Apocalypse: Starting with Billions in Supplies and Renting Out an Underground City

Bu TianmeiZongheng Chinese Network2023

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706K words

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Featured Fiction Premium Web Fiction SuperpowersApocalypseSci-FiPost ApocalypticPast-Life MemoryRebirthHumorousFast-Paced Fiction

Summary

Gu Xiaoyun, the strongest human in the apocalypse, is struck by a meteorite ten years after the outbreak and unexpectedly reborn a month and a half before it all begins. He awakens an unlimited storage space. Armed with memories of his past life and the wealth of the Gu Group, he goes on a frantic stockpiling spree—buying top-grade ingredients and all manner of supplies by the ton, spending billions, and setting about building an underground city. When the apocalypse arrives, he holed up in his underground city, living as a landlord collecting rent, while meeting and recruiting powerful figures from his past life such as Xu Huohuo. The story revolves around stockpiling and business management, running the underground city, and survival antics in the apocalypse—the protagonist enjoys fine food while using his supernatural abilities and supplies to maneuver among various factions.

Editor's review

This is a typical apocalypse hoarding power fantasy. It opens with exaggerated hoarding—"buying by the ton, spending a billion"—and the underground city landlord meme to create dense humor; the reborn invincible protagonist's effortless-win feeling is strong, making it suitable for readers seeking light stress relief. The early supply-prep arc is brisk and fun, but as readers have noted, the power system and main plot become looser in the mid-to-late stages, the satisfying beats are hard to sustain, and the plot direction feels adrift; readers seeking rigorous settings should lower their expectations.

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Reading tips

  1. Read it as a light stress-relief power fantasy; do not take the power system too seriously.
  2. The early hoarding and underground city management are the main highlights; focus on them.
  3. When the pace loosens in the mid-to-late stages, switch to skimming or follow the main plot.

About the publisher

Zongheng Chinese Network

Zongheng Chinese Network is a publishing platform focused on online literature, with a catalog of approximately 10,899 titles. Its output covers common categories such as women's fiction, ancient romance, men's fiction, urban fiction, and alternate history, and it also maintains a premium fiction section to serve readers with different preferences. Representative titles include Marrying the Powerful Eunuch, Stealing Fragrance, The Whole Army Forms Up, The Ugly Poison Consort Turns the Tables from the Start, Super Dad, The Substitute Bride Is a Contrarian, Sword Out of Beiming, and Record of Cultivating the Mind, spanning ancient romance, urban life, and alternate history. The platform brings together authors such as Shi Yi Qing Qing, Zou Guo Qing Chun Sui Yue, Zhi Bai, Meng Huan Yang Guang, Dan Wang Zhang, Jiu Yue Jiu, Xing Luo Ping Chuan, and Zhu Ben Wu Xin, forming a roster characterized by serialized genre fiction. Public information on the publisher's founding background is limited; this profile is based solely on the catalog's publication directions and content features.

FAQ

Is this book completed? It is completed on Zongheng Chinese Network, with 345 chapters and about 700,000 words.
Does the protagonist have a romance line? The focus is on hoarding and management with satisfying beats; the romance line is light.

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About the author

Bu Tianmei Author

Bu Tianmei is a Chinese-language web-fiction author who publishes under the name Bu Tianmei. Publicly available information about this author is limited: their nationality, dates of birth and death, educational background and writing career cannot be reliably verified. The library holds one work by this author, Apocalypse: Starting with Billions in Supplies and Collecting Rent in an Underground City, which is categorized as a premium novel and high-quality web fiction. Judging from the title and category, the work is an apocalypse-themed web novel built around its opening premise of possessing enormous supplies and collecting rent within an underground city, giving it a clear focus on resource management and survival. Web fiction of this kind typically emphasizes a fast-paced opening, a direct premise and concentrated reader appeal. Given the limited public information, the author's overall style and influence require further attention to the text itself; on the available evidence, their creative output centers on this single apocalypse-themed work.