86: Jiang Fei wants to open a small shop

Jiang Fei accurately spotted a loophole: "Fighting and brawling is fine as long as the Patrol Team doesn't catch you."

Ling Zhaorui silently gave a thumbs up.

Sister Jiang is ruthless!

Xiao Chuxia held up the rulebook: "Miss, look, it says here that we can earn points by working."

"The points earned will be sent to our ID cards. Just swipe it with the official designated device, and you can use it, similar to an old bank card."

"Points can not only be used to buy supplies and food in the Safety Shelter's stores, but also to purchase resettlement housing, like the apartment complex we live in now. Uh, one unit is 6666 points..."

Su Liuyuan was surprised: "That's much cheaper than houses before the apocalypse."

"I heard Lu Yu say that a house in Yulan Garden costs 25,000 per square meter, so 70 square meters would be over a million."

"Look at the salaries for each job listed here." Xiao Chuxia handed the rulebook to Su Liuyuan:

"Take a nurse at the Safety Shelter Hospital, for example, 50 points a month. If she doesn't eat or drink, she'd have to work for over ten years."

Su Liuyuan: "..."

He was too naive.

It's the apocalypse, houses couldn't possibly be dirt cheap.

Ling Zhaorui glanced at the jobs in the rulebook: "Still the Hospital, Patrol Team, and Planting Base are popular, they offer more points, and you can buy a house at a 50% discount after working for a full year."

"Tomorrow, I'll go for an interview at the Planting Base."

Xiao Chuxia: "Then I'll go to the Hospital."

Lu Yu and Su Liuyuan chose to apply for the Patrol Team.

After all, the ability to modify weapons is hard to explain.

Jiang Fei had no intention of finding a job. She memorized the map of the Safety Shelter.

She wanted to find a place to open a small shop to collect gold, which would be more convenient and less effort than finding it herself.

Once she had a firm footing in the Safety Shelter, she would open a large Supermarket.

Knock knock knock—a knock on the door interrupted Jiang Fei's thoughts.

Xiao Chuxia was close to the door and ran to open it.

Outside were two men and two women.

The man leading them, in his thirties with a full beard, smiled falsely: "Hello, we are old residents from the 2nd and 4th floors."

"You can call me Uncle Qin, and this is Brother Zheng, Aunt Ma, and Sister Kong."

The man who called himself Uncle Qin introduced the identities of the people behind him one by one, then continued:

"According to the rules, as newcomers, you need to give each person on our floor and the floor below one bag of supplies, otherwise you don't have the right to live here."

Xiao Chuxia coldly questioned: "Who made that rule? The officials?"

"It's a rule set by the residents of Mingshang Apartment Complex themselves. We also paid when we moved in."

"You live on the 3rd floor, you don't want the water to be cut off for no reason every day, or be unable to sleep at night because of noise, do you?"

Uncle Qin threatened them openly.

Newcomers generally didn't want to cause trouble, and after hearing this, they would hand over supplies.

Seeing Xiao Chuxia close the door, Uncle Qin thought they were discussing how much to give and waited patiently at the door.

5 minutes... 10 minutes... half an hour... Uncle Qin couldn't help but knock on the door.

Xiao Chuxia's impolite voice came from inside: "Get lost!"

"These newcomers actually dare to mess with us!" Brother Zheng rolled up his sleeves:

"Uncle Qin, step aside, I'll kick the door open. Anyway, the Patrol Team won't come here now."

As soon as Brother Zheng stood at the door, the door suddenly opened.

Bang—!

Jiang Fei kicked Brother Zheng flying.

Brother Zheng slammed hard into the corridor wall before falling to the ground, instantly curling up in pain.

Uncle Qin hadn't reacted yet when a gun was pressed against his forehead.

"Get lost, do you understand?"

Uncle Qin, who had seen real firearms before, could stake his life that Jiang Fei's hand didn't hold a toy. He was so scared he turned and ran.

Aunt Ma and Sister Kong scrambled to help Brother Zheng up and ran off.

Who would have thought that the young people who just moved to the 3rd floor would be such tough nuts to crack!

Jiang Fei looked at the few people at the stairwell.

They were all out to watch the show.

"Want to test if it's real?"

The few people immediately returned to their respective homes.

Closing the door, Jiang Fei put away her gun and distributed the walkie-talkies she used before to Lu Yu and the others.

