Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 452 - The Grace of the Immortal
Chapter 452: Chapter 452: The Grace of the Immortal
Chapter 452: Chapter 452: The Grace of the Immortal
The two Space Element Ability Users’ combined crystal core count in their spaces surprisingly totaled over 20,000 crystal cores.
Cai Jianbin suggested exchanging all these crystal cores for rice and flour since these easily preserved foods were not only cost-effective but also filled more people’s stomachs best.
“Food is good; food fills the belly the best,”
Auntie Zhang said, holding the flatbread she had just purchased.
Seeing no objections and continuing her calculations, Huang Yunxiang converted all those crystal cores into an equivalent amount of food for Su Jin to take out.
The hotel lobby was filled with the aroma of various foods at the moment, and Su Jin even sold some chili sauce that her family had made while idle in their space, which many people enjoyed dipping their flatbreads into.
“Girl, where did you get all this food from? How do you still have food now?”
Someone couldn’t help but ask.
Having already collected the crystal cores and remaining supplies, Su Jin responded confidently with the preconceived reason upon being asked.
As everyone ate and nodded, it turned out that these people had owned a grain and oil market before the Apocalypse and had collected quite a few supplies on their journey. They were worried about the food spoiling before they could finish it, so they decided to exchange it for crystal cores.
Lu Hao learned quite a bit about the A city base from chatting with these people.
Because of Mutated Plants and the requirement to pay a portion of their collected resources when re-entering the city from the outside, the number of Survivors inside the base was not high.
Many capable Survivors had fled, seeking survival in more remote places like them. Although there were Zombies outside, they didn’t want to lose a share of their gathered supplies every time.
“Are there many teams like yours in A city?”
Lu Hao asked.
“A lot, maybe not thousands, but there are certainly hundreds,” Qi Liangliang said while finishing his last flatbread. “That’s why I said you don’t need to go into that base. You never know how those so-called managers might backstab you.”
“Yeah, and the people left in the base are basically those without many crystal cores, those muddling along day by day,” Cai Jianbin added, a hint of disdain in his voice. Anyone with some capability had gone to find a reliable team to join, and with the sporadic appearance of Mutated Plants inside, it wasn’t much safer than outside the base.
Listening to everyone’s back and forth, Su Jin and her family began to ponder. They hadn’t expected A city to be in such a state. If the people were all scattered, it would be difficult for them to sell food.
“Are you familiar with the locations where these teams are distributed?” Lu Hao inquired.
“We don’t know all of them, but we should know at least half, as everyone picks the most remote corners, and there is a pattern to it,” Qi Liangliang replied, wondering if these people wanted them to guide the way.
If there was a benefit to be had, guiding wouldn’t be a problem.
However, Lu Hao’s intention wasn’t just about guiding; he actually wanted Cai Jianbin and his group to spread the word that they were selling food in A city. For every 10,000 crystal cores sold, they would receive ten kilograms of food as commission!
!!!
This stunned everyone present; ten kilograms of food?!
This deal was worthwhile!
In the past, to find even a little food to stave off hunger, they had to travel great distances each day and sacrifice many people.
And now, all they needed to do was to share this news and they could have such an abundance of food.
“There’s a condition,”
Lu Hao continued to address the people before him.
“What conditions?”
Not to mention one condition, they’d have to agree to a hundred!
“All arrangements will be conveyed to your leader, and you only need to follow his commands,”
Lu Hao said, pointing at Cai Jianbin.
Cai Jianbin was stunned; did this man mean…
“That’s right, it’s much easier to manage this way,”
Lin Cheng also agreed.
Cai Jianbin had come back to his senses and, for some reason, he felt like he had suddenly been entrusted with a significant role by the higher-ups.
This group of honest people didn’t seem simple at all!
“Is the transaction taking place here?”
Cai Jianbin asked.
“No, it will be inside the industrial park we passed on our way here,”
Su Jin spoke up, believing this area to be unsafe and inconvenient for so many people to conduct a transaction. She remembered the mobile industry park they had seen on their way there.
Although it was a technology industrial park, it housed three five-story buildings, each standing independently while connected by corridors. To her, not only did it offer shelter from the wind and rain, but it was also safe and reliable.
“Over there? That’s a zombie nest with thousands of zombies locked inside. We never dare to get close,”
Qi Liangliang exclaimed loudly. How could these people choose a zombie nest as the transaction site?
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“It won’t be by tomorrow. Just bring the people there, and also, we need some people for cleaning duties—five pounds of grain per person,”
Su Jin declared, noting that killing zombies was their forte. But in making the industrial park clean enough for people to enter, she wanted to give these people a chance.
As expected, upon hearing that they could get grain for cleaning, Auntie Zhang and the other women all volunteered to sign up eagerly.
They were either family members of Special Ability Users or those with less formidable abilities. If they could get food in exchange for some labor, it indeed was a godsend.
However, as Lu Hao said, all arrangements must follow Cai Jianbin’s lead; they just needed to arrive at the industrial park on time early the next morning.
Cai Jianbin couldn’t dare to refuse. He responded respectfully and assured them that they would be satisfied.
At the same time, he felt gratitude for Lu Hao’s decision. The team’s spirit hadn’t been very unified before, but after Lu Hao’s recent organization, he could sense everyone’s morale soaring. Even those who normally loafed around were now signing up earnestly.
If there was a chance to live, who would want to give up?
However, after arranging everything, Su Jin and Lu Hao’s group left the area. Now that it was afternoon, they still had to clean all the zombies out of the industrial park.
“My goodness, I feel like the way those people were looking at us was as if they were seeing immortals descending to earth, don’t you think so, Grandma?”
Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but speak up after getting in the car, as if their goods were some divine blessing.
“You child, which immortals charge for their blessings like we do?”
Li Xiuying’s words made everyone burst out laughing.
Indeed, they were no immortals. If they really had to be given a title, they were only walking the path of food suppliers. Although it was uncertain how far they could go on this road, if they could earn Crystal Cores for the Space and make good use of those supplies, it would indeed be a win-win situation.
