Chapter XXVI: Trading Markets
Early the next morning, when Meng Soul was still asleep, there was a knock on the door, and Meng Soul rubbed his eyes: "Who?" A weak voice sounded at the gate: "Brother Meng is me, Li Ke." β
Meng Soul opened the door for Li Ke, the girl's cheeks were flushed, and she could see that she had run all the way, "It's really early, come in and sit!" Meng Soul yawned, "Li Ming! Get up! Calling Li Ming to get up, Meng Soul took out a towel and wiped his face.
"There are a lot of things to trade in the trading market today, Brother Meng, wash up and I'll take you there!" Li Ke said anxiously.
After breakfast, Li Ke took Meng Soul and his party through half of the inner city to the legendary fair.
The venue of the fair was chosen in a large house where dancing used to be danced, and the room was divided into small compartments, each of which contained a lot of things, various maintenance tools, daily necessities, clothes, and even some women with heavy makeup to attract customers.
Along the way, Meng Soul and the others seemed to have walked into the previous dog market, and various voices came from their ears, "High-grade knitted wool coat, only half a catty of rice!" "Apple laptop is a pound and a half of rice" "Just take a look! All 2 taels of rice".
The people who sell things look like they are all weak, but it can be seen that they used to be white-collar workers and other elites, and they used to be very valuable things, but now they can be bought for a pound of rice and half a catty of rice, and the stall owners looked at Meng Soul and a few people leaking hopeful eyes, this look made Meng Soul can't help but sigh a little, it is really thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, in the past, he was an otaku like himself, and it is estimated that no one will pay attention to talking to these people, but Meng Soul understands that in this cannibalistic apocalypse, it is the greatest luck to be able to survive, those who have been bitten to death by zombies, The people who have been made into bacon by humans can no longer see anything, and any civilization is just empty words, and it is not even comparable to a bag of instant noodles now.
Meng Soul and the others stopped and looked at the stalls, driving away a lot of women who came up to pull business, and finally Li Ming spent half a catty of rice to buy a mountain knife of about 25 catties, and couldn't put it down. Instructor Ling bought a military dagger, and the rest of the people also bought some cold weapons for self-defense.
The group walked forward and saw a small door, two big men with big shoulders and round waists guarding the door, Meng Soul and the others walked over, and one of the big men stretched out his hand: "Inside is the valuables trading area, if you want to go in, you must be able to prove your financial resources!" β
Li Ke pulled Meng Soul by the hand: "There are weapons sold inside, and they can only be exchanged for food, do you want to go in?" β
Meng Soul is very short of bullets, and with bullets, he can go to the grain depot to carry grain back, Meng Soul beckoned to Li Ming, Li Ming took a backpack and handed it to Meng Soul, Meng Soul opened the backpack and filled a bag of canned beef, "Are you qualified to enter the door?" Meng Soul asked. The eyes of the two big men at the door were straight, so many canned food were worth half a ton of rice in the black market, this is a big customer, the two of them changed their indifference just now, and said to Meng Soul and the others with a smile: "It's easy to say, everyone, please come in!" After speaking, let go of the door, Meng Soul and several mermaids rushed in.
Entering the small door, Meng Soul saw a downward staircase, it seems that there is a basement inside, and went down the stairs, there is a large space below, there are many support columns, the two pillars are enclosed with things is a faΓ§ade, the underground market is much less people than above, Meng Soul walked over, the faΓ§ade is all over, all kinds of weapons, Type 56, 81 bar, Type 95, grenades, heavy machine guns, and even a sign at the door of the store that reads: 92 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles.
Meng Soul walked to the small shop selling 81 bars, and a bearded man in overalls stood up: "The small shop has 81 bars, 56 bars, and some 40 fires, what are you going to order?" β
Meng Soul asked, "Is the price of 81 bar bullets less than the team?" Also What is the price of 40 fire? β
"20 bullets per catty of rice, 100 catties of rice for 81 bar rifles, 200 catties of rice for 40 fires, and 20 catties of rice for one rocket." The bearded man skillfully quoted to Meng Soul.
Meng Soul calculated, "150,000 rounds of ammunition, plus 50 rounds of rockets, I will give you 2 tons of rice and 30 cans of canned beef!" β
The bearded man shook his head and said, "No, no, you can't do it at this price, you have a maximum of 100,000 rounds of ammunition and 20 rockets for these things, and I don't have so many things here!" β
Meng Soul smiled, "Can't you?" Turning back to Instructor Ling, he said, "Let's change it!" With that, the leader walked out.
"Brother Meng, what do you want so many bullets for? And let's just go without talking about the price? Li Ke asked with a puzzled expression.
"Of course you want bullets for self-defense, the more such things, the better, you don't need to bargain with him, just look at the appearance of the inner and outer cities, there must be a shortage of food now, the police, the army, and even the gangsters can get a large amount of ammunition, but the food is eating less and less, there is no food, this gathering point will be finished sooner or later, how can I be worthy of myself if I don't take the opportunity to extort more ammunition? You see, within 20 meters, the beard will definitely chase out. Meng Soul said with a smile.
"Hey! You wait! As soon as Meng Soul's words fell, the bearded man chased out, "The price is easy to say, let's talk about it!" The bearded man grabbed Meng Soul's wrist and pulled it back, saying as he changed.
