Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Thinking that Zhang Yuan had always been cooperating with the base and surely had more channels to obtain information, Liu Ruyan simply asked him.

"What's the price that the base offers to buy these wild animals?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head. "I don't know the specific details. We'll have to wait until we go back to find out. But one thing's for sure, we definitely won't lose money."

Liu Ruyan agreed with this. Zhang Yuan wasn't the kind of person who was willing to suffer losses. Since he had chosen to make this trip, he must have thought there was something to be gained from it.

"By the way, if there are tasks that require us to go out frequently in the future, would you be willing to take them?"

"Huh?"

Liu Ruyan raised her eyes and looked at the rearview mirror, making eye contact with Zhang Yuan through it. "Be more specific."

"As you've seen, in this kind of weather, if you stay outside, the chance of survival isn't high. The base has already reached a certain scale now and has spared some manpower. It's about to start rescue operations. Relying solely on the base's official personnel is definitely not enough. The base plans to cooperate with people inside the base. As long as they have skills and abilities, they can participate in these rescue tasks. Of course, the base won't let people work for nothing and will give certain rewards according to the situation."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's explanation, Liu Ruyan didn't rush to speak. After sorting out Zhang Yuan's words in her mind, she then asked, "To participate in the tasks, do we have to follow the assignments?"

If that was the case, Liu Ruyan didn't plan to participate. In the apocalypse, taking orders from others was almost like putting one's life in other people's hands. Liu Ruyan would never do such a thing.

"No."

Zhang Yuan laughed. "I know what you're worried about. You don't want to take orders from others, and you don't want to put your own life in other people's hands. I'm the same. I've already asked. If we participate, it's just a cooperative relationship. No matter what happens, whether to save people or not, and whether to save people in our own vehicle or not, it all depends on us."

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan gave Zhang Yuan an approving look.

He really was her good neighbor. In this regard, his thoughts were exactly the same as hers.

"Since that's the case, if you think any task is good in the future, you can let me know."

As for whether to go or not, that could be decided when the time came.

"Sure!"

The conversation was pleasant, and the result satisfied both of them. Both of them had smiles on their faces.

Two hours later, it was already dark. Finally, they saw the gate of the base.

Because of the snow, it got dark especially early. It was completely dark by four or five o'clock.

There were lights on outside the base. The light shone on the white snow, allowing people to see the base clearly from a long distance away.

Because of the weather, there was no long queue of vehicles at the base entrance. Besides the snowplows clearing the snow, only their vehicle was going to enter the base.

"We won't go directly back to the base. We need to go to the service center first. Contribution points can be exchanged there." Zhang Yuan said to Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan had no objection to this.

Such a big and heavy wild boar, if they took it home first and then brought it out again, it would be a real pain.

It was much better to do it in one step.

Liu Ruyan drove the snowplow directly to the service center.

Whether it was because of the weather or the time, the service center was deserted and no longer as lively as when Liu Ruyan came last time.

Zhang Yuan asked Liu Ruyan to wait in the car while he got out and went inside.

Liu Ruyan didn't wait long before seeing Zhang Yuan leading a few people out of the service center.

They walked directly around to the back of the snowplow, untied the steel wire rope tied to the wild boar, and finally managed to drag and push the wild boar into the service center.

After a while, Zhang Yuan came out again and got into the car directly this time.

"Do you want to keep one of these four rabbits to eat?"

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan thought for a moment and then shook her head. "I don't want to keep one."

She had plenty of rabbits in her space.

There were countless whole rabbits freshly slaughtered, disassembled rabbit meat, shredded rabbit, roasted rabbit, spicy rabbit heads.

There were also rabbit dishes that Liu Ruyan had ordered from various restaurants and street stalls.

Dry pot rabbit, fresh pot rabbit, pickled pepper rabbit, cold-eaten rabbit, Sichuan spicy stir-fried rabbit...

Don't think about it! Don't think about it!

The more she thought about it, the greedier she felt, and saliva started to form in her mouth.

Liu Ruyan looked at Zhang Yuan across from her. Thinking that he also loved meat, she pursed her lips. "I have vacuum-packed cooked rabbit meat. If you want to eat it, when we go back—"

"When we go back, I'll exchange something with you! I'll use bullets. You need quite a lot of bullets for practicing shooting."

Liu Ruyan had originally wanted to give him a bag or two. Now that he said this, she silently swallowed back the words she hadn't finished. "Okay."

After the two of them agreed, Zhang Yuan held the ears of the four rabbits in both hands. "Come with me. The contribution points can be directly credited to your card later."

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan also got out of the car.

Anyway, now that they were inside the base, it was impossible for anyone to be bold enough to drive their car away. There was nothing to worry about leaving it outside.

After entering the gate of the service center, a warm air rushed towards them.

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment before realizing that the place was heated.

But on second thought, it was normal. After all, the people working here were all from the base's official staff. It was normal for them to have a better working environment.

The wild boar and the rabbits were weighed respectively, and finally, the contribution points were calculated according to their weight.

One jin was equivalent to one contribution point. The rabbits and the wild boar were quite big in size. Altogether, they got 680 contribution points.

The contribution points were divided equally between the two of them. Each person's card had 340 more contribution points.

Going out for just one day and earning more than 300 contribution points was enough to cover Liu Ruyan's rent for three and a half months.

It was really a good deal!

Holding the card and leaving the service center, Liu Ruyan became a bit more interested in the task mentioned before.

When getting into the car again, Zhang Yuan sat in the driver's seat. "I'll take you back to our small building first, and then I'll go to return the car."

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment. "Then how will you get back later?"

Could it be that he would have to walk back?

"Someone will drive a snowmobile to take me back."

Since he didn't have to walk back, Liu Ruyan felt relieved.

The car stopped downstairs of their small building. The two of them got out of the car together and moved the things in the car upstairs.

Watching Zhang Yuan go downstairs, Liu Ruyan quickly closed the door and went back to the bedroom.

The first thing she did after entering the bedroom was to quickly turn on various heating equipment and the humidifier.

Then she used a hook to lift the iron ring on the stove. Seeing that the charcoal fire inside hadn't gone out and there was still some left at the bottom, Liu Ruyan didn't hesitate and quickly added some charcoal inside.

After putting the lid back on, Liu Ruyan sat in the place where the small sun could shine on her.

With the small sun shining and the warm air blower blowing, Liu Ruyan's body, which had been frozen cold, gradually warmed up.

After warming up for a while, thinking that it was about time, Liu Ruyan took out rabbit meat from her space.

She took out two boxes each of fresh rabbit meat, roasted rabbit, and spicy rabbit heads.

These were all vacuum-packed, relatively durable for storage, and wouldn't arouse suspicion. They were just right for exchanging with Zhang Yuan for bullets.

Liu Ruyan moved the boxes to the door, just waiting for Zhang Yuan to come back.

Just as she was about to turn around and go back to the bedroom, Liu Ruyan heard noises downstairs.

The mixed footsteps and noisy voices all told Liu Ruyan one thing, that a lot of people had come downstairs.

There were two sets of apartments on the fifth floor. One was occupied by a mother and her two children, and the other was occupied by a family of five.

The family of five had always been quiet and wouldn't make such a big noise.

Since it wasn't them, then who was it?

While Liu Ruyan was wondering, she heard a girl's lively voice. "Great! We'll have our own house to live in from now on!"