Chapter Seventy-Three: Confusion

Looking at the blue card in his hand, with "XA City Entry Permit" written on the top, and "Issued by the XA City Joint Committee" written on the bottom, there was also a photo, looking at the simple card, Meng Soul pursed his lips, hung his hand around his neck, and walked towards the city.

People come and go in the city gate cave, Meng Soul and a few people follow the flow of people into the city wall, what comes into view is a wide road, there are no buildings on both sides of the road, there are all kinds of stalls everywhere, and the things sold on them are also varied, and there are many people with a straw mark on their heads that look like they want to sell themselves, Meng Soul looked at the survivors with yellow faces and thin muscles and shook his head, and several children surrounded him: "Okay, give me something to eat!" Li Ke looked at the thin and humanoid child, and wanted to take out the food and distribute it to the children, Meng Soul held Li Ke's hand and shook his head, Li Ke looked at Meng Soul puzzled, Meng Soul pulled Li Ke aside: "Shengmien, Dou Mi Qiu, you don't know this sentence, right?" You give these children, and when people ask you if you don't have them, someone will rob you! By that time, are you going to kill to protect yourself or will you be robbed by these people? Li Ke stuck out his tongue: "There are so many things to pay attention to, I understand." ”

A few people continued to walk forward, most of the people with blue cards on the street were yellow and thin, and occasionally one or two with good complexions were rare, but all of them were carrying knives, swords, and blunt weapons, and at a glance they looked as if they had returned to ancient times.

Meng Soul came to the inn according to Zhao Yong's instructions, a gray four-story building, there were few people at the door of the building, a bald head sat at the counter boredly flipping through a magazine, and saw Meng Soul and a few people walked in, and his bald eyes lit up: "A few guests, do you want to stay in the hotel?" We have a good room, and if we don't make a reservation, we will sleep on the streets! ”

"Sleeping on the streets? Are there a lot of people in the city who can afford to live in a hotel? Meng Soul asked.

"Many? It's almost crowded! I'm the cheapest inn here! One pound of rice can live for two days, and other inns can only live for two pounds of rice for one day, as long as you don't want to live in a shack, you will come to my store, at least there is a bed, isn't it? The bald boss said with a grin.

Hearing this, Meng Soul nodded and said, "Take us to see how the house is first, it's too dirty and messy, we don't plan to live there!" ”

The bald boss said: "Don't worry, although the things are a little old, they are absolutely clean, come with me!" With that, the bald boss led the way to the stairs.

In the middle of the second floor, the bald boss opened a room and said: "You see, this room is three rooms after the opening, you live just right, this room is three rooms open so four catties of rice, you can live for two days, there is no food supply, each person provides two bottles of clean drinking water every day, if you have your own things, we can provide a kitchen for you to use, two and a half catties of rice, the fire source is only firewood!" If you don't know how to make it yourself, we can exchange one pound of rice for one meal, but at most only half a pound of rice, and some pickles, if you want to eat something else, you can negotiate the price! The bald boss gushed to Meng Soul.

Meng Soul nodded and didn't speak, and walked into the house with Li Ke, the light in the room was not bad, the cleaning was clean, and the bedding on the bed could be seen to be a little old, but there was a smell of detergent, it seemed that it was indeed very clean, "Boss, we want this room, let's stay for four days first, how can you exchange other food except rice?" Meng Soul asked.

"A pound of white flour can be exchanged for a pound and a half of rice, and a pound of mutated animal meat can be exchanged for 5-15 pounds of rice......" Before the boss finished speaking, Meng Soul interrupted the boss and asked, "Why is the gap so big?" ”

The bald boss said: "The lowest is the meat of the mutant rat, because this kind of meat is the easiest to obtain, so it is cheaper, and the remaining chickens and ducks, pork, cattle and sheep, are getting more and more expensive, the most expensive is the meat of a mutated eagle, which is basically not seen by ordinary people, and a pound of mutant eagle meat can be exchanged for thirty catties of rice!" Meng Soul touched his chin: "Okay, let's rent the kitchen, how many catties of rice can this piece of bacon be worth?" Saying that, Meng Soul took out a piece of bacon made of mutated rat meat from his backpack, this piece of bacon is two catties, but this is the smallest piece in Meng Soul's bag, the boss hurriedly caught the bacon and put it under his nose and smelled it: "The best rat meat, this piece is about two catties, I will count you eleven catties of rice, eight catties for four days, two catties for four days in the kitchen, and one catty remaining, find you two blue tickets." ”

