Chapter 2 Hoarding and Islands
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Now that there is a Star House warehouse where the flow of time is still, You Xi decides to stock up on more things that he had no conditions to stock up before.
The space of 180 cubic meters is not big, but it is not small, because the time-flow static items appear in a hovering state after entering, so they can be stacked, and a lot of things can be stored if the space is arranged reasonably.
After escaping from Island L, plus three months later, it is conservatively estimated that she will have to stay in the apocalyptic world for about 100 days. For so many days, if she only ate convenience food, she would probably vomit.
She has to fill up some fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, fish and shrimp in the warehouse of Star House—try to make her life as comfortable as possible under the condition.
There are still six days left, and she still doesn't know whether she will be able to stock up after entering the apocalyptic world, so she has to prepare in advance. There were a lot of things to prepare, and she made another shopping list before going to bed.
She listed the clothes and supplies according to the equipment she went to Antarctica. It doesn’t matter whether they look good or not. There are at home. In terms of self-defense, she plans to buy a few more bottles of anti-wolf spray. Things like knives are not suitable for her at present, and she is afraid that when she shines the knives, someone will snatch her and hurt herself, but she can consider getting a few. The throwing stick for self-defense is the kind of three-section telescopic one, and two electric shock batons can also be equipped. She woke up early the next day, and went to the car rental store to pick up the car she rented earlier. She rented the car for six days. It was a large SUV with one-way film on the windows, so that it would be convenient for stockpiling and shopping in the past few days. Her first stop was to buy warm clothes, several sets of sweat-wicking thermal underwear, several sets of sweat-absorbing, breathable and warm fleece underwear, several sets of light and warm down jackets, several sets of windproof and waterproof fleece jackets, cashmere Hat, cashmere scarf, fleece gloves, waterproof mittens, cashmere socks, waterproof boots. Armed to the teeth from the inside out, from the top to the bottom.
This part cost her a lot of money, tsunami can go to the inland and highlands to hide, but the low temperature has nowhere to hide, the main reason is that she still doesn't know how low the low temperature is, so all according to the most cold-resistant.
The clothes she bought filled the whole car. She turned several roads and came to a warehouse-style shopping supermarket half a city away. She parked in an inconspicuous corner of the underground garage. Receive it in the Star House warehouse before getting off the car. The difference between this warehouse-style supermarket and ordinary large-scale supermarkets is that the quantity of all commodities is five to ten times that of other supermarkets. The supplies in a large shopping cart can be eaten and used for a long time. In such a shopping environment, it wouldn't seem strange for her to buy in bulk. The convenience food at home is enough for the time being, and this time she chose foods that are relatively perishable: pork ribs, pork ribs, pork belly, pork loin, shredded pork loin, beef steak and beef tailbone rolls, lamb chops and mutton rolls, chicken wings and chicken legs, various River fish-based shrimp, Taiwanese shrimp, various sea fish, oysters, scallops, swimming crabs, shrimps, blue crabs, black tiger shrimps, clams, clams, snails, various types of hot pot meatballs, yellow-throated ducks, bloody belly vermicelli, konjac, and various green leafy vegetables and fungi Vegetable root vegetables. Various canned and bottled salt, chicken essence, pepper, cumin powder, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, vinegar, rice wine, onion, ginger, garlic, millet pepper, pickled melon, side dishes, olives, some salted duck eggs, fresh Milk, eggs, sausages, yogurt, some dried noodles, some quick-frozen dumplings, some finger cakes, some apples, bananas and pears that are easy to eat. 5 kg of rice x 5, 5 liters of edible oil x 5, 24 bags of instant noodles x 5 boxes, 24 barrels of instant vermicelli x 2 boxes. Two boxes of 5L×8 bottled water, two boxes of 500ml×48 bottled water, several boxes of bottled coffee, several boxes of 40-packed tissue paper and several bags of 20-in roll paper, and two boxes of 100g×200 pieces of solid alcohol. Two more windproof solid alcohol stoves, and a checkered baking tray that can be used on the solid alcohol stove is also bought...
