After taking a shower, Tan Zhizhi set the air conditioner to its lowest temperature, then took a bowl of lotus seed porridge, five grilled chicken wings, and a roasted pig trotter from her supply-hoarding space.
She then pulled out her phone and browsed through it while eating.
A Hua Country forum called Climate Speculation caught her attention.
[Terrifying! The outdoor temperature hit 49°C today, a full 7°C higher than yesterday. A few unwise uncles around here insisted on going fishing at noon. Well, they got heatstroke and collapsed in a row by the reservoir. The whole village nearly ended up attending their funerals.]
[There was hail the day before yesterday, the temperature rose abnormally yesterday, and today the heat killed chickens and ducks. What exactly is the heavens trying to do?]
[I heard the northwest has already begun suffering from drought. The temperatures have risen sharply over the past few days, and the fields there have cracked open.]
Tan Zhizhi originally wanted to leave a comment saying that the heat over the past two days was nothing to worry about…
However, she felt that it would be too abrupt and might arouse suspicion, so after giving it some thought, she decided against it.
Whether it was extreme heat, extreme cold, or torrential rain, humanity seemed so insignificant in the face of natural disasters. The only thing people could do was survive with the tenacity of an indestructible cockroach. Everything else was empty talk.
Over the next five days, Tan Zhizhi continued rushing around to purchase supplies.
At the clothing wholesale market, she stocked up on 2,000 sets of ultra thin silk underwear, 3,000 silk short and long sleeved shirts, 30,000 pairs of disposable underwear, 500 bath towels, and 10,000 cotton towels.
Because heat resistant suits and extreme cold protective suits were expensive and bulky, she could only find 500 sets in the entire wholesale market, but that was enough for her.
She also bought 500 waterproof outdoor jackets, 600 protective suits, 500 diving suits, 200 riot armor suits, and 800 sun protective garments.
She purchased 500 cashmere sweaters, 600 down jackets, 200 sets of thermal underwear, 500 raincoats, and 500 pairs of rain boots. She bought another 8,000 pieces of ordinary clothing, including short sleeved shirts, long sleeved shirts, and sweatshirts, along with 300 long skirts and 300 short skirts.
When passing through the men’s clothing section and the middle aged and elderly clothing section, she also picked up 2,000 sets of men’s clothing, 100 sets of cotton and linen outfits for older women, 200 jackets decorated with large floral patterns, and 300 floral traditional jackets for future disguises.
At the children’s clothing wholesale section, she bought a variety of sizes, totaling 6,000 pieces for both boys and girls.
At the sock wholesale store, she purchased 10,000 pairs of cotton socks and 5,000 pairs of extra thick cashmere socks.
At the shoe market, she bought 500 pairs each of sneakers, hiking boots, and fleece lined snow boots, along with 100 pairs of flat shoes. She also purchased 300 pairs each of slippers and cotton slippers, 30 pairs of cloth shoes for older people, 200 pairs of men’s leather shoes, and 50 pairs of rubber work boots.
At a wig store, she bought 1,000 wigs in women’s, men’s, and elderly styles. They looked incredibly realistic, making it almost impossible to tell they were wigs.
Through the local connections of an old classmate in Rose Country, she purchased 100,000 liters of diesel and 400,000 liters of gasoline at the lowest possible prices.
She bought two tower cranes and three each of excavators, road rollers, dump trucks, and loaders.
She also purchased twenty grain harvesters and fully automatic seeders of various types, along with five tracked rotary tillers suitable for both dry land and flooded fields.
She bought some defensive weapons, including fire axes, high voltage electric batons, expandable batons, and Tang swords. She also stocked up on various concealed weapons and other weapons with considerable stopping power, while inexpensive and practical anti wolf spray and pepper spray were naturally not overlooked.
At an ice cream factory, she purchased 50,000 cases of ice cream in a variety of flavors.
At an ice factory, she bought 1,000,000 jin of ice and 50,000 jin of edible crushed ice.
At a honeycomb briquette factory, she purchased 500,000 jin of honeycomb briquettes.
At a charcoal processing plant, she bought 600,000 jin of smokeless charcoal.
At a winery, she purchased 2,000 cases each of baijiu, red wine, white wine, beer, and cocktails.
At a mineral water factory, she bought 800,000 barrels of bottled mineral water and 100,000 cases of bottled mineral water.
From a cosmetics factory, she purchased 5,000 sets of various cosmetics, 10,000 items of skincare products such as face cream and facial masks, and 20,000 bottles of perfume in both light and strong fragrances.
At a gas factory, she bought 200,000 canisters of gas.
From a milk powder factory, she purchased 20,000 tins of whole milk powder, 5,000 tins of goat milk powder, and 50,000 tins of infant formula.
