42: Unlock the second area on the second floor

Not knowing if the people outside had left, Jiang Fei, bored in the Supermarket, took out new seeds to plant.

To conserve her stamina, she only planted sweet potatoes.

When the weather turned cold, she could roast them to eat, which would warm her body and satisfy her cravings.

After planting the sweet potatoes, Jiang Fei felt it was about time, so she washed her hands and exited the Supermarket.

The group of alligators on the second floor had already left.

On the ground were several alligator carcasses with bloody, mangled heads.

Jiang Fei held her gun and carefully walked down the stairs.

She only put the alligator carcasses into the Supermarket warehouse after confirming that the person who had been shooting earlier had left.

Alligator meat is edible, and alligator skin is durable and tough, suitable for making bags, gloves, shoes, and other items.

The alligator's internal organs are highly nourishing, and its blood and bones can be used in medicine; it could be said that its entire body is a treasure.

No reason not to pick them up!

Discovering that the rubber boat parked outside her window had been damaged by an alligator, Jiang Fei took out another one, inflated it, and quickly moved away from the UN store, with no intention of visiting other shops.

She didn't want to make eye contact with an alligator again.

It was too terrifying.

Just as Jiang Fei was about to exit the commercial street through another exit, she inadvertently caught sight of a floating signboard on the water—

[Lindong Breeding Farm]

Jiang Fei had some impression of this place.

A few years ago, after Li Yanping received her mother's inheritance, the first thing she did was take Jiang Ziming and Jiang Zixuan out for lavish meals, enjoying the life of the wealthy.

Jiang Zixuan had boasted to her about it upon returning, mentioning Lindong Breeding Farm.

That place specialized in raising alligators, selling them to restaurants of star-level and above.

As for why alligators appeared on the commercial street, it was likely they followed the floodwaters.

No wonder that man hadn't dared to come looking for supplies, and there were no survivors on the commercial street.

With so many alligators around, who would dare to stay?

Jiang Fei couldn't help but speed up, leaving this dangerous place.

At dawn, Jiang Fei arrived at Wan Building.

Unable to find any traces of survivors, Jiang Fei changed into cold-weather gear and diving equipment, then entered the water with a metal detector.

With a searchlight on her head, Jiang Fei could barely see the snakes swimming underwater.

Seemingly sensing food, the water snakes excitedly coiled around Jiang Fei's arm.

Having prepared for this, Jiang Fei directly killed the water snake with her speargun and threw it far away.

While a large portion of the snake group was drawn away by the scent of blood, Jiang Fei seized the opportunity and activated her detector.

Each time she heard a 'beep,' she collected the item into the Supermarket.

Occasionally, she would grab a handful of centipedes, which Jiang Fei calmly squeezed to death in her hand.

With the special material of her cold-weather gear, she wasn't afraid of snakes or insects biting her.

[Ding—Gold detected: 498 grams]

[Ding—Gold detected: 1089 grams]

[Ding—Gold detected: 2345 grams]

[Ding...]

The system's notification kept ringing.

Until half an hour later.

[Ding—Congratulations, Host, for successfully unlocking the second area of the Supermarket's second floor: [Fresh Produce—Frozen Aquatic Products Area], the third area requires 64000 grams of gold to unlock]

[Current gold owned: 200 grams]

[Bonus reward: One lucky roulette spin, Host, would you like to use it?]

Jiang Fei did not choose to view or use it; she completely depleted her oxygen tank and found another two kilograms of gold before returning to the rubber boat.

After dealing with the water snakes and insects on her body, Jiang Fei first entered the Supermarket.

A portion of the white mist on the second floor had dissipated.

Next to the meat section, ten extra-long large freezers had appeared.

Inside the cold, misty counters were frozen seafood such as fish, shrimp, shellfish, crabs, squid, and sea vegetables, each divided into different varieties.

For example, shrimp included frozen lobsters, white shrimp, farmed shrimp, black tiger shrimp, spot prawns, Arctic shrimp, and more.

