Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

After Liu Ruyan finished speaking, without waiting for Zhang Yuan's reply, she turned around and ran upstairs.

She rushed all the way to the sixth floor and got home. After closing the door, Liu Ruyan began to take things out of her space.

Considering Zhang Yuan's car, instead of taking out a coal-burning stove this time, Liu Ruyan took out a gas stove and two boxes of portable gas canisters.

She also took two car-mounted warm air blowers and a barrel of gasoline.

After packing these things up, Liu Ruyan then carried them downstairs.

Zhang Yuan was still standing where he was. Seeing Liu Ruyan coming downstairs with so many things, he didn't ask what they were. He just put all the things that Liu Ruyan had put on the ground on his back.

"Let's go. Let's get in the car first!"

Liu Ruyan answered and carried her things to the parking lot with Zhang Yuan.

There was a shed in the parking lot. It seemed a bit useless during the extremely hot period, but it was quite useful now.

At least their car wouldn't be buried in the snowdrifts.

Zhang Yuan's car was bigger than Liu Ruyan's. Originally, it had seven seats, but Zhang Yuan had removed the last row, making the space inside the car even larger.

The two of them had brought quite a lot of things, but when they were all put in the back, they only took up a quarter of the space.

Looking at the remaining empty space, Liu Ruyan's eyes curved.

This time when they went out, besides completing the task, they could also look for supplies along the way.

With such a large space, there was no need to worry about having no place to put things.

On such a cold day, it wasn't easy to start the car.

Zhang Yuan took out a battery from his backpack, first powered up the car, preheated it for a while, and then started the engine.

Liu Ruyan gave Zhang Yuan an approving look. He was really well-prepared.

Zhang Yuan turned on the air conditioner and plugged in both warm air blowers, one facing Liu Ruyan and the other facing himself.

"I'll go down and put on the snow chains."

As Zhang Yuan said this, he got out of the car. Without any hesitation, Liu Ruyan also got out of the car with him.

Together, the two of them put on the snow chains in a short while.

When they got back in the car again, the temperature inside the car was a bit higher than before.

Liu Ruyan took out quite a few warm patches from her backpack. "Do you want to put a few on your legs?"

Zhang Yuan didn't stand on ceremony with her and took them directly.

Although the temperature inside the car was definitely higher than that outside, it was still necessary to put on warm patches.

Otherwise, if one maintained the same posture for a long time, one's legs would easily get frozen stiff.

"I heard that the base has been researching various heating equipment. I guess it won't be long before we don't have to wrap ourselves up like bears."

After saying this, Zhang Yuan laughed first.

Liu Ruyan hadn't expected to hear such news.

After all, in her previous life, until the extremely cold period ended, she had never heard of any heating equipment.

But thinking about it, she was in a small base at that time, which could be said to be in a remote and backward place, too far away from the large base. It was normal that she didn't hear any news.

Liu Ruyan didn't think about the things in her previous life anymore and looked at Zhang Yuan.

Being stared at by Liu Ruyan, Zhang Yuan felt a bit strange. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I just think it's nice to have a neighbor like you."

This wasn't a lie.

Zhang Yuan had many优点. So far, she hadn't found any shortcomings of his. He was really a very good neighbor.

Especially since he was close to the senior management of the base, he could always get the first-hand information about everything.

And this was exactly what Liu Ruyan lacked.

Hearing Liu Ruyan's words, Zhang Yuan laughed heartily. "I also think it's nice to have a neighbor like you."

Smart, beautiful, and with high combat skills.

She didn't like to interact with people and had a somewhat cold personality, but after getting in touch with her, one would find that she was warm-hearted inside.

Especially, she had a lot of delicious food!

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, quite satisfied with each other as neighbors.

"Sit tight. We're about to set off!"

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan immediately fastened her seat belt.

Even though there were no traffic police and no ubiquitous surveillance cameras now, it was still necessary to fasten the seat belt.

This wasn't for others but entirely for one's own safety.

The snow on the main roads in the base was cleared by snowplows every day, but it kept snowing, so the ground couldn't be cleaned completely.

The thin layer of snow on the ground was more likely to freeze, so one had to be more careful when driving.

It didn't matter if the speed was slow as long as the driving was stable.

What was originally not a long journey took more than half an hour to drive.

The assembly point was just outside the gate of the base. When Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan arrived, quite a few cars were already parked there.

Liu Ruyan took a careful look. The snowplows were in the front.

Those snowplows had already set off. The two in the front could only be seen as black dots.

The rest included buses and trucks with sheds, and there were about twenty of them in total.

There were also some combat vehicles with a very low-key appearance. Needless to say, the people sitting inside should be the leaders of this operation.

Following behind were private cars like Zhang Yuan's.

Liu Ruyan counted them. There were also twenty or thirty private cars.

It was icy and snowy outside, and people were all sitting in their cars. She didn't know how many people were sitting in each car.

But Liu Ruyan thought that there surely wouldn't be a small number of people.

It seemed that the base attached great importance to this rescue operation. Otherwise, it wouldn't have arranged for so many people.

While Liu Ruyan was thinking about this, she heard Zhang Yuan speak softly beside her.

"I've also inquired about the convoys that went to rescue other bases or the urban areas. There weren't so many people."

Sure enough, it was almost the same as what she had guessed!

Liu Ruyan gave Zhang Yuan a rather complicated look.

Sometimes, Liu Ruyan even suspected that Zhang Yuan was like a worm in her stomach, or that he had some kind of weapon that could hear people's thoughts.

Otherwise, how could it be that every time she thought of something and before she even said it, Zhang Yuan would give the answer first?

Liu Ruyan didn't dislike this feeling, but she still felt a bit strange.

Before Zhang Yuan could continue thinking about it, they saw a person wearing a green military overcoat walking over and knocking on their car window.

Zhang Yuan opened the window, and the person outside handed in a walkie-talkie.

"If there's any news, contact us through the walkie-talkie."

"Okay."

After saying just this one word, that person walked away. Obviously, he still had to go and distribute walkie-talkies to other cars.

Without mobile phones or telephones, they really could only use walkie-talkies to communicate.

Looking at the walkie-talkie, Liu Ruyan thought of something.

"Has the base ever thought about restoring communication?"

Zhang Yuan nodded. "Yes!"

"Really?" Liu Ruyan asked in surprise.

"Really. Efforts in this regard had already been made during the extremely hot period. But the sudden sharp drop in temperature caught people off guard.

Preventing the cold, providing relief against the cold, and rescue operations were all top priorities, so this matter was delayed. After a while, it's estimated that it can continue.

However, at most, communication can only be restored within the base. It's definitely impossible to be the same as before."

Even without Zhang Yuan's explanation, Liu Ruyan understood this point herself.

But even if communication could only be restored within the base, that would still be good!

At least by then, she could also surf the Internet and lurk around online.

Although Liu Ruyan didn't like to interact with people, she still thought it was quite interesting to watch others being lively.

After all, people were social animals. Always staying alone and having no contact or communication with the outside world would inevitably make one feel dull and boring.

Zhang Yuan looked at Liu Ruyan's smiling eyes and asked another question, "Do you still keep your mobile phone?"

"Yes, I do! Anyway, it doesn't take up much space, so I brought it with me." Liu Ruyan answered frankly.

She not only had a mobile phone but also an iPad and a computer.

"Then exchange one with me later."

"Did you throw away your mobile phone?"

Liu Ruyan didn't quite understand. Zhang Yuan's car was so big and could carry so many weapons, yet he didn't even bring a mobile phone?