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such a flashy color, it must be a woman, so arrogant!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not necessarily a woman; some men like flashy stuff too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Terrifying!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t those warriors going to do anything?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you see? They gave corn as compensation…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?! Hitting people like that, with more than one person injured, and just a bag of corn counts as compensation?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you getting so worked up for? Even the people involved aren’t making a fuss. Besides, can those even be considered human? They’re worse than ants!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, the apocalypse takes out the ‘saints’ first…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s possible his dad is someone powerful… after all, we can’t even get enough food or clothing, and they can still drive a luxury car…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Scared to death, luckily we were far away!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This base doesn’t look safe! Maybe we should stay out, honey!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we don’t go in, where else can we go? Outside we’ll just starve or freeze to death; inside, there’s at least a chance at life…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ones bold enough to gossip were mostly refugees newly arrived at the bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for those who had already been in Xiangcheng, their eyes showed nothing but fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with legs crushed or arms smashed off, with heads bloodied and gashed open, they could only bear the pain in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobody dared to utter another word; their wariness toward the car and the person inside it was not ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yan’s gaze lingered on the crowd that had earlier come to con them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her look and the blood-stained butcher’s knife in her hand, they quickly took the little girl and headed in the direction where the Mercedes had come from, disappearing into the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They did as I suspected; these people likely came to test us,” Sun Jingtao kept a distance from Old Xue as he murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, he looked around warily, scanning the surroundings and the interior of the base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But apart from the roadblocks reaching shoulder height and the containers, he saw nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Dai expressed confusion, “Husband, what do you mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1228,"2026-06-06T15:07:16.289Z",1,"novelbin.me","28c0bf71379c45c47cc6dcf0aec69a2e2c6ab334b6fe1592db86c810d445ccfe","apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-chapter-193","apocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-chapter-191",469,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fapocalypse-after-being-reborn-i-stocked-up-on-al-cover.jpg"]