All Chapters of Tale of Coming Ice Age: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

Before my Porsche even got off the highway from the airport, the soft little voice in my womb burst out again. "Mom, this blizzard is supposed to last two years! We can't just renovate the manor. We need to stock up, too! Not just food, but we need blankets, winter gear, things like that. Firewood would be even better, and hunting rifles too."My legs almost went weak, and I almost hit the gas instead of the brake.Was the boy trying to scare me?I pulled onto the emergency lane, then took a deep breath and rubbed my belly. "Son, did your memories get scrambled during your reincarnation? We live in the twenty-first century now. We have heated floors at home, and we didn't need hunting rifles for food a long time ago."'Who said his memory's scrambled? Just do what he said! In our last life, when the extreme cold hit, the whole world was thrown into another ice age. The people who froze to death turned into zombies! My brother and I died when the zombies bit into our necks!'Th

With Hayden's silent approval, I grew bolder.But the prize money I had won from the lottery was already gone, and the card he had just raised the limit on had been maxed out again. The high-end renovation materials I needed cost tens of thousands. That last renovation payment was weighing on my mind, and I couldn't rest easy.Hayden had been so busy with company matters lately that he barely had time to rest, and I couldn't bring myself to ask him again. After all, everything I was doing was no different from going insane to him.After thinking it over, I turned my attention to the safe.Inside was an entire cabinet of car keys, along with dozens of paperwork for properties in other cities, all trophies from my travels around the world."Mom! That square key! Isn't that the yacht key Uncle X gave you? That yacht can be traded for a high-powered heating system and several truckloads of Wagyu beef. Hurry up and sell it!"I made the decision immediately and listed all the cars an

It stayed that way until dawn broke and the first ray of morning light came in through the gap in the curtains.The sun was bright, and the wind was gentle, as if nothing had ever happened.I looked around at the mountain of cans, the cases of bottled water, and the cold weather suit on me that was as heavy as armor. Only one thought remained in my mind.Public humiliation.This was not a home. It was the set of a doomsday prepper reality TV show.Hayden took off his vest, tossed it onto the sofa, and rubbed his stiff shoulders and neck. He didn't laugh at me. He simply walked over and gently patted my head. "It's fine. Think of it as stocking up early for the Christmas holidays that are coming anyway. With what we have, we can invite every friend and family over and throw parties until next winter without running out."I buried my face in the cushion. I didn't want to face the world anymore.-For the next three days, everything was so calm and peaceful. It felt like the cal

On the day the snow stopped, I rolled up the reinforced shutter. Sunlight finally arrived, falling softly on my face.In the distance, the city had become a gray-white scene, like a pencil sketch faintly erased by an eraser.I stepped through the waist-high crust of ice and handed the last bag of ration bars to my "temporary workers."They lined up in a crooked queue, their jackets worn to a shine. However, they all consciously left the middle spot empty.That was where Tina had once stood.She didn't live to see the snow stop.Three nights ago, she had taken advantage of a shift change to climb over the wall, trying to sneak into the basement storage. In the end, she stepped on the ice shards she didn't clear during the day. She fell from the thirty-foot fence, and her neck snapped.Hayden said that she had shouted with her last breath toward the lit window of our manor to just give her a sip of hot water.After hearing that, I only screwed the lid of the thermos tighter.The