Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Stir-fried yellow beef, shrimp with tofu, shredded bamboo shoots in cold dressing, plus a square piece of Dongpo pork, and a bowl of mung bean soup.

With these four dishes and one soup, Liu Ruoyan was full without even having to eat with rice.

After eating and drinking her fill, Liu Ruoyan put away all the tableware and started to get busy again.

Yesterday, she had laid the floor in the bedroom.

Today, Liu Ruoyan planned to tidy up the walls.

They looked so dull and really didn't look good.

Liu Ruoyan had bought quite a lot of wall stickers in various colors.

After considering for a moment, Liu Ruoyan still chose white.

It was classic and looked good for a long time.

If she didn't like it later, she could do secondary decoration on it.

The size of each wall sticker was 80x80, so it was very convenient to stick them on.

There was no problem at all for one person to do the job.

The room wasn't big in the first place. It didn't take Liu Ruoyan long to stick the white wall stickers on all four walls and the ceiling.

Except for cutting holes for the switches and sockets, everything else could be stuck on directly.

After sticking on the wall stickers, Liu Ruoyan took a clothes hanger and placed it at the end of the bed, put a bedside table beside the bed, and also took out the bedside table for placing the iPad.

Except for being a bit smaller, this bedroom was basically no different from the one in her previous apartment.

By the time she finished all this work, it had already gotten dark.

Liu Ruoyan turned off the lights in the room and stood between the window and the curtain to start pasting heat insulation film on the window.

Not only did she need to paste the heat insulation film, but she also had to hang the heat insulation cloth outside the window.

With these three layers of shielding, the room wouldn't get too hot from the sun.

The two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment was neither too big nor too small.

It would take time for Liu Ruoyan to finish decorating it all by herself.

Fortunately, what Liu Ruoyan had the most of now was time.

After finishing the bedroom first, she could take her time with the rest.

By the time the bedroom was tidied up, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

Probably because the temperature had dropped quite a bit, there were gradually some noises outside.

One could hear the sound of cars passing by and also the voices of people chatting. Liu Ruoyan decided to go out and have a look.

She could take her time to tidy up the house, but she still needed to get to know the situation of the base.

After changing into long sleeves and long pants, putting on a hat, a mask, and sports shoes, Liu Ruoyan then went out.

Wrapping herself up so tightly was, of course, not to protect from the sun but to prevent being bitten by mosquitoes and insects.

She had been so busy since arriving at the base yesterday that Liu Ruoyan hadn't really noticed.

Now that she was out, Liu Ruoyan found that there were far fewer mosquitoes and flies in the First Base.

It couldn't be said that there were none at all, but compared with the community where she used to live, there was a huge difference.

Liu Ruoyan thought that the First Base must have developed some kind of medicine to eliminate some of the mosquitoes and flies.

Although they hadn't been completely eliminated, having fewer was still good.

At least it was much quieter around her ears. There were street lamps everywhere in the base, and the general surrounding environment could be seen clearly.

Liu Ruoyan observed as she walked. From time to time, people hurried past her.

She didn't know what they were all going to do.

Although she was curious in her heart, Liu Ruoyan was cautious and didn't stop people to ask.

Liu Ruoyan walked slowly forward, secretly remembering the route as she walked.

After walking for more than ten minutes, she heard noisy voices.

Just by listening to the voices, she could tell that there should be quite a lot of people ahead.

Liu Ruoyan followed the voices and saw that there were quite a lot of stalls set up on an open space, with many people coming and going among them.

It did have a bit of the flavor of a night market. There were quite a lot of stalls, and the things on them were dazzling.

There were books, toys, pots, pans, kettles, teacups, bedding, as well as clothes, shoes, and cosmetics.

Many of them were famous brands, but the marked prices now were very cheap.

One contribution point for a piece of clothing or a pair of shoes.

You could choose whatever you liked.

After walking around, although Liu Ruoyan didn't buy anything, she did find out how to exchange for contribution points.

Contribution points could be exchanged at the service hall.

Whether it was grain, seeds, or convenience foods, as long as it was related to food, it could be used to exchange for contribution points.

Besides that, the base was also recruiting workers, and the wages were also paid in contribution points.

Contribution points could be used to buy things in the official supermarket of the base without any purchase limit.

They could also be used to eat in restaurants, rent houses, pay water and electricity bills, and so on.

In general, the currencies in circulation in the base were contribution points and grain.

The money before was completely useless. People who came to the base, those with skills could rent houses to live in by themselves, like Liu Ruoyan.

Those without skills could go to live in the collective dormitories of the base.

But if you lived there, you had to follow the arrangements of the base and go to work every night.

It could be said that it was a job with food and accommodation provided after the apocalypse.

But it was obvious that the living environment and the quality of the meals wouldn't be good.

As for the content of the work, these people only knew that building houses was one of the tasks.

The small building where Liu Ruoyan was living now was built by those people.

Liu Ruoyan thought that besides building houses, there should be other work contents, but ordinary people just didn't know about them.

Not to mention anything else, just planting and breeding, the base must be researching on them.

After nearly ten months of high temperatures, the crops outside had already died.

Even if there was grain in the granary, it wasn't a long-term solution. They had to find a way to grow grain again.

Open-air planting was definitely not possible. The crops would be burned to death by the sun.

They could only try to plant indoors. But how to plant in large quantities and ensure survival and yield was a problem.

Liu Ruoyan wasn't a scientist. She knew nothing about this and didn't think too deeply about it.

After getting almost all the information, Liu Ruoyan left there and walked back home. She had only paid the rent for two months now, which was far from enough.

She still had to find a way to earn a sum of contribution points quickly so that she could have the rent for the future.

She had quite a lot of grain seeds and food in her space, but she couldn't just take them out like that.

Liu Ruoyan thought about it and finally decided to go out of the base after tidying up the house.

Except for the bedroom, Liu Ruoyan didn't tidy up the remaining rooms so carefully. In the living room, she didn't lay wooden floorboards but vinyl floor coverings instead.

As for furniture, she didn't put anything in for the time being.

In the bathroom, she put a washstand. In the kitchen, she put a table and placed the induction cooker and various cookware on it.

The larger bedroom was connected to a balcony.

Liu Ruoyan hung the solar power storage panels on the wall outside the balcony.

The base provided electricity, but it charged for electricity!

Wouldn't it save a sum of money if she generated her own electricity?! After walking around outside,

Liu Ruoyan found that there were quite a lot of people who had laid solar power storage panels.

She wouldn't stand out too much if she did the same.

After tidying up the house almost completely, Liu Ruoyan washed up and went to sleep.

That night, she drove out of the base. The base didn't prohibit people from going out.

When coming back again, as long as she took out her new identity proof, she could enter the base without having to pay grain again.

When she went out of the base, Liu Ruoyan saw that there was still a long line of vehicles outside the base.

It should be people from farther places who rushed over after hearing the news of the base.