Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

As soon as they left Zhou Yang's house, Shen Zechuan started chatting with Yan Fei.

"Why don't you think he wants to move in with us? It's so peaceful and quiet where we live."

Yan Fei gave him a speechless look: "If it were you, and your own home was as impregnable as a fortress, with plenty of food and drink, and you weren't afraid of trouble, would you be willing to move?"

"Then I'm not lacking in any way, am I?"

Yan Fei rolled his eyes and looked up at the sky: "It's not bad, but he also grows a whole balcony of vegetables and fruits. Who will take care of them if he leaves? Besides, he was only supposed to cook for himself and Wandou. If he goes to your place, he'll have to cook for us every day. Isn't that tiring? If you want to stop him from cooking, fine, but then let him eat communal meals with us? His quality of life will drop drastically."

"..."

Shen Zechuan opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

It's because these guys haven't improved their cooking skills at all. At best, they've evolved from boiling instant noodles to stir-frying them, and from boiled eggs to frying soft-boiled eggs.

This was because Gu Yaoyao didn't like boiled eggs in the morning, she only ate fried eggs, and they had to be soft-boiled, which she managed to get several grown men to eat.

Therefore, their family's daily meals are basically packed directly from the army's mess hall. Although one of them is Gu Tianqi's nephew and the others are all considered Gu Tianqi's juniors, they are definitely not taking it for free. Instead, they exchange their supplies with the army mess hall every week in advance for meal tickets and food coupons.

But the army's communal meals are all about quantity and filling you up; they don't pay much attention to taste. The food wasn't bad, but compared to Zhou Yang's... well, it was just average.

Ugh……

As he thought about it, Shen Zechuan's face fell. He decided to take some time to learn a skill from Uncle Gu's cooking team.

But now, he needs to go settle accounts with that trashy guy from before!

……

The next day, Zhou Yang went downstairs when the patrol team passed by, then stopped Qian Jiang and asked him about renting a room.

Fortunately, Qian Jiang was still able to manage the rental business for the time being, so Zhou Yang directly told him that he wanted to rent the large apartment across the street.

Hearing that Zhou Yang was still renting a place, Qian Jiang was a little puzzled: "Didn't you buy a house? Why do you still need to rent the one across the street?"

"Oh, I feel that the vegetables I grow on my balcony are not enough, so I'm thinking of renting the house across the street to expand my planting. Although I don't lack food and clothing now, I can't just sit around and do nothing. As long as I grow them successfully, I can exchange them for supplies and points, which will be a stable income in the future."

"Yeah, that's true. I saw that the vegetables you grew last time were growing really well, so keep it up! I can save up some points and buy some vegetables from you later." Qian Jiang laughed heartily. Although there were vegetables in the army's communal meals, most of them weren't fresh, and the quantity was small. Everyone really wanted to eat vegetables, but unfortunately, they really couldn't get any right now.

"Okay, I'll give you a discount. You can calculate how many points you need first, and then I'll get the supplies for you."

"The apartment across the street is the same size as yours, 180 square meters. Renting it there costs 540 points per year or 45 points per month. You can decide which one to rent based on," Qian Jiang said after taking out his watch and calculating.

"I'll pay for a year, 540 points." Zhou Yang directly selected the yearly rate and rented for a year.

Then he took out several large bags of supplies from his spatial storage. One bag contained vegetables and fruits picked from Taoyuan Farm last time, another bag contained some wilted vegetables from the supermarket, and the last large bag contained snacks such as wafers, chocolates, candies, and bread.

"You've planted so much again these past few days!" Qian Jiang's eyes widened as he looked at the two large bags full of vegetables and fruits.

"No, these are all from the supermarket and farm I bought before. There's too much for me to eat by myself. I grow enough for myself. These will just go bad in my space anyway, so I'll exchange them for points instead."

There are indeed no special cases of spatial abilities remaining fresh for a long time, so Qian Jiang had no doubts and accepted it directly: "Okay, you wait, I'll have someone weigh it for you."

Upon hearing this, several team members quickly came to help, took three bags down to weigh and calculate, and returned to report after a while.

Zhou Yang's three large bags were quite heavy, totaling 803 points. After paying a year's rent, he still had over 200 points left.

"Just transfer any extra points to my card as usual."

"Row!"

Knowing that Zhou Yang was wealthy, Qian Jiang didn't say much. He simply wrote down Zhou Yang's card number and planned to report it to the transaction center when he got back, so they could transfer the remaining points to Zhou Yang.

As for the key to Zhou Yang's apartment across the hall, Qian Jiang didn't have it with him, so he would have to go back to the trading center to get it and then hand it over to Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang wasn't in a hurry. After saying goodbye to Qian Jiang, she turned and went upstairs.

His deal with the patrol team was naturally seen by the people in the neighborhood, but no one dared to come out and talk to him.

He conjured several large bags out of thin air downstairs and handed them to the soldiers, chatting and laughing with the patrol captain as if they were old friends. Plus, the patrol team had handled yesterday's incident perfectly well; apparently, the group that went in yesterday still hadn't come out.

Now, everyone in the neighborhood has realized that this seemingly refined young man actually possesses supernatural abilities, including a rare spatial ability, but he's always kept a low profile. Moreover, it's rumored that he keeps a vicious dog at home and is now quite familiar with people in the military, making him someone not to be trifled with.

That evening, Qian Jiang brought the keys to Zhou Yang. Before leaving, Zhou Yang insisted on giving him a bag of mushrooms of different sizes, which were obviously grown by himself.

After seeing Qian Jiang off, Zhou Yang took the key and opened the door of the house across the street.

Fortunately, it was a simply furnished house.

Although it's just simple tiled floors and white walls, all the necessary items like shoe cabinets and wardrobes were already built in, and the kitchen was also renovated; it was only missing a bed and sofa. In the post-apocalyptic world, this was considered a move-in ready, comfortable house.

The layout of the house is similar to Zhou Yang's house across the street, except that Zhou Yang converted it into a three-bedroom, two-living-room house in order to leave enough space for the balcony, and the bedrooms are not very big.

This side, on the other hand, is a normal four-bedroom, two-living-room apartment, which naturally doesn't look as spacious as Zhou Yang's place.

However, this way, it's just right for Shen Zechuan and the other four people to live in.

Zhou Yang nodded in satisfaction, and then took advantage of the evening to quickly open the windows for ventilation.

This house has been uninhabited for a long time and has never been well-ventilated. Coupled with the recent high temperatures, it's stuffy and hot inside. Staying there for a while makes me feel a headache. I suspect the formaldehyde levels are too high.

After opening the window, Zhou Yang returned to the living room and took out several empty planting boxes from the space.

Then, I assembled and connected everything together, placing four rows of three-tiered plants directly in the living room. I then filled them with soil, sprinkled in a few packets of vegetable seeds, and finally watered the planting boxes with diluted spring water.

Since he's announced he's going to grow vegetables, he should at least put on a show for others.

After thoroughly watering all the planting boxes, Zhou Yang locked the door and went home.

In the days that followed, Zhou Yang would come over every morning and evening, closing the windows and drawing the curtains in the morning and opening the windows for ventilation and watering the plants at night.

Over the course of a few days, they have all sprouted one after another.

Although the plants didn't grow as well as those on his balcony due to the high temperatures, at least they survived. As long as they persevere, the harvest should still be guaranteed.