Not long after Ye Ziyu and the others left the hillside where they had stopped, a figure with his entire body caged in a black hooded coat appeared at the top of the outermost high-rise building in the city they were looking at. For every two people who watch romance, there is an account registered on the Internet.

His eyebrows were covered by a wide hat, and only a thinner man could be seen from the silhouette.

The only one that shows is a blue stubble on his chin, and his thin lips are slightly pursed.

A cold wind blew, and the man's coat was blown by the wind. The wind was strong for a while, and the man stood on the edge of the building, not afraid of being hung down and falling by the wind.

The cold wind finally blew the man's coat and hat behind him, as if to see the man's appearance clearly.

However, the thick black hair on the man's head seemed to have not been taken care of for a long time, and it was unkempt and glued together. The long hair on the forehead covered half of the face, and no matter how much the cold wind blew, it could not be blown away from the front of the face.

The cold wind seemed to have given up the idea of taking a look, and slowly subsided, leaving only a little unwilling air current, which seemed to blow the ends of the man's hair in front of his forehead like a teasing.

Through the gap in the ends of his hair, the man's gray pupils were faintly visible, and the direction he was looking at was the small hillside where Ye Ziyu and the others had stood before.

In order to bypass the highly dense urban area in the central region, the five Ye Ziyu people walked almost along the outer ring of the central region.

"According to the current driving direction, it will take about another month or so to enter the northern region." Wang Yuyi held a miniature version of the map of the Xia Kingdom and said affirmatively.

The map was discovered by Liang Tian when he was tidying up the space recently, before he moved several supermarkets in, and he didn't know all about what was loaded in, and then he simply sorted it out and moved out of the place to farm.

Now he's in space researching weapons for Anomalies and Mutants. I needed a lot of tools, so I carefully sorted out the items in the process of looking for usable or alternative tools, and then found this eight-carat paper-sized map of the Xia Kingdom.

The map is small, but it's still useful. Although they traveled far from the city, and the location of each city could only be marked in small print on such a condensed map, the surviving locals they met along the way could tell them exactly where their current location was on the map, so that they would not go too far.

The farther away from the city, the more frequent spontaneous small bases appear. And several base clusters were like Stone Town they were passing by. One of the largest nearby refuge towns controls the surrounding small refuge villages adjacent to it.

In fact, it is an extremely effective method of emergency evacuation. If you have the courage to rely on the government's three official bases, how many survivors can be saved? Moreover, the territory of the Xia Kingdom is vast, and the country currently only has these three bases that are far apart, and the remote areas cannot support them at all.

But there are many such small bases. Another profession was born, that of robbers.

Because these small bases are not far apart, even the distance between the two base groups is only a week's foot. So there will be people coming and going between the bases. Most of these people are in business, and a small number are visiting acquaintances. If you follow a caravan and wander between the bases, it's fine. It is rare to encounter a robber with the courage to attack a business team. Not to mention the large number of people, the robbers can't deal with it. Even the rulers of the caravanserais, they can't afford to mess with them.

In the beginning, caravans were organized spontaneously by merchants who wanted to buy and sell to earn crystal nuclei, but any organization would need a leader to manage it after reaching a certain size. This is not only convenient for the operation of caravanserais. It can also make the team more united, and gradually turn the competitive relationship between each other into a monopoly relationship of the caravan, and sell the same kind of goods at a unified price.

Before. Commodity price monopolies are extremely detrimental to consumers, but for now. There are two sides to the story. It is true that the overall selling price of some products has increased after the price has been set uniformly, but the price of many products has also decreased. And whether it goes up or down, that bit of fluctuation doesn't care at all for those who can afford it, and for those who can't afford it no matter how much it drops, it won't be affected at all.

