Chapter 35 p1
When she returned to the fifteenth floor, the entire building was empty.
It was so quiet that not a single sound could be heard.
When she reached the corridor, Ji Yang let Xixi out to accompany her. Xixi was also a naive and sweet dog. It was stunned for a moment after being moved, but when it saw its owner, it immediately wagged its tail and happily rubbed against her.
The human and the dog went upstairs in perfect harmony.
Ji Yang didn’t act immediately. After all, she had been tired all afternoon and needed a good rest.
She had eaten and drunk her fill on Xie Muzhi’s side and had even brought back a lot of snacks. So, for now, she only needed to feed Xixi. With nothing to do, she watched TV while cooking meat. When Xixi couldn’t finish it, she continued to cook, cooled it, and put it in her space to eat later.
It wasn’t until about nine o’clock that the human and the dog went back to their beds to sleep.
After resting for a day, on the third day, Ji Yang began another round of zero-yuan shopping. Xixi was stuffed into her space. To prevent being seen, she couldn’t bring Xixi, nor could she use a snowmobile. She just wore a pair of ice skates and wandered around the entire city. It was a bit tiring, but she had her space. When she was tired, she would find a place to set up a tent and rest. It was quite easy.
And she acted at night, so she didn’t even meet a few living people.
The first destination was the community that had been occupied by the Black Dragon Gang before. Ji Yang quietly slipped in and was surprised to find that there were still quite a few people who hadn’t moved out of this community. The lights were bright.
But that was not important.
She entered the building, found the stairwell, and went down the stairwell to the underground parking lot. There was still a little bit of faint light from the sky above. When she reached the underground floor, it was really so dark that she couldn’t see her hand in front of her face.
Ji Yang didn’t take out a flashlight either and just went down in the dark. After her eyes had adapted to the environment here, she could barely make out some blurry outlines. She checked the underground garage once and, after confirming that no one was living here, she began her zero-yuan shopping.
She didn’t take all the cars, only picking some good ones, not just luxury cars, but more useful ones.
She couldn’t take all of these cars with her, so she had to load the ones that met her needs first. There were many useful things on the cars, the most of which were metal, engines, and the like.
Speaking of which, what she wanted the most were all kinds of heavy trucks, agricultural machinery, and medical equipment. But that was just a thought. These things were definitely on the first list of supplies to be collected by the government. She would just pick up some that the government couldn’t take away. Anyway, it was a waste to leave them empty.
By the time Ji Yang had finished her second tour of the entire underground garage, one-third of the cars in the garage were gone, and her static space had more than a hundred cars.
To save space, the cars were stacked on top of each other, one on top of the other. It looked quite fun.
After she was done with the first community, she went to the second community without stopping.
She was busy until past three in the morning. Ji Yang had successfully used up most of the remaining half of her space, with about a quarter of the space left. She did not continue.
And at this time, there were more than a thousand cars in her space, all packed to the brim. It was so satisfying to look at!
These were all in good condition for now. After the extreme heat passed, they could be used directly. They could also be dismantled into parts and exchanged for points, killing two birds with one stone!
As for the car keys, it didn’t matter. She had the cars. There would always be a capable person who could make the keys.
Ji Yang was not worried about this at all.
Among these cars, there were a few big surprises, which she had put aside separately. One was a doomsday-level RV of some rich person. Just looking at the exterior, it was tall, fierce, and gave a sense of security. It was probably also specially modified. There were even marks of an axe on it, but no one had succeeded in opening it.
It was just that it was a gas-guzzler, but Ji Yang was not short of gas, so she was not afraid!
She would just keep it for her own use.
The key was that after it was sent into her space, Ji Yang found that there were actually a lot of supplies inside: red wine, steak, caviar, and some other hoarded goods, all of top-grade quality. They were in the refrigerator, which had long since run out of gas. Fortunately, with the arrival of the extreme cold, these things had not gone bad.
There were also a few luxury cars worth millions or even tens of millions that were very suitable for the apocalypse. She had kept them all.
The way back was also very smooth.
The temperature was even lower at night, and no one would come out easily. Ji Yang was skating on the ice and snow alone. The sky in front of her was as vast as ever, and there were even stars that were difficult to see in the city normally. It was quite beautiful.
It was just that it felt like she was the only one left in this world.
However, when she returned to Jiafu Community, this feeling disappeared.
