Chapter 40: Stocking and Buying

(with 6,000 nutrient solution plus extra content)

Youxi, wearing a hat and a mask, walked into a large chain gold store across the street. No matter what era, gold is a rare metal, and it is always clearly marked and recyclable.

She carried two gold bars in her backpack, both weighing 500 grams.

When she was in the zombie apocalypse, she initially only collected some gold items such as rings, bracelets, necklaces, and pendants at the counter. Later, she remembered the gold bars, and then she remembered that every gold store had a safe.

After that, she specialized in prying open these safe doors. The password door that required various tools to unlock only needed a bottle of [High Temperature Perfume] in her place, and it could be done in ten seconds.

So in the later period, most of what she collected were gold bars. There are all kinds of weights, from as small as 10 grams to as heavy as 1,000 grams, stacked in rows in the storage box.

Most of the gold bars have inscriptions and carvings on them, engraved with the origin and number of the gold bars, and sometimes some words of blessing. Youxi directly smoothed out the important information such as the number and origin with her fingertips, intending to test the waters first.

However, the process was smoother than she imagined. The store never looked at the shape when recycling gold, and there was no need for invoices. All you need to do is leave a copy of your ID as a certificate. As long as there are no problems after a period of time, the copy of the ID will be processed and no information of the customer will be leaked.

The price depends on the purity.

Normal gold bars are 99.9% gold, which is also the type most commonly recycled by gold shops.

The two in her hand are.

She did not take out all the gold bars in one store, but only took one, 500-gram gold bar, with a gold price of 420 per gram, and received a total of 210,000 soft sister dollars, which were directly deposited into her bank account by the gold store.

Afterwards, she took a taxi to another large chain gold store of another brand and deposited another 210,000 soft sister dollars.

The salespersons who greeted her at the two gold stores were very happy. They had done a big business not long after the store opened today, and they were sure to get a bonus this month.

Youxi was also very happy, and she could finally let go and buy as much as she wanted.

[……]

Youxi: You don’t have to say anything if you don’t want to.

Youxi subconsciously said something, but remembering the rare performance of the Star House system in answering every question, she only said one sentence and stopped.

A day ago, the system told her that the apocalypse mission can indeed be opened in advance, but there will be some problems in the apocalypse world opened in advance.

You Xi: What kind of problems?

[The 24-hour preparation time will be shortened to 1 hour, and the difficulty of the apocalypse may increase. ]

You Xi: How difficult will it be, and will it end in death?

[The difficulty change value of the apocalypse world that the host can currently travel through has a range limit. ]

You Xi: So it is between the simplest and the most difficult I can deal with, is that what you mean?

[Yes. ]

You Xi understood, it is like a protection mechanism for the tasker, even if it is very difficult, even if she encounters the most difficult apocalypse, it is still within the range limited to her.

It may be very difficult and very dangerous, but it will definitely not be an unsolvable and inevitable end.

Of course, it is also possible that she is very lucky and encounters an apocalypse with extremely low difficulty.

Youxi thought about it for a night. She lay on her bed in her parents' apartment, listening to the sounds of ambulances and fire trucks outside all night, and finally made a decision.

Youxi: Let me prepare in a few days, and then open the mission world.

**

After leaving the gold shop, Youxi went to two pawn shops according to the locations she had checked before.

One sold two 300-gram gold bars, and the other sold a 1,000-gram one.

The pawn shop's gold recycling price is slightly lower, and the process is similar. She handled it separately for insurance purposes.

One got 240,000 soft sister coins, and the other got 390,000 soft sister coins.

In this way, she had a total of 1,050,000 soft sister coins in her two newly opened bank cards.

In the afternoon, she took all the documents and went directly to the insurance company to buy an insurance policy for herself. She filled in You Feng and Fan Qi's names in the accidental death beneficiary column and bought the maximum coverage.

She was young, her physical examination report showed that she was in good health, and her income was generous and stable, so the insurance policy was quickly processed.

She left 1,000,000 yuan in two cards, put them together with the insurance policy in an opaque file bag, and then put the file bag in the cabinet where the bedding was placed in her parents' apartment, on the bottom layer. Fan Qi had never moved the bedding in this position.

Because of the previous tornado, she had been staying at her parents' house for the past two days.

Her own small apartment is on the third floor. Although it is small and only has windows facing south, almost the entire south-facing wall is made of glass, so it naturally did not escape the strong wind this time.

