Chapter 12: Buying a Knife

Lan Ke stood in front of the French window, staring coldly at the city lights outside.

Because it's New Year's Day, many people sleep late. Watching the New Year's Day evening party and the fireworks, it was quite lively, but no one noticed that just after the clock struck at twelve midnight, the night became a bit denser than before.

However, after the black fog in space completely shrouded the entire world, the people on earth were affected one after another.

At the time of the black fog, the earth was immersed in darkness at night and no one discovered except for the relevant personnel. When the sky gets dark during the day on the day side of the earth, everyone will notice.

The high-level officials of various countries were alarmed, because after all, the satellites and space stations have failed, and all aspects related to satellites on earth were seriously affected.

The paralysis of the navigation system alone and the inability to locate it will have a terrible impact on traffic and military affairs. Moreover, without communication satellites, cross-border communications have become a problem.

The only good news is that although the black fog has affected the satellites, it has no effect on the Internet on earth. Therefore, humans can still communicate through the Internet.

Unfortunately, all of this is only temporary. When the global mutation starts, monsters will appear one after another and when the power system is paralyzed, the Internet will simply fall apart.

Turning on the mobile phones, the map APP can still be opened normally, but the navigation function has completely failed. Lan Ke opened her Weibo and searched at random. Sure enough, quite a few people were complaining.

It's not that the satellite TV at home was suddenly out of signal, only that the navigation function fails.

Fortunately, it's still early in the morning. The high-level officials will not announce the truth to cause public panic. Most of the people were still immersed in their sleep and only a small number have discovered the problem, not only did it not cause panic, but even many parties did not care.

Lan Ke sighed heavily. She had already fallen asleep at this time in her previous life and was unaware that the Earth had already changed drastically. It wasn't until the next day that she woke up and found that the sun did not rise as usual, so she hurriedly checked the information online.

The people aren't fools. After discovering that the Earth was shrouded in darkness, many rumors of the "end of the world" appeared on the Internet, and some rushed into supermarkets and convenience stores to buy food to hoard at home.

She was like this at the time, but she didn't have much money and could only buy less food even if she had spent all of her savings. When she went out, she was almost robbed by a thug!

In fact, on the first day of darkness, the people were still a little sane, but as the darkness became longer and longer, people became more and more panicked and violent. At first, it was just some small people taking the opportunity to make a fortune at night, but gradually more and more people joined in. From robbery, it gradually escalated to fighting and finally turned into killing, and even rape!

Someone secretly took videos with their phones and posted it on the Internet, so more and more people were afraid to go out. Until the black rain fell, the earth was once again ushered in light and a lot of people directly cried with joy.

At that time, Lan Ke was like them, naively thinking that everything was over, until... she saw those cannibal monsters.

Lan Ke took a shower while recalling the past and the warm water ran gently on her skin, so comfortable that she wanted to sigh.

Lan Ke's mood is a little heavy. The end of the century has already begun and the world will soon become hell. Although she has hoarded a lot of supplies, her current comfortable life is one day less.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, Lan Ke opened her eyes on time. When she opened the curtains, it wasn't only pitch black, but there was also a thick fog. In the darkness, the light from the car lights and street lights was extremely weak.

Lan Ke calmly got up to wash and made a rich breakfast to fill her stomach. Then she did not go out, but continued to prepare food.

After 7 days of darkness, was a 3 days of black rain and global mutation will only begin after the black rain falls. In these 10 days, there will be no network, water and gas, and the outside world will become more and more chaotic. Her money has been almost spent and all the supplies that should be prepared are ready, and she doesn't plan to go out for the next 10 days.

She needs to prepare as much cooked food as possible to store in her inventory space before the power, water and gas are cut off. Her inventory space has a fresh keeping function and the time inside is basically static. What things look like when they are put in would be the same when they are taken out.

When the earth becomes hell, electricity and water will become luxury items, so it won't be easy to cook. Lan Ke was born again, so she didn't want to waste the next 10 days in vain.

Out of the 7 days of darkness, 4 days have quickly passed, during which, occasionally, someone would violently smash the door and even try to pry the lock open, but all of them were scared away by the sound simulated by Babao. No matter who the person outside the door was, Lan Ke ignored everything and was busy preparing cooked food.

The Internet is still working. Once online, it was full of news about various violent incidents and the situation has become increasingly chaotic.

As usual, Lan Ke would go to the system's trading area to set up a stall at 12:00 PM every day. Because of her fame, her business was pretty good.

On this day, when Lan Ke set up her stall, she saw Ruthless Swordsman again. Lan Ke was taken aback when she saw him. They hadn't seen each other for several days since their meeting last time.

Lan Ke was selling kebabs and seeing that Ruthless Swordsman wants to buy, she quickly said: "Can you wait first? I have prepared a gift for you and I have something to discuss with you by the way."

Ruthless Swordsman gave Lan Ke a surprised look and nodded. He didn't leave after buying kebabs, but specifically waited to the side. After all the customers in the queue had finished buying, Lan Ke immediately closed her stall, took out a tightly sealed earthen jar and handed it to Ruthless Swordsman and said: "This my gift, please accept it."

Ruthless Swordsman accepted it quietly and then asked, "What do you want to discuss with me?"

"Oh right, I have taken a fancy to a knife in your shop and want to buy it, but I don't have enough trading points in my hand. Can I owe it first?" Lan Ke was afraid that Ruthless Swordsman would disagree, so she added, "You know my cooking skills. Besides, I drew a middle-grade pond some time ago and I will only earn more and more money in the future, and I will definitely return the trading points I owe you."

"Why are you buying a knife? Are you in danger?" Ruthless Swordsman asked curiously. His private shop sells all kinds of murder weapons and the prices are not low. He doesn't think that this Master of Delicacies was buying a knife just to watch and play with it.

There was only one possibility; she needs that knife to defend herself!

Lan Ke was not surprised that Ruthless Swordsman could guess her reason. This person has always made her feel baffled and the merchandise sold in his shop are all unique and obviously not simple.

So she only hesitated for a moment before deciding to tell a part of the truth: "Four days ago, the world where I live was shrouded in darkness and violence is increasing. I must prepare a weapon for self-defense."

She didn't say anything about the apocalypse, otherwise there was no way to explain why she could predict the future.

"I can sell it to you." Ruthless Swordsman seemed to be a kind-hearted man, "If you are in trouble, you can send me a private message. If you need my help, I will definitely help you."

Lan Ke was also not hypocritical and said: "Thank you! I have written down this favor. If you want to eat something, you can also come find me."