Meng Soul waved his hand: "This catty is considered a tip for you, I want to ask you, where is the place where weapons are sold here?" Are there any restrictions that are not? ”

The boss smiled and put away the bacon and blue tickets and said: "The one who sells weapons is in the square of Nancheng, which used to be the landmark building of XA City, Tower D, which is a super large square in itself, and now the basic bulk weapons transactions are over there, but you need a yellow sign or above to enter, and people with blue brands can't enter!" ”

Meng Soul sent away the bald boss, and several people sat together to discuss what to do later.

If you want to buy a weapon, you have to have a yellow card, Meng Soul and they don't have any rice when they bring it out, who has nothing to do with carrying a bag of rice and running around the world? The backpack is full of bacon, canned beef, instant noodles, chocolate, candies and the like, which are lightweight, high in calories, and easy to carry.

After summarizing the things in everyone's backpacks, they can also exchange one or two thousand catties of rice, which is not enough at all, just when Meng Soul and the others were at a loss, the door rang, "Dangdang!" There was a knock on the door, Li Ming walked over and opened the door, and the bald boss stood at the door with a smile and said: "This little brother, I know that there is a black market that sells weapons, and the official can't get in, you can go here!" ”

Meng Soul asked, "Is this kind of thing officially unconcerned?" ”

The bald boss smiled: "Our Celestial Empire, you know." After speaking, he took out a black envelope, "This is the invitation letter, please go directly to the place marked in the invitation letter in the envelope in two days." After handing the envelope to Meng Soul, the boss turned around and went downstairs to leave.

Meng Soul opened the envelope in his hand, and inside was a white piece of paper wrapped in a golden metal card, with three words on it, an invitation card, an address written on the white paper, and nothing else.

"What do you think?" Meng Soul asked.

"It's good to go and see, at least to understand the prices here and see the living conditions of the people here." Kang Hui said.

"I don't have an opinion, I'll follow Brother Meng wherever he goes." Li Ming is still Meng Soul's follower, and he has no opinions.

Li Ke also nodded: "It's okay to go and see, didn't we come out this time to inquire more and see more?" ”

The other team members also nodded their heads and said they had no opinion.

"Then let's go out for a walk, and come here to see the situation in XA City." Meng Soul stood up and put on his backpack and said.

Everyone went downstairs and walked onto the street, after walking a section of road where there were no people, they saw a spacious road, but the scene on the road made Meng Soul and the others stunned, there was no traffic, there was no bustling street scene, some were only depressed, slaughtered, there was something similar to a bunker every two or three hundred meters on the street, not as high as a bunker, but there were also two floors, heavily armed soldiers were sitting or standing in the bunker, the barrels of guns in the shooting hole were facing outside, the street was full of homeless people and beggars, and Meng Soul and others were brightly dressed, immediately surrounded him, "Okay, okay, give me something to eat!" "If it weren't for Meng Soul and a few people directly pulling out their knives in their hands, those beggars would have robbed them directly.

"What? Go back! Don't drink the porridge in the afternoon! Stay on the side of the road! A group of soldiers hurriedly ran out of the bunker to drive away the beggars who were surrounding Meng Soul, turned around and said to Meng Soul: "Don't stay here, this is a place to make porridge in the city, and each person has one meal a day, you don't look like beggars, do you?" ”

Meng Soul nodded: "We are new here, we want to take a look around!" ”

The team leader said: "If you look at it, go to the north of the city, where the market and all the entertainment venues are located, the west of the city is a shanty town, if you have no place to live, you can get a tent for free there, and you don't have to go to the south and east of the city, there is a yellow card to enter, and the east of the city is a red card!" ”

Thanks to the team leader Meng Soul and the others, they walked towards the north of the city......