Jiang Zhi was waiting; she wanted everyone to leave before she started dismantling things. Yesterday, she had created a junk storage area in her spatial dimension, so she could exchange this junk for points when she ran out of money.
In the apocalyptic world, with alternating periods of extreme cold and heat, resuming production is virtually impossible.
Therefore, the things that were manufactured in the past are also of great importance.
After a two-day break from the heavy snowfall, it snowed for another three days, then turned into sleet. Zhou Heng wandered around the neighborhood, finding that only he and Jiang Zhi remained. He decided to go see Jiang Zhi and ask if she would like to come with him.
Jiang Zhi was sweeping the snow off the corrugated steel roof tiles. The surface layer of snow was as thick as twenty centimeters. Jiang Zhi put all of it into the water storage tank in her space, which could be used to cool down when it got extremely hot.
As for the layer that was right next to the corrugated steel sheet, Jiang Zhi didn't want it.
After clearing away the snow, she plans to dismantle all these sheet metal frames and take them with her.
Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for her to travel with anyone. After receiving Jiang Zhi's rejection, Zhou Heng left with the words "Be careful in everything" and drove away.
He was followed by a long line of people, all of whom he had mobilized.
In this frozen wasteland, only Jiang Zhi remained.
She had to dismantle the shed before the temperature plummeted to minus fifty or sixty degrees Celsius.
Fortunately, she possessed martial arts skills, making her impervious to heat and cold, and she was also exceptionally strong. She dismantled all the sheet metal in just half a day.
The power grid has been removed, and in a major earthquake in the future, her house might not be able to be saved at all.
After storing the items in her spatial storage, Jiang Zhi installed snow chains on the car. She was going to search for supplies at various wholesale markets in the city.
Jiang Zhi wore three layers of clothing: thermal underwear underneath, a rabbit fur turtleneck sweater, and an extremely thick down jacket on top. Her pants were thick cotton-padded trousers from Northeast China, with a pair of thin, plus-size women's trousers over them.
I was wearing snow boots and warm socks, but my feet were still a little cold.
Driving with gloves on is inconvenient, so Jiang Zhi took off her coat and gloves. The car was warm, so it wasn't cold.
The car encountered a traffic accident and a traffic jam as soon as it came down the mountain. There was no one in the cars stuck in the middle of the road, and no supplies either. It looked like they had been abandoned.
Jiang Zhi forcefully moved the car in the middle of the road and found a frozen corpse under it. There was a hole in the corpse's head. Judging from the situation at the scene, the corpse had been hit by a car.
It's pitiful, too.
Jiang Zhi loaded the body onto the car, giving him a place to stay so he wouldn't have to be run over in the middle of the road anymore.
The SUV was still running; in this weather, once a car stalls, it's difficult to turn it back on.
Jiang Zhi continued driving towards her destination.
She had downloaded an offline map beforehand, which was still working. Following the map's directions, Jiang Zhi arrived at the street lined with hardware, home improvement, and kitchenware shops.
This area is on higher ground and was not affected by the flood.
Stoves that can be used for heating are hot-selling products in extremely cold weather. Jiang Zhi moved half of the inventory and left the rest for others.
Next came various small hardware parts, as well as wire, pliers, light bulbs, large iron pots, bowls and plates, chopsticks, rice cookers, thermal containers, electric blankets... She only took half of each and left the other half for others.
When she raided the supermarket before, she only took some items, not all of them. She had to leave room for others to complete their base missions. She wasn't a pushover, but she wouldn't indiscriminately kill innocent people.
Taking everything away is tantamount to leaving people no way to survive.
Besides, she doesn't need any of what she's collecting; she'll exchange it all for points at the base. Ultimately, it'll all end up back in someone else's hands.
This is called taking from the people and using it for the people. She only earns a moving fee.
There are still many people in the city, so Jiang Zhi doesn't dare to be too conspicuous. She usually acts at night and makes do in an office building during the day.
Jiang Zhi wandered around the city for six or seven days and found many survivors. After telling them about the national base, she continued her raid.
Later, Jiang Zhi simply took white paper and wrote down the location of the national base and the requirements for entering the base with a brush, and posted it wherever she went.
That way, if someone sees it, they won't be foolishly waiting in this cold city.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, there were still many kind people, and Jiang Zhi was doing her best to help.
The city is short of food, but more importantly, it lacks hope. The world before our eyes, a frozen wasteland, is nothing but devastation, devoid of any human warmth.
If you stay in one place for too long, you'll go crazy sooner or later.
Extreme heat killed one group of people, extreme cold killed another, and various accidents caused yet another group to die, while mutated animals continued to grow unchecked.
In a city of ten million people, some have died and others have fled, and it is roughly estimated that five or six million remain.
The weather fluctuated wildly, alternating between hot and cold, until the polar night arrived, and millions of people perished.
Jiang Zhi collected all the books from the library.
These are the seeds of human hope.
Jiang Zhi had made up her mind. As a human being and a reborn individual, she would never think of herself alone in this life. She would do everything in her power to protect hope.
It's not about saving everyone you meet and feeding them; that's impossible. What she wants is to preserve the possibility of pursuing tomorrow.
Many people saw the divination notice posted by Jiang Zhi, packed their bags, and headed to the human safety base.
That was the last pure land.
The Jiangcheng base is located in Shuofang District, built against the mountain, with a flat area in front.
There is an underground river, and the water in the underground river is flowing snowmelt, which is drinkable.
There's also a railway line in that area, not far from the airport, with complete transportation facilities. Airplanes can be used for supplies and exchanges between different regions.
It is located in the suburbs, with some farmland and economic forests, and the greenhouse vegetable industry is relatively developed.
There is also a natural air-raid shelter.
These are the reasons for choosing Shuofang District as the safe base. The safe base can also be called the Hope Base, or it can be called the Shuofang Base because of the place name.
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