In this chaotic world, there is no doubt that Apple has become a luxury. Especially for the survivors in the ruins, the allure of an apple is enough to surpass anything currently owned.

Force is always proportional to matter. Without the protection of the former, the latter will be snatched and ravaged.

After figuring out this truth, Hu Zhehai suddenly felt that he had made a mistake———— I shouldn't have thought about taking advantage of these outsiders. They are likely to be the ones you should never provoke. Nima's, there are too many bastards in this world who like to play tricks. In peacetime, there are many examples of billionaires pretending to be poor ghosts in "Alto" and "QQ", and now they are no exception.

The railway station had been blocked by armed followers, and Hu Zhehai had no way to enter the platform and see the large amount of supplies that had been brought down from the wagons. He quickly sorted out his thoughts, gritted his teeth, re-showed a sweet smile, and said to Liu Tianming with a little inferiority complex: "Okay! I'd like to exchange something more valuable with you. ”

Liu Tianming looked at him deeply: "What do you mean?" ”

Hu Zhehai completely put away the initial fraudulent thinking and put Liu Tianming in the same or even higher status position. He said solemnly: "You guys come by train, there must be a lot of diesel." How about having a diesel exchange? Rest assured! The price will definitely satisfy you. ”

Without waiting for Liu Tianming's reply, Hu Zhehai added: "If you don't have a lot of diesel, then bullets can also be used." This thing has now become hard currency, worth more than peacetime dollars. ”

Hu Zhehai is a very thoughtful man.

Although apples are precious, they are just food after all. Once the expiration date is over, it's a mess of rancid water and garbage. It is undeniable that the two truckloads of water provided to Liu Tianming's team every day are certainly not worth fifty boxes of apples. But even if Liu Tianming agreed to trade at this price, it didn't make much sense to put fifty boxes of apples in Hu Zhehai's hands———— he had to use these apples as bargaining chips to exchange them again from other gangs in the city.

The most urgently needed supplies of the Iron Fist Society at the moment are fuel and ammunition. Gasoline is available in many parts of the city, and there is a lot of oil left over from peacetime at major gas stations. However, as zombies continue to evolve and have now become murderous corpses, small family cars are no longer suitable. This kind of car has a very low site and a small load capacity. In contrast, heavy-duty trucks powered by diesel are much safer. Even if you encounter a large-scale corpse encirclement, you still have a chance to break out of the encirclement.

Hu Zhehai has several friends in the railway system, and he knows a little about the power system of diesel locomotives. Without a fuel-carrying carriage, the diesel locomotive itself has a fuel tank capacity of up to 5,000 liters. The locomotive runs on zero diesel. Once topped up, it can run for a long time.

Bullets are more in demand than diesel. When the virus broke out, most of the ammunition the survivors had taken from the military was wasted. At that time, people didn't know how to use guns at all, and when they encountered zombies, they grabbed the trigger, and a magazine was all used up in an instant. Now that I think about it, that behavior was stupid. Obviously, it only takes one bullet to hit the head, and a few more times at most can solve the problem, but it takes dozens of rounds of ammunition on a certain zombie...... Because of this damn waste, the survivors have very few bullets in their hands. It is no exaggeration to say that the current Xi'an City, no matter what gang has, as long as it has a large ammunition reserve, it is enough to rule the whole city.

Even if you take out all fifty crates of apples and exchange them with other gangs, you won't get too much diesel and bullets. Everyone is very clear about each other's family backgrounds. Instead of taking these apples back and enjoying them, it is better to exchange them for something more practical.

From the very beginning, Hu Zhehai aimed at the fuel and ammunition of Liu Tianming's team. But he didn't expect Liu Tianming to be so strong. The deal almost collapsed, but fortunately, I adjusted my mentality in time and didn't turn around on the spot.

The final agreed price was 300 litres of fuel and 60 rounds of standard-caliber rifle ammunition. Hu Zhehai promised: In the next week, he will provide the team with a sufficient amount of domestic water every day. If two cars are not enough, then three. Of course, the extra car of water purification and the fuel consumed by transportation must be paid for by Liu Tianming.

In Liu Tianming's view, these things are actually not valuable. The train was fueled in abundance, and standard-caliber rifle cartridges were only rationed to followers. As for the core members of the team, everyone was issued with large-caliber rifles brought from the Northwest Base. In a sense, followers are consumables. As long as the core of the team is still there, there will be new followers wherever they go.

In the evening, Hu Zhehai came to the railway station again with two water trucks.

He didn't lie, the pale blue and white water truck was indeed the kind used for watering greenery in peacetime. The tank filled with water is estimated to have been cleaned, and the water released from the unscrewed faucet is clean and odorless.

