November 22nd, 341 AD, 3:00 PM.
As soon as Tang Li left the black market, she realized she was being followed.
Having lived for four years in the post-apocalyptic world, especially two years with complete societal collapse, Tang Li's intuition for danger was quite sharp.
This wasn't the first time she had been followed in the past ten days.
Tang Li didn't go straight home, nor did she head to the supermarket.
She skillfully took several detours, but still couldn't shake them off.
"Huh? These guys have improved their skills today!"
Tang Li exclaimed.
She spotted a public restroom on the road and walked into it.
"Brother, this kid went into the women's restroom?"
Tang Li's appearance today was that of a delicate young man.
Therefore, logically, she should have entered the men's restroom.
However, Tang Li went into the women's restroom.
There was no one inside.
Tang Li casually found a stall and hid.
Her keen hearing allowed her to catch every word spoken by the people outside the restroom.
"You, go take a look."
"Brother, this... isn't that inappropriate?"
"What's inappropriate about it? If others can go, why can't I!"
"..."
Tang Li was speechless.
It was just entering a women's restroom, yet they spoke of it with such heroic fervor.
Just as the group was debating whether to enter the women's restroom, a demure young girl walked out.
Seeing them gathered at the entrance of the women's restroom, the girl glanced at them with disdain before leaving directly.
The group exchanged glances.
"Hey, is anyone in the restroom? If not, we're coming in!"
After a long moment of hesitation, they finally decided to check the restroom.
However, they searched all the stalls, and no one was found inside.
"Damn it, we lost them again!"
"Brother, why are these people so hard to track? The woman from yesterday, the old man from the day before, and the youths and girls before, why do we keep losing them?"
"Yeah, it's so strange. We saw him enter the restroom, but how did he disappear?"
The men were all dejected at not having caught Tang Li.
This wasn't the first time they had lost track of Tang Li, nor was it the first time Tang Li had shaken them off.
In fact, the demure young girl who had just walked out was Tang Li.
After entering the women's restroom, Tang Li had changed into the appearance of the previously disguised girl and walked out directly, leaving under their noses with a dismissive glance.
The man at the head of the group suddenly realized something was wrong upon hearing their words.
"That woman just now! There's something wrong with her! Chase her!"
The others, though slightly confused, followed the man's command and pursued.
However, on the busy street, with people coming and going, the young girl they had just seen was nowhere to be found.
"Brother, what's going on? What was wrong with that woman just now?"
The leader retorted, "Didn't she look familiar to you?"
The crowd thought for a moment and then realized, "She's the same girl we lost track of a few days ago!"
"Brother, what do we do now? These people must still have more supplies!"
The leader sighed, "We'll just have to wait for her to come again next time."
"Next time, we'll chase directly, no more slow tracking!"
Because there were many patrol officers everywhere during the martial law period, these people only dared to follow Tang Li from a distance, wanting to know where she was going but not daring to intercept her directly.
When they lost her before, they had simply assumed the other party was being overly cautious.
After today's incident, they finally realized that Tang Li had discovered them long ago.
Therefore, they decided that next time, they wouldn't track her; they would intercept her directly.
After evading them, Tang Li changed back into her delicate young man disguise and went to the makeup artist at the supply exchange.
"Miss Tang, what appearance will you be disguising yourself as tomorrow?" the makeup artist asked.
"Forget it, I won't be disguising myself tomorrow,"
Tang Li said as she took out the universal coupons she had just exchanged at the black market.
It was going to snow tonight.
Tomorrow, Tang Li would be staying home for a period and would not be going to the black market, so there was no need for disguise.
The makeup artist, somewhat disappointed, accepted the universal coupons from Tang Li and said, "Alright then, come see me again if you need anything."
"Yes, I'll continue in a while."
Hearing Tang Li's words, the makeup artist's heart leaped with joy, and she proceeded to help Tang Li remove her makeup.
After removing the makeup, Tang Li went to the supermarket and replicated the universal coupons from the supermarket that day into her space before heading home.