It was essential to buy enough lighters and matches to ensure convenience when heating up meals with a fire, whether during an escape or when dwelling in public squares.
In the few years following the apocalypse, there was no water, electricity, or gas supply. Lighters, wood, and any combustible items usually scavenged were traded for work points and food, making it very difficult to even light a fire.
In life, you often don't realize how precious the little things are until you lose them.
Like kitchen knives and machetes. If Jingshu's house had had a few kitchen knives in her previous life, she wouldn't have been killed by people wielding sticks and glass bottles. The riots in the half-year following the apocalypse were truly terrifying, and later, a bloody suppression led to the deaths of countless people.