Liu Tianming asked Sibo to take some water samples for testing. The process is not complicated, and there is a complete inspection equipment on the train. Of course, it is impossible to do as meticulously as a laboratory analysis of water composition, as long as you make sure that there are no lethal poisons in the water.

Luo Kuan made some simple food to entertain Hu Zhehai.

Cao Xinneng and Yang Qingguo led dozens of followers to surround the waterwheel escorts from different positions. No one showed hostility on their faces, everyone was pretending to smile. This is Liu Tianming's arrangement———— if there is no problem with the water quality tested by Sibo, then everything will be as usual, and it will be as it should be. If it is found that the water is poisonous, then everyone here, including Hu Zhehai, will die.

Hu Zhehai has obviously thought about this. After more than an hour, when the sky had already darkened, Sibo stepped down from the sleeper compartment and made a thumbs-up gesture to Liu Tianming from a distance, indicating that there was no problem with the water quality test.

"Excellent! I see your sincerity. Since you did it first, then I will not break my word. ”

Liu Tianming was very satisfied with this. He tilted his head at Luo Kuan, who walked to Hu Zhehai's side knowingly, and said seriously: "Three hundred liters of diesel is not a small amount. Do you have that many oil drums? ”

This is a joke, of course.

A pre-prepared fuel tanker truck drove into the station platform, and after connecting the intubation with the fuel tank, Yang Yanhong unscrewed the oil valve. Through the arm-thick fuel delivery pipe, you can hear the faint "whooshing" movement from inside.

According to the agreement, sixty rounds of ammunition will be paid when the team leaves Xi'an. Again, the same rules as in peacetime, trading requires a margin.

Watching the transport truck full of fuel drive out of the platform, Hu Zhehai said to Liu Tianming with satisfaction: "I like to deal with you. Despite some unpleasant contradictions, I must admit that you are some nice people. ”

This is clearly sycophancy.

"I have a suggestion."

After a pause, Hu Zhehai continued to smile and said, "You just came here, and many places are not very familiar. There's not much fun around the station, but we won't be so bored there. How about it, are you interested in going over and seeing? I promise you'll love it. ”

Luo Kuan was a little surprised: "What, you still have entertainment facilities?" ”

"Absolutely!"

Hu Zhehai's eyebrows fluttered and he introduced: "Do you think that we stay in this city and can only watch the sunrise and sunset every day and do nothing?" Hahahaha! You really should be walking around, especially in our Iron Fist area, where the nightlife is actually plentiful. We have cinemas, we have video game consoles, and bars and beautiful women. ”

As he spoke, Hu Zhehai saw Yang Yanhong standing beside Luo Kuan: "By the way, we still have a lot of shops that women like there." They are all used to shopping malls, and we have a dizzying variety of goods. ”

Zheng Xiaoyue was skeptical of this statement: "Are you kidding! How is that kind of place possible now? If nothing else, cinema ...... What do you use to generate electricity? ”

"Hydroelectric and solar power plants, of course!"

The expression on Hu Zhehai's face was very serious: "We repaired the electricity supply last year, and all the gangs in the city worked together. Those devices are simple to maintain. There are not many places to use electricity in the city now, and I am afraid that it is less than one-tenth of the amount in peacetime. We have professional engineers, as well as skilled repairmen. ”

Yang Qingguo also didn't believe Hu Zhehai's words: "No! With such fanfare, aren't you afraid of attracting murderous corpses? ”

"Murderous corpses?"

Hu Zhehai is very unfamiliar with this word. He smacked for a few seconds before he realized, "Do you mean those man-eating monsters?" It's been a while since I've seen them in town. I don't know what's going on on your side, but in our place, those monsters have been pretty much killed since the virus broke out. At that time, it was very easy to deal with them, as long as they cooperated with each other, it would not be a problem to kill them. Now there are murderous corpses only outside the city. Even if they come in occasionally, the number is not very large, so it is not difficult to deal with. ”

Liu Tianming listened to the slight chin beside him.

Hu Zhehai's words are actually very logical. Zombies are not as scary as people think. Humans have an instinctive fear of unknown creatures, and zombies are no exception. If they are common, like lions and tigers that can be seen on TV shows like Animal World, there will definitely be many people who will dare to deal with them. But the outbreak of the virus came very suddenly, and the hordes of zombies scared the human race. At that time, people only thought about escaping, and they simply did not have the courage to fight. Naturally, when more and more zombies gathered, the situation that could have been changed became more and more dangerous.

Xi'an is an exceptional place. This is probably because of the military columns full of weapons.

(End of chapter)