The atmosphere on the car was a little dull, and Zhou Zhou, who was originally full of energy, seemed to be tired from a day's work, and as the body shook a few times, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Feeling the weight on his shoulders, Chen Xin didn't dare to move, as if he was afraid of waking up the girl.

But as soon as the SUV stopped, the girl woke up, "Arrived?" ”

"It's already in the inner city", Li Hengda turned his head and said lightly, "I'll park the car and wait for me inside." ”

"Hmm", the girl rubbed her eyes and said a few words in a slurred voice, but neither of them understood.

Chen Xin didn't care, it was estimated that the girl was a little dazed in her sleep, and she even felt a little dampness on her shoulders.

After a second or two, Zhou Zhou seemed to wake up, his eyes were extremely round, and he leaned on the car window and said, "This is Dongcheng, Chen Xin, there is a particularly delicious food stall here." ”

"Food stalls?" , Chen Xin was a little surprised in his heart, the order of Sioux City can actually support the free commodity economy?!

A snack stall is nothing at all in the peaceful, free and prosperous old era, but it is built on an adequate food supply, a safe and secure environment, an officially certified currency circulation system, and sufficient purchasing power of the consumer masses. Only when all these conditions are met can it be possible to give birth to a consumer economy such as food stalls.

"Sioux City is so powerful?" , Chen Xin had a slight doubt in his heart, after all, the Far East City where he stayed before was the most developed area in the entire region in the old days, but now, it is just a ruined and dilapidated city.

Zhou Zhou didn't know what Chen Xin was thinking, he just had an impatient look on his face, and dragged Chen Xin out of the car.

The food stall is not far away, only a few hundred meters away, Chen Xin followed Zhou Zhou's fingers, and saw a crowded crowd.

Seeing the lively scene like a pedestrian street in the wasteland world made Chen Xin a little surprised, and even made him feel some long-lost intimacy in his heart.

There were at least a few hundred people, and countless small stalls were spread out around a simple gatehouse.

"How's it going, it's lively, isn't it?" , Zhou Zhou said to Chen Xin with a little ostentatiousness, as if these vendors were his family's property.

Chen Xin looked at the distance and was speechless for a long time, and only after watching it for a long time did he burst out with two "ums".

"It's all snacks?" , albeit not far away,

"That's no, probably only half of it sells food" Zhou Zhou's tone was a little regretful, "I remember that in the old days, every city had a snack street, and there were ...... for everything delicious."

Chen Xin glanced at Zhou Zhou, before the advent of the wasteland era, she should not be very old, but she can always remember a lot of things, especially those novel and interesting things, she is very impressed, such as the special food street of the old era.

"And what are the rest for sale?"

"Everything, guns, medicine, pure water, and even ...... people", in the end, Zhou Zhou's face seemed to be a little tangled.

Chen Xin nodded, what Zhou Zhou said was some hard currency with hard demand in the wasteland world.

As for treating people as goods, in Chen Xin's view, it is not something unthinkable. After all, it is a world in which the use of force is legal and where danger lurks everywhere, and it is impossible to preserve the human rights system in such a world.

"You hang out here a lot?" , Chen Xin followed Zhou Zhou and continued to move forward, asking as he walked.

"Well, as long as I have time when I go back to the city, I will come here to walk around and see what new gadgets will come, but just to see, I don't have so much money on me......"

Chen Xin nodded again, he could roughly understand women's love for shopping, not to mention, the vitality of this bazaar was like paradise for people living in the wasteland.

The two soon walked to the edge of the market, Chen Xin looked up, and most of the vendors on the edge just laid a plastic mat of one or two square meters on the ground, and the goods that they didn't know where to get them were neatly placed on it.

At a glance, Chen Xin could easily see that most of the things displayed by these vendors were made by underground workshops, such as hand-polished bullets.

These hand-polished bullets are generally more powerful than the bullets produced on the assembly line, but the price is cheaper, but Chen Xin has no idea of buying some.

Because, these bullets of unknown origin may jam when fired, and even more unlucky, they will even explode, and using this kind of thing on the battlefield is simply a joke with their own lives.

Zhou Zhou didn't stop, he still walked forward, Chen Xin followed behind, his eyes looked at both sides from time to time, and he suddenly felt a little dizzy.

After a while, the vendors on both sides have "evolved" from plastic mats to small carts, although some of them look like stainless steel food carts in the kitchens of the old days, but the owners of these vendors are obviously much more decent than the outermost guys.

These small carts are often filled with canned food, jerky and iron boxes of different colors, and occasionally some strips of meat that look bright red hang on top of the larger food trucks.

"Can you eat these strips of meat?" , Chen Xin followed Zhou Zhou closely and asked curiously.

