Chapter 006: Food Exchange
Walking through the thick city gate with copper walls and iron walls, and walking along a short passage for a while, what is now showing in front of Ding You is the flow of people walking around, which makes Ding You feel the breath of the gathering of the living.
It's just that the impression of facing the end in his heart has been further deepened.
It's a human town, at least as it looks like on the surface. The streets, scattered and scattered, are brick and stone houses, spreading out into the distance, although there is no decoration, it looks very dilapidated.
But in contrast, it is the depression of the streets, although there are people walking, but those people are so thin, all of them are yellow and thin, which is a sign of long-term malnutrition.
There are also many people in ragged clothes with similar temperament, who are lying in the corners with weak energy, unable to tell whether they are dead or alive.
Some managers dressed in uniform-style clothing would rub those people with an iron rod.
If there is no response, the manager will raise his arm, summon the cleaning team from the walkie-talkie, and throw those who don't know if they have half a breath left, like a dead dog, directly into the back box of the vehicle, and don't know where to send it for disposal.
Is this the end times?
It's so miserable and even worse than the ruins and rubbles you see outside the base, at least it doesn't seem that human beings are so unbearable, and human nature is so indifferent.
"That's what the last days look like, at least those people died in the human gathering area, and there are all corpses, and there is no ......" Chen Nuo seemed to see what Ding You was thinking, shaking his head and feeling relieved.
It's just that at the end of the words, I can't continue with a sigh.
"Give you a crystal card with 5 energy value to try, and see if you can use that bracelet." Interrupting the sad mood, Chen Nuo handed Ding You a crystal card containing 5g of energy value.
Ding You took it and looked at the small card that looked like it was made of some kind of alloy, with a small circular bulge on the side, like a contact point.
"Is that so?"
Ding You found a circular area on the side of the display screen of the supermarket bracelet on his left hand, could it be the card slot that Chen Nuo said?
Regardless, give it a try.
Insert the dot on the crystal card towards the contact area of the supermarket bracelet, and the bracelet display responds and lights up.
Does it really work!
Ding You was overjoyed, and Chen Nuo on the side also raised his eyebrows. Since Ding You's reaction was so big, it meant that the bracelet on his left hand had a special function, and if the crystal card was useful, at least it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Looking at the energy value with wide eyes, Ding You was pleased to find that the original supermarket bracelet showed only 487.5 energy, but now, the value has become 492.5, 5 more energy.
The virus energy element in the crystal card can replenish the energy of the supermarket watch, which is really realized, which is a great thing!
In order to prove that the energy in the crystal card has been replenished, Ding You used the BM bracelet in his right hand to probe and found that the crystal card with 5g energy value was really empty.
If the energy of the supermarket bracelet can be replenished with crystal cards, then you will no longer have to worry about running out of energy and not being able to travel through space.
In this way, the food in the supermarket can be taken out at will, Xiaoyu, Yao Bo, and Chen Nuo next to him don't have to worry about being hungry anymore.
Ding You was so happy that he couldn't wait to pick up Chen Nuo and go around in circles, but looking at Chen Nuo, who was confused and didn't know why, he still put away this thought.
Don't anger Chen Nuo, when the time comes, he will be beaten up, and the physical fitness index will be several times that of himself, which is still quite bluffing.
There is only one problem that needs to be solved urgently, and that is how many crystal cards can be exchanged for food in the supermarket space in District 9. If you can take advantage of the unequal quality of the food to trade, and the energy of the crystal card obtained in the survivor base is much lower than the consumption of the goods you take from the supermarket space, then the transaction is a sure profit.
Even the opportunity to build a survivor base on your own is not a dream.
"Where's the Item Crystal Card Exchange?" Ding You couldn't wait to ask Chen Nuo.
Chen Nuo didn't know why Ding You was suddenly so happy, but it must be a good thing. As soon as he heard Ding You ask, he bowed his mouth towards the street and signaled that the exchange shop was on the street.
It turns out that this ninth district is still divided into an outer ring and an inner circle. The inner circle is a tall steel wall, and the exchange shop that Chen Nuo mentioned is next to the street in the inner circle.
It is obviously much more prosperous for the outer periphery of the outer circle, and the grade of the store can be distinguished from the good and bad by the naked eye alone. This storefront, marked with the sign of "Item Crystal Card Exchange Shop", is much stronger than those tattered shops in the outer circle.
"Hello, do you have any needs?"
When a customer came to the door, a girl with glasses at the glass counter stood up to greet her. It seems that even though it is in the last days, the service attitude in the store is okay, which Ding You thinks is not bad.
"I want to redeem a crystal card." Ding You said.
"What do you want to exchange it for?" The girl still asked politely.
"Food."
"Food?" When the girl heard that Ding You was going to exchange the food, it was obvious that she didn't react for a while. But after a while, I still adjusted my mood.
