Doomsday Grocery Store

Tang Yu’an’s family ran a small grocery store, and every day after school, he would help out by watching over the shop.

That afternoon, his parents had gone out to buy supplies, leaving o...

Chapter 177

Chapter 177

"Great! These are all what I want!" Tang Yu'an cheered, and then bought all the goods in the seven-day sale except the ink.

3 mining robots, 1 solar printer, 2 sets of special printing inks, 1 advanced smart housekeeping robot, plus 1 space stone, a total of 120,000 was spent!

Tang Yu'an took a deep breath after buying it.

So many points!

But when he saw that there was only 290,000 points left, he instantly felt better.

During the ten days in the other dimension, they asked Jin Nao to make a lot of low-temperature cloth and normal-temperature cloth, which cost them some points. They can earn them back by trading them later!

Tang Yu'an first took out the space stone, prepared other materials, and then upgraded the last super-capable container.

Originally, he wanted to move to another dimension for upgrading, but the system prompted that it could not communicate with the furniture elves, so he had to move back.

Just wait two more days, and this super-capable container will be upgraded, and the main store can be upgraded to level 3!

Then they took four robots to another dimension. When the robots appeared in the cabin, the cabin suddenly became crowded.

Tang Yu'an had no choice but to move the three mining robots to the yard, and moved the Golden Head back to the swimming pool. He also adjusted its time back to avoid confusion.

Then he opened the map and started operating.

The house is too small now. He needs to start enclosing land and then prepare more materials so that the construction robots can help them build a bigger house.

He bought a fence and enclosed a square piece of land with a side length of 20 meters outside the pile of stones to store materials.

Then he extended a passage about three meters wide, all the way to the location of the iron mine, and finally included the location of the iron mine into Store No. 4.

This allows the mining robot to travel safely between the iron mine and the grocery store.

In the end, Tang Yu'an spent a total of more than 30,000 points to complete this passage that was more than 1,000 meters long.

The moment he confirmed that it was completed, the snow that was two or three meters thick was immediately pushed to both sides, revealing the clean and frozen ground in the middle.

An unknown animal fell into the passage. It looked around blankly, and when it was about to pull the fence wall, it was immediately identified as a dangerous creature by the protective barrier and was cleared out of the passage in an instant.

Tang Yu'an set up the program for the mining robots, and after starting them up, he watched their bodies transform into the shape of four-wheeled vehicles, and then quickly head to the designated location.

He and Zhou Qi used flying skills to follow them. After they arrived at the iron mine, they extended their robotic arms and began to collect the ore from the open-air area with clanging sounds.

Tang Yu'an observed for a while, and after seeing the robot perfectly transfer the iron ore to the designated location, he returned to the cabin with peace of mind.

Just as he was about to return to his home plane, he saw the housekeeping robot in the corner. Suddenly, he thought of something and said, "Brother Xiaoqi, now that we have a robot, can we make an incubator?"

Moreover, time passes quickly in the alternate dimension. They will return to their original dimension for one day, and the chicks may have hatched by the time they come back!

Zhou Qi thought about it and nodded.

Household robots have simple intelligence, and things like turning eggs at regular intervals should be easy for them to learn.

This way, they don't have to worry about anything going wrong even if they leave.

So Tang Yu'an took out the construction robot again and went back to ask Grandpa Li for bricks, while Zhou Qi began to study how to control the heat source and temperature.

Tang Yu'an was fast enough, but Zhou Qi still had to wait for more than an hour before he came back.

"What a shame! You should have gone to find Grandpa Li!" He groaned, feeling like he was an hour younger than Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi patted his head and said, "Next time if you need anything, let me go back to this plane."

Tang Yu'an was finally satisfied.

In addition to bricks, he also took vines and clay, and then he programmed the construction robot to build a chicken coop in the yard.

This was a very easy task for the construction robot, and it was completed in less than half an hour. Zhou Qi then drained the moisture from the clay, and the wall was fixed.

Then they wrapped a circle of constant temperature cloth around the outside of the chicken coop, and then bought a wooden door from the hard decoration interface and wrapped it with constant temperature cloth as well.

Housekeeping robots have thermal sensing systems, so there is no need for thermometers.

Zhou Qi took out a few pieces of fire stone and placed them in the chicken coop. The room temperature, which was originally only over 20 degrees, gradually began to rise. When it reached 39 degrees, he took away a piece of fire stone.

By controlling the number of fire stones, they eventually controlled the temperature between 38 and 39 degrees.

Then they set a program for the robot so that when the room temperature was below 37 degrees, it would add fire stones, and when it was above 39 degrees, it would reduce the fire stones, and it would also turn the eggs over every once in a while.