The glass was not completely broken, but a lot of branches, leaves, wood boards, and plastic garbage flowed in. The small living room below is almost unsightly. Someone was hired to clean it up yesterday. After that, the glass will have to be replaced, the damaged furniture will be replaced, the floor will be re-laid, and it will be cleaned again. It will take three or four days to finish.

Because of this matter and because Fan Qi was worried, she cleaned up and supervised the work at her own place during the day and stayed in her parents' apartment at night.

The next day after getting the insurance, she drove her father's car to the hardware and window store across from her apartment, and asked the previous boss to build her six aluminum alloy racks that were two meters high, one meter wide, and thirty centimeters deep.

These six, plus the twelve of the same size before, just filled up the entire facade of one side of the Xingwu warehouse. Because it was an old business, the boss said he would kick her out before closing the store at night, and he carried her to the door of the apartment as usual.

Afterwards, she drove to a nearby car rental company and rented a small truck. She had a C1 driver's license, so she could drive such a truck.

The main reason was that the trunk space of her father's car was limited. If she wanted to buy a large amount of supplies at one time, it would still not be enough.

Afterwards, she drove the truck straight to the commodity market.

The commodity market is far away from the tornado in the other side of the city.

In just a few days, the traces of the strong winds were almost wiped out, especially for shops like this one that focus on business.

When I saw that the situation was not good that day, I immediately packed up the stall and pulled down the thick iron gate and locked it. Because it was farther away from the tornado, the strong winds encountered were not as severe as those at my parents' apartment in Youxi, and most of the stalls were safe.

Her Star House Warehouse has not been upgraded yet, and it is filled with an RV, so the remaining space is limited.

In fact, her current supplies are enough to sustain her use for the next mission, especially the RV, which is a complete cheating artifact.

Because the solar panels on the roof were modified later, the power on the car is enough to support all daily electricity needs, including large-scale electricity consumption such as air conditioners, microwaves, and water heaters.

In the end of the world, under the premise of sufficient gasoline, such an RV can solve most of the problems of life.

And now, she is not just stockpiling for her own mission.

The first thing to consider is water resources.

The Star House Warehouse originally had ten 500L one-meter-high barrels, all filled with water, which is five tons.

Five tons of water was enough for her to enter the mission world, but it would definitely not be enough in the later stages. She first bought ten barrels of the same size in the commodity market, preparing to increase the water storage capacity to ten tons.

After paying, she asked the boss to deliver it to her truck and put it directly in the truck compartment.

The second problem was the power supply.

She first bought 20 large-capacity power banks in an electrical appliance store, and then she went to a generator store.

There are gasoline generators and diesel generators. She only considered for a moment and chose the former. Although gasoline generators have low power, they are small in size and save space, and they can completely solve normal household electricity consumption.

In addition, she now has gasoline stored in her space, so naturally she will not buy a diesel generator.

She had made every effort to stock up on gasoline because the RV she got was a relatively rare gasoline RV. Gasoline RV engines are quiet and can withstand severe cold weather, which is far more practical for her than diesel RVs.

She bought two gasoline generators and asked someone to deliver them to her truck and put them in the compartment. She

could also buy some paper products to stock up: 10 boxes of tissue paper, 10 boxes of toilet paper and 10 boxes of kitchen paper.

Next to the commodity market is a food market building, which is much more formal and upscale than the general food wholesale market. Most of the stalls are not run by individual vendors, but by direct sales of various brands of food companies.

Not only are there all the products sold in other supermarkets, but there are also many direct sales of Internet celebrity products, and even many milk tea shops, cake shops, fried food shops, dessert shops, and coffee shops that can be eaten in or taken away. These shops also sell various derivative products of their own companies.

For example, coffee beans, coffee powder, whole bags of pearls, instant milk tea sachets, vacuum food sachets...

In the huge shopping mall, the windows of the shops are bright and clean. The endless stores and the dazzling array of brightly packaged products of different brands simply made Youxi fall into a sea of ​​joy for a while, and she had an impulse to scream in her heart.

She pushed the cart she bought at the commodity market next door and started shopping.

Side dishes: 2 boxes of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pepper, chicken essence, cumin, peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, basil, sea salt and other condiments in appropriate amounts; 2 boxes of coffee beans, coffee powder, drip coffee bags, instant coffee, milk balls, instant milk tea bags; 1 box of various green tea, black tea, scented tea, and fruit tea for soaking in water. 2 boxes of

cheese biscuits, chocolate biscuits, scallion biscuits, coated biscuits, and sandwich biscuits of several famous brands and flavors; 1 box of various packaging of toffee, hard candy, soft candy, and peanut candy.

