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The Comeback Play - Engsub
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00:00about my doomsday prepping my supplies were looted on day one after that my husband dorian and his
00:04childhood sweetheart milla kept me like lives i had a rare typo negative blood type in a world
00:08drained completely of water my blood had become their most luxurious drink dorian swallowed the
00:12warm blood drawn from my wrist he handed the remaining half bowl to mila i was sitting at
00:16that familiar mahogany conference table dorian slammed a divorce cement down in front of me
00:19his face twisted with impatience ria don't push your luck i get the riverview penthouse you get
00:23that useless plot of land in the bunk docks that's my final offer if you keep dragging this out mila's
00:26going to be upset i glanced at the glowing screen of my phone june 1 2026 exactly one month before
00:31the sun turned into death my throat i thought about his prized wentwood house the most expensive real
00:34estate in the city all glass facade and panoramic in the apocalypse a 360 degree solar oven anyone
00:39trapped inside would be roasted into jerky within half a day and the useless plot of land he'd
00:43casually tossed at me fine i'll sign i'm just so tired i'm going to the mountains to farm i hope
00:48i
00:48never see you two bastards again the rest of my life dorian exchanged a quick triumphant look with
00:52mila who sat right beside him they couldn't hide the wild eccasy in their eyes to them a visit of
00:56divorce a driven million mansion for a pile of worthless dirt the moment i signed fake sympathy
01:00all over her face don't blame dorian raya that land might be remote but it's peaceful it'll be
01:06nice for you to live alone i ignored her stood up grabbed the car keys and walked out outside the
01:12midday sun hit hard never again would i be this stupid my first priority wasn't a shopping spree it
01:17was cash i couldn't touch my accounts dorian was watching any large transfer and he'd pounce i drove
01:23straight to the city's largest luxury consignature my trunk was packed with hermes bags watches and
01:28jewelry i dumped it all on the counter like garbage the owner's eyes went wide mrs callaway i don't use
01:34that last name anymore i cut him off liquidate it all cash only no wire transfers you can lobot me
01:40by
01:4020 but i want the cash in hand within an hour and keep your mouth shut
01:45two hours later i walked out with two black trash bags nearly five million dollars in cash
01:50enough for what i needed i rented a beat-up mud-spattered ford cargo van tossed my heels
01:54pulled on steel-toed boots and denim i looked at my bare face in the rearview mirror in the hell
01:59that
01:59was coming beauty was a sin being invisible was the only armor next stop my fortress the haunted dump
02:06everyone despised three hours of jarring dirt roads the van stopped at the base of a barren mountain
02:10desolate weeds and jagged rocks everywhere halfway up the slope a rusted iron gate the bunker entrance
02:15i pushed the heavy doors open a wave of damp musty air slapped my face followed by the sound of
02:19rats
02:19floors flooded with stagnant water and trash cobwebs in every corner i turned on a heavy duty flashlight
02:24and pressed on ignoring the overpowering stench this facility was built in the 1960s main structure
02:29was solid reinforced concrete buried 60 feet underground when global heat waves hit it will
02:35become a natural refuge i wrote a checklist clear the mud reinforce the doors install ventilation filters
02:40hoard supplies every single task brule and physical labor i drove the van straight into the tunnel and locked the
02:46iron gates behind me
02:47this was my home now that night i slept across the back seats gnawing on stale bread
02:52my phone buzzed a social media post from dorian the photo showed him and mila clinking wine glasses
02:57against the backdrop of massive floor-to-ceiling windows and dazzling city lights the caption
03:01finally i've given my beloved a home i couldn't help but smile slightly show off while you can
03:06those beautiful glass windows are going to become your death row soon enough you'll be on your knees
03:10begging for an inch of shade and a single drop of water in my past life i witnessed people trading
03:14their own children for half a bottle of muddy water deep within the bunker i found an abandoned
03:18mechanical well i tied a thick rope around my waist strapped on a headlamp and slowly recuted
03:22down the shaft the bottom was filled with rancid black sludge and the bones of dead rats
03:26the suffocating stench almost made me gag no help no one around i scooped the mud into a small bucket
03:31climbed back up dumped it started over for three straight days i worked like a coal miner caked in
