Chapter 012: Must Filter Out the Red Worms!

Jing Shu purchased a Siemens washer-dryer combo for 6,000 yuan and a Siemens large-capacity dishwasher for 9,000 yuan.

In the first year of the apocalypse, there was no water. Jing Shu remembered that everyone used their own dishes and then licked them clean. Clothes became so dirty that you couldn’t tell their original color anymore. In the second year of the apocalypse, it rained heavily every day, but clothes never dried…

In this life, since she had the means, she chose energy-saving washing machines and dishwashers. Dishwashers save 20 times more water than handwashing, and the used water can be filtered and reused after treatment.

She bought a complete water recycling and filtration system: water purifiers, ultrafiltration machines, faucet filters, RO reverse osmosis filters, and ten years’ worth of filter cartridges. Multiple layers of filtration were installed, capable of filtering out even microorganisms.

She also purchased four commercial water storage tanks and filtration circulation systems, spending a total of 100,000 yuan.

Although the heavy rains in the second year of the apocalypse temporarily alleviated the world’s water shortage, they also brought about a new species—a type of red worm that came with the torrential rains.

It was more accurate to call the second year’s rain a “worm rain.” These worms were entirely red with black heads and tails. The larger ones were a few centimeters long, and the smaller ones were only a few millimeters, very thin, slightly thicker than hair. As long as there was water, they could survive and reproduce. Half of the rain consisted of these worms, and they liked to jump around…

Even turning on the faucet would release a stream of worms.

Did you think the red worms became a disaster?

Heh, too naive. Do you believe that the Chinese people could eat a species to the brink of extinction?

Not sure about countries like Australia or the United States, but later on, the red worms ended up saving hundreds of millions of people in China.

That year, you could see countless people catching these red worms every day—catching them off their bodies, using bowls to collect them, going to flooded areas to scoop them up, and handing them over to the government to earn contribution points. They could exchange these points for various flavors of roasted, stir-fried, or pan-fried red worms.

The taste wasn’t good; the elderly and children next door gave it bad reviews, saying it lacked an egg coating.

In this life, Jing Shu no longer wanted to live a life where damp clothes bred worms, and she could catch a few red worms off her body at any time to snack on!

She wanted to block all red worms outside her villa and never again have to filter out worm eggs from her drinking water over and over, boiling water repeatedly only to still find red worms in it!

So the money spent was worth it!

She continued to buy a commercial automatic ice maker for 2,000 yuan—a must-have item for the first year of the apocalypse.

She also bought a small multifunctional grain thresher for 3,000 yuan, suitable for soybeans, wheat, sorghum, millet, rapeseed, and corn. In the future, she could thresh the wheat and rice she grew, secretly mixing them into pre-purchased grain packaging, so she’d never have to worry about not eating white rice again.

Next, Jing Shu selected some machines needed for ten years after the apocalypse: a small millstone, a manual meat slicer, a meat grinder, an ice cream machine, a sealing machine, a vacuum packaging machine, a takoyaki maker, and more, spending 8,000 yuan.

Most of the items Jing Shu bought required electricity. In the years after the apocalypse, China’s electrical and thermal resources were used for the artificial sun, almost cutting off power supply to the people. Electricity was only provided during the 19:00–19:30 news broadcast daily, and there were restrictions. Everyone who needed electricity had to use it during that time slot.

In this regard, we must thank the Chinese government. During the ten years of the apocalypse, the news broadcast never stopped—waiting for you through wind and rain.

Therefore, Jing Shu had to buy the latest generation of solar power systems.

After the apocalypse, it wasn’t that there was no sun, but the sunlight was blocked by a large amount of dust and debris in the upper atmosphere caused by collisions of celestial bodies, obscuring the sunlight. Nighttime temperatures plummeted into darkness, and daytime looked like dusk, with only faint light.

Therefore, the efficiency of photovoltaic solar power was low. The entire system after the apocalypse could only generate enough electricity to power a rice cooker.

