Chapter 4

Jiang Yan's Level 3 Survival Standard

The Nautilus is 36 meters long, 7 meters wide, has a displacement of 120 tons, and an additional cargo capacity of 30 tons.

The ship has three decks and an interior space of 250 cubic meters, which is more spacious than Jiang Yan had imagined.

The main deck has living and working areas, two four-person bedrooms, one single bedroom, and a fully equipped kitchen and bathroom.

It's tidy and clean, and it looks very pleasing.

What surprised Jiang Yan even more was that there was an expensive seawater desalination machine in the storage compartment below the main deck.

"You don't need to touch this. Don't break it."

Seeing Jiang Yan's gaze fixed on the machine, Captain Zhang reminded him, "Anyway, you're just going to cruise around in the vicinity for a few dozen nautical miles. The freshwater tanks downstairs can hold more than twenty tons of water, enough for you to use for a few days."

This thing is only used on ocean voyages. If his son hadn't insisted on installing one to play with, he wouldn't have been willing to part with it. He himself has never even used one.

"Okay." Jiang Yan smiled.

This thing isn't difficult to operate. Once the boat is in his hands, he can do whatever he wants with it.

He had just glanced at the parameters on the freshwater machine and calculated that it could produce nearly 8 tons of freshwater if it ran for 4 hours a day, enough for a boat of about ten people.

The freed-up space can be used to carry more fuel.

Below this level is the lower deck, which includes three cold storage rooms, fresh water tanks, storage compartments, a power distribution room, and so on. It is the core area prepared before the apocalypse.

With a fuel tank capacity of 32 tons, it has a range of 2000 nautical miles (approximately 3700 kilometers), giving it ocean-going capabilities.

The upper two floors are the captain's cabin and the driving area. Since it is a new ship, it has everything, such as high frequency, GPS, radar, fish finders, etc., and the monitoring system is fully covered.

The top-level flybridge is used for observation, and there is a semi-open lounge with an auxiliary cockpit at the back, but Jiang Yan estimated that he would basically not go up there because the sun was too strong.

It really is poisonous.

"How about it? Twenty thousand a day on this ship isn't much, is it? If you want to save some trouble, I can send a few people on board, and we'll just charge the commission at market rate."

Captain Zhang said, "I know the fish situation in the surrounding waters very well, I'll definitely make sure you have a great time."

Jiang Yan immediately shook his head: "No need, no need, we've already hired a team, and we'll show you the documents, contracts, and everything else later."

"Alright."

The captain didn't insist. He was a ship owner with several ships ready to go to sea, and he didn't necessarily need to make money off these people.

The main reason was that he really liked the new ship and wanted to be on board by himself to keep an eye on it; that would give him peace of mind.

However, since there's an insurance contract, it doesn't really matter.

Jiang Yan definitely couldn't let the captain board the ship. He had to keep the loading and modifications a secret from the captain, otherwise it would cause a lot of trouble.

Moreover, if the captain takes sailors aboard, he will naturally lose control of the ship after the apocalypse, which is unacceptable.

After agreeing on the initial rental fee, Jiang Yan took out a standard contract downloaded from "Chuanyou Chuanxing" (a website for boat owners), filled in the amount, and handed it to the captain.

Both parties signed the agreement promptly, and he made the payment and submitted a deposit, which cost him over 800,000 yuan.

The deposit for the new ship is very high, so I guess there's no chance of getting it back.

Jiang Yan didn't care.

Only if you survive and return alive will that money truly be yours; the money you have now is just a string of numbers.

A ship is essentially a mobile shelter, which is of extraordinary significance in the apocalypse.

Aside from this large expense, supplies like water, food, and medicine don't actually cost much.

Eating, drinking, gambling, and tickets are all about food. While there's no upper limit to how much you can eat, the lower limit is quite low.

Living in the world's largest and most industrialized country, human feed is a relatively easy thing to handle.

Jiang Yan can live freely in the wilderness and has a very high tolerance for "human feed". If all else fails, he can survive for several days with a handful of pig feed.

