310: End of polar day?
Seeing the climbing gear in Jiang Fei and Lu Yu's hands, Father Mo's suspicion deepened.
"Are you really here to steal gold?"
Jiang Fei calmly changed the subject: "Mo Yanan is with me."
"What?!" Father Mo instantly forgot about the gold, grabbing Jiang Fei's hand tremblingly:
"Is Xiao An alright?"
"He's perfectly fine, lively as ever. I found him at sea, and he's currently living in a factory in the refugee area."
Father Mo's tears welled up, and he repeatedly muttered, "Heaven bless, Xiao An is safe."
"I need to go find my son. You two should leave quickly. I'll pretend I didn't see you today."
Just as Father Mo was about to leave, Jiang Fei called out to him.
"We'll drive you there; it'll be faster than walking."
"Yes, yes, yes." Father Mo quickly got into the back seat.
Jiang Fei and Lu Yu also got into the car.
Following the map given by the guard earlier, they drove to the vicinity of the refugee area.
"Old Mr. Mo, wait a moment; I have something for you." Jiang Fei got out of the car and opened the trunk.
She pretended to rummage through it, but in reality, she took a backpack from the Supermarket warehouse.
She filled it with drinking water, a pack of enhanced special medicine, instant noodles, a handgun, goggles, bullets, and other supplies.
She handed the backpack to Father Mo.
"The refugee area is very chaotic. There's a gun in the bag; take it for self-defense."
"Your eyes are damaged; remember to wear goggles when you come out."
In the past, in the Capital, Father Mo often looked after her business, so she didn't mind giving him some supplies.
"Thank you, Miss Jiang."
Father Mo thanked her gratefully, shouldered the bag, and walked towards the factory.
Jiang Fei returned to the car and drove towards the Tube Building.
Her mind kept replaying Father Mo's words.
Mos City had many survivors from the Capital.
But it was too large, each area was far apart, and the population was dense, making it difficult to find her uncle and the others.
It would be best to cause a big stir, let her friends know she was also in Mos City, and have them come find her proactively.
Opening a shop was definitely not an option.
Unable to think of a good solution for the time being, Jiang Fei decided to continue setting up a street stall and also put up a missing person notice.
This way, customers who came to buy things could help her find people.
Jiang Fei, a woman of strong action, returned home, sent out Su Liuyuan and the others from the Supermarket, and then took out a rectangular wooden board.
She wrote the four large characters "Missing Person Notice" at the top of the board with a pen.
Jiang Fei pasted individual photos of Jiang Zhengkang and the others.
She also wrote their names, appearance characteristics, and age next to each photo.
Regarding the reward, it was written at the very bottom—
"Find any one of the above individuals, and you can choose 5 items from the stall's supplies, with no quantity limit."
After writing in Chinese, Jiang Fei wrote it again in English, ensuring that everyone who came to buy things could understand the content on the board.
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The next day.
Jiang Fei and the other four routinely applied foundation to make their faces sallow.
Lu Yu, Ling Zhaorui, and Su Liuyuan went scavenging with their bags, while Jiang Fei and Xiao Chuxia drove to the main street.
At the intersection where the explosion occurred yesterday, the ground was pitted and uneven.
The bald man and the motorcycle's body fragments were gone, cleaned up by someone unknown.
Arriving at the shady spot where they set up their stall yesterday, Jiang Fei stopped the car and had just gotten out.
The stall owners on both sides enthusiastically gathered around.
"Is there anything we can help you with?"
"I traded for two sweet potatoes this morning; take them back and cook them."
"Today's temperature is 28℃, a bit hot. I'll help you fan yourselves."
Several stall owners smiled fawningly.
They packed up their stalls around the same time as Jiang Fei last night and saw her being chased and retaliating by throwing a bomb.
Anyone daring to carry a bomb was a ruthless person.
Not only should they not provoke her, but they also had to curry favor.
Otherwise, what if the young boss was displeased with them and wanted to bomb them?
Unaware of the stall owners' thoughts, Jiang Fei coldly refused.
"No need, don't interfere with my stall."
"We'll leave now."
After the stall owners left, Jiang Fei and Xiao Chuxia opened the trunk, revealing the supplies inside.
The small stool, machine gun, and missing person notice were in the back seat.
Jiang Fei took them out one by one, set the missing person notice next to the trunk, and sat on the small stool to wait for customers.
Many more people came to buy things today than yesterday.
Hearing that gold could be exchanged for supplies, everyone went out to pick up gold yesterday.
By 6 PM, Jiang Fei had sold more than half of her supplies.
She earned a total of 1015 grams of gold.
It was more than yesterday, but still not much.
If it weren't for worrying about her friends' whereabouts, Jiang Fei would have wanted to go scavenging with Lu Yu and the other two.
However, for two consecutive days, no one provided any clues.
Survivors were very envious of the reward on the missing person notice, but since they couldn't find the people in the photos, they could only look.
Nevertheless, Jiang Fei's stall became widely known.
One reason was the generous reward for finding people, and the other was that she sold new supplies every day.
Someone inquired about the source of the supplies, and Jiang Fei directly attributed it to the scavenging trio.
As a result, survivors ran out even more diligently.
That night.
Lu Yu came to room 301 to find Jiang Fei, carrying two sacks.
The sacks contained the gold he, Ling Zhaorui, and Su Liuyuan had collected over the past three days.
It was too troublesome to deliver it daily, so Lu Yu simply saved it up to deliver all at once.
After placing the bags on the ground, Lu Yu returned to room 302 to rest.
Jiang Fei collected everything into the Supermarket.
"Ding—Detected 1,854,780 grams of gold."
"Ding—Congratulations, Host, for successfully unlocking the second area of the Gold Swallowing Supermarket's 7th floor [Department Store — Daily Necessities Area 2]. Gold required to unlock the next area: 67,108,864 grams."
"Bonus reward: One Lucky Wheel spin. Host, would you like to use it?"
"Use it."
"Ding—Actually, being accustomed to bad luck makes it less scary. Host received 'Miracle Ointment.'"
A 20g golden aluminum tube of ointment appeared in Jiang Fei's hand.
The ointment's effect was good, so she didn't consider it a loss.
Putting away the ointment, Jiang Fei mentally checked the newly unlocked area.
The 7th floor of the Gold Swallowing Supermarket only had 5 extra-large, extra-long double-sided shelves.
On them were individually packaged underwear, socks, loungewear, thermal underwear, slippers, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, shoe polish, insoles, shoe brushes, raincoats, warming patches, ice sleeves, masks, and other clothing and daily necessities.
Items like underwear, hosiery, and loungewear were basic white styles.
They were divided into men's and women's, different sizes, and different materials.
There were no special functions.
She had a feeling that this newly unlocked area was a bit of a loss.
At least she wouldn't lack underwear and sun protection items anymore.
Jiang Fei comforted herself.
The next day, as usual, she woke up and went downstairs with Xiao Chuxia, preparing to go to the main street.
However, as she was about to get into the car, her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of green.
A tender sprout of a small plant emerged from a crack in the flagstones on the ground.
Plants were actually growing?
Xiao Chuxia also noticed the sprout on the ground: "Miss, look, there's more over there."
"Plants are starting to grow. Is the midnight sun coming to an end?"
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