Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The next morning, after getting up early and having a quick breakfast, Gu Tongwan immediately sent Xiaoli to the nearby neighborhood.

On the way, I saw many people rushing towards the next block, especially when they arrived at the small road, they were almost blocked by a dozen private cars in front.

The walk was less than a hundred meters, so Gu Tongwan simply got out of the car and walked in with Xiaoli.

The block, where less than two cars could pass, was already packed with people.

"Oh my God, did these people get up early in the morning and rush here? It's not like they don't want money, are they really so crazy?" Xiaoli smacked her lips, while holding Gu Tongwan's hand and continuing to squeeze forward.

The pest control stores in the neighborhood usually open at 8:30 in the morning. Before the locust plague and mosquitoes, no one was interested in them. After all, the temperature had been maintained at around 20 degrees Celsius. In this kind of weather, not to mention mosquitoes, even rats and cockroaches were rare.

But since the beast tide began, first mutant rats began to frequently emerge from the sewers, and then various mosquitoes gradually emerged. In addition, the weather has begun to warm up in recent days. When I went out this morning, the temperature was already 25 or 26 degrees Celsius, and by noon it might only reach around 30 degrees Celsius.

For this reason, many stores selling second-hand electrical appliances have begun to promote the impending arrival of extremely hot weather, and have also promoted the second-hand air conditioners and fans in their stores.

Apart from anything else, more and more people have been visiting home appliance stores during this period, and even those who have some money have begun to stock up on various mutant meats, because once extremely hot weather returns, the price of meat will surely continue to rise, and may even reach a new high.

Gu Tongwan and Xiaoli finally squeezed in, only to find that the line was at least fifty meters long, and there were even more people waiting in line behind them.

After a while, sirens were heard and the Security Bureau had already arranged personnel to maintain order.

"I don't know if there will be a purchase limit. I want to buy more at one time. Otherwise, I can't stand queuing like this every day."

"Purchase limits are inevitable. It all depends on how much he buys at one time. I'll give it all to you when I buy it later. I don't think I will need it." Gu Tongwan said.

Xiaoli frowned immediately: "How can I not use it? You will need it when you move. These mosquitoes will always be there as long as the weather is hot. If you give them all to us, you may not be able to buy them when you need them. The worst that can happen is that I will queue up again later. Anyway, I can't take yours." She is not a greedy person. In her opinion, Gu Tongwan has helped her many times, and there is no need to take advantage of this little thing.

Gu Tongwan smiled and said, "That's not what I meant. In fact, I still have some mosquito repellent in my room. I made it myself. I lived in Xiaoxi Village for a while. There are many Chinese herbs in the back mountain, some of which can repel mosquitoes, such as mugwort and honeysuckle. I dried them and made mosquito repellent. Although the effect may not be comparable to professional insecticides, it is still effective, and..." She paused for a moment before continuing, "There are still one or two bottles of insecticide in the suitcase, but they expired a long time ago. I tried it last night and it worked."

Xiaoli looked at her in surprise, and after a long while she smacked her lips and said, "Wanwan, I almost wonder if you used to run a supermarket. How come you have everything?"

"That's true. I worked in a supermarket before the apocalypse and brought some goods back."

Xiaoli actually didn't think about why the things from a few years ago have not been used up until now. After all, the person in front of her was someone who could even hunt mutated Saker Falcons. In Xiaoli's cognitive world, it seemed that it was not surprising that such a person was a little special.

The two waited in line for about half an hour, and saw that the line had shortened to less than 20 meters. Some people who had already bought insecticides were holding an insecticide spray of only about 150 milliliters in their hands.

A passerby complained, "This amount is not enough, and the purchase is limited to one bottle per person."

Another person followed suit, "That's right, this little thing costs 100 points, why don't you just go and grab it."

"Okay, you guys complained but you still bought it. If you didn't buy it and got bitten, you would have to go to the hospital. A trip to the hospital would cost a hundred points."

The other two people curled their lips and finally had to go back to the queue. After all, one bottle was not enough for their family.

Fortunately, the insecticide is limited per person, not by grade and identity plate, so you can continue to buy even if you queue up repeatedly, but the waiting time will make people irritable.

