Apocalypse: The Supporting Actress Made a Comeback-Chapter 64 - 058 Safe Store (Second Update)

Chapter 64: 058 Safe Store (Second Update)

Chapter 64: 058 Safe Store (Second Update)

The safe store was located in a large shopping mall near the villa community. Before the apocalypse, the entire mall had been built, and some businesses had moved in, but the stores were not yet properly furnished, and the mall had not officially opened.

After the military leadership designated this area as a Safe Zone, they decided to set up a safe store in the mall to supply survivors with their daily necessities. Therefore, early this morning, the military had sent teams to collect supplies from various places. The supplies brought back were partly stored in the safe warehouse, and the rest were put on sale in the safe store.

After all, it was only the first day, and the supplies brought back by the team were not many. The variety of goods in the safe store was pitifully small, not at all comparable to the supermarkets before the apocalypse.

Fang Yuxin’s family soon found the safe store. The store was on the first floor. Although it was not small, only two-thirds of the area was neatly filled with shelves and cabinets. The remaining third was deliberately left empty.

Such a layout was not due to a lack of cabinets or goods but to prevent survivors from stealing or scrambling for products. The shelves were arranged tightly together, boasting an array of goods, and in front of them, ran a whole row of half-person-high cabinets. These cabinets were inlaid with clear glass, allowing the visibility of the goods inside, while also blocking the footsteps of the survivors.

On either side of this row of cabinets stood armed soldiers to prevent any trouble from survivors. When survivors came in to shop, they could only stand in front of the cabinets that held several printed brochures listing the types and prices of goods. If survivors needed anything, they only had to tell the sales guides what they wanted.

This primitive shopping method was necessary because the amount of goods was so limited, and they could not meet the demand. Some survivors didn’t have credit points or Crystal Cores, and were liable to cause trouble. This arrangement aimed to ensure the safety of these goods under the current conditions.

Aside from this safe store, other shops were still empty, but it was easy to predict that, as the number of survivors in the Safe Zone increased, the number and variety of shops would surely grow.

When Fang Yuxin and the others entered, they saw the lights were still on, and five survivors were choosing goods. They quickly walked in and scanned the shelves and cabinets. The shelves, placed vertically, made the goods hard to see. In contrast, clearly visible within the cabinets were convenient boxed meals, instant noodles, instant vermicelli, and other instant foods.

Fang Yuxin picked up a brochure and flipped through it with her family. The brochure listed many goods, mostly those that could be preserved. In addition to convenient boxed meals, there were also bottled water, salt, rice, cooking oil, candy, cigarettes, various canned foods, and some vacuum-packed pickled products and ready-to-eat foods. Besides these, there were also common vegetables like potatoes and cabbage.

However, many foods that were common and often eaten before the apocalypse were now so expensive that they deterred many survivors. Moreover, the store had a purchase limit on its goods, and even if one had extra credit points, they couldn’t buy more. This measure was to prevent malicious hoarding.

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Besides food and water, the safe store also supplied weapons. However, no weapons were displayed, only listed in detail in the brochure for survivors to choose to purchase. The listed weapons included various military knives, military daggers, pistols, rifles, and different types of bullets. But the prices of these weapons were also very steep.

Although only pistols and rifles were available—more powerful firearms were not—the military’s decision to offer them was a concession. It is worth noting that before the apocalypse, ordinary people could not own firearms at all. This decision by the military was the result of careful deliberation.

Most survivors were ordinary people, and even though there were superpower users among them, in the early stages of the apocalypse, they had not yet had time to familiarize themselves with the superpowers within them, and their Attack Power was limited. Yet with the vast number of zombies, to kill the zombies and save more survivors, a large number of people were necessary.

Soldiers were limited in number, and the remaining survivors naturally needed to become combatants. Using melee weapons against zombies demanded too much of the user. Unless one was skilled, ordinary people might not be able to kill zombies even with weapons. Firearms, on the other hand, were different. With a little training, one could shoot from a distance, which was indeed a powerful tool.