Chapter 2 Abnormal Weather and Stockpiling

Even the excuse for stocking up on grains was directly provided to her, leaving her with no chance to come up with a lame excuse herself? Shang Yun calmly glanced at her phone. Her assistant had sent her this report yesterday, but at that time, she was still reeling from the shock of being reborn before the apocalypse and hadn't had the mindset to care about anything else.

"Well, Nanchun County is not small, so I'll prepare more items to send over."

Following the tone she had used when ordering goods in the past, Shang Yun calmly continued, "Uncle Wang, ten tons each of rice and flour, and two tons each of other grains and legumes. Auntie Zhou, six hundred units each of oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, and five hundred bags of various other condiments. Brother Zhang, one thousand boxes each of self-heating instant noodles, self-heating hot pot, and self-heating rice, five hundred boxes of pickled vegetables, and five hundred boxes of ham..."

As a crowd gathered around her, Shang Yun continued speaking calmly.

This morning, all she had to do was stock up on food. Originally, the budgeted quantity wasn't this much, but with the excuse of Nanchun County, she could stockpile more supplies. To avoid suspicion, she still needed to genuinely donate some of them. Shang Yun had enough money, and those numbers would soon lose their significance. To avoid unnecessary trouble, she didn't mind spending that money.

However, she had her principles. Both the money and the space were obtained from the original owner, so she felt responsible for stocking up supplies for the original owner's family. Moreover, it was quite a coincidence. She was born in Yun City, died in Yun City, and she was most familiar with the disasters encountered by the Yun City Expeditionary Force over the past ten years of migration. Not to mention that the villa area where the original owner's parents lived was relatively safe within a year and a half after the apocalypse. Returning as Shang Yun was the most appropriate choice.

Except for staple foods, the outer periphery of the wholesale market mainly sold stationery, furniture, and other items that weren't necessary. Shang Yun ignored these items. After ordering from the surrounding bosses based on her memories, the bosses excitedly went back to prepare, and she continued walking inside.

According to past rules, the bosses would coordinate the delivery time themselves and deliver the goods to the warehouse the next day. Then, after counting the goods, Shang Yun would swipe her card, saving her a lot of time when shopping.

Inside was the fruit and vegetable market. Similar to the bosses at the entrance, the bosses here knew that Shang Yun had come to prepare relief supplies, and she easily sorted everything out with a few words.

It seemed inappropriate to send seafood to the disaster area, so Shang Yun could only pretend that she had been persuaded and ended up buying several pounds of common seafood from the seafood market.

At ten thirty, Shang Yun took a taxi to the slaughterhouse.

"I guessed you'd come these two days after seeing the news yesterday. How much are you preparing this time?"

Seeing Shang Yun, the person in charge was all smiles.

Shang Yun's shadow could be seen wherever there was a disaster nationwide, and each time she bought a lot of meat to send over. So, after seeing the news yesterday, he started preparing.

"Pork, beef, and chicken, six hundred pounds each, and two hundred pounds each of mutton, duck, and rabbit."

The original owner's family didn't eat much meat. They couldn't finish thirty pounds of meat in a month, and with the space, they could feed animals as well, so Shang Yun ultimately gave a compromise.

"As usual, tomorrow morning at nine?"

The quantity seemed a bit more than estimated, but the person in charge just smiled lightly and didn't say much.

"Yes."

...

With the grain issue solved, Shang Yun went to buy water barrels in the afternoon. During the apocalypse, besides food, the biggest problem was water. She died in winter when the weather was too cold and the water pipes burst. She belonged to the type that would melt snow in her mouth if there was no water to drink. After she died, the water supply became scarcer. Later, she saw too many people fighting for a pack of instant noodles or a bottle of mineral water worth a dollar in private.

Large water storage plastic barrels are rarely used, and it took Shang Yun almost half an hour to gather five hundred barrels that could hold 1200 liters each from several stores. These horizontal cylindrical water plastic barrels came with valves and pipes, making them the most convenient option.

An individual consumes about three to four tons of water per month, so five hundred barrels would only be enough for her for about ten years. However, since it was difficult to buy horizontal cylindrical barrels, Shang Yun decided to customize a batch online and have them delivered to the Shang family. Anyway, by then, she would have returned home, and it would be easy to quietly store those things away.

After that, she went to a place to order purified water directly, ordering two thousand 10-liter bottles of purified water. If these purified waters were only used for drinking, she could send out a few hundred bottles, and the remaining amount would be completely sufficient for her and the original owner's family to drink.

After ordering these goods that could be stockpiled by facial recognition, Shang Yun returned home. It had only taken her half a day to spend over a million yuan, and that was without buying the truly expensive items.

Medicines were not included in the original owner's collection of supplies, and going to pharmacies everywhere with Shang Yun's face would easily attract attention. If she were found appearing in several pharmacies one after another, she would probably end up trending on social media again.

For safety reasons, Shang Yun simply returned home and opened the flash purchase app on her phone, which could deliver goods to her doorstep within forty-eight hours. She selected pharmacies in various counties around Ruohai City and ordered dozens of boxes of commonly used cold and flu medicines, anti-inflammatory drugs, digestive aids, as well as disinfectants like alcohol, iodine, cotton swabs, gauze, adhesive bandages, and topical sprays for treating bruises and promoting blood circulation.

These items were not numerous, and they didn't take up much space. After placing the order, Shang Yun began browsing other items.

Subconsciously, she cared most about food and drink. Shang Yun selected seventy to eighty types of spicy snacks online, buying fifty boxes of each. Then, she bought various snacks such as potato chips, bread, instant noodles, jelly, nuts, melon seeds, AD calcium supplements, dried tofu, and beverages, purchasing one hundred boxes of each type.

Feeling that she wouldn't have trouble with food in the days to come, Shang Yun finally started looking at other things with satisfaction.

Apart from food and drink, she didn't buy many other basic living supplies. Shang Yun then purchased two hundred packs of toilet paper, fifty boxes of sanitary pads, and several sets of toiletries from over twenty household goods stores online.

After buying quite a lot of things intermittently, Shang Yun finally fell asleep.

The next day, Shang Yun casually put on a refreshing outfit, heated a box of milk from the refrigerator, drank it, and left the house again.

Time was tight, and she would fly back to Yun City tomorrow afternoon, so after receiving the goods today, she had to go out and buy some more things.

This summer, the temperature across the country had generally risen, but no one had realized it beforehand.

It was only 7:30 in the morning, and Ruohai City, which usually had temperatures in the twenties at this time of year, had already reached thirty-five degrees this morning.

There was also the sudden outbreak of mudslides in Nanchun County...

In fact, the number of disasters occurring worldwide this year was higher than in previous years. The warning signs of the apocalypse had already appeared, but no one had thought about it or dared to think about it.