Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

"Um... I thought it was useless at that time, so I didn't bring it."

Zhang Yuan said this while looking straight ahead, not daring to make eye contact with Liu Ruyan at all.

He couldn't possibly say that he wasn't from this world and didn't have a mobile phone of this world!

Hearing Zhang Yuan's answer, Liu Ruyan didn't really take it to heart.

There were actually quite a number of people like Zhang Yuan who thought that mobile phones were useless and thus didn't bring them.

Not only were there some, but there were many.

After all, when there was the Internet and electricity, mobile phones were indispensable.

But when there was no Internet or electricity, a mobile phone in hand wasn't even as useful as a brick.

Anyway, in her space, there were still some brand-new but useless mobile phones. It wouldn't be a big problem to give one to Zhang Yuan.

"When we get back to the base, I'll get one for you."

"Then I'll thank you in advance."

As the two of them were talking, they both smiled at the same time.

The convoy wasn't traveling fast. When driving, as long as one paid attention and avoided the car in front suddenly stopping, there wasn't much else to worry about.

After all, no one was overtaking now, there were no traffic lights, and there was no need to worry about a car suddenly rushing out from either side.

Zhang Yuan had to concentrate a bit while driving, so Liu Ruyan felt a bit bored.

Since she had nothing to do anyway, Liu Ruyan simply took out a pack of chocolates from her backpack, unwrapped one and put it in her own mouth, and then unwrapped another one and handed it to Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan reached out to take it and put it directly into his mouth.

Liu Ruyan preferred chocolates with a high cocoa content. Most of the ones she bought were dark chocolates.

Dark chocolate tasted a bit bitter in the mouth, but as long as one savored it carefully, one could taste its mellow flavor, which was even more delicious than sweet chocolates.

Feeling the slight bitterness on her tongue, Liu Ruyan felt extremely satisfied.

The whole morning passed quietly. Because the speed was too slow, they had only covered half of the journey.

The walkie-talkie, which hadn't made a sound all morning, rang at this time.

"The convoy will take a twenty-minute break. We'll continue to set off after twenty minutes."

After this sentence was repeated three times, the cars in front stopped.

When hearing this, Zhang Yuan was already ready to stop the car.

As soon as the car in front stopped, Zhang Yuan immediately stopped his car too.

Anyway, having been sitting in the car all morning, anyone would want to find a way to take care of some personal needs.

Fortunately, there were houses and woods by the roadside where they stopped. To take care of personal needs, one just needed to go around there and find an unoccupied place.

For Liu Ruyan, who had lived in the apocalypse for ten years, she was already used to this kind of thing.

She went first, and after coming back, she asked Zhang Yuan to go.

Liu Ruyan took out wet wipes to wipe her hands and then took out self-heating rice.

Thinking that both of them liked meat, Liu Ruyan took out braised pork rice as the topping.

The taste of this braised pork was certainly not as good as the one she cooked herself, but at this time, it was already very good to have something to eat. It would be too much to be picky.

When the self-heating rice was almost heated up, Zhang Yuan also came back.

As soon as he opened the car door, Zhang Yuan smelled the fragrance and quickly got into the car and closed the car door forcefully.

Even so, the fragrance was still blown everywhere by the wind the moment the door was opened.

Both Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan didn't really care about it.

They ate their food. They couldn't let themselves go hungry just for the sake of considering others.

When they were halfway through eating, Liu Ruyan saw someone walking around beside their car.

Since there were window films on the car windows, people couldn't see inside from the outside. So these people even went out of their way to walk around to the front of the car. 

Being stared at so directly through the window like this, Liu Ruyan wasn't afraid, but she still felt a bit uncomfortable in her heart.

Just when Liu Ruyan was about to lose her temper, the two people standing in front of the car left on their own.

Liu Ruyan felt a bit relieved in her heart and continued eating.

The temperature inside the car wasn't high. If she didn't eat quickly, the food would be frozen and too hard to chew.