There is a profession that is still active here no matter what time it is, and that is scalpers.

Just in front of Gu Tongwan was a professional scalper, a thin man who was holding a cell phone and calling someone.

"Hey, yes, I'm on the commercial street. There are a lot of people. Who told you to come early? Hurry up. This is my second round. If you want to make money, you can only take advantage of this time. If you are lucky, you can get two rounds. The price? I directly charge 50 points per time. This price is not expensive. Otherwise, you have to wait in line for one to two hours. The later you wait, the longer it will take. This charge is not expensive. People still think it is easy to queue. In short, you can earn 100 or 200 yuan a day, which is much better than doing odd jobs. At least you can earn half a month's salary in one day."

The scalpers sounded quite happy. These professional queue-keepers usually turn around and sell the goods they buy to others. However, if there are too many of them, it will easily disrupt the market. After all, they are very likely to have a surplus of goods and deliberately raise the price to an unprecedented height.

However, for now, due to purchase restrictions on pesticides, even scalpers can only buy one bottle at a time, so there will be no product monopoly in the short term.

Xiaoli turned around and curled her lips at Gu Tongwan, "See, there are people like this, they simply disrupt the order of goods circulation."

Gu Tongwan nodded, but added: "If the purchase limit is one bottle, they can only queue up honestly. It doesn't matter if they sell it to others at a higher price."

Xiao Li could only sigh: "That's true. In fact, if I were rich, I would also find a scalper to buy it. I have money anyway, so why would I bother queuing up myself?"

The two people were chatting for another half an hour. In fact, the queue was quite fast. This time, the Four Harms Company specially assigned staff to work overtime in various stores. Basically, a small store had three purchasing channels, so that the store would not be crowded.

When it was two people's turn in line, Gu Tongwan glanced at the shelf next to him. The insecticides on it were basically packed in white plastic bottles with a simple spray head on top, and all of them were clearly marked with uniform prices.

After two people each bought a bottle, Xiaoli wanted to queue up again for a second round, but she saw a long queue in front of her, which had even stretched outside the block, at least two or three hundred meters away.

Seeing this, Gu Tongwan stuffed the spray in his hand into her arms. Seeing that she wanted it back again, he said, "You use it first. I'll try my two bottles of insecticide tonight. I think they should still work. If not, I'll come here to queue up tomorrow."

"Thank you, Wanwan." Xiaoli did not delay any longer. She took the insecticide in her hand, looked up at the endless line in front of her, and said through gritted teeth, "I'll go out at 6:30 tomorrow. I don't believe I won't be able to get in the second round."

"It's still martial law at 6:30, and you can't go out until at least 7:00. Don't take risks for such a small thing."

Xiaoli wanted to say something, but then she heard a whistle from the Self-Defense Forces in front of her, as if there was a dispute among the people in the queue ahead.

On the way back, I met the proprietress and Uncle Zhang who were going in another direction.

After honking the horn, he rolled down the window and asked, "Auntie Man, Uncle Zhang, where are you going?"

Aunt Man wiped her sweat and said, "We have to go to the meat processing factory. I heard that the prices of all kinds of meat will increase in the future. We have to stock up quickly to avoid the business being affected by the price increase later."

Xiao Li, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked, "Can't we go to the supply and marketing cooperative? The meat processing factory is so far away."

The supply and marketing cooperative is in the inner circle, only a few kilometers away from the guesthouse, but the meat processing plant is in the outer circle, at least twenty kilometers away from the guesthouse. It is located in the outer circle mainly because it is more convenient to transport various mutant animals. However, it has always been "heavily guarded". The meat processing plant has at least hundreds of security personnel, generally members of the Self-Defense Forces, and half of them are F-level psychics.

"Uncle Zhang and I just went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and they were out of meat. We could only buy one or two kilograms of meat. Uncle Zhang and I were thinking of going directly to the meat processing factory to get the goods. It shouldn't be a problem to get a few hundred kilograms at a time."

"Where's the car? Don't tell me you want to walk there?" Xiaoli asked with eyes wide open.

"I asked Afeng to bring a batch of iron sheets. The quality of the iron sheets used to cover the yard last time was pretty good. I plan to buy another batch and cut them a little in the yard. I will use them on the windows and door edges outside. This way, those damn locusts in the kitchen and living room will not be able to get in."

