Chapter 6
At 5 a.m., the light was on in room 208 of the budget hotel.
Su Jing sat on the edge of the bed, holding her phone in her hand. The screen showed the newly revised purchase list. She was still excited after the system was activated and hadn't slept much all night. Her mind was full of thoughts about "how to stockpile enough supplies for the dungeon within 24 hours".
The instance is "Giant World". In her previous life, she knew that the monsters inside were large and fast-moving. Without enough stamina and emergency medicine, she would not be able to survive. High-energy food and common medicines were the most urgently needed things at the moment.
She first opened the food delivery app and found the largest food wholesale market in the south of the city, "Huimin Food Wholesale Market". There were several shops inside that did bulk food wholesale. She chose "Lao Wang Food Wholesale Store", which had a rating of 4.9 and a note that "orders are accepted 24 hours a day and same-city delivery is supported", and called the merchant directly.
"Hello? Who is it, calling so early?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded sleepy; it was the shop owner, Lao Wang.
"Hello Mr. Wang, I need to order some high-energy food from you urgently. It needs to be delivered to warehouse number 12 in area A of the suburban logistics park this morning. Can you arrange that?"
Su Jing's voice carried a hint of urgency, and she spoke very quickly.
Old Wang became more alert: "High-energy foods? Chocolate, energy bars, right? How many do you want? If it's too little, I can't get up early to arrange delivery."
"I need 300 boxes of chocolate, the dark kind, with a cocoa content of over 70%, and the longer the shelf life, the better."
I also need 300 boxes of energy bars, the kind that contain nuts and grains and keep me full for a long time.
Su Jing announced the quantities, which she had calculated: 300 boxes of chocolates and 300 boxes of energy bars, enough for her to eat for 72 hours in the dungeon, with some left over for storage space.
"What? 300 boxes of each?" Old Wang's voice rose a bit. "Are you running a promotion or donating to the disaster area? That many?"
"It was purchased for the company and distributed to employees working in the field. They need to bring enough food to keep them from getting hungry when they go to remote areas."
Su Jing had already prepared an excuse: "Do you have any stock? How much does it cost? If you do, I'll pay the deposit now, and it must be delivered to the warehouse before 10 a.m. today."
Old Wang paused, probably checking the inventory: "We have the goods. The chocolate is imported, 70% cocoa, 200 grams per box, 30 yuan a box; the energy bars are domestic, 12 bars per box, 25 yuan a box. That's 16,500 yuan in total. A 5,000 yuan deposit, the remaining 11,500 yuan to be paid upon delivery, is that alright?"
“Okay!” Su Jing immediately agreed. “I’ll transfer the deposit to your WeChat right now. You can arrange for the goods to be prepared as soon as possible. When you deliver the goods, have the driver bring a list so I can check the quantity.”
After hanging up the phone, Su Jing transferred a 5,000 yuan deposit and then dialed another pharmacy—"Renxin Pharmacy," a chain pharmacy in Nancheng with a dedicated bulk drug procurement channel. The store manager, Sister Li, answered the phone; her voice was very efficient.
"Hello Manager Li, I'd like to buy some commonly used medicines from you. We need a lot. Can you deliver them to our warehouse in the suburban logistics park this morning?"
"What specific medications do you need? Cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, etc." Sister Li asked.
“Yes,” Su Jing reported the details, “500 boxes of cold medicine, the kind of compound acetaminophen and amantadine capsules, for treating fever and nasal congestion.”
We need 200 boxes of antibiotics, amoxicillin capsules, the kind that doesn't cause allergies;
1000 tourniquets, preferably elastic medical latex tapes;
500 bottles of 100ml iodine disinfectant;
500 bottles of alcohol, painkillers, and 300 boxes of ibuprofen sustained-release capsules for muscle pain and wound pain. Do you have these in stock?
Sister Li flipped through the list on the other end of the phone and said, "Cold medicine, amoxicillin, and iodine are all in stock. Tourniquets and ibuprofen need to be sourced from other stores, but we can get them all before 10 a.m. As for the price, cold medicine is 8 yuan a box, 500 boxes will cost 4000 yuan."