There used to be a guy called "Algae Bro" in the "Lie Down" group. He was dedicated to researching how to survive by eating algae and lying down, relying solely on "photosynthesis" to live.

For example, the highest dry weight of spirulina can contain 18% carbohydrates and 72% protein, a protein content that even the fitness community next door dares not know.

Later, because of the negative impact, they banned Brother Zao, but Jiang Yan had already kept these legends in mind.

"Now that the ship issue is resolved, we can begin preparing supplies."

Jiang Yan took a taxi to the farmers' wholesale market to buy food and water.

According to the characteristics of the product supply chain, the further upstream you are, the lower the added value will be, and the cheaper it will be.

Distributors in agricultural wholesale markets are generally the most upstream suppliers that can be found in small cities.

Of course, these kinds of places usually don't sell retail.

Jiang Yan divided the survival standard into three levels according to the degree of urgency, and all the supplies he prepared had to cover these three levels. He would never put all his eggs in one basket.

Routine, emergency, just surviving.

For example, food.

Under normal circumstances, staple foods include vacuum-packed rice, noodles, instant noodles, etc.; under emergency circumstances, they include compressed biscuits and some canned goods.

As for survival standards...

It wouldn't be out of the question to be a "Zao Ge" (a nickname for a male celebrity), since he would prepare all three standards at the same time.

Similarly, water resources are available in three forms: large-capacity bottled water, water purifier pitchers, and water purification tablets, ensuring a layered safety net and guaranteeing the availability of clean water.

Humans are actually quite easy to raise. A daily intake of about 1800 calories is sufficient, and the diet should include carbohydrates, protein, fat, and dietary fiber.

If you prepare according to this approach, your survival supplies will be well organized.

江岩以「人」为单位进行计算,每人一年需要碳水180kg、蛋白质120kg、脂肪25kg、调味品20kg(合计)、营养补剂1套。

Vegetables are difficult to measure, so they are calculated separately.

Carbohydrates, such as rice, noodles, and grains, are relatively easy to store.

Protein, canned meat, sealed cured meat, milk powder, soybeans, nuts, etc.

Store as much fat as possible, such as soybean oil, lard, and butter, as it is difficult to produce oil under apocalyptic conditions, and oils do indeed have many functions.

Key applications include energy supply, medicine, heating, skin care, and leather tanning.

Condiments are even simpler, as they are naturally easy to store.

Nutritional supplements include multivitamin tablets and calcium tablets, and costing only a few tens of dollars can last for a year.

The premise is that you don't buy health supplements.

For the last vegetables, Jiang Yan purchased pre-cooked vegetables, dehydrated vegetables, and canned vegetables.

Don't underestimate pre-cooked meals; their flavors generally meet the needs of Chinese people, and their shelf life can even be as long as 3 years.

For dehydrated vegetables, you can buy high-end ones online or low-end ones at the farmers' market. You can find things like dried shiitake mushrooms, dried kelp, dried seaweed, and dried plum vegetables.

After all that calculation, the food cost for one person per year is only five or six thousand yuan. Jiang Yan even thoughtfully prepared a snack allowance.

He prepared enough for 30 people for a year, and the cost was less than 200,000 yuan.

Jiang Yan prepared five sets of supplies, which he planned to store in five underground warehouses in the city.

Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, let alone preparations for the end times.

If you enter a city after the apocalypse and get scattered by a horde of zombies, the nearby temporary supply points are enough to save your life.

Although supplies could be found locally, and there were plenty of supermarkets and convenience stores in the city, Jiang Yan was still worried.

In extreme heat, water and power outages, the items in supermarkets may not last long.

Goods in supermarket warehouses can be stored for a long time, but going deep into such places is too dangerous.

It doesn't cost much anyway.

When it comes to preparing for the apocalypse, online lenders have their own strategies, and they also have their own ways of handling default penalties.

Jiang Yan will definitely make the best use of everything.

The survival plan is basically finalized; the next step is the reconstruction plan.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a strict resource cycle must be implemented.

This is hope.

Once a person enters a state of living off their savings, they will gradually lose all confidence.

Jiang Yan understood this because the other contestants in "Wilderness Survival" were like that.