Chapter 6: The Meeting Starts
Chu Miao headed to the library as she wanted to read a certain book she had seen a long time ago. It was a book that talked about refining souls.
She had only read a small part of the book about how to counter and refine souls that tried to possess as a way of protection. But she wanted to see if she would find something to explain her situation.
She walked into the library and found the book easily. She spent the next three hours reading and finally found what she was looking for. Only after reading did she understand what the priestess had said about her soul not being complete and needing the other half for summoning.
She remembered it was because of this that her grandfather gave her the ancient space ring that was a family heirloom, and for some reason, it recognized her as its master when no one else had been able to do the same for generations.
Once she had the answer she was looking for, she didn’t linger as she knew dinner would be served in less than two hours. She knew that with the information she had found and her space, her family would definitely believe her about the apocalypse.
Hence, she decided to spend the next two hours creating a list of the things they needed to buy to prepare and survive in the apocalypse.
She took a notebook and a pen and started writing everything she could think of. First, it was food; all types of food, including different types of rice, flour, oil, condiments, corn flour, and other staples.
There was also a list of fruits and vegetables such as mushrooms, spinach, bok choy, cabbages, kale, and others.
There was also another list of different types of meat such as beef, pork, chicken, ducks, geese, and processed meat like sausages, bacon, and ham.
They also needed to stockpile on sauces and seasonings.
She created a list of grains such as green beans, yellow beans, soya beans, and every other grains she could think of. She only wrote a rough draft and her family would refine it later. She just wanted to give them an idea depending on what she had read in apocalyptic novels.
They also needed to move to higher ground, particularly the penthouse her grandfather had given her for her eighteenth birthday. It was built in a new community close to the city and the ground was higher in case of floods. The penthouse was on the twentieth floor, which is the top floor, and there were no neighbors. Each floor has one house, giving people privacy.