Jiang Lang continued drawing from the lottery.
Last time, she had drawn twenty-five times and won one hundred cubic meters of space. This time, with thirty-seven draws, she should at least get two hundred cubic meters, right?
The roulette wheel began spinning.
Jiang Lang’s heart spun along with it.
“Thank you for participating!”
“Thank you for participating!”
…
Just as disappointment began to creep into Jiang Lang’s heart, she suddenly heard a different notification from the roulette wheel.
No exaggeration—Jiang Lang felt that the mechanical voice sounded like heavenly music, crisp and pleasant, something that should only exist in the heavens. It was simply wonderful!
“Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 10 cubic meters of space.”
“Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 100 cubic meters of space.”
“Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 100 cubic meters of space.”
“Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 100 cubic meters of space.”
The mechanical voice rang out again and again, and Jiang Lang’s eyes shone brilliantly.
Out of thirty-six draws, she had won a total of one thousand three hundred and ten cubic meters of space.
Jiang Lang had only dreamed of something like this before.
One final draw remained.
“Congratulations, Host. You have obtained ten Shrinking Buttons.”
“Shrinking Buttons?”
The system explained, “Place the button on any object you want to shrink, and the object will automatically reduce in size. Each button can only shrink one object once. Once the button is removed, the object will return to its original size, and the button will become useless.”
The system was already speechless.
This reward was practically tailor-made for the host! Since when had the roulette wheel become this considerate? It was more caring than a warm little cotton jacket by a hundred times.
Jiang Lang’s eyes brightened slightly.
Just when she needed a pillow, someone handed one over. She had been worrying about where to hide large equipment if she bought any, yet now she had drawn these buttons.
Ten buttons.
Even if they were disposable, it was enough.
“Sis! Let’s go!”
Jiang Gan shouted from outside the door, and Jiang Lang opened it.
“Mom already went overseas. She’s sparing no expense and buying as many emergency supplies as possible. Dad’s also using his connections to purchase supplies. Let’s head out too!”
“We’ll split up and see who can stockpile more!”
Jiang Gan grinned mischievously.
Jiang Lang raised an eyebrow.
“I’m just afraid you’ll cry if you lose!”
Seriously, who could possibly be slow at spending money?
Her younger brother smirked provocatively.
“You take the north district, I’ll take the south district!”
Food, clothes, daily necessities, transportation, self-defense equipment—
Everything was important.
Jiang Gan first went to rent several large warehouses near the outskirts.
Meanwhile, Jiang Lang headed straight for the wholesale market.
To buy grain.
“Miss, what would you like to buy?”
“Rice. Boss, how much do you have here?”
“As much as you want!”
“Then I’ll take one hundred sacks.”
The boss: “……”
He nearly choked on his own saliva and took several seconds to recover.
“What? One hundred sacks? Miss, do you even know how much that is?”
“That’s a full ten thousand jin!”
An ordinary family could take two months just to finish one sack, yet this girl wanted a hundred at once.
“Boss, are you selling or not?”
“Yes, yes, yes!” Only an idiot would refuse business delivered right to their door.
After leaving the warehouse address and arranging delivery for around four or five in the afternoon, Jiang Lang immediately rushed to the next place.
She bought thousands of jin of grains and cereals such as wheat and barley, then purchased another hundred jin of beans.
After finishing with grain, she moved on to buying seeds.
If there were still places fit for human habitation after the apocalypse, and if some land remained undamaged, then crops could still be replanted.
Rice, wheat, barley, soybeans, all kinds of beans, rapeseed, eggplant, pumpkin, winter melon, okra, onions, ginger, garlic, bok choy, shepherd’s purse, celery, spinach, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, white radishes—
She collected nearly a hundred varieties of seeds.
If that day ever came, these would become humanity’s future.
By the time she finished collecting all of them, she had practically gone through the entire wholesale market.
Jiang Lang then rushed to nearby poultry farms and slaughterhouses. She wholesale-purchased a hundred trays of eggs and bought live chickens, ducks, pigs, and other livestock.
