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Chapter 03
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2026-10-08 01:34:46[Toilet detected. Original price: 315 dollars. Reward: 30 cubic feet of space.]
"Store." I pulled hard on the wrench one last time. The bolts snapped loose, and the toilet vanished right in front of me. Only a dark hole in the floor was left behind. I sat back on the bathroom tiles, breathing hard. Sweat ran down my face, and my arms were shaking. In my past life, I could lift a grown man and throw him over a wall. Ten years of fighting zombies made me strong. I looked down at my thin arms and soft hands. My skills came back with me, but this body is still too weak. I need to start training right away. Maple poked her nose through the doorway and sniffed the hole in the floor. She looked up at me like she was asking a question. "I know, girl." I wiped my forehead and stood up. "They think they can just walk in here and move in without lifting a finger? Dream on." I grabbed the wrench again. "I won't leave them a single screw." [Wash basin detected. Original price: 210 dollars. Reward: 21 cubic feet of space.] "Store." The sink disappeared. Water dripped from the broken pipe on the wall. I twisted the valve shut and moved on. The kitchen cabinets went next. Then the stove, the fridge, and the microwave. I pulled down the curtains and the curtain rods. I even took the doorknobs off the doors. My eyes landed on the light bulb above my head. [10-watt bulb detected. Original price: 6 dollars. Reward: 0 cubic feet of space.] I rolled my eyes. "Cheap. But I'm still taking it." "Store." The room went dark. [Time's up. Total space: 31,450 cubic feet.] I stood in the middle of the empty apartment. The walls were bare. The floors were scratched. Wires hung from the ceiling. It looked like a shell. A ghost of a home. Perfect. I picked up Maple's leash and clipped it to her collar. "Let's go, Maple," I said. "Time to move." --- Two hours later, Trent pushed open the front door with a big grin on his face. His fiancée, Kelsey, walked in right behind him, holding his arm. "Honey, look!" Trent spread his arms wide. "Our new home. Over twelve hundred square feet, right in the middle of downtown. We can move in today. Everything is ready." Kelsey stepped forward. Her smile slowly dropped. She looked at the empty living room. At the wires hanging from the ceiling. At the bare kitchen wall where the cabinets used to be. "Trent," she said slowly. "Are you kidding me?" "What?" Trent turned around. His mouth fell open. "*This* is what you call a fully furnished house?" Kelsey's voice got louder. She marched into the bathroom and screamed. "There's no toilet! There's just a hole in the floor!" Trent's face turned bright red. His hands curled into fists. "That witch Zora!" He yanked his phone out of his pocket. "I'm calling her right now. How dare she rip the house apart like this?" He pressed the phone to his ear. "The number you have dialed is currently busy or cannot be reached." Trent threw his phone against the wall. --- Far away from the city, I stood at the mouth of a dark tunnel cut into the side of a rocky hill. Thick trees surrounded the entrance. Vines crawled over the old concrete walls. The nearest town was over an hour away. "Miss Ashworth." The land agent, Mr. Hollis, pushed his glasses up his nose and looked at me strangely. "I have to ask. Why do you want to rent this old bunker? Nobody has used it in forty years." I kept my eyes on the tunnel. "I'm starting a business." "A business? Out here?" "Growing mushrooms," I said. "They like the dark." Mr. Hollis laughed nervously, but he didn't ask again. *The truth is, bunkers in the city will become zombie buffets. Too many people. Too many doors. When the dead come, they'll break in from every side.* This tunnel at Coldbrook Ridge is different. It's far away, deep in the rock, with only one way in. It's the perfect fortress. Mr. Hollis pulled a paper out of his folder and handed me a pen. "Please sign it now, Miss Ashworth." He smiled a little too widely. "But I have to warn you. Once you sign, there's no backing out. No refunds. Okay?" I could see it in his eyes. He thought I was a silly city girl wasting her money on a hole in a mountain. He thinks I'm a fool. But I won't bother warning him about what's coming. I signed my name quickly and handed the paper back. Ten years in the apocalypse taught me one thing. Never warn people who don't want to listen. Ignorant people will drag you down with them. Mr. Hollis tucked the paper away and hurried back to his car. In a minute, he was gone. I turned on my flashlight and walked into the tunnel. Maple stayed close beside me, her ears up. The air was cool and damp. Our footsteps echoed off the stone walls. After a few minutes, I heard something. Drip. Drip. Drip. I followed the sound around a corner and stopped. A small stream of clear water ran out of a crack in the rock wall. It gathered in a little stone pool on the ground. I knelt down and cupped some in my hands. It was ice-cold and clean. "Natural spring water," I whispered. My heart jumped. "And it doesn't come from the city." When the city water gets poisoned, people will kill each other for one bottle. This is a priceless treasure. I stood up and shined my flashlight along the wall. Old wires ran across the ceiling. A rusty metal box hung near the next corner, covered in dust. I wiped it off with my sleeve and smiled. Once I get a generator, I can easily bring power back to this whole bunker.
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