"Thank you, thank you, I know." The older woman quickly called her two children to help carry the things, as it seemed the man wasn't home.

The people around her panicked when they saw this. There were only so many supplies, so they quickly took things out of their bodies—bracelets, necklaces, earrings—anything made of gold, Jian Ning wanted.

Actually, she didn't really need these things; she just didn't want these people to get the supplies for nothing.

Even the tattooed man took out the thick gold chain around his neck, and Jian Ning gave him three bags of things.

After everyone had taken their food, only five or six bags of food and two cases of bottled water remained on the door panel.

They didn't even bother with the door panel; they just carried their things upstairs.

"Xiao Lingfeng, I've exchanged this food for gold. You don't have any objections, do you?" Jian Ning asked, turning back halfway down the stairs while carrying a large red bag.

"You can arrange it, I have food at home."

"Alright, let's split the water and food. We'll go out again tomorrow. The city is so big, there's bound to be a lot we can collect."

Those loaves of bread have also expired. It's better to let them spoil than to let them go bad in our hands; at least they'll last a while longer.

"Okay, whatever you say," Xiao Lingfeng said, his tone inexplicably doting.

Upon reaching the 16th floor, Jian Ning gave him a case of bottled water and two bags of food. Jian Anping carried the rest back. She took the kayak back to her room, then ran out again a short while later.

Carrying a large bag of vegetables and pork, and twenty kilograms of rice, I knocked on the door of room 1603.

"Here you go. I grew these vegetables myself in the attic, and I also froze a lot of meat in the freezer. Here's half of this gold for you, since you put in a lot of effort today." Jian Ning stuffed everything in her hands into Xiao Lingfeng's hands.

"I'll accept the food, but you can keep the gold; you can keep it for yourself." Xiao Lingfeng said with a smile. He could sense that Jian Ning was a very kind-hearted girl who didn't like taking advantage of others.

"That's fine then. I'll keep them for you for now. If you need them later, just let me know." Jian Ning didn't stand on ceremony with him. She then put the gold jewelry away.

When I got home, I picked up the walkie-talkie and called downstairs.

"Cao Xue, I went out and found a lot of food today, do you want some?"

"Really? Did you go out in that small boat that Li Mingxuan and the others rowed? That small boat can't hold much, can it?"

"No, I have my own boat." After Jian Ning finished speaking, she realized that she had overlooked something. It turned out that Li Mingxuan and Miao Xin were not downstairs just now, and the small boat with the canopy was also gone. They had left, which was really good news.

Without waiting for Cao Xue's reply, he took two large bags of bread, ham, noodles, and a case of bottled water from his spatial storage and carried them downstairs.

When she knocked on the door, Cao Xue asked several times before opening it for her.

She asked in surprise, "Jian Ning, why did you come down?"

"These are for you and Zhang Xiaoqiang; they should last for a while." Jian Ning didn't even go inside; she simply handed the things in her hand to her.

"There's so much food, Jian Ning. I don't have any money to give you right now, so you'll have to owe me for now," Cao Xue said, feeling quite embarrassed. Although they were classmates, Jian Ning had absolutely no obligation to help them.

"It's alright. I didn't see Li Mingxuan and the others when I went out just now, so they've probably left. Be careful inside, and try not to open the door."

"Thank you, we'll be careful." Cao Xue watched Jian Ning stride towards the stairwell, her heart filled with mixed emotions. A friend in need is a friend indeed; Cao Xue would never forget this kindness in her lifetime.

After finishing lunch, Jian Ning told Jian Anping that she needed to rest and not to be disturbed unless necessary. Then she jumped off the roof of her building. She plunged into the water silently, without even making a splash.

The force of the impact was so great that she plunged almost to the second floor before slowly coming to a stop. Thanks to the water-repelling talisman, she felt no pressure walking in the water.

He took a motorboat out of his storage space, put on a helmet, and rode off towards the slaughterhouse. There was no other way; anything could happen in the water, and if he rode too fast and hit something hard, getting injured wouldn't be worth it.

Thankfully, the journey went relatively smoothly, although underwater visibility was poor. But Jian Ning was like a walking GPS; she never got lost on the path she had taken.

Because the slaughterhouse was located on the outskirts of the city, next to the suburbs, most of the houses were single-story, and they were among the first to be affected by the disaster.

The doors and walls of the house were all washed away by the flood. Jian Ning took a powerful flashlight and quickly located the cold storage. To prevent the water from following her inside when she opened the door...

They deliberately pasted more than ten water-repelling talismans on the front door, and then forcibly twisted open the lock on the door.

A blast of cold air rushed out as I pushed open the door. Not bad, after all these days, the cold storage hadn't thawed. That was a truly unexpected surprise.

This cold storage room is quite large; it must be a quick-freezing room where the acid removal process is complete. Inside, rows and rows of slaughtered animals hang on hooks on rails. There must be at least five or six hundred of them.

Jian Ning didn't stand on ceremony at all, and with a wave of her hand, she sent them all into the jade pendant space.

In a nearby freezer, more than a thousand boxes of various frozen fish, as well as quick-frozen scallops and shrimp, were found, totaling seven or eight hundred boxes.

Jian Ning took them all away. Leaving them would only lead to them going bad, but putting them in her space would at least prevent them from spoiling.

On the way back, I saw many shops, including a jewelry and jade shop.

She went straight over and packed everything inside without taking anything. To her surprise, many of the jade stones contained spiritual energy, which meant that she had been going in the wrong direction from the start.

We shouldn't just look for antiques; we should find more jade stones that contain spiritual energy so that her cultivation can progress faster.

Not far away was another chain pharmacy, its door tightly closed, the medicines inside soaking in water. Jian Ning smashed the window and went in, taking all the medicines inside.

These could be life-saving items in the future. Although the outer medicine box was soaked in water, the medicine inside was perfectly fine.

It will likely take some time before the government reacts and begins salvaging supplies. But time is of the essence; the floodwaters will only last for less than two months.

The extreme cold was coming soon. At that time, it would be virtually impossible to break through the ice by hand.

At most, they can salvage some supplies from the water, that's good enough. The large excavators were all damaged by the flood, and very few are still usable.

Riding the jet ski, she looted everything in sight, taking anything that seemed useful. By the time she got back to near her home, it was almost 5 p.m.

She stored the motorboat directly in her spatial storage. She then went around to the back of the building and climbed up by hand. Using sword-flying techniques to ascend the stairs was rather shocking, and Jian Ning didn't intend to be that high-profile for the time being.

She didn't want the people downstairs to know she had secretly gone out alone. So climbing the stairs was the best option.

From the tenth floor, Jian Ning was back on her roof in less than two minutes. She had just stepped out of the skylight when she heard a scream from the house next door.