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At exactly 12 noon, two black vans and a white car drove into the gate of the cold chain logistics park.

When Lin Yue got off the car, he was carrying two lunch boxes and a bottle of mineral water.He placed the lunch box on a stack of trays at the door of the cold storage, unscrewed the mineral water and took two sips, then looked up at the five people who were unloading equipment from the van.

Zhao Ming and the others were busy all morning.The internal structure of the three cold storage buildings has been clearly understood. Each building has two floors, with a large-bay cold storage on the first floor and supporting management rooms on the second floor.Liu used an iron bar to pry open all the locked doors. Lao Zheng made a hand-drawn sketch of the dimensions and door and window positions of each room, which he held under his arm at the moment.Xiao He's drone has flown over the park four times, taking pictures of the roofs of every building within a radius of 500 meters.Ah Qing's list of first-aid supplies has been sent to Lin Yue's mobile phone. It is densely packed into three pages, and the characters are so small that you need to use your finger to zoom in to see them clearly.

"Eat." Lin Yue pushed the lunch box forward, "Fifteen minutes. After eating, start working."

No one was polite.Five people gathered around, each with a box, and ate standing up.There were no tables and chairs at the entrance of the cold storage, so they leaned against the wall, sat on trays, or squatted on the steps, stuffing rice in their mouths and glancing around the park from time to time.This sense of vigilance does not need to be taught by Lin Yue - Lao Zheng and Zhao Ming were brought out by the army, and Da Liu and Xiao He formed a habit with them. Ah Qing learned the fastest. From last night to now, he has begun to subconsciously pay attention to the sounds around him.

"Brother Lin." Zhao Ming finished the meal in a few seconds and stuffed the empty lunch box into the bag, "What are you going to do first this afternoon?"

"Wanbang Warehouse." Lin Yue said, "I visited the building materials area and hardware area yesterday. Today I will take Da Liu there. A van can load as much as it can. Cement, steel bar binding wire, dust masks, generators, barbed wire - according to the priority on my list."

"Are there barbed wire supermarkets too?" Lao Zheng asked.

"Yes. It's from the gardening area. It's a two-meter-high roll of galvanized barbed wire. It was originally used to enclose the garden. Put it on the fence to increase the height by one meter, and it's a sharp tool to prevent climbing." Lin Yue finished the last bite of the lunch box. "The quality is not as good as the military one, but it is enough. Let's buy up his inventory first. If it is not enough, we will go to the building materials market to replenish it."

“How many more generators are there in the hardware area?”

"I saw three yesterday. Two-kilowatt, small gasoline generators. That's enough. We don't need to supply power to the entire park, we only need to power the lighting of the cold storage, Su Muqing's laboratory equipment, and communication systems. Three units are rotated, which is more than enough. The problem with gasoline is even bigger - the generators eat oil and can burn half a tank in one night. We have to stock up as much as possible while the gas station is still operating normally."

"There are six gas stations in the north of the city." Xiao He has already put down his laptop, which has too much traffic and is difficult to operate.Four are on small roads, two of which are self-service gas stations, open 24 hours a day and no one is in charge.Use oil drums to load them. It’s no problem to load two hundred liters at a time."

“Oil barrels."

“Car repair shops sell them."Lao Zheng answered, "Twenty-liter standard gasoline drums, at least four stores on the car repair shop street in the northern suburbs have them in stock.I counted them yesterday when I passed by."

Lin Yue nodded.Lao Zheng's observation skills never need others to worry about.“Your task this afternoon is to take Xiao He to buy all the oil barrels.Then go to the two self-service gas stations and buy as much as you can.Don't save money.Gasoline prices don't matter now, in three days they will be liquid gold."

Lao Zheng nodded without saying anything extra.

"Aqing.Lin Yue turned to the young man who was taking the last bite of rice, "I read your list."Three categories of items should be purchased first - tourniquets, antibiotics, and disposable suture kits.Buy as much iodine and gauze as you can.Go to the pharmacies in the north of the city to buy goods. Don't buy too much at one place. Buy a little at each store so as not to attract attention."

"clear."

"Zhao Ming went to the supermarket with me.So does Da Liu.Set off at two o'clock in the afternoon and be back before five o'clock."

When a van drove out from the gate of the logistics park, Lin Yue sat in the passenger seat and mentally reviewed the inventory list of Wanbang Warehousing.Twelve bags of cement are not enough.At least forty bags are required.There are only four rolls of wire fence for the gardening area, which is not enough.At least fifteen volumes are required.Three boxes of dust masks are enough for now.Three generators, buy as many as you can - after the power outage in the apocalypse, whoever has electricity will be the spark of civilization.

But when all these supplies were added up, the remaining 220,000 in cash in his hand simply couldn't sustain it.The money for selling the house won't arrive until Monday.The credit card limit is still 50,000.It takes two to three working days to withdraw the 120,000 yuan from the financial account—just on the day when the apocalypse breaks out.This means that before the virus outbreak, he had only a little over 300,000 in liquidity.

Three hundred thousand to support a survival base that can accommodate a hundred people.

