"Where's the second brother?" Alice suddenly remembered her two brothers. The eldest brother was filming at the movie and TV base, occasionally coming home, while the second brother usually returned home for dinner on time. Today, he was unusually absent.
Blanche, indifferent, replied, "Probably on a date with his girlfriend, Beryl."
Upon hearing the name Beryl, Alice furrowed her brows. Beryl was the original female protagonist in the book, and her second brother, Alexander, was her admirer. In the original text, Alice had considered Beryl her future sister-in-law and had even given her a jade bracelet.
Six months after the apocalypse began, Beryl accidentally discovered the space within the jade bracelet. However, at that time, resources were extremely scarce, and the space didn't have much effect on her.
Until later, when she met the male lead, Einar, the two initially had a cooperative relationship. Einar was responsible for finding supplies, while Beryl handled storage. Eventually, they fell in love. Seeing that Alexander had no utility and was a stumbling block in her own romantic life, Beryl ruthlessly kicked him aside.
Alexander sincerely loved Beryl and, without realizing his own limitations, warned Einar to stay away from Beryl. In the end, Einar, cold and heartless, killed him. Knowing this, Beryl not only felt no sorrow for the man who had suffered injuries to protect her but also secretly rejoiced, relieved to have solved a problem. From then on, she was with Einar without any guilt.
In the book, Alice's family is the Allen family,Allen family people were mere cannon fodder, with Alexander, as the female lead's admirer, having a bit more screen time. Suddenly, a natural disaster struck, catching the Allen family people off guard. Fortunately, there were some supplies in the villa, but they became the target of the household servants due to this small amount of resources.
One night, the butler and a dozen servants barged in, killing all the Allen family people and fleeing with the supplies. Alice was determined to change the fate of the Allen family people and planned to continue stocking up tomorrow.
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Having bought various meats and vegetables yesterday, the essential staple, rice, was yet to be purchased. Alice arrived at the grain and oil wholesale market and made a substantial purchase.
"One hundred bags of 100 kilograms of rice, three thousand kilograms of millet, five thousand kilograms of glutinous rice, three thousand kilograms of purple rice, two thousand kilograms of black rice..."
The bosses of the grain and oil wholesale stores stared in astonishment at Alice. Curiously, one of them asked, "Little girl, what are you going to do with so much staple food?"
"Opened a food factory, won't go to waste."
Alice swiped her card generously, and the bosses didn't ask further. They felt content as they cleared out their entire inventory at once.
"Deliver it to this warehouse for me," Alice provided the warehouse address.
The temporary warehouse she rented had a total of six thousand square meters on three floors, more than enough to store these items.
Alice settled the payment for the rice, and her eyes fell on the various cooking oils, salt, and various seasonings.
"Peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, blended oil, sesame oil, sunflower seed oil,
olive oil, walnut oil..."
"Table salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, white wine, sweet bean sauce, , fermented black beans, tomato sauce, salad dressing..."
"White sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, chili, Sichuan pepper, peppercorn, star anise, bay leaf, cinnamon, black pepper, cumin, fennel, five-spice powder, curry, tofu paste, chopped pepper, pickled pepper, starch, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, oyster sauce..."
She bought hundreds of boxes of each, and the total cost for everything amounted to fifty million. After leaving the grain and oil wholesale market, Alice went to the clothing wholesale market.
The extreme cold was approaching, with temperatures dropping to minus fifty or sixty degrees. Thick clothes were necessary. Tactical jackets, down jackets, fur coats, thick cotton clothes, and insulated clothing, along with sleeping bags, she bought hundreds of each.
She bought all sizes of everyday clothes, as they wouldn't gather dust in storage anyway. Blankets were also not overlooked. She bought a hundred electric blankets, silk quilts, cashmere quilts, air-conditioned quilts, and eight-pound heavy cotton quilts.
Warm shoes, socks, and gloves, as well as scarves, were all stocked up. After buying warm items, Alice went on to purchase toothpaste, toothbrushes, shower gel, shampoo, laundry detergent, skincare products, and cosmetics, with a thousand boxes of each.
In half a day, she spent a total of eighty million. Yesterday, she spent three hundred and fifty million on meat and five million on vegetables, leaving a balance of two billion.
Knowing that vegetables couldn't be stored for too long, Alice left the clothing wholesale market and went to a temporary warehouse, guarded by only a gatekeeper who was mainly responsible for opening the door for delivery personnel.
The first floor of the warehouse was already filled with various vegetables, and she stored them all in her space to free up space for other items. Seeing the vegetables reminded her that she hadn't bought fruits yet, so she went to the fruit wholesale market.
Mangoes, grapes, apples, pears, bananas, watermelons, cantaloupes, peaches... She bought three hundred kilograms of each, almost emptying the entire fruit wholesale market.
Seafood and aquatic products were also essential. King crabs, Australian lobsters, crayfish, clams, squid, snails...
Eels, yellow croakers, tilapia, catfish, bass, bream, hairtail, all were arranged.
With enough food and clothing, the most important resource, water, couldn't be overlooked. Without delay, Alice headed straight to the wholesale water supplier.
She placed an order for two hundred thousand barrels of bottled water and also bought more than a hundred super-large water tanks.
Checking her prepared list, she realized that she had already bought most of the items. Oh, she almost forgot—medicines were also crucial.
She took out her phone and called Arnold. "Big brother, do you have a friend who is the director of m City Hospital?"
Alice remembered Arnold mentioning it before, and now it seemed to come in handy. To purchase a large quantity of medicines, connections and relationships were necessary.
Arnold's voice came through the phone, sounding puzzled. "Yes, what's up?"
"I want to buy a batch of medicines. I'll send you the list later; see if you can ask him for help." Alice added, "Oh, and for the deposit and such, can you cover it for me first?"
She needed a lot more money for her purchases and couldn't come up with a better excuse to ask for it in a short time.
Arnold sounded a bit confused, "Sure, but why do you need so many medicines?"
Alice replied succinctly, "I have my reasons; I'll let you know later."
Arnold didn't press further, "Once I get any information, I'll let you know."
Alice responded, "Okay."
In the evening, when Alice returned home, she encountered her second brother, Alexander. He was accompanied by a beautiful woman named Beryl. People from the Allen family family were all good-looking, and Alice, being a beauty queen from childhood to adulthood, had flawless features. Both Arnold and Alexander were also exceptionally handsome.
Despite Alexander and Beryl appearing to be a well-matched couple, Alice couldn't help but feel repulsed. She looked at Alexander with eyes filled with resentment. Didn't he realize that in the end, he would have nothing?
No, having nothing was an understatement. Alexander even lost his life.