It was really inconvenient to have no transportation, and Yang Chuangrui and the two of them rushed for several days, and finally saw the outline of Saroder City in the afternoon of the eighth day.

They lost contact with the team the next day, and without the assistance of signal towers and satellites, the distance between the robots and each other was very limited.

In general, the journey was quite smooth, they had encountered a bandit squad in the past few days, and they easily solved it, and also captured a leading party from Saroder, the meaning of the name of this goods - the third child born next to the rock, and as a result, Yang Chuangrui forcibly translated it as Yan Laosan.

What made Yang Chuangrui most depressed was that they had hardly encountered robots roaming the wilderness along the way, and the plan to expand the robot team had also failed.

The Western countries had planned to infiltrate the east a year earlier, uniting with various city-states and tribes to collect robot parts and crystals, and it was only a matter of time before the town was attacked.

I don't know what benefits these countries have promised to the top of the tribes, so that these people can not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of their subordinates and compatriots to find crystals for them.

Most of the self-proclaimed "Crystal Hunters" they met now were essentially a bunch of bandits, many of them were ordinary people, and they didn't dare to face the robots directly, so they had to choose to plunder other tribes.

At present, Yang Chuangrui has not met the high-level leaders who organized this rabble, and those miscellaneous fish don't know why they are desperately collecting crystals, they only know that this is an order, and if they can't do it, they will be punished.

"There's Sarodel up ahead." Yan Laosan, who led the way, pointed ahead, and then spoke: "It was originally a fortress built to resist those steel monsters, but now... Alas! ”

"What's going on now?" Yang Chuangrui asked suspiciously.

Yan Laosan replied recalling:

"The city was built twenty years ago on the basis of an underground shelter, but 12 years ago, another powerful alien tribe took over and became the ruler of the city, but the rulers' good days did not last long."

"Just seven years ago, people from the West came here and became the new rulers here, and the new rulers divided the people who lived here into three classes - nobles, commoners, and slaves."

Yang Chuangrui always felt that this plot was a little familiar, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt like a curry country.

"What about you?" Yang Chuangrui asked.

Yan Lao Liu smiled self-deprecatingly and replied:

"I belong to the fourth group, the outcasts who have fled from other places."

They chatted and walked, and in a few moments they arrived outside the city of Saroder.

In order not to be discovered, Yang Chuangrui disguised No. 1, a gray robe almost covered its whole body, and then put on a hood and mask, basically unable to see the difference from others.

In order to hide people's eyes, the three of them also dressed in the same way, the only difference was that they did not wear hoods, and the masks were pinned to their waists or worn on their heads.

In fact, there are a lot of people dressed up similarly here, basically people who have offended people or bandit gangs, and it is easy to run into enemies here, so most people choose to hide their identities.

The walls of this city are all made of stone, the city walls are more than ten meters high, and there are no soldiers or the like around, so I don't know what it looks like in the city, Yang Chuangrui and their current identities can't get in.

The crowd walked along the rampart for a few more moments, and entered a downward tunnel, in which many people came and went, most of them yellow-skinned coolies.

"Alas, they've all come to the big city, and they have to drill into the ground." Yang Chuangrui thought helplessly.

Walking through the tunnel to the center of the underground city, everyone found a place similar to a pawnshop under the leadership of Yan Lao Liu, and they had to exchange some currency here, otherwise many things would not be easy.

"Crystals and weapons and armor are hard currency here, and they take as much as they want." Yan Lao Liu opened his mouth and introduced.

"How much is a crystal worth?" Yang Chuangrui asked.

"They have to check it before they can give a price." Yan Lao Liu replied.

After inquiry, Yang Chuangrui learned that the monetary system here is 1 gold coin for 10 silver coins and 1,000 copper coins, and the basic expenditure of a civilian family is only about 4 gold coins a year.

In the end, Yang Chuangrui still decided to take out a crystal, and he asked No. 1 to follow Yan Lao Liu to the pawnshop to exchange money.

"There are 40 gold coins at a fixed price, and none of them can be missing." Yan Lao Liu's excited voice came from inside the store.

"Guest, the current market price is 34 gold coins, and you ask for 40 gold coins, so how can I do business?" The shopkeeper explained with difficulty.

Hearing the shopkeeper's explanation, Yan Lao Liu pretended to be angry and retorted:

"You open your eyes and take a closer look, this is a crystal full of energy, Lao Tzu worked hard to get it, don't think I don't know, now a crystal like this can be exchanged for at least 60 gold coins, and you can earn 20 gold coins if you take 40 gold coins away."

"38 gold coins can't be more, you go and inquire where else can you offer such a high price."

"No, 40 gold coins can't be missing."

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After a whole round of bargaining, Yan Lao Liu walked out of the pawnshop with a bag of gold coins with a smile, "40, one is not less." As he spoke, he took the bag of gold coins in it.

Seeing the proud Yan Lao Liu, Yang Chuangrui unexpectedly opened his mouth and praised:

"I can't see it, you still have the ability to bargain."

"I used to do some small business here, but I offended people later, so I had no choice but to become a crystal hunter." Yan Lao Liu touched his head and replied a little embarrassed.

The matter of money was solved, and Yang Chuangrui rented a small courtyard nearby to live.

They plan to go around tomorrow to investigate the situation and see if there is a way to get close to the upper echelons here, the commoners and slaves here know too few things, and even the Yan Lao Liu, who has lived here for so long, knows very few things.

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On the other side, Zhan was also heading towards the 306 collection point with the children and the wounded, and it was much harder for him to deal with various problems along the way.

It takes half the time to gather food and hunt every day, but fortunately there are many roaming robots on the road to the east, and the pressure on the team is finally relieved after the big octopus has incorporated them into the team.

The youngest dozens of children basically couldn't walk much, each big stupid spider sat on seven or eight, and the other robots hung a few more, and the rest had to be carried by the team members.

More than a dozen seriously wounded people also had to be carried, but fortunately, the physical fitness of the people in the town was huge, and a few older children were almost contracted to carry the stretcher.

Normally, this more than 130-kilometer road can be completed by their exploration team in about three days.

But with a group of little kids, they walked slowly and leisurely for eight days, and only walked about a hundred kilometers, and they still had at least three days to go before their destination.