After these items were produced, Hua Mi's level 4 factory's energy bar was depleted again.
Hua Mi: Anxiety x3.
She continued clicking "upgrade," hoping to upgrade the level 4 factory to level 5 in one go and restore her health bar.
The result was disheartening; the familiar warning appeared again.
【**Due to incomplete overall supporting facilities, the factory cannot be upgraded to level 5.**
The only supporting facility is that she still only has 1 square meter of black soil.
Hua Mi: Anxiety x4...
At this moment, the supermarket workers called her. Thanks to their tireless efforts, the generator set was almost installed.
Because Hua Mi had prepared a lot of food and water for them, they reciprocated by taking it upon themselves to clean up the rubble and debris around the supermarket.
So now, a small open space has been created next to Lotus Flourishing.
Yay!
Hua Mi is determined to go back to the supermarket to help with construction.
She tidied herself up, unplugged all the power banks from the power strip, tossed them into her bag, and began looking for something to use for self-defense at the stalls along the way.
While I'm at it, I'll use my phone to call and urge the real estate agent: what about the money she got from selling her ancestral home? It's time to give her the final payment.
She's been spending a lot of money lately, using all her earnings to upgrade the factory.
The agent was very helpful, and since there was no earthquake in their area, they were understanding that she was in an earthquake zone. They had already convinced the buyer and transferred another 10 million yuan to Hua Mi's account.
Holding her still-warm phone, Hua Mi stood in front of a stall selling webcams.
"Is this camera even working? Can it be placed on the wire mesh and exposed to the wind and sun?"
“I’m a professional at this. In the past, you couldn’t get one of these for less than several hundred thousand.”
The stall owner sat cross-legged behind his stall, picked up a large camera, and began explaining the technical aspects to Hua Mi. He rattled off a long explanation...
"I'll give you 50,000 yuan each now. After I sell these last remaining items, I'll be leaving Xiangcheng."
Let Xiangcheng, this city that's been shaken to its core, go to hell.
"10,000 each, I'll take them all."
Hua Mi, as was her habit, tried to negotiate a price, and the stall owner agreed.
Now he just wants to cash out all the money and leave as soon as possible. These cameras are highly professional in the field, and ordinary people have no use for them.
Large companies and enterprises are in chaos now and will not buy from him for a while, so when they encounter someone like Hua Mi who is willing to go all in, the stall owner will sell to him as long as he pays.
Wrapped the professional cameras in a floral bed sheet, Hua Mi forcefully hoisted the large package onto her shoulder.
She continued searching the stalls for materials that could be used for safety protection... and then she emptied a kitchenware stall.
The stall owner's reason for being so eager to sell was similar to the previous one: she needed to cash out as quickly as possible and leave this wretched place, Xiangcheng.
Her stall mainly sells stainless steel cleaning balls, aluminum mesh rags, dish soap, tile cleaner, oil-absorbing paper, disposable rags, aluminum foil, spice jars, food storage containers, and so on.
Hua Mi felt that she could use all of these things, so she bought them all at a reasonable price.
A nearby umbrella vendor saw this and thought it was a good opportunity to sell his umbrella, so he quickly held out one of his transparent women's umbrellas to Hua Mi.
“Beautiful lady, I’m also in a hurry to leave Xiangcheng. Why don’t you buy all the umbrellas from my stall?”
His stall had at least dozens of umbrellas and several boxes of raincoats, both men's and women's.
There are also rain hats to put on your head, rain boots of various sizes to wear on your feet... everything you could want.
Hua Mi looked up at the cloudless clear sky. Actually, rain gear would be useful, since it always rains for a long time before a snow disaster arrives.
Another burly man carrying a roll of barbed wire also came over.
"Hey beautiful, do you want these barbed wire fences? They're all top-quality stuff."
He looked like he was delivering goods to a construction site. Because Xiangcheng was hit by the earthquake, all construction projects were on strike, and he couldn't sell his barbed wire. Nowhere else wanted it, and the bank was still waiting for him to repay his loan, so he could only sell it outside the emergency center.
Hua Mi was carrying a large bag on her shoulder. She glanced at the people who had gathered around her.
"I'll buy them all. Wait a minute, I'll call my driver over."
She immediately made a phone call and asked Afu to drive his empty truck to collect supplies outside the ambulance center.
Hua Mi wanted all of those kitchen supplies, rain gear, and barbed wire.
But she couldn't possibly stuff these things into her Level 4 warehouse in front of everyone, so she could only have Afu drive the truck over first and put the things on the truck.
Afu has been helping Huami transport mineral water and mineral water bottles lately, although he always delivers the truck full of goods to the ruins of Huami's community.
Then, as Hua Mi requested, he parked the truck next to the ruins, and he could go home from get off work.
A few hours later, or the next day, when Hua Mi called him to pick up the truck, the water bottles in the truck would be replaced with full water bottles.
But Afu never doubted Hua Mi.
He was an honest man, and it wasn't easy to find a job in this disaster area. He didn't want to lose his job because of his paranoia.
So after receiving Hua Mi's call, A Fu arrived quickly. He parked his truck on the outskirts of the stall area, and the stall owners selling kitchen supplies, rain gear, and wire mesh simply loaded these items onto A Fu's truck.
"Miss Hua, what are you doing buying so many things?"
Afu saw the huge floral bed sheet bundle she was carrying on her shoulder and hurriedly came forward to take it, somewhat puzzled as to why Hua Mi was buying so many useless things.
Yes, dozens of bottles of dish soap, hundreds of steel wool pads, dozens of umbrellas, more than a dozen boxes of raincoats, more than forty pairs of rain boots, dozens of rolls of disposable kitchen cloths, and so on.
These are nothing compared to the huge bundles of barbed wire. What is Miss Hua planning to do?
He looked at Hua Mi with a deep sense of worry.
“Miss Hua, we should actually buy more food and water now. My wife and kids have been enjoying browsing the stalls outside the temporary first aid center lately. I heard that all the food and water at these stalls are going up in price, while everything else is going down.”
This is a very frightening thing, silently conveying a message: when the price of something increases in the market, it means that it is in short supply.
In other words, food and water in Xiangcheng are decreasing silently.
So if you have money, you should stock up on food and water in this situation.
Afu explained this simple truth to Huami.
Hua Mi spread her hands.
"Look at these stalls, all this food and drinks is so expensive, I need to have the money to buy it."
She used all her money to stockpile goods, and all the money she earned to upgrade the factory. In other words, she only spent her money without keeping any for herself.
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