However, considering hygiene and convenience, she bought fewer live animals and focused more on fresh meat that had already been slaughtered and cleaned.
Everything was delivered straight to the warehouse.
Besides that—
She went to a large supermarket to purchase all kinds of daily necessities that were needed in smaller quantities but were still indispensable.
The greatest advantage of supermarkets was that they had everything.
Combs, scissors, flashlights, kettles, pots and ladles, toothbrushes and toothpaste, cups, lighters, and so on.
Afterward, she went to a specialized wholesale market to buy tissues.
Tissues were consumable goods. No matter how much she stocked up, it would never be excessive.
Still, Jiang Lang worried that the storage space might not be enough, so she restrained herself slightly.
In addition, she purchased large-capacity water storage tanks, each capable of holding nearly a ton of water.
The more clean water she stored, the better.
Jiang Lang did not begrudge the space at all.
She also symbolically stocked up on flour, noodles, and other wheat-based foods.
Just as she was preparing to head to the next location, her phone rang.
Zhang Li.
Jiang Lang curled her lips slightly and answered the call.
“Hello.”
“Jiang Lang, what exactly did you do? Was it you who stabbed Sister Mei?” Zhang Li’s weak voice trembled with fear and disbelief.
Jiang Lang clicked her tongue in annoyance.
She was busy stockpiling supplies, yet this fool had to call now.
“It’s exactly what you think.”
“How could you dare?!”
Zhang Li sucked in a cold breath.
Originally, she thought Jiang Lang would at most secretly teach Li Mei a lesson. After all, there was no way Jiang Lang could truly fight against Li Mei.
She had never imagined Jiang Lang would actually try to kill her.
If Li Mei hadn’t been sent to the hospital in time, her corpse would already be cold. She had only barely survived and had been undergoing emergency treatment for several hours. Even now, she was still not out of danger.
“Do you know who her father is? If he finds out it was you, he’ll make your life worse than death!”
“You’re wrong about one thing,” Jiang Lang reminded her coolly. “It’ll be our lives worse than death. Don’t forget you had a part in this too.”
Zhang Li’s breathing became rapid.
That was right.
Li Mei’s father loved taking his anger out on others. He would rather kill a hundred innocent people than let one guilty person escape. If he discovered that she had revealed Li Mei’s location, she would be doomed too.
Jiang Lang chuckled softly.
“I know you’re not stupid, so you’d better behave yourself. Don’t leak a single thing. Let this matter rot in your stomach forever.”
She did not kill lightly, nor did she wish to bear the karmic consequences of murder.
But killing Li Mei—
Even if it meant descending into the eighteenth level of hell, she would never regret it.
After all, if she didn’t deal with Li Mei properly, how could she peacefully focus on stockpiling supplies?
She hung up the phone and continued rushing toward the next location.
In the apocalypse, convenience foods were the most practical things of all.
Instant noodles, self-heating rice meals, braised beef flavor, spicy pepper flavor, potato beef flavor—
She bought every flavor available.
Because time stood still inside the storage space, there was absolutely no need to worry about spoilage.
Jiang Lang also stocked up on large amounts of cooked food.
Huge fragrant meat buns, soup dumplings, juicy steamed buns, steaming hot dumplings, and wontons so delicious they could make someone swallow their tongue.
Crispy fried chicken, aromatic barbecue skewers, roasted meat, roast duck—
Seafood was also indispensable.
“One hundred roast ducks!”
“One hundred fried chickens!”
“One hundred jin of meat made into skewers!”
Jiang Lang placed orders everywhere.
At the very least, she knew she absolutely could not be careless when buying meat buns. Jiang Lang knew exactly which shop made the best ones, so she directly ordered one thousand buns. The owner repeatedly promised to work overnight and steam them all by tomorrow.
After buying fried chicken, how could she not buy drinks too?
Ice-cold cola, Sprite, green tea, black tea, orange juice, milk tea—
All of them were happiness in liquid form.
Jiang Lang stocked up on the extra-large bottles, each one or two liters in size.
After purchasing all these supplies, nearly one-tenth of her thousand-cubic-meter storage space had already been filled.