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

When I went to the "herbal tea supply point" with Xiaoli, I thought there wouldn't be many people here, but I didn't expect that there was still a long queue even in the high temperature of over 40 degrees.

Perhaps out of fear that people in the queue might suffer from heatstroke, the staff on site even put up several large awnings to provide some shade for those temporarily queuing.

Gu Tongwan saw from afar that there were several large pots placed on an open space on one side. The pots were almost the same size as the pots used to cook large pot dishes that he had seen in Xiaoxi Village before. They were the kind of soup pots that were about 100L in capacity. There were seven or eight large pots in total.

Each person is limited to purchasing one liter of herbal tea, so a "herbal tea supply point" can supply at least seven or eight hundred people every day.

"How many 'herbal tea supply points' are currently open in the base?" Gu Tongwan asked after getting off the car.

"There are probably about a dozen or so, and a little less in the inner circle. After all, rich people don't look down on this kind of herbal tea stalls. Most of the customers are ordinary people like us."

Xiaoli was holding a few bottles in her hands, and in her pockets were the ID tags of Lan Qin, Aunt Man, and Uncle. At least she could get several bottles of herbal tea, which she could put in the refrigerator after returning home and drink for a while.

The people in the queue are holding a lot of bottles in their hands. Although they pay by credit card according to the brand, they don’t have to be present in person. After all, there will be a record in the card when the card is swiped. Even if they want to buy a few more bottles every day, there is no way. Instead of crowding here with a bunch of people, it is better to "buy on behalf of others".

However, a bottle of herbal tea only costs three points, and scalpers probably look down on this "purchasing on behalf of others" job, complaining that the fertilizer and water are not sufficient. Therefore, most of the people queuing up are those with relatively good physical conditions sent by each company. After all, queuing up in high temperatures requires a certain amount of physical strength.

Gu Sheng also had a bottle in her hand. She had no shortage of herbal tea, so she planned to give it to Xiaoli after getting it. After she finished queuing, she would go home to get a few bottles of herbal tea and deliver them to Liao Yunyun's house at dinner time.

Because there were staff on site to maintain the queue, the queue moved quite quickly. It took less than half an hour for the 40 or 50 people in front to get their turn in line. A woman in her 40s skillfully scooped two spoonfuls of herbal tea from the big pot with a specific container and poured it into the funnel. No matter what container you use to hold the herbal tea, it has to be calculated according to the container in the woman's hand.

Two scoops should be considered one liter. If you use two people's cards, then it will be four scoops.

Xiaoli earned a total of twelve points and took two particularly large bottles to hold the goods. The bottle in Gu Tongwan's hand was the empty plastic bottle after she finished drinking one of the bottles of Coke last night. It was the 1.25L bottle that was often seen in supermarkets before the apocalypse, but now after the apocalypse, every household's bottles have become another type of thickened bottles produced by the base. This type of bottle can be reused and is also resistant to high temperatures, which can reduce pollution to a certain extent. Even juice shops use plastic bottles made of this material, but the price is slightly higher. Similar plastic bottles at the supply and marketing cooperative, the smallest 300L one also costs ten points, and if it is as big as the one in Xiaoli's hand, it will also cost twenty or thirty points, but it is light, and basically every household will have several such plastic bottles.

After making the herbal tea, Gu Tongwan directly handed the bottle in his hand to Xiaoli. They had already agreed on this in the car. Xiaoli was not polite at all and took it with a smile.

On the way back, Xiaoli said she wanted to buy something in the commercial street. It seemed that the boss's wife asked her to go to the electrical appliance store in the commercial street to see if there were any shops open. One of the air conditioners in the guesthouse had a water leak. The boss's wife asked a few male clerks who knew a little about electrical appliances to come and take a look, but they were unable to completely solve the problem. It was estimated that they still needed to find professionals.

However, electrical appliance repairs are expensive nowadays, but the air conditioner has been leaking and that is not a solution, so Xiaoli can only go and ask for a price.

The car drove into the commercial street. Like other commercial areas, there were very few shops open here, but the electrical appliance store was unexpectedly crowded. Some were crowded with people who came to look at air conditioners and air-conditioning fans, while others were eager to repair their home appliances.