Back in the store, the bearded man poured a pot of tea for a few people, "A few people who don't look like people from the inner city, are they from outside?" β
Instructor Ling gave Meng Soul a look and said to the bearded man: "There are some things that you shouldn't inquire about, don't ask, the price we just said is not good." β
The bearded man sneered: "Okay, don't ask, this price is indeed a bit low!" You're adding a little bit! β
Instructor Ling took out a box of cigarettes from his backpack and threw it over: "Add two more cigarettes!" In addition, there will be a deal for you in the future! β
The bearded man hurriedly caught the cigarette thrown by Instructor Ling, and his eyes straightened, "You still have cigarettes?!" That's enough, that's enough! I'll give you 10 more rockets! After speaking, he opened the cigarette and took out one and lit it, and took a deep breath with an intoxicated face.
Meng Soul and Instructor Ling glanced at each other and asked, "What is the exchange price of your tobacco?" β
The bearded man quickly finished smoking, carefully put away the remaining cigarettes, and said: "A pack of cigarettes that used to cost about 20 yuan and 400 rounds of ammunition is still priceless, this thing is too little, basically only the upper class people in the inner city can smoke it at any time!" β
Meng Soul then asked, "What about wine?" β
The bearded man looked at Meng Soul and swallowed his saliva: "You still have wine??" 50ml 400 rounds of rifle ammunition! Liquor such as Moutai Wuliangye has 800 rifle bullets per 50 ml, and high-end foreign liquor such as Remy Martin has 1,000 rifle bullets per 50 ml. β
There are a lot of things collected by the combat team, cigarettes and alcohol were originally one of the targets that Meng Soul asked the combat team to pay attention to, now that the food is so scarce, how can it be used to make wine, and cigarettes are also things that can be smoked and one pack less, but I didn't expect to be able to exchange so many things at the official gathering point, it seems that those bigwigs in the upper class still continue their lives of drunken money, and they will not care about the life and death of the outcasts at all, and half a catty of coarse grain a day can at most not make people starve to death.
took the remaining ten cigarettes and exchanged them for 80,000 rounds of ammunition, Meng Soul and the others went out of the trading market, Meng Soul gave Li Ke a few boxes of canned beef, and Li Ke left his address and left by himself.
After walking not far, Instructor Ling slowly walked to Meng Soul's side, "Don't look back, we are being targeted!" You have two in the back left and one in the back! Meng Soul quietly squatted down and pretended to tie his shoelaces, peeking in, there were two young men standing on the street behind the left, belonging to the kind of people who would not be noticed if they fell into the crowd, if it weren't for the quality of Instructor Ling's special forces, Meng Soul and several people would not have found it, and they couldn't see it behind because of the angle problem, standing up, Meng Soul nodded slightly at Instructor Ling, "Let's go back to the hotel!" β
Back at the hotel, Meng Soul pretended to look behind him unintentionally when he went upstairs, and found that the two people had followed him to the door of the hotel, and watched Meng Soul and the others go upstairs, then turned around and left.
Back in the room, Meng Soul wondered, "What are those people following us for?" We're all outsiders, and we're not at odds with anyone here. Instructor Ling said: "You bought so many bullets and took out so much food, you should know how much food is lacking here, right?" They see that you have a lot of money, and you can't think of what you want to do? "Are they going to rob us in the inner city?" "How is it possible, if the inner city is chaotic, those people in the forbidden area are absolutely not allowed, it is estimated that we will only do something when we go out of the gathering place, we have to pay attention!"
Looking out of the window, the two of them had disappeared, and Instructor Ling pointed to the chair in front of the hotel and said to Meng Soul, "The one on the chair is the one who is following you!" Looking from the window, there was a little girl about 16-7 years old sitting on the chair, wearing double ponytails, sitting there swinging her legs, very leisurely, Meng Soul frowned and said, "This doesn't look like it!" Instructor Ling smiled: "You should know what this world has become like, right?" How could it be possible for a child of this age to sit so leisurely at the door! Meng Soul said: "It may also be the child of the big man in the inner city?" Instructor Ling sneered: "Those big people in the inner city will not appear in this area, I talked to Li Ke when I was in the trading market just now, those leaders and their families live in the forbidden area inside, the people in the inner city can't enter without an introduction, there is water and electricity in it, and the world before the end of the world is no different, they won't come here, there must be demons when things go wrong, so leisurely itself is a deliberate place!" Meng Soul has a lot to learn! β
Meng Soul nodded: "Thank you, Instructor Ling, you have been taught!" He turned his head to look at the crowd: "What do you have plans for tomorrow?" We'll go back one more day, there is a shortage of food here, I'm going to get a team, exchange food for ammunition here, and then we'll continue to go to Depot 102 to move food back, if they can take down Depot 102, we won't be able to exchange so much ammo! β
Li Ming wiped his nose: "I will follow Brother Meng, and I will protect your safety." "The rest of the people said that they wanted to go around the inner city, and Instructor Ling also wanted to find the soldiers or officers of the reserve regiment that he had brought before.
Instructor Ling instructed a few people to go out tomorrow to pay attention to whether someone is following, if so, remember the appearance, and must go out in groups of at least two to prevent accidents.