They first tried three fertilized eggs from the original world. If this method works, they will use mutant eggs later.

"Okay, let's go back to our plane."

When they returned to the attic of Ping'an Grocery Store, it was still a little after 6 o'clock. They had spent two hours there, but less than five minutes had passed here.

What a terrible time difference!

"Brother Xiaoqi, do you think the disaster that occurred in this plane is related to the hole in the center of the deserted city?" Tang Yu'an couldn't help but guess.

Zhou Qi thought for a moment and nodded: "At least the flood in the deserted city must have been caused by that spatial vortex."

"I don't know whether the hole will disappear in the future or will always exist..." Tang Yu'an was a little worried.

Their base camp is in the deserted city. If the hole expands, the people in the deserted city will definitely be the most affected.

"There is a protective barrier, so don't worry too much." Zhou Qi comforted.

"Um!"

Tang Yu'an cheered up and didn't rush out. Instead, he went downstairs and stayed at home for a while.

For them, they had been away for ten days and naturally missed everything at home. Although there was a round head cleaning, Tang Yu'an still took the rag to wipe here and touch there.

Zhou Qi also went to the kitchen to make some snacks. At eight o'clock, they left and returned to their home in the deserted city.

When we arrived at Room 501, Old Li and the others had already finished their breakfast.

"Printer? Photos?" Old Li looked incredulous after hearing what the two teenagers said.

He thought the ID was just a simple document of writing his name and taking a fingerprint, and he never expected that they would make it so sophisticated.

However, since we all have optical computers similar to mobile phones, the photo-taking function can indeed be used!

"Connect the optical computer to the printer, and you can print out photos and information directly!"

Zhou Qi also used a super printing machine to produce suitable printing paper. This paper can be written on like paper, but has the toughness of cloth, is waterproof and tear-resistant, and is easier to store than ordinary paper.

"Then record the residents' information in the optical computer so that it can be easily accessed at any time in the future."

In order to prevent the loss of these data, they also plan to get a terminal for storage, but it is too expensive to buy it in the plane store, so they plan to wait for the next seven-day sale to refresh and see.

Old Li was confused and could only nod.

This involves his blind spot in knowledge, that is, the function of the optical brain, which he has not yet fully figured out.

So, Tang Yu'an took him to Room 502 next door, placed the printer in the master bedroom, and then demonstrated it using Old Li as an example.

They first took a picture of him with the optical computer, and then they discovered that the optical computer actually had a scanning function!

So, they took the opportunity to do a full body scan of Mr. Li, and then selected the information to be printed out and put in the family book according to the scan results.

This information is naturally not as detailed as the electronic version, but it is basically sufficient.

Finally, Old Li got the page of information that belonged to him - the family notebook they made was loose-leaf, so it was convenient to add or subtract information at any time.

On the left is a close-up ID photo, and on the right is the information.

[Registration Book of Deserted City Home]

[Name: Li]

【Gender: Male】

[Home Identity: Administrator]

[Date of Birth: 82 BC]

[Status: Single and childless]

Looking at the information in the last column, Old Li smiled helplessly, and then his eyes fell on the last line.

He is already 82 years old...

He had just heard the two children discussing this and knew that this was calculated through bone age after scanning. Although it might not be accurate, it was probably close.

Old Li has no idea of his own age and has long forgotten how old he is.

Now seeing this number, I realized that he is so old, but perhaps because of his supernatural powers, his body is still quite strong.

The sequelae of being bitten by the monitor lizard have almost recovered after sufficient rest.

Although Xiao An was worried that he was too tired from climbing up and down, could this level of fatigue be compared to the previous battles with mutant creatures?

Old Li feels like he is now living a retirement life.

He smiled and said, "Sure, I'll have Tiejin and the others take photos and register."

Soon, all the residents in the home who met the requirements were called over and began scanning and registering in Room 502.

As the oldest person, Granny Guo was the first to bring Kang Kang into the registration room.

Soon, Grandma Guo got a small, thin notebook with only two pages inside except the cover.

【Date of Birth: 86 BC】

Looking at this line of text, Grandma Guo couldn't help but sigh that time flies, and then she turned the page to look at Kang Kang's page.

[Name: Guo Kangkang]

【……】

【Date of Birth: 4 years before the homeland】

In fact, Kang Kang is almost 5 years old, but the difference is not that big.

"Grandma, look! I need to see it!" Kang Kang hugged Grandma Guo's legs and stood on tiptoe and said anxiously.

Granny Guo handed the notebook to him.

Kang Kang looked at the photo on the page of Grandma Guo, then looked at Grandma Guo again, his face full of surprise.

"Mother-in-law is on top..."