Uncle Zhang also kept wiping his sweat. It was almost eleven o'clock in the morning and the temperature was gradually rising. After walking several kilometers outside, both of them were very hot.

So Gu Tongwan simply said, "Aunt Man, Uncle Zhang, hurry up and get in the car. I'll take you there. Otherwise, how long will it take you to walk there? And don't you have to get something when you come back?"

"No, we plan to go ahead and borrow a car from the Li family." Aunt Man replied with a smile.

"Uncle Li's house is quite far from here. It will take you about 40 minutes to walk there. It's too much trouble." Xiaoli couldn't help but speak.

Gu Tongwan immediately said, "Aunt Man, Uncle Zhang, I don't have anything to do for a while, so just get in the car. I also want to buy some meat for my friend."

Aunt Man thought about it and decided not to delay any longer, so she got into the back seat of the car with Uncle Zhang.

When the car was still five or six kilometers away from the meat processing plant, it was waiting for the green light at one of the few traffic lights ahead, and the radio nearby began to broadcast a notice of martial law.

It mentioned that the second wave of locust plague might arrive around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, and asked residents in the base not to go out at will after 6 o'clock today, and the Self-Defense Force members will strengthen patrols in the base.

As the car started moving again, Aunt Man couldn't help but sigh, "There has never been a locust plague in previous years. I don't know what happened to the Self-Defense Forces that were sent out to suppress the beast tide. If they fail to hold on, will our base fall?"

"Aunt, what are you talking about? How could the base fall so easily? The number of S-level psychics sent out this time is twice as many as last year, and they are equipped with various thermal weapons. The capital base has even sent people over. It's only a matter of time before the suppression is successful. Besides, it's only been three days, how can it be that fast? We just need to follow the notices issued by the base and we don't need to worry about anything else." Xiaoli bit her lip. Her face did not look as worried as Aunt Man's. She always believed that the Self-Defense Forces would win.

Aunt Man nodded and said, "I know that too. I just can't help but worry. After all, this is the first time we've encountered a locust plague, and it's happened twice. I don't know how things are going at the Agricultural Science Institute. I heard that they're cultivating new high-temperature vegetables. If they succeed, we'll have a chance to eat fresh green leafy vegetables in October."

"Don't worry, there will be no problem with the survey." Xiaoli replied with a smile.

A few people chatted and soon arrived at the meat processing plant.

The vehicle can only be released after identity registration. Generally, the minimum amount of meat purchased from a meat processing plant is more than 200 kilograms. If the amount is less than this, the meat processing plant will generally sell it to the outside.

So basically only big restaurants or butcher shops will drive here directly to pick up the goods.

After several people got off the car, Aunt Man directly ordered 100 kilograms of mutant pork, 50 kilograms of mutant chicken, and 50 kilograms of mutant rabbit meat. These are the best-selling meats in the base. As for mutant rat meat, I don't know if it's because rats have been pouring into the base's sewers crazily during this period, most of the hunted mutant rat meat has basically become the residents' meals, and there is no need to go to the butcher shop to buy it. Therefore, not many people have bought rat meat recently.

Aunt Man herself also took this into consideration and decided not to buy rat meat.

Gu Tongwan asked Aunt Man to help her buy ten kilograms of mutant pork. She planned to send some of these ten kilograms to her best friend Liao Yunyun, and the remaining few kilograms could be sent to Zhang Youfan.

When they heard that she had entered the northern forest, the Zhang family had taken several days off to work in the yard with other workers, which was why her two-story house was built so quickly.

After buying the meat, they directly placed several hundred kilograms of mutant meat in the trunk. When they drove out, they found that many vans came one after another from behind. They were probably here to stock up after hearing the news of the increase in meat prices.

The next morning before eight o'clock, Gu Tongwan heard a lot of noise downstairs.

After a quick wash, she walked downstairs. As soon as she reached the stairs, she bumped into Lan Qin who was running up in a hurry.

Lan Qin was still holding some rags in her hands. When she saw her, she said, "Sister Gu, go down and take a look. There was a mutant rat that ate rat poison in the kitchen last night. It was huge!"