Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter 164

Looking at Xiao Liu's chapped lips, Long Yangyang sighed, took out a bottle of mineral water from her spatial storage, and handed it to Xiao Liu when the group reached a dead end in the street. "Drink some water, we'll be walking around for a while longer."

Xiao Liu took the bottled water carefully, looking at Long Yangyang gratefully: "Thank you, brothers and sisters."

Xiao Liu unscrewed the bottle cap, carefully took a sip, then screwed the cap back on. Under the astonished gazes of Long Yangyang and the others, he hid the mineral water inside his large, dirty clothes.

Long Yangyang didn't ask Xiao Liu why he didn't get more water. Instead, she hid the water. With Xiao Liu's help, Long Yangyang and her group strolled leisurely down the street.

"Sister, is there anything you want to buy?" Xiao Liu, seeing Long Yangyang conjure things out of thin air, knew she was a spatial ability user. He didn't know how big Long Yangyang's space was, but he had heard that the size of a spatial ability user's space was limited, so she must need to buy some things.

Long Yangyang thought for a moment and then asked, "I want to buy some cotton cloth to make clothes and some cotton to make new quilts. Xiao Liu, do you know where I can buy them?"

Xiao Liu nodded, "Sister, I know."

Xiao Liu remembered Grandma Liu, who lived near their home. Grandma Liu used to run a century-old shop selling cloud-like cotton in Anling City. She also had excellent embroidery skills, and her shop was very popular with wealthy families in Anling City before the apocalypse.

If it weren't for the apocalypse, Xiao Liu would think of Grandma Liu and lick his lips. Grandma Liu herself was starving, but when she saw that he and his sister were starving, she would give them a little bit of food.

If her older sister were really willing to use food to buy cotton cloth and cotton, Grandma Liu wouldn't have to go hungry.

If he, his sister, and his grandmother are careful with their money, they can hold out for another three days.

"Sister, are you really going to buy cotton cloth and cotton?" The weather is so hot now, and people are still willing to buy cotton cloth, but everyone is starving, so who would want to buy cotton cloth?

Cloud-like cotton costs the same as ordinary rags; if Grandma Liu hadn't been so reluctant to part with it...

"Of course." Long Yangyang nodded, surprised that the child actually knew the place.

"Then come with me." Xiao Liu darted across the street, leading Long Yangyang through the base in a maze of twists and turns. Finally, Xiao Liu and the group stopped at a slightly dilapidated house.

The base was converted from a film and television city, and Long Yangyang did not expect that there would be such buildings in the base.

"This used to be where the extras rested," Yun Cangshu said. Unlike the famous actors who had their own dressing rooms, the extras changed clothes in a tiny cubicle, barely big enough for one person to turn around in. There were probably more than three hundred such cubicles here.

Xiao Liu led Long Yangyang and the others to a small cubicle door. "Knock knock knock—"

Xiao Liu knocked on the door and called out, "Grandma Liu, are you home? It's me, Xiao Liu."

"Squeak!" The door opened and an old woman with sallow skin and thinness, almost skin and bones, came out. Her face was deeply lined with wrinkles and she looked very worried. When she saw Xiao Liu, she smiled and said, "Xiao Liu, come in quickly."

Upon noticing the neatly dressed and smartly made group of people behind Xiao Liu, a hint of wariness unconsciously appeared in her eyes. However, she still turned to the side and asked, "Are these your guests? What brings you here? My house is not big, so I may not have much to offer to entertain our distinguished guests."

Long Yangyang and the others followed Grandma Liu into the house and found that the house consisted of five small rooms. The innermost room was used as a bathroom, and Long Yangyang's enhanced senses could smell an odor from it.

One room was used as a bedroom, and the remaining three rooms were combined and it's unclear what they were used for.

"Grandma Liu, this lady and her family want to buy cotton and quilts, so I brought them here to find you." Xiao Liu looked up and explained their purpose to Grandma Liu.

"Buy cotton?" Grandma Liu was probably surprised, probably because it was the first time in a long time that someone wanted to buy cotton. However, seeing Long Yangyang and her group made her even more determined.

Grandma Liu is old, and as they say, the older people are wiser. After discovering the extreme heat in the post-apocalyptic world, she kept thinking: if summer is so hot, what about winter?

She thought her cotton would be ready then... Unfortunately, after waiting for more than a month, Grandma Liu still hadn't seen the temperature drop. She even wasted a lot of energy drying the cotton because of the torrential rain.

"Because of the torrential rain, a lot of cotton has been damaged. You can imagine how bad the price of cotton will be in winter," Grandma Liu said calmly. This is also why she has insisted on not selling it at a low price.

Long Yangyang smiled, understanding the old man's meaning. She agreed with him, but then said, "Grandpa, you're right, but the extreme heat isn't over yet. Can you continue?"

No sooner had Long Yangyang finished speaking than Grandma Liu's stomach rumbled loudly, just as the occasion had arrived.

"You must be very hungry," Long Yangyang asked.

Although Grandma Liu was in a bit of a predicament, she still had her principles: "The cotton I have is all good cotton, and the cotton cloth is something I painstakingly sewed stitch by stitch. I don't want to sell it cheaply."

"So how much do you think isn't a bargain?" Long Yangyang asked. Grandma Liu is an ordinary person and doesn't need crystal cores, but food is very precious. Although the base allows bartering, even those with superpowers would rather trade zombie crystal cores than exchange food and water.

Grandma Liu fell silent. "I want supplies that will help me get through the winter."

The extreme heat of summer gave the old woman a premonition of the extreme cold of winter. Not for her own sake, she also had to think about her grandson, who was only 12 years old. She hoped that the two of them could live as long as possible.

"You can inspect the goods first."

Grandma Liu led Long Yangyang and the others to the three interconnected rooms, which were filled with piles of snow-white cotton, all covered with transparent waterproof cloths.

It's easy to imagine that the old man put a lot of effort into preserving the cotton.

Long Yangyang scanned the area with her spiritual power and knew there were approximately 1,000 jin of cotton, half of which had been made into cotton cloth. There were more than thirty bolts of Yunli cotton cloth, and they were in excellent condition, without a speck of dust on them.

Long Yangyang thought for a moment and asked the old man, "Do you want supplies or purification crystal cores?"

"Supplies." The old woman made a decisive choice. She and her grandson were ordinary people, and they couldn't keep the crystal cores hidden once they had them. Although supplies could be stolen, as long as they hid them well, they wouldn't be found.

"How about five bags of rice, six cases of bottled water, one case of instant noodles, and one case of ham sausages?" Long Yangyang said. "The five bags of rice are all 1kg, and the case of bottled water is thirty bottles."

Long Yangyang estimated that it would last about three or four months for two people, although the price of these things before the apocalypse might not even buy two bolts of Cloud Cotton.