Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

However, Liu Ruoyan also knew that you should look at someone with new eyes after not seeing them for a while.

They hadn't seen each other for over half a year. This man also seemed to be quite capable. It wasn't strange at all that he could say such things with confidence.

The only strange thing was how he had ended up being unable to afford a meal in the first place.

Liu Ruoyan wasn't interested in prying into other people's private affairs. She and the man carried the iron grille door to the sixth floor together.

Both of them were strong. Carrying the two-hundred-pound iron grille door to the sixth floor in one go, they didn't even blush or pant.

"I have the tools for installation. I'll go and get them."

Liu Ruoyan said this and directly opened the door to go back home, closing the front door behind her.

After finding all the necessary tools in her space, she also took a long power strip before opening the front door again.

Liu Ruoyan originally planned to install the door herself, but Zhang Yuan beat her to it.

"I can install it. You just help me hold it and pass me the tools."

Zhang Yuan was very skilled at it, so skilled that Liu Ruoyan suspected that he had been a door installer before the apocalypse.

"Have we not introduced ourselves yet? I'm Zhang Yuan. And you?"

Liu Ruoyan came to her senses upon hearing this and looked at Zhang Yuan.

Had they really not introduced themselves yet?

But why did it feel like they were already quite familiar with each other?

Looking into Zhang Yuan's bright black eyes, Liu Ruoyan got the answer. It was this man who was too familiar with people too quickly.

"I'm Liu Ruoyan."

"Then is your nickname Ruoyan?"

"No."

"That's a pity. It sounds so nice! By the way, how long have you been living here? Are you familiar with the base? I want to take a walk around the base. Can you show me around?"

Zhang Yuan's words came one after another, making Liu Ruoyan's eyebrows twitch.

Thinking back to the first time she saw Zhang Yuan, he was sitting in the shadowy corner, looking aloof, with concise words.

He gave off the air of a cold and aloof male god.

But look at him now, always smiling so brightly that it dazzled people's eyes, and chattering non-stop just because he had a nice voice.

He must have eaten too much!

Liu Ruoyan didn't say much, but Zhang Yuan could keep talking on his own without feeling embarrassed at all.

On the contrary, Liu Ruoyan, who had been silent all the time, felt a bit embarrassed and had to respond from time to time.

Half an hour later, the door was installed.

Liu Ruoyan secretly let out a sigh of relief in her heart. She put all the tools into a box and carried it back home.

Liu Ruoyan's car was still parked downstairs. She needed to drive it to the parking lot.

Just after taking two steps downstairs, Liu Ruoyan noticed that Zhang Yuan had also followed her.

Before Liu Ruoyan could ask, Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "I haven't finished taking my things."

"Then let me help you take them together!"

"That's really great!"

After all, Zhang Yuan had helped her carry the door and install it together. It would seem unreasonable if she didn't help.

When they got downstairs, without Zhang Yuan saying anything, Liu Ruoyan saw Zhang Yuan's car.

It was a seven-seat off-road vehicle, much larger than Liu Ruoyan's car.

Zhang Yuan walked up to it and opened the trunk, and a car full of supplies was presented in front of Liu Ruoyan's eyes.

Looking at so many things, the corner of Liu Ruoyan's eye twitched.

If one person were to move all these things, how long would it take?

Liu Ruoyan didn't know how long it would take for one person.

All she knew was that when she and Zhang Yuan moved them together, it took the two of them a full two hours.

She couldn't even remember how many trips they had made back and forth.

After moving the things upstairs, they were all piled up in the living room.

At this time, there was no room to even set foot in the living room.

It would take an unknown amount of time to tidy up all these things.

Liu Ruoyan also noticed that when she first followed Zhang Yuan into the house, there were already many large cardboard boxes piled up in the kitchen.

Those should have been moved up by Zhang Yuan before.

Zhang Yuan's car had a roof rack installed, and these boxes should have been placed on the roof before.

After moving the things, the two of them parked the cars in the parking lot together.

By the time they got back to the sixth floor, it was already almost three o'clock.

Liu Ruoyan was sweating all over now and just wanted to go back and take a bath and rest. She directly refused Zhang Yuan's offer to invite her to dinner.

Even though he was rejected, Zhang Yuan still had a smile on his face.

"I'm too tired to eat today. Then how about tomorrow night?

What time do you usually get up in the afternoon? Can I come and call you to have dinner at seven or eight o'clock?"

Liu Ruoyan wanted to refuse again, but Zhang Yuan showed a pitiful look in his eyes.

"You've helped me so much. I'd feel guilty if I didn't invite you to dinner."

Hearing this, Liu Ruoyan didn't refuse again. "Then call me when the time comes!"

"Okay!"

Liu Ruoyan waved her hand. "I'll go first. Goodbye!"

Liu Ruoyan said this, took two steps and reached her doorstep. She opened the door and slipped inside.

After closing the front door, Liu Ruoyan let out a long sigh.

Liu Ruoyan agreed to Zhang Yuan's request to have dinner not because she was soft-hearted.

Putting herself in his shoes, wasn't it because Zhang Yuan helped her install the door that she helped him move the things?

She didn't want to owe others favors herself, and Zhang Yuan should be the same.

After having this meal, they would be even.

Thinking this way in her heart, Liu Ruoyan walked towards the bathroom.

Taking out a bathtub, Liu Ruoyan took off her clothes and soaked herself in it.

The warm water enveloped her body. Coupled with the temperature of over thirty degrees, it soon made Liu Ruoyan's cheeks flushed and a thin layer of sweat appeared on her face.

While taking a bath, Liu Ruoyan was thinking about what she wanted to eat later.

She had last eaten before leaving the base, and it had been six or seven hours since then.

Plus the physical labor just now, after coming out of the bath, she felt even hungrier.

Liu Ruoyan walked towards the bedroom while drying her hair. After entering the bedroom and closing the door, she first turned on two air-conditioning fans and then started taking out food.

When you're really hungry, you'll want to eat meat. Liu Ruoyan took out a braised pork elbow, two green vegetables, and a small bowl of rice.

After eating all of these, Liu Ruoyan was full.

Leaning against the bedside, Liu Ruoyan closed her eyes to check the supplies in her space.

There wasn't much else to look at. Liu Ruoyan was looking at the cooked food.

In the past six months, since basically no one in the community had cooked, Liu Ruoyan was afraid that the smell of food would attract unnecessary trouble, so she hadn't cooked and had been consuming the cooked food she had made before.

After eating for half a year, one-fifth of it had been consumed.

Although there was still a lot left, it wasn't enough.

Now that the rent was taken care of, Liu Ruoyan planned to stop going out in the following days. She would tidy up the kitchen early and cook three meals on time every day in the future.

Probably really tired, after eating, the fatigue hit her doubly hard. Liu Ruoyan fell asleep while thinking about these things.

In a daze, feeling that the summer sleeping mat on the floor was too hard, Liu Ruoyan climbed onto the bed, hugged the summer quilt and continued to sleep.

When Liu Ruoyan opened her eyes again and looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.