Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Liu Ruyan walked towards the three people step by step, scaring the old lady into screaming continuously.

The two brothers, Big Brother and Second Brother, were injured and their bodies were gradually freezing stiff. At this moment, they could only glare at Liu Ruyan menacingly, having no room to resist at all.

Liu Ruyan quickly walked up to the three of them and hit the back of their necks hard with the handle of the dagger, knocking them all unconscious.

Just after doing all this, Liu Ruyan sensed someone's presence and turned to look down the stairs.

She saw Zhang Yuan standing on the fifth floor, looking up at her.

Liu Ruyan raised her eyebrows. When did Zhang Yuan come back?

Before Liu Ruyan could ask, Zhang Yuan spoke with a smile.

"I've been back for a while. But it seemed that you didn't need my help, so I didn't interfere without permission."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Liu Ruyan was quite satisfied.

She really didn't want others to interfere in things she could handle on her own.

She didn't even want anyone to comment on what she should do.

However, now Liu Ruyan actually needed Zhang Yuan to do her a favor.

"Could you help me carry them back to their house?"

Zhang Yuan nodded willingly. "Of course."

Liu Ruyan found the key on the old lady and successfully opened the door to their house.

The inside of the house was like a snow cave, with pitifully few things, not to mention any furniture.

There was a fire burning on the living room floor, but the firewood was almost burned out and would probably go out in a few minutes.

Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan together carried the mother and her two sons to the living room and placed them beside the fire.

Clapping her hands, Liu Ruyan nodded with satisfaction. "Let's go!"

Zhang Yuan took a look at the three people on the ground and said with a bit of emotion, "Girls are really soft-hearted after all."

If it were him, he would have killed them one by one with a single stroke.

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan's eyes curved into a smile.

Soft-hearted?

This word had nothing to do with her.

She knew exactly how much force she had used when she took action herself.

These three people wouldn't wake up in less than two or three hours.

And although the fire in the living room was still burning, it actually had no heat left.

Although it was inside the house, without the fire, the temperature inside was no different from that outside.

At this temperature, two or three hours would be enough to freeze a person to death.

Killing them one by one would also require finding a way to dispose of the bodies.

Leaving them here to freeze to death meant not having to deal with the bodies at all.

When the lease of this house expired, the people from the base would come to take back the house, and they would naturally dispose of their bodies then.

Wasn't this much more convenient?

Liu Ruyan didn't explain much. She left the house with Zhang Yuan and closed the door behind her.

The two of them went back to the sixth floor together. When passing by the iron fence gate, Liu Ruyan observed it carefully.

The quality of this gate was really good. The mother and her two sons didn't have any proper tools.

Although they had struggled for a while, they had only made some scratches on the gate.

Liu Ruyan was very satisfied with this gate. It was indeed worth the high price she had paid. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.

After locking the iron fence gate, Liu Ruyan planned to go home.

Just before reaching her doorstep, Liu Ruyan stopped again, turned around to look at Zhang Yuan, and asked, "The weather is so cold. Does the base have any countermeasures? Do you have any news?"

Liu Ruyan thought that since the base had predicted in advance that the extreme cold would come, it was impossible for them to have no countermeasures.

Several days had passed already. Why hadn't any news been released yet?

"Yes." Zhang Yuan nodded. "Heating has been installed in the collective dormitories of the base. If you want, you can move there to live, but you need to pay contribution points.

If you don't have contribution points, you can do as the people who originally lived there did, follow the base's arrangements and go out to work every day."

"What if you don't want to move there to live?"

"If you don't want to move there to live, you can only find a way to keep yourself warm on your own.

The base does sell some fuels, but the prices are not cheap."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's explanation, Liu Ruyan wasn't disappointed.

This base was really huge. Originally, there was no heating facility. Wanting to turn on the heating for the whole base under the current circumstances was an unrealistic thing.

They could only choose a place that could accommodate more people to provide heating and let everyone move there to live.

As for those who didn't want to move there to live, if they could protect themselves, that was even better, which would also relieve the pressure on the base.

Liu Ruyan nodded in understanding and said to Zhang Yuan, "It's getting late. It's too cold outside. Hurry back and rest."

"You should also go to bed early!"

The two of them went back to their respective homes, and neither of them asked the other whether they would move to the collective dormitories to live.

Because they both knew that they wouldn't move there.

The thermal underwear that Zhang Yuan gave was really effective in keeping warm.

After wearing this, and then putting on a few more layers on the outside, even though Liu Ruyan had been outside for such a long time, she only felt a bit cold, but actually didn't suffer much.

Back in the bedroom, a warm feeling hit her face, and the only bit of coldness on her body quickly dissipated.

Liu Ruyan took off the outer clothes, hung them on the hanger by the door, and changed into comfortable and warm pajamas.

After all this fuss, Liu Ruyan wasn't sleepy anymore and didn't plan to lie down and go to sleep immediately.

Anyway, there was nothing to do during the day. It would be the same if she took a nap during the day.

Liu Ruyan walked over, sat on the cushion, and curled herself up in the huge teddy bear.

In her previous life, in those small bases, Liu Ruyan had also lived in collective dormitories.

At that time, Liu Ruyan didn't have the conditions she had now. After the extreme cold arrived, she couldn't survive on her own and had to move into the collective dormitories of the base.

What was called a dormitory was actually just a room filled with beds.

The distance between the beds was at most 30 centimeters. When wearing too thick clothes, one could only walk sideways.

There was no collective heating in the small base. There were just a few large iron buckets in the room, burning firewood to keep warm.

A not-so-big room was occupied by hundreds of people. With the warmth of so many people, the temperature in the room wouldn't be too low.

However, with so many people living there and the room not being ventilated, the smell in the room was indescribably rich.

Liu Ruyan didn't know what the collective dormitories of the First Base were like.

But as long as there were many people living there, the final result would be the same.

Liu Ruyan lay there thinking for a while until it was slightly light outside. Then she got up to start training.

Even though it was extremely cold now, Liu Ruyan still didn't give up training herself.

No matter when, a strong physique and excellent physical fitness were the keys to survival.

The small bedroom wasn't big. Every time she trained, Liu Ruyan would put away the bed and the cashmere carpet on the ground and take out the things needed for training.

Three hours later, the training was over, and Liu Ruyan was already sweating all over.

The temperature in the room was probably around twelve or thirteen degrees now. It was still a bit cold to take a bath.

However, Liu Ruyan had a way.

When shopping, thinking that it would be inconvenient to take a bath during the extreme cold, Liu Ruyan specially bought an outdoor bathing tent.

This tent wasn't big in volume, and it was more than enough to put down a bathtub.

After Liu Ruyan entered the tent, she closed the door and then took out the bathtub.

After coming to the base, Liu Ruyan had used the bath water she had used in the apartment before to flush the toilet.

After scrubbing the bathtub clean, she boiled hot water again and filled the bathtub with it, preparing it for use in the current situation.