Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

"Captain Kong, let's start calculating now!"

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Kong Rui let out a helpless laugh. "Since you've said so, how can I refuse?"

"Don't worry. It won't take long." Zhang Yuan comforted softly. "The bullets we two use are different from yours. As long as we dig out the bullets, we can tell which ones were killed by the two of us."

"I see. Then let's start now."

The two of them went to work while talking, and neither of them took another look at Guan Hui and the girl named Tingting.

Tingting, who had been shouting aggressively before, completely fell silent after seeing Liu Ruyan press the gun against Guan Hui's head, and her sense of existence dropped to the lowest level.

It wasn't until she saw Zhang Yuan and Kong Rui walking away with their people that Tingting walked to Guan Hui's side. "Huihui, are you okay?"

"I..."

Guan Hui opened her mouth, a bit ashamed to say it, but she had to. "My... my legs are frozen."

"Your legs are frozen?" Tingting was a bit confused. "Why are your legs frozen?"

The moment this question was asked, Tingting thought of a possibility.

"Huihui, you..."

Did you pee yourself from fright?

Although she didn't ask this question aloud, both of them understood the unspoken meaning.

Guan Hui felt embarrassed, but still nodded, and there was already a crying tone in her voice. "Tingting, what should I do? I can't move now."

Guan Hui just felt that her two legs were stiff and also had a stabbing pain. She wanted to move, but couldn't move no matter what.

Tingting had never encountered such a situation before and couldn't think of a way for a moment.

"Huihui, wait for me. I'll go back and call for people right away."

After saying that, Tingting turned around and ran. Guan Hui didn't have time to stop her, nor did she think of stopping her.

She couldn't move at all now and just wanted to be taken into the room quickly.

Otherwise, if she kept standing here, Guan Hui felt that she would surely be frozen to death.

Tingting soon called a few people back, and the one running in the front was Xie Pengfei.

Xie Pengfei ran to Guan Hui's side and looked at her with concern in his eyes. "Huihui, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing Xie Pengfei's voice, Guan Hui burst into tears instantly.

The tears had just formed and hadn't had time to fall when they had already frozen on the edge of her eyes.

Guan Hui was startled and quickly wiped away the tears. She didn't care about crying anymore. "Brother Zhang, I can't move. Please carry me into the room quickly! If this goes on, I'll be frozen to death."

"Okay, okay, okay! Huihui, don't worry. We'll carry you into the room right away."

Several people lifted Guan Hui in a hurry and walked towards the lobby in a rush.

They made quite a lot of noise, and Kong Rui also took a look in their direction.

Since the distance wasn't far, Kong Rui heard their conversation clearly.

Knowing that Guan Hui's legs were frozen, Kong Rui knew that Guan Hui wouldn't live long.

When clothes and skin froze together, the speed of icing was very fast.

Even if she went into the room to warm the clothes and take them off, her legs would surely be frostbitten by then.

For large areas of frostbite, ordinary frostbite ointment wouldn't have much effect.

They couldn't go back to the base tonight either. Time was life, and Guan Hui simply couldn't afford to wait.

Thinking about the cause of this incident, Kong Rui opened his mouth but finally didn't say anything.

This is how cause and effect work.

If Guan Hui hadn't jumped out and said those words, she wouldn't have angered Liu Ruyan, and finally wouldn't have peed herself from fright.

All in all, it was her own doing.

To be honest, Liu Ruyan didn't do much. She just scared her.

As for what happened later, it was an unexpected chain reaction, and Liu Ruyan didn't need to be responsible for it.

The people under Kong Rui were quite efficient. It didn't take long to count out the animals killed by Zhang Yuan and Liu Ruyan.

There were seventeen wild boars, twenty-two wolves, and eighteen hyenas in total.

All of these added up could be exchanged for ten to twenty thousand contribution points.

Although Kong Rui had brought quite a lot of cards before coming out, it still wasn't enough.

"I'll give you 10,000 first. The rest can only be given to you after we go back to the base. What do you think?"

Zhang Yuan took a stack of cards with a smile. "Of course it's okay! I don't trust others, but I can't not trust you."

Kong Rui was from the base officials and couldn't run away.

The base still needed him in many aspects regarding weapon research and development. There was no way he would renege on these debts.

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Kong Rui didn't know whether he should be happy or helpless.

"Since it's calculated, then I'll go back first. You should also go back early. It's cold outside after all."

Kong Rui nodded. "Okay! Just that—never mind. You should go back quickly!"

Hearing Kong Rui's hesitant words, Zhang Yuan wasn't curious at all. He didn't ask any more questions and turned around and walked away with big strides.

Looking at Zhang Yuan's departing back, Kong Rui was a bit dazed, but then understood after a while.

He had known Zhang Yuan for some time. Zhang Yuan seemed easy to get along with and always had a warm smile on his face, but in fact, he wasn't close to anyone.

Kong Rui had thought that Zhang Yuan was like this with everyone.

But now it seemed that it wasn't the case.

Thinking about how Zhang Yuan and Liu Ruyan had stood together before, Kong Rui thought it was reasonable.

These two people even had the same aura.

Zhang Yuan returned to the room and saw Liu Ruyan sitting by the fire.

Liu Ruyan was holding an iron skewer in her hand, with scallion pancakes threaded on it, roasting them over the fire. The fragrance of the pancakes had already filled the room.

Smelling this fragrance, Zhang Yuan immediately felt hungry.

The food he had eaten in the afternoon had already been digested long ago after what had just happened.

Zhang Yuan quickened his pace and walked over. Before he even sat down, he heard Liu Ruyan say, "Here, I've boiled some water. Wash your hands first."

Zhang Yuan looked to one side and saw that there was water in the pot and it was steaming.

Just as Zhang Yuan squatted down, Liu Ruyan grasped the handle of the pot with one hand and tilted the pot.

Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand and washed his hands with the poured-out water.

The cold weather wasn't completely without advantages. For example, now, the water temperature was just right for washing hands.

After washing his hands, Zhang Yuan sat down beside her and opened his backpack to take things out.

"Just eating pancakes won't do. We must have meat with it!"

Liu Ruyan looked over at Zhang Yuan and saw that what he took out was actually a vacuum-packed roasted rabbit.

Liu Ruyan couldn't help laughing when she saw it. "How many rabbits did you bring?"

Looking at Zhang Yuan's bulging backpack that was half as tall as a person, Liu Ruyan almost suspected that more than half of it was filled with rabbit meat.

Just as she was thinking about it, she saw Zhang Yuan open the zipper of the backpack. "Look!"

Liu Ruyan looked over as she was told and, sure enough, most of it was filled with vacuum-packed rabbit meat, and there were several bags of each variety.

Liu Ruyan gave Zhang Yuan a thumbs-up. "As expected of you!"

Zhang Yuan opened the packaging bag with a smile and then took out an iron skewer from the backpack and skewered the roasted rabbit on it.

"I'm telling you, if this is roasted a bit more, it will be so fragrant..."