Because it was inconvenient to park the car outside, and her car was too eye-catching, it attracted a lot of people's attention as soon as she drove in. In the end, Xiaoli decided to get out of the car by herself, while Gu Tongwan stayed in the car.

The car was fully air-conditioned, so it felt very comfortable inside. But the moment Xiaoli opened the door and went out, she immediately felt a wave of heat pouring in from outside, which even dissipated most of the cold air in the car.

Fortunately, Xiaoli acted quickly. She covered her sun hat and walked quickly into the store.

The electrical appliance store and the electrical appliance repair shop are actually two separate areas of a large shop. A slight design is made in the middle to separate the two sides. There is also a warehouse of hundreds of square meters behind the repair shop, which is piled with some electrical appliances waiting to be repaired. You can vaguely see seven or eight shirtless technicians doing repair work inside because of the hot weather.

There were not many air conditioners on display at the electrical appliance store, only five or six, all of which were second-hand units, and their prices were basically around five-digit points. Before the extreme heat came, the price of a second-hand air conditioner was only three or four thousand points, but after the extreme heat came, the prices of all refrigeration or heat dissipation appliances also rose with market demand, especially when demand was greater than supply, prices were more easily driven up.

Obviously, there are many more people who come to the store to look at electrical appliances than those who can actually afford to buy them. Before the extreme heat, air conditioners costing three or four thousand yuan were basically ignored. After the extreme heat, the prices went up and even fewer people could afford them.

Xiaoli felt a little emotional. Fortunately, before opening the guesthouse, her aunt insisted on buying two air conditioners despite her uncle's opposition. At that time, the cabinet air conditioner on the first floor and the wall-mounted air conditioner on the second floor cost less than 10,000 points together. But now, 10,000 points can basically only buy a second-hand wall-mounted unit.

Now when she can't sleep at night, Xiaoli frantically checks her phone and chats with a few sisters she gets along with. After everyone falls asleep, she plays single-player games or reads posts on the base forum, staying up until 7:30 in the morning. When the phone rings, the first thing she does is go downstairs to turn on the cabinet air conditioner, then take a mat and a pillow and sleep on the floor.

At first, the landlady scolded Xiaoli for this. It was not because she felt bad about the electricity bill, but because she thought Xiaoli looked ugly like this. However, as the temperature kept rising, in the morning, the landlady would knock on Xiaoli's door and ask her to sleep in her room. At least it was safer in the bedroom than on the first floor. After all, there were other tenants living in the guesthouse, and who knew what might happen. Besides, the landlady did not want the restaurant on the first floor to become a temporary bedroom for other people.

Xiaoli only slept for two hours this morning and was not in a good mental state. There were only two large ceiling fans installed on the ceiling of the electrical appliance store, but the wind they blew was hot.

About ten minutes later, Gu Tongwan saw Xiaoli coming out of the electrical store. Her face was covered with sweat and the entire collar of her clothes was wet.

After returning to the air-conditioned car impatiently, Xiaoli seemed to come alive. She let out a long sigh, then took the tissue handed over by Gu Tongwan and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She drank at least 500 ml of boiled water, then shook her head and said, "No, the repair cost is too expensive."

"How much?" Gu Tongwan was somewhat curious about the general price at electrical appliance repair shops.

"As for the water leakage problem, it is said that it may be due to improper horizontal installation of the indoor unit body or aging and loosening of the drain pipe. If it is the former problem, door-to-door service and maintenance must be booked at least three days in advance, and the maintenance fee and labor fee add up to nearly one thousand points. If it is the latter, the entire drain pipe may need to be replaced. It is said that materials are currently in short supply and it needs to be determined by the manufacturer. It may take a week at the fastest and twenty days at the slowest. But the price of the problem increases quickly. Just one drain pipe costs fifteen hundred yuan, which is simply a sky-high price." Xiaoli couldn't help sighing when she said this. This price is almost catching up with her three or four months' salary. When she asked the staff just now, she thought she had heard it wrong and confirmed it twice.

"Have you asked other families too?" Gu Tongwan asked softly, tapping the steering wheel with his fingers.

"I asked, and the prices are about the same. The market prices of shops here should be uniformly adjusted."

"With such high prices, how is business?" In fact, this is what Gu Tongwan is really interested in.