03:36black grime nails cracked off blisters tore open and bled on my palms every time i pulled that rope
03:40my arms screamed but i didn't dared stop i clearly remembered what it felt like so thirsty that my
03:45throat was smoking and my blood ran thick by noon on the fourth day i thrust my shovel down again
03:49a stream
03:50of freezing liquid shot out and splashed my face ground water muddy gritty but flowing real water i
03:55collapsed at the bottom of the well watching the water slowly rise the icy chills seep through my skin
03:59straight to my bones i scooped up a handful of dirty water and laughed until i cried with this
04:04well i had the capital to survive the end of the world i climbed out and drove straight to an
04:07industrial hardware district avoided the big stores hit only the small shops on the outskirts i bought
04:11the finest subvermitryl pumps available massive quantities of activated carbon corn sand claimed
04:15i was a buyer for a rural fish farm groundwater levels the filtration gear i bought 50 massive plummet
04:20once the scorching really hit i needed to hoard at least a three-year supply right now with water secured
04:24the next step was insulation being underground kept things cool but when surface tempers rose too high heat would
04:29inevitably seep through the earth i couldn't insulate inside in any obvious way it was too
04:32conspicuous so i chose the clumsy but safest method internal film i drove my beat-up van through
04:36wholesale jubuilding insulation and aluminum foil bubble wrap cheap light but incredibly bulky the van
04:40couldn't hold it all so i made it trip after trip for days i worked like a tireless machine hauling
04:45supplies by day gluing panels to the walls by night with no crew to help i built my own scaffolding
04:50reaching the 15-foot ceilings was a nightmare i fell twice leaving my legs covered in ugly purple
04:55bruises i went through hundreds of buckets of industrial adhesive the chemicals burned through
04:59a layer of skin on my hands but as i watched those damp moldy walls disappear behind layers
05:03of gleaming silver foil my chest swelled with pride these weren't just walls it was a shield against
05:08the reaper external camouflage was even more critical the bunkers air vents protruded halfway
05:12up the mountain to hide them i transplanted dead brush thorny vines i also dumped piles of repulsive
05:17trash near the main entrance rotting furniture stinking clothes broken glass i wanted anyone passing by
05:22to take one look cover their nose and walk away i bought the finest submersible pumps available
05:27massive quantities of activated carbon quion sand get in my rural fish farm along water levels the
05:31filtration gear i bought steam massive vestimus blasting really hit i needed to hoard at least a
05:35three-year supply right now two weeks until the apocalypse the infrastructure was done now it was
05:39time to fill the pantry i still had a large chunk of cash left i didn't go on a shopping
05:43sprees at
05:43big supermarkets that would trigger alerts instead i drove hundreds of miles to rural counties and
05:47bought directly from farmers all kinds of grain some even expired mung beans you could eat them and when
05:52things got desperate you could sprout during my final supply run i passed a pharmacy forcing dorian
05:57to cut my flesh to nourish her my face hardened i walked inside and bought their entire stock iodine
06:04anti-inflammatories anti-iotics painkillers for the construction crew i bought thousands of tins of spam
06:10and military-grade hard fill i didn't care about gourmet i only cared about calories every unloading trip
06:14pushed me to my limit i have to carry 20 bags of grain at a time the skin on my
06:17shoulders blistered scabbed
06:18over and tore open again but watching those metal racks fill up it gave me a high that a closet
06:22full
06:23of berkey bags never could during my final supply run i passed a pharmacy forcing dorian to cut my
06:28flesh to nourish her my face hardened i walked inside and bought their entire stock iodine anti-inflammatories
06:35anti-iotics painkillers for the construction crew for the construction crew as i walked out with my
06:40receipts lightning suddenly fractured the sky i knew it the overture had begun three days until the heat
06:49wave hit code red heat warning issued tv experts babbled about el nino told people not to panic only
06:56i knew the temperature wouldn't come back down ever i parked the van in the deepest recess of the bunker
07:01disconnected the battery backup storage unit then final lockdown i welded the original side door shut with
07:08steel plates one entrance left the most hidden one three layers of defense line one the camouflage
07:15trash pile line two a fake wooden door lined with ballistic steel plate line three the original 20
