The motorboat was loud, so the two took a detour through an open area. There was no one on the road, but Xu Lin had a feeling that people would be coming out to collect supplies in the next couple of days.
The grains sold in the malls are already soaked and dried, and the prices have gone up again. Ordinary people don't have that much liquid capital, so they have no choice but to come out and collect supplies.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the Gangcheng Building Materials Market. Because the building materials market is located on high ground with high ceilings, and is located in the suburbs with good greenery, the water only submerged one floor.
We first circled the perimeter and found no one guarding it, so it's unlikely anyone had come to collect supplies.
The building materials market has several sections, including steel bars, cement, sand, bricks, stones, timber, sanitary ware, tiles, wallpaper, glass, paint, and hardware.
The two had already discussed it on the way. They would first collect materials from areas such as cement, bathroom fixtures, tiles, glass, and hardware, as these are products that have undergone secondary or tertiary processing. Other materials, such as sand and stones, could be collected at any time.
The building materials market was full of roller shutter doors. Xu Lin took out a cutter from her spatial storage and gave it to 801. It could cut a 1-meter by 1-meter hole in ten minutes. Then 801 led the way with a high-powered flashlight, and Xu Lin followed behind with a headlamp.
The water on the second floor was already ankle-deep. The first place we went was the steel bar wholesale area. We bought a lot of each type. Luckily, the space could be stacked using our thoughts, otherwise we would have been full just by buying steel bars.
The second wholesale area was for glass. Xu Lin bought all the bulletproof glass, as well as a lot of ordinary glass and tempered glass, so she could install the glass herself when she moved later.
The third section was cement. Much of the cement was damp and unusable. The two of them went to great lengths to find a few tons that hadn't been damp. However, Xu Lin had a lot of it stored in her space, enough to build a whole apartment building.
Next, she swept through the bathroom fixtures, tiles, and hardware. She glanced at her watch; it was midnight. She had already worked a five-hour night shift and was exhausted. Meanwhile, 801 seemed perfectly fine. It's true what they say, comparisons are odious.
"Take a rest." 801 noticed that Xu Lin was tired.
"Okay." Xu Lin agreed, and casually took out two rice balls from her spatial storage and gave one to 801.
Having had previous experiences, 801 was no longer surprised by Xu Lin taking things out at any time, and the two sat down at a coffee table in the hardware store to eat.
"You said before that putting old antiques and calligraphy in the space would upgrade it, right?" 801 turned around and asked Xu Lin.
"right."
"We'll go to the building materials market owner's office in a bit."
"good."
Is this still the upright and righteous People's Liberation Army soldier? Oh, now he's just an ordinary citizen.
To be honest, the building materials that 801 brought along were of superb quality. Xu Lin suspected that he had scouted the area before the apocalypse, but she had no proof.
After a satisfying meal, we bought everything in the building materials market. As the saying goes, "Since we're already here..." Although we were tired, we felt fulfilled, enjoying the joy of buying things for free.
801 led Xu Lin to the top floor of the office building (the two tacitly avoided collecting supplies from the ordinary employees' workstations, partly because they didn't care about them, and partly to leave some way for the other survivors to survive; of course, Xu Lin still didn't miss the office supplies in the storage room). The entire top floor consisted of the boss's office and the secretariat.
801 easily opened the door to the boss's office, where two money trees came into view. Xu Lin stared at the golden Pixiu on the desk, eager to try it out.
“It’s fake,” 801 said definitively.
"How did you know?" Xu Lin felt that 801 knew everything and could even read her mind.
"This is obviously fake. Try putting it in if you don't believe me."
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