In the morning.
Ash decided to go to mall to spend all of her money.
At mall, She entered a sports equipment store. After buying several of the sturdiest and best baseball bats, she incidentally purchased a batch of exploration equipment.
Such as flashlights, helmets, armor, guards, tents, protective suits, waterproof jackets... All this outdoor gear was all acquired. These altogether cost over ₱164,519.
In addition, the store also had accessories related to emergency kits, such as tweezers, pliers, bandages, thermometers, etc., which reminded Ash that she still needed to go to a pharmacy.
After leaving the outdoor equipment store, she went to a pharmacy to replenish a batch of cold medicine, hemostatic medicine, fever reducers, vitamins, bandages, alcohol, iodine, and other common medicines.
As for other prescription drugs, Ashira was completely uninterested. Because they really wouldn't be useful.
Having struggled in the apocalypse for 10 years, those who still needed to take various medicines every day had long since been eliminated in various ways. Just preparing a little of these emergency medicines was enough, and not even much was needed. In the apocalypse, having a poor physique was not an option.
After leaving the pharmacy, it was already five or six in the evening. The city center's neon lights were dazzling. By this time, She had already completely prepared everything that could be prepared.
Food, drinks, shelter, and supplies, the most basic necessities of life, were all secured; next was supplementing with upgraded series of daily necessities and general merchandise.
She now still had ₱12.9 million left.
Before the apocalypse, properly enjoy a meal in this prosperous world again! Ashira first had a meal at a Michelin grand hotel she previously couldn't bear to eat at!
She ordered a table full of a luxurious feast, such as mushroom soup, garlic spare ribs, pan-fried silver cod, crispy chicken, garlic prawns, everything she previously couldn't afford was ordered once.
Finding the garlic prawn and fillet steak to be quite good, Ashira directly asked the kitchen to prepare 10 portions for her to take away.
She also had to bring some for Storm to eat!
After she booked a suite at the hotel, She continued to the shopping mall downstairs to shop.
The mall's various department store goods were a feast for the eyes, and tempting food items were even more diverse. Having been used to hard times, Ashira as usual, went to browse the food court.
Such as fragrant egg waffles, takoyaki, Hong Kong style large cakes, pork floss buns, fried skewers, fried chicken, fried pork cutlets, Oden, ice cream, milk tea, Cantonese sweet soup... everything imaginable was available.
Seeing all this, Ashira only then felt that there were too many things she wanted to buy. Mainly because of insufficient time and not much money, these things could not be placed on her essential shopping list!
These were all the icing on the cake in a peaceful and prosperous era; after the apocalypse, they would all be flashy but impractical things.
But at this moment, she could buy to her heart's content! Eat and drink to her heart's content.
Ashira emptied out the stores one by one. She directly went in low-key yet lavishly, found the staff, said she wanted all the snacks, paid, and asked them to deliver it to her hotel room upstairs.
The staff at every store, hearing this, all widened their eyes and quickly packed for Ashira.
For example, at the first bakery, all the freshly baked bread, cheesecakes, ice cream puffs, cream squares, mochi, cream rolls, durian mille-feuille, egg yolk pastries, waffles, butterfly cookies...etc. were all packed into bags and sent up to Ashira.
At the next Korean fried chicken store, Ash ordered all the fried chicken in various flavors: sweet and spicy sauce, amber sauce, garlic soy sauce, honey mustard, etc., such as boneless chicken pieces, chicken legs, chicken wings, and whole chickens.
As for milk tea stores, she even ordered every flavor once at every store, such as milk tea, fruit tea, ice cream tea, frappe, cheese foam tea, and smoothies, she wanted them all!
Ashira paid and left her address, left without disturbing anyone else at all. After walking around like this, she alone spent over ₱1.6 million on these kinds of snacks!
The stock in one store was probably worth over ₱82,265. For some of that Ash felt she didn't need to be hoarded so much, An egg waffle stores, she only asked for each flavor to be packed once, and those stores only cost her a few thousand to a few million
With this over ₱1.6 million, she completely swept through the small food stores on the second and third floors of this mall.
After browsing the snacks, she arrived at the supermarket on the lowest level.
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At supermarket...
She first pushed two large shopping carts and went around this super large warehouse-style supermarket once. When checking out, in her shopping carts were various individual items, and only one of each.
For example, one bag of each flavor of various snacks and potato chips, one of each cookie and candy, one bottle of each various drink, juice, and cola, prepared foods like grilled sausages, roast chicken, grilled fish, sushi, rice balls, and bento boxes, none could be missed!
Semi-finished marinated chicken, pork chops, fish fillets, and army stew also had to be included!
Daily necessities like toiletries, face cream, and the essential sanitary napkins, disposable towels, and wet wipes that she almost forgot were also needed!
Of course, since this time the consumption was based on improving life, she also ordered washing machines, robot vacuums, refrigerators, and other essential home appliances.
Previously she wouldn't have considered these, but now that she had money, of course she had to spend it! After these two large carts of items were checked out and pushed out, Ash directly found the manager.
She asked him to provide her with the entire store's inventory of everything in her shopping carts, except for the home appliances. But in reality, Ashira underestimated the inventory and price of these items.
She hadn't even requested the full amount of the items in these two shopping carts when her wallet was empty!!! ₱11.7 million, Ashira only managed to buy one third of these items!
Awkward!!!
Previously, when stocking up on basic grains and oil, the prices were cheap, but these processed goods were several times more expensive.
Ashira, looking at the number indicating her depleted account, finally decided that she would just take these, and these would be fine.
At worst, in the future she would use raw ingredients herself to make related delicacies. She left her address with the Staff and asked him if the goods could be delivered today.
The Staff replied, "Absolutely no problem!"
She somewhat regretfully looked at the large supermarket with such ample supplies, feeling a bit regretful.
After leaving the supermarket, she walked upstairs and browsed around. Up until now, she had only browsed the food court on B1 and B2 and the large supermarket.
As for the clothing sections upstairs, she didn't have much money left to browse. In her account, there was probably only a leftover amount of ₱4,575.
₱4,575 was also enough to browse! You can still go shopping even without money! She first bought a ₱115 iced cocoa at a convenience store and browsed through the clothing stores one by one.
After browsing through three floors of clothing stores, the iced cocoa in her hand was also finished. During this time, she did see a few pieces of clothing she liked.
"How much is this baseball jacket?"
"Miss, we're having a promotion now, half price, ₱1,500!"
Ashira, after hearing the price, just didn't say much more and just left. This was the best mall in their area, and everything sold inside was big brand clothing. It was truly so expensive that she couldn't afford it.
After she left empty-handed, The Manager then nudged the sales associate who had just quoted the price to Ashira.
"Why bother with her! It's clear that she's a poor wretch who can't afford anything! Didn't you see her browsing empty-handed on several floors? How could she afford our stuff! Be smarter in the future, learn to judge people..." The manager said, looking at Ashira's back as she walked away.
The sales associate who was lectured pursed her lips and didn't say anything. Ash heard their words but ignored them and continued walking forward.
Having struggled in the apocalypse for so long, she was certainly not a brainless idiot who would rush up to argue or impulsively spend money to buy something just to make them look bad by proving them wrong.
In the apocalypse, there was no need to prove others wrong, only if it's needed to kill.