Fish were also divided into saltwater and freshwater varieties.

Among them were also frozen sea cucumbers, abalone, and an entire cabinet of frozen seafood pre-made dishes.

Such as Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, spicy crayfish, garlic scallops, sizzling squid tentacles, seaweed shrimp cakes, grilled eel, lemon salmon, braised sea cucumber with scallions, and so on.

Jiang Fei swallowed as she looked.

In her previous life, after the nuclear leak in Country Y and the discharge of nuclear wastewater by Country R, she had never eaten seafood again.

Not to mention after the apocalypse arrived, with scarce supplies, she hadn't even seen a shrimp shell.

She would eat seafood today when she returned!

Jiang Fei thought happily, then suddenly realized a problem.

Typically, Supermarket aquatic products are divided into frozen, chilled, and live.

Since she had now unlocked the frozen aquatic products area, did that mean the Gold Swallowing Supermarket also had a live seafood area?

And what about these chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep... would there be live ones?

She dared not imagine how many inexhaustible resources she would have once the live animal area was unlocked.

But as soon as she thought of the required gold, Jiang Fei's heart grew cold.

It was better to find a way to get more gold first.

Jiang Fei chose to use the "roulette."

System: [Ding—Congratulations, Host, for a stroke of good luck! You have received "Thank you for your patronage"!]

Heh.

As expected.

She would smash this broken roulette sooner or later!

Jiang Fei exited the Supermarket and went to the adjacent mall.

The floors that were previously submerged had now emerged.

Last time she came, she didn't find much gold; she wondered how her luck would be today.

After clearing away mosquitoes and insects with her sprayer, Jiang Fei continued her search using the metal detector.

She only collected 3468 grams of gold after searching the 2nd and 3rd floors.

At least it wasn't zero.

Jiang Fei comforted herself, and just as she was about to look for her rubber boat, several strong beams of light approached.

"Who's there?"

Vaguely seeing a military-green rubber boat, Jiang Fei immediately put the sprayer and metal detector on her back into the Supermarket warehouse.

People wearing life jackets also entered the mall one after another:

"Are you a survivor here?"

"No," Jiang Fei found a reason: "I came here to find food; the orange rubber boat parked outside is mine."

Seeing that Jiang Fei was young, like a student, the leader took out two bags of compressed biscuits: "Don't be afraid; we are from the official Rescue Team."

"It's not safe here; you should go home quickly."

"Thank you, Comrade," Jiang Fei took the biscuits and obediently walked towards the rubber boat.

Noticing that a boat parked outside was piled with many supplies, including damp-packaged food, cotton clothes and gloves in plastic bags, Jiang Fei roughly guessed their purpose for coming here.

They wanted to take advantage of the receding floodwaters to find usable supplies to distribute to the residents.

After all, the weather hadn't warmed up yet, and the extreme cold could arrive at any time, so preparations had to be made early.

During this time, the officials should be out looking for supplies, so she couldn't 'zero-cost shop' anymore.

There would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

Jiang Fei got into the rubber boat, and before leaving, she secretly placed a few boxes of cotton clothes she had bought earlier onto the boat.

She once watched a movie that had a line she always remembered—

"Human civilization is meaningless without humanity."

She was not a good person, nor did she have a grand desire to save the world.

But she didn't want to see Blue Star one day with only herself remaining.

—

Yulan Garden, 2202.

To prevent the smell of food from spreading, Jiang Fei chose salmon and spot prawns that could be thawed and eaten raw, and she also checked the Supermarket warehouse.

Besides diving equipment, there were also various miscellaneous items she had collected underwater with the metal detector, such as knives, keys, steel pipes, brass ornaments, and many silver ornaments.

Jiang Fei packed all the unused items into a box, planning to go out and discard them later, then returned to her room to catch up on sleep.

Two days passed in a flash.

Jiang Fei was preparing the items she would need for Beishan Farm tomorrow when—knock, knock, knock—

Accompanying the knocking was Lu Yu's voice.

"Good news."