Liang Shangang put down the teacup and nodded with a smile. Ding Xiu looked at his style, although he was a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't tell what was uncomfortable.

Gu Beimo looked at Liang Shangang and waited for his next step.

"Over the years, our Lulong Village has been backed by an oasis, cultivated our own land, and done business with Xingtang Town, and we have been safe and sound, until the end of last year, the skeletons on their side changed people, and their attitude towards us began to be hostile."

"Why is that?" Gu Beimo asked, and Ding Xiu also looked at Liang Shangang curiously.

"It's not like we covet our one-third of an acre of land." Liang Shangang sighed, and said with a straight face: "The new leader of the Skull and Bones Society thinks that we old things are easy to bully, hmph, but we are short-sighted waste, and we are really not as good as one term." ”

Liang Shangang said with a look of indignation, and he continued: "Now they have canceled the normal trade with our Lulong Village, and instead require us to pay tribute, and the tribute is still 90% of our harvest. ”

"Does the sheriff of Xingtang Town care?" Ding Xiu was a little surprised, he didn't expect the local underground forces to be so rampant.

"Xu Jingnian, the sheriff of Xingtang Town, is a puppet, and whether his sheriff is stable or not depends on the mood of the Skull Society. And in terms of preventing bandits and eliminating thieves, Xu Jingnian has to rely on the Skull and Bones Society in turn. ”

"The reasons for this are complicated." Gu Beimo had been to Xingtang Town and knew a little about the situation of the sheriff, and Liang Shangang should have said this before.

"And what do you think?" Ding Xiu asked, unconsciously standing on the side of the people in Lulong Village.

"What do we think, huh." Liang Shangang suddenly laughed, "Young man, let me ask you, if it were you, what would you think?" ”

"It is better to die standing than to live on your knees." Ding Xiu blurted out this sentence without thinking about it, and immediately won the admiring eyes of Liang Shangang and the younger generation over there.

"Well said." Liang Shangang clapped his hands and said: "We had several conflicts with the Skeleton Society, but they didn't get any benefits, and then they wanted to forcibly occupy the oasis at the foot of our mountain, so I let it go, telling them that if they dare to fight the oasis, everyone will burn it together." ”

"Jade burning?" Gu Beimo's eyes lit up, and he seemed to have guessed Liang Shangang's original plan.

"The jade is burning." Liang Shangang nodded, stretched out his hand and stroked the long beard on his chin, "Xingtang Town's own water source is close to exhaustion, basically 80% of the domestic water needs to be transferred from the oasis, and the water of this oasis is also part of the transaction between us at the beginning. Now the skeletons want to take the oasis by force, which is tantamount to digging the foundations of our Lulong Village. If the oasis really becomes theirs, we will have to be their slaves for generations, and we will never be able to turn over. ”

"Don't think it's just a contradiction between the Skeleton Society and our Lulong Village, I stopped you here because I didn't want you to rush to Xingtang Town and fold in the hands of those people. These shallow-sighted people will only do things like eggs. After Liang Shangang said the contradiction between the village and the Skull and Bones Society, he explained the reason why he asked people to stop Gu Beimo and them, "Xingtang Town is now a den of bandits to the outside world, except that they dare not directly confront the national government, they dare to do anything." ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Gu Beimo already had a plan in his heart.

Liang Shangang said that the situation in Xingtang Town was dangerous, although he would be skeptical, but thinking of the purpose of his going to the town, if Lulong Village could meet the needs of supplies and other needs, then it didn't matter whether he went to Xingtang Town or not.

"We're going to the south next, it's true, before going up the mountain, we are indeed preparing to go to Xingtang Town for supplies......

"Supplies? Well, what do you want to add? Liang Shangang asked.

He left Bei Mo and the others on the mountain, but he didn't completely intend to do good deeds. Since the clashing with the Skeleton Guild in Xingtang Town, trade between the two sides has been cut off. In the past, Xingtang Town relied more on Lulong Village for water and food, and Lulong Village mostly used these materials to exchange arms and gasoline with the other party.

There is no shortage of food in Lulong Village now, so Liang Shangang wants to see what gaps in goods Gu Beimo can help the village fill.

"Fresh water."

"Yes."

"Ammunition and petrol also need to be replenished, and these are things that make a living for a long journey."

"Hmm...... We don't have enough ammunition and gasoline ourselves, both of which are stuck by the sheriffs and skeletons of Xingtang Town. When Liang Shangang mentioned these two materials in Gu Beimo, his confidence was suddenly a little insufficient.

"Then replenish fresh water and some daily necessities with you." Seeing that Liang Shangang's face was embarrassed, Gu Beimo didn't force it, he continued: "I don't know if you are interested in the goods here, they are all materials for mutated creatures. ”

"Is there a crystal nucleus?" Liang Shangang asked.