Lin Yue had no expression on his face while he was settling accounts in his mind.In his previous life, he had seen too many people die due to lack of supplies, but he had also seen people survive the most difficult times with very few resources.The key is not how much money you have, but where you spend it.Barbed wire is more expensive than food, but barbed wire can keep away zombies, but food can't.Cement is more expensive than medicine, but cement can seal the loopholes in the base, medicine cannot.He divided all supplies into three categories in his mind - the first category was defense supplies, with the highest priority, regardless of cost.The second level is sustainable survival materials, including seeds, generators, and water purification equipment.The third level is consumables, food, drinking water, and medicine.The first two levels spend 80% of the budget, and the third level uses the remaining 20% carefully.

When the car stopped in the parking lot of the warehouse supermarket, Lin Yue had already calculated all the accounts.

"Let's go."He opened the car door.

The warehouse supermarket in the afternoon was much busier than yesterday.On Saturday, families with families pushed shopping carts through the aisles, children ran around in the snack area, and promoters shouted special offers with loudspeakers.When Lin Yue was walking through the crowd, an aunt pushing a cart full of discounted rolling papers almost bumped into him. He stepped aside without stopping.Three days later, half of the people in this supermarket will turn into zombies, and the other half will die on the way to escape.He can't save everyone, but he can move the most useful things in the supermarket in advance.

No one was shopping in the building materials area.

Lin Yue pushed a flatbed cart and walked directly to the cement shelves.Twelve bags, that's the amount when I saw it yesterday.He lifted them all into the cart.Then there was the steel bar binding wire, a whole tray, weighing 20 kilograms. He carried it up alone, and the cart shook a little.Three boxes of dust masks were piled on top of cement bags.Two boxes of industrial gloves.There were four rolls of barbed wire, each weighing 15 kilograms. Liu picked up the rolls one by one and placed them on the cart.

“Generator."Lin Yue said.

Three small gasoline generators were still on the bottom shelf, covered in dust.Da Liu bent down and carried one machine with one hand, while Lin Yue pushed the other toward the cashier.Passing by the outdoor supplies area on the road, Lin Yue glanced at it - tents, sleeping bags, engineer shovels, and outdoor knives.He paused for two seconds and made a quick assessment in his mind.Tents are useful in the early days of the apocalypse, sleeping bags are useful for people living in cold storage management rooms, and sapper shovels are both tools and weapons.He stopped the cart.

“Da Liu, push another car."

Twenty minutes later, two flatbed carts were lined up at the checkout counter.One was loaded with building materials and a generator, while the other contained ten sapper shovels, eight sleeping bags, four tents, twenty utility knives and all the outdoor rope on the shelves.The girl at the cashier glanced at the second cart and then at Lin Yue, her eyes like looking at a doomsday survivalist - her judgment was absolutely correct.

“Does your company do team building?"The cashier girl asked while scanning the code.

"Yes."Lin Yue said, "You have to bring enough things when you are in the deep mountains and old forests."

The reason is perfect.A team-building organizer who comes to a warehouse supermarket for a big purchase on Saturday afternoon sounds 10,000 times more credible than a doomsday survivalist.

When I swiped my card, the two trucks of supplies cost a total of 24,000 yuan.Lin Yue glanced at the balance on the POS machine, put away the card, and moved the supplies to the van parked at the door with Da Liu.When the three generators were stuffed into the trunk, the steel plate of the car sank obviously.

"Brother Lin."Da Liu patted the dust on his hands and said, "That's all?"

“This is just the first batch.Lin Yue closed the trunk door, "I haven't bought the water pipes and valves in the hardware section yet."And tools - hammers, nails, drills, saws.Nothing is missing for construction.But today’s budget is limited, so let’s pull back the most critical things first."

When the van returned to the logistics park, Lao Zheng and Xiao He had just returned.There were twenty twenty-liter gasoline barrels in the back of their van, fifteen of which were filled with gasoline, and the remaining five were empty barrels for spare use.Lao Zheng jumped out of the passenger seat, and the expression on his face relaxed a little - probably because of satisfaction.The self-service gas station was more efficient than he expected.

“Fifteen barrels, three hundred liters."Lao Zheng said, "It's enough for three generators to last for a while."

"Not enough.Lin Yue said, "Continue tomorrow.""

Ah Qing was the last one to come back.He was carrying a large hiking bag filled with supplies swept from six different pharmacies in the north of the city.Twenty tourniquets, thirty bottles of iodine, forty gauze rolls, ten boxes each of amoxicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics, eight disposable suture kits, three bottles of medical alcohol and two boxes of disposable gloves.He put the bag on the floor of the cold storage, and when he took it out one by one, his fingers were very steady and nothing fell to the ground.Lin Yue looked at his hands - Zhao Ming said that Ah Qing's hands were particularly stable.Hygienist's hands.

“Make another list before tonight.Lin Yue said to him, "What I bought today are first aid supplies."The next batch is chronic disease medications—insulin, blood pressure medications, asthma sprays.No one will produce these things after the apocalypse. If you don’t stock them now, they will become terminally ill in the future."

Ah Qing nodded.

At six o'clock in the evening, the setting sun dyed the walls of the logistics park orange.Lin Yue stood at the door of the cold storage and looked at the materials piled against the wall - twelve bags of cement, three generators, four rolls of barbed wire, 20 kilograms of steel bar binding wire, three boxes of dust masks, fifteen barrels of gasoline, five empty oil barrels, and a shelf full of medical equipment.These things are not worth mentioning in normal business society, but in three days, they will form the first bottom line of survival for this base.

But it's not enough.

He took out his cell phone and dialed Wang Hao's number.

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