He Woke Up 8 Years Old, 20 Years Before the Apocalypse

On day seven hundred and thirty-one after the sky burned, Owen Hartley died at the gate of a county food depot. The man in the good parka behind the fence told the crowd there were no more mouths. Owen had been that man’s stepson once. Then he woke up under glow-in-the-dark stars, in a body that weighed sixty pounds, with forty-one dollars in a sock and twenty years to go before a solar storm cooks every big transformer on the continent. And eleven days after it, a second one that cooks all the spares. Nobody takes an eight-year-old seriously, so Owen makes that his cover. He mows lawns and pulls cans out of trash bins. His mother signs his brokerage forms on top of a laundry cart, believing it’s a school stock game. He buys a bank everyone says is finished. At ten he digs a cartoon fish thumb drive out of the county landfill after his sister throws it away, and it turns into nine hundred thousand dollars. He sets a trap with a notebook for his mother’s charming fiancé, and the man sinks his own savings into a company that goes bankrupt. At thirteen he wins a flooded missile silo at auction, while the farmers laugh at a college girl with a juice box next to her. By eighteen, the silo has eight floors of food, water, medicine and seeds, a power grid that no storm can reach, and three huge transformers lying in the dark at the bottom of the launch tube. Then the sky turns green over Carver, exactly on the date. The crews replace every burned transformer in ten days. Owen tells them to wait, and nobody listens. On the eleventh night, his mother’s ex-fiancé arrives with a seizure order and eleven trucks of armed men to take the transformers, and the sky turns red. Apocalypse survival recap from start to finish. #manhwarecap #manhwa #apocalypse #survival #regression #reborn #bunker #prepper #solarstorm