Yin Shan left the coffee shop and took a taxi to a car dealership. After the torrential rain would come the extreme cold, and Yin Shan did not plan to join a military base, so a car would be a necessity after the apocalypse. Yin Shan decided to buy an off-road vehicle and have it modified. After the apocalypse, firearms would no longer be controlled goods, so the body needed to be bulletproof and the tires had to be the run-flat kind, and it needed to be on the larger side. Although she had the space, she still needed to keep up appearances.
At the dealership, Yin Shan spotted at a glance the Amodiro Conqueror poster set up by the door. This model was said to be a mobile castle on land, the king of off-road, and there was only one in the whole country. It happened that there was an auto show in August, and this car was said to be on display. Yin Shan worked out the timing: the auto show was in mid-August, and in her previous life the torrential rain had started on the second day of the auto show and gone on for two months. Yin Shan decided that when the time came she would go and take this car back as her family’s mobile castle!
At this thought Yin Shan looked away from the poster and turned instead toward the Hummer beside it. Seeing Yin Shan look at the Hummer, and remembering the poster she had looked at on her way in, the dealership’s salesperson knew that what Yin Shan wanted was this kind of hardcore off-road vehicle, so she made a recommendation to Yin Shan. “Miss, we just got in a George Patton. The original owner was a doomsday buff. The whole car is bulletproof, and inside it’s fitted with a night vision system, an oxygen supply system, a constant temperature system, and a high-tech satellite monitoring system.” Yin Shan’s eyes lit up. This car was practically tailor-made for her! Every function she could think of at the moment, this car had, so Yin Shan decided to buy it. Thinking that she only had a little over thirty million, Yin Shan decided to pay in installments. Anyway, once the apocalypse came there would be no need to pay it back, and saving some money to stockpile supplies was what mattered most.
“I like this car. Can I pay in installments? I hear buying a car on installments comes with discounts these days.” Yin Shan looked unhurriedly at the young saleswoman, thinking that if the down payment did not exceed one million she would take this car, and if it did, she would wait until the apocalypse came and take it away with zero-yuan shopping. The moment the saleswoman heard this she perked up and hurried to make her pitch to Yin Shan. “There are discounts on installments. Right now the down payment is only one million, and the rest we’ll put on installments for you, and you just have to pay it off within a year. But calculated that way the price of the car will be a bit higher than paying in full. Still, we can install a 360-degree panoramic monitoring system for you free of charge. This system is the newest one, and once it’s installed you can see every image within fifteen meters outside the car from inside the car, and it comes with night vision too.” Yin Shan raised an eyebrow. Everything she wanted was coming to her, so she decisively paid the one million down payment, transferred the money on the spot, and asked to drive the car away that day. Once the car loan was done, Yin Shan left the dealership and made a note of the location. While waiting for the loan, Yin Shan had noticed that this dealership had a lot of hardcore off-road vehicles and motorcycles too, but Yin Shan thought about how her space was only 400 cubic meters now, and if she came straight over to collect the cars, not only might they not fit, there would be no way to store any other supplies.
Yin Shan had already tested it: the Active Farm could only hold living things, and lifeless things simply could not be put in, while living things died instantly the moment they were put in the Static Warehouse.
Yin Shan sighed and decided not to think about all this. Remembering the call she had just gotten from Lu Yunchao saying the money had been transferred, Yin Shan decided to first buy everything on the list, so she called Hou Ting and told her she needed about twenty thousand catties of grain, of which ten thousand catties would be rice, five thousand catties millet, and the remaining five thousand catties mung beans, soybeans, red beans and so on.
Listening to Yin Shan, Hou Ting did not understand why she suddenly wanted this much grain, so she asked, “Shanshan, what do you want this much grain for? Are you starting a business? If it’s for a business, I’ll put you in touch with the farmers I buy grain from. Buying straight from the farmers is very cheap. Right after the autumn harvest you can buy grain straight from the farmers. Buying from the suppliers is more expensive.”
Of course Yin Shan knew that buying grain from the farmers was much cheaper, but there was no time for that, and besides, the temperature kept climbing. In past years June in the north had been under 30 degrees, and now it had already reached 38 degrees, and since the start of spring it had barely rained at all, so this year’s harvest was bound not to be good. With these twenty thousand catties of grain, at least her family would not starve to death.
After the apocalypse in her previous life, Yin Shan had never seen her two best friends again, and did not know whether they had not made it through or had drifted off to somewhere unknown. So Yin Shan told Hou Ting that she thought this year’s harvest in the farmers’ fields would not be good and that she wanted to stockpile some to resell later.
Hearing Yin Shan’s explanation, Hou Ting knew she could not talk this whirlwind of a best friend out of it, so she agreed straight off. “Don’t worry, I’ll negotiate it for you and make sure you get the grain at the lowest price. Give me a warehouse address and I guarantee it’ll be settled in three days.”
Hearing Hou Ting say this, Yin Shan realized she needed a warehouse. Although she had the space, she still had to have somewhere that would pass for aboveboard, so she hurried to contact an agent and rented a warehouse in the outskirts, only for two months, gave the agent an extra 200 yuan as a sweetener, and did not pay a deposit. Then she gave the address to Hou Ting.