It was five in the early morning when Grace stepped inside the villa in the Infinite Realm. Somehow, she woke up an hour earlier than her set time and failed to go back to sleep. Hence, she decided to utilize the time.
The previously spacious and empty living room on the ground floor of the villa was now filled with dozens and dozens of furniture, kitchenware, antiques, and what not. And all these items came from one place - the now destroyed Blackwood Mansion.
Grace let out a deep sigh as she looked at the mess she ended up creating the night she was shifting the items from the Mansion inside the villa. Since she was in a hurry that night, she just randomly threw everything inside.
"Finally you are planning to clean all this mess. I have been getting dizzy every time I saw the situation of this place." 2025 commented as it suddenly appeared there in the living room.
Grace totally ignored the creature and its comment while stepping forward to start fixing the place. Since she was going to spend a lot of time in that villa, she needed to furnish it properly and prepare everything in advance for herself.
She started with shifting the bed, bedside tables, couches, bean bags, and a small coffee table in the bedroom. Then she shifted all the kitchen related items in the kitchen. She used one of the decent size rooms on the ground floor as her future study and shifted the big mahogany desk, several wooden shelves and a chair in that room.
Finally, she set up the living room before shifting her attention to the items that were for decor. The first one was the family portrait, followed by the items that once used to belong to her family.
She tried to save as much as possible before she set the mansion on fire, but she couldn’t save everything in there to avoid attracting attention from the authorities and media.
By the time she finished setting up the ground floor, the place looked way more decent for living compared to before. Yet, there was still way too much that she needed to prepare in order to make the place comfortable enough for living.
Once she was done with the work, she returned to the real world and progressed with her daily activities. At eight in the morning, she finally drove her car out of the community and headed toward her destination.
Twenty minutes later, she was entering a retail shop to place another big order under the disguise of Ms. Brown.
A young male employee greeted her politely before asking her what she was looking to buy.
"I want to place a bulk order, about 100,000 pieces of each product." Grace informed him only for the employee to stare at her with a dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Is something wrong?" She asked and watched as her question finally pulled him out of his trance. He quickly pulled himself together and shook his head while replying, "No. There’s nothing wrong. Let me call my manger since you are going to place such a big order."
Merely three minutes later, a woman in her mid-thirties joined Grace with a bright smile plastered on her face. "I heard you are here with a big order. May I know what you want to buy and how much?"
Grace wasted no further time and answered. "I want to buy 100,000 pieces of each of these products - toilet paper, soap bars, dry shampoo, shampoo and conditioner, hair oil and serum, hairbrush and combs, hairties and bands, toothbrush and toothpaste, dental floss, face cleanser, moisturizer, sunscreen, lip balm, facial wipes, face mist or hydration spray, body wipes, body lotion, body powder, petroleum jelly, deodorant, antifungal powder, insect repellent, coconut oil, Shea butter, tea tree oil, beeswax balm, nail clippers and nail file, exfoliating gloves, Cotton rounds."
The young employee was scribbling the order in a notebook while Grace continued to tell the manager her remaining order.
"Tampons, sanitary pads, menstrual cups, razors and shaving creams, microfiber towels, paper towels, ziplog bags, Cotton balls and Q-tips."
She added a few more items on the list before finishing the order and spent next ten minutes taking care of the downpayment and other matters. Once she was done, she left the store and headed to another one to hoard more supplies.
At the next store, she made following order - powdered laundry detergent, laundry soap bars, portable washboard, scrub brush, clothesline, clothespins, stain remover, bucket, portable wash basins, bleach, dish soap, scrub brushes, sponges, steel wool, scouring pads, reusable dish gloves, portable dishpan, collapsible sink, drying racks, collapsible dish rack, and reusable spray water bottles.
She stepped out of the second store around ten in the morning and received a call from Kevin who informed her that he had rented one of the apartments on the 20th floor.
She spent next few minutes telling him all the necessary plans he needed to carry out to secure their apartments for future use before she ended the call.
The day was just beginning and so was her mission of hoarding as many supplies as possible. While she had spent the past two days collecting simple supplies, there were a lot of serious supplies that she needed to take care of as well. For example - fuel, clothing, ships, more medicines, and such.
But before all this, there was even a more important matter she needed to take care of. She once again entered her space and put on a new disguise - a really iconic one. This was one of her favorite disguises and she was looking forward to using it to secure one of the biggest security of her survival in the upcoming apocalypse.
Half an hour later, she stepped into the building of the biggest real estate company of the Starship Country. The young ladies at the reception desk failed to recognize her, but not the assistant of the chairman of the company who was passing by the lobby at that very moment.
He immediately appeared in front of her and shooed away the receptionists. "Mrs. Parker, it’s an honor to have you here."