At daybreak the next morning, Yu Yao cleaned the apartment thoroughly.
Then she went straight to the agency run by the broker surnamed Chen and rented three large warehouses connected to each other, all in a remote location.
Right after that, she called to place orders for the cheapest food-grade plastic water tanks and water towers.
The space was time-stopped, so she could naturally store water directly inside.
But if she wanted to take the water out for use, she would still need proper containers.
Next, she ordered filters, water purifiers, purification tablets, and the like.
They agreed on home delivery within a month, with the remaining balance to be paid upon delivery, and Yu Yao hung up.
After that came monocrystalline silicon solar charging panels that supported USB fast charging and could be used as power banks, along with batteries of various models, storage batteries, and generators.
Later, once she did some zero-cost acquisitions of additional solar panels and wind power equipment, she’d achieve complete freedom of electricity.
Lastly were modular shelves that could be stacked and assembled infinitely, as well as winter clothes, pants, winter shoes, thick quilts, and bedding sets.
It was still summer, and very few merchants stocked winter clothing and thick quilts. These had to be ordered in advance—otherwise, she might not even be able to get them through zero-cost means later.
After finishing all the order calls, Yu Yao called her academic advisor to extend her leave by another two months, without going through the complicated process of formally suspending her studies.
The advisor knew about Yu Yao’s family situation. After offering a few words of comfort, she agreed to the request without hesitation.
While making calls, Yu Yao was also placing orders on Taobao and JD.
Within reasonable limits, she bought snacks, instant food, clothes and shoes, disposable underwear and socks.
She also purchased toiletries, sanitary pads of various brands and sizes, bedding—everything imaginable.
The reason she put in so much effort was to ensure that if she couldn’t do a zero-cost sweep right away, she could still survive comfortably.
After closing Taobao, she placed another order on JD—200 hard drives, each with a capacity of 10TB.
She also ordered ten units each of the latest PSP and PS5, paying extra to have various single-player games installed.
She had tested it—these games could be played offline.
After finishing the orders, Yu Yao rubbed her aching temples and casually filled her stomach with the leftover barbecue from yesterday.
Then she changed into some old clothes of her mother’s that she had found in the family home, put on a hat and a mask.
She stored all the few remaining personal items in the house into her warehouse space, then hid the key under the doormat by the door—
In case the agent brought people to view the apartment while she wasn’t around.
After finishing everything, she hurried out, took a taxi to the nearest car rental agency,
Rented a van with privacy window film for 2,000 yuan, and drove straight to a wholesale agricultural market.
Buying in bulk there was less likely to attract attention, and the prices were reasonable.
Even so, she didn’t go all out with purchases at the market.
She trusted the country’s capabilities—and to avoid being sliced up for research, she had to hide the fact that she had been reborn and transmigrated.
Survive low-key as much as possible!
So she used the excuse of company welfare and bought 500 jin each of various types of rice and flour.
She purchased a large amount of different beans, and 50 boxes each of seasonings, soup bases, spices, and dried goods.
She ordered 100 jin each of all the fresh vegetables and fruits available at the market.
Ten pigs, ten cattle, and ten sheep—all slaughtered, with each cut separated and sorted neatly.
Fifty each of chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits—also slaughtered and cleaned.
She also bought plenty of separated wings, legs, necks, organs, breasts, collarbones, skeletons, and other parts.
As for eggs—not only did she buy 2,000 fresh eggs of each type, she also didn’t miss out on braised eggs, salted duck eggs, century eggs, and quail eggs.
On top of that, she ordered dozens of boxes each of hotpot soup bases in various flavors, dipping sauces, meat sauces, chili sauces, and pickled vegetables.
Everything was ordered in bulk and scheduled to be delivered to the warehouse.
When Yu Yao left the agricultural market, it was still early before the delivery time, so she quickly changed outfits again and went to a distant supermarket, pushing a cart and buying freely.
After leaving with three or four large shopping bags filled to the brim, she visited several pharmacies, seed shops, and outdoor gear stores.
