Chapter 45 Meat in the Apocalypse (Please Recommend, Please Collect)
After hosting Mo Qingyan and Ding Ning for a meal at his shelter, Chen Xin sent them both off.
And once they left, Chen Xin’s shelter returned once again to its quiet state.
He plugged in the refrigerator, adjusted it to confirm it was working, and then placed the vegetables he had harvested earlier inside for cold storage to ensure they wouldn’t spoil.
Besides the vegetables, the canned luncheon meat and pork exchanged from Mo Qingyan were also placed in the storage room, while the case of alcohol was moved to his bedroom. He took out a bottle to place in the nightstand, and the rest he stashed under the bed.
Although he wasn’t a heavy drinker, in this post-apocalyptic world, having a small drink before bed could help calm the nerves and improve sleep quality, which is why Chen Xin specifically traded a case of alcohol with Mo Qingyan.
Moreover, the key point was that with the onset of the apocalypse, such things would become exceedingly rare. After all, brewing requires grains, and when people are struggling to fill their bellies, there would be no extra grains available for brewing.
These pre-apocalyptic beverages would also become rare and valuable resources, increasing in worth the longer the apocalypse persisted.
However, Chen Xin had no intention of stockpiling alcohol as a resource. On one hand, with the system at his disposal, as long as he continued to upgrade the shelter, once the greenhouse production was sufficient, brewing would not be difficult and wouldn’t require deliberate stockpiling.
On the other hand, waiting for alcohol to become highly valuable would take a long time, more than enough for Chen Xin to develop his own brewing capabilities and expand the greenhouse to ensure it could support grain production for brewing.