Chapter 14: Chapter 14 Liquid Gold

Photovoltaic solar panels and their associated equipment were quite expensive; a single square meter cost over twenty thousand.

She bought two thousand square meters, and forty million went “whoosh,” just like that.

These costly photovoltaic panels were intended for use in the Space.

After all, sunlight was abundant there.

She bought extra, so if any were damaged and irreparable, they could be readily replaced.

She also bought five hundred tons of liquid hydrogen fuel and natural gas each.

Even though she could mentally control all the materials inside, Jiang Yan still felt apprehensive while storing these two types of cargo in the Space.

It felt as if she had placed two massive time bombs inside.

Additionally, she purchased a thousand tons each of various gasoline and diesel grades, five hundred tons of engine oil, and ten tons of antifreeze.

Jiang Yan had looked up that a ton of smokeless coal could be used by an ordinary family for one to two months, which she barely needed.

But to be prepared for the possibility of severe cold weather in the future, she bought a thousand tons just like the smokeless coal to store in the Space.

She also bought a bunch of heating equipment: heaters, heaters, barbecue heaters, small suns, graphene floor heating mats, electric heating blankets, heating blankets, oil radiators in large, medium, and small sizes, and electric fire pits — three thousand of each. Add to that, heat packs, hand warmers, Mugwort knee patches, warming uterus patches, hot water bags, she got a thousand boxes of each.

The air was also highly likely to become polluted during the later stages of the apocalypse, which made her purchase three hundred units each of high-power air filters and purifiers.

Considering the rainstorms and cold waves, she bought fifty high-power water pumps and twenty dehumidifiers.

Moreover, besides buying a heap of seeds and seedlings, she purchased a lot of tobacco and alcohol.

Liquor, red wine, beer, foreign liquor, she didn’t skip any, from high to low-grade.

However, the quantities varied; she bought a thousand cases of high-grade, three thousand of mid-grade, and five thousand of low-grade liquor, red wine, and foreign liquor.

For beer, she got five thousand cases of regular beer and three thousand cases of craft and higher-alcohol imported beers.

For tobacco, she got five thousand cases across high, medium, and low grades.

Tobacco and alcohol might not seem significant ordinarily, but they become valuable commodities, almost like liquid gold, during critical times.

Therefore, she planned to stock them for possible urgent needs.

After all, the days ahead were long, and she didn’t know what or who she would encounter.

Clothing was also a key part of her stockpile.

However, her stockpiling plans were split into two categories: everyday clothing and specialized clothing.

Specialized clothing and accessories such as windbreakers, padding jackets, warm clothing, windbreakers, anti-cold clothes, insulation clothes, constant temperature clothing, protective clothing, radiation protection clothing, protective earplugs, protective masks, goggles, etc., were all about function and quality. Hence, she bought the best brands, keeping to the most inconspicuous and plain designs.

Even the colors of these clothes were uniformly black, white, or gray, with a thousand sets in her size, and two hundred sets each in oversized, large, and small sizes.

She didn’t purchase much-specialized clothing and left some space for buying overseas.

For everyday clothing, she now avoided the high-end malls she previously frequented, not even the mid-range ones; she directly went to wholesale clothing, shoes, and hat markets.

Style and brand weren’t important; convenience, durability, and comfort were her main criteria.

After all, wearing luxurious designer brands during the apocalypse would merely signal to everyone:

Hey, I’m very rich, I have a lot of resources, I’m foolish with money, come rob me, quickly!

Excluding skirts, she bought ten thousand pieces each of clothes, pants, shoes, hats, socks, underwear, scarves, and gloves for all seasons.

Regarding sizes, she couldn’t guarantee her body wouldn’t change throughout her lifetime, so she bought mainly medium with small, large, and extra-large sizes making up thirty percent.

Some seasonal clothing and pants not available in physical stores were directly bought online.

In fact, she knew online shopping was more economical, but fearful of a “seller’s show turning into a buyer’s nightmare,” she ultimately gave it up.

Additionally, for the offline store purchases, she had another requirement: everything had to be dry-cleaned and then packaged and delivered to a designated warehouse.

As for the costs, of course, she had paid them.

The merchants were initially stunned, but business is business, and they complied with all her requests.

The clothing and hat wholesale market also sold bedding.

Thus, latex mattresses, cotton mattresses, down mattresses, cashmere mattresses, duvet covers, sheets, pillowcases, pillow towels, bed skirts, down quilts, cashmere quilts, wool quilts, cotton quilts, and summer quilts, she bought a thousand sets of each.

To prevent insects and for impromptu external accommodations, she also bought five hundred units each of small, medium, and large mosquito nets and tents.

During this period, she tirelessly visited various pharmacies, neither overlooking online nor offline stores.

Foremost, she bought iodide pills to prevent nuclear radiation, placing orders in batches for three thousand bottles; Prussian Blue for assisting in treating nuclear radiation was also bought in a thousand bottles.

With the mask period as a predecessor, treatments for colds like Lianhua Qingwen capsules, Ganmao Ling effervescent tablets, compound paracetamol and amantadine tablets; for fever reduction such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, Xiao Chaihu; for treating diarrhea like norfloxacin, montmorillonite powder, ofloxacin; for stomach ailments like compound aluminum bismuth tablets, Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets; for treating heatstroke like Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui, Shi Di Shui; for treating altitude sickness like Gao Yuan Hong Jing Tian; for heart conditions like rapid rescue heart pills, nitroglycerin tablets, and more, she bought as many as possible.

Additionally, everyday medications like amoxicillin, fenbid, Yunnan Baiyao, safflower oil, injury medicines, plaster patches, Wuji Baifeng pills, Motherwort, bandages, gauze, alcohol, iodine, band-aids of all sizes, Qingfei Huatan pills, cough syrup, replenishing lung qi pills, Root of Isatis indigotica, various kinds of functional eye drops, small raincoats, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medicines, and even treatment for hemorrhoids like Mayinglong, she bought some of each.

Various vitamins, lutein, liquid calcium, liver protection tablets, fiber, protein powder, anti-glycation pills, blood replenishment oral liquid, and many others were also bought in vast quantities.

Limited by domestic drug control and compared to those traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, the quantity of Western medicines wasn’t much.

For Jiang Yan herself, it was already enough.

However, she still planned to stock up as much as possible when traveling abroad and upon returning to the country.

Besides medications, the blood glucose meters, cervical and lumbar traction devices, intermediate frequency therapy devices for treating arthritis and cervical spine diseases, magnetic therapy devices for relieving muscle spasms, blood oxygen meters, oxygen generators, breathing machines, nebulizers, foldable wheelchairs, fully automatic massage chairs, and more, were also bought in large quantities.

She even secretly purchased several fully-equipped negative pressure ambulances and stored them in the Space.

The furniture and electrical appliances in the villa could be moved partly to the new house, with the remaining also all being thrown into the Space.