Maybe in the last days, the most precious thing is food, and even some mutated foods with genetic mutations are not something that ordinary people are willing to exchange casually. And looking at the gentleman's outfit in front of him, he was clean and clean, very much like a powerful person.
The girl was a little more cautious in her heart, and said politely: "Sir, our food exchange here has a standard exchange rate, you can refer to the announcement posted on the wall over there for details." β
Well? Is there a standard ratio?
Ding You turned his head to look at the wall, and found that there was indeed a metal plate with some exchange rates engraved on it, but it was all mutated food, which could not be compared with the original food in his supermarket space.
"I'm not the same as those, it's like this."
Ding You was very cautious, and Chen Nuo was also cautious, knowing how tempting it would be to have so much food in his backpack in these last days. If you are targeted by others and desperately seek food to kill you, it will be worth the loss.
So after confirming that there were no dangers and stalkers around, and that there was no one else in the exchange hall, Ding You took out a chicken sausage that was not very conspicuous and placed it on the counter in front of the girl.
"What is this?"
The girl obviously didn't expect that Ding You took out a ham sausage, and after scanning it with her bracelet, her eyes opened even wider.
How can it be!
It turned out to be a pollution-free natural chicken sausage, without the slightest mutation gene, which... It's also shocking.
The girl was amazed, took a long metal rod from the counter, maybe a better testing device, and scanned the chicken sausage several times, and finally confirmed that it was a natural chicken sausage, and it didn't even use genetically modified technology.
"It's... Thisβ" The girl stumbled and didn't know how to continue.
"Miss, please come out of your store manager, I think, we need a VIP box for trading." Ding You knew that the girl was shocked, but she couldn't stay here for a long time, after all, there were many people coming and going outside the door.
"Okay, okay, please wait." The girl came back to her senses and quickly trotted to the back to find the person in charge. Soon, a middle-aged man with half-bald hair walked out.
Ding You looked at the person in charge of the store who claimed to be surnamed Xie, and then looked at the counter lady just now, and found that the two were quite similar, could it be father and daughter.
Manager Xie, like the girl, took a picture of the chicken sausage with his BM bracelet, and scanned it several times with a long detection stick, and confirmed it again and again. In addition to the look of surprise, there was more of a smile on his face.
"Please, please come to our VIP room for a detailed discussion."
Ding You took Chen Nuo into the back room, and found that there was really some VIP feeling inside, with a soft sofa, a long and smooth long table, and a small stereo still playing soothing music.
"Hello, I don't know what to call Mr.?"
"My name is Ding You, and I'm a businessman." Ding You didn't plan to hide it, anyway, when he entered the city, his feature code was verified by the access control, and it was not difficult to know his name.
"Oh, Mr. Ding, I don't know how many of these goods you have, and I don't know what rate you want to trade. To tell you the truth, we haven't traded such good quality goods in our store in the past two years. β
Nonsense, Chen Nuoke said. It has been at least eight or nine years since the virus and nuclear radiation spread widely. Even if you can harvest some uncontaminated food at the beginning, it is estimated that it will stink by now, let alone compare it with your own fresh food.
However, Manager Xie's words were obviously a temptation, and he planned to trade at the lowest cost, Ding You was not a fool, and he used to be the director of the supermarket.
"Manager Xie, you have also seen the things, the quality or something, there is no need for me to say more, if you are sincere, I will trade with you at the right price, if you are not sincere, then there is more than one survivor base outside your ninth district."
In fact, when I first heard Ding You say this, Manager Xie was very unhappy. even started the idea of killing people and stealing goods, because looking at the two backpacks of Ding You and the girl next to him, they were all bulging, and there must be a lot of good things in them.
However, although Ding You is young, his speech is neither humble nor pitiful, and he is full of confidence. In this year, it is estimated that only the Northern and Southern Federation of the entire earth can come up with fresh food to trade.
Being able to ship the goods out of there, and the production date is still today, Manager Xie can't help but be afraid of the powerful forces behind Ding You.
Anyway, the transaction is not worried about not being able to sell, the dignitaries in the inner circle, but they all complain all day long that they eat mutated food and lose their taste bud function, a 50g packaged chicken leg sausage, selling 50 crystal cards is no big problem.
"20 crystal cards for a chicken sausage, Mr. Ding, you see?" Manager Xie threw out an exchange price, thinking that it was very fair.
"20 crystal cards? It seems that Manager Xie is not sincere! β
Although Ding You is excited, you must know that a 50g chicken sausage in the supermarket space costs only 0.05g of energy crystal card. That's it, make a lot of money!
But Ding You relied on his directness and felt that there was still room for price increases, especially after looking at the exchange rate of those genetically mutated foods outside just now, he was even more confident.
"Manager Xie, I'm an original and pollution-free chicken sausage, much better than the filthy goods outside you, right?!"
Ding You tapped his fingers on the table with a smile.
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