Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 228 - Offering Help without Prompt

Chapter 228: Chapter 228 Offering Help without Prompt

Chapter 228: Chapter 228 Offering Help without Prompt

Jiang Yan got up and looked at the grassland and the nearby vegetable garden, her brows furrowing slightly.

Her Space had many advantages, but its only shortcoming was the lack of day and night cycles.

Constant exposure to the sunlight wasn’t good for the mother reindeer either.

In her Space, there were plenty of top-grade timbers purchased from Maple Country that could be disassembled to build a shelter for it, which wouldn’t be difficult.

However, she had just arrived at Flame Base and didn’t know what might happen, so naturally she couldn’t stay in her Space all the time doing handiwork for it.

There were a few remaining containers, but their sizes were too small.

After some thought, Jiang Yan took out the small 130 truck that she had bought when she first started stocking up on supplies.

She examined the size of the cargo compartment, which was more than enough to fit the mother reindeer.

Jiang Yan placed her fingers on the cargo compartment, and with a thought, removed it.

She took off the door and then found some sunscreen material for Hua Bao to help cover the top of the cargo compartment.

Searching with her thoughts, she surprisingly found a large bundle of straw bales in the Inventory Area.

Those straw bales seemed to have been collected on the way to a foreign farm to purchase supplies when she accidentally gathered them into her Space.

There were dozens of them.

Originally, they were reserved either for fodder or for making stinky tofu.

Now, they proved to be useful.

She unpacked the bales and spread a thick layer in the cargo compartment.

While Jiang Yan did all this, the white reindeer was grazing.

It nibbled the grass while occasionally turning its head to look around, its shimmering eyes brightening.

Its hind legs could now stand up, although they still wobbled occasionally.

“Little deer, from now on, this will be your home,” Jiang Yan said, after finishing the setup, walking over to it and gently touching its head.

The reindeer seemed to understand her words and murmured softly a few times, then lowered its head to gently rub her arm.

“Mommy, I want cuddles too!” Seeing this, Hua Bao also hopped over to Jiang Yan’s trouser leg to nuzzle against her.

Jiang Yan couldn’t help but laugh: This child had learned quite a few words.

She gently patted the reindeer and pointed at the cargo compartment, “Go and see if you like it, little deer.”

“Aowu~”

The reindeer shook its fur and lifted its hooves toward the cargo compartment.

“Woof~”

It seemed to really like the temporary shelter Jiang Yan had built for it, even its cries sounded a lot happier.

Seeing it lie down inside, Jiang Yan then left.

She had been in the Space for over an hour by now.

Jiang Yan had originally come to prepare dinner and check on the reindeer’s injuries.

Now that everything was taken care of, she once again took Hua Bao back to the snow house.

The snow house was pitch dark inside.

Jiang Yan took out a small night light and placed it on one side of the ice bed.

Although dimly lit, it was better than nothing.

Just as she was considering getting a sleeping bag, there were crunching noises outside on the ground followed by footfalls that stopped in front of her snow house. The wooden door was knocked loudly.

Jiang Yan kept silent.

“It’s me, sister,” said the “Gypsy” man.

When there were people around, he would call Jiang Yan “buddy.”

When they were alone, it switched back to “sister.”

It seemed like he did it out of concern to protect her.

Jiang Yan didn’t bother to correct him.

“What’s up?” Jiang Yan approached the door but didn’t open it.

The snow house they rented was the cheapest and smallest.

The entrance was very small.

The door was built like a dog flap, one could only enter and exit by stooping.

Seeing that she didn’t open the door, he knew she was on guard. He didn’t get angry but lowered his voice instead, saying,

“You lost your luggage right and you just paid the rent, so you probably don’t have much supplies left, right? I brought some food for you.”

“Oh, no need, I still have some dry rations, thanks,” Jiang Yan politely declined.

He persisted,

“Actually, I knocked earlier too. You didn’t make a peep, I thought you had gone to the public toilet. Oh, right, this is a rat fur mat, they say it’s very good for keeping warm. I just traded for it and thought to give you a share.

Sleeping directly on the ice bed, we’re not Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl, it’s quite likely we would fall ill. With this rat fur mat in between, it’s a bit better.”

A rat fur mat?

Sure, it sounded good, but wouldn’t there be a risk of catching diseases like rat plague?

Jiang Yan took a sharp breath.

Before the apocalypse, she had been a travel blogger and had heard of or personally seen buildings all over the world.

These snow houses originated from the unique architecture of the Eskimos living in the Northern Polar Region, where they would typically lay seal skins on the ice beds, with lamps burning seal oil and wicks made from seal fur.

They said that meticulous households, when receiving guests, would even lay a layer of soft snow on the ice bed, then a layer of branches on top of the soft snow, and finally, a layer of animal fur over the branches.

Such an ice bed would be very warm to sleep on.

However, in places like Jin City, seals were exceedingly rare, mostly found in pre-apocalypse zoos if at all.

Using mutated rats as a substitute sounded disgusting, yet, given the circumstances, it wasn’t unexpected.

“Sister? What do you say?” the man asked again, knocking on the door as he didn’t hear a response.

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The “little detective” Hua Bao had already slipped out through the door slit.

There was only him outside.

He was holding a bag of instant noodles in one hand and a black rat fur in the other.

The rat fur must have been specially treated as it appeared somewhat shiny.

“Hold on.” Jiang Yan put on a mask, changed to a pair of night vision glasses, opened the door, and crawled out stooping.

Unsolicited help kept coming, and with such persistence.

She wanted to see what the man was really up to.

The snowstorm had intensified outside, whistling “wis wis wis.”

Even though Jiang Yan’s body had been enhanced by the Space and she was wearing top-quality cold weather gear, the wind still made her shiver.

“I have two packets of instant noodles, so I’ll share one with you. The meat sauce packet has expired, but with this cold, it’s not needed anyway. Just crumple up the rest, sprinkle the seasoning packet in, and eat it like chips.”

As he said this, he handed her a bag of spicy beef noodles.

At night, wearing snow goggles, he could hardly see anything, so he had taken them off.

Jiang Yan saw his eyes, double-lidded, neither large nor small, with eyelashes already laden with snow.

It seemed he had been walking outside for a while.

“What will you do if you give me this?” Jiang Yan asked, not taking it, but not outright refusing his offer either.

He just grinned, “Well, I’m just spending the night outside for now. Once I get into the base tomorrow, I’ll get to work, so I’m not worried about going hungry.”

Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow, “And what if the base is full tomorrow too and you can’t get in? Wouldn’t that mean your job search would be in vain?”

“Cough, that definitely won’t happen tomorrow!”

He said it with certainty, then lowered his voice a bit more before continuing,

“Just now, when I was trading the motorcycle for supplies, I found out that the reason the base suddenly isn’t accepting people today isn’t because it’s really full, but because there was an explosion at Guoluo Mountain that caused an avalanche, burying a team of core base personnel who just happened to be passing through that area last night…”