Gu Beimo shook his head, pretending to be bitter and said: "Luck is more back, and they are all 'empty'." ”

The phrase "gone" is a term commonly used by people who have killed mutated creatures, meaning that no crystal nuclei are found in the body of mutated creatures.

"It's a pity." Liang Shangang's face showed regret, he turned his head to his son and said, "Liang Zu, wait for you and these guests to go and see their goods." They are guests from afar, as long as we can use them in our village, you can buy more, and the price should be fair to others. ”

The middle-aged man who had led Gu Beimo and the others up the mountain before responded.

Liang Shangang asked someone to prepare dinner again, and when Ding Xiu and the others arrived at the foot of the mountain, it was almost evening, and now it was almost time for dinner.

Gu Beimo thanked him, and then went to the entrance of the village with Liang Zu and others to see the goods.

"It's a pity you don't need food, otherwise we'll have enough to eat here." Liang Zu came outside, and said as he walked: "You are also short of weapons, ammunition and gasoline that we lack, alas, ......"

"You can use the materials on some mutant creatures as medicinal materials, I don't know much about medicine, but some people used to buy them in my hands for medicinal purposes." Although the respective goods of both parties are relatively low in each other's demand list, as a businessman, Gu Beimo still works hard to sell the things in his hand.

These materials are only valuable if they are realized, otherwise they will only occupy space if they are left in their hands.

"These materials can also help humans generate strange abilities through scientific and technological means, as Uncle Chen told me before." Ding Xiu said suddenly.

"Generating abilities through technology?"

His words aroused the interest of Liang Zu and Gu Beimo.

"Uncle Chen is a doctor in our camp and a genetic scientist. He said that in addition to the probability that the crystal nucleus can help humans produce abilities, there is another way, that is, by modifying the structure of the gene, some abilities can be implanted, and this method has no probability, it is directional implantation. ”

"Targeted implantation? No probability? Liang Zu and Gu Beimo's eyes widened, "In other words, as long as I have the materials, I can implant any ability I want into myself, and it will be 100% successful, right?" ”

Ding Xiu nodded, but the next words seemed to pour cold water on the two of them, "Uncle Chen said that although this path is safe, it requires very high scientific and technological means and a large number of transformation materials, and only some abilities can be implanted, not all. “

"Good boy, this is not a big deal." Gu Beimo said with a stammer.

He suddenly realized in his heart, "No wonder many people are collecting all kinds of messy materials, and some of them seem to be impossible to use medicine." And the eggs of bullet ants ...... Could it be one of the materials that implants some kind of ability? ”

Thinking of this, he began to pay attention to this information in his heart.

Liang Zu went to Gu Beimo's car, picked out some materials, he took some of each of the ones Gu Beimo took out, and finally paid without a counteroffer at all.

He obeyed his father's words and bought the goods he wanted at the fairest price for Gu Beimo.

The old man of Lulong Village was a shrewd man, and after the village cut off trade with Xingtang Town, he was eager to find a new trade outlet for the village.

Although Gu Beimo did not have the goods they urgently needed in his hands, as long as the business with Gu Beimo went well, Gu Beimo would be able to bring this kind of good information out, so as to attract more businessmen to come here to exchange ideas.

Liang Zu is the leader of the young and middle-aged generation in the village, and he is also the preferred successor of the village head Liang Shangang.

After giving out some goods, Gu Beimo bought some fresh water and crops from the village as food supplies. The fresh water that Liang Zu gave to Gu Beimo was almost like a free gift, but he symbolically received a container of money; On crops, he also gave a fold.

After this transaction, both parties were happy, and after a while, the dinner arranged by Liang Shangang was also ready, and the guests and hosts were invited to sit down.

Although Lulong Village is a village on the hill, the people in the village are all businessmen who have traveled long distances, and in addition to seeing a lot of the world, everyone has also been able to get on the table in receiving people and things.

The food here is very abundant compared to other places, not only in terms of quantity, but also in variety. Ding Xiu rarely ate these vegetables and fruits in the camp, so he discussed with Gu Beimo happily, and took out some of the bullet ant eggs hanging in the net pocket in the back of the car for the villagers to bake.

Halfway through the meal, Ding Xiu suddenly noticed that there were not many people at the table in the village, so he casually asked, "Why don't the others eat together?" ”

"We've had to put a lot of people on duty every night these days, so we have to beware of people from the Skull and Bones coming to wreak havoc." Liang Shangang was afraid that it would affect Ding Xiu's interest, so he pretended to be calm and said: "Don't worry, even if they come, they won't be able to go up the mountain, and most of them will only dare to secretly get some water from the oasis to go back." ”

Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo glanced at each other, both knowing that the actual situation was probably not as easy as the old village chief said, but neither of them broke it, and obediently continued to play the role of a guest in line with the principle that more is better than less.

Of the three, only Shen You was still eating and drinking, she preferred vegetables and fruits like insects, and it was rare to be able to feast in Lulong Village this time, so her attention was all on food.