Chapter 118 The First Time Taking Lele to the Supermarket

Looking at the dozen or so wild boars frozen solid inside the spatial button, Zuo Shan couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Although they haven't been weighed yet, judging by appearances, these wild boars must weigh at least a ton. So much pork, let alone eating it, would take who knows how long to make meat sauce.

Furthermore, the cooked meat sauce cannot be preserved for long unless it is made into dried bacon or jerky, in which case the shelf life will be slightly longer, but even in extremely hot weather, the shelf life will not exceed three months.

"Master, you don't need to worry about the meat spoiling, because this space knob is temperature-controlled, and the temperature inside is always kept at 2℃."

Furthermore, it is imbued with time-related superpowers; when items are placed inside, the flow of time is equivalent to one percent of that outside.

In other words, if the frozen pork inside takes 36 hours to thaw completely at 2°C, then it would take 100 days to thaw completely in this space.

The year on the Green Algae Star is ten months long. Excluding the two transitional months in the middle, there are four months of extreme heat and four months of extreme cold.

The extreme heat lasts for only two months. By the time the pork thaws, it will be extremely cold. At that time, burying it under the frozen soil in the yard will allow it to freeze naturally and preserve its quality.

Mao Li's words reassured her a little. If such precious pork really couldn't be preserved, they certainly wouldn't be able to finish it all, so they would have no choice but to sell it.

Selling a small amount of mutated pork is fine, but such a large quantity would definitely cause unnecessary trouble. Now it's good that we don't have to sell it anymore; we can keep it and eat it slowly.

Zuo Shan selected a medium-sized piglet to eat first. Judging from its size, it was 1.2 meters long and its skeleton had already stretched out, but it hadn't had time to fatten up yet. It should be at least a pig that was over six months old.

Judging from its weight, it should weigh more than 50 kilograms. Mao Li said it has just broken through to the second stage.

Ordinary people cannot eat mutated beasts of the second tier or higher, as it is easy for them to explode. However, Mao Li said that Pandole can eat them because she has fused two mutated plants in her body, so she can no longer be considered a true ordinary person.

As for her, Mao Li thinks she can also try eating Tier 3, because the baby Achen in her belly is not simple and has been able to easily absorb energy stones for a long time.

Zuo Shan decided to deal with this second-tier piglet first, firstly because it could render some lard, and secondly because the amount was just right for making meat sauce and sausages.

Now that she had accepted Xiaobai's generous gift, she certainly wouldn't treat everyone unfairly; at least she would let everyone eat their fill first.

To prevent the smell of rendering lard and meat sauce from wafting into the neighbors' homes, Zuo Shan asked Mao Li for help to see if he could make an air purifier that could remove odors.

As a result, Mao Li searched online and found that the local All-in-One Supermarket sold this product.

The original owner and Pandora, who were from District 50, had never heard of such a thing. That was because people in District 50 were starving, so who would have so much fragrance spreading everywhere?

Moreover, the courtyards in District 50 are quite large and a bit far apart, so even if there's a faint fragrance occasionally, it won't reach the neighbors' homes.

But this is District 48, where some mercenaries' families live, as well as many more administrators. Occasionally, they'll find mutated beast meat or other food that can be cooked to a delicious aroma in their homes.

In extremely cold weather, the aroma of this food can waft outside, and if a hungry passerby is caught off guard, it could easily trigger a violent incident such as a robbery.

Therefore, these families usually buy an air purifier just in case.

Upon hearing that such high-tech products were available for sale, Zuo Shan quickly took Pan Duole to the supermarket.

Come to think of it, this was the first time they had gone to the supermarket since they moved to District 48. Zuo Shan glanced at Pan Duole's old clothes woven from mutated nettle fibers and couldn't help but feel guilty.

How could she be such a good older sister? She was always busy taking her younger sister out to scavenge for scraps, and never even thought to buy her a set of clothes.

As soon as she entered the supermarket, two sales assistants recognized Zuo Shan and greeted her warmly: "Madam, you've arrived! It's been a long time!"

Among them, Lingzi, who had become quite familiar with her, glanced at Pandora beside her and smiled knowingly:

"Ma'am, are you shopping with your neighbor's sister today? We happen to have some clothes on sale that would suit her. Would you like to take a look?"

When Pan Duole saw that the other person was eyeing her, she quickly waved her hand and said, "I'm not buying clothes, I'm just accompanying my sister to shop."

"Let's go browse the household goods section first," Zuo Shan said calmly.

Lingzi immediately guided them, pointing to the shelves where daily necessities were displayed, and then obediently stepped aside to avoid annoying them with her excessive enthusiasm.

Pan Duole followed Zuo Shan for a while before whispering, "Sister, the shop assistants here are much more enthusiastic than the owner of Lin's small shop. When I used to go to the small shop with my mother, they were all indifferent and impatient if I asked them a question."

"This is a supermarket, which is different from a small shop. These sales assistants will get a commission if the goods sell well."

"Besides, not all shop owners are like the Lin family, looking down on people. For example, Uncle Wu is very kind to scavengers," Zuo Shan explained to her in a low voice.

"Sister, everything here is so expensive! Let's buy that air purifier and leave quickly, or we'll run out of money in our account," Pan Duole exclaimed.

Although she knew few words, she could recognize numbers clearly. The supermarket shelves were all marked with prices, and the more she looked at each item, the more alarmed she became.

Today's main target is the air purifier. Although the people in District 48 are a little better off than those in District 50, they are far from wealthy. The difference between being on the verge of starvation and struggling to make ends meet is just that.

Therefore, people here basically don't need household appliances. At most, they just buy light bulbs for lighting, and most families use them sparingly, avoiding turning on the lights whenever possible.

The advantage is that the lights here are all energy-saving and don't consume much electricity, so most families have lights installed in their homes and use them occasionally.

As for air purifiers, they are appliances that only a few families own. They have very low energy consumption, but ordinary families don't need them.

Looking around the left side, I finally found the air purifier on the top shelf, covered with a thick layer of dust.