Before the Ghost Tide, the concept of a safe house was a niche topic.
Most of the people who were concerned about safe houses were those who were crazy about apocalyptic novels, brainwashed by cults, or extremely cautious about their lives.
After the Ghost Tide broke out, along with the soaring crime rate, the safe house was no longer a false proposition.
It ranged from a small alloy door and the storage of apocalyptic supplies to the customized whole house.
At the beginning of the Ghost Tide, safe houses became extremely popular, and their prices were skyrocketed.
When the Ghost Tide broke out in the south several decades ago, nine out of ten houses were empty. Even the northern region without the Ghost Tide also witnessed a boom in safe houses.
However, in recent years, people have found that the Ghost Tide isn't that terrifying - especially in the north. Although there are sporadic ghosts, the probability of encountering them is too small.
Moreover, new safe house companies open every day, so the prices have dropped again.
The person who received Chen Qing was Manager Jin.
"The Dongfang Bubo Safe House Company focuses on preventing ghosts. There are several layers of black dog blood, glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, and so on in an entire wall, and there are also runes blessed by masters..."
"The 300 Guards Company focuses on protecting against people. The materials for the whole house include aluminum alloy, titanium alloy, chromium-molybdenum steel, tungsten steel, etc. The HRC hardness ranges from 35 to 70. There are also supporting facilities such as cameras, generators, diesel depots, weapons and guns, and medicine rooms."
In any chaotic times, weapons will grow wildly like seedlings after a long drought and the first rain. In today's world, guns are semi-legal, and special bullets have a killing effect on ordinary ghosts.
Chen Qing asked about everything clearly.
With the Zhong Kui Picture in hand, for him, humans were the most terrifying instead.
So it was okay to have just a little something to prevent ghosts, but alloy walls, guns, and so on to protect against people must be arranged.
In addition, things like pepper spray, electric batons and electric fences, tear gas, and so on were also needed.
The more, the better!
"The hardness of tungsten steel is as high as HRC70, but chromium-molybdenum steel with an HRC of 65 is more recommended..."
"Do you need to call the people from the 300 Guards Company to talk?"
"Yes!" Chen Qing nodded.
Soon, the people from the 300 Guards Company arrived.
This person was much more professional than Manager Jin.
"Hello, Mr. Chen. My surname is Yang. Here is my business card."
"Mr. Chen, have you considered a small farm?"
"If your room is large enough, you can also build a small farm. Here is the plan for a three-dimensional farm. Using the crops we recommend, each square meter can produce about 3 kilograms of vegetables per week. For staple foods, potatoes are recommended. For example, the Qingshu 9E. When the temperature and humidity are well controlled, the yield can reach 90 kilograms in 80 days."
"The fertilizer in the soil is specially configured by us. Combined with bio-fertilizer, that is, human feces, it can generally be recycled about 300 times. Even with high-intensity planting, it can last for 50 years."
"There is also a water collection room. You only need to reserve a hole, extend the water collection rod, and open it. You can collect about one liter of water every day. If it's a rainy or cloudy day, you can collect more."
"The medical room will be equipped with common medicines. Minor illnesses will be no problem. It is also equipped with a decentralized needle infusion set. It's so easy to use that you can give yourself an infusion just by sticking it on. Antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and so on can basically cure all diseases."
"There is also an entertainment room with 200T of novels and comics, which is about 900 billion words of novels, approximately 100,000 online novels with 5 million words each, and 60,000 animations, covering almost all types such as action, fighting, romance, and even pornographic ones."
"The total size of the games is 1.9PB. There are about 5,000 large games and about 200,000 mini-games."
"The game consoles use very mature models of chips, graphics cards, and memory. Their performance is strong enough. Generally speaking, they can be used for more than ten years without problems, and we have also prepared spare parts."
"The video storage space is about 3.1PB. If 1080P is used, it can store about 6 million hours of videos, including movies, TV series, variety shows, etc., which can be allocated according to your preferences."
"There is also a gym, which is equipped with silicone dolls, and the key parts can be replaced..."
After several years of development, safe houses are now very complete, with everything for eating, drinking, and having fun.
Whether Chen Qing had thought of it or not, others already had extremely professional solutions.
Now the biggest problem was that the house wasn't big enough.
It couldn't hold so many facilities.
Move?
High-rise buildings were excluded first. There were too many flying ghosts.
The six-story community... seemed to have limited options.
The Jiangpan Community was close to the water. Except for drowned ghosts and so on, ghosts were generally afraid of water, which was very good.
The community happened to be surrounded by streets on all sides, like a wall, and his own home was in the middle position, which was also very good.
"How much is a house with an area of several hundred square meters that can also get sunlight?"
"Either a villa or an estate. The three-story villas in the western villa area are generally around 7 million yuan. The usable area is about 300 square meters, with a garden of about 70 square meters."
It was completely affordable!
Chen Qing was very interested: "How much does it cost to build a safe house in a villa?"
"It might be a bit expensive. 300 square meters is not small. Plus a family farm on the first floor, a fully enclosed protective structure is required. The price is around 46 million yuan."
"Because it's a villa, it needs to be fully customized, and the construction period is about three months."
"..." Chen Qing was speechless.
Finally, he understood why it was said that it was easy to buy a villa but difficult to decorate it.
Most importantly, three months was long enough for people to die several times!
He simply calculated in his mind. With the area of the villa, it couldn't be cheap no matter how he arranged it.