"The walkie-talkies were fully charged in the RV, and they can communicate within a 10-kilometer range."

"Take them with you when you look for jobs tomorrow. If anything happens, use the walkie-talkie."

"My friend will arrive at the Safety Shelter in the next two days and bring the supplies over."

Lu Yu and the others cleaned up the dishes and went back to rest.

As soon as they left, Jiang Fei replaced the old wooden bed in the bedroom with the soft large bed from Yulan Garden 2202, laying out a clean set of bedding.

The water purification system removed from 2202 was also installed in 302.

If the tiles were too cold, she covered the floor with carpets.

The ordinary curtains were replaced with highly private blackout curtains.

Jiang Fei also took out a generator and diesel, placing a heater only in the bedroom.

Mingshang Apartment Complex wasn't actually cold, but she didn't want to walk around in a heavy down jacket.

The kitchen had an induction cooker, a coffee machine, water buckets, and various pots and pans, and cutlery.

Lavender scented candles were lit on the bedside table to mask the damp smell in the room.

The old-fashioned kerosene lamp provided light, and Jiang Fei didn't replace it, only placing fully charged desk lamps in the bedroom and bathroom.

The bathroom space was large enough, and Jiang Fei placed a bucket of water to flush the toilet.

The sewers here had all been repaired.

Residents would store water during the water supply period, so there was no need to worry about flushing the toilet causing suspicion.

At most, someone would say her family was extravagant.

After all this, Jiang Fei finally had time to go into the Supermarket for a hot bath and check on the small pond in the Planting Base.

After some time, several shrimp in it were already carrying roe.

Jiang Fei immediately found an empty bucket and went to the live seafood breeding area on the second floor of the Supermarket to scoop out the green shrimp from the tank.

Whenever the Supermarket automatically replenished, she would scoop them out.

More than ten minutes later, the empty bucket was full of green shrimp.

A total of 94, plus those in the small pond, made a hundred in total.

To avoid unclear total counts, Jiang Fei never ate the species she bred.

Shrimp spawning and breeding were not counted in the Supermarket's default quantity!

She could become a big shot in aquaculture!

Jiang Fei excitedly poured the green shrimp from the bucket back into the tank.

If the quantity exceeded what the tank could hold, the Supermarket would automatically collect the excess green shrimp.

Jiang Fei was curious where those live seafood went, but the system remained silent, so she had to give up.

She chopped some fish paste and sprinkled it into the small pond.

While in Yulan Garden, she had consulted Ling Zhaorui on how to raise shrimp.

There was nothing Ling Zhaorui didn't know about planting and breeding.

Shrimp eat everything, especially meat. If there isn't enough food, they will cannibalize each other.

Before, she used to secretly feed Big Yellow's snack cans, but now that she had time, she would feed them meat paste.

She would also prepare a few portions for Big Yellow and find an opportunity to deliver them.

Jiang Fei made 100 portions of fish paste, sealed them in bags, and then went to take a bath.

After the shrimp release their roe, it takes about 20-30 days to see the small shrimp.

She could wait!

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The next day.

Discovering that the water was running, Jiang Fei used empty buckets from the Supermarket warehouse to collect water.

With the water purification system, the water flowing from the tap was quite clear.

After collecting water, Jiang Fei had a simple breakfast and then went out.

Lu Yu and the others had gone out for interviews early.

Following the map she memorized yesterday, Jiang Fei, carrying a backpack, arrived at the Safety Shelter's trading market.

This place was different from the official stores; it didn't require spending points to buy things, but rather bartering, much like the trading area in the central plaza of Lincheng.

The difference was that everyone set up stalls in a shop.

One shop had four or five stalls.

For large items that couldn't be brought over, people would write what they had on the stall's sign.

The trading market was managed by officials, and the Patrol Team was there 24 hours a day, so there was no need to fear anyone breaking contracts or cheating for supplies.

Anyone who dared to disrupt a trade would be immediately packaged and sent out of the Safety Shelter by the Patrol Team, so the people in the market were very well-behaved.

Jiang Fei didn't wander around, focusing on finding someone selling trucks.

The supplies from the 21st and 22nd floors were too numerous. If she took them out directly, she would definitely be suspected by the team members, so she needed to use a truck to cover her tracks.

After visiting several shops, Jiang Fei finally found a stall with "truck" written on its sign.

"Boss, how many trucks do you have?"