07:21inch concrete blast door i retrofitted the doors with manual mechanical locks on the blast door
07:26no electronics no vulnerability to power failure or brute force i packed the ventilation shafts with
07:31dense activated carbon filters nothing from outside getting in then i fired up the diesel generator and
07:36ran the deep world pump a low rumble groundwater surged through pvc pipes and poured into the storage
07:42tanks i watched the water meter spin my heart settled for the first time in weeks i powered down my
07:47phone
07:48snapped the sim card in half from this moment on ria had officially vanished from society i cooked pasta and
07:54fried two eggs full stomach i lay back on my moisture proof mat and listen to the wind hit the
07:59mountain
07:59tomorrow the sun would bear its fans i was ready june 30th 6 a.m it should have been a
08:06cool morning
08:07but outdoor 10 113 degrees fahrenheit by noon pavement hit 140 degrees fahrenheit asphalt roads melted into
08:16black mire street trees wilted curled caught fire ambulance sirens wailed then went silent when the tires
08:22melted off the rims 60 feet underground i watched it all on my monitors hidden solar cameras near the peak
08:29fed me
08:29a live feed on the screens the outside looked like footage shot through a blood red filter the air was
08:34warping i could feel faint warmth even down here but my thermometer held at 78 degrees fahrenheit
08:40i lounged in silk pajamas holding a fresh white radish just pulled from the ground it was juicy that
08:46single bite made me sigh in pure contentment i pulled up the satellite network on my backup phone
08:53social media was a war zone dorian was still posting but his tone had violently shifted yesterday
08:58steak and wine today a panicked rant what the hell is wrong with building management
09:06ac is useless powers out is anyone fixing this i pictured mila's plastic surgery face warping and
09:14melting in the extreme heat i felt absolutely nothing this was only day one the real show hadn't even
09:20started day three the city's power grid collapsed entirely transformers blew across the skyline a
09:27morbid fireworks display no power no water for high-rise residents that was a death sentence
09:34dorian called 17 times i activated an old burner and answered ria where are you any water on that lot
09:44so hot water i took a slow sip of iced mint water then i dropped my voice into a raspy
09:50wheeze
09:52i'm dying so hot so thirsty useless i knew i shouldn't have given you that land i could have sold
10:02it for
10:02water i pulled up a camera feed near his building mobs already smashing ground floor windows looting
10:09everything his penthouse was physically secure for now but without the elevator descending in this heat
10:14meant death by dehydration i looked at my hydroponic trays under purple led lights the lettuce was vibrant
10:20green the drip irrigation system released one drop of nutrient solution every 10 minutes in the silence
10:25underground it sounded like music no rush i had all the time in the world to watch them turn from
10:30humans into ghouls half a month past the surface was charcoal mountains in the distance black smoldering
10:37tombs except for my spot i had tried to hide it but i had made one mistake i'd covered the
10:43ventilation
10:44opening with dead grass but the moisture venting up from underground turned that patch green again
10:49against a landscape of black ash 2 pm perimeter alarm a civilian drone wobbled up from the valley below
10:56erratic flight the pilot was clearly running on fuse the camera circled then locked onto that green
11:02patch it rapidly descended for a closer look my stomach dropped i was exposed not by dorian by
11:08scavengers in the apocalypse green meant one thing water underneath i stared at the monitor and reached
11:16under my pillow my hand wrapped around the cold grip of my compound crossbow if i couldn't hide i had
11:21to
11:21silence them on screen the drone suddenly jerked around and shot back down the mountain i knew
11:26exactly what was coming they'd swarm this hill like locusts the most dangerous moment had arrived
11:34two figures materialized on my monitors at the mountain's base they were local thugs one tall one
11:40short they clutched rusted machetes and tracked the drone's gps they wanted this windfall for themselves
11:46i tweaked the zoom the raw greed in their eyes was crystal clear boss you think there's anything in
11:52this dump shut up the drone saw green grass there's water down there we get that we're kings i sat
11:59in
11:59the climate controlled monitoring room 20 meters underground holding a glass of iced cola outside
12:05it was 131 degrees fahrenheit with every step they were burning their last drops of life i loaded a barbed
