Chapter 2: Stock up on supplies
"Are you the system?"
Have you never eaten pork or seen a pig running?
When Wang Qiang was in junior high school, online novels had already become popular.
During his three years in high school, except for the second half of his senior year, Wang Qiang also read many online novels.
He is naturally quite familiar with the routines of this system.
But precisely because of familiarity, Wang Qiang was even more shocked.
After all, aren’t the systems in the novels just made up by the authors of online articles?
If it really happened in reality, anyone would be shocked first, right?
[Yes, host! 】
"You just said that this is the countdown to the doomsday event, which means there are less than nineteen hours left before the doomsday event occurs?"
The countdown in front of me started at 18 hours, 46 minutes and 59 seconds.
Then this string of numbers decreases by one number per second.
[Yes, host! 】
"Then do you know what the doomsday event is exactly?"
Wang Qiang asked eagerly.
After all, it was the end of the world!
As a human being living in this world, Wang Qiang is of course very concerned.
If he could know in advance what doomsday event it was, then he could avoid it in advance, right?
But this time, Wang Qiang waited for more than a minute, but there was no response from the system.
Don't want to respond?
Or... this system is actually not that smart?
Wang Qiang thought to himself, so he asked tentatively: "System, can you tell me about your function?"
[This system is a survival system of the fittest. After the end of the world, the host can get a survival reward for every day it survives, and a special grand prize for every year it survives! 】
The system responded this time, and its functions that Wang Qiang cared about were also quite simple.
Just survive and then give rewards.
Time is calculated on a daily basis.
Every day you live, you get a reward.
But what the specific reward is, the system did not say.
"As for the system, can I receive the first day's reward now?"
Wang Qiang asked.
[No, the apocalypse has not really come yet, please host to claim the first day’s reward after the countdown ends! 】
The system's answer was straightforward, simply no.
Wang Qiang also accepted this.
After all, there is nothing wrong with not accepting him.
"But, don't you have any gift packages for newbies in the system?"
Wang Qiang asked. In the online novels he had read, the protagonist's system always had a novice gift package.
[Yes, the host has automatically received novice benefits, and the apocalyptic survival reward obtained on the first day will receive 10,000 times the critical hit! 】
Thousand times a critical hit?
666!
This reward is good, much more practical than those flashy but useless things.
But for the time being, Wang Qiang won't be able to use it.
We can only wait until tomorrow.
Ding~!
"You have a new order, please accept it!"
Just as Wang Qiang was thinking, the mobile phone he placed on the eDonkey suddenly rang.
“It’s the end of the world, and you’re still accepting ridiculous orders!”
Wang Qiang took one look and rejected the order with one stroke.
In a dozen hours, the whole world will undergo earth-shaking changes. By then, it’s hard to say whether the money we have now will still be there.
Taking orders?
Take a damn order!
"Purchase some supplies first. No matter what kind of apocalypse comes next, supplies are necessities."
Wang Qiang got on his bike and went straight to the largest supermarket nearby.
In the apocalyptic world, resources are everything!
Although I don’t know what kind of apocalyptic disaster is going to happen in more than ten hours, but no matter what, it is definitely right to stock up on supplies first!
Ten minutes later, Wang Qiang rode his bike to the largest supermarket nearby.
Wearing a delivery rider uniform, he quickly ran into the supermarket.
The passers-by just looked at him curiously and ignored him. These days, the delivery boy has become the most common sight in the city. It is perfectly normal for delivery boys to appear in major shopping malls or supermarkets like this one.
Wang Qiang ran into the supermarket and pushed a shopping cart to the food area.
"When the apocalypse comes, there will likely be problems with water, electricity and gas. When the water, electricity and gas are cut off, it will be impossible to start cooking."
Wang Qiang thought to himself, so his first choice of supplies is those foods that can be eaten out of bags.
Such as bread, biscuits, chocolate, etc., I want them all!
In addition, water is also essential.
Wang Qiang directly moved four boxes of mineral water into the shopping cart.
Four boxes are definitely not enough, but Wang Qiang’s small e-mule can’t hold too many things, so he can only buy these first, and the rest can be bought directly from the small supermarket outside the community when the time comes.
When the time comes, let the boss deliver the goods directly to your door.
After all, Wang Qiang bought a lot, and the boss was willing to make an extra trip.
In addition, Wang Qiang still threw piles of self-heating rice and self-heating hot pot into the shopping cart.
"By the way, I need to buy something for self-defense."
Wang Qiang pushed the cart to the kitchen supplies, picked out a set of kitchen knives, and threw it into the shopping cart.
There were no kitchen knives where he lived because they didn't open fire.
However, when used as a weapon, a kitchen knife is almost useless.
Wang Qiang planned to go to the hardware city to buy some rebar and the like. Although it was not a sharp blade, it was barely enough for self-defense.
Soon, Wang Qiang's shopping cart was filled up.
So he pushed the cart to the self-service checkout area and began to scan the QR code to check out one by one.
The staff of several supermarkets nearby saw that he had a lot of stuff, so they came over to help move it.
At the final checkout, it cost Wang Qiang more than 800 yuan!
This is the first time he has spent so much money in a supermarket. In the past, he spent at most one or two hundred yuan in the supermarket, but he had never spent more than 800 yuan.
That's it...
The shopping cart is still full.
Otherwise he can buy it again.
After pushing the shopping cart full of goods out of the supermarket, Wang Qiang moved the items one by one to his small eDonkey.
For the first time, he felt that his little eDonkey was so capable of pretending.
After everything was installed, Wang Qiang could barely sit on it, and even the steering was a bit inflexible.
There was no other way, so Wang Qiang could only ride slowly and cautiously along the way, and finally arrived at the community where he rented safely.
Room 1602, Building 6.
Wang Qiang took the elevator upstairs and moved things into the house one by one.
The people who rent here with Wang Qiang are all migrant workers.
In broad daylight, no one is at home, everyone is working outside.
Therefore, no one saw Wang Qiang moving goods like a sweep.
By the time he moved everything into his room, he was already sweating profusely.
Wang Qiang wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the supplies piled up in a corner, and smiled with satisfaction.
"This is not enough, I have to buy more."
Wang Qiang thought.
In the past two years, he has been frugal and saved some money in his bank card.
He plans to spend all his money today.
I'm just afraid that my room isn't big enough to store so many things.
"Forget it, let's fill it up first and then talk about it."
Wang Qiang thought to himself.
After sitting in the small living room outside and resting for a while, Wang Qiang washed his face with cold water and set off again.
This time, he mainly bought various breads, biscuits, and snacks with long shelf life.
Cart after cart was transported home.
I went back and forth countless times and spent tens of thousands of dollars.
Only then did Wang Qiang stop.
It's not that he has no money, it's that the room is almost full.
Even the bed where he slept had some things laid out.
"By the way, I almost forgot about the water!"
(End of chapter)