Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Liu Ruyan looked at Zhang Yuan, who was speaking seriously. After a while, she said in a rather complicated tone, "Then I'll take it as you're complimenting me."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuan shook his head seriously. "You're wrong. I am complimenting you!

You were really cool just now, you know?!"

Liu Ruyan, "...Okay, I got it."

Seeing that Zhang Yuan seemed even more excited than her, Liu Ruyan couldn't help but ask, "Some men like girls who are delicate and weak, as it makes them feel the urge to protect. Why aren't you like that?"

Zhang Yuan waved his hand. "I'm not that kind of person! What's wrong with girls? Nobody has stipulated that girls must be delicate and weak and be protected by others."

In the interstellar world, there were plenty of female generals.

There were countless women who could beat men to the ground with their bare hands.

Zhang Yuan certainly didn't have a masochistic tendency and didn't like to play the role of a man protecting a weak girl.

After wandering in the interstellar world for so many years, the people he met were all his clients. At most, he only had admiration for them, but he had never felt that a person seemed to be shining just by sitting there and talking like he did just now.

"Zhang Yuan! Zhang Yuan!"

Zhang Yuan looked at Liu Ruyan, still looking a bit confused. "Huh? What's the matter?"

"I mean, you've been driving all morning. I'll drive this afternoon!"

"Oh! Sure, sure! I'll make room for you right now."

The two of them got out of the car and changed seats.

Just as they had sat down properly, there was a voice from the walkie-talkie, notifying the convoy to set off.

Liu Ruyan had already put warm patches on her legs. She adjusted the seat, fastened her seat belt, followed the moving car in front, and drove slowly forward.

Zhang Yuan, who was in the passenger seat, took out a map and studied it carefully for a while. "At this speed, we should be able to reach the destination before it gets dark today.

After arriving there, we'll conduct search and rescue operations and also clear out the wild animals. I think we'll probably stay there for two or three days."

This was similar to what Liu Ruyan had expected before. The food she had brought was enough for the two of them to eat for two or three days.

Of course, Liu Ruyan knew that Zhang Yuan had also brought a lot of food.

Just as she was thinking about this, she saw Zhang Yuan put away the map and took out a box of pine nuts from his backpack on the back seat.

"Do you like pine nuts? Let me peel them for you!"

Zhang Yuan put the lid aside upside down and took off one of the rings on his hand, then started peeling the pine nuts one by one.

Seeing Zhang Yuan using such a sharp ring as a tool to open the pine nuts, Liu Ruyan didn't know what to say for a moment.

Was it a waste of good resources?

Well, not really.

It could only be said that he was making the best use of everything.

The pine nuts were small, not even as big as Zhang Yuan's fingernail, but when held by his slender fingers, they actually looked quite nice.

Zhang Yuan peeled the pine nuts very quickly. In a short while, he had peeled a small lid full of them.

Seeing that Liu Ruyan didn't eat them, Zhang Yuan urged her, "Eat them quickly! Besides pine nuts, I also brought walnuts, melon seeds, and peanuts. Which one do you like?"

Liu Ruyan found it funny. Did Zhang Yuan think she was a squirrel?

Throughout the whole afternoon, Zhang Yuan was peeling all kinds of nuts.

After the two of them had eaten all the nuts that Zhang Yuan had brought, the convoy finally stopped.

They had reached their destination!

A journey of fifty kilometers would have taken less than an hour before the apocalypse.

But now, it had taken a whole day to drive.

Just thinking about it made one feel extremely heavy-hearted.

Liu Ruyan didn't think too deeply about it and instead went to look at the holiday villa in front of her.

This holiday villa was very close to the imperial summer villa. After all, it was only fifty kilometers away.

There were mountains and rivers near this villa, and there were also villages and towns nearby.

So there were quite a number of survivors here.

The convoy drove directly into the holiday villa.

This holiday villa was of a considerable size, and the parking lot was also large.

After several rounds of clearing by six snowplows, the parking lot was almost cleared, allowing all the cars in the convoy to park inside.

Since they didn't need to drive again tonight, after parking the car, Liu Ruyan turned off the engine.

Seeing that the others had all got out of the car, Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan packed their backpacks and also got out of the car.

This holiday villa was in a Chinese style. The houses weren't tall, basically two-story or one-story buildings.

The doors and windows were large and all made of wood.

Before the apocalypse, this style was very nice.

But after the apocalypse, it was just good-looking but useless.

It couldn't keep warm or block the wind.

It could be seen that many doors and windows had been removed and should have been taken to burn.

Some houses had collapsed. It was unknown whether they were crushed by heavy snow or knocked down by wild animals.

What met the eye was a scene of devastation everywhere.

Having stayed in the base for a long time, Liu Ruyan hadn't seen such a scene for a long time.

Now that she saw it, she felt as if it had been a lifetime ago.

Before they could go inside to check the situation, someone walked out of a two-story building.

That person first stood at the door and looked in this direction, then stumbled into the house and ran out again soon after.

There were people following him when he ran out.

A group of people were running and shouting. It was hard to hear clearly what they were shouting. All that could be seen was that they were very excited.

Soon, these people ran up close.

The person in charge of the team went forward to negotiate. Nobody knew what was said. Then someone with a megaphone shouted, asking everyone to go inside the house.

Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan followed behind and walked slowly towards that building.

As soon as they entered the door, all kinds of smells that hit their faces made Liu Ruyan frown.

Although her brows were tightly furrowed, Liu Ruyan didn'stop her steps.

In this life, Liu Ruyan hadn't smelled such a smell before, but in her previous life, she had been living in such an environment all the time.

Even though life was better now, Liu Ruyan wasn't unable to endure this hardship.

Liu Ruyan didn't say anything, but she heard a woman's voice speaking softly.

"What's this smell? It's so unpleasant. Could it be that someone did something in here... Can't they pay attention to hygiene! Really!"

The person who said this didn't speak loudly. Liu Ruyan was sure that she hadn't heard this voice before and didn't have the interest to see who had said it.

The person in charge of this task was named Kong Rui, a man in his thirties or forties, with an upright and noble air.

After entering, Kong Rui asked people to open the boxes they were carrying.

"I've brought food for everyone. Where's your pot? Let's cook something to eat right away!"

Hearing that there was food, the people who had been huddled in various corners all reacted. They opened their eyes wide, which were shining, and looked at Kong Rui.

There were no lights in the room, only the light of the fire, so the light was rather dim.

In this dim situation, these people's eyes were shining.

They looked like hungry wolves in the night.

Liu Ruyan pursed her lips and put her hand on the dagger tucked behind her waist.

Others might not know, but Liu Ruyan knew.

People who were extremely hungry could be even more terrifying than hungry wolves in the middle of the night when they went crazy.

Fortunately, the riot that Liu Ruyan was worried about didn't happen.

There were also leaders here, and they quickly gave orders to fetch snow back to melt it into water for cooking.

Quite a number of people went to melt snow into water. After all, the water pipes were all frozen, and the river surface was also covered with thick ice.

Most people drank melted snow water when they wanted to drink water.

Most of the food that Kong Rui had brought was compressed biscuits, along with some dehydrated vegetables and a small number of cans.

The compressed biscuits were smashed and then directly put into the pot to cook.

Some dehydrated vegetables were added, and two cans of meat were opened, chopped up, and put in to stir.

When it boiled, the meal was ready.

The appearance of the meal made in this way certainly wasn't good, but it actually smelled quite fragrant.

For people who were extremely hungry, it was even more a supreme delicacy.