Merely surviving would cost a mere five points per person daily, assuming ample official supplies.
However, reborn, Tang Li desired far more than mere survival!
Regarding food, while one point two years later could still buy enough to fill an adult's stomach, it would then be compressed into nutrient cakes made from insect flour.
To eat like the food available now, she would have to pay more points.
Of course, Tang Li had her space, and in this life, she didn't worry about food.
But in the apocalypse, especially after the great earthquake, housing was also extremely scarce.
In her previous life, even with over ten thousand points, Tang Li had only managed to secure a spot in an eight-person dormitory at the A City shelter, paying five points daily.
Detached houses did exist, but they were limited in number.
They required participation in auctions, competing with others. It was common to spend thousands or even hundreds of thousands of points for a single bid.
This time around, Tang Li didn't want to share living quarters with others.
Furthermore, to conveniently use her space, she needed her own independent residence.
Therefore, these points were essential.
Although Tang Li's knowledge was limited to the A City shelter in her past life, the Jiang City shelter would undoubtedly have more housing options.
However, Jiang City also had more wealthy individuals than A City.
The competition for housing in Jiang City might not be any less fierce than in A City.
Beyond that, after the solar storm, protective suits and transportation designed for the apocalyptic environment would cost thousands of points each.
These were just daily expenses for clothing, food, housing, and transportation.
Weapons, ammunition, and high-tech items were even more expensive.
Conventional pre-apocalypse weapons, like the handgun in Tang Li's space, cost over a hundred thousand points each, with bullets at 100 points apiece.
This was why, even after the official lifting of weapon bans in her past life, Tang Li still couldn't acquire firearms.
High-tech products like mechanical exoskeletons, electromagnetic pulse grenades, and hoverbikes, which Tang Li had only heard of but never seen in her previous life, produced by research institutes, would likely command astronomical point prices.
With only 1.5 million points, Tang Li might not live very comfortably in the Jiang City shelter or the underground city.
What about directly replicating supplies from her space to exchange?
Firstly, many of the supplies in her space were subject to unified official distribution and had already been requisitioned by the authorities, making it difficult to explain their origin if Tang Li were to take them out.
Secondly, the storage and transportation conditions for these supplies were also extremely stringent.
Supplies worth just ten thousand points could weigh several tons.
Tang Li couldn't possibly carry tons of supplies to exchange for what she needed, could she? Who could carry dozens of tons of supplies around?
Therefore, directly replicating supplies from her space could not be timely exchanged for housing, weapons, protective suits, or high-tech items.
Only supply allocation vouchers!
These could be stored in an account, were easy to store, portable, and required no explanation of their origin.
Hence, Tang Li had to accumulate sufficient supply allocation vouchers before heading to Jiang City to cover her expenses there.
Accumulating 150,000 points now would turn into 1.5 million upon reaching Jiang City.
Accumulating 1.5 million points now could potentially turn into 15 million upon reaching Jiang City.
The more she accumulated, the more points she could replicate on the journey and use to snowball her wealth.
This was why Tang Li was currently dissatisfied with the bundles of 20,000 general-purpose vouchers tied up on the ground.
"I need to find a way to accumulate as many points as possible!"
As Tang Li was agonizing over this, a knock came from the door.
"Xiao Li, going out to clear snow?"
"Go clear the snow on the main roads, you get 10 points a day!"
Zhang Yan's voice came from outside the door.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhang, but I won't be going." Tang Li declined.
Tang Li knew that once she went out, after doing the point-earning work, she would still have to join everyone else in clearing the snow within the residential area.
Although she lacked points, if she did this kind of work, earning 10 points a day and involving volunteer labor, for five consecutive months, she would only get 1,500 points.
Moreover, this kind of work would only last for two or three days.
After those two or three days, during snow clearing, there was also the risk of being crushed or suffocated by falling snow.
Therefore, Tang Li naturally wouldn't waste her time on this.
After being refused by Tang Li, Zhang Yan went to call Tang Li's new neighbors.