Chapter 15 Nine Hundred Million Gone

Jiang Yan had considered building a new home inside the Space, so she also bought twenty sets of the latest refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, induction cookers, microwave ovens, ovens, dishwashers, smart toilets, massage bathtubs, and more.

She also bought thirty sets of pots, pans, and various cutlery.

Although Jiang Yan had a passion for cooking and gourmet food, in the apocalypse, it wouldn't be practical to cook every day. Therefore, she bought more than a dozen sets of pots that could automatically cook and various vegetable-chopping gadgets.

Considering sometimes she'd cook outside the Space, she bought a bunch of portable stoves, alcohol stoves, wood stoves, and more for situations without electricity or gas.

She bought so many because she thought if something broke and was beyond her ability to repair, she would simply throw it away.

Besides rice, flour, grains, oil, meat, eggs, and milk, daily-use paper was also on the list of essentials to hoard in large quantities.

Jiang Yan went all out in this regard.

Toilet paper, boxed tissues, handkerchief tissues, wet wipes, facial towels, kitchen paper, she bought 50,000 of each.

Items essential for women such as sanitary pads, daily use, night use, panty liners, and so on, she bought 10,000 of each, and menstrual cups which she was not too accustomed to using, 500 of them.

Even though she bought smart toilets with automatic warming and washing features, she still purchased 10,000 pieces of toilet cloths.

Having experienced the importance of masks before, disinfection supplies were also on her hoarding list.

100,000 masks, 10 tons of disinfectant alcohol, 10 tons of bus disinfectant, 10,000 pieces of disinfectant wipes, thermometers, mops, cloths, spray bottles, and various other items, all stored in the Space.

She bought 1,000 each of various types of insecticides and pest control medicines.

Because in the early stage, the warehouse was constantly occupied by deliveries of rice, flour, grains, and oil, vegetables and fruits needing bulk storage were the last to be bought.

Cabbages, potatoes, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, leafy vegetables, mushrooms, straw mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, eggplants, Chinese kale, baby bok choy, yams, kohlrabi, lotus roots, water spinach, bean sprouts, fennel, spinach, and more, she bought six tons of each.

She bought one ton each of chestnuts, taro, bamboo shoots, peas, tofu, sweet potatoes, celery, and other vegetables that she didn't usually prefer.

Other ingredients like spring onions, garlic, cilantro, chili peppers, mint, and more, she bought 5,000 kilograms of each.

She paired these with individually packaged vegetable and fruit salads and various flavors of salad dressings, purchasing 10,000 of each.

Apart from salads from imported supermarkets, she specifically sought out several reputable healthy food stores, ordered several signature low-calorie fitness meals, and acquired 3,000 of each variety.

As for fruits, she got one variety each of tangerines, oranges, pomelos, durians, various types of apples, cherries, watermelons, cantaloupes, pitayas, coconuts, bananas, avocados, lychees, pineapples, mangosteens, totaling 10,000 kilograms; strawberries, grapes, pears, longans, passion fruits, papayas, lemons, dates, each at 5,000 kilograms.

Personal care products could not be overlooked—facial cleansers, makeup removers, shampoos, conditioners, essential oils, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash, hair removal devices, razors, body wash, bath salts, perfume soaps, hand sanitizers, laundry pods, laundry detergents, laundry powder, soaps, dishwashing liquid, dishwashing towels, toilet cleaners, all-purpose cleaners, 5,000 of each.

When purchasing these items, she focused on brands and reputation; the rest were all lightly scented varieties that wouldn't attract attention when used.

As for skincare products, she placed a small order online for popular domestic brands.

Skincare products made in Korea and Japan had a good reputation and were well-suited for Asian skin, but she dared not purchase Japanese cosmetics now.

Instead, she bought a batch from Korea.

The rest, she planned to buy directly abroad.

After all, many foreign skincare products had noticeably different ingredients and effects between domestic and international lines.

Additionally, as someone well-versed in novels, she also routinely bought a hundred tons of cat litter and a bunch of trash bags.

Thinking about that ready-to-be-planted fertile black soil in the Space, she had already prepared a bunch of seeds and seedlings and bought a pile of agricultural tools and gardening equipment.

She even ordered two sets of automated soilless cultivation planters from abroad.

These planters, suitable for growing lettuce, water spinach, spinach, and the like, had a delivery period of one month.

Passing by a bookstore, she, who usually enjoyed reading and physical books, did not miss out, purchasing two of each: business management, life wisdom, science fiction, food and health, classic literature, agriculture and animal husbandry, and all sorts of miscellaneous novels.

One for reading, the other for collection.

Of course, to pass the time after the apocalypse, she also spent nearly one million on more than two hundred different LEGO sets, with assembly difficulty ranging from simple to complex.

One Hogwarts Castle LEGO, in particular, might take Jiang Yan a month to complete.

Beyond LEGO, children's favorite sticker art, puzzles, sealing wax stamps, and other various crafts and drawing books, she also bought in bulk.

E-books were, of course, prepared in parallel.

Additionally, her favorite animations, various TV series, movies, financial interviews, gossip entertainment, scientific explorations, agriculture and animal husbandry programs, all were downloaded offline.

Music was also essential, with ancient and modern, pop, rock, easy listening, traditional Chinese, rap, and even collections of square dance songs and children's songs, all downloaded.

Downloading and backing up resources was extremely time-consuming and laborious, definitely not something she'd do herself.

It was all handled by hiring professionals to download and store the categorized files on hard drives with clearly marked contents.

She also bought two home theater systems, two sets of home KTV equipment, dance machines, Street Fighter arcade machines, various gaming consoles, and VR goggles, everything short of moving an arcade hall into her home.

Whether she played with them or watched them wasn't important, the key was having the money and Space to have everything in place.

As a fitness enthusiast and considering that good physical condition was an essential requirement for surviving in the apocalypse, she simply asked the owner of her favorite gym to custom-design five sets of personal gym equipment for her.

From small items like yoga mats, stability balls, dumbbells, jump ropes, and ab wheels to larger equipment like treadmills, elliptical machines, and stair climbers, everything was available.

After purchasing and stockpiling everything, Jiang Yan calculated that the nine-digit sum on her account was gone.

Vegetables and tissues hadn't really cost much; the down payment for a house and renovations were less than one million. The main expenses were on meat, high-end tobacco and alcohol, especially on various energy sources.

Fortunately, the final payments from selling her house, car, watches, and bags had also arrived.

All added up, she'd sold assets totaling 230 million, most of which came from her mother's top-grade villa.