12:12steel bolt into my crossbow designed to pierce a boar's skull they had taken the trouble to visit
12:16they weren't leaving my fortress needed a blood sacrifice anyway they crawled their way up to the
12:22mid-mountain slope and found the ventilation grate hidden beneath the trash boss wind it's cold
12:31two men went cold they tore at the iron grate and tried to bend the steel rebar with their bare
12:36hands
12:36i didn't give them a chance to break anything i stood behind the firing port just inside the
12:40ventilation shaft the crosshairs of my skin knocked firmly onto the fat one's femoral artery
12:46instantly punched through his thigh his agonizing scream scattered a flock of half twice
12:51before the second third could even process the spray of blood i rapidly reloaded
12:56my second bolt drove straight through his shoulder they collapsed onto the ground their spilled blood
13:00instantly sizzled and evaporated on the scorching stain i didn't bother giving them mercy shots
13:05i just watched the monitors with cold detachment watch them struggle slow down and eventually bake into
13:11two dribbled husks this was my first lesson in my second life mercy to evade as his cruelty to myself
13:213 a.m the coolest time of the day the thermometer still read 113 degrees fahrenheit i strapped on a
13:28kevlar
13:29stab proof vest grabbed a tactical folding shovel the two corpses were completely stiff and gave off
13:38a foul burnt smell without the slightest pity i dragged them by the legs into a deep shaded ditch in
13:43the mountains between the extreme heat and the local scavengers the bodies would vanish without a
13:47trace i did manage to loot the drone's remote controller off them the drone itself was a huge
13:53windfall this is some good stuff a high-end dji model with this my surveillance radius just expanded
13:59to three miles back in the safety of the bunker i meticulously sterilized the controller with rubbing
14:05alcohol that green space is way too noticeable but those bodies will speak for me
14:14with the local pests dealt with i turned my attention back to the city
14:18using a backdoor i'd planted months earlier i tapped into the security feed of dorian's luxury
14:23high-rise today was day seven of zero power and zero water through the feed of his massive living
14:29room i saw the horror inside mila was slumped on the floor her once flawless skin was slick with grime
14:35a thick crust of white salt had formed on her designer silk pajamas from dried sweat the hyaluronic acid
14:42fillers in her face had warped violently under the extreme heat making her look grotesque
14:47a decorative vase lay shattered on the floor they'd drunk all the water inside
14:52dorian was holding an empty evian bottle desperately trying to piss into it his hands shook violently
14:58he hesitated but the sheer agony of thirst forced him to abandon his dignity
15:03this was the mansion they stole for me now it was a literal purgatory just as i was watering my
15:09hydroponic lettuce the burner phone lit up dorian i took my time i washed my hands dried them on a
15:15clean towel then i answered and put him on speaker ria ria save me i know you hoarded water i'm
15:23your
15:23husband we used to love each other ria i was wrong just one sip i'll be your slave i'll do
15:30anything
15:31hearing their wails i felt nothing but the thrill of revenge you want water remember that jade necklace
15:39if you swallow it i'll consider giving you a bottle silence as if they hadn't quite processed
15:45the demand i thought i was making a vulgar joke and i underestimated what people become at the edge
15:51of survival the phone suddenly rang followed by fierce struggles and a woman's terrified scream
15:59darian are you insane this is stone i'll die swallow it now so she gives us water there was a
16:07crash
16:08and a body fell to the hardwood floor dorian pinned her to the ground and forced the jade necklace down
16:14her throat their shadows fighting on my blacked out monitor two people who once swore eternal love
16:21now fought bitterly over just half a bottle of water bored of this farce i hung up the phone knowing
16:28neither of them would die today and this is only the beginning they still have the strength to attack
16:34each other which means they are not desperate enough yet i will wait and watch them rot little by
16:39little until they become groveling worms begging on their knees the outside world was burning in hell
16:45surface temperatures shattering 144 he inside my fortress 20 meters below the earth the thermostat
16:51displayed a perfect 75 for he i had turned the air filtration setting to celebrate successfully system
16:56down to a dispatching two raiders to toast dorian finally exposing his true colors i decided to treat
