Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Hearing the girl's words, Liu Ruyan immediately understood.

They were new neighbors who had just moved in!

That is to say, the bodies of the mother and her two sons should have been discovered and removed already.

It hadn't been a few days, yet the bodies had already been found.

Liu Ruyan thought about it and felt that there was only one possibility, which was that the woman hadn't paid the rent for a long time.

There was nothing strange about this.

Contribution points were hard to earn. Some people wished they could pay the rent by the day.

However, the weather was cold now. If possible, probably no one would be willing to go out every day.

But there were surely quite a number of people who paid the rent once every ten days.

Liu Ruyan didn't think about it any further.

It was only a matter of time before the bodies were discovered. Whether it was earlier or later didn't matter to Liu Ruyan.

As long as no one came to trouble her because of this, she didn't care who the new neighbors downstairs were.

Liu Ruyan turned around and went back to her room. She poured herself a cup of red date and ginger tea and held it in her hands, drinking it slowly.

After finishing a cup of hot tea, she happened to hear Zhang Yuan's voice.

Liu Ruyan walked quickly, opened the door, and saw Zhang Yuan standing outside.

There were quite a lot of snowflakes on Zhang Yuan's hat and shoulders.

The temperature inside the building wasn't much different from that outside. Even though Zhang Yuan had walked from the first floor to the sixth floor, the snowflakes were still intact and showed no sign of melting at all.

Seeing this, Liu Ruyan frowned. "Hurry up and open your door. Go and check if the stove in your bedroom has gone out. If it hasn't, add some charcoal quickly. If it has gone out, I'll get some charcoal from my side for you."

"Okay."

Zhang Yuan only replied with one word, but his voice sounded cheerful.

Liu Ruyan didn't follow Zhang Yuan inside.

She didn't like others casually entering her territory, and naturally, she wouldn't casually enter other people's rooms either.

After waiting for a short while, she saw Zhang Yuan striding out of the small bedroom. "The charcoal fire hasn't gone out. I added some more charcoal. I guess it will burn up in a while."

Liu Ruyan nodded upon hearing this and pointed at the boxes beside her. "Here are the things I mentioned to you before. Do you want to take a look first?"

Talking at the door, even if the voice wasn't loud, people downstairs might still hear it.

To avoid trouble, Liu Ruyan didn't mention the word "rabbit meat" and just said it vaguely. Anyway, Zhang Yuan was sure to understand.

Zhang Yuan did understand. He walked up with big steps. "Then I'll take a look first!"

Liu Ruyan crouched down, opened each cardboard box, and let Zhang Yuan see what was inside.

Zhang Yuan's eyes swept over each box, and finally, he made a decision. "I'll take them all!"

After saying that, Zhang Yuan looked at Liu Ruyan a bit hesitantly. "Do you still have some left for yourself?"

"Of course!"

She had plenty of them!

Hearing Liu Ruyan say so, Zhang Yuan felt relieved.

Together, they made several trips back and forth and moved all the boxes into the living room of Zhang Yuan's house.

"For these, I'll give you five bullets for each bag. What do you think?"

If bought with gold, one bullet cost five grams of gold, and five bullets would be twenty-five grams of gold.

Before the apocalypse, the price of one gram of gold had already risen to 393 yuan, and five grams were almost two thousand yuan.

Two thousand yuan was enough to buy these several boxes of food before.

But all of this was based on the situation before the apocalypse.

After the apocalypse, food was more precious than gold.

Nowadays, indeed some people still wanted gold, but if you took gold to exchange for food with others, you wouldn't be able to get any.

Therefore, in this transaction, it couldn't be said that either Liu Ruyan or Zhang Yuan suffered a loss.

As long as both of them thought they didn't lose out, then the exchange was completely okay.

The two of them counted together. There were sixty bags of rabbit meat in these several boxes, which could be exchanged for three hundred bullets.

Zhang Yuan went into the bedroom and soon came out with a smaller box and handed it to Liu Ruyan.

"Count them, please!"

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan didn't decline. She opened the box in front of Zhang Yuan and counted the number of bullets.

The number of bullets in the box was neither more nor less, exactly three hundred.

Liu Ruyan closed the box. "The number is just right. Then I'll go back first. You should also go inside quickly!"

Both of them had been freezing outside for a whole day. Even though they were dressed thickly and hadn't been frostbitten, they still felt a bit uncomfortable.

This time when she got back home, Liu Ruyan went to the bathroom first and then went back to the bedroom.

Before, in order to wait for Zhang Yuan to come back, Liu Ruyan hadn't changed her clothes.

Now that she didn't need to go out anymore, after entering the bedroom, Liu Ruyan took off her outer clothes and changed into warm and soft pajamas.

At home, it was the most comfortable to wear pajamas.

Liu Ruyan took out her iPad, found a drama suitable for watching while eating, and took out a pot of hot pot rabbit from her space.

She had been craving rabbit meat before.

This hot pot rabbit was directly ordered from a restaurant. It was packed in pots and put into the space not long after it was cooked.

Taking it out to eat now, the taste was exactly the same as when it was just out of the pot.

The hot pot rabbit was bright red, with a lot of chili peppers in it.

Soon, the whole room was filled with the fragrance of the hot pot rabbit.

Liu Ruyan ate mouthful by mouthful, not daring to eat too slowly.

Although the temperature in the room had risen, it was only a few degrees. If she ate too slowly, the hot pot rabbit would get cold before she finished eating.

The portion of this dish wasn't very big. Liu Ruyan could eat it all up by herself.

She also ate fried rice with eggs along with it.

Actually, if she could use the soup to cook rice noodles or regular noodles, the taste would surely be excellent.

However, if she cooked them, the smell would be too strong.

When it was extremely hot, the room was airtight, and Liu Ruyan didn't have to worry about the smell drifting out.

But now there was a stove burning in the room. Although there was a smoke exhaust pipe, she still had to pay attention to the ventilation problem. Liu Ruyan opened a small crack in the window.

Taking food directly from the space to eat would have a certain fragrance, but it was limited.

However, if she heated the hot pot rabbit on the fire, the fragrance would be enhanced a hundred times.

At that time, if the smell drifted out through the crack, it didn't know how many people would be made to drool with envy.

Of course, Liu Ruyan wasn't afraid that others would be made to cry with envy. She was worried that someone would follow the fragrance and come to find her.

Liu Ruyan just wanted to live a peaceful life. Some things were better avoided if possible.

Although it was a pity that she couldn't cook rice noodles or regular noodles, Liu Ruyan was still satisfied with this meal.

After dinner, she cleaned up the table. It was already past seven o'clock.

Liu Ruyan took out a foot bath bucket, plugged it in, and soaked her feet carefully for more than half an hour.

Soaking feet was helpful for blood circulation and could also promote sleep.

Especially when the weather was cold, soaking feet would make a person feel much warmer.

After soaking her feet, she washed up. At half past eight, Liu Ruyan lay down on the bed on time.

Perhaps because she was too tired during the day, Liu Ruyan fell into a deep sleep not long after lying down.

When Liu Ruyan woke up again, it was already six o'clock in the morning of the next day.

After sleeping for ten hours, her tiredness was completely gone.