Chapter 94: Found The Warehouse, Stock Up Stock Up Stock Up
Yu Jiang reached out to grab something to stop herself from falling, but it happened too fast, and there was no time.
She could only protect her head and try to land feet-first to avoid cracking her skull.
Bang!
With a muffled thud, Yu Jiang landed on a pile of sacks filled with rice husks.
Nothing happened, just a bit of choking dust.
She covered her mouth and coughed twice, then immediately took out a mask and put it on.
Above her head was the large hole she had just fallen through, where she could see churning dark clouds and flickering starlight.
That was a resin tile; due to years without maintenance, even the bracket underneath had rotted, causing her to step through.
Luckily, there were so many grain husks cushioning below, and she was dressed warmly for the cold weather. Except for scraping her palms on the way down, nowhere else was injured.
Yu Jiang sat up and first observed the surroundings. This should be a storage warehouse specifically for storing grain husks, with a lot of them placed inside.
This stuff isn’t trash; it has plenty of uses. Before doomsday, it could even be sold.
It can be used not only for brewing white wine and soy sauce, as fuel, for planting, but also to make rice husk charcoal. After bagging, it can be used to grow oyster mushrooms.
Mutants have occupied the farm, and their intelligence has regressed, so they won’t brew or grow oyster mushrooms. At most, they’ll use it as fuel, but the farm has plenty of fuel, with all those wooden stakes behind.
These rice husks were just left behind. She remembered that previously on the public screen, a player with the winemaking profession was collecting this stuff.
Yu Jiang took 6 sacks, which held the same item; one space grid can hold 2 sacks, so it would take up exactly 3 space grids.
Carefully climbing down from the sacks, Yu Jiang stared intently at the ground, afraid of stepping on something that would make a noise.
The storage room was very large, and there was another room inside. It was too dark; she needed light to see clearly.
But taking out a lamp would easily give her away; the faint light shining through the window would be very noticeable in the dark night.
So, Yu Jiang found a few wooden boards on the spot and placed them on the windowsill fence to block the view.
Then she took out the camping lamp and turned the brightness to the minimum before finally seeing the environment inside the house clearly.
On the left side were bagged rice husks, and on the right side was a shelling machine that looked to be in good condition.
This thing couldn’t be stored in space. If she had a mechanical manufacturing profession, she could disassemble it for parts, but Yu Jiang could only recycle materials.
What a pity; recycling it would make clanging noises and definitely get her discovered.
She sighed and gave up on the shelling machine, continuing deeper inside.
The next moment, Yu Jiang’s eyes lit up a bit: supplies! So many supplies!
Inside were bagged rice, as well as wheat, buckwheat, and dried beans. Because the packaging was well-sealed, there were no issues like dampness or bugs.
Mutants are really wealthy!!!
Yu Jiang took as much as possible of everything, mainly because space grids were limited. Seeing all the supplies on the ground that she couldn’t take, she felt heartbroken.
Unless she took out all the mutants; the farm had handcarts.
As long as she took them out, she could openly cart everything out.
She could even use the farm’s facilities to process these farm products. There was a dust-covered automatic flour mill here, as well as a lot of unhusked rice.
Thinking of this, the corners of Yu Jiang’s mouth slowly curved up. At first, she didn’t know how many supplies were here or if it was worth the adventure.
Now, she felt it was very worth it.
First, search around, fill up her own space grids, then find players with guns for cooperation and share together.
She couldn’t kill the remaining 4 mutants alone, especially the meteor hammer one, and she couldn’t carry so many supplies by herself. Cooperating with others had the highest cost-effectiveness.
Yu Jiang looked at the few people requesting help in the instance channel.
They couldn’t fight, so cooperating to split supplies naturally had nothing to do with them. That was reasonable, right?
The earlier gunshot probably came from the 10 o’clock direction, not far away.
With the plan set, Yu Jiang sped up her actions. She also found half a sack of chestnuts in the corner and took them too.
The outside of this house was locked, and all the windows had welded fences; she couldn’t get out without breaking the door.
But this was no challenge for her at all!
Yu Jiang took out the folding ladder. The ladder was 1.8 meters tall, and with her height, she could get out. It was just that the resin tiles and brackets outside were unsteady, making it a bit strenuous to climb up.
Worried that she might accidentally knock the ladder over and not be able to retrieve it, before climbing up, Yu Jiang used an unknown thorny plant to tie the handle at the top of the ladder, with the other end wrapped around her hand, then climbed up.
After a great deal of effort, with fatigue value rising by 10 points, she finally made it up!
Yu Jiang lay on the roof, pulled hard with both hands to bring the ladder up, and smoothly stored it in space.
When leaving, she also pried off an inconspicuous resin tile from the corner to cover the broken hole, preventing rain from leaking in and damaging the supplies, and also preventing others from discovering this place.
This gave her quite an inspiration. When going to another nearby storage room that looked well-decorated, Yu Jiang directly knocked open the roof and went down with climbing rope.
This room held winemaking stuff, but it was clear it had been smashed before, and not much was left.
Yu Jiang found some sweet wine starter and a bamboo woven winnowing basket. The large barrels for holding wine were all empty; otherwise, she could have set a fire to attract the mutants.
The air was too humid, with light rain still falling; without accelerants, it wouldn’t burn easily.
Yu Jiang found two bottles of white and three bottles of red under the overturned frame and took them first.
She searched several storage rooms as quickly as possible; the space grids were already full, from food to wool, handmade red sugar, vegetable seeds, all of it.
There were also dried medicinal herbs, several kinds she was short of.
While Yu Jiang was stockpiling heavily in the storage rooms, the other players weren’t idle either.
Uncle No. 10, carrying an old-style hunting rifle, exchanged a glance with Big Sister No. 2, the agricultural sickle goddess.
“This group of mutants is really hard to kill. Even a headshot requires a few more shots to finish them off. I don’t know how the others are doing.”
Big Sister No. 2 only had primary healing potion. After waiting two cooldown times to heal fully, she dared to move out and happened to meet Uncle No. 10. After confirming with a glance that both were hiding their strength, they decided to cooperate.
Big Sister No. 2 spoke up, “Let’s find supplies first. They can only fend for themselves. Didn’t No. 7 say that the young guy No. 4 is no pushover, and the girl No. 1 is pretty tough too?”
Player No. 7 was lucky; he was almost caught, but the nearby gunshot distracted the mutants, letting him escape. Later, he ran into Big Sister No. 2 and Uncle No. 10.
His foot was badly cut by steel wire and he couldn’t run. Although No. 2 and No. 10 had no potions or supplies for him, they helped him find a hidden grass pile nearby to hide in.
Player No. 7 didn’t dare mention in the instance channel what No. 4 did out of lingering fear, afraid the other would see it and come back for trouble. Only after meeting these other two decent players did he speak up to remind them to be careful of No. 4.
After splitting up, Uncle No. 10 and Big Sister No. 2 quickly and covertly began searching.
They dodged the mutants’ pursuit, collected some wood, dug up some potatoes, peanuts, and medicinal herbs.
They found where the mutants stored ingredients, and there was a large refrigerator; the food there was unacceptable to normal people.
They kept groping around but still couldn’t find the farm’s storage warehouse.