Zhou Zhou followed Chen Xin's gaze, pouted and said, "Most of these meats are ruthless, if you don't eat them, there is a certain possibility of evolution, who will spend money to buy these things." ”

"Evolution?" , Chen Xin was a little surprised, as far as he knew, the phenomenon of eating meat in the wasteland world could evolve, but it didn't appear until the second half of the "Wasteland Survival Manual", but it seemed that whether it was Zhou Zhou or the vendors here, they all knew it clearly.

"Yes, evolution", Zhou Zhou said with a disapprehensive face, "Even if it is a person who lives in the city, many of them can't eat, if they encounter a dead mutant, how can they not eat them." ”

"It's easy to be infected by viruses ...... eating mutant organisms," Chen Xin frowned.

"I'm going to starve to death, where can I take care of infection, anyway, now there are fewer and fewer cases of infection caused by eating meat, and probably everyone's resistance is much stronger."

Chen Xin pursed his lips, he knew in his heart that the enhancement of resistance is by no means something that can evolve in a short period of time, and even on the scale of a single individual, if there is no external force, it is not realistic at all to want to have an evolution that is visible to the naked eye.

If there are fewer and fewer cases of infection now, not the total number of people is getting smaller and smaller, it can only be people with low resistance, and they are almost dead.

Those who eat the meat of mutant organisms will be infected with the virus, and in this era of food shortage, they have been eliminated by the world, and in a sense, this is probably also an evolution.

However, the scale of this evolution can only be reflected in the entire human race. And this embodiment is often behind the sacrifice of one-tenth or even one-fifth or sixth.

Chen Xin sighed softly, didn't think about it any further, and lost the interest in discussing evolution-related topics with Zhou Zhou, at least in the current situation, he didn't have any ability to make any changes.

"It's here, it's there!" , Zhou Zhou pulled the corner of Chen Xin's clothes, pointed to a store in the distance and shouted excitedly.

Chen Xin turned his head to see that each store was divided into two or three, and in front of each compartment, there was a wooden board or a small flag with some font numbers written on it. The store is clearly a remnant of an old era, and many of the walls are covered with gray-glowing tiles.

The store Zhou Zhou refers to is the outermost compartment of the first one, and the wooden board on it has only four words written on it, "Li Ji Broth".

There are no seats in the "Li Kee" store, only a human-height counter across the door, which looks like an old-era bubble tea shop, but there is no decoration in the store, and even the counter looks a little old.

"Aunt Li, I'm here again", Zhou Zhou shouted across the counter.

"It's Zhou Zhou", a female voice came from behind the counter, and then a figure came out of a cubicle and appeared behind the counter.

Chen Xin was a little surprised, but he didn't make a sound, the owner of this shop was actually a half-old woman who was fifty years old. Along the way, eight out of ten of the street vendors on the roadside are men, and the closer they get to the concierge storefront, the more obvious this trend becomes, but I didn't expect that the first store was a female shopkeeper.

"It's me, I'm hungry, give me two bowls, no, a bowl and a half of broth", Zhou Zhou said as he looked inside the store with his feet, but his hand took out two coins from his chest pocket and put them on the counter.

The woman looked at the coin, but grinned and pushed it back, "You're too late today, there's only one bowl left." ”

Zhou Zhou glanced at Chen Xin beside him, pursed his lips, carefully took back the returned coin and said, "One bowl is one bowl, no coriander!" ”

"There's still coriander?" , The look on Chen Xin's face finally couldn't hold back, and he asked in surprise.

"Yes, by default, it's to add coriander, but it's not delicious if you add coriander, I just don't like to eat coriander, what about you?"

Chen Xin's heart was still turbulent, of course he was not surprised by the practice of putting coriander in this broth, all he cared about was that this snack stall could still provide coriander as a condiment vegetable.

It is estimated that the vegetables supplied by Sioux City now are hydroponic from the culture liquid with a very high yield, and the cultivation of coriander is obviously very cost-effective, if the output value is calculated, it is almost equivalent to boiling water with paper money in the old era!

And planting vegetables outside of Sioux City, not to mention safety issues, even if the soil can be loosened and planted safely, as long as the seedlings are grown, they are not taken care of for a day or two, and I am afraid that they will be ruined by mutant life or survivors.

Therefore, in Chen Xin's view, the boss of this "Li Ji Broth" is definitely not a simple character.

"Put it on the counter," a pair of hands that didn't see anything unusual as he put down a bowl of broth on the counter and took the remaining coin.

"Thank you, Aunt Li!" , Zhou Zhou shouted sweetly again.

"Hold it! Hold! Zhou Zhou poked Chen Xin with his finger, and then pointed to the soup bowl on the counter.

Chen Xin came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly followed Zhou Zhou's instructions and carried the bowl to the side of the store. On the side wall is a bracket nailed to the bracket, under which there are several stools, apparently prepared for diners.

"You eat, I'll invite you", Zhou Zhou said as he pulled Chen Xin to sit on the stool and looked at the hot broth intently.