Chapter 14: Liquid Gold

Photovoltaic solar panels and their supporting equipment are quite expensive—over 20,000 yuan per square meter.

She bought 2,000 square meters, and just like that, 40 million yuan was gone in a flash.

This batch of costly solar panels was meant to be used in her space.

After all, the sunlight in her space was abundant.

Buying more now was also for future convenience—if any panels broke down and couldn’t be repaired, she could just swap them out directly.

She also bought 500 tons each of liquid hydrogen fuel and natural gas.

Even though she could control all the supplies in her space with her mind, Jiang Yan still felt a bit uneasy when storing these two items.

It was like putting two huge piles of time bombs in her space.

In addition, she bought 1,000 tons each of various types of gasoline and diesel, 500 tons of engine oil, and 10 tons of antifreeze.

Jiang Yan had checked online: one ton of smokeless coal could last an average household one to two months, but she basically wouldn’t need it herself.

Still, to prepare for possible extreme cold in the future, she bought 1,000 tons each of smokeless coal and carbon, just in case.

She also bought a ton of heating supplies: heaters, warm air blowers, barbecue heaters, “little sun” heaters, graphene floor mats, electric blankets, thermal blankets, oil-filled radiators in large, medium, and small sizes, electric braziers—3,000 of each. She also bought 1,000 boxes each of hand warmers, heat packs, mugwort knee patches, menstrual heat patches, hot water bottles, and so on.

Chances were, by the late stages of the apocalypse, the air would be heavily polluted. With that in mind, Jiang Yan bought 300 high-powered air filters and purifiers each.

Considering heavy rain and cold snaps, she bought 50 high-powered water pumps and 20 dehumidifiers.

Besides buying a bunch of seeds and saplings, she also stocked up on cigarettes and alcohol.

Baijiu, red wine, beer, foreign liquor—from high-end to low-end, she didn’t leave anything out.

The quantities varied, though: for baijiu, red wine, and foreign liquor, she bought 1,000 cases of high-end, 3,000 of mid-range, and 5,000 of low-end for each type.

As for beer, she bought 5,000 cases of regular beer, and 3,000 cases of craft and imported beers with higher alcohol content.

For cigarettes, she also bought 5,000 cases each of high, mid, and low grades.

Cigarettes and alcohol might seem unremarkable in normal times, but in critical moments, they could be hard currency—liquid gold, so to speak.

So she planned to stockpile some, just in case.

After all, the days ahead were long, and she had no idea what she might encounter or what might happen.

Clothes were another key item to stock up on.

But in her stockpiling plan, she divided them into two categories: everyday wear and special-purpose clothing.

Special-purpose clothing and accessories included things like outdoor jackets, down coats, thermal wear, windbreakers, cold-weather gear, heat-insulating suits, temperature-regulating clothes, protective suits, radiation-proof clothing, protective earplugs, face shields, goggles, and so on. For these, function and quality were paramount, so she bought only the best brands—but always chose the most inconspicuous, ordinary-looking styles.

As for colors, she stuck to black, white, and gray. She bought 1,000 sets in her usual medium size, and 200 sets each in extra-large, large, and small sizes.

She didn’t buy a huge amount of special-purpose clothing, saving some purchases for when she went abroad.

For everyday wear, she no longer shopped at high-end malls, or even mid-range ones, but went straight to wholesale markets for clothing, shoes, and hats.

Style and brand didn’t matter—what mattered was comfort, durability, and practicality.

After all, in the apocalypse, walking around in a fancy Chanel outfit was basically announcing to everyone:

Hey, I’m rich, I have supplies, I’m naive and loaded—come rob me, quick!

Except for skirts, she bought 10,000 each of shirts, pants, shoes, hats, socks, underwear, scarves, gloves—for all four seasons.

As for sizes, she couldn’t guarantee her body would stay the same shape her whole life, so she focused on medium sizes, with small, large, and extra-large making up 30% of the total.

For some seasonal clothes and pants that weren’t available in physical stores, she bought them online.

She knew online shopping was cheaper, but she was worried about the reality not matching the pictures, so she gave up on that idea.

For the items she bought in physical stores, she had one more requirement: everything had to be dry-cleaned and then packed and delivered to a designated warehouse.

Of course, she paid for all of this.

The shop owners were stunned, but business is business—only a fool would turn it down—so they all complied.

The wholesale clothing markets also sold bedding.

So she bought 1,000 sets each of latex mattresses, cotton mattresses, down mattresses, cashmere mattresses, duvet covers, sheets, pillowcases, pillow towels, fitted sheets, down comforters, cashmere quilts, wool quilts, cotton quilts, summer quilts, and so on.

To guard against mosquitoes and for temporary outdoor stays, she bought 500 each of mosquito nets and tents in large, medium, and small sizes.

During this time, she was also running around to all the major pharmacies, both online and offline, leaving none out.

First on her list were potassium iodide tablets for nuclear radiation protection—she placed multiple orders and bought 3,000 bottles. She also bought 1,000 bottles of Prussian blue, which helps treat nuclear radiation.

Having learned from the mask shortage, she bought as much as possible of everything: Lianhua Qingwen, Ganmaoling granules, compound paracetamol and amantadine tablets for colds; ibuprofen, acetaminophen, Xiao Chai Hu for fevers; norfloxacin, montmorillonite powder, ofloxacin for diarrhea; compound aluminum hydroxide tablets, digestive pills for stomach issues; Huoxiang Zhengqi water, Shidishui for heatstroke; rhodiola for altitude sickness; Suxiao Jiuxin pills and nitroglycerin tablets for heart disease.

She also bought other daily medicines like amoxicillin, Fenbid (ibuprofen), Yunnan Baiyao, safflower oil, medicine for bruises and injuries, medicated plasters, Wuji Baifeng pills, motherwort, bandages, gauze, alcohol, iodine, band-aids in various sizes, Qingfei Huatan pills, cough syrup, Bufei Yiqi pills, Banlangen, all kinds of eye drops, condoms, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and even hemorrhoid ointment like Mayinglong.

She also bought a huge amount of various vitamins, lutein, liquid calcium, liver protection tablets, fiber, protein powder, anti-glycation pills, blood tonic oral solutions, and so on.

Due to domestic regulations on Western medicine, she couldn’t buy as much as she did with Chinese herbal medicines.

But for Jiang Yan herself, it was already enough.

Still, she planned to stock up on more when she went abroad and after she returned.

Besides medicine, she also bought blood glucose meters, cervical and lumbar traction devices, medium-frequency therapy devices for arthritis and neck issues, magnetic therapy devices for muscle spasms, blood oxygen monitors, oxygen concentrators, ventilators, nebulizers, foldable wheelchairs, fully automatic massage chairs, and so on—a whole bunch.

She even secretly bought a few fully equipped negative pressure ambulances and stored them in her space.

She could move some of the furniture and appliances from the villa to her new home, and whatever didn’t fit, she just tossed into her space as well.

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