Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies
Chapter 316: Stone Rain

Chapter 316: Stone Rain

The supermarket was well defended and could repel the stones, but others couldn’t.

Neither could the houses of the base.

The sudden stone rainfall from the sky instantly killed many people.

The day before, they had all been happy, but now, they had no way to be happy anymore.

No matter how many times Lin Murong had seen such scenes, he still found it very upsetting.

"Galaxy, why, why is this happening? What did we do wrong? Why is it that every time, each time we’re about to welcome the light... even just when we’ve grasped a bit of hope, does greater despair come our way?" Why can’t they just be continuously happy?

"I don’t know," Su Yinhe didn’t know how to comfort him.

She felt quite distressed herself.

The people who came to shop here yesterday were all joyful, but today...

Today, she didn’t know if anyone would come.

The stone rain outside didn’t look like it would stop any time soon.

"I really hate this," Lin Murong said as his eyes began to redden while looking at the situation.

He hadn’t actually seen anyone get hit and killed in front of him, but just by looking at the stones outside, he could imagine it.

Imagine how many people lost their lives because of this stone rain.

He could picture the horrific scene outside.

Lin Murong didn’t want to think about it, but he couldn’t help it.

His mind would wander there.

Chi Yan, on the other hand, showed no expression, but he didn’t seem happy looking outside either.

At this time, no one would be happy.

Watching and sighing, Su Yinhe felt her compassion rising again.

She would help out just a little bit, she supposed.

Sigh.

She really couldn’t be a pure businessperson; she couldn’t be like Zhou Bapi.

She still had compassion.

Su Yinhe sometimes hated herself for it.

On one hand, she envied her old boss for exploiting her employees so well that even if it rained needles from the sky, that skinflint boss would still not let them skip work. So after opening her supermarket, she thought about emulating that.

That’s how one could make more money, after all.

But on the other hand, she had a bit of kindness.

She couldn’t bear to see too many people getting hurt or dying.

Many times, she thought she had grown accustomed to seeing departures and deaths, but when the moment truly came, she realized she hadn’t.

She was still a person who could be soft-hearted.

She looked at those scenes and simply couldn’t treat them as normal.

"With someone like me, I really am not cut out for making a lot of money." Luckily, the way she made her money was different.

If it weren’t for her system, she estimated she would never have been able to make so much money in her lifetime.

Actually, not even a fraction of it.

"Why?" Chi Yan was somewhat puzzled.

"Because I’m destined to be a pauper." A person with too much compassion cannot become rich.

"How can that be?" Chi Yan ruffled her hair.

"How can it not? There’s no helping it. I’m just too kind," Su Yinhe spread her hands helplessly.

Although Su Yinhe wanted to help them, she wasn’t the kind to give things away for free.

Asking her to give away things without a cost was out of the question.

She couldn’t just freely give away to everyone in such a huge base; they might take her for a fool.

That wasn’t acceptable.

So, she launched a promotion.

A buy-one-get-one-free event.

The supermarket could afford discounts, but that was a bit of a hassle, and Su Yinhe was a bit lazy, so she simply created a buy-one-get-one-free offer.

Her promotion was unlike the buy-one-get-one-free offers in her world’s supermarkets—hers were genuine, buy one item and get another of the same item free.

In her world’s supermarkets, a buy-one-get-one-free typically meant buying one item and getting a smaller, different item for free.

Anyway, it wasn’t a literal buy one, get the same one.

But Su Yinhe was different; she was straightforward.

But even though she organized this activity, no one came for the time being.

Because that stone rain was still falling outside.

These stones were not meteorites but the ordinary ones, big and small, all kinds.

"Who knows where these stones come from? Stones can’t possibly grow legs and fly," Lin Murong looked up at the sky, frowning so deeply a fly could get trapped.

"But... it’s not impossible, right?" This is the apocalypse, and anything could mutate.

It was possible for stones, too.

Lin Murong frowned, growing even more troubled.

But then the problem arose.

"When will this stone rain stop?" It couldn’t just keep falling, could it?

Then even if she offered a "buy one, get ten free" deal, no one would come.

If the stone rain continued falling, even the most powerful Superpower User couldn’t just stay outside.

Constantly getting hit.

Chi Yan and his group, on the other hand, might...

Su Yinhe glanced at Chi Yan.

Noticing her gaze, Chi Yan turned his head, meeting her eyes, and then smiled.

Su Yinhe turned her head back.

He was tempting.

Really.

Dammit.

She liked it a lot.

No, no, think of something else.

At a time like this, don’t think about such unspeakable things.

She needed to be serious.

"It should stop," Chi Yan looked up at the sky, where stones were still falling, but he spoke with certainty.

His words carried "should," but his tone was very sure.

"Why do you think so?" Su Yinhe was very curious as to why he was so sure.

Lin Murong was also curious; he didn’t know why.

How could Chi Yan know?

Wasn’t Chi Yan just staying in the supermarket with him?

"Because... this world won’t exterminate humanity completely." There would be a chance for them to catch their breath, as it had been before.

"Hopefully it’s as Brother Chi says," Lin Murong hoped. Otherwise, they... really wouldn’t survive.

He was on the verge of tearing up again.

Whimpering.

He really felt upset just thinking about how many people would die.

He used to be more cold-blooded, not terribly saddened by knowing many would die.

But perhaps because he had been in the supermarket for so long, seeing so many die en masse, something he hadn’t seen or felt in a long time, disturbed him deeply.

Seeing it again, his heart ached.

His heart, it hurt so much.

This time, Chi Yan was right.

The stone rain lasted for three or four days but eventually stopped.

By then, many people had already died.

Many had died at Happiness Base, and the entire base was suffused with a sense of sorrow.

And a scent of blood.

Too many people had not managed to find shelter in time when the stone rain started, or their havens were too fragile.

They died like that.

Those who had survived were numb.

Many of the survivors had watched their loved ones get crushed to death right before their eyes.

They had been in agony watching them die, but trapped there, having watched their loved ones’ corpses for three or four days, they had already cried themselves out.

So, at this time, they were not crying anymore.

They were just quietly, silently, collecting the bodies.

Those they knew and those they didn’t, they collected all.