#8 - Chapter 8 Procurement of Supplies

With the food situation settled,

next up were the other essential survival supplies.

Medicine.

These things are crucial at any time.

Qin Jin purchased large quantities of medical supplies both online and offline.

A small portion were newly manufactured drugs.

The vast majority were near-expiry drugs with lower prices!

Medicines are generally vacuum-packed.

A difference of a year or a few months is essentially the same compared to the endless future of the apocalypse.

This way, he could save a lot of money and purchase more types and quantities.

He contacted pre-arranged pharmaceutical wholesalers.

He directly purchased a large number of commonly used drugs on the market, including: cold medicine, fever reducers, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, penicillin, antiparasitic drugs, antirheumatic drugs, nervous system drugs, hemostatic drugs, painkillers, pregnancy-supporting drugs, abortifacients, burn medicine, frostbite medicine, asthma medicine, and countless other types.

Other prescription drugs, targeted drugs, chemotherapy drugs, etc., that ordinary people cannot buy.

Because they were near-expiry or expired, they were leaked out by pharmaceutical dealers and he collected them.

Of course, he would not miss corresponding medical supplies such as various syringes, IV drips, scalpels, bandages, and so on, and purchased some of each.

Near-expiry drugs cost 2-5 yuan per box when they are disposed of, compared to the original price of 20 yuan, a huge price difference!

Even so.

Qin Jin still spent nearly two million yuan on this.

In fact, there is no need to purchase too much before the apocalypse.

Because after the initial collapse of order in the apocalypse, they can be found everywhere.

These purchases now are just for preparedness and to increase his sense of security.

The effective shelf life of Western medicine is actually very short, and many are judged as unusable once they expire, which is to reduce the risk of medication.

In peacetime, medicines within the expiration date can be easily found, so there is no need to use expired medicines, to avoid problems and liability involving pharmaceutical companies or hospitals.

But the apocalypse is different.

Most expired drugs can still retain their full efficacy, or at least retain more than 80% of their efficacy.

Many drugs are still effective even after three or five years past their expiration date, only with reduced efficacy.

In the apocalypse, don't even mention reduced efficacy.

As long as there is a little bit of medicinal effect, and it won't kill people.

People will break their heads to snatch it!

Without a time-stopping spatial cheat, he can only hoard some.

In the future, most of the medicines scavenged, except for some with ultra-long shelf lives, will inevitably be expired drugs.

Unless the base develops to the point of producing its own medicines in the future.

After dealing with Western medicine.

Qin Jin plunged into the field of Chinese medicine to purchase again.

Compared to the short shelf life of Western medicine, Chinese medicine is not so precious.

Normally, well-dried Chinese medicinal herbs, except for some herbal medicines, can be stored for 4-5 years.

As long as it does not become moldy, damp, or infested with insects, it can basically continue to be decocted and taken!

And the storage time of other woody and mineral medicinal materials is even longer.

It is not a problem to store them for more than ten years with a good storage environment!

Qin Jin directly purchased in large quantities such as: ephedra, cinnamon twigs, perilla, schizonepeta, saposhnikovia, angelica, ginger, magnolia, xanthium, mint, cicada slough, burdock, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves, pueraria, bupleurum, cimicifuga, vitex, gypsum, anemarrhena, etc., hundreds of common and uncommon Chinese medicinal materials.

Covering most diseases.

All required vacuum-sealed delivery.

Of course, various classic Chinese medicine books are also indispensable.

A lot of information can be found online or in physical stores.

Although it may not be effective, it is better than nothing.

The base will inevitably need to absorb Western and Chinese medicine talents in the future.

As for how to do it, he already has a plan in mind.

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After preparing the medicines,

next up were various other materials to increase the base's security!

Qin Jin had previously found someone to customize hand crossbows and compound bow accessories, as well as various unsharpened knives, swords, and daggers.

Now he needs to continue purchasing other items such as: riot shields, steel forks, special lightweight steel plates, steel wire gloves, etc.

In the future, there will definitely be times when he leaves the base to find supplies.

Faced with the ubiquitous zombies, he must have reliable protection.

The main means by which zombies attack humans is through the spread of bodily fluids caused by biting.

As long as the body does not have open wounds.

With complete protective gear and protecting against the zombie's mouth, it is relatively safe.

But if you are unlucky and have an exposed wound?

Even if you haven't come into contact with the zombie's bodily fluids, just touching the zombie's skin or nails can lead to the risk of infection and mutation.

The virus concentration on the surface of a zombie's skin is not low.

And most of them struggle before death, leaving their own or other sources of blood residue on their bodies.

All zombie individuals are virus polymers, containing an astonishing concentration of viruses in their bodies.

Unlike zombies, survivors have survived the mutation and night mist invasion, and all humans carry trace amounts of the virus in their bodies.

But the concentration is completely incomparable.

Once exposed to the zombie's body with this terrifying concentration of virus, it is still easy to be infected.

So it is best to avoid direct contact with zombies.

