Bai Bai did not dwell on it, because her mouth had already honestly bitten down.
Who cares about the rest?
The meat juice burst in her mouth. Before she even swallowed, she couldn’t help shivering a few times.
It was animal fat! Rich animal fat!
Her fat-starved body received a blissful nourishment.
Having a hearty and satisfying meal, with grease at the corners of her mouth, it was truly a delicious treat.
She pulled off two sections of baby wipes, carefully wiped her mouth, and feeling uneasy, she took out a towel, moistened it, and wiped her face.
She made sure no trace of grease remained on her face.
After tidying up, her laziness flared up again, and she felt a bit of a food coma.
Bai Bai continued to sit in her spot, organizing her spatial storage to combat the sleepiness.
Her 13-cubic-meter space was still arranged such that her personal supplies were stacked in the four corners, leaving the middle area empty for loading goods.
Just two days ago, she had talked about getting a shoe rack, but a shoe rack was completely useless now; she still needed to get shelving in one go.
Where should she get the shelving?
A hardware store?
Second-hand furniture liquidated from a closed-down shop?
Bai Bai took out her wallet and counted the money. First, she set aside next month’s rent of 180, and she had a little over 100 left. She just didn’t know if it would be enough to buy a second-hand shelf.
She definitely couldn’t afford a brand-new one. Thinking back to the shelving modification craze of her past life, an average set of shelves cost several hundred. If she only went for cheap ones, she could buy them, but she would only get inferior models made entirely of sheet iron.
Brought into the current apocalyptic era, under the constraints of productivity, a good shelf of the same quality would only be more expensive.
However, things that were useful still needed to be bought. It was impossible to rely on duplication for all supplies; that tested luck way too much.
Fortunately, shelving wasn’t an urgent need. She had time to save money and look around at the same time.
And…
Looking at her money, Bai Bai felt she more urgently needed a set of rain gear and rain boots.
The original owner only had a broken umbrella. When opened, half of it was good and half of it collapsed, and it was thrown under the bed because every penny had to be budgeted meticulously, and she couldn’t bear to buy a new one at all.
This broken umbrella could only block a drizzle; whenever it rained lightly, she was bound to get soaked. In the rainy season, consecutive days of rain meant she could only rest at home. And because her hands stopped earning when her mouth stopped eating, the anxiety lingered constantly, driving people crazy.
The situation of walking outside and suddenly encountering heavy rain, getting drenched like a drowned rat, happened a dozen or twenty times a year.
The only reason she didn’t get a fever and die from illness was due to the original owner’s good physical foundation.
Bai Bai decided to buy rain gear.
Thinking is doing. She put away her wallet, incidentally sprinkled all the dirty water used yesterday onto this spot, washed the basins and buckets clean, and left.
While retreating along the original path, she suddenly smelled a strange, sour and foul odor that went straight to her head.
Bai Bai turned on her enhanced sense of smell and sniffed carefully. While retching, she shoveled soil to pave a path and followed the scent.
Branches snagged her clothes from time to time, but stumbling along, she finally found it.
A few split open fruits hung on a branch, revealing the seeds inside, and the odor came precisely from these seeds.
Smelling this up close was even more fatal.
Bai Bai almost threw up the lunch she had just eaten.
Turning off her enhanced sense of smell didn’t work either. Standing right in front of the fruit, the sour and foul odor was as tangible as reality. Not only did it attack her nose, but her eyes were also stung to the point of being unable to open, streaming with tears.
Bai Bai narrowed her eyes, puffed out her cheeks, and forcibly resisted the nausea. She tore off a few sheets of toilet paper to pad her hands and carefully plucked those fruits.
This scent was good.
It would be just right for dealing with that little brat.
After storing these unknown sour and foul fruits safely, Bai Bai returned the way she came.
Emerging from the wild fields back into the streets, she went into a hardware store. After picking and choosing, she bought a two-piece raincoat (jacket and pants) and a pair of tall rain boots.