"Yeah, you're here too."

Seeing Grandma Guo bringing her grandson out, Tiejin couldn't wait to carry his daughter into the registration office, and A Lian naturally followed behind him.

They are still living together. After all, they have only known each other for more than half a month. Living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it is difficult for them to have a passionate love.

However, some feelings have definitely been developed, and both of them are not opposed to becoming a family.

So, Old Li filled in "father" and "mother" for each of them in the status bar. Together with Jin Lili, they became the first complete family in the home.

Because they had seen the photos Tang Yu'an had printed before, Tiejin and A Lian reacted calmly to the headshot.

Just holding this book that represents their becoming a family, both of them had tears in their eyes.

They left at the urging of Old Li and let Shugen and his son in.

Starting with Shugen and his son, everyone's reactions to their ID photos became stronger.

"Is this some kind of supernatural power? How can it be drawn so realistically?" Shugen asked stutteringly while looking at the photo.

Fireball had seen his own image reflected in the glass window before, but never so clearly.

"This must be a superpower!" he said firmly.

Then, he was hit on the head by Old Li. Fireball covered his forehead and said dissatisfiedly: "Grandpa Li, what are you doing?"

Old Li looked at him calmly and said, "This is not a supernatural power."

"What is that?" Fireball wondered.

Tang Yu'an said beside him: "This is technology."

"Technology? What is that?" Fireball looked confused.

Tang Yu'an thought for a moment and explained, "You can understand it as the power of ordinary humans. This technology existed before superpowers appeared."

Fireball was stunned. "Can ordinary humans possess such powerful abilities?"

"Of course." Tang Yu'an said, "People have invented and created many incredible technologies by observing, summarizing and learning from the experiences of their predecessors."

"We'll be showing movies in the communication room tonight. If you come and watch, you'll be able to feel this power more clearly."

Show a movie?

Old Li was stunned, but then he thought that since we already had optical computers, playing movies would be no big deal.

So he calmed down again and said to Fireball, "So you must study hard. Even if you can't master this power in the future, you will be able to recognize it."

Since learning the 10 numbers, the three children's learning progress has slowed down.

It is understandable that Jin Lili and Kang Kang are young, but it is a bit unreasonable that Huoqiu is so big now and his learning progress is the same as his younger siblings.

"Oh..." Fireball responded honestly.

But he couldn't help but complain in his heart, it's not that he doesn't want to learn, but addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are too difficult!

He never said studying was easy againqaq

Liehuo and Axiang, who were standing at the door waiting, listened to their conversation and couldn't help but look at each other, seeing the excitement in each other's eyes.

If the power of this technology can be mastered by ordinary people, will their children have an additional way out in the future?

At least if you can be useful to your homeland, you can stay here forever!

Finally, there is a couple who are preparing to register for marriage. Although the marriage certificate is gone and has been replaced by a family certificate, it is the same for them.

After quickly completing the registration, they took the notebook and left to show off to other familiar residents.

"Look, this is my picture!"

"Realistic, right? I'm actually this good-looking."

Looking at the five newly arrived families and seeing the notebooks with photos and information printed on them, the other residents couldn't sit still anymore.

They found Old Li and hoped to register their family, but were ruthlessly rejected by Old Li.

Family, family, how does one become a family?

Everyone groaned and began to consider whether to just find someone to pair up with.

Although the home does not explicitly state what benefits there are for registered families, having this certificate itself is a benefit!

Since you've taken the trouble to register them, you definitely won't kick them out for no reason in the future, right?

They are all smart people who can survive in the wasteland. The residents can all understand this, but... once they become a family, they have to live together.

Can they have such trust in other residents?

The one who was upset at this time was Bashi. If his brother Batu was here, he wouldn't have to worry about this problem at all.

But... he also has a big black dog!

Can he register as a family with the big black dog?

When Old Li heard Bashi's request, he looked at him with a strange look in his eyes.

People and dogs are not allowed, at least they shouldn’t…

Old Li opened his mouth, but finally went to find Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi to ask if they had any solution.

After hearing what he said, Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's make a collective book."

"Collective book?"

"Yes." Zhou Qi nodded. "They just want to register with the homeland and take a photo. Let's satisfy them."

However, there are still 26 residents left, and it is definitely impossible to give each person a notebook.

"The collective documents are kept in Room 502. They can come and look through them if they need them, but they cannot take them away," Zhou Qi said.

Old Li thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, that's the decision."

Old Li also included himself and Lin Zhen in the collective book, so that all residents were subject to photo registration.

Among them is the wolf fang from the fortress.

To be honest, the deserted city home gave him shocks one after another. At least when he was in the fortress, he had never come into contact with the kind of camera equipment that Old Li had in his hand.