Qin Jin deeply remembered the iron law: In the apocalypse, remember to stay away from the dead, because everyone will mutate into zombies sooner or later after death.

Everyone carries trace amounts of the virus in their bodies, and after death, the immune system fails, and the virus will multiply wildly and eventually mutate.

So remember to deal with the dead immediately.

The simplest way is to destroy their brain or spine.

To make them lose their ability to move.

If you can't bring yourself to do it.

Just wait to be taken away.

Before zombies evolve into mutated types in the early stages of the apocalypse.

Using riot shield/steel fork + machete/bayonet tactics can effectively deal with small numbers of zombies.

Steel wire gloves can provide a certain degree of protection without affecting the use of weapons too much.

Even if the protected hands are bitten, as long as they don't come into contact with bodily fluids, there is still a great hope of being okay.

What if you encounter a large group of zombies?

There is no other way.

Run for your life.

Hide in a safe place and continue to resist and fight with firearms, if you don't have firearms, then continue to escape.

Some organs of zombies themselves will be stronger and purer due to virus-induced mutations, and their hearing and sense of smell will be more sensitive.

Zombies have an infinite pursuit of flesh and blood.

Even if the survivors hide in a high place, the zombies will pile up more and more to chase them.

Until they eat all the flesh and blood of humans.

Qin Jin heard some speculations from a powerful base he had joined in his previous life.

It is said that zombies can be regarded as an aggregate of single-celled organisms.

They only have one unified thought.

That is hunger.

Every virus-controlled cell is craving the nutrition of flesh and blood.

After the virus occupies different cells of the original host, they each perform different functions.

Brain cells continue to issue instructions to control the body to search for flesh and blood.

The nose searches for the smell of flesh and blood.

The ears listen to the direction of the sound.

The hands, feet, and mouth tear apart the prey.

Only the eyes seem to have degenerated into severe cataracts, and can only see things very close and sense light.

Someone once tested it with a zombie whose face was missing a piece of flesh.

They cut a piece of rotten meat from the hand of another zombie and stuck it on the face of this zombie.

A magical situation appeared!

After a period of time, this piece of meat actually slowly grew on the zombie's face!

The flesh and blood of different individual zombies can be re-aggregated!

Although not every one can do it, and it seems to require certain conditions.

But it is amazing enough.

This experiment may indicate some terrible answer.

Qin Jin wanted to inquire about more secrets to pass the time, but others said they didn't know the follow-up.

I don't know if they really didn't know or didn't want to say.

Before rebirth, he had no fixed place to live and couldn't even fill his stomach.

He didn't have time to investigate these issues in detail.

If he has the conditions in the future, he thinks he can try to find this answer.

Or this is a direction to solve the zombie problem.

In addition to simple protective gear.

He also customized steel spears made of lightweight steel.

They can be disassembled into three sections, and when assembled, they can reach up to twenty meters in length, making them good weapons for killing zombies while standing on the walls.

The walls will inevitably continue to be heightened in the future.

When they exceed twenty meters in the future, this weapon may need to be upgraded.

The main issues are weight and strength.

Just the current ten-meter-long spear made of lightweight steel weighs five kilograms!

Adults can only use it for up to an hour, and their hands will break after a long time.

Not to mention the weight and spear strength issues after exceeding twenty meters.

So, in response to the large number of zombies that may besiege the base in the future, a stronger weapon is needed - explosives.

The most direct and efficient method is this.

There are many chemical explosion recipes directly on the Internet.

The power varies.

Water + liquid nitrogen, cesium metal + water, potassium chlorate + sugar, potassium permanganate + brake fluid, sodium metal + water.

And a bunch of other methods can be made into simple chemical bombs.

Qin Jin's goal is more than these.

When he was in the team before, he knew many methods of making bombs from daily necessities.

He also purchased more raw materials through special channels. These raw materials do not appear dangerous when they are alone, but when mixed together, they become extremely dangerous!

This kind of material can only be purchased carefully through gray channels.

Again, with the name of an agricultural product factory, purchasing some chemicals to configure pesticides is still reasonable, right?

It's not like he's going to configure it immediately after buying it back, he has to wait until he really enters the apocalypse before processing it, now he's just preparing.

Of course, he will not forget which raw material factories around Mentang Town can manufacture bombs.

Qin Jin will also focus on taking care of them after the apocalypse.

Qin Jin did not let go of poison either.

Rat poison, arsenic, etc. are also extremely useful.

Especially against enemies.

Cyanide is too toxic and difficult to obtain, so he only marked a few places with these extremely toxic chemicals in advance.

Waiting for the opportunity to visit after the apocalypse.

Thinking of these, sometimes he couldn't help but laugh at himself:

"I'm getting more and more like a terrorist FZ!"

But touching some places on his back and arms, these places were all wounds in his previous life.

Wounds left to him by others.

Thinking of the various people and things he encountered before, he strengthened his will again.

Some things must be done, whether for himself or for his relatives and friends.

It's best not to use it, but if someone invades, he will retaliate with thunder!

The most terrifying thing in the apocalypse is always human beings!

(End of this chapter)