March 21, 342, 8:00 AM.
Tang Li did not wear the integrated electric thermal protective suit, but a regular cold-weather suit.
She went out with a lantern in her right hand and a briefcase in her left.
Although it was cold outside, her body, strengthened by the jade pendant, had also increased its resistance to the cold.
While the integrated electric thermal protective suit offered better cold protection, it contained electrical heating devices that would be damaged by the geomagnetic storm, which was why Tang Li did not wear it.
However, Tang Li was not wearing an electromagnetic radiation shielding suit at this time.
No one had yet discovered the delta particles in sunlight.
If she were to run around wearing an electromagnetic radiation shielding suit beforehand, it might also arouse suspicion from others later.
Moreover, the ice and snow had not yet melted, and most buildings in Jiangcheng were buried under snow, shielded from direct sunlight.
It would only be after the ice and snow melted that the delta particles would unleash their true power...
Since the car could not be driven, Tang Li walked.
Having lived in Jiangcheng for four days, Tang Li was quite familiar with the environment and soon reached the nearby Exchange No. 3.
Along the way, Tang Li noticed many people heading there, carrying lanterns.
The hall of the exchange was also brightly lit, with a large crowd gathered, making noisy and chaotic scenes.
Tang Li ignored them and went directly to the VIP channel.
With over 7.16 million points in her supply allocation voucher account, Tang Li was destined to be a VIP in any city she visited.
And in the briefcase Tang Li was carrying, there were 600,000 national unified physical supply allocation vouchers, replicated from her space!
After arriving in Jiangcheng, Tang Li had not yet replicated and deposited the unified vouchers from her space into her account.
The reason for this was also for safety.
Although others could not see how many points were in Tang Li's supply allocation voucher account, the official staff could see them during operations.
The large number of supply allocation vouchers in her account, combined with the unified vouchers she was now taking out from her space, might make others suspect the source of these points.
It didn't matter if she was suspected in other cities she passed through on the way, or in city A, which she was about to leave.
After all, she wouldn't be staying in those places for long.
Even if suspected, or if something suspicious was found, those places couldn't do anything to her.
However, it was different in Jiangcheng.
If someone discovered that Tang Li regularly deposited and redeemed unified vouchers in every city she passed through, someone might question the source of the unified vouchers.
The deposit and redemption records in the supply allocation voucher account were stored on that VIP card, recorded on the equipment at the place of transaction, and uploaded to the equipment at the Beijing headquarters.
Before the solar storm, if suspected, a check could reveal everything.
But now, the geomagnetic storm had damaged the VIP card, severed communications everywhere, and even damaged most electronic equipment in the supply departments of various regions.
As a result, in Jiangcheng, no one could check Tang Li's transaction records outside of Jiangcheng.
Even though the authorities had anticipated a geomagnetic storm, they had only stored the final balance of each person's supply allocation voucher account, tied to their identity, and their local transaction records on protected devices.
As for the transaction records from other cities, they were not stored.
It wasn't impossible to investigate.
However, it would require checking the equipment at the Beijing headquarters or the equipment at the place where the unified vouchers were transacted, which was very troublesome.
Tang Li didn't think anyone in this apocalypse would travel that far to investigate the source of her points.
Furthermore, because some people took advantage of the loophole where only the "final balance" was stored in local equipment after the solar storm, and then repeatedly redeemed unified vouchers and various supplies in different cities using already redeemed points…
Therefore, at the end of this month, the supply allocation vouchers would be segmented.
After segmentation, transaction records for non-local residents in their supply allocation voucher accounts would be deleted by each city.
Even the Beijing headquarters would not retain this data, which had lost its significance after losing contact with various regions and failing to update in a timely manner.
By then, no one would know where Tang Li's points and unified vouchers came from.
Upon entering the VIP channel, Tang Li discovered that the elevator had also been damaged by the geomagnetic storm and was currently under repair, rendering it unusable.
She had no choice but to carry the briefcase and go upstairs via the stairwell.
Soon, she arrived at the VIP area for redeeming physical supply allocation vouchers.
Normally, this place was seldom visited.
However, at this moment, it was overcrowded.
Because the geomagnetic storm had destroyed a large number of electronic devices, people were rushing to exchange points in their supply allocation voucher accounts for physical supply allocation vouchers, fearing their data might be lost.
Even if they were not unified vouchers, Jiangcheng vouchers would suffice.
Thus, this led to such a run of redemption.