Now that he had a personal shelter, what he needed to do was to collect all the necessary supplies to ensure that he could survive comfortably during the apocalypse.
But now, his problem was how to exchange for survival resources.
He was just a commoner and did not have the money to buy a lot of supplies. Furthermore, the prices of survival supplies were skyrocketing. It was not something he could afford.
Even if he had money, things like bottled water and those emergency rations and instant noodles were already in high demand. It was hard to buy them even with money.
The wooden crossbow made by the system allowed Lorne to discover an opportunity to obtain survival resources.
He didn't have any money, but he could use this wooden crossbow to exchange for survival supplies. Also, in the near-apocalyptic era, some people would be willing to trade for weapons that weren't prohibited in the country.
Also, since Lorne did not have a fixed residence before, he met many people who sold survival supplies when he was wandering outside. He could exchange the wooden crossbow with those people for survival supplies.
As soon as he decided that, he immediately started searching for wood in the desolate forest.
Fortunately, this piece of land had not been targeted by the developers before, so the ecology here was still relatively good. It was also very easy to obtain wood.
Soon, Lorne collected a lot of wood and transported them back to his technology city to make wooden crossbows.
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At this moment, the conference room of Earth's Federation was filled with tension and anger.
"According to many famous astronomers in our country, we can confirm that there is indeed a huge asteroid approaching the Earth."
"Also, after careful calculation by our astronomers, we can confirm that the asteroid will intersect with Earth's orbit in 20 days, which means that it will hit Earth in 20 days."
"If this asteroid hits Earth, the heat generated by the friction between the asteroid and our Earth's atmosphere can form a wall of fire that will burn everything within thousands of kilometers."
"And this is only the beginning. The trouble that follows is the destruction of Earth's ecosystem, the destruction of the atmosphere, and the exposure to the solar flares.
"It will make our surface land unsuitable for human survival. We humans may return to the prehistoric Ice Age."
"I don't want to hear the consequences of this incident. I want to know that after these few days of discussion, have we come up with a feasible plan?" a representative asked.
"After the discussions and calculations of many of our experts over the past few days, we believe that the only viable solution is to destroy this asteroid. Or, we can deviate it from its trajectory so that it will not intersect with our planet. Based on this idea, we have three options."
"Plan A is for us to send astronauts to install a propulsion device on the asteroid when it is about to reach orbit, so that it can change its course.
Plan B: We can lock on to this asteroid and install a heavyweight nuclear bomb on it. However, compared to Plan A, we only need to place this nuclear bomb on it, then let it explode and let the nuclear bomb push this asteroid to the side. Although there is a certain possibility of shattering the asteroid and the smaller ones will still land on Earth, compared to an entire asteroid striking the Earth, I think all the countries can bear this result."
"Plan C: Concentrate the nuclear power of all the countries on this asteroid and shatter it. After the fragments pass through the atmosphere, they will begin to burn. When they reach Earth, the damage caused will be insignificant."
"But the difficulty of this plan is that with our current technology, we can't launch a strike in space."
"I think the third plan is feasible. Our country is willing to take out all nuclear weapons." At this moment, a valiant-looking man stood up and said.
"But if our strike is not accurate enough, or if the nuclear bombs do not blow up this asteroid, then what Earth will attract will be a destructive impact."
Upon hearing this, another person stood out to refute and express his opinion.
Then, several major country representatives began to speak and express their views.
After a few hours of discussion, they finally reached an agreement.
They decided to carry out three plans at the same time!
The matter concerned the survival of their planet. The barriers between the various countries seemed insignificant.
While the Federation was coming up with a plan.
Lorne had made five crossbows and made some bolts for each of them.
Lorne did not intend to exchange the crossbow bolts given by the system.
That was because he realized that compared to ordinary bolts, this crossbow bolt was at least several times more powerful.
Furthermore, crossbow bolts were consumables. It was better to hold them for any unexpected situations. Therefore, it was naturally better to store as many of these things as possible.
Lorne carved some homemade crossbow bolts with wood and planned to sell them in exchange for supplies.
He brought the items to the city center and started walking towards the shantytown. This time, he was looking for a reseller called Old Black. He was quite famous in the shantytown.
When the apocalypse was first announced, he had stored a large amount of supplies. Therefore, Lorne was sure that he could get what he wanted.
After walking into the shantytown, Lorne quickly saw the person he was looking for. In front of him was a short fat man with glasses who was peddling instant noodles to others.
"The instant noodles you have here are way too expensive. The price for each packet is actually $200. Isn't this the kind that we normally get for two dollars per packet? You've increased it by 100 times now?" The young man in front of Old Black shouted at him.
"Is $200 expensive? And that's only for now. In a few days, you won't be able to buy it even if you have money. You are talking about normally, but is it normal now? The apocalypse is coming soon. I don't even know if money will be of any use by then," said Old Black slowly.
"If you want to buy it, then buy it. If you don't want to buy it, then hurry up and leave," Old Black said to him impatiently after seeing Lorne.
In the end, the man took out $10,000 to buy 50 packets of instant noodles and left.
"Old Black, your business is doing well." After the man left, Lorne smiled and said to Old Black.
"Haha, it's not bad, but these days won't last long. We won't be so comfortable when the disaster strikes." Old Black said to him with a smile. Clearly, the two of them knew each other and had a good relationship.
"What are you doing here?"
"I want to exchange some survival supplies with you." As he spoke, Lorne showed Old Black the crossbows he had brought.
"Good stuff. What do you want to exchange them for?" Old Black did not ask how these things came about and directly asked him what supplies he needed.
"I need food and water," Lorne stated his purpose directly.