Youxi was shopping and shopping, she became addicted to shopping, and wanted to fill the shopping cart with everything she saw. The shopping cart in the warehouse supermarket is specially made, and the upper and lower floors are very large, but it can't stand her filling it like this, and because of this, she somewhat regains her sanity.
In the end, because there were too many things, she had to ask the supermarket staff for help with heavy things such as water, drinks, rice and oil.
The rear seat of the SUV was flattened when she rented the car. Now, except for the front seat, all the space behind the car can be used for storing things.
After leaving the supermarket parking lot, she drove through a small half of the city as usual. In a secluded corner of the underground garage, she quietly moved all the supplies in the car into the space of the star house.
Youxi closed her eyes and checked the current inventory in the space with her consciousness, feeling a little more secure for no reason.
Although these things cost her a lot of money today, compared with her life, the money is really nothing.
When she was eating at a beef noodle restaurant, she had a sudden inspiration. Before leaving, she packed five servings of beef noodles in red soup and five servings of spicy beef noodles, all with extra beef and coriander. She put ten copies of noodles in the car, and put them into the space directly after getting on the car.
The flow of time in the space is still, and what it looks like when it is put in is still the same when it is taken out. When it is not convenient to cook, you can also eat fresh and delicious food in a second.
She was so blessed that she sat in the car and began to place an order on the takeaway website with her mobile phone.
Frequently bought milk tea shops: Coconut burning jelly grass × 5 cups, black brick milk tea with pearls × 5 cups, honey grapefruit tea × 5 cups.
Frequently bought fried chicken shops: set meal with boneless chicken nuggets for 1 person × 5 sets, set meal with chicken legs and wings × 5 sets.
Frequently bought braised vegetables shop: 10 boxes of duck wings, 10 boxes of duck feet, 10 boxes of pig's trotters.
Roast duck shop that I often buy: 10 boxes of crispy roast duck (a box of whole duck cut into pieces).
Frequently bought sushi restaurants: Salmon Thick Cut × 5 parts, Simmered Qiguan × 5 parts, Seafood Cheese Thick Roll × 5 parts, Fresh Shrimp and Avocado Roll × 5 parts, Salmon Seafood Rice × 5 parts, King Crab Meat Caesar Salad × 5 parts share.
Frequently purchased pizza shops: 10-inch potato wedges bacon cheese pizza x 2, 10-inch grilled beef cheese pizza x 2, 10-inch buttered spinach chicken pizza x 2, two servings each of fried squid tendrils, potato griddles, and grilled wings. Often bought crayfish shop - wait! She has to calm down, what she is going to now is the end of the world, and the main thing is to escape for her life. Forget about those things before, they are quite convenient to eat, but crayfish are too troublesome to eat, so forget it! Youxi tried hard to control herself, and finally ordered at the Sichuan restaurant that she often eats: pickled cabbage black fish slices, Maoxuewang, spicy fat beef pot, spicy chicken, spicy bullfrog, mapo tofu, hot and sour potato shreds, griddle buns Vegetables, stir-fried green beans, rice × 10, tomato and egg soup. 【…】 Although the star room system did not speak, Youxi inexplicably sensed that the other party was hesitant to speak. This feeling is quite strange, logically speaking, it is a central processing unit, a system, and should not have such emotions similar to organic life. But the system didn't speak, and Youxi didn't bother to talk to it. She put down her phone and drove back to the apartment. When she passed by a large pharmacy outside the community, she got out of the car and refilled some commonly used medicines for headaches and brain fever, antibiotics, wind oil essential oils, alcohol iodine, sterile gauze, Yunnan Baiyao, and warm treasure stickers, etc. wait. The takeaways ordered before would be delivered every one and a half hours or so, and she deliberately staggered the time to avoid riders bumping into each other. She ordered a lot, but not to the point of exaggeration. There are still five days left, and she can continue to make up for what she wants to eat every day. After You Xi returned home, she packed up some tableware and put them in the star room. The tent and camping equipment were all at her parents' house, and she had to go back to get things tomorrow. After a busy day, she didn't cook at night, so she took a portion of Maoxuewang and dry pot cabbage, steamed a bowl of rice, and ate to her heart's content.