There were five boxes of several famous brands of egg yolk cakes, snow meringues, matcha wheat rings, cocoa butter cookies, green bean cakes, cranberry cookies, half-cooked cheese, egg crisps, donkey rolls, almond tofu and other pastries.

At noon, she bought a cup of avocado strawberry yogurt at a milk tea shop she had never had before, and had a simple lunch with fried rice cakes and fried crispy meat.

The rice cakes were soft, glutinous and chewy, and the fried crispy meat was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, surprisingly delicious.

After eating, she bought twenty portions of fried rice cakes, twenty portions of fried crispy meat, and twenty portions of fried chicken feet, and said she would pick them up in two hours, and reminded them not to make them too early.

Several nearby milk tea shops also placed an order for about 20 cups of Internet celebrity milk tea of ​​different flavors, including flavored milk tea, strawberry cheese, hand-mashed taro Oreos, poplar nectar, thick milk lava pearl milk tea, strawberry daifuku, mango coconut balls, strawberry cherry nectar tea, Oreo cheese milk tea, and a bucket of fruit tea. There are ten types in total, 10 cups of each, adding up to 100 cups. It is also agreed to pick up after two hours.

After that, she continued to scan the goods.

Drinks: 5 cartons of 300ml×24 bottles of Coke, 5 cartons of 300ml×24 bottles of Sprite, 5 cartons of 300ml×24 bottles of Fanta, 5 cartons of 250ml×24 boxes of iced black tea, 5 cartons of 250ml×24 boxes of original soy milk, 5 cartons of 250ml×24 boxes of chocolate soy milk, 5 cartons of 250ml×24 boxes of coconut milk, 10 cartons of 250ml×24 boxes of room temperature milk…

This time she chose small packages for the drinks she bought so they could be put into her backpack easily, and she could finish them every time she opened them, so there was no waste.

Convenient food: 12 barrels of instant noodles, Laotan pickled cabbage, scallion ribs, spicy beef, braised beef, pork bone soup, three fresh noodles, seafood flavor, curry beef, spicy seafood, shrimp flavor, and army hot pot flavor, 1 box each, and 2 boxes of 24 packs of instant noodles of the same flavor. The

reason for buying barrels is that sometimes the environment requires it, and you can eat it by just pouring hot water, which is more convenient.

12 barrels of hot and sour noodles original flavor, golden soup fat beef, and pepper and sesame pot 2 boxes each. 10 boxes of self-heating rice, braised beef, basil double combination, and curry beef 2 boxes each.

6 boxes of spicy tender beef in self-heating hot pot, crispy tomato pork, crispy beef tripe, 2 boxes of tomato beef brisket each...

When she bought too much and the cart couldn't hold it all, she asked the store to deliver the goods to the side of the car.

The small truck was soon half full.

Frozen foods: beef, pork, lamb, whole chicken, whole duck...

Each of the frozen meats here has complete packaging and labels, which is convenient for stacking and taking. They are all high-quality meat raised with grains. There is no other disadvantage except that they are expensive.

Other miscellaneous things: ice cream and cold drinks, various dried goods, various grains, whole grains and beans...

Whatever You Xi thinks Fan Qi and You Feng may want to eat or use, she buys some in moderation.

Finally, the truck was completely filled, and she drove away with satisfaction.

[……]

After buying a truck full of supplies, she felt very happy, and at the same time she could feel that the Star House system was hesitant

to speak. She smiled and said nothing.

You Xi drove the truck around most of the city and drove it to an underground parking lot. She parked it in the parking space, and then she put her hand against the compartment, trying to see if she could put the boxes inside directly into the Star House warehouse.

If she couldn't collect them directly, she would get out of the car, open the door of the truck and collect them inside.

Probably because the truck compartment was defaulted to a whole at this moment, and the things inside the whole could be collected directly.

Youxi first put the paper bags containing 100 cups of various milk teas and fried foods on the shelves in the warehouse, followed by ice cream and frozen meat, and then continued to stuff boxes that filled most of the carriage into the space, filling all the corners that could be filled until there was no more space.

She got off the car, locked the door, and took the elevator directly to the first floor. There was a large brand water station across the street. She went in and ordered 60 barrels of 19L purified water, saying that she would come to pick up the goods later.