17:01myself i opened the heavy door a cloud of icy vapor rolled out i carefully selected an m9 grade
17:06australian wagyu ribeye once thawed and freshly cracked black pepper the cast iron skillet was
17:11smoking hot then i dropped in a pad of butter that glorious sound echoing in my quiet dining room
17:16was beautiful the aroma of the maillard reaction instantly filled the air i pulled a 1982 lafotte from
17:22the wine rack let it breathe for 30 minutes and poured it into a crystal glass under the warm dining
17:26lights i sliced off a piece of nicely browned steak and put it in my mouth it was juicy and
17:30tender
17:30inside as the fat melted across my tongue a wave of absolute euphoria washed over me at this moment
17:35i wasn't just eating steak i was savoring my survival and my dignity this was in brutal contrast
17:40hell outside and a michelin star experience inside i hardened my res lifetime i would never
17:44let anyone destroy my peace if anyone dared reach for my plate i would chop their hands off
17:48belly full and slightly buzzed i logged onto the fragmented local interwerp i wanted to see how badly
17:52the world was decaying dorian's building group chat had descended into total anarchy the veneer of
17:56polite society had vanished overnight law and morality were dead concepts residents were forming
18:00mutual aid squads this was just a polite term for armed raiding party they were openly targeting
18:04single women and the elderly casually debating whose doors were easiest to crowbar open and right
18:09there on the latest roster of the raiding squad was dorian's name to survive the man who used to
18:13preach about corporate ethics and high-class morals had entire shed his human skin someone in the chat
18:17bragged about dorian's initiation to prove his worth to the gang dorian had betrayed mrs calloway she was
18:21the sweet old lady living next door to him he tipped them off about her two cases of bottled water
18:25her son had
18:25dropped off before the heat wave hit reading the chat lags a cold shiver ran down my spine mrs
18:29calloway used to bake him cookies she treated him like family that was dorian in my past life he
18:33traded my life for a cup of lifetime throwing an old lady to the wolves was nothing to him
18:37he wasn't a man anymore
18:40he was a demon wearing a tailored suit
18:48the next morning the moment my intranet pinged i saw a new post on dorian's feed he hadn't blocked me
18:54it was a highly curated photo he was gripping a baseball bat smeared with dried dark blood at his
19:00feet sat two pristine unopened cases of aquafina water his eyes stared into the lens with a rabid glare
19:07that was the loot he plundered from mrs calloway two cases of water paid for with an innocent life
19:12rumor had it that the kind gentle old woman had fought back he felt absolutely no remorse instead
19:18he was a murderer the gang was hailing him as a ruthless operator some even wanted him to leave
19:24the squad looking at the sycophantic comments under his post i laughed coldly dorian thought he was the
19:28big shot in this wasteland two cases of water how long would that last him and meela in this oven
19:35three days five in a world where production was permanently reduced to zero taking without
19:40contributing is a death sentence he's flaunting his violence and supplies so openly like lighting a
19:45torch in a pitch black forest his current madness is just the last gasp before the end he's making
19:49himself a perfect target those outlaws will smell blood in the water and come for him soon just as
19:54i was shutting my laptop to head down to the bunker's gym a pinned post on the local survival
19:57fornal caught my eye the title was plashed in red fight reward 10 boxes of instant noodles in a world
20:01where even the rats were starving to death 10 boxes of instant noodles was enough to hire a private
20:04army i quickly traced the ip address of the original poster i wasn't surprised it pinged straight back
20:08to dorian's luxury comp old murderous rage welled up inside me those two stolen case of water were
20:11clearly already empty or his penthouse had finally come completely hit forced on me dorian had finally remembered
20:15to use my love and trust to steal my bunker in this life he was smarter he was weaponizing the
20:18mob and human greed using other people to do his dirty work the comments underneath the bounty were
20:21feral the greed practically bled through the screen a storm was coming a big one
20:27i tapped my fingers rhythmically against the desk ria capped her with mint loa's ask you want to come
20:34then come if they were so eager to rush into hell i'd happily turn this mountain into their mass grave
20:42my perimeter traps had been starving for action and i was more than ready to feed them some fresh meat
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