No careful selection—just fast and efficient!
By evening, she arrived at the rented warehouse, entered the password, and unlocked it.
She carefully inspected the interior and only relaxed after confirming there were no surveillance cameras.
While waiting for the deliveries, she started ordering takeout on her phone.
She picked several restaurants with ratings above 4.5 stars and ordered ten portions of every item, all delivered to locations just outside the warehouse complex.
Don’t ask—team building.
Before long, the goods from the agricultural market began arriving one after another.
After seeing off all the delivery personnel, Yu Yao closed the warehouse doors and stored all the supplies into her warehouse space.
To move items into the warehouse space, she had to route them through the system backpack, which was somewhat troublesome.
Fortunately, everything delivered came in boxes. As long as items were boxed, they could be stacked up to 999 units of the same item, which essentially exploited a loophole.
She then promptly transferred the supplies into the warehouse space, so there was no immediate issue of the backpack slots running out.
While collecting the supplies, she also deliberately trained her mental power, making her storage speed faster and faster.
By the time she finished, putting items into the backpack and then into the warehouse had truly become a matter of a single thought, minimizing the inconvenience in between.
As the amount of stored goods increased, Yu Yao realized she no longer needed to physically touch each item to store it.
Instead, she could achieve long-distance collection through projected telekinetic force—that is, mental power.
Although her mental power was far from the solid, forceful strength of true psychic-type ability users after the apocalypse and couldn’t produce tangible effects,
Its advantage lay in how quickly and widely it could spread.
Moreover, the more she used her mental power, the farther her collection range became.
This ability to retrieve items from a distance…
Hmm…
A bold idea suddenly took shape in Yu Yao’s mind!
……
While waiting for more takeout, Yu Yao began calculating the funds she had left and the supplies she was still lacking, finalizing the next day’s shopping plan.
At nine in the evening, the takeout orders began arriving one after another.
……
That night, Yu Yao successfully collected several hundred portions of meals, snacks, milk tea, and cakes.
By the time she finished collecting the last delivery, it was already past midnight.
Casually biting into a hamburger, Yu Yao drove toward the night market district.
She didn’t have much money and had no intention of stockpiling on a massive scale within the country, so she could only break things down into smaller purchases and take it slow.
It was more troublesome this way, but it also had its advantages—no one would really pay attention to her.
At the night market, she bought as she walked.
For snacks she liked, she bought several portions at a time. When she couldn’t carry any more, she returned to the van to store them in her warehouse space, then changed her outfit and continued the sweep.
That single day, excluding outstanding balances, Yu Yao spent several hundred thousand!
Money really disappeared fast—but looking at the supplies filling her warehouse space, she felt much more secure.
Over the next ten days, Yu Yao quietly moved between several cities, spending every day discreetly stockpiling.
Fruits and meats, grains and seasonings, fresh vegetables and dried goods, fish and seafood—
In addition to the large orders from the first day, she also made many small-batch purchases later on.
She rotated through different supermarkets, pharmacies, and outdoor gear stores.
She basically bought everything on her list. What remained was repeatedly packaging cooked meals, prepared foods, and snacks.
She also had a sweet tooth. Life was going to be bitter enough—she absolutely needed sweet foods and milk tea to balance it out.
So she visited countless cake shops, milk tea shops, dessert soup shops, ice cream parlors, and snack stores.
Every time, she used excuses like ordering afternoon tea for coworkers, team-building events, or fan support for a favorite celebrity—
And swallowed up an entire day’s worth of their sales.
Her family’s old apartment was also sold, with the move scheduled within two months.
The final amount was higher than expected—1.1 million in total.
The money barely had time to cool before it was spent. Now she had less than 200,000 left as emergency funds.
After all this frantic activity, there were now forty days left before the apocalypse. Everything Yu Yao had ordered—except for the water tanks—had already arrived.
At this point, her funds were nearly exhausted, and domestic purchasing could no longer satisfy her stockpiling needs.
Thinking about her ability to retrieve items from afar…
Overseas became her next target.