Then I received the rent for the entire month of May, totaling 215,000 federal dollars.
Adding to her original savings of 400,000, her total assets reached 610,000 federal coins.
Su Tao had never had such abundant assets in her hands, and for a moment she felt a little elated.
She was so excited that she wanted to upgrade all the stores with just a click of her hands.
But she controlled herself and began to rationally consider the cost-effectiveness of the upgrade.
After spending 200,000 yuan, the home improvement store can be upgraded to sell smart home appliances, such as sweeping robots, fingerprint password door locks, temperature-controlled drinking fountains, automatic curtains, voice-controlled lights and various smart small appliances.
A room renovated with smart home technology can significantly increase its rent.
After spending 500,000 yuan to upgrade the public facilities store, it was possible to expand the underground floor.
This is equivalent to doubling the available land area in Taoyang.
The expanded basement can be used to build an underground garage or an underground commercial street.
At that time, all vending machines can be moved underground. As the number of machines and types of goods increases, a business district will be formed, and everyone can buy things in one place in the future.
I also have a daydream. If Taoyang is as big as Changjing in the future, we can build subways and underground passages like before the end of the world, so that urban transportation can have a qualitative leap.
Su Tao stopped dreaming, because upgrading any store would cost hundreds of thousands.
And the subsequent system upgrade will cost another full million.
If you think about it this way, six hundred thousand in assets is not too much at all.
If you have to keep some money, you can either choose one store to upgrade, or save all the money until you have one million and upgrade the system in one go.
After much consideration, the miser Su Tao finally decided not to spend a penny. She planned to wait until there was a signal at the Shouan base, then call Mr. Mei and ask for professional advice.
After turning off the system panel and preparing to go to bed, Su Tao suddenly heard a noise behind the car, so she crawled over and looked back through the rear window.
Shi Zijin actually brought two of his men, opened the car sealed with the "bone wings", and jumped in one by one through the skylight on the roof.
Su Tao's heartbeat quickened. She turned her head to pat the sleeping Guan Zining and whispered:
"I saw Major General Shi get into the car behind. Why did he go in? It's too dangerous."
Guan Zining woke up and pushed her down to lie down together:
"Go to sleep. It's nothing serious. We're just feeding that monster nutrients to keep it alive. People need to eat, and zombies need to eat too. Otherwise, how are we going to explain to Changjing if it dies?"
Su Tao finally felt relieved, but her heart was still beating fast.
She went to pull Guan Zining's clothes: "It won't escape, will it?"
Guan Zining was annoyed by her, turned over and said in a daze:
"No, go to sleep. If you keep talking I'll hit you."
Su Tao kicked her on the butt, taking the initiative.
The two men started playing and fighting with each other. The driver on shift looked back and didn't do anything about it.
Xue Dao just moved his ears and continued to sleep.
Instead, Lin Fangzhi suddenly jumped out from the space, pulled Guan Zining away from Su Tao, and looked at Guan Zining coldly like a black sesame seed that had exploded.
Su Tao quickly stroked his fur: "It's okay, it's okay, we are just joking, not fighting."
After coaxing for a long time, Lin Fangzhi finally understood that Su Tao was not being bullied. Then he calmed down and became a good child again.
Guan Zining's sleepiness faded away. He glanced at Lin Fangzhi with annoyance and muttered, "Like a wolf cub."
After a bumpy night, we encountered a few small waves of zombies again the next day. We dealt with them, ate, watched TV, and passed the time until around five in the afternoon, when the convoy stopped for a final reorganization.
Su Tao began to see ragged survivors walking in groups towards the Shouan base.
When these people saw the huge convoy, they were both terrified and full of hope.
The convoy stopped for less than twenty minutes when five or six skinny women with children slowly approached the sewage that had just been dumped out by the logistics department.
These are all waste water and kitchen waste from washing our bodies.
The dry and hot land was slowly seeping with water, and fearing that it would evaporate soon, the women suppressed their fear of the strange convoy and rushed forward one after another, licking the water while lying on the ground and digging water from the small puddles with small containers.
Most of their children were only four or five years old. They lay on the ground with their mothers to drink, their faces covered with mud and dust. When they raised their heads, they still had childish smiles on their faces.
Shi Zijin and his group seemed to be accustomed to such scenes. They neither drove them away nor paid any attention to them. They allowed these survivors to follow behind the convoy, pick up garbage and drink gray water.
Su Tao couldn't bear to look and pulled down the privacy curtain to cover it.
Guan Zining asked her, "Want to help them?"
Su Tao shook her head: "I can't help. If I give water to one of them, our convoy will be unable to move forward."
The survivors, who are mad with thirst and hunger, will cling to them as a straw.
Looking around, there were about a hundred survivors. Even if they did not cause any damage to the convoy, they would seriously slow down the journey and cause unnecessary trouble.
She wasn't that compassionate yet.
Guan Zining raised his eyebrows and said, "You are quite clear-headed. Some of our pioneer army comrades were on their first mission and were easily eaten by these people. In the end, it was the major general who killed two survivors and suppressed the situation by force, thus stabilizing the situation."
Su Tao sighed and reached out to touch Lin Fangzhi's long hair.
When she saw those children lying on the ground, she thought of how Lin Fangzhi didn't even have a mother when he was so young, and he might not even be worthy of lying on the ground with them to lick the water and drink.
The more she thought about it, the more distressed she felt. Su Tao took out a candy, peeled it and put it into Lin Fangzhi's mouth.
Eat more sugar and forget the bitterness of the past.
The sweetness melted in his mouth, and Lin Fangzhi gave Su Tao a silly smile.
At seven o'clock in the afternoon, before the sun set, the convoy finally arrived at Shouan Base.
It was the first time that Su Tao saw a base other than Dongyang.
She also realized that not all bases considered the safety of ordinary people as much as Dongyang did.
Dongyang at least has a low wall as a border, and there are sentries stationed around the base for a long time to ensure the safety of the area around the base.
Shouan has nothing.
The base, which houses 50,000 people, doesn't even have a gate, let alone a wall to prevent foreign invasion.
Some poor people's houses were built on the outer perimeter to serve as a wall. They were rickety and dilapidated, and a few corpses surrounded by flies could be vaguely seen.
It seemed like one could smell the stench of corpses from far away.
Su Tao's jaw dropped. Holding back the churning in her stomach, she asked Guan Zining:
"Aren't they afraid of death? Wouldn't the evolved zombies really like them? They wouldn't even need to climb over the wall, they'd just rush in and kill people."
Guan Zining said, "A lot of them have died recently. The wealthy have long since moved to the city center, where they have armed protection."
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