UBC invented bacterial solar cells. Without delving into the principles, as long as there was light, they could generate electricity. Although the efficiency wasn’t high, the quantity could make up for it. Jing Shu lavishly bought ten sets, spending 150,000 yuan.

At first, Manager Wang’s mouth dropped open, thinking she was teasing him. Later, when Jing Shu directly swiped 50,000 yuan as a deposit, he smiled so widely that the wrinkles on his face resembled chrysanthemums.

For every 5,000 yuan spent, there was a chance to draw a prize; for every 10,000 yuan spent, you could get a 1,000 yuan discount.

In total, she spent 340,000 yuan, drew 68 prizes, and got a 34,000 yuan discount. So in just two hours, Jing Shu spent 306,000 yuan.

After paying the deposit, leaving the villa’s address, and finalizing all orders and requirements, Jing Shu quickly took a taxi home. She could do the prize draws the next time she came to shop. If she didn’t get home before her mother finished cooking, she’d get scolded!

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The meals her mother cooked were enough to shatter Jing Shu’s fantasies about many foods after rebirth. Once she was done with this busy period, she must take over the cooking herself!

In the evening, she routinely fed the livestock with Spirit Spring water and collected eggs. The marked eggs still hadn’t hatched. Hen number 1, which received the highest concentration of Spirit Spring water, had grown much larger than the other chickens, was exceptionally fierce, and had become the leader of the 17 chickens.

The quails, ducks, and rabbits had also grown significantly, with the sow growing the fastest—obviously twice the size of the boar.

In the aquatic space, the fish fry didn’t show much change, but the aquatic plants and algae were growing wildly. The space’s light and the Spirit Spring provided ample conditions for these organisms.

Most of the six plots of farmland had started bearing fruit. In another 2–3 days, she could harvest a batch of vegetables. Jing Shu needed to implement her next plan quickly.

On November 4th, after getting up early to exercise and handling the manure, Jing Shu returned home for breakfast.

Breakfast was Wucheng’s specialty milk tea, topped with a thick layer of secret milk skin that was chewy and left a milky aroma lingering in the mouth, served with deep-fried dough sticks and spicy sour shredded potatoes. Jing Shu gave the breakfast vendor 99 points, fearing he’d get arrogant with an extra point.

After eating, the family of three set out.

“I’ll drop your mom off at work first, then take you to Captain Chen. He was responsible for the previous renovation. Follow the contract for how the villa should be remodeled. If you don’t understand anything, ask Old Chen and the people from the entertainment company. Charge everything to me; I’ll settle the bill later,” her father said while driving, thinking that it seemed they really had to sell the house.

“A lack of money topples even heroes.”

“Dad, Mom, I want to buy a car for about 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. It would be convenient for me to follow the renovation at the villa. I can’t go to your company every day and then have Uncle Chen take me to the villa and come back with them in the afternoon, right? After the villa is renovated, Mom can use the car to go to work.” It was time to officially introduce the new energy car.

“Okay, have your mom give you some more money.” Her father thought again about the loss on selling the BMW—it would have been better not to sell it.

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Captain Chen’s team consisted of six people—a small, well-organized, and highly efficient renovation team. Today was the first day of the new renovation. Four people stayed behind to make a list of materials; once the renovation materials were confirmed, they could immediately open orders and transport the materials over.

Captain Chen and Carpenter Liu came to the villa to hear how Jing Shu wanted to remodel it.

“I want to build tempered glass walls around the existing 2-meter walls to enclose the villa, and then create a retractable tempered glass roof that seamlessly connects with the four tempered glass walls, using steel trusses and inverted triangular-shaped tempered glass. This unique exterior design will attract more attention when I start live streaming.”

Jing Shu’s first step in fortress transformation: prevent worm rain, hurricanes, heavy snow, and thieves!

No need to worry about the villa’s transformation attracting prying eyes. After the apocalypse, the tempered glass would be covered by more than ten centimeters of black soil. Moreover, this area was protected by the Chinese government, and order hadn’t collapsed. In the face of big data, almost no one dared to commit crimes. Of course, Jing Shu herself would set up traps and be fully armed—all necessary weapons must be acquired!