At an infant and baby products factory, she stocked up on 30,000 cases of diapers, as well as diaper changing pads, baby bathtubs, strollers, children’s picture books, toys, children’s towels, and more. She deliberately purchased extra children’s toothpaste and children’s body wash.
From a bedding factory, she purchased 100 down comforters, 200 cotton quilts, 1,000 pillows, 500 cotton mattresses, and 300 sets of pure cotton bedding. Everything was vacuum packed, making it convenient to use later while taking up less space.
At a medical equipment factory, she stocked up on 60,000 cases of ordinary medical masks and 30,000 cases of N95 masks. She also purchased 10,000 cases of regular medical alcohol, 5,000 cases of disinfectant alcohol, 1,000 ear thermometers, and 10,000 mercury thermometers.
She bought 80,000 rolls of bandages, 10,000 cases of povidone iodine, 5,000 cases of medical cotton swabs, and 3,000 cases of adhesive bandages. She also purchased ten cases each of surgical scalpels, blood glucose monitors, blood pressure monitors, and weighing scales.
At a pharmaceutical factory, she stocked up on plenty of bruising and injury pills, safflower oil, pain relief patches, antidiarrheal medicine, erythromycin ointment, various hemostatic and blood circulation medicines, cough medicine, anti inflammatory medicine, fever reducers, cold medicine, and gastrointestinal medicine…
She also purchased 20,000 cases of Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid for preventing heatstroke, 5,000 cases of Ten Drops Water, 50,000 cases of oral saline solution, 30,000 cases of glucose, and 5,000 cases each of medicated balm and peppermint oil.
At an agricultural tools factory, she purchased hoes, iron shovels, sickles, snow shovels, snow scrapers, drip irrigation belts, brooms, and more.
At a fertilizer factory, she bought 300,000 tons of various fertilizers.
At a feed factory, she purchased 200,000 tons of various types of animal feed.
She also bought plenty of herbicides, insecticides, and medicines for preventing and treating various plant diseases.
At Rose Country’s largest outdoor equipment wholesale market, she purchased ten inflatable assault boats, five inflatable rubber boats, and five kayaks, along with 100 life jackets and 300 swim rings.
She bought 5,000 twenty liter oxygen cylinders and 6,000 portable small oxygen cylinders.
She also stocked up on compasses, binoculars, gas masks, emergency backpacks, battery powered flashlights, steel wire and nylon ropes, crampons, drinking straws, outdoor lighting equipment, ski sets, survival whistles, and helmets.
She purchased plenty of vacuum storage bags and vacuum pumps as well.
She bought 1,000 gas stoves, 500 alcohol stoves, 100,000 blocks of solid alcohol fuel, and ten portable barbecue grills.
She stocked up on 50,000 heat packs, fifty down sleeping bags and cotton sleeping bags, 100 tents, fifty camp beds, twenty portable inflatable mattresses, and thirty sets of portable folding tables and chairs.
She bought 1,000 hats of various types, including beach hats, baseball caps, sun hats, bucket hats, cotton hats, and knitted hats, along with 100 pairs of sunglasses and 2,000 bottles of disinfectant tablets.
She purchased twenty water tanks capable of storing thirty tons of water each and filled every one of them completely.
She bought 2,000 portable power banks, all fully charged, along with 1,000 charging cables.
She stocked up on 200 USB drives and 200 128GB memory cards, downloading anime, horror movies, and other entertainment onto all of them. They would be useful when boredom struck after the apocalypse, and she could switch between watching them on her phone and computer.
She also managed to find plenty of automatically folding solar generators, solar lamps, diesel generators, and portable solar power stations.
At a traditional Chinese medicine wholesale market, she purchased 10,000 jin of donkey hide gelatin and stocked up on various nourishing medicinal herbs, including ginseng, American ginseng, rhodiola, and codonopsis.
At a hotel supplies wholesale market, she stocked up on plenty of stainless steel bowls, porcelain bowls, porcelain plates, soup spoons, iron pots, kitchen knives, hotel grade chopsticks, disposable tablecloths, and more.
At the seed wholesale market, she stocked up on every type of seed available. Although nothing could be grown inside her supply-hoarding space, ordinary seeds that could once be bought anywhere would become extraordinarily valuable during the later stages of the apocalypse, after plants underwent massive mutations.
By then, the soil would become fertile, and the yield of fruits and vegetables grown from it would be three times higher than it is now.
However, no one dared to use seeds from Mutated plants, as the plants grown from them had an almost 100 percent chance of mutating. Most ordinary seeds, meanwhile, were soaked by the flooding waters that covered the world during the early stages of the apocalypse, leaving them moldy and rotten.
Because of this, ordinary seeds became incredibly rare. At their most valuable, a single packet of chive seeds could be exchanged for a camp bed and two packs of instant noodles.