Chapter 327: Desert Caravan (5)

With Chen Wu's appearance, more people finally joined, and almost thirty people in the entire Muye Town joined Ling Chen's underground ruins and went there to find work.

These men were led by a man in the prime of life in the town, and they were also the most laborious people in the town.

They were able to live comfortably with food and clothing by doing simple jobs in the underground ruins, and some were going to be satisfied, but apparently some wanted more.

"These people want to seize our base," Ling Qi saw this information from the surveillance system.

I saw that more than 30 people, in a bend under the ruins, were gathered together, listening to the middle-aged man's mouth.

"It's just two outsiders, and they actually occupy such a good place, why can't we occupy it," said the middle-aged man, shirtless, to the others.

"They're organic people, and I don't know how this thing was made, but it was only a few decades ago," Chen Wu was also engulfed in it, of course he didn't have the courage to rebel, but he didn't have the courage to rebel against the strongmen in this town.

"A bunch of iron lumps, what's so difficult to dismantle them, but the guns in the hands of the two of them are a problem," said the middle-aged man.

"But there are only two of them, and we also have a few guns, next time we take advantage of them to patrol, kill them directly, and this ruins will be occupied by us" The man in the prime of life did not allow others to answer, so he decided on his own.

But he did not know that he had consulted with them. has long been seen by the people he is plotting for.

"Beam-jumping clown. If not, it will be useful. It doesn't hurt to kill them all" Ling Chen just shook his head slightly and casually pressed a button.

A laser flashed, and the strong man who was still planning had a hole in his skull, and a burning smell came out, as well as a bit of roasted aroma.

The crowd around him dispersed in fright.

"It's just a small lesson, be honest and obedient. Do your duty, and there will be no such end," a voice told them.

Driving people to work is nothing more than two kinds, both grace and power, but what kind of organization, what doctrine, treats ordinary people like this, so that they can understand what they can do to get rewards and rewards. Doing something will be punished, it's enough. Most people will be relieved.

The next month, among the more than thirty people, someone carefully asked if they could stop working here, but Ling Qi didn't embarrass them and let them go. But more people stayed, because they were used to a life of being able to eat on time, and they didn't want to live a daily life of counting food, especially those who still had children at home, and they didn't want to leave.

As for the death of the man in the prime of life, in this last days of the desert, it is actually nothing, which caravan will not die some people, not to mention that this person is also considered to be damned, and there is nothing unfair about those who want to kill people and be killed.

After another half a month, some people from the town who were bold or hungry came to work, and soon more than 200 people gradually attached themselves to this underground base to live, and people were very adaptable, as long as there was a place for them to live, they would quickly migrate over.

When Sang Lao followed the caravan to this Muye Town again, he found that there had been a huge change here, and the biggest change was that the people here were much more angry, they had more smiles on their faces, and they also had extra things, exchanging with the caravan.

The caravan carried cotton, cloth, and more importantly, grain, these trading goods are the most basic and necessary materials, compared to those flashy things, selling these things, it is not easy to lose money, at least as long as people live, they still need these things for consumption.

But the people here began to exchange food with them for some fun things outside, and these things, the caravan wanted to carry very little, such as some paper books, some newspapers, before the end of the desert, these things were very cheap, but now only a very few people can afford to use, it has become a luxury, most people do not need it, but the price is not low.

"Underground ruins?" Sang Lao remembered the two young men, who claimed to have come out of the ground.

The caravan quickly made a decision, as a businessman, it was necessary to seize the specialties of each place to make money, only in this way, in order to trade guò, continue to accumulate more materials, that is, to make more money, of course, in the desert apocalypse, money itself is useless, the important thing is food and cloth such as human necessities.

They left and reversed the route of the camel caravans, passing around the ruins instead.

Soon they saw the person in the ruins, Ling Qi.

"If you want to do business, of course, but what do you need, and what do you know we need?" Ling Qi said.

"Don't know what you need?" It's not Sang Lao, but a person in charge of business transactions, that is, a person who does business, Sang Lao is the leader, but he doesn't know much about business.

"We need a population, the more the better, of course we are not buying slaves, but we need hired workers," the base at this time naturally does not need any foreign goods.

"We can also transport hired laborers for you, but how much will we be paid?"

"Every person who is transported, as long as he is alive and healthy, all the freight is included, and the food required for two years is returned to one person," Ling Qi inquired about the relevant prices, and now he basically uses the necessities of grain to trade, the desert climate is dry, and some processed grain can be eaten for fifty years, which can be said to be a long-term reserve, and generally this kind of long-distance caravan is used to exchange items with the local area, that is, grain, currency, even gold is not easy to use, because the trade route often may not come once in half a year, even if the currency is accumulated in his hand, I can't spend it, and bartering is the most commonplace.

No matter how much food accumulates, it can always be consumed slowly, and in the desert, there are very few places where food is produced, and food is needed for migration.

Of course, there is also clean water, but it is not easy to carry and store water in large quantities, and each settlement has its own closed cistern to preserve the water.

"This price is reasonable," the salesman thought about it, and he didn't plan to bargain too much for the first time, first pull up the friendship, this transaction is in the account, as long as he can earn it, he will not be too harsh.

"We've got glass, we've got all kinds of rare tools, what else do you need?" He then went back to pitching and pulled out a list of goods.

Ling Qi took it and looked at it, then shook his head, "There's nothing we need, we still produce machinery here, you can also exchange it for hired workers," he said as he handed over a slip. (To be continued......)