Amoxicillin is 15 yuan a box, 200 boxes cost 3000 yuan; tourniquet is 1 yuan a piece, 1000 tourniquets cost 1000 yuan; iodine solution is 5 yuan a bottle, 500 bottles cost 2500 yuan.
Alcohol: 500 bottles for 1000 yuan; Ibuprofen: 12 yuan per box, 300 boxes for 3600 yuan. Total: 15100 yuan. A 30% deposit is required, with the balance due upon delivery.
“No problem, I’ll transfer the deposit to you now,” Su Jing said, doing the math—food 16,500 + medicine 14,100 = 30,600. This was only part of the cost; she still needed to buy a generator and gasoline, so she had to control the budget.
"Please remember to have the delivery person bring the medicine instructions with them. I need to confirm the expiration date; it must have more than one year left on the shelf life."
"Don't worry, we are a legitimate pharmacy. The expiration dates of the medicines are absolutely fine. We will include a packing list and quality inspection report with the delivery," Ms. Li promised.
After transferring the 4230 yuan deposit for the medicine, Su Jing checked the time; it was only six in the morning.
She quickly washed up, changed into some comfortable sportswear, and went to the warehouse with her backpack. She needed to be there early to make sure the delivered goods were in good condition, and she also had to supervise the unloading process. After the workers left, she would store the supplies in her spatial storage to prevent anyone from seeing them disappear into thin air.
When she arrived at the logistics park by taxi, it was just past seven o'clock. The landlord, Grandpa Liu, was already at the warehouse door. Seeing her, he smiled and said, "Young lady, why are you here so early today? Are you waiting to collect your things?"
"Yes, Uncle Wang, two batches of goods are to be delivered today, arriving before 10 a.m. Please keep an eye on them for me and unload them into the warehouse. I'm going to buy some breakfast next door and will be right back."
Su Jing handed the warehouse key to Grandpa Liu, then went to a nearby breakfast stall to buy soy milk and steamed buns. After quickly finishing her meal, she returned to the warehouse to wait.
At 8:30 a.m., the first truck arrived—it was a delivery truck for the food wholesale store.
The driver parked the truck at the warehouse entrance, opened the trunk, and found it filled with two boxes: one box of chocolates and the other of energy bars.
"Ms. Su, right? Here are the 300 boxes of chocolates and 300 boxes of energy bars you ordered. Please count them." The driver took out a list from the passenger seat.
Su Jing took the list and checked it one by one: the chocolates were in boxes, each box weighing 200 grams, and 300 boxes were packed into 10 small boxes.
Each box of energy bars contains 12 bars, and 300 boxes were packed into 8 small crates—the quantity was correct. She then opened a box of chocolates; the packaging was intact, the production date was last month, and the shelf life was 18 months.
The energy bar was produced this month and has a shelf life of 12 months, both of which meet the requirements.
"No problem, sir. Just unload it into the warehouse, put it on the left side."
The driver and the workers unloaded the goods into the warehouse together. Su Jing paid the remaining 11,500 yuan for the goods and then instructed them, "Please don't stack the boxes too high, I need to put other things in them later."
The pharmacy's delivery truck arrived just as the workers left.
The driver unloaded several large cardboard boxes containing cold medicine, antibiotics, and tourniquets.
The pharmacy specially sent a pharmacist over with the quality inspection report: "These are the quality inspection reports for all the medicines. As you can see, the shelf life is over one year. The tourniquet and ibuprofen were transferred from other stores, and they are all recent dates."
Su Jing took the quality inspection report and flipped through it. Then she opened a box of amoxicillin. The production date on the box was clear, and the expiration date was the end of next year. "Is the quantity correct?" she asked the pharmacist.
"Yes, 500 boxes of cold medicine, 200 boxes of amoxicillin, 1000 tourniquets, 500 bottles of iodine, and 300 boxes of ibuprofen, all packed in the quantities you requested. The list is attached to the boxes," the pharmacist said, pointing to the label on the cardboard box.
Su Jing paid the remaining 9,870 yuan for the goods and watched the workers unload the medicines to the right side of the warehouse and stack them separately from the food.
After all the deliverymen left, she locked the warehouse door and took a deep breath at the warehouse full of goods—these were her only means of survival.
