Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 194 - Snail Girl

Chapter 194: Chapter 194 Snail Girl

The room was very dark, and after a careful look, they didn’t see the red flicker of a surveillance camera.

Jiang Yan recalled a report she’d read before, which stated that hotel cameras used for secret filming often couldn’t be detected without specialized equipment.

With this in mind, she suggested,

“Let’s do this, I suggest we each take an area to check individually first, and then cross-verify to ensure no corner is missed. For those checking the front and backyards, take a look at the fences and the power poles outside as well.”

“Okay,” Ye Qing and Sun Jingtao naturally had no objections.

While it might be a bit of a waste of time to do so, they would feel more at ease if they could confirm that everything was clear.

Mainly because they all carried firearms, they were particularly sensitive.

Jiang Yan took the lead in checking the first floor.

Once the others went upstairs or outside, she quietly took out a counter-surveillance detector from her backpack, actually from the Space.

With the help of the device, Jiang Yan quickly finished checking areas like the living room.

When she reached the corner leading to the inner courtyard of the living room, she saw a tightly locked door there.

The door was small, painted the same color as the walls, and next to it was a load-bearing wall, making it inconspicuous.

She tried to twist the handle, but the door was locked, and instead, her hand came away covered in black dust.

Jiang Yan guessed it was a storeroom and turned to look at Hua Bao, who had been perching on her shoulder, “Hua Bao, see if you can open it from the inside.”

“Chirp chirp chirp!” Okay, Mommy!

Hua Bao, who had been almost bored enough to fall asleep, suddenly perked up and “whooshed” down from her shoulder.

Its body became as thin as paper and “rustled” through the crack of the door.

“Kurt~” The door unlocked.

A pungent musty smell assaulted her nostrils.

Jiang Yan instinctively stepped back, took out a flashlight, and glanced inside.

Thankfully, it wasn’t a crime scene.

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It was a small storage room, about five or six square meters.

In one corner, there were some cleaning tools scattered about, a bucket, a mop, a broom, and so on.

In another corner, there were a few damaged honeycomb briquettes, an old-fashioned stove for burning honeycomb coal, and two or three rotten potatoes.

The musty smell was emanating from the rotten potatoes and the cloth mop.

A lightbulb went off in Jiang Yan’s mind; a bunch of Smokeless Coal, several vacuum-packed pieces of cured meat, beef jerky, a bag of vacuum-packed glutinous rice, and a bag of soybeans, as well as the seafood foam boxes that were originally placed next to the bay window at home filled with Space dark soil were taken out by her and stacked on the ground.

She nodded her chin at the items she had taken out and then gave Hua Bao a meaningful look.

Hua Bao’s normally lively eyes dulled for a second, then it closed its mouth and started frantically rolling in the ash on the ground, its six tendrils becoming plump and soft.

In just three to four seconds, all the items Jiang Yan had taken out were smeared with the black ash on the ground.

At first glance, it looked as if they had been there for a long time, dirty and dingy.

The courtyard they had rented had closed doors and windows, but perhaps due to being vacant for years, there was a thick layer of black ash on the floors and tables inside.

This provided a perfect condition for her to “age” the supplies.

After finishing up, Jiang Yan didn’t make any noise but gently closed the door, let Hua Bao lock it from the inside, and returned to the living room.

Then she exchanged places with Su Dai, who had finished checking upstairs, and went up herself.

Based on their earlier agreement, the master bedroom upstairs, with the best privacy and an en-suite bathroom, was reserved for Jiang Yan, who had contributed the most supplies on the journey.

Downstairs, there were two remaining rooms; a slightly larger one for the couple Su Dai and Sun Jingtao, and a children’s room for Ye Qing.

The rest of the house was bare, with just some pots and pans in the kitchen and nothing else.

Each room had only a bed.

But that was limited to just a bed.

Because of the abundant coal mine resources in the area, and since it was a courtyard house, no one had taken the wooden furniture to burn for warmth.

Jiang Yan guessed that the place they were renting now was newly constructed just before the apocalypse, ready for delivery after being fully furnished.

Then the apocalypse came suddenly, and it was left vacant.

As for the previous tenants, they probably only stayed for a short while.

Jiang Yan had just come out of the bedroom when Su Dai’s excited exclamation came from downstairs:

“Husband, Jiang Yan, Xiao Ye, come quick! Look what I’ve found??”

“That was fast,” Jiang Yan’s lips curled up slightly, and she calmly walked downstairs.

Ye Qing and Sun Jingtao had just finished double-checking the inner and outer courtyards and had just stepped inside.

The voice came from the storeroom, and as the three of them approached, they saw Su Dai standing in the doorway, her eyes shining with joy, as she gestured inside with a “here you go” motion:

“Ta-da! Comrades, Snail Girl has brought us some supplies!”

Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing were baffled: “Brought supplies?”

“Snail Girl?” Jiang Yan also pretended to be surprised.

And looking at the lines on Su Dai’s face, the three of them couldn’t help but feel a mix of laughter and tears.

After entering the room, they all took off their glasses and masks.

Because they’d been worn for too long, each person’s face bore deep red indentations, and parts of their faces were smeared with black ash, leaving streaks with a mere touch.

At first glance, they looked as though they’d been through torture.

Su Dai, standing right in front of the three, looked exactly like that.

“Come and see for yourselves!” Su Dai, beaming, stepped aside from the doorway.

She held a hand-cranked flashlight and shone it inside.

Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing stepped forward to take a look.

Seeing the messy tracks on the floor, as though a snake had crawled through, and the ash on the supplies, a warm current flowed through their hearts.

Su Dai, with her straightforward personality, obviously didn’t notice these details.

But Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing, both of whom carried a certain level of investigative awareness, considered the circumstances.

Thinking that Jiang Yan was the one who checked the first floor earlier, they instantly understood.

Could Jiang Yan, with her meticulous mind, have missed what even Su Dai found in this room and the supplies?

Moreover, throughout their journey, she had contributed special supplies more than once or twice.

They had supplies of their own, but they were mostly perishable or easy to store commodities.

Like the shriveled potatoes, onions, and sweet potatoes she provided, which had long disappeared from the market for a month or two.

If it hadn’t been for the two bottles of insecticide she provided, no matter how good their reflexes, they were likely to have been bitten and poisoned by Emperor Scorpions.

Also, those Water Purification Tablets, were key to their health despite drinking dirty water for this period.

While the quantity of these supplies wasn’t huge, they were invaluable for them.

This time, it was most likely her doing as well.

But then again, the cured meat and glutinous rice were understandable, but from where did she produce the considerable quantity of Smokeless Coal and those Planting baskets?

Or perhaps, the Smokeless Coal and those Planting baskets were already there, and they were overthinking it.

But that wasn’t what mattered.

What mattered was that the person doing good deeds was remaining anonymous and didn’t want the secret to be fully revealed and discussed.