"To make candied fruit," Lu Sheng made up a reason.

Sugar has an extremely long shelf life and will hardly spoil as long as it doesn't get wet. Despite its small size, it provides a lot of calories and essential nutrients for the human body.

During special periods, sugar has always been a strategic resource, and its supply to society is limited.

Lu Sheng couldn't predict how long the apocalypse would last, and a thousand catties of sugar wouldn't take up much space; it could even be used to prolong life if necessary.

After exchanging contact information with the candy wholesaler, Lu Sheng went to a dried fruit shop and bought 200 jin of roasted spiced melon seeds.

Sunflower seeds are a great source of healthy fats, and many mountain rescue teams carry them with them. I'll keep some on hand to eat while watching TV with Sun Tiantian.

After loading the sugar and melon seeds onto the truck, Lu Sheng headed straight for the condiment section.

After stocking up on enough common seasonings such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce, various spices, and cooking ingredients like chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns for a thirty-year period, Lu Sheng drove back to his neighborhood.

After using his mind to store all the supplies in the car into his spatial storage, it was already evening.

The food street around the neighborhood has become lively.

The shouts of street vendors and the smoky aroma of frying and cooking, the office workers just off work, the students holding hands while buying snacks, and the elderly taking a stroll after dinner—these vivid and lively faces make up the ordinary lives of people in this largest city in China.

Ten days later, this ordinary scene will become a past that no one can ever return to.

Lu Sheng raised her hand and patted her cheeks, forcing herself to cheer up.

She's not a saint and can't save everyone; she just wants to make sure she and Sun Tiantian can live comfortably in the apocalypse.

"Master, one hundred servings of grilled cold noodles."

"One hundred servings of jianbing guozi with sausage."

One hundred servings of deep-fried stinky tofu.

"One hundred servings of roasted corn."

...

Ms. Lu is paying for everything at the food street tonight.

Lu Sheng bought a hundred portions from almost every one of his favorite stalls. The familiar stall owners, receiving such a large order, were all eager to get started, and the pots were practically sparking with heat.

After the vendors delivered the prepared snacks to Lu Sheng's train, she found a secluded spot and stored them all in her spatial storage.

After a day of shopping, Lu Sheng collapsed onto the bed as soon as she got home.

[Ding—Host has completed storing supplies; reward space doubled.]

As the system notification appeared, Lu Sheng watched as his space instantly transformed from a farmhouse into a spacious and bright three-story tile-roofed house. Even the idle vegetable garden in the yard doubled in size, and two cool little ponds were added.

Is there really such a good thing? You can grow bigger just by storing things?

Lu Sheng tried operating the space a few more times, but this time the system didn't respond at all. Undeterred, Lu Sheng studied the system instructions.

I discovered that the main feature of this system is its randomness.

Rewards are random, probabilities are random, and all progress bars and achievement points are unknown, relying entirely on chance.

Well, it's good enough that it's free.

After a day of shopping, Lu Sheng only had 600,000 yuan left in his bank account.

Over the next two days, Lu Sheng bought 1,000 jin each of pork, beef, and mutton at the farmers' market, and 500 jin each of common vegetables.

According to the information Lu Sheng found on Baidu, high temperatures are usually followed by an ice age. In extremely cold weather, it is necessary to consume a lot of fat to maintain body heat, so she has stored up more fat.

During the day, Lu Sheng would make purchases, and at night he would squat in the space studying the two fertile black soils.

Lu Sheng tried hard to recall the animal husbandry and planting programs he watched on the TV education channel when he was a child, and downloaded hundreds of gigabytes of agricultural wealth-creation guides from Bilibili. Finally, he decided to start an animal and plant breeding business in his own space.

Lu Sheng contacted a breeding farm and received a batch of ducklings, chicks, rabbits, and even a nest of fish and shrimp fry. He also bought several hundred fruit tree seedlings.

After settling everything in the space like an old ox, Lu Sheng couldn't help but collapse onto the bed and sigh that technology is the primary productive force.

The master can guide you through the door, but the rest depends on the individual. Aside from tutorials on building atomic bombs, Bilibili has almost everything Lu Sheng could find about animal husbandry, solving a significant problem for him.

Exhausted, Lu Sheng took out two servings of grilled cold noodles from her spatial storage, and she and Zhuang Zhuang each took one and settled on the sofa to watch TV.

The TV was showing a very popular talent show. All the contestants were handsome young men with fair skin and red lips. Every time the camera panned to the audience, it captured the screaming and frenzy of female fans.

Lu Sheng stared at the girl on the show who was so excited to hug her idol that she cried, and suddenly slapped his thigh.

I hurriedly swallowed the last bite of grilled cold noodles, turned on my computer, and quickly subscribed to the super VIP memberships of all the video websites, downloading all the idol dramas, variety shows, and handsome guy clips that I could find.

She almost forgot that Sun Tiantian was a huge fan of idol dramas! Her greatest pleasure every day was watching all kinds of idol dramas and clips of handsome men; she felt restless if she didn't watch them for a day!

Lu Sheng even suspected that Sun Tiantian's depression in her previous life during the apocalypse was caused by not being able to see handsome men. Now that she still had internet access, she had to stock up on a large quantity of electronic pickled vegetables for Sun Tiantian all at once.

Just as Lu Sheng was anxiously watching the download speed of the slow internet connection, the system, which had been absent for two days, suddenly came online.

[Audio/video file detected - Reward Base Audio/Video Entertainment System]

A beep sounded from an electronic device.

Lu Sheng watched in disbelief as a luxurious home theater appeared in his three-story country villa.

She glanced around and saw that the media room was fully equipped with computer game consoles; it had all the entertainment resources that could be found on the market.

Thinking about the carefree life he and Sun Tiantian would lead in the apocalypse, enjoying good food, playing video games, and watching variety shows, Lu Sheng almost burst out laughing.

However, Lu Sheng quickly felt a bit scared. Luckily, she hadn't impulsively downloaded Sun Tiantian's favorite erotic novels and movies. Otherwise, the system might have created a club with two male models in her space.

The food she stored up wasn't enough to feed so many people!

After touring the entertainment room, Lu Sheng remembered that he hadn't checked in for the day. According to the system prompts, he would receive a newbie gift pack on the third day of checking in.

[Congratulations, host! Sign in for three days to unlock the newbie gift pack]

[Rewards: 50 points, basic campfire.]

[Points Mall Unlocked]

[Unlocked through points-based lottery]

As the system notification ended, Lu Sheng saw the lottery wheel and points mall page that popped up in front of him.

Because Lu Sheng's shop only has the basic functions unlocked, currently only two items with clearly marked prices are visible: a powerful hemostatic bandage priced at 100 points and a stamina potion. The remaining hundreds of items are all in question mark status.

"Only 50 points? What am I going to buy?" Lu Sheng glanced at the shop and closed it, then turned to study the lottery wheel.

The lottery system is quite suitable for Lu Sheng's current points situation. It costs 50 points to enter, and the prizes include all the items in the mall, with the possibility of winning a huge amount of points.