Chapter 29 Big Purchase
Chapter 29 Big Purchase
The next afternoon.
Official Shelter No. 055, Security Warehouse.
Under the rigorous operation of the construction robots, the two geothermal generators were successfully operated and smoothly connected to the shelter's power grid.
At this time, Su Wu had just finished a call with a resident of an official shelter.
A packaged data file was taken from her.
Skilled in receiving and saving.
Su Wu immediately started adding all 29 songs in the collection into the player and playing them live.
The soft female voice immediately dispelled the silence in the control room, and brought people back to a summer full of green trees, vitality and comfort.
"This song is pretty good."
Su Wu resonated with the singing and felt a little nostalgic in his heart.
Calculating the time, it should be early summer now. In normal years, there would be sweet and delicious watermelons, lush and green leaves, cutting the sunlight into pieces, and a gentle breeze that would help people fall asleep.
It’s a pity that all of this can only become a distant and unrecallable dream now.
All that was left was the high temperature, which had doubled to sixty or seventy degrees.
Under such extreme temperatures, all vegetation will wither.
Add to that the global super fires, drought, and fog more than ten kilometers thick in the sky.
The entire world's surviving surface vegetation may be less than one percent of its original amount.
Lost in thought for a while.
Su Wu then noticed that the work of installing the geothermal generator had been completed.
Ye Xi sent him a URL, an account number and a password through the Internet.
Click it and enter your account and password to log in.
Su Wu found that it was an online mall, which displayed dozens of pages of different tradable products. The account had a balance of 7 million yuan, which was exactly the same as the income from the sale of the geothermal generator.
“It’s time to reap the rewards.”
Sit up straight.
Su Wu perked up and his eyes became serious.
The stage to which your own shelter can grow faster depends on the choice you make in this step.
After spending a little time browsing the entire mall, Su Wu had a vague plan in his mind.
At present, his shelter has been completely built into three floors.
The first-level hydroponic farm realizes the production and supply of rice, vegetables and fruits.
The second floor meets the needs of daily living, water use, and small-scale mechanical parts manufacturing and repair.
The infrastructure of the third-level breeding factory has been completed. All that is left is to invest in young chickens, ducks, and fish, as well as a certain amount of initial feed, so that there will be a steady supply of fresh meat products in the future.
From a functional perspective, the most urgent need at present is to officially put the breeding factory into operation.
“The first batch of supplies.”
"Five thousand hatchable chicken eggs, two thousand hatchable duck eggs, and two thousand fish fry of different species."
"And about five tons of emergency feed."
Compared to hatched chicks, chicken eggs and duck eggs are cheaper.
It takes a much longer time to cultivate it to the point where it can be released from the cage.
But for Su Wu, he could afford to wait this long.
His shelter warehouse had enough frozen meat and canned meat, so there was no shortage of meat in the short term.
Moreover, grass, algae, etc. used as alternative feed also need time to grow.
The progress is exactly the same as breeding from eggs.
The total price of this batch of supplies is about 30,000 yuan. Compared with the million-level shopping quota, it is almost negligible. But it solves the biggest problem Su Wu is currently facing.
“And then you need a lot of fertilizer.”
Whether it is a hydroponic farm or a feed planting area in a breeding factory, fertilizer is indispensable. Although Su Wu had a certain amount of reserves before.
But this concerns the foundation and lifeline of the shelter's survival, and it is impossible to achieve self-production in the short term.
You can never have too much.
In addition, fertilizers can also be used to make weapons and ammunition. Although it may not be used, whether to use it is one thing, and whether to have it is another.
Many times, this is the boundary that determines life and death.
"It won't go bad anyway."
"It's a rare opportunity, try to get as much as possible."
Su Wu made up his mind and increased the original purchase plan of 50 tons by ten times.
The order for 500 tons of fertilizers was placed, which immediately cleared out half of the fertilizer inventory in the mall. The price he paid for this was that the balance in his account was reduced by one million.
"We will need to add some building materials next."
“It’s mostly cement and steel.”
Don't underestimate the materials used by Su Wu to build the shelter. Most of them are almost zero-cost construction waste and stones. Just a thin layer of cement is applied on the outside. But this can't withstand continuous consumption.
If we don't find a way to replenish it, the two trucks of cement that Su Wu brought over last time can only support the expansion of the shelter to the fifth underground floor at most.
That is about forty meters from the ground.
Compared with the official Phase II shelter project which is 270 meters deep, such a short distance is not enough to satisfy Su Wu.
But at this time, Su Wu discovered that the official shelter did not seem to be as financially strong as he had imagined.
Of course he wanted to buy it, but the mall only had 500 tons of cement in stock.
Calculated at a price of 20 yuan per bag, even if the mall was emptied, one could only buy cement worth 200,000 yuan in total.
"Okay."
"It's already ten times more than the amount I bought last time."
“Don’t be too greedy.”
After a little disappointment, Su Wu felt relieved. Considering the official ongoing second phase of the shelter construction plan, he knew that even these 500 tons of cement might be used by the official shelter to maintain its appearance after being scrounged from everywhere.
Just being able to buy it is already a profit.
But there is some good news. The other construction material that Su Wu needs, steel bars, is in sufficient stock in the market.
He placed an order directly and bought one thousand tons in one go.
"There are still more than 1.7 million."
Looking at the account balance, there is still quite a bit left.
There is no point in keeping this thing. Maybe one day the shelter's top management will change their policy and it will be reduced to zero.
It’s better to cash out all of it as soon as possible.
Give it some thought.
Su Wu set his sights on the white sugar that he had been thinking about.
There were no warnings or purchase restrictions this time, so we had to buy at least 20 tons to make up for the regret. Then we also needed 10 tons each of salt, gasoline, and diesel. And daily necessities such as toilet paper and soap. If the timeline was extended to several decades, the stockpile of these things would have to be at least a thousand boxes.
In addition, you also need to stock up on various models of drones, high-end and low-end chips, wires, lamps, etc.
These are the key consumables for the intelligentization of shelters.
After buying various things, the balance in Su Wu's hand quickly disappeared. In the end, only about 400,000 yuan was left.
"There shouldn't be anything else needed."
"The rest can be exchanged for cigarettes, alcohol and medicines."
Su Wu didn't like smoking and drinking. But this didn't stop him from realizing that these things had great appeal to certain groups. In many cases, tobacco and alcohol could almost be regarded as universal currency.
The same is true for medicines.
Although it is not addictive, it can be used to save lives and suppress severe pain at critical moments. Any human who survives in the apocalypse will not deny the value of drugs.
The only thing that is inferior to alcohol and tobacco is that medicines generally have a shelf life. Expired medicines will have a reduced effect or even have a counterproductive effect.
(End of this chapter)