Socially Anxious Girl Starts Hoarding Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 5

Related videos show that in modern life, although in different countries and regions, there are the same kind of people who have an extreme sense of anxiety about the future.

Both domestically and abroad, there are those who hoard food, tools and medicine, and even build doomsday fortresses.

Domestically it is jokingly called “hamster syndrome”, meaning liking to store things like a hamster.

The professional knowledge on the forum goes far beyond this.

Wenshao feels that she should join this forum and learn a thing or two.

On different survival methods under various disaster situations, as well as tool applications and extreme environment survival methods.

The things in the forum have a high level of professionalism. Wenshao thinks she will read them slowly later, so she went to watch some more basic popular science videos.

Without any transition, reading things that are too professional is also incomprehensible and unclear. Wenshao still thinks she should look at some entry level stuff first.

In the process of finding information, Wenshao realized that her worries were not particularly special, and quite a few people were the same as her.

Some people always worry about the coming of doomsday, although the way it comes is different.

Some people think that humans are the cancer cells of the earth, so one day they will destroy themselves, such as nuclear war.

Some people think that if a small asteroid hits the earth, humans will be completely finished.

Some foreigners think there will be wars, so they not only hoard food, but also hoard guns.

Some people in China believe that natural disasters are more likely, such as long-term droughts or floods, severe cold weather and earthquakes.

Since the earth was formed, the major disasters experienced by living things living on it, humans may encounter them at any time.

But in any case, survival enthusiasts are only making preparations for the scenarios they envision.

This kind of personal behavior or small team of like-minded people, they are just silently preparing by themselves, basically not affecting other people's lives.

Even if some people ridicule them for worrying groundlessly, so what, letting themselves feel at ease is the point, isn’t it?

With popular science understanding, plus netizen comments, Wenshao discovered a very interesting set of books that appeared with very high frequency in everyone's barrage and comments.

A set of books called "Doomsday Survival Manual", Wenshao found someone sharing PDF versions online, so she downloaded them.

At the same time, she placed an order on Taobao and bought these books. When the payment was successful, Wenshao felt that she could finally rest assured to continue learning.

When unsure what to pay for, Wenshao always feels a little uneasy.

Looking at the successful payment interface, Wenshao began to calculate her savings.

Her original goal was to save money to buy a house. If she buys a small house far away from the city center, Wenshao thinks she should have enough money already.

It's just that according to Wenshao’s habit of comparing goods, in such a bad economic environment, the farther the house is, the more the price drops.

So Wenshao has been watching. She felt that buying early would suffer losses. She even thought that buying at the age of 30 would not be too late. After all, good locations and big houses are unaffordable for her.

Counting now, the eighty thousand yuan left by her grandparents is the principal that has not been touched. Wenshao just renewed it when it matured recently. It is now one hundred thousand yuan in integers.

Wenshao saved twenty thousand in the first half year after graduation. The second year she changed companies and saved fifty thousand for the whole year. The third year was eighty thousand.

This year she has only been paid for three months plus a ten thousand yuan year-end bonus. She saved thirty thousand in a fixed deposit and left the rest in her bank card tied to her mobile phone for use.

She now has a total of two hundred and eighty thousand.

This is Wenshao’s entire bank deposit.

Wenshao's deposits can only be fixed deposits, then payroll cards, and a separate bank card used solely for consumption. After the salary arrives, the money to be spent is transferred to the card, and other amounts on the payroll card are deposited into fixed deposits when they reach ten thousand.

The money that can be spent is only on one card, mobile phone binding or cash consumption, just these.

So Wenshao will not have the situation of not knowing where the money went. She knows clearly where every one hundred yuan was spent. Her monthly online shopping list is also very clear.

She does not overspend, does not use credit cards, does not borrow money from others, and rarely chips in.

After figuring out her savings, Wenshao wanted to plan her shopping list. She first wrote down some big items in her memo.

Food: rice, flour, cooking oil, white sugar, edible salt, eggs, millet, green beans, sweet potatoes, chicken, duck, pork.

For Wenshao, food is mostly about being full, then being delicious. In addition to these, drinking water also needs to be stocked.

Daily necessities: sanitary napkins, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, laundry detergent.

Medicines: iodine, band-aids, gauze, anti-inflammatory medicines, stomach medicines, fever reducers, loratadine.

Tools: iron pot, kitchen knife, scissors, firestone, nail clippers, axe, saw.

These are some of the things she can think of at the moment, so she wrote them down first, and then searched for prices online.

Under the same quality, market prices will generally not differ too much.

At the same time, Wenshao also remembered that if the purchase quantity of items like rice is large enough, wholesale markets are cheaper.

The most famous market in Ancheng is the Baisaha Market. It is said that everything can be found there. Even if you squat next to the trash cans there, you can pick up food.

This was something she heard from someone she knew. He heard that a lot of potatoes were thrown away there once, so he ran to pick them up and picked several sacks, all good ones.

If it was before, she would have just listened. But now, she felt it was a very good way to save money.

With 280,000 yuan, she really has to calculate carefully if she wants to buy stuff.

If the price of finished products is too expensive, then buy raw materials or semi-finished products.

Later, Wenshao specifically searched for hoarding knowledge online. Some popular science UP owners would give something like a checklist.

For example, what a family of three needs for two months.

How much food an adult needs to eat in a year, what is nutritionally balanced.

Then Wenshao discovered that according to the severity level of certain disaster environments, once the social system collapses, crime will breed, the law of the jungle, the animal world.

And once the various industrial assembly lines established by humans stop, it means that the current standard of living will regress, from industry to agriculture.

Food is a necessity, even after a disaster, there will definitely be people farming and breeding.

But some daily necessities may not be reproduced, such as some plastic products.

At that time, maybe even sanitary napkins will be unavailable.

As a woman, what Wenshao thought of first was this. After all, during the epidemic at the time, some people kept saying the embarrassment of not having sanitary napkins.

And then, having space to herself means she can only keep the secret alone.

That means Wenshao needs to live alone, like before.

But as soon as someone gets close to her, they will definitely notice something wrong. Once people have curiosity, they will explore, and the leakage of secrets is fatal.

The human heart cannot withstand the test.