They have computers and mobile phones, but they are all antiques, basically left over from before the disaster.

After the Cataclysm, even within the fortress, there was no industry or technology to manufacture such equipment.

The owner behind the Desolate City Homestead was becoming increasingly unfathomable in Langya's eyes. As for the two small bosses...

He thought they were just shields put in the open.

In his interactions with Lin Zhen and Shitou, he learned that there was a mysterious existence that none of them had ever seen.

Although they are very secretive, from the information he has access to, it is not difficult to see that this is a real big boss!

Looking at his identity page, which showed his birth year 25 years ago, Langya felt a chill down his spine.

The mastermind behind this is really planning something big!

Even in the major fortresses, no one compiles their own chronology... They usually record it in the years after the disaster.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the catastrophe, and the mastermind behind this cannot be unaware of this.

However, He still adopted the new chronology and designated this year as the first year of His homeland...

Combined with what he saw in his deserted city home, Langya felt like he saw a giant monster rising up in a corner that no one paid attention to.

Langya really wanted to pass the information he obtained back to the fortress, but unfortunately he never found the opportunity.

Now trapped in a deserted city, we can only survive first, adapt to the life here, and then wait and see what happens in the future.

Although he really didn't want to take pictures to leave his image, he had to do it under the pressure of the crowd.

"Come find me if you want to get married in the future." Old Li said to Lin Lu again, "When the baby is born, you can come and register."

Lin Lu held her round belly and nodded happily.

From now on, she and her child can stay at home. In such a safe environment, she has the confidence to raise her child on her own.

Photos, family books, and year of birth became the hot topics among residents today.

They discussed it heatedly, and in the evening, when Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi played a movie in the communication room, the residents couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

Even Langya had an expression of inexperience.

There are few such entertainment activities in the fortress. Everyone's life is not easy. Except for those upper class people, everyone else needs to work hard to avoid being driven out of the fortress.

After all, after decades of development, the population of the fortress has continued to increase, and residential land has become increasingly tight.

Although there was external expansion, due to repeated natural disasters, the expanded land was mostly used for planting, and people still preferred to live in fortresses.

Therefore, people in the middle and lower classes also have a lot of pressure in life.

Looking at the world before the disaster shown in the movie, no one is not attracted and no one is not yearning for it.

Even Granny Guo, who went to bed early, brought Kang Kang over after hearing that a movie was playing in the communication room.

As the oldest person in the home, she was given the privilege of sitting in the front row -

Although they don't quite understand, the residents have noticed the homeowner's attention to the elderly and children, and their attitudes have naturally changed.

In the movie, the virtues of respecting the elderly and loving the young are also well promoted.

Even after the movie ended, everyone was still reluctant to leave and was deeply shocked and attracted by the world presented in the movie.

Old Li stood up while everyone was still savoring the moment.

"Our goal in creating the Deserted City Home is to recreate a world like it was before the catastrophe. We hope all residents can join us in this effort!"

"As long as you are willing to obey the arrangements of our homeland and work together to make our homeland better, I promise that you will be able to obtain the right to live in our homeland permanently and enjoy all the fruits of our labor."

After finishing the ideological work, Old Li announced that today's communication room time was over.

"Mr. Li, can we still continue watching this...movie tomorrow?"

"From now on, there will be a movie every three days, and the rest of the time will be for you to chat and communicate."

The supernatural beings were all attracted by the movies, so who would be willing to go into a small room to discuss supernatural cultivation? So we definitely couldn't show movies every day.

The residents left disappointed, and on the way back they couldn't help but discuss the plot of the movie with people around them.

Seeing that the playback effect was so good, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi smiled at each other, said goodbye to Old Li, and went back to Ping'an Grocery Store.

"What movie should we play next time?"

"Let's go with today's one."

"Haven't you seen it already?" Tang Yu'an asked curiously.

"Read it several times, and the impression will be deeper," Zhou Qi explained. "It's not good to fill in too much information at once."

"Oh well."

Tang Yu'an came to the window of the dream bottle and saw Gan Lin's bottle at a glance.

He quickly took it out and opened the bottle cap. Gan Lin's voice soon rang out in the attic.

"Mysterious merchant...mysterious merchant...please respond to my call..." It sounded like he was about to cry.

Tang Yu'an coughed lightly and said, "Well, I'm here."

"Very good!"

Gan Lin cried, "You finally responded to me! I thought Lao Mo and I had made you angry and that you were disgusted with us!"

Tang Yu'an was just about to comfort him like he did to Xiao Hailan when he heard him continue:

"I'm sorry, we shouldn't have used your name to preach without your consent!"

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