Chapter 6 Shopping, Can’t Skimp on Drinks

Chapter 6 Shopping, Can't Skimp on Drinks

Meng Ci ordered another two thousand iron racks.

While the fruits and vegetables were being stored in the warehouse, Meng Ci went to check on the villa and the house at Jin Shang Jia Yuan.

The progress was satisfactory, and the quality was good as well.

The real estate agent had been supervising the work for the past few days, so Meng Ci didn’t hesitate to transfer ten thousand yuan to him.

He told the agent to buy food and drinks for the workers, and to keep any leftover money for himself.

Previously, when Meng Ci bought the villa and the house, the agent had earned several million yuan in commissions. Now, Meng Ci still occasionally gave him tips.

The agent worked even harder now.

On the twenty-second day before doomsday, the items he had ordered online started arriving one after another.

Meng Ci hired two delivery men to receive the packages every day, dismantle the outer packaging, and categorize them on the shelves. He paid them one thousand yuan per day.

As for the discarded cardboard boxes, they could handle them themselves.

This job not only had a high salary but also offered extra income, so the two men were naturally enthusiastic and worked diligently.

Meng Ci roughly estimated that it would take at least five days to finish receiving all the packages.

Meng Ci then went to attend to other matters.

Fifty quilts, fifty mattresses, twenty down jackets, and twenty military overcoats.

For hats, gloves, scarves, and ear muffs, Meng Ci didn’t care about the price or style; he just wanted them to be warm, so he ordered fifty of each.

The shop owner was curious. Although summer had passed, winter was still far away. Why was he buying so much, and in such large quantities?

Meng Ci had prepared an explanation: "I'm responsible for procurement for the Red Cross."

"I received instructions to take advantage of the low prices now and stock up."

"Once winter comes, we’ll donate these to children in remote areas."

The shop owner understood and even added a few more items, saying it was his small contribution to charity.

Meng Ci didn’t say anything but paid an extra ten thousand yuan when settling the bill, since he wasn’t really planning to donate the items.

He also indirectly reminded the shop owner that October was a rainy season and suggested he keep some items for himself to stay warm.

The shop owner thanked him with a smile.

Meng Ci declined the offer to have the goods delivered and drove a van to transport them himself.

Along the way, whenever there was no one around, he would store the items in the space, wait for half an hour, and then return to pick up more.

After five trips, he finally finished transporting everything.

Meng Ci sat in the car and ate a box of braised eggplant rice, followed by a cup of passion fruit drink.

The space had a preservation function, so the items retained their original taste and freshness.

Therefore, Meng Ci planned to buy more ready-made meals to avoid cooking.

Then he drove off to purchase inflatable boats, rubber dinghies, diving suits, and diving respirators needed during flood season.

These items were difficult to acquire, so Meng Ci spent over two days searching and supplementing his purchases online.

In the evenings, Meng Ci continued shopping online.

With the long duration of the apocalypse, entertainment would be essential without electricity and the internet.

So, Meng Ci opened the largest online shopping platform, DD Net, and selected books in categories he found interesting, ordering one copy of each.

He then searched for educational toys like Lu Ban locks, nine-link rings, flying chess, and Go stones, buying ten of each.

He even bought hundreds of Lego sets, which were great for passing time.

He also visited a mobile phone store and bought fifty tablets and a hundred smartphones.

He asked the shop owner to download various TV shows, movies, and variety shows from both domestic and international sources.

For content that required membership to cache, he instructed the owner to activate a one-month subscription, and Meng Ci would pay in full later.

He also requested single-player games and e-books, both paid and free, to be downloaded and fully charged before handing them over.

When everything was ready, Meng Ci paid a total of two million yuan.

The shop owner was happy to comply and enlisted family and friends to stay up late and complete the task on time, delivering everything to Meng Ci.

The seafood, including fish and shrimp, that he had ordered online was already prepared.

Meng Ci flew for two hours to inspect the freshness of the items and settled the final payment.

He asked the shop owner for the key to the cold storage and arranged to have someone move the goods at night.

He also paid ten thousand yuan to rent the shop owner’s refrigerated truck.

Later that night, Meng Ci turned off the surveillance cameras around the cold storage and stored all the items in the space.

Once inside the space, the items automatically sorted themselves into categories.

Outside the cold storage facility was a dirt road. Meng Ci drove back and forth several times to stage the scene.

Meng Ci then took out a bucket from his space and drained half the fuel from each refrigerated truck before leaving.

The next day at noon, Meng Ci had already returned home.

Now that the food was purchased, Meng Ci ordered twenty tons of coal in S City.

Through an intermediary online, he rented a warehouse nearby.

He asked the coal supplier to pack the coal in ten-pound bags and stack them all in the warehouse, waiting for him to collect them later.

After three days of running around, with nothing else to do, Meng Ci lay on his bed and slept soundly.

It was past six in the evening when the phone store owner called, saying the items were ready as per Meng Ci's request.

Meng Ci rose, proceeded to the phone store to retrieve his purchase, and conveniently placed the parcels he had received in the past few days into his spatial storage.

With nineteen days until the apocalypse, Meng Ci started staying at the warehouse, collecting the remaining packages and continuing to shop.

He called the largest bottled water company locally and ordered ten thousand fifteen-liter barrels, asking the owner to deliver them over ten days.

Then he opened a food delivery app and began ordering meals.

From the beverage shop, he ordered fifty cups of passion fruit tea, peach oolong tea, lemon water, pineapple orange drinks, strawberry milkshakes, and mulberry plum drinks, placing one order and then moving to another shop.

At the burger shop, he ordered twenty McChicken sandwiches, fish burgers, spicy chicken leg burgers, and double cheese Angus beef burgers from each place.

At the bun shop, he decided against it, thinking they might not be fresh.

Instead, he planned to go to a breakfast shop early the next morning and have the owner pack everything, including porridge, fried dough sticks, and soy milk.

At the noodle shop, he ordered ten servings from each place, with the noodles cooked and separated from the broth. Rice noodles and spicy rice vermicelli were also ordered in the same quantities.

He placed similar orders for stir-fried noodles, stir-fried rice vermicelli, steamed noodles, and braised noodles.

For hot pot, Sichuan-style boiled vegetables, and fragrant pots, he ordered ten servings each time, as the contents were mostly similar.

Oh, right, he almost forgot to buy beverages.

He ordered two hundred cases of cola, Wahaha, green tea, yogurt, and orange juice.

He also ordered two hundred packets each of dried lemons, dried passion fruits, dried golden oranges, rose tea, jasmine tea, and chrysanthemum tea.

He needed to buy some tea as well.

Longjing, Biluochun, Oolong, various types of green tea, black tea, white tea, and dark tea.

Meng Ci couldn't distinguish between good and bad flavors; he drank tea mainly because he disliked plain water, so he had no specific taste preferences.

He ordered fifty pounds of each type, with the delivery address set to the warehouse.

He called the wholesale store selling iron racks and asked if they had large plastic water buckets.

When the owner said the largest could hold a ton of water, Meng Ci ordered fifty of them.

In the late stages of the apocalypse, water would be contaminated, and he wasn't sure if fifty tons would be enough.

Each of the three warehouses had a faucet. After confirming that water flowed, he instructed the owner to distribute the buckets among the three warehouses.

Once the workers left, Meng Ci kept only one bucket in each warehouse and put the rest in his space. He connected a hose and started filling the buckets with water.

He then continued to collect packages and takeout deliveries.