November 23rd, 341, 8:00 AM.
Tang Li finished her daily exercise and sat on the balcony, counting money.
The ice layer outside the balcony had long since melted and fallen off after more than ten days of wind and sun.
Outside the window, large snowflakes were fluttering down.
The ground and rooftops were already covered with a layer of white snow.
This blizzard would last for a full week.
It wasn't apparent yet, but by nightfall, the accumulated snow would reach a meter high.
A week of snow would eventually accumulate to seven or eight meters, reaching the third floor.
This would severely hinder people's travel.
Tang Li had replenished the goods in the supermarket warehouse the previous morning, enough for the week's use, so she stayed home with peace of mind.
With nothing to do, Tang Li took out the nationwide general physical supply rationing coupons from her space, sorted them by denomination, and bundled them into stacks of 100.
Ever since the announcement of a half-price discount on goods purchased with general coupons, Tang Li's supermarket revenue had not decreased but increased. Coupled with the fact that change was given in A City coupons and replicated general coupons.
In these past few days, including the change, Tang Li had earned over 10,000 worth of general coupons from the supermarket alone.
These general coupons were basically earned by using replicated supplies from her space, equivalent to making something out of nothing.
In less than a month, Tang Li not only recouped her investments in renovating the supermarket and purchasing solar panels but also doubled her capital.
If this trend continued, she could earn another fifty to sixty thousand general coupons in the next four months.
In addition to what she earned at the supermarket, Tang Li had also earned nearly 10,000 general coupons by visiting the black market in the past ten-plus days.
Regardless of whether these general coupons were earned at the supermarket or exchanged through the black market, Tang Li would store them in her space and then replicate them.
In A City, Tang Li would only replicate each general coupon once, no more.
When she reached Jiang City, or any other cities she passed through, Tang Li would then continue to replicate these general coupons collected from A City.
Only one replication per city.
Whether it was these general coupons, the brand-new, consecutively numbered general coupons exchanged at the exchange previously, or other A City coupons, Tang Li would deposit them into her supply rationing coupon account upon leaving A City.
Before the solar storm, when electronic devices nationwide were still functional and various official bodies were networked, supply rationing coupons were also universally accepted.
It was only after the solar storm, when some people exploited the severed network connections in various regions to repeatedly redeem physical supply rationing coupons in different places with a single ID card, that the supply rationing coupons of various official bodies became segmented.
From then on, cross-city transfers would require proof issued by the exchange. Otherwise, one could only transport physical paper supply rationing coupons.
Tang Li, having gone to Jiang City before the solar storm, naturally deposited these supply rationing coupons into the account linked to her ID card, making them more convenient and secure.
At that time, Tang Li could either replicate and use the general coupons from her space, or redeem the supply rationing coupons from her account.
On the road, Tang Li could even go to the supply exchange in every city she passed through, replicate the general coupons from her space and deposit them into her account, or exchange the supply rationing coupons from her account (within the local limits) for general coupons and store them in her space.
In this way, both the supply rationing coupons in Tang Li's space and account could grow geometrically, snowballing and multiplying.
Therefore, looking at the 20,000 points of general coupons bundled on the ground, Tang Li was somewhat dissatisfied.
The reason was simple: the speed of making money was too slow.
Tang Li knew that in the coming four months, due to the snow blocking roads and the continuous drop in temperature, the supermarket's earning speed would not maintain this trend, and she couldn't keep going to the black market indefinitely.
At the current pace, even with the consecutively numbered general coupons in her space, she would be fortunate to accumulate 150,000 before leaving A City.
Even if she converted all 150,000 into general coupons, replicated them, and then stored them in her space;
Even if she replicated the general coupons from her space and deposited them into her account in every city she passed through, and exchanged as many supply rationing coupons from her account as possible for general coupons to store in her space;
Even if she deposited all the accumulated general coupons from her space upon arriving in Jiang City...
After all these operations, she could at most obtain 1.5 million points, which is a tenfold increase.
1.5 million points, while sounding like a lot.
Tang Li knew that it wasn't enough.