However, if you want to follow the caravan, you have to hand over a certain number of crystal nuclei to the manager. For those who apply to join a caravan to do business, it is a tax, and for those who want to travel with them to their destination, it is equivalent to a protection fee. Not to mention that many bosses in the caravan are supernatural and mutants, but there are many people who are responsible for the security of the entire team, so there is absolutely no need to worry about robberies on the way if you follow them. Therefore, this crystal nucleus is also reasonable.

The central region is business-oriented, although there is no business and no treachery, but if you want to develop for a long time, you still need to ensure fairness and integrity. As long as you hand over enough crystal nuclei, you will definitely get a service equal to the value of crystal nuclei. Therefore, few people will complain about this kind of charge.

However, these caravans don't pass by every base village every day, so not everyone will be protected by the caravanserai when they go out, even if they have enough crystal nuclei on their hands. Either go on your own or wait until the caravan passes by. But there is another point, even if you are going out today, you just happen to stop here by the caravan, and you can accompany it in the afternoon, but if the route of the caravan is compatible with the one you want to go, you still have to be yourself.

In this way, the robbers who were ambushed on the road did not have to worry about running out of business.

They only found out about this when they met a robber.

On that day, Ye Ziyu and a few people passed by a small base village, and just in time for a caravan to arrive in this small village, so several people also joined in the fun.

The entire central region is long from east to west and wide from north to south. They are now in a central north-west position.

Although the closer they get to the city, the more dangerous they are, but the population is also larger, so although their current location is actually closer to the center of the city than the place in Stone Town, the base tribe here is very dense. They had already passed through one tribe, and now if they left this small village, they would have left a second tribe.

I don't know if it's because there are more tribes here, but the scale of the caravan they caught up with this time is much larger than the circulating mobile market in Stone Town, and the goods sold in it are more diverse.

Ye Ziyu had been thinking about Bai Haocheng's watch, which could identify the level of mutant beasts, but he didn't find it in the mobile market in Stone City. I don't know if it will appear here.

On the stalls selling groceries and all kinds of strange and unnamed goods, Ye Ziyu paid special attention to looking for them, but unfortunately he still didn't find them.

But she wasn't disappointed, that kind of device wouldn't be taken out and sold casually, it was really sold, and I was afraid that someone else would preempt it before she could buy it.

However, they were surprised that there were people in this caravan who sold fruit again. When it comes to fruit, it's one of the hardest foods to preserve. And it's been so long since we entered the end times.

All the people who came to patronize this caravan were attracted by this small fruit stand, and all of them salivated, but not one of them came forward to ask for the price. Just think about it. It's definitely not something they can buy with the crystal nuclei they have saved from their daily hunting.

There are also a few fruits in Ye Ziyu's space, which are nothing more than apples, pears and oranges, which have a long shelf life, and there are not many of them. Fortunately, the pits of these fruits have sprouted after they are planted in the ground, and when they grow into large trees, they can provide a steady stream of fresh fruits for everyone to eat.

What makes Ye Ziyu happiest is that the varieties of fruits on this fruit stall are as diverse as those in the previous fruit shops. It is not known how the stall owner managed to preserve the fruits from being damaged as they traveled around with the caravanserais.

The owner of the fruit stall is a sturdy middle-aged man, who seems to have long been accustomed to being watched by people but no one comes forward to buy it.

He sat lazily in an improvised folding chair. Covered with a thick layer of mutant animal skin, his head was drowsy little by little.

"Mom, I want to eat apples~" A soft and glutinous voice sounded not far from Ye Ziyu's side.

It was a little boy of seven or eight years old.

The boy's face was sallow because of long-term malnutrition, and his cheeks did not have the baby fat that he should have at this age. The black and white pupils are particularly large because of the sunken eye sockets. Staring at the red apples on the fruit shelf without blinking.

The middle-aged woman he was pulling was also staring at the plump, shiny and tender fruits of all colors. After being drawn back to attention by the boy's earnest voice, the woman swallowed. Frowning slightly.