After that, she entered the shopping mall above the parking lot. The first floor here was a clothing city, with famous brands, big brands and popular brands.

She bought spring and autumn clothes, winter clothes, summer clothes, underwear, cotton-wool suits, sweaters, various coats, down jackets, sportswear, short-sleeved T-shirts, hoodies, thermal pants, assault jackets... according to her, You Feng's and Fan Qi's sizes, two sets of clothes and pants with different functions for each person.

She will replenish these supplies later, but now she just wants to stock up on different kinds of things.

After that, slippers, sports shoes, waterproof boots, thermal boots... the same goes for each pair of shoes with each function.

Because she bought a lot, she asked the store staff to help deliver them to the underground garage. She opened the mostly empty compartment and quickly put away the pockets of clothes and shoes one by one.

After that, she drove out of the underground parking lot and went to the water station to get the water she had ordered.

She had calculated the space before, and 60 barrels of water could just fit into the car compartment.

So far, today's shopping spree has come to an end.

She drove the pickup truck directly into the community, parked downstairs of the apartment building, and then got out of the car and locked the door.

Inside the apartment, all the south-facing floor-to-ceiling glass windows have been replaced and repaired, the damaged furniture has been removed, and the damaged floor has been pried off. New floors are being laid today.

The decorator was hired by You Feng, an experienced old master. You Feng had hired him to organize the decoration team for Fan Qi's apartment in the past. He was very considerate and did not ask for exorbitant prices. He was asked to buy the glass windows and floors on his behalf.

Two people were busy in the apartment. Youxi said hello to them and handed them the cigarettes and drinks she had just bought at the small supermarket at the entrance of the residential area. She said that she had something to do today, so she would stop here today and continue tomorrow.

Although the other party was surprised, since the host asked her to do so, she naturally packed up and left quickly.

She called Fan Qi and said that she would stay in her apartment today because she had a drawing to finish and would go back tomorrow.

"Can you stay here?" Fan Qi was not very reassured.

"It's habitable. The window glass has been replaced, and the floor is almost ready. We'll be done with the new furniture tomorrow."

"Okay, call me or your dad if you have any questions, and lock the doors and windows when you go to bed at night." Fan Qi gave a few instructions. Although she was still worried, her daughter had been independent for more than a year, and her worries were just her own.

After hanging up the phone, You Xi entered the Star House and looked at the empty light gray walls and floors in the Star House. She reached out and touched them lightly. They were cool to the touch, with a frosted texture and a very good feel.

You Xi's mind moved, and all the supplies she had originally stuffed into the Star House warehouse appeared in the Star House instantly.

She had noticed that although the Star House was only about 20 square meters, it was more than 8 meters high. Apart from not being able to preserve freshness and not being able to be put away at will, it was a good place to temporarily store supplies.

Afterwards, she gradually took out some storage boxes of other items, until the Star House warehouse was mostly empty, she went downstairs again to move all the things in the small truck into the Star House warehouse.

The next step was a long time of sorting. Of the 60 barrels of water she had just bought today, she only put ten barrels in the Star House warehouse, and the rest were left in the Star House. Because she originally had some inventory, about 15 barrels of 5L, and about three or four boxes of 550ml, which was enough in total.

The clothes, shoes, generators, power banks and ten buckets purchased today are all placed in the Star House. The original vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, eggs, milk, fresh seafood and seafood takeout in the Star House warehouse remain in their original positions. The milk tea, fried food, frozen meat and ice cream purchased today are also sorted and placed in their respective positions in the warehouse.

Other newly purchased convenience foods, drinks and cakes are placed in appropriate amounts.

The boxes containing the stolen goods are put in, and the boxes containing gold, diamonds and jade are taken out. Four 300-gram gold bars and two diamond rings are taken out and placed on the warehouse shelves. It is enough.

Finally, she looked at the stacked buckets, thought about it, and felt that it was better to be more prepared.

So she connected several hoses in the kitchen and bathroom downstairs to store water at the same time, intending to store water directly before plugging it in. Anyway, the first thing she did every time she entered the apocalyptic world was to store water, so it was better to be prepared in the original world.

While waiting for the water to be released, she entered the Star House again and called out the Star House Mall.

There were still not many things in the mall. There were still three fantasy items, and four or five more technology items. They were still weird names for girls' products, and many of them had useless functions.

Finally, You Xi's eyes lit up and locked on two.