She had lived here for more than a year, and she still had a sense of belonging to this place. She looked around. Jiafu Community actually still had a few lights appearing in front of some windows.
Just before she went home, Ji Yang went to her own underground garage for a look. As expected of a high-end community, there were RVs and off-road vehicles, but compared to her harvest, it was still a bit lacking.
After she was done with the cars, the next night, Ji Yang set out again.
This time, it was a commercial office building. Although mobile phones and computers were almost useless now, she just had a gut feeling that the natural disaster would not last for hundreds of years. As long as she persisted in living, she would definitely be able to see the end of the natural disaster in her lifetime, and the world would return to its original state.
At that time, these things would also be very useful.
She just didn’t know how many years these would be sealed in her space.
A commercial building was different from all kinds of underground garages. This place had been visited by survivors many times, and it was very messy. There were also bloodstains everywhere, and occasionally, there were still corpses in the corners that had not been discovered.
The desks, chairs, and benches were also basically gone.
The computers and the like on the desks were actually not many, but fortunately, Ji Yang was lucky enough to find some stock.
After the first location was searched, she immediately passed on the remaining few locations she had originally planned. This way of searching was too slow. She re-drew three points on the Changnan City map she had specially gotten.
These were the locations of the large computer city warehouses. If she still couldn’t find enough mobile phones and computers in these places, then she would just forget it.
After a short rest, Ji Yang set out again.
This time, it was very smooth. At the second point, she found a warehouse that stored mobile phones and computers. Although it had been ransacked, the remaining stock looked very intact. The packaging and plastic seals had not been torn off, and they were all mobile phones of major brands.
She was not polite and took them all.
The third warehouse had fewer things, but there were still quite a few.
After she had taken them all, the remaining capacity of her space had basically not changed.
Compared to cars, the volume of things like computers was much smaller. So, the remaining space, even though she had been busy all night, had not been used up much. The main reason was that these things could still be placed inside the cars!
Ji Yang even admired herself for this storage ability.
For the next two days, she also continued to be nocturnal, searching the city for everything that might be useful in the future. She didn’t even let go of printers, paper, ink, and door locks.
After a week of busy work, she finally stopped and rested.
It just so happened that the potatoes and sweet potatoes she had planted in her space before were also ready for harvest.
Although she could use her mental power, after being busy for a long time, she was still tired. So, she spent an hour and a half harvesting every morning and afternoon. In addition, with her two to three hours of training every day, and eating and drinking, her time was filled.
The main reason was that there were too many things to plant!
Almost every day was a harvest day.
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A space of ten thousand square meters, of which medicinal herbs were the main part, 5300 square meters. Because the types and times of planting were different, she would harvest a batch about every half a month, and she also had to process them. Ji Yang was already reducing the planting area of medicinal herbs. The extra space was cleared to sow grass seeds, and then shelves were placed to store various processed medicinal herbs.
Then, there were the staple foods with a rough texture, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, which totaled 1350 square meters, and rice, which was 500 square meters. It was only when she was organizing her space later that she found that she had sown rice seeds.
She had once been worried that she couldn’t raise them, but who knew that the space was a bit formidable. Even though there was not a single drop of water on the land, the rice still grew vigorously. Now, the rice ears were hanging full on the branches, and the tips had already turned yellow.
It was estimated that in another half a month or twenty days, it would be time for harvest.
Then, there were 500 square meters of grassland, which was specially used to cut grass to feed the cattle, sheep, and rabbits. Basically, she could cut a batch every half a month. The growth was very good, and the grass was also very fresh and tender, and very popular. Every time she put the fresh grass into the breeding area, they would all pounce on it.
Then there was the expanded breeding area, 550 square meters. At present, the breeding speed of chickens, ducks, geese, quails, and button quails was a bit fast. The main reason was that she would occasionally forget to collect the eggs. If she left a few, this group of little guys could hatch a group. In the future, she could consider expanding it a little.
The pigs, cattle, and sheep were fine. They had all successfully given birth, and their population had expanded a lot. But the speed of live birth was far from being able to compare to egg laying. The living space was still quite abundant, but at the latest, by the second half of next year, it would have to be expanded.
The rabbits were alone in two hundred square meters, which was Ji Yang’s reverence for their reproductive ability. And the rabbits had not let her down. It had been less than half a year since she had gotten them, and the five rabbits had already become more than fifty. Of the three baby rabbits that had just been born, two of the female rabbits had already given birth to a round.