Not to mention the fruit, even the water she hasn't drunk for two days. A little saliva that finally appears in the mouth can moisten the throat. But instead, it caused a hot pain in his dry throat like being cut by a knife.

The woman looked distressed at the pair of little hands that were as thin as her own hands and squatted down, although she couldn't bear it, she still turned the boy's head over, and said softly: "Xiaobao, good, those fruits are not sold, you see that everyone didn't buy them, did they." ”

How could a seven- or eight-year-old child be fooled by such a nonsense, but the boy obviously knew his mother's predicament, nodded very sensibly, and then looked nostalgically at the red and tempting apple, and took the woman's hand and walked out. As he walked, he said: "Mom said that eating sweets will cause tooth decay, we don't have toothpaste, even if the boss is willing to sell fruits, Xiaobao can't eat it, Xiaobao must protect his teeth, otherwise he won't be able to eat better things in the future." ”

The woman was pulled by the boy and silently followed him, with a look of relief and sadness on her face.

When the mother and son were far away, Ye Ziyu stepped forward to deal with the owner of the fruit stall, even if the little boy knew that his mother was lying to him, she still couldn't bear to destroy the lies that the mother had woven to protect the boy's young heart.

Such a sensible child, even if the mother told him the truth that they couldn't afford it, I believe that the boy would still pull his mother away like a little adult just now, just doing that, it will leave a humble shadow on the child's psychology.

"Boss, how do you sell these grapes?"

With this sound, everyone's eyes fell on Ye Ziyu's body.

Yan Miao pulled Ye Ziyu's sleeve and whispered, "Ye Zi, you are too eye-catching." ”

"It's okay, we'll leave in a moment anyway."

The boss just raised his eyelids when he heard the sound, then moved his body and found a more comfortable position to continue sleeping, without wanting to pay attention to Ye Ziyu's meaning.

"Boss" Ye Ziyu called again.

The man snorted impatiently: "One hundred crystal nuclei a catty." ”

There was a gasp all around.

"How can it be so expensive, let's go leaves, just let this guy's fruit rot." Yan Miao took Ye Ziyu's hand and was about to turn around.

Ye Ziyu stopped her: "Wait." ”

"You don't really want to buy it, do you" She leaned into Ye Ziyu's ear, although she knew that even if she whispered, it would still be heard by strangers and mutants, but she still subconsciously asked in a low voice: "Do you have so many crystal nuclei?"

Ye Ziyu shook her head, the crystal nuclei of all of them were basically here, and they would only be sold out if they could buy a few catties, but she didn't plan to buy too much.

"Boss, I only buy two pills, I don't know if you sell them or not"

As soon as Ye Ziyu's words fell, there was a burst of laughter around him, attracting the three of Wang Congyi, who were looking at the items on other stalls next to them.

"What's wrong," Wang Jiyi squeezed in and asked.

"Buy some fruit." Ye Ziyu replied calmly, deaf to the laughter around him.

Wang Yuyi raised his eyebrows.

The boss finally opened his eyes and sat up straight, the thick leather blanket sliding onto his lap.

He originally thought that they were just two little girls with abilities or mutated physiques, thinking that they were doing well and wanted to buy some fruit to satisfy their hunger, and he had never encountered such things, but after he said the price, he left in a huff, and this was the first time he had heard someone buy two grapes from him. The man felt funny in his heart, and his attitude became more and more arrogant.

The man twisted his neck and said in an even more impatient tone: "Little girl, I'm not a charity here, go play elsewhere." ”

"Hey, how do you talk," Ye Baishuang became annoyed when he heard this.

The man stopped writhing, and finally looked at Ye Ziyu seriously.

Just now he noticed the young man who walked in after him and looked very eye-catching, and now there was a child who spoke unpolitely, looking at the posture, these people should be together.

In such a small village of about 20 households, it is normal to say that two of them are doing well, but it is not the case that there are four or five young men and girls who are neatly dressed and have very prominent appearances. To be continued