Chapter 3 Stockpiling
"To make delicious food, ingredients and recipes are indispensable. Please click [Ingredients] first."
Tang Tian tried to raise her hand and pointed at the semi-virtual screen, but unexpectedly the screen actually changed and jumped to another interface.
It looked like a large map with different locations, subdivided into [Farmland], [Pasture], [Orchard], [Forest], [Water] and [Workshop].
"Host, please click on these areas to obtain ingredients!"
Tang Tian obediently clicked on all of them, and the small animation showed that she was obtaining different ingredients.
Finally, she was led to open the warehouse in the system, where all the ingredients were already listed.
There are all kinds of vegetables in the farmland and all kinds of fruits in the orchard.
There are meat, eggs and milk in the pastures, wild delicacies in the forests, and fresh river food in the waters.
The workshops produce processed products such as rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, which can be said to cover most of the diet.
Seeing this, Tang Tian immediately asked:
"System, can these ingredients be brought into reality?"
"Of course, host. One of the main functions of this system is to ensure that those who lack food can have enough to eat! The host only needs to use his mind to take out the items from the warehouse."
Tang Tian’s main priority at the moment is to stock up on goods, so she didn’t try much at first.
The system then said:
"Now that we have the ingredients, the next step is the recipe. Host, please click [Shopping Street]!"
"There are three stores in the shopping street. The bookstore is for purchasing recipes. Given the host's current situation, this system strongly recommends purchasing the cookbook [N-level recipe book 1] first!"
Tang Tian glanced at it and saw the recipe at the beginning, and it required 500 gold coins.
However, this kind of novice tutorial will give some currency at the beginning, so the number in the gold coin column above is enough, and she bought it immediately.
After checking the recipe, she found that it was different from what Tang Tian had imagined:
It doesn't directly tell you what ingredients you need, but uses an abstract description to guide you to find the ingredients and then figure out how to make them.
For example, the first recipe reads:
[Made of crystal clear granules, it is one of the most important staple foods in China.]
Tang Tian guessed it right away: Isn’t this just rice?
"It seems the host has already understood. Then let's go back to [Cooking]!"
"[Cooking] is divided into [Research and Development] and [Production], as well as an ingredient list. Now that the host has a recipe, first unlock the food in [Research and Development], then cook it in [Production]. The food you make will be automatically sent to the food store for sale."
"The food you're selling will be sold successfully every once in a while, earning you gold coins. The same goes for the food you're getting. Just wait a while and you'll get more food!"
"Once you have enough gold coins, you can go to the shopping street to buy new recipes, new equipment, and upgrade functions. You can also use gold coins to buy unlocked ingredients in the store."
"That's the general tutorial. Host, do you have any questions? If not, you can start the new sign-in. The first seven days are newbie benefits!"
After thinking for a moment, Tang Tian said:
"I roughly understand, but I won't open this for now. System, I want to ask about that warehouse."
"Okay, host. Regarding the system warehouse, there are actually different levels. They are divided into mini, small, medium, large, and extra large."
"And this system also comes with a built-in krypton gold channel! - If the host wants to upgrade the warehouse, if they use system gold coins, the cost per level is very high. But if the host chooses krypton gold, the gold bar will be increased directly!"
Tang Tian became interested and asked:
"How do I spend real money? Also, how big is the mini warehouse now?"
Now that I have a better idea of what to expect, I can stock up with peace of mind.
The system replied:
"The host can use any precious resources in reality, probably... gold, jade, jewelry, money and other items. The system will automatically calculate the value."
"The mini warehouse now has an area of about 200 square meters, for the host's reference!"
A 200-square-meter warehouse wasn't very big. However, Tang Tian stocked up by the box. This ethereal system warehouse should be able to be expanded as desired, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
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After roughly understanding the operation of this golden finger, Tang Tian shut down the system and prepared to stock up.
With this system that focuses on obtaining food, it seems that food is no longer the first thing to consider.