The family farm was a must-have!
Usually, he wouldn't even look at cabbages and tomatoes, but in the apocalypse, he could go crazy longing for a bite of vegetables.
(Audience, don't worry. Building it on the roof top is for three reasons: First, I don't have enough money to buy a larger one, and even if I could afford it, I couldn't afford to decorate it. Second, I don't have time to waste. Third, I need a family farm, which takes up a lot of space and needs sunlight.)
(I really don't like spoilers, but since many readers said this was a drawback, I'll reveal a little: There will be an extremely awesome safe house later.)
"My home is on the top floor. Can these things be extended to the roof? Can it bear the weight?"
"Mr. Chen, you may not know that the design strength of the buildings in the Tang Dynasty will exceed the mandatory standard by at least 30%, usually 40 - 60%. The materials used in our old community are more solid, so there is no problem with the load-bearing capacity. Moreover, we will reinforce the structure during construction. There will be no problem at all."
Chen Qing was delighted and blurted out: "What if the first floor is bombed?"
Manager Yang was stunned for a moment and said, "The control of explosives is very strict, and ordinary people can't get them. If someone can get explosives, for that person, whether the safe house is on the first floor or the sixth floor makes no difference."
"Because when the explosive equivalent is large enough, even if the safe house can withstand it, the people inside can still be shaken to death through the safe house."
So it was better to choose the sixth floor. At least, vegetables could be planted on the roof!
"Just..."
After hesitating for a long time, Manager Yang expressed his concern:
"The top floor is a very good choice, but... it's an illegal building. Although the management is loose now, if someone reports it and it's discovered, it will be ordered to be demolished."
"It's okay!"
If someone really reported it, with the efficiency of the Tang Dynasty government, several departments would shirk responsibility from each other for a while, and by then, the Blood Moon would have come.
However, Manager Yang thought of another aspect:
This young man obviously had government connections! He could handle many things.
Thinking like this, he naturally paid more attention to Chen Qing.
Next came the negotiation of the price.
Chen Qing invited Manager Yang of the safe house and Manager Jin of the bank to his home.
Manager Yang was very generous. He even marked out the market price of chromium-molybdenum steel and then quickly estimated the price according to the drawings.
The price was quite fair. According to what he said, they only made about 5% profit.
However, when adding up all the items one by one, Chen Qing also felt a bit overwhelmed.
The medical room definitely had to be equipped!
Medicines also cost money.
Cold medicines, painkillers, and the like had to be stocked up.
Glucose, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, painkillers, and so on also had to be stocked up.
Plus some less common medicines.
After calculating, it came to 850,000 yuan!
The entertainment room was an even bigger expense.
Skipping the TB unit, the storage space in PB units sounded impressive.
But when assembled into a NAS, each PB cost nearly 100,000 yuan!
Plus all kinds of game equipment and spare parts, the cost of the entertainment room was close to 1.3 million yuan!
For food, instead of running to the supermarket by himself, he directly ordered 125 cubic meters of various canned foods here. There were so many of these things that they could only be placed on the roof.
In addition to diesel generators for power generation equipment, there were also solar panels covering the building, wind generators, and hand-cranked generators. Each of them was equipped with spare parts.
There was also the family super farm. This thing was just soil, but it was sold by the kilogram.
Adding this and that, the price added up to 14 million yuan.
It exceeded the budget!
Manager Jin said at the right time: "Mr. Chen, I wonder how you would like to pay? How much would you like the down payment to be?"
Down payment?
Right! How could he forget about this?
His eyes lit up, and he asked: "What's the lowest down payment possible?"
"Usually it's 40%, but since you are a silver card user, it can be as low as 20%."
Great!
Chen Qing was overjoyed!
To his ears, this was equivalent to a "20% off clearance sale".
A real bargain!
Now it was completely enough!
He also bought some guns and ammunition.
After calculating, it was only about 3 million yuan.
All three of them were very happy.
Chen Qing bought a safe house at a great discount, Manager Yang negotiated a business worth 14 million yuan, and Manager Jin completed a loan business worth tens of millions of yuan.
It would have been worth having a drink if he hadn't been unprepared at home.
Chen Qing thought for a moment and asked: "Manager Yang, you are an expert. According to the standard of 'just staying alive', what has the highest cost-performance ratio?"
In the apocalypse, every bite of food was priceless!
Food was the hard currency in the apocalypse.
As long as there was food, you could buy almost anything you could think of.
He and Chen Man would definitely enjoy delicacies, but for the food used as trading chips, as long as it was edible and the more the better.
Manager Yang smiled and gave an answer that surprised Chen Qing:
"Pig feed."
Ah?
Chen Qing was slightly stunned.
"Pig feed is generally made from the oil residues of soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, and corn in oil factories, that is, the residues after oil extraction."
"It has high carbohydrates, high protein, low fat, and is all natural. It's even equipped with vitamins for you. To be honest, not only in the apocalypse, but even now, it's healthier than most people's diets."
Amazing!
Chen Qing had thought about this problem before. He had thought about directly buying raw materials like wheat and corn and then seeing if he could process them by himself.
Never had he expected that with a change of thinking, it suddenly became clear!
"How is pig feed usually sold?"
"If the quantity is small, it's usually about two yuan per jin. If the quantity is large... uh, you can get it for a little over one yuan per jin."
Done!
This was it!
Stock up on pig feed and use it as money in the apocalypse!