It could be said that Zhang Ji had opened the door to a new world for Gu Ning. They hadn’t even realised before that survivors were willing to trade crystal cores for supplies. However, according to Brother San, although they now had as many supplies as a supermarket, eventually it would still be used up. Moreover, they went out to hunt zombies every day, and they weren’t short of crystal cores. Yet for Gu Ning, supplies could be bought as long as they had money but crystal cores were something that they had to risk their lives on to obtain.
Especially the evolved crystal cores. They had already discovered that evolved crystal cores would expand the pool of their psychic energy in their bodies to a certain extent when they consumed a second time. This meant that more psychic energy could be stored which was a very big advantage when it came to battle.
The crystal core that was dug out from the brain of the tentacle mutated zombie, Gu Ning had given it to Xiang Xu. Xiang Xu’s pool of psychic energy had expanded by nearly a quarter, and it was this quarter of increment that allowed her to resist strong for a minute against more than ten special abilities users’ attacks.
The other six mutated crystal cores were divided among the three mutated special abilities users as well as Brother San, Zhong Xu, and Fang Fa. Another few evolved crystal cores were also distributed to the other special abilities users in the team except for herself. The last three evolved crystal cores were reserved by Gu Ning for backup.
Their transparent crystal cores for replenishment had accumulated a relatively large number, almost a hundred, after going out to hunt for zombies daily for the past few weeks.
The next day near the management office, on the large noticeboard that require payment, half of the noticeboard was taken up by this notice written in a big black marker stating trading supplies for crystal cores. Below, in a slightly finer line reads that one transparent crystal core could be exchanged for five pounds of supplies, and one evolved crystal core could be exchanged for fifty pounds of supplies.
This was a rate far above the market price. Gu Ning didn’t just want to obtain the crystal cores but she also hoped to use this opportunity to release a batch of supplies. On the one hand, her Space ability had been exposed and she believed that there were already quite a few people who had been eying on her space. If the Third Company being so strong still couldn’t deter those people, then they must be extremely short of supplies. Since that was the case, why not just offer a very favourable deal to them? If she could just release a large number of supplies, as long as she could solve the urgent needs of those people, they naturally won’t be too heartless to hit the idea on her again.
Secondly, the other reason was Gu Ning was soft-hearted. She had never been a ruthless person and her cold-bloodedness was only directed at those who were hostile to her. She watched the survivors in the base withering away one by one. Furthermore, those children who should have been alive and carefree, did everything they could to just get a mouthful of food. If things continue like this, in a few more years, there would be lesser and lesser humans alive in this world.
It may be difficult for an ordinary survivor to obtain an evolved crystal core but a transparent crystal core might be possible if they were lucky enough to gain one or two of it. Five pounds of supplies could feed a man for half a month if he ate them sparingly. With this half a month of buffer, they could go out and hunt for more crystal cores.
It had to be said that supplies had been scavenged once since the early days of the apocalypse. Now it had been more than four months since it happened and unless one ventured into the densely populated areas filled with zombies or in the more remote areas of the surrounding cities, the usual surrounding supplies had almost been fully scavenged. In contrast, the crystal cores were slightly easier to obtain.
As soon as this piece of notice was posted, it immediately attracted many survivors who had crystal cores in their hands but lacked supplies.
By the afternoon, they had exchanged supplies with the management office for a large shed. Jia DaoZhang brought several soldiers with him and carried bags of supplies from the third floor to the shed. All the soldiers were armed with a gun and Jia DaoZhang being a special ability user stationing at the shed while their base was just on top, no one would be so stupid enough to come forward and rob them.
Two metres away from the shed, a one-metre high earth wall was erected around it by Brother San, leaving only a small door roughly a metre wide for those who need to trade to enter.
Bags of rice, noodles, vermicelli, various kinds of biscuits, and sausages were piled up in the shed. On the other end, it was piled up with various types of winter clothes, quilts, and all kinds of items that were bought by Gu Ning from the other side of the world in the past. Jia DaoZhang and the rest thought it was collected by Gu Ning during their last visit to the supermarket.
Within a few minutes, a large crowd had gathered. All were standing outside of the fence and drooling at the piles of rice and various supplies in it.
Seeing that there were lots of survivors gathered around, Jia DaoZhang cleared his throat and started to introduce the rules of the trade. Not only did they accept the crystal cores but also all kinds of gold, diamond, and other worthy items could be exchanged for supplies. Not many survivors had crystal cores but there were plenty who kept their gold necklaces and rings because they couldn’t bear to lose them.
As soon as they heard of the latest instruction, they all turned around and went back to their tents to search for valuable things they could trade. The survivors didn’t even understand what use they would have for gold in this post-apocalyptic world, just like Jia DaoZhang and the rest who were puzzled but still followed and met Gu Ning’s request.
The first customer that arrived was a small group of special abilities users living in the same building.
Both sides knew each other. An evolved crystal core was exchanged for a bag of rice and several more transparent cores for several winter coats, a couple of quilts, bread, biscuits, and other supplies. All of them hugged their supplies away happily.
The only unexpected thing was that quite a few ordinary survivors managed to take out transparent crystal cores. Jia DaoZhang was also soft-hearted toward them, he wouldn’t give a gram more when trading with the other abilities users but if some ordinary survivors came to trade, he would secretly give an extra bread.