What Tang Tian is most concerned about now is the supplies needed in extreme cold, floods and extreme heat.
The lowest temperature during extreme cold is as low as minus 60 to 70 degrees Celsius. For people in Spring City, they can be frozen to death if they are not careful.
When Tang Tian died of extreme heat, the temperature was at around 5 degrees Celsius, and it was unknown whether it would continue to rise. The temperature difference of more than 100 degrees was really terrifying.
So the first supplies she considered stockpiling were fuel and clothing!
And these clothes are basically prepared for extreme cold:
Fleece jackets, quick-drying thermal clothing, thick down jackets, soft shell pants, quick-drying thermal pants; long quick-drying socks, sneakers, waterproof hiking shoes, hiking boots;
There are also sweaters, cotton-padded jackets, military coats, cotton-padded clothes and pants, hats, gloves, scarves, leather jackets, pajamas, etc. for keeping warm.
She also found a cold-resistant one-piece winter suit that was said to be able to withstand temperatures of 100 degrees below zero. Regardless of whether it was feasible or not, Tang Tian immediately bought three sets.
Especially in a snowstorm environment, you need to prepare a warm hat, thick and thin gloves, snow goggles, ski poles, and ice axes.
Since she had bought clothes, she also needed to prepare more bedding: for example, various quilts, quilt covers, sheets, pillowcases, pillow cores, blankets, all of which were warm types. In addition, she also prepared several sets of mats and mosquito nets.
But in extreme cold, you can't survive by relying on these alone. Moving on the snow is not easy and requires special tools: such as skateboards, ice skates, sleds, ice skates and snowmobiles.
The rest were various heating items and equipment. Since the family's money was all used for the same purpose, Tang Tian bought them first.
Items like hot packs and hot foot patches are likely to lose their effectiveness in extremely cold conditions, so Tang Tian bought a batch of old-fashioned hot water bottles and soup bottles.
In addition, there are electric blankets, electric quilts, heaters, fan heaters, bathroom heaters, hot tables, electric umbrellas, foot baths and other equipment.
Although power outages may occur during extreme cold, it’s always a good idea to prepare a batch in advance!
When the snow melted, the city couldn't drain properly, causing flooding. Ecological disruption and casualties were secondary, as most people were trapped in their homes, including the Tang family.
Because of hunger and thirst, Tang's father's temper became worse and worse, and even his new wife and children began to boss Tang Tian and the others around. There was a quarrel every three days and a fight every five days at home, and there was no peace at all.
Tang Tian frowned and immediately bought a rubber boat, assault boat, diving equipment, thick raincoat, rain boots, swimming jumpsuit; filters, water purification tablets, and disinfectant pills.
There will inevitably be a major epidemic after a severe flood. Without food or water, and with the rising temperature, mosquitoes broke out and brought the epidemic. Half of the Tang family members soon died.
Wei Mingxia and Tang Yi were both sick, only Tang Tian was lucky.
Unfortunately, she was immediately forced to go outside to look for supplies, not only food, but also medicine to treat Tang's father's newly acquired precious little son.
It’s not that Tang Tian had to obey them, but she, her mother and her sister also needed supplies, so she still took the risk and went out.
The result is predictable. She drowned, and her sick mother and sister, who had been isolated in another room, had the same fate.
Tang Tian immediately bought various insecticides, mosquito coils, and floral water, all stockpiled by the box.
Medical supplies can also be arranged: N95 medical masks, goggles, gas masks and accessories, disposable gloves, fire masks, chemical protective suits;
84 disinfectant, a large amount of alcohol, sterilizing hand sanitizer, iodine cotton swabs, large and small Band-Aids, bandages, alcohol wipes, etc.
In addition, there are medicines: cold and fever reducers, anti-inflammatory drugs, antidiarrheal drugs, antihypertensive drugs, antibiotics, quick-acting heart-saving pills; Yunnan Baiyao, burn ointment, frostbite ointment, antibacterial and antipruritic ointment, and a few boxes of first aid kits as backup.