This outfit did not hinder normal movement. The clothes had a hood, and pulling up the collar could cover half her face; she just had to be careful not to trip when putting on the pants.
The boss gave her a discount, and the whole set came down to 110 because the raincoat and rain boots were made of cut-resistant fabric, thick and heavy, with high durability, belonging to labor protection supplies.
Bai Bai paid the money without hesitation.
If she couldn’t afford a shelf, couldn’t she afford rain gear?
The double-duplication cheat gave her this confidence.
Aside from lacking money, she lacked nothing else; she had food and water.
As soon as the rain gear was put into her spatial storage, it immediately turned from one into two, and two into four, creating four sets. She would use one and keep three as spares—perfect.
Seeing her pay decisively and noting she was a clean spatial awakener, the boss’s heart stirred.
“Are you a delivery person?”
“Yes, boss. Are there goods to deliver?”
“Not delivering; help me pick up some goods.”
“Sure, sure. Where to pick them up? Since this is our first cooperation, do I need a deposit?”
“A deposit is needed. My goods are of high value and require 4 tier-2 source crystals. Do you have them?”
“I do, I do.”
Bai Bai took out 4 crystals without hesitation and placed them on the counter.
The boss’s expression instantly carried a hint of a smile.
“Besides a few boxes of parts, there are also a few sets of shelves. It will take at least 4 cubic meters, otherwise the uprights won’t fit. My uprights are 2.5 meters long.”
“I have it, boss, I have it.”
Hearing that there were shelves, Bai Bai nodded repeatedly.
This street was her lucky land!
The boss nodded, accepted the source crystals, and turned to fetch two delivery orders—one for the shelves and one for various specifications of screws, nuts, and other items.
Looking at the delivery addresses, they were all in a warehouse area, but belonged to different warehouses.
“Go out from the street and find a donkey cart. It’s a half-hour single trip, and you ride the cart both ways. The errand fee is 50, and those 10 yuan are your round-trip cart fare. Don’t mess up my business.”
“Okay, boss, I’ll go and return quickly.”
Bai Bai asked clearly for the direction of the warehouse area. Arriving on the street, she didn’t see any donkey carts waiting for passengers at a glance, but not daring to wait long, she first walked in the direction of her destination.
Just as she was about to walk out of the street, she finally saw a flatbed donkey cart carrying passengers coming from the opposite direction.
Bai Bai immediately waved her hand.
The driver also waved and shouted.
“Wait for me a moment, I’ll be right there.”
In a short while, the donkey cart passed by Bai Bai, turned into a street corner ahead, and came out a few minutes later, stopping beside her.
“Where to?”
“The warehouse area, a round trip.”
“I know the warehouse area well. Is there a specific number? I’ll cover the delivery, ten yuan for the round trip.”
“Deal.”
Bai Bai didn’t want to haggle over a few yuan of cart fare; it was best if the driver was familiar with the road conditions.
This was a big order, one the original owner had never taken, so naturally Bai Bai had no related memories.
Getting into the cart, the driver flicked the whip lightly, and they set off steadily.
Bai Bai reported the numbers of the two warehouses, and the driver planned the route, picking up the shelves first and then the screws and nuts.
The road conditions in the wild fields were poor, and the donkey cart bumped violently. Bai Bai sat leaning sideways, relaxing one buttock at a time, otherwise they would truly go numb.
Arriving at the warehouse area and heading all the way in, the warehouses she saw were all newly built.
The driver navigated familiarly to the first warehouse. Holding the order, Bai Bai spent only a few minutes in total to pick up the goods.
There were ten sets of shelves in total, all packaged components. After storing them in her space, Bai Bai only duplicated one set.
One set was enough for her; it would be much easier to duplicate them after they were assembled.
Holding the stamped order, she returned to the donkey cart and then hurried to the next warehouse to pick up over ten boxes of screws and nuts of various specifications.
There was no need to duplicate these; she headed straight back.