Reborn Two Days Before Doomsday — First Move: Recruit the Future Empress!

Xu Xiao, the fearsome Blood Emperor who once stood supreme and ruled the entire doomsday wasteland with absolute authority, returns to the past with a second chance at life. He is reborn merely two days before the brutal apocalypse descends upon the world, waking abruptly in a quiet college lecture hall, far removed from the bloody carnage and endless chaos of his previous life. Bearing the complete memories and cruel lessons of humanity’s annihilation, he wastes no time dawdling and moves with swift, decisive precision to rewrite fate. His first crucial move is to secure unshakable loyalty from future powerhouse Tang Ying. He takes out a 300,000-yuan online loan without hesitation, using the full sum to rescue Tang Ying’s mother from impending disaster. Moved and eternally grateful for this life-saving grace, Tang Ying pledges unwavering allegiance to him, becoming the first core member of his rising faction in the upcoming end times. Next, he leverages hidden secrets and ruthless tactics to blackmail his corrupt boss, squeezing out a full 10 million yuan in compensation alongside a functional replica pistol, laying the initial foundation of his wealth and self-defense firepower. To bolster his combat arsenal for the looming catastrophe, he customizes a sharp and durable Longquan Tang sword, full-set riot protective gear, and a lethal compound crossbow, equipping himself with close-quarters, defensive, and long-range killing tools tailored for zombie and mutant battles. With massive funds in hand, he launches frantic large-scale supply hoarding, stockpiling endless food, medicine, daily necessities, and survival materials to fill an entire warehouse, eliminating all risk of scarcity in the doomsday wasteland. While preparing resources and weapons, he also keeps a close eye on two special sisters who possess peerless light-and-dark dual abilities, marking them as key recruits for his future powerhouse squad before the apocalypse even begins. He finishes every single preparation in the narrow two-day window, long before the peaceful city collapses into hell on earth. Soon after, the entire metropolis drowns in endless mountains of corpses, and terrifying colossal corpse-whales surge from the depths like monstrous tidal waves, sweeping across lands and triggering the irreversible prelude to human extinction. Unlike other doomsday protagonists who rely on high-tech vehicles and military firepower, Xu Xiao needs no luxury cars, aircraft, tanks, or modified RVs to dominate the wasteland. His reliance lies solely in his sharp Tang sword, lethal replica pistol, a warehouse overflowing with sufficient supplies, and a growing squad of top-tier future superpower powerhouses. Most importantly, he carries the indomitable will and terrifying combat instinct of the legendary Blood Emperor. His cold, ruthless heart, tempered by countless bloody battles in his past life, still burns with an extraordinary ambition greater than mere survival and dominance. In his previous life, he witnessed humanity’s complete extinction and helpless demise. In this new life, he swears to reverse the tragic ending, crush the monstrous corpse-whale disaster, unite all awakened powerhouses, and lead the struggling human race out of darkness, all the way back to the peak of global dominance.