In the Apocalypse, Hoarding Supplies with the System's Hundredfold Critical Hits

Putting aside everything else, just building such a seawater desalination plant in this resource-scarce post-apocalyptic world would require a massive investment of resources.

All the survivors are well aware that the cost of building such a plant is extremely high, yet the price of water is only one integration ticket for two liters.

To put it bluntly, if a survivor can't even come up with one integration ticket, it only proves they are lazy. Such a good-for-nothing deserves to starve or die of thirst.

Li Ming's seawater desalination plant did indeed give the survivors hope. From the moment the plant started producing fresh water, survivors lined up every day at the water outlets to buy it.

Old Zhang's Main City Garden residential area is one of the sales points. Besides the market and the seafood exchange near the sea, Li Ming set up a sales point in every community unit throughout the city of Malga.

Old Zhang's Main City Garden was also designated as a sales point, and residents from nearby residential areas came to line up to buy water almost every day.

Hong Chi is a resident of a residential area near Main City Garden. During the extreme heat disaster, people in the entire residential area died almost every day from heatstroke or heat exhaustion.

Water shortage has become a heavy topic in the hearts of all survivors. Initially, the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce's caravan helped to charge fees for digging wells, but as time passed, the extreme heat intensified, and the groundwater level in Malga continued to drop. The water supply from the well in their residential area gradually decreased from unlimited daily supply to just a small bucket per day.

In September 2028, the well in the residential area also dried up. No more water!

So, Hong Chi's residential area had to go to the sea to fetch seawater and then obtain fresh water through filtration and distillation. Although this method was arduous, it was still enough to obtain enough fresh water for daily survival.

However, these days did not last long. The Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce issued the latest notice that a seawater desalination plant had appeared and would provide a relatively stable supply of fresh water. Each person could obtain two liters of fresh water per day for one integration ticket.

Hong Chi was very happy when this news came out.

He quickly inquired about the nearest fresh water sales point, which was the Main City Garden residential area.

Hong Chi was naturally very familiar with this residential area, and he was even acquainted with Captain Wu there. The Main City Garden residential area already belonged to the affiliated forces of the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce.

Soon, Hong Chi hurried to the Main City Garden residential area with his own lidded bucket to buy water.

Of course, Hong Chi was not the only one who came here to buy water. Almost every household from the surrounding residential areas mobilized all its members.

Hong Chi felt a sense of despair looking at the long queue. How long would it take to get to his turn?

He looked at the length of the queue in front of him, which was hundreds of meters long, with an estimated nearly a hundred people waiting.

But what surprised him was that, under the order maintained by the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce's army and the Main City Garden security team, the speed of the queue to buy water was very fast.

After about 20 minutes, it was Hong Chi's turn.

Hong Chi began to carefully observe the entire sales point. He saw that the entire sales point consisted of a water truck pulling water and a strange set of equipment.

This equipment was a special washbasin-like thing, densely packed with faucets. Each queue corresponded to a faucet.

Next to this equipment was a table, behind which were two staff members, one responsible for identity registration and recognition, and the other responsible for collecting integration tickets.

One integration ticket was the lowest denomination of integration ticket issued by Li Ming, so it was easy to identify. Every survivor buying water prepared their integration ticket and ID card in advance.

After passing the facial recognition and ID card dual verification, they paid the money and could then go to get water.

After Hong Chi submitted his ID card and integration ticket, he passed through the gate, and the staff returned his ID card.

Hong Chi carried his bucket directly to the water collection platform. A staff member took Hong Chi's bucket and placed it on the platform, then operated the equipment. The faucet on the equipment began to dispense water, and there was a display screen on the faucet showing the water output.

Soon the red number reached the number 2, and then the water flow stopped. Hong Chi knew that his two liters of water had been collected.

The staff handed the bucket over. "Your water is collected!"

"Oh, thank you!" Hong Chi thanked him and left with the plastic bucket, heading home.

The whole process, except for the longer waiting time in line, was very fast. The efficiency far exceeded Hong Chi's expectations. He originally expected that it would be good if he could buy water in two hours, but he didn't expect that everything would be completed in just 22 minutes.

The other survivors also did not expect it to be so fast, and even more unexpectedly, everyone did not expect the quality of the water they bought to be very good, basically comparable to the tap water before the disaster.

It was very clear, and there was no peculiar smell when drinking it. It was completely safe to drink.

Soon the number of Li Ming's sales points began to increase rapidly. Some sales points far from the sea were established with water transport vehicles as the core, while some closer to the sea were basically connected to the water plant by pipelines.

In short, the emergence of Li Ming's fresh water sales points did bring great convenience to many survivors.

As for the inland sales points, they were based on Li Ming's chamber of commerce market plus water transport tank trucks, which also solved many problems for many survivors struggling on the line of death in the inland.

At least they could obtain fresh water to maintain their livelihood every day, and with the emergence of cold-resistant potatoes during the extreme cold period, many survivors had also saved some integration tickets.

Now, these integration tickets and supplies that have been saved have brought great help to the survivors, and Li Ming's water sales points have brought great convenience to the survivors.

No one complains that the price is expensive. In the extreme heat disaster, fresh water resources are very precious resources. You only need one integration ticket a day to get water to keep you alive for a day. What more do you want?

To make it more convenient for the survivors, Li Ming not only uses and sells the amplified fresh water himself, but also wholesales it at low prices to some secondary dealers and merchants who come to pull water for purchase.

These merchants will also make a certain profit from it. Overall, if they pull fresh water, after deducting fuel and purchase money, these merchants can earn a net profit of about 300 integration tickets for a truck of 20 tons of fresh water.

This profit is already quite considerable........

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