After the meal, she went online to a certain treasure to place an order for two boxes of self-heating small hot pot, both in 24 boxes, one box of spicy beef and one box of tomato beef brisket, and then added three boxes of compressed biscuits, also in 24 boxes, One box of cheese flavor, sesame flavor, and original flavor.
She also browsed the self-heating rice, but she had eaten this thing once, and the taste was really not flattering, so she still didn't buy it after thinking about it.
In the end, she found several online stores in the city and bought some three-section sticks and electric shock batons, and they promised to deliver them the next day.
After that, the takeaways were delivered one after another, and she left all notes for the rider to ring the doorbell and left them outside the apartment door. She waited for the other party to enter the elevator before opening the door to pick them up, and then put them one by one into the Star House warehouse.
The apartment building she lives in has eight households per unit, most of whom are single company employees who are busy with work, or rent or buy such a split-level single apartment. Compared with Youxi, who works at home most of the time, other people basically don’t see anyone all day long, and the neighbors are not like her parents, who know each other and even say hello to each other. The relationship is very strange, who She doesn't care about other people's business, and it's because of this that she can order all kinds of takeaway with confidence. That night, Youxi sat on the cold ground of the Star House, opened a warehouse opening on the wall, and began to tidy up and allocate the space reasonably. Although there is no time and no gravity inside, she is a bit obsessive-compulsive and a little obsessive about cleanliness, and she really doesn't want to take out steaks or swimming crabs from warm clothes. Therefore, food and use should be separated, daily necessities should be separated from warm clothing, and lettuce should be separated from cooked food. All kinds of fresh meat ingredients such as pigs, sheep, beef, chicken, etc. are put into a full container, seafood and aquatic products are put into a full container, vegetables and mushroom seasonings are filled into a full container, fruits are in a full container, fresh Milk yogurt sausages and all kinds of quick-frozen food are not purchased in large quantities, so they are put together in a full box... After that, the boxes are stacked, which is neat and clear. Anyway, you can take things directly with your mind, without moving them to find them one by one. The accumulation of materials is quite large, and the sense of security has increased a bit.
In the remaining days, she spent half the day learning to swim, and half the day going to the boxing gym she frequented to practice self-defense during extra classes.
She has been learning aikido in this boxing gym for more than a year, and her father gave her the suggestion to come to the boxing gym, because she moved from home to the small apartment she bought more than a year ago, and her father Don't worry about her living alone, so the condition given is that she must learn some martial arts that can protect herself.
Aikido is good at wrestling, the movement range is not large, but the joint skills are strong and complicated, but it can fight the strong with the weak, which is very suitable for girls.
For five days, Youxi ordered some small wontons, soup dumplings, deep-fried dough sticks, noodle soup, egg cakes, tea eggs and other takeaways in the morning, learned to swim in the morning, went to the boxing gym in the afternoon, and went home in the evening to receive some gourmet takeaways: Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and Cantonese style Porridge, Subang cuisine, Northeast cuisine, sushi, pizza, fried chicken, various desserts, milk tea...Twice a day in the morning and evening, the amount of a meal for ten people is served, with a combination of meat and vegetables, all put in the Star House warehouse.
Looking at the takeaways that were still at the corner of the Star House warehouse from various angles, Youxi's obsessive-compulsive disorder occurred again.
She took the time to go to the hardware door and window store, and asked the boss to rush to build six aluminum alloy storage racks that were two meters high, one meter wide, and thirty centimeters deep. After the things were delivered to the door, she put six shelves into the Star House warehouse and lined them up next to one side of the warehouse. The length of the six-meter narrow row of six shelves was just full, but it only took up one-third of the height. one.
