Chapter 8 Continue Stockpiling 4
Gu Yanxu reluctantly escorted Bai Tang to her doorstep, and only after watching her go inside did he drive back to his own home.
After returning home, Bai Tang passed through the living room and saw Bai Jiyang in the study. Bai Tang walked over.
"What's wrong? Why are you in Dad's study?"
"Sister, I suddenly miss Mom and Dad," Bai Jiyang said, his voice slightly choked with emotion.
Bai Tang comforted her younger brother: "It's okay, don't be sad. Think of it this way: they left early, at least they didn't have to experience the apocalypse. I experienced it in my previous life, and the apocalypse was truly a living hell."
"Sister, don't be sad, I will protect you."
Sigh, he's only 20 years old. Bai Jiyang is clearly the younger brother, but he still has to pretend to be strong and comfort Bai Tang.
"It's okay, it's all over now. Okay, wipe your nose, it's going to get into your mouth."
Bai Jiyang burst into laughter through his tears: "It didn't drip into my mouth. You're just trying to fool me like you did when we were kids."
Only in front of his older sister would Bai Jiyang occasionally show his vulnerable side.
"Okay, go take a shower and get a good night's sleep."
After comforting her younger brother, Bai Tang returned to her room.
After taking a shower, Bai Tang lay on the bed, pondering the meaning of her rebirth.
Is it really because God saw how tragically I died in my past life?
Bai Tang thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so she just fell asleep. After she fell asleep, the red mark on Bai Tang's wrist glowed slightly and flickered as if she had done something wrong.
However, Bai Tang was unaware of all of this.
Over the next few days, the three of them were frantically buying and stockpiling goods outside. Bai Tang was especially busy running to the warehouse every day, constantly filling his space with supplies.
Three days later, Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu led a group of his underlings to the mountains to inspect the weapons.
Upon entering a cave dug from the mountaintop, Bai Tang was stunned. She had seen guns before, but never so many, including cannons. All sorts of weapons were laid out in front of her.
Crates of guns, crates of bullets, crates of grenades...
Gu Yanxu said, "This is only part of it. There is another part in other places. Tangtang, you can put this part in first."
Naturally, his underlings stayed outside to keep watch and didn't come in.
After they finished collecting the weapons, Gu Yanxu locked the door again. The weapons were now Gu Yanxu's, and since he didn't ask to open the door, no one would notice that the weapons inside were gone.
Even if some of the underlings who came here during the apocalypse could imagine that there were weapons here, if they came looking for them and couldn't find them, they would only assume that Gu Yanxu had someone else move the weapons away.
After visiting several other places, Bai Tang had become numb to the vast armory.
Besides firearms, there were also some cold weapons: daggers, crossbows, etc.
In another cave, Bai Tang saw barrel after barrel of gasoline.
"Where did you get so many weapons and gasoline? Enough to arm a legion."
"With money and connections, there are always ways to get things done. Although Xiao Yang got a lot of gasoline with his car purchase, it's definitely not enough for future use, so I bought some too," Gu Yanxu said to Bai Tang.
This is a small purchase, this is a very large purchase.
The two of them returned home after they finished packing their things.
The Gu family naturally noticed Gu Yanxu's unusual behavior in the past few days and called to inquire about the situation.
Gu Yanxu's answer was: My wife likes to run large supermarkets, so what's wrong with me giving her some funds? It's normal. If we lose money, it's none of your business. I didn't ask you for money, so don't meddle.
The Gu family thought Gu Yanxu must have gone mad. Giving up the Gu family shares to fawn over a woman was utterly depraved. Ugh, a love-struck fool.
Gu Yanxu didn't care what they thought; Tangtang's happiness was the most important thing, and everyone else had to step aside.
Bai Tang divided the space into several areas, each with a sign indicating what was in that area. This categorization makes it easier to use later.
The land was divided into areas, and small signs were placed at the edge of each area indicating what would be planted there.
Bai Tang sorted through the supplies they had stockpiled and also organized some items that hadn't been stockpiled: medicines, various types of charcoal, pesticides, ice makers, saplings, infrastructure materials, cat litter, electronic products, and various books.
Bai Tang told Bai Jiyang and Gu Yanxu about the supplies that needed to be stockpiled.
A few days later, after the two of them had prepared these things, Bai Tang put them into his space one by one.
