As the saying goes, for proper nutrition, you need meat, eggs, and milk. Milk was naturally indispensable.
Jiang Lang stocked up on quite a few large bottles of pure milk for emergencies, though there was no need to buy too much. Madam Bai would stockpile even more fresh milk. Jiang Lang only needed to do the final cleanup later and store all the supplies into the space.
After that, she went to a specialty outdoor survival store.
She purchased all kinds of survival equipment—ropes, tents, sleeping bags, hiking boots, assault jackets and pants, headlamps, water bags, compasses, and binoculars.
The apocalypse would bring extreme weather and devastating floods, so Jiang Lang bought many life jackets, lifebuoys, and small boats.
There would also be snow disasters.
So she purchased large quantities of snow gear—sleds, snow boots, snowboards, ski suits, and all kinds of equipment suited for snowy weather.
Meanwhile, Jiang Gan was also buying nonstop on the other side.
First, he swept entire shelves of snacks off supermarket racks, then headed to the beverage section and bought drinks by the case.
It couldn’t be helped.
At his age, it was hard for boys not to love soft drinks.
Both siblings were loyal meat lovers. Jiang Gan went to his favorite braised food shop and packed up all the braised meat and side dishes in the store, amounting to dozens of jin.
Then came compressed biscuits, all kinds of canned meat, canned fish, and various delicious breads.
If there were no conditions for cooking, these would be the most convenient and practical foods to eat.
After buying food, he wanted to purchase self-defense tools.
He remembered that one of his classmates’ families owned a knife shop, so he headed straight there and bought several ordinary knives.
“Little Jiang, what are you buying knives for?”
A sixteen-year-old buying knives was naturally suspicious.
Jiang Gan replied, “For collecting. Uncle, do you have the kind that’s… a bit more lethal?”
The shop owner immediately understood and shook his head repeatedly.
“No, no. Absolutely not.”
Even if he did, he couldn’t sell them. If anything happened, he wouldn’t escape responsibility.
Jiang Gan thought to himself that denial was useless anyway. His classmate had already bragged about it before.
“Uncle, I really love knives. I’m honestly just collecting them. Uncle, I know you’ve got some. Please secretly sell me a few for the sake of my passion for knives.”
After endless persuasion and pestering, the owner finally brought out several blades.
Thanks to the power of money, Jiang Gan bought four of them.
After testing them, he found them extremely sharp. Compared to the knives on the regular market, they were on an entirely different level.
“Thanks, Uncle!”
He secretly glanced toward the place where the owner had hidden the knives.
His classmate really hadn’t lied.
The private stash was huge.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Gan went to the electronics district to buy USB drives, clearing out the entire store’s stock. Altogether, he bought several hundred gigabytes’ worth.
He also purchased various electrical appliances—fans, heaters, and so on—though only two or three of each.
However, he completely bought out the store’s supply of batteries.
Far overseas, Madam Bai listened helplessly as her phone continuously rang with notification sounds from spending alerts.
Then her expression filled with determination again.
She truly hadn’t expected five hundred thousand yuan to disappear so quickly. It was all spent in less than a day, forcing Madam Bai to hand over her secondary bank card to them.
After that, her phone began ringing nonstop.
If it came to spending money, she certainly wouldn’t fall behind!
Madam Bai was born to do business and was extremely sensitive to market prices. She had business partners overseas and maintained fairly good relationships with them.
Hearing that she wanted to buy supplies and had personally come abroad for it, they all opened the back door for her.
When purchasing wine, she went directly to visit wineries. The vintages were excellent, and the taste was extraordinary. Some owners even gifted her several bottles.
For fresh milk, she placed large advance orders directly at dairy farms, along with various dairy products—yogurt, butter, cheese, cocoa beans, and chocolate.
One of her friends was in the automobile business. His vehicles used exceptional materials and had astonishing quality.
Madam Bai asked him to specially customize ten vehicles for her, mainly off-road models.
The glass was specially reinforced, the tires were puncture-resistant, and the defensive capabilities were extremely strong.
They were particularly suitable for traveling across rough terrain.
Besides all that, her main purpose this trip was to help her daughter collect jade.
Jiang Lang had said the more expensive and higher quality the jade, the better. It was extremely important.
Madam Bai contacted many jade collectors both domestically and abroad, attended numerous auctions, and even visited gambling stone markets.
She managed to acquire quite a large amount of jade.