When there was still one-third of the food left uneaten, someone knocked on the car window.

Liu Ruyan turned her head to look and saw that the person standing outside was none other than Guan Hui.

Guan Hui kept knocking on the car window, looking very anxious.

Liu Ruyan remained unmoved and continued eating her food seriously.

It wasn't until she had finished eating the food and drunk a few sips of hot water that Liu Ruyan opened the car window.

It was really cold outside. The cold wind mixed with snowflakes kept hitting people's bodies.

The snow wasn't falling heavily, but the snowflakes were frozen very hard. When they hit the clothes, they could make a pattering sound. When they hit the exposed skin, it felt like being pricked by needles.

Guan Hui was wrapped up tightly all over, but she wasn't wearing glasses, so the area around her eyes was red from being hit by the snowflakes, making her look a bit pitiful.

It was a pity that Liu Ruyan wasn't the kind of person who would show pity easily.

Liu Ruyan suppressed her anger and just asked coldly, "What's the matter with you?"

Guan Hui didn't answer Liu Ruyan's question immediately. Instead, she glanced at Zhang Yuan.

Seeing that Zhang Yuan was holding a cup, with his eyelids drooping, drinking hot water mouthful by mouthful, and showing no intention of looking over, she then looked back at Liu Ruyan.

"Hello. I'm Guan Hui. I live downstairs from you. We met this morning..."

"I know." Liu Ruyan interrupted Guan Hui's words. "If you have something to say, just say it directly."

"I just smelled the fragrance in your car. Do you have self-heating rice? Can you exchange one box with me?"

"???"

Liu Ruyan didn't quite understand Guan Hui's way of thinking, but the wind and snow outside the car window were already blowing towards her face.

Liu Ruyan picked up a tissue to wipe her mouth, put on her mask again, and then answered Guan Hui with two words, "No."

Being directly rejected, Guan Hui immediately became anxious. Her eyes became even redder than before. "Why not? I'm on my period these days. I can't eat cold food. It's inconvenient to be away from home. Since you have it, why can't you exchange one box with me?

Can't I return it to you when we get back to the base?"

"When we get back to the base, you'll return it to me? That means you actually have it, but you didn't bring it, right?"

"No, I don't..."

"If you don't have it, how can you return it to me?"

"I can exchange it with other things. I have compressed biscuits!"

As Guan Hui said this, she took out two bags of compressed biscuits from her pocket. "I'll exchange two bags for it. You won't lose out.

I really can't eat cold food, or my stomach will hurt even more.

We're both girls. Surely we can understand each other, right? Please do me a favor!"

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan sneered directly. "Since you know we're both girls, then don't act like a white lotus in front of me. I'm not falling for that.

You're on your period and can't eat cold food. If you eat cold food, your stomach will hurt. Then why didn't you stay in the base properly?

Since you wanted to come out to do the task, then why didn't you go to the supermarket in the base and spend contribution points to buy a few boxes of self-heating food?

You didn't prepare anything. After coming out, you came to me to exchange, saying how pitiful you were.

Is it my fault that you're pitiful? Just because you didn't prepare well, should I feel sorry for you and take care of you?

What are you thinking?

This is the apocalypse, not your home, and I'm not your mother."

After saying the last sentence, Liu Ruyan directly closed the window.

With the window closed, the cold wind and snowflakes were blocked outside, and Guan Hui's expression couldn't be seen so clearly anymore.

Liu Ruyan was too lazy to care about Guan Hui's reaction and directly turned her head.

As soon as she turned her head, Liu Ruyan saw Zhang Yuan looking at her in shock.

"What's wrong with you?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuan came back to his senses and immediately shook his head. "I'm fine! I just think you were really..."

"What was I really?"

"You were really cool just now! You directly crushed this white lotus. I think what you just said hurt her more than the wind and snow outside hitting her face."