She first went to the food section, squatted down, and focused her mind on a box of chocolates: "Put this box of chocolates into my space."
The next second, the cardboard box disappeared.
She used her mind to perceive the space—the chocolate was automatically placed in the "high-energy food area," next to the instant noodles and cooked food she had previously stocked up on, all neatly arranged.
Next, she put the remaining chocolates and energy bars into her space, box by box. After putting away all 300 boxes of chocolates and 300 boxes of energy bars, the food area of the space only had a small pile left. The 7,140 square meters of space was still very spacious.
Next was the medicine section. She categorized boxed medicines like cold medicine, amoxicillin, and ibuprofen and put them into the "medicine section" of her space. Tourniquets and iodine were placed on the outermost layer of the medicine section for easy access in the dungeon.
After collecting the last bottle of iodine, she checked the space again—the high-energy food section was piled with chocolates and energy bars, and the medicine section was filled with various commonly used medicines, without interfering with the rice, water, and cooked food from before. The space's automatic sorting function had been a great help.
Looking at the time, it was only 11 a.m. Su Jing didn't linger. She locked the warehouse door, took a taxi back to the budget hotel—she still had some money to spend and needed to stock up on some "long-term supplies" in her storage space.
For example, compressed biscuits and spare medicines, but these can be bought in the afternoon. The most important thing now is that the system prompts "12 hours until the dungeon teleportation, you need to set a dungeon alias."
Back in her hotel room, Su Jing had just sat down when the mechanical voice in her mind rang out: "Please set a unique alias for the copy. The alias must be unique and cannot be repeated with other participants."
She thought for a moment—in her previous life, she was bullied in the dungeon because she lacked resources. In this life, she wanted to stockpile enough resources to be like a "God of Wealth" with inexhaustible resources, so that those who wanted to steal her resources would not dare to even think about it.
"I'll call myself 'The God of Wealth'," she murmured to herself.
"Alias 'I am the God of Wealth' successfully set, no duplicates, already entered into the system." After the mechanical voice confirmed, the system panel popped up, and a virtual screen seemed to appear in front of Su Jing's eyes:
[Doomsday Self-Rescue System - Participant Panel]
Host: Su Jing (pseudonym: I am the God of Wealth)
Number: 739
Region: China
Total number of participants worldwide: 10,000 (2,000 from China, 1,800 from the United States, 1,500 from Russia, 1,200 from the European Union, and 3,500 from other countries).
Instance Information: Giant World (72 hours, Mission: Collect 100 kg of edible giant plants while avoiding giants and giant insects)
Teleportation countdown: 11 hours and 59 minutes
Current points: 0 (to be earned upon completion of the dungeon)
Spatial Ability: Activated (Area: 7140 square meters, Functions: Mind Storage, Automatic Classification)
Su Jing stared at the panel for a few seconds—out of 10,000 people worldwide, 2,000 were from China, so the competition was fierce. However, with her spatial ability and memories from her past life, she might still be able to take first place.
She closed the control panel, opened the shopping app, and ordered 200 boxes of compressed biscuits (24 packs per box, shelf life 3 years) and 100 boxes of iodine solution, noting "delivered to the warehouse at 3 pm"—these were for the apocalypse, not for use in the game, but it was always good to stock up.
At 3 p.m., the compressed biscuits and iodine were delivered to the warehouse. Su Jing went there again and put these supplies into her spatial storage.
In total, she spent 16,500 (food) + 14,100 (medicine) + 24,000 (compressed biscuits) + 500 (iodine) = 55,100 yuan today. Adding the 60,500 yuan deposit she paid for the prefabricated house, she spent a total of 115,600 yuan. She still has 264,400 yuan left from the 380,000 yuan house payment – enough to buy a generator, gasoline, and subsequent supplies.
It was already 7 p.m. when we got back to the hotel.
After washing up, Su Jing organized the items she would need for the dungeon: a set of durable sportswear, a large machete, a pair of non-slip hiking boots, an entrenching tool, and a backpack full of high-energy food and common medicines—but these would all eventually be stored in her spatial storage; she was just habitually organizing them.
At 11:59 PM, the system countdown began: "Dungeon teleportation countdown 10 seconds, 10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1, teleportation begins."
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