[Repair Foundation: Concentrated flagship model, healing range: various wounds and injuries. Price: 10 star coins. Only effective in the apocalyptic world. 】

【Instant Cleansing Oil: Use ten times, apply it on the face to instantly clean the whole body. Negative effect: Oily face. Price: 3 star coins. 】

Obviously, [Repair Foundation] is similar to medical products and can heal external injuries. Judging from this price, the effect should be very good.

[Instant Cleansing Oil] has the function of replacing bathing and cleaning, but judging from the price and negative effects, it seems a bit disappointing.

She finally bought a [Repair Foundation], which was about nine or ten centimeters long, cylindrical, with a screw cap and a squeeze mouth, and looked no different from an ordinary foundation.

Afterwards, she refilled a bottle of [High Temperature Perfume], and at this time she had 260 star coins left.

She set her sights on the [Strong Anti-Sugar Pill] and the [Ice Control Skill].

The [Strong Anti-Sugar Pill] has a limit on how many times it can be used, so it would be more cost-effective to train your body to be stronger before using the next one.

The [Ice Control Skill] is so expensive, and the effect is estimated to be amazing, but if she buys it, most of her star coins will disappear, and she will become a poor person again.

Perhaps she hesitated between these two products for too long, and the Star House actually spoke up.

[The Ice Control Skill biological implantation takes 24 hours, and a recovery and adaptation period of three to seven days is required.]

Youxi: ...?

Such a long recovery period is equivalent to the recovery time of a small operation!

After all this time, isn't this still technology? She really thought it was like in fantasy novels, activated in one second.

So in the end, Youxi didn't buy anything and decided to wait until tonight to confirm the type and difficulty of the apocalypse before watching it.

But the result is -

【The third apocalyptic world:

Difficulty: Medium.

World type: ??? Apocalypse, Type: ??? Melting ??? .

World identity: A fired company assistant.

World time: ??? First 48 hours.

World missions: 1. ??? (Complete to get 30 star coins), 2. Survive for one month (Complete to get 100 star coins).

World mission failure: Death.】

Fuck??? Ah!

??? What on earth is this!

Not only does she not know the world type, but she doesn't even know the first mission. Can she still come back?

You Xi slapped the black door: "Is your network bad!"

【Host, please control your emotions.】

"I'm controlling it! Can the world mission that is automatically swiped out be changed?"

【No. 】

The very quick answer completely extinguished You Xi's hope.

"So this is why the mission difficulty has increased? Because the information is incomplete?"

【Yes. 】

Except for hehe, You Xi was speechless.

However, the die is cast, and she has to go.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the difficulty of the world is intermediate, only slightly higher than the previous zombie world. With her current physical condition, as long as she doesn't panic, it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with.

And this time there is an extra world time, which means she has 48 hours of safety time after entering. Maybe she can find the cause of the end of the world during this time.

She set up a letter on her mobile phone mailbox that will be automatically sent to You Feng's work mailbox tomorrow morning. If she returns safely, she will cancel this email.

What if...then they will receive the money she left for them and the insurance policy for sudden death.

At 0 o'clock, Youxi put all the necessary items into the Star House warehouse and began to travel through the world.

**

When she regained consciousness, Youxi felt a heaviness in her hands. She subconsciously loosened her hands and let go of the things in her hands.

Bang!

A heavy cardboard box fell on the ground in front of her feet. Youxi looked up and found herself in an elevator.

The numbers in front of her were jumping from 19 to 18, and then to 17.

She was the only one in the elevator, and the clean elevator door reflected her face. She was about 30 years old, her face was a little haggard, and she had heavy dark circles under her eyes. At first glance, she was in a state of fatigue due to sub-health for a long time.

She was wearing a common dark-colored OL suit, with her long hair tied up, black-framed glasses, high heels on her feet, and a briefcase on her shoulder.

The cardboard box in front of her was filled with some personal belongings, such as water cups, green plants, pens, papers, and laptops.

The identity of the world character is a dismissed assistant, so is this the time when she was just dismissed?

Her current location is not a good place. You Xi endured and did not analyze the extra world settings in her mind. When the elevator reached the first floor, she picked up the cardboard box again and walked out quickly.

This is a large commercial building, with clear floor-to-ceiling glass and polished marble floors. There are all kinds of offices inside. Generally, there will be business districts around such commercial buildings, and there will be some coffee shops and teahouses.

She walked out of the building. The sky was blue, the sun was bright, the temperature was suitable, and the air seemed to have a slight damp smell.