"Are we not heading back?" Davian asked when he noticed Grace asking for truck’s keys from one of his men.
It had been over an hour since they arrived in the Country K. He opened a portal to a hallway of a hotel he had stayed at before. And as they stepped into that hallway out of nowhere, Grace took care of the cameras that were present nearby with the help of 2025.
Stepping out of the hotel, they hailed a cab and arrived at the warehouse where the ships were kept. All the giant ships were assembled there as per Davian’s orders.
There was a cargo ship, a customized cruise ship, five yachts, five customized military ships, five fishing ships, an icebreaker, tugboats, sailboats, speedboats, houseboats, and finally some small boats.
This order cost a whopping fifteen billion, but Grace felt no pain as she made the payment. It was because she knew that these ships would be the one saving her life in the future.
After that, they visited two more warehouses to fetch the customized RVs and remaining supplies. Davian thought they would be returning to Sunspire City after that, but he soon realized that Grace had other plans.
"Since we are already here, let’s go shopping." She replied to his question as she took the keys and hopped into the truck. Not wasting any time, he too settled down into the passenger seat.
The warehouse was located on the outskirts of the city, so the drive back to the city was half an hour long. They stopped by a restaurant and headed inside. Davian remained completely silent while Grace placed the orders.
She ordered about twenty boxes of several of their bestsellers, drinks, and desserts. Since it was around ten late in the morning in Country K, there weren’t many customers in the restaurant and they accepted their order, promising to prepare it within an hour.
In the meantime, Grace and Davian headed to three more restaurants and the former placed more orders. While their food was getting prepared, they stopped by a supermarket and bought - bottled water, instant foods, snacks, clothes, shoes, meat, eggs, dairy products, and medicines.
It took them nearly an hour in the supermarket and they received a few curious looks for the mountains of items they had in their trolleys. But no one paid them more attention than just a look before they all continued with their own shopping.
Once all their shopping bags were loaded in the truck, they headed back to the restaurants to pick their orders. Everytime they loaded the truck, they stopped somewhere quiet so that Grace could transfer everything inside her space.
All this time, Davian just followed her silently. He neither asked her any questions, nor interfered with her shopping spree.
After picking up their ordered meals, Grace looked up a retail shop selling seeds and drove there. It was a twenty minutes drive and she didn’t hold back at all as she placed huge orders for seeds of vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs.
It took over an hour before her order was finally loaded into the truck. Since she was feeling extremely tired and hungry after spending hours shopping, they stopped by another restaurant to eat food and she took the chance to order more takeaways.
After leaving the restaurant, they returned to the warehouse and handed the truck to Davian’s men who left immediately as per his order. Since the warehouse was a safe place, Davian opened a portal there and the two of them finally returned to Grace’s apartment.
It was two in the morning when Grace climbed into the bed and immediately fell asleep.
The rain didn’t stop for next five days, but both Grace and Davian were way too busy to worry about the unpredictable rain.
Every evening, Davian went to Grace’s apartment for dinner, but like usual, he wasn’t coming out after an hour or so. This realization had all the residents of the top three floors gossiping as they all started deriving their own theories about what those two might be doing during the long nights behind the closed doors.
While these rumors were running wild on all top three floors, leaving certain people baffled, Grace was busy stocking up supplies. Every night after dinner, she made Davian open a portal to one of the countries he had visited before. They also made sure to choose the countries which weren’t going through any serious natural disasters.
Arriving in those countries, they always rented trucks for next few hours and then headed to buy as much supplies as possible without making people really pay them more attention than just a glance.
Grace bought everything that she could. Her priority was food supplies and she bought - canned foods, dry foods, high-calorie snacks, honey, peanut butter or nut butters, spices, and seasonings, cooking oil, and freeze-dried meals.
She visited a salt retail store and bought 10,000 pounds of each of these salts - table salt, sea salt, kosher salt, himalayan pink salt, celtic sea salt, rock salt, black salt, flake salt, smoked salt, pickling salt, epsom salt, red salt, black lava salt, sulfur salt, and industrial salt.
She also bought more bottled water, electrolyte powders and tablets, first-aid kits, pain relievers, vitamins and supplements, thermometers and blood pressure monitors, surgical masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer, eyeglasses, contact lenses with solution, and emergency dental kits.
For tools, she bought - multitool knives, firestarter kits, manual can opener, solar charger and hand-crank generator, flashlights and batteries, rope, paracord, twine, duct tape, shovel, collapsible spade, portable stove, fuel, coking utensils, mess kits, firewood, coal, and fishing gears.
She also stockpiled more personal hygiene supplies, skincare products, communication and navigation supplies, bartering and trade items, stationary supplies, pet foods and care supplies, baby supplies, and solar panels.
Within five days, she had piled up a lot of supplies in a new customized warehouse inside her space as the previous warehouse was already full.
It was the fifth day and she just walked out of a restaurant, after buying another huge set of takeaways, when the explosion happened...!