Many children were lying on the fence, staring at the piles of supplies. The children were all starving, and although Jia DaoZhang felt a little bad in his heart, he knew that if he was to give one of them some food, there would be another asking for it and that’s not the way of doing good deeds.
Previously, Brother San had proposed to set up a porridge shed specifically for the children and elderly in the base which was firmly rejected by Hong Jie. Apart from a few enthusiastic soldiers, everyone else was against the idea. There were now over 100,000 survivors in the base, the elderly and children added up to several thousand. Therefore if they were to set up a porridge shed, it might eventually lead to a disaster.
Zhang Ji didn’t expect Gu Ning to come up with such an idea. At the same time, he had also vaguely guessed Gu Ning’s intention but he just didn’t know whether that was her idea or her team members.
The two times he had come in contact with Gu Ning in the post-apocalyptic world, Zhang Ji was keenly aware of Gu Ning who seemed to be the core figure in that team. Generally speaking, a Space ability user in the team was usually just a mobile warehouse, not to mention that Gu Ning was a girl…… Thinking about the fact that most of the team members he saw that day were mostly men, Zhang Ji inevitably had some other thoughts. Coupled with Gu Ning’s words that she no longer had any relationship with Lu JiaZi, and her drastic change in temperament, both made Zhang Ji even more certain of what he thought.
After all, such a way was very common in the post-apocalyptic world.
The main point was if he could win Gu Ning over? Previously, he had very strong thoughts about obtaining Gu Ning’s space. Yet, after all, the both of them knew each other so he couldn’t bear to kill Gu Ning outright to take the stuff from her space. It was also like killing a chicken to get an egg. However, right now, Zhang Ji suddenly found it possible to just take the chicken over.
The exact method would still need longer planning.
Zhang Ji was deep in thought.
It could be said that Zhang Ji had opened the door to a new world for Gu Ning. They hadn’t even realised before that survivors were willing to trade crystal cores for supplies. However, according to Brother San, although they now had as many supplies as a supermarket, eventually it would still be used up. Moreover, they went out to hunt zombies every day, and they weren’t short of crystal cores. Yet for Gu Ning, supplies could be bought as long as they had money but crystal cores were something that they had to risk their lives on to obtain.
Especially the evolved crystal cores. They had already discovered that evolved crystal cores would expand the pool of their psychic energy in their bodies to a certain extent when they consumed a second time. This meant that more psychic energy could be stored which was a very big advantage when it came to battle.
The crystal core that was dug out from the brain of the tentacle mutated zombie, Gu Ning had given it to Xiang Xu. Xiang Xu’s pool of psychic energy had expanded by nearly a quarter, and it was this quarter of increment that allowed her to resist strong for a minute against more than ten special abilities users’ attacks.
The other six mutated crystal cores were divided among the three mutated special abilities users as well as Brother San, Zhong Xu, and Fang Fa. Another few evolved crystal cores were also distributed to the other special abilities users in the team except for herself. The last three evolved crystal cores were reserved by Gu Ning for backup.
Their transparent crystal cores for replenishment had accumulated a relatively large number, almost a hundred, after going out to hunt for zombies daily for the past few weeks.
The next day near the management office, on the large noticeboard that require payment, half of the noticeboard was taken up by this notice written in a big black marker stating trading supplies for crystal cores. Below, in a slightly finer line reads that one transparent crystal core could be exchanged for five pounds of supplies, and one evolved crystal core could be exchanged for fifty pounds of supplies.
This was a rate far above the market price. Gu Ning didn’t just want to obtain the crystal cores but she also hoped to use this opportunity to release a batch of supplies. On the one hand, her Space ability had been exposed and she believed that there were already quite a few people who had been eying on her space. If the Third Company being so strong still couldn’t deter those people, then they must be extremely short of supplies. Since that was the case, why not just offer a very favourable deal to them? If she could just release a large number of supplies, as long as she could solve the urgent needs of those people, they naturally won’t be too heartless to hit the idea on her again.
Secondly, the other reason was Gu Ning was soft-hearted. She had never been a ruthless person and her cold-bloodedness was only directed at those who were hostile to her. She watched the survivors in the base withering away one by one. Furthermore, those children who should have been alive and carefree, did everything they could to just get a mouthful of food. If things continue like this, in a few more years, there would be lesser and lesser humans alive in this world.
It may be difficult for an ordinary survivor to obtain an evolved crystal core but a transparent crystal core might be possible if they were lucky enough to gain one or two of it. Five pounds of supplies could feed a man for half a month if he ate them sparingly. With this half a month of buffer, they could go out and hunt for more crystal cores.
It had to be said that supplies had been scavenged once since the early days of the apocalypse. Now it had been more than four months since it happened and unless one ventured into the densely populated areas filled with zombies or in the more remote areas of the surrounding cities, the usual surrounding supplies had almost been fully scavenged. In contrast, the crystal cores were slightly easier to obtain.
As soon as this piece of notice was posted, it immediately attracted many survivors who had crystal cores in their hands but lacked supplies.
By the afternoon, they had exchanged supplies with the management office for a large shed. Jia DaoZhang brought several soldiers with him and carried bags of supplies from the third floor to the shed. All the soldiers were armed with a gun and Jia DaoZhang being a special ability user stationing at the shed while their base was just on top, no one would be so stupid enough to come forward and rob them.
Two metres away from the shed, a one