At the same time, James glanced at his client through the rearview mirror and asked, "Miss Bai, where should we store these things?"
"You don’t have to worry about it. Just leave the truck at the hotel’s basement parking lot. My people will transport them later."
Hearing this, James stopped asking and nodded. Their task was to protect her during the transaction. Now that the deal was complete, they could take their money and leave.
When Bai Yingxia and the mercenaries returned to the hotel, it was already past 2 o’clock in the morning.
She transferred the mercenaries’ payment and thanked them. After they left, she stored all the firearms and ammunition in her space, including the truck. Then, she checked out of the hotel and took a taxi to the airport.
At 5 o’clock in the morning, she was already on her way back to Huaxia.
When Bai Yingxia walked out of the airport, it was December 22nd, 8 o’clock in the morning. She had breakfast on the plane, so she wasn’t hungry.
Using her phone, she checked the remaining money in her bank account. After buying firearms, she had around 17 million left.
If she used this money to buy high-class food from a 3-star Michelin restaurant, she could order around 4,000 portions. But if she bought from roadside stalls, she could buy at least 1.5 million portions.
The difference was like heaven and earth.
She was not someone who indulged in luxury, so she made up her mind to order from roadside stalls.
Now that she had sold her sports car, she took a taxi and went to a rental car shop. She picked a small-sized box truck and paid 200 yuan for a day.
Driving the truck, she went to the roadside stall near Xingxing Hypermart. After parking the truck, she walked into the noodle stall and went to the counter.
The stall owner remembered her and greeted her with a smile, "Beautiful sister, you came again. What do you want to order?"
Bai Yingxia looked at the menu and asked, "Auntie, I want to order 2,000 portions of every noodle on the menu. Can you do it?"
The stall owner was stunned by her words. It took her a while to regain her senses before asking, "Beautiful sister, are you sure you want to order so much?"
Bai Yingxia nodded and asked again, "Can you do it?"
The stall owner thought for a while before replying, "I can do it, but if you want takeout, the noodles and the soup will be packed separately, and you need to heat them up before you serve them. Is that okay?"
"No problem."
The stall owner made a call to inform her family before calculating the price. When she was done, she said, "Beautiful sister, the total is 154,000 yuan. I will give you a discount. Just pay me 150,000 yuan."
Bai Yingxia didn’t refuse and scanned the QR code. After she paid, she asked, "When will the order be ready?"
"It will take 8 hours at the latest."
"I will come back later," Bai Yingxia nodded.
After she left the stall, she visited another stall and placed her order. Some stalls couldn’t handle a large order, so she could only buy 300 to 500 portions at most. While other stalls were better, she could buy more than 5,000 portions.
The biggest stall was the one selling malatang and hotpot. She ordered a total of 100,000 portions of hotpot with various soup bases and 20,000 portions of malatang.
When she finished placing the orders, she returned to the noodle stall and picked up her order. The staff helped her load the order onto the truck, and it took them almost 1 hour to finish.
The noodle soup was packed separately in a layered plastic bowl. The bottom layer was for the noodles and broth, which were packed separately in zipped bags. The upper layer was for the condiments.
The plastic bowls were then packed in styrofoam boxes to keep the food hot.
After they finished loading the order, Bai Yingxia drove the truck to the next stall. Before she picked up the next order, she stored everything in her space’s warehouse.
She repeated this operation until 9 o’clock in the evening before she finished picking up her orders. During the day, she had only eaten 3 steamed meat buns. Now, she was so hungry that she felt dizzy.
Taking out a bowl of noodles, she finished it before driving the truck to the night market.
The night market started at 7 o’clock in the evening and closed at 3 o’clock in the morning. Without wasting time, she ordered all the food she liked and waited in the truck parked in the parking lot.
With her buying everything, the stall owners were overjoyed. In their entire careers of selling food at the night market, this was the first time they had closed their stalls before dawn.
Bai Yingxia only returned to her apartment when it was 4 o’clock in the morning. After taking a shower, she drank a glass of spring water and went to sleep.
When she woke up the next day, it was already 10 o’clock in the morning. Unlike yesterday, she didn’t plan to go out today. So, after she returned the truck to the rental shop, she spent her time at home ordering takeout.
Fried chicken, pizza, sushi, skewers, burgers, pasta, roasted duck, and herbal chicken soup. Anything she could find in the app, she ordered. She didn’t know how many portions the restaurants could sell, so she ordered 10,000 portions each.
Due to her large orders, she received calls from the restaurants to confirm them. After she gave the confirmation and paid, the store finally processed her order.
Today was the last peaceful day before the apocalypse, and she spent it receiving takeout. Since it was hard for the delivery staff to send the food to her apartment, she asked them to meet in the parking lot.