When Xiaoli said this, she smiled bitterly. "You won't believe me, but the number of people in the repair shop is twice that of the sales shop. It seems that all the machines are sent from the inner circle. It is said that a repairman can earn 100 to 150 points for repairing an air conditioner. Basically, each repairman has more than a dozen orders. Some with better skills even have dozens of orders. The appointment dates for door-to-door repairs have been scheduled until next month. With this calculation, they can earn several thousand or even tens of thousands a month."

Xiaoli attended a technical college, which had related majors at the time. Even a senior from there pursued her. She wondered if she had learned a little bit at the beginning, would she be the one making a lot of money now.

But then she thought again, she was asked to repair the air conditioner, but she didn't even know how to assemble a computer at that time, so she was totally not cut out for it.

She was so busy complaining at the time that she didn't notice the excitement that flashed in Gu Tongwan's eyes at all.

In fact, Gu Tongwan did see the business opportunity, and a plan to make money gradually emerged in his mind.

Since the electrical appliance repair business is so profitable, she is considering whether the small robot in her own space can come in handy.

The repair robot only needs to consume 200 points per day for unlimited use, and the repair speed is very fast. If you only need to repair the internal structure of an appliance so that it can be transported and used again, it only takes a few hours a day to repair at least a dozen or dozens of appliances.

However, if you really want to make this money, you need at least a store, as well as early publicity, and also a way to conceal your doing it.

We need to think carefully about these things. After all, the current extreme heat is likely to last for a long time, so we need to make detailed plans to make money.

After sending Xiaoli back to the guesthouse, Gu Tongwan directly told the proprietress that she had a friend who could repair air conditioners for about 400 points. If she believed her, she could pull the air conditioner back for him to have a look.

Xiaoli was straightforward and asked why he couldn't come to the house. Gu Tongwan had to say that the other party was too busy at work and if he were to come to the house it might take several months. Besides, he was not willing to go out for work in such hot weather.

The proprietress thought about it and felt that 400 points was still a good deal. Gu Tongwan checked the air conditioner briefly and felt that there might be something wrong with the indoor unit.

Fortunately, the two male waiters in the guesthouse had experience in installing and disassembling air conditioners. In no time, they dismantled the indoor unit of the air conditioner very skillfully and put it in the trunk of Gu Tongwan's car.

"I'll return the air conditioner the day after tomorrow. If it can't be fixed, I won't charge the boss a penny."

The lady boss nodded and smiled, "How can I not believe what you said? I will have to trouble your friend instead."

After leaving the guesthouse, Gu Tongwan went straight back to his own small courtyard.

After the car stopped outside, Gu Tongwan took a deep breath and directly moved the entire air conditioner down.

Fortunately, it was just the indoor unit of the air conditioner. She used the blood vine a little bit, and when no one was paying attention, the countless branches emitted by the blood vine directly lifted the indoor unit of the air conditioner and followed her all the way to the backyard.

The backyard is blocked by a two-story house, so it is a natural blind spot. No one would know what is going on in the backyard. She plans to repair the indoor unit here.

The repair robot can perform three free repairs a day, and this time it is still within the free range, so there is no need to worry about wasting your space points.

The little robot, which had not been seen for a long time, came out of the space and started sniffing the damaged electrical appliances impatiently. Fortunately, Gu Tongwan was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he caught the repair robot that could not get away quickly in his hand.

"Well, we only need to repair the air conditioner's internal unit, fix the parts inside, and solve the water leakage problem. Only the air conditioner's exterior does not need to be repaired or refurbished."

The repair robot can actually understand the user's instructions. A string of red light flashed on the robot's chest, and then a mechanical voice was heard.

[After receiving the master's instructions, three minutes later, the robot will perform the first effective repair on the repair target, and the estimated time is ten minutes. "

Five minutes passed quickly, and after a slight "buzzing" sound was heard from the front, the repair robot completely stopped its repair work.

[The target of this repair has completed the repair work and can be used normally. The duration of this repair is three minutes and fifty-four seconds. ]

Gu Tongwan walked forward and checked it carefully, but she was not a professional, so she couldn't see anything. But she knew that since the repair robot had done the repair work, it meant that there should be no major problem with the air conditioner.

After moving the air conditioner back to the living room on the first floor, Gu Tongwan went to Liao Yunyun's house to bring her iced tea. He also managed to find a better time, as he met his best friend who was carrying a large box of things back outside the community.