However, most of them were still small rabbits and half-grown rabbits.
But… Ji Yang was very suspicious. When this group of rabbits had also grown up and reproduced again, there would probably be hundreds of them.
This group of rabbits was too prolific!
Five, six, seven, or eight at a time. The first time she had seen the two female rabbits give birth to so many after their lives had been enriched, her joy had already turned into worry now. The more rabbits there were, the more they could eat. It was time to control them a little.
Finally, there were 850 square meters of various vegetables. Some vegetables matured once a month, some every two or three months. But relatively speaking, it was the easiest to harvest. You just had to pinch them off or pull them up by the roots. When you were free, you could also pull some of the outermost leaves and throw them into the rabbit hutch.
The slowest growing was the six hundred and thirty square meters of the fruit area.
Strawberries and the like were fine, but the fruit trees basically had no movement. They had grown taller and bigger, but they had not bloomed or borne fruit. They were still working hard to absorb nutrients and grow.
With so much, every time Ji Yang was busy, it was calculated in hours. If it weren’t for the fact that she didn’t need to do it physically in her space and her mental power could be multi-tasking, she would not have been able to handle it at all.
However, the harvest was also abundant.
From the more than one thousand square meters of potato and sweet potato planting area, a total of more than eleven thousand jin was harvested. Ji Yang was too lazy to put them in burlap sacks and directly stacked them in her static space. She took a portion as seeds and then continued to plant the next batch.
Of course, this was a long work. Ji Yang was still in the planting step.
At this time, she sighed.
Sometimes, farming alone was also very helpless.
Looking around, all she could see was the soil waiting for her to work on. It was very tiring. Fortunately, there was Xixi. When she was bored, she would put Xixi in. Dogs were naturally good at digging holes. One would dig, and one would put. After they were done, she would scoop up some soil and sprinkle it down, and then she wouldn’t have to worry about it.
It was just that if she let the dog help, the consequence was that she had to wash the dog.
Ji Yang had done it twice and then stopped. Washing a dog was more tiring than farming. If she didn’t wash it, she really couldn’t tolerate a dog full of mud pouncing on her.
In the end, she could only bear it all by herself.
And on the day she had finished her work, Ji Yang received a message from Xie Muzhi, saying that he would send her jade the next morning. In addition, they had collected another batch during this period, a total of three burlap sacks. He asked her where to send them.
Ji Yang’s spirits were slightly lifted. She told them to send them directly to Jiafu Community.
The jade she had taken from the transfer center was actually not much. At most, it was four burlap sacks. In addition, the two burlap sacks she had exchanged with Yan Cheng before, that was six burlap sacks.
She had already taken four burlap sacks in two trips before, and there were still two left.
This meant that Xie Muzhi and the others had collected a burlap sack of jade.
The ones they had collected were mostly made into jewelry, and the quality requirements were also higher. This one burlap sack was probably worth several times more than the others.
Who would complain that the space was not evolving enough?
She wished for more and more.
However, she had to think about what to exchange for. She had already exchanged a lot of fruit before, and she had to keep the rest for herself to eat. After all, she would rely on these for the rest of her life. As for the ones she had grown herself, the strawberries were about to be harvested, but the others, such as bananas and durians, were still far from it. What if she couldn’t grow them?
And in the future, when the temperature rose, although the floods would cause many bad consequences, there was one good thing. During this period, grain could be grown. In her previous life, it was during this period that the base had harvested a batch of grain, which had greatly alleviated the grain shortage in the early stages of the extreme heat.
Of course, with so many people, it was still not enough later.
But it also showed that the value of grain was not that high at present.
Ji Yang quickly thought of it. Then she would exchange it with medicinal herbs. Anyway, she had gotten so many Chinese herbal medicines, she didn’t feel the heartache!
If she could directly exchange it with fresh, just-dug-out medicinal herbs, she would be even happier. Unfortunately, she didn’t dare to take the risk.
That night, Ji Yang packed up the medicinal herbs for exchange. They were basically the same varieties that the base was currently vigorously planting. These were also the main medicinal herbs for various epidemics in the future.
Considering that these were still in a hidden period, and worried about causing panic, and also afraid that those rich people would hoard and corner the market, causing the ordinary people to get nothing, the matter of the epidemic would not be released until an appropriate time.
Therefore, she only took out two burlap sacks, both of which were relatively common but of medium value.
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