December 21st, 341, 1:00 PM.
"Recycling unwanted rice cookers, induction cookers, and microwaves, buying all sorts of scrap appliances..."
"Recycling old newspapers, cardboard boxes, buying useless books..."
"Recycling scrap materials for supply coupons!"
Sometime ago, people who went around the streets collecting various old and used items, offering supply coupons as compensation, appeared in the alleys of City A.
Even in high-rise buildings, such figures were not uncommon.
Now, with power outages everywhere in City A, people's home appliances were useless. Many chose to exchange their appliances for coupons, which they then redeemed for survival supplies.
Even if these appliances were not broken, or even if they were newly purchased before the catastrophe, people no longer cared.
After all, as the weather grew colder, more coal and more food were needed for survival.
Tang Li walked on the street, observing many people bringing old appliances, waste paper, and various scrap materials from their homes to exchange for supply coupons.
Seeing this, Tang Li felt gratified.
Tang Li knew that the scrap materials collected by these people on the streets ultimately ended up in her spatial dimension.
After all, when everyone's supply coupons were insufficient, no one other than herself would use supply coupons to collect junk on such a large scale.
Tang Li also knew that these appliances, even if people didn't exchange them for coupons now, would be damaged by the solar storm later and turn into scrap metal.
Exchanging them for coupons now to obtain the necessary supplies for winter was naturally a good thing for them.
And for Tang Li, taking these scrap materials back into her spatial dimension allowed her to expand it, which was equivalent to increasing the material reserves within her dimension, also a good thing.
Besides those exchanging household scrap for coupons, there were also some people, carrying various supplies from unknown sources, returning home.
The quantity of these supplies clearly exceeded the limits set by the authorities.
It was evident that the coal, food, and other survival supplies they carried were also exchanged in the black market. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Tang Li even heard people selling these supplies, obtained from the black market, to those who dared not go to the black market, acting as intermediaries and profiting from the price difference.
The source of these supplies was also Tang Li.
Besides Tang Li, no one else could provide such a large quantity of supplies.
Tang Li, in turn, used their scrap materials to expand her spatial dimension, and then used the expanded space to replicate these survival supplies for them.
In this back-and-forth process, Tang Li was making a massive profit.
Essentially, for every unit of scrap material recycled and used to expand her spatial dimension, she could replicate ten or even a hundred units of survival supplies to distribute.
Moreover, the supply coupons used to collect scrap materials were replicated general coupons after being stored in her spatial dimension, making them essentially zero cost.
As for the profits left behind by Grandpa Jiang, his subordinates, and those who collected scrap or sold supplies on the streets, they were of no concern to Tang Li.
Tang Li was eating the meat, and she didn't mind letting them have some soup.
At this moment, Tang Li had changed back into the disguise she wore the first time she met Grandpa Jiang, transforming into that fierce man, with his head and face wrapped, walking on the street.
In these 19 days, Tang Li had already conducted eight transactions with Grandpa Jiang and his associates.
Initially, the transaction amounts were only 10,000 to 30,000 coupons.
By the last transaction, the amount had reached 150,000 coupons.
In these eight transactions, Tang Li had obtained a total of 750,000 general coupons.
As for the replicated general coupons spent on collecting scrap materials, they amounted to only 90,000 coupons.
Before leaving City A, Tang Li would replicate these remaining 660,000 general coupons and deposit them into her own account.
And on the way, every city she passed through, she would replicate these 750,000 general coupons, along with the 20,000 general coupons previously stored in her spatial dimension, and the 10,000 general coupons earned at the supermarket during these days, and deposit them again and again into her supply coupon account.
If such cooperation were to continue, even accounting for the time lost due to heavy snow blocking the roads, the remaining three months would be enough for Tang Li to earn 3 million coupons.
Unfortunately, Tang Li knew that such cooperation could not continue indefinitely.
Soon, Tang Li reached the agreed-upon transaction location.
Just as she was about to replicate supplies from her spatial dimension, she sensed something was wrong.
She murmured, "I thought we could conduct a few more transactions before the cooperation ended. I didn't expect it to end so soon..."