Each shelf has seven layers. In addition to all kinds of takeaways, some scattered small items such as snacks, drinks, pots and pans and tableware that have been opened can be placed on it, and the classification is clear at a glance. Every night, she would search the Internet for information about the tsunami and low temperature, and finally took the time to finish drawing the latest draft, and submitted it before the last day, and then received a 30% advance payment. These prepayments are just enough to offset her expenses for the past few days, and she is considered to be in balance. Half an hour before zero o'clock six days later, You Xi turned off the alarm clock, got up and washed, and entered the star room. [The world will open in five minutes. ] Youxi suppressed her nervousness and reconfirmed: "Can the Star House Warehouse be used normally in the apocalyptic world?"
[Yes, host. ]
"Why do you want to do the task, what is the meaning and purpose?"
[This question will be answered after the host completes a certain number of apocalyptic tasks. ]
"If you want to give a definition, are you good or evil?"
[Host, Star House is just a tool and medium. ]
"..." It sounded like he answered, but he didn't answer anything.
Five minutes passed quickly, and Youxi stretched out his hand to hold the handle of the door of the starhouse at the signal of the starhouse. The cold feeling invaded the whole body again, and the door panel turned into a star point and disappeared. Youxi felt his body sink and lost consciousness.
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When Youxi regained consciousness, she found herself in a semi-outdoor cafeteria by the sea. She was sitting at a long table for eight people by the fence. It can be seen that there is an endless blue sea.
Surrounded by passengers in cool clothes, they were picking up food from the buffet table with plates, smiling and chatting constantly.
Everything around her seemed very real. She remembered that the star room system said that this end-apocalyptic world was a fusion of fragments of two worlds, so is the world she is in now the real world?
She called the system in her heart to ask, but the system didn't answer her.
She calmed down and found that there was more information about herself in this world in her mind, or it was a setting.
The development level of this world is slightly lower than that of her original world, which is equivalent to the level of ten to fifteen years ago. The countries in the form of planets are roughly the same, similar to parallel worlds.
She is a native of S City in Jingguo, an ordinary employee who came to Haiguo L Island for vacation with the company's team building activities.
Haiguo is located in the southeast Asian waters of Jingguo. It is a small country. Island L is one of the many islands in Haiguo. It is far away from the capital island and other islands. Although the scenery is beautiful, but because the location is relatively cheap, the company chooses the address in here.
The company built teams in batches. This time there were 30 people who came to Island L together. She shared a room with another female employee named Xiaolu in the company.
At present, they are not on the main island of L Island, but a coral island with many snorkeling activities and water sports. It is about two hours away from L Island by boat.
They came here yesterday and planned to have a two-day and one-night event. She still shares a wooden beach house with Xiaolu, and her belongings include some accompanying luggage, a passport wallet and a mobile phone.
Coral Island is small in size, sunny, clear water, and beautiful white sandy beaches. Because the hotel rooms are limited, you must make an appointment to go to the island.
The island is full of beach wooden houses, villas, and a few water houses. The tallest building is the restaurant where she is now, with a two-story building and a rooftop.
You Xi didn't know which direction the tsunami was coming from, but at such a height, no matter which direction the tsunami came from, she couldn't avoid it.
The best way at present is to go back to Island L by boat, then go directly to the airport, and take the fastest flight to leave.
But Youxi felt that the task would not be so simple. After all, after surviving the low temperature disaster for three months, he would only get 30 star coins, and he could get 10 star coins just by escaping from L Island.
Sure enough, when she used her mobile phone to inquire about the fastest available flight to Island L, she found that the departure time was 1:30 p.m.
It is now 9:05 in the morning, and the tsunami will hit in five hours, which is around 2:00 in the afternoon. If the plane is delayed, the time difference of half an hour is too dangerous. If she was at the airport when the tsunami came, she might be drawn into the flood because of the terrain.
It is impossible to leave this road by plane, and it is even more impossible to take a boat, because the distance is too far, and there is no direct shipping from L Island to other large islands and land.
So, she now has five hours to find a safe place to escape the tsunami.
But definitely not on Coral Island, she has to go back to L Island.