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The second is fuel.
It's safe to say there was no energy source during the early stages of the extreme cold, and even the government's subsequent efforts to repair it were a drop in the bucket. The Tang family, like many others, had to dismantle their household's burnable items to use as a source of heat.
In addition to the heating system inside the new house, Tang Tian also wanted to install a real fire fireplace. As long as there is fuel, it is enough to raise the indoor temperature by dozens of degrees.
Thinking of this, Tang Tian suddenly asked:
"System, I see there's a forest in the food source area. Can I get firewood or something like that there?"
If it can be obtained, wouldn’t it be equivalent to having fixed unlimited resources?
System reply:
"Host, logically speaking, you can only obtain food from the food acquisition area... But it doesn't matter. The special effects brought by some delicacies should solve your problems!"
Well, let’s stock up first!
Although these were in Tang Tian's blind spots of knowledge, with the help of the omnipotent search engine, she finally found a base selling firewood in the same city.
After asking and calculating, Tang Tian discovered that even a fireplace would require at least two to three tons of firewood for a normal winter, and that wasn't even burning all day. The amount required for months of extreme cold was simply unimaginable.
After consideration, she decided to buy five tons of firewood as a temporary solution.
It was a new customer who bought so much at one time, so the final price was set at 500 yuan per ton. The high price was due to the subsequent packaging and transportation.
Just in case, Tang Tian bought another large batch of charcoal and sent it to the rented warehouse first.
The only other fuel is probably gasoline, but it's not easy to buy directly.
So Tang Tian thought that when she had time, she would rent a gasoline truck and drive to different gas stations.
He pretended to refuel, but actually came back and quietly transferred the fuel to his own system warehouse.
To this end, Tang Tian also bought a batch of oil drums, as well as propane tanks, bottled butane gas, cassette stoves, alcohol stoves, flat gas tanks, solid alcohol, etc.
Although we have fuel, modern society cannot live without electricity.
Ordinary people certainly didn't have generators in their homes. Later, Tang Tian saw that they were all in makeshift shelters or official shelters—perhaps with this, they could truly be called a shelter.
Originally, Tang Tian had tried to secretly take Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia away from home and go to a better shelter for safety.
However, the supplies at home were closely watched by Tang's family and Jiang Yao. Without supplies, they could not travel far during the natural disaster and had to give up.
So she bought several more generators: some fuel-powered, some kinetic, and even some manually operated. She also bought boxes of lithium batteries, storage batteries, various dry cell batteries, inverters, and high-capacity power banks.
There is almost no sunlight in the extreme cold, but as long as you survive, the sun will continue to shine when it gets extremely hot, so Tang Tian also bought a batch of portable solar panels.
However, extreme heat is also a big problem. Tang Tian quickly bought boxes of heat-proof cooling bags, cooling patches, sun-protective clothing, ice pads, ice pillows, ice sleeves, cooling fans, cooling and heat-insulating clothing, etc.
I also bought a few mobile air conditioners, freezers and ice makers to use when I move into the new house.
In extreme cold, water freezes instantly, and without enough heat to melt it, it's still not drinkable. So when snow accumulates, every household stuffs it in their mouths to barely survive.
Tang Tian found a nearby water station and ordered bottled water. However, she didn't order a large quantity all at once, but planned to order it gradually over the next three months.
Even after using up all the water in these barrels, they still have some use. Tang Tian also purchased a batch of horizontal water storage barrels, each with a capacity of several dozen liters. These barrels can be filled with water before natural disasters strike, and then stored in the system warehouse.
Without water, excretion was also a problem. In the later years of the previous life, many people simply threw their excrement outside, dreaming of a return to the Middle Ages.
But nowadays, there are many convenient props that most people can't imagine. Tang Tian quickly found a foldable portable toilet that, when used with a curing agent, made it very convenient to deal with excrement.
After such a busy time, it was already dark outside the window. Tang Tian wanted to continue browsing, but the alarm on her phone rang.
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