Bai Tang then remembered that she liked to eat fresh fruit, so she dragged Gu Yanxu to the farm in a truck to pick up fruit, and also picked up a batch of fresh vegetables.
I also stopped by a nearby livestock farm and bought several hundred pigs, chickens, ducks, and rabbits on the spot. Bai Tang also bought them all.
Upon seeing this, the boss realized it was a big customer and immediately called all the factory workers to start working at the same time to clean the meat for Bai Tang.
Bai Tang buys fresh meat and slaughtered animals on the spot; that's what she's after.
Bai Tang also went to collect a batch of fruit tree seedlings, planning to plant them in her space so she could eat the fruit she grew herself.
They also acquired several paired rabbits, chickens, ducks, piglets, and other animals from the farm.
I also stocked up on a lot of freshly killed seafood and fish at the beach. These things have all become mutated animals after the apocalypse, and I don't know if they are still edible.
Bai Tang has experimented with this in the space, and it's possible to raise small animals there.
While Bai Tang was frantically stockpiling goods over the past month, the temperature also gradually rose, getting hotter day by day, and many people suffered from heatstroke.
The government has also called for minimizing workers' time spent working outdoors.
Bai Jiyang instantly understood why his sister had been hoarding so much stuff. It turned out that the signs of the apocalypse had appeared as early as the beginning of August, but no one had noticed them.
Bai Tang's hoarding spree was gradually coming to an end; the weather was too hot, and she didn't want to go out and be exposed to the sun every day.
Bai Tang exchanged most of the remaining money of the three of them at the bank for many boxes of gold bars, leaving only 500,000 yuan in cash in case they needed it.
After taking the gold bars out of the box and putting them into her spatial storage, Bai Tang felt that the stream seemed a little wider.
The gold bars that were not taken out of the box were not absorbed by the space and remained in the box. It seems that only gold bars and antiques that are directly put into the space will be absorbed and expanded.
In this way, the inheritance left by Bai Tang's parents can be packed up and put into the space.
In early August, after another week of running around in the sweltering heat, the three of them were no longer able to go out.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, ridiculously hot, and the asphalt on the road is melting.
However, looking at the space filled with supplies, Bai Tang felt a great sense of security.
The three of them had packed up everything in their old house and put it into the Bai Tang Space. It was all a collection of memories for their family, and they didn't want to throw anything away.
The three of them moved directly to Building 5 of Huatian Community, on the 20th floor. They lived together in apartment 2001, which was a three-bedroom, two-living room, three-bathroom unit.
The house was already decorated, fully furnished with all the necessary furniture and appliances, and decorated according to Bai Tang's preferences.
When Gu Yanxu left behind this three-story house, he had the glass and windows replaced. In case the typhoon shattered the glass, even the front door was replaced with a bulletproof door.
Bai Tang and his group went to a factory that makes gates and bought a lot of them. They put them in Bai Tang's space, thinking that when a typhoon or heavy rain comes, they can install the gates at the stairwell to prevent people downstairs from rushing up. They also set up an electric fence as a precaution.
At the same time, Gu Yanxu also had the waterproof layer on the 22nd floor repainted to prevent leaks during heavy rain, and he also improved the roof drainage system to prevent serious water accumulation on the roof.
In the other five houses, Gu Yanxu also symbolically stored a lot of supplies that could be released outside.
At this moment, Gu Yanxu discussed with Bai Tang and Bai Jiyang about inviting Lin Fan, Lin Feng, and Lin Zhou over as well. These three were chosen by the Gu family patriarch for Gu Yanxu since childhood and were his loyal followers.
All three of them were orphans. From a young age, they only knew that they lived for Gu Yanxu. However, after going through so many life-and-death situations together over the years, Gu Yanxu had long regarded them as his own brothers.
Gu Yanxu planned to have them pretend to live in rooms 2101, 2102, 2201, and 2202. In reality, he would have the three of them live in room 2002 across the street, so they could look out for each other.
In this way, every household on floors 20 to 22 can be considered as occupied, a house with an owner, which can temporarily mislead others into believing that every household is occupied.
They didn't want the lower floors to be flooded during a flood, so they wanted to stay on the 21st or 22nd floors.
However, even if they wanted to go up, by then Bai Tang and the others would have already installed the special gate.
Gu Yanxu called the three of them over because of the strength of numbers; after all, many hands make light work. At the same time, it was also to protect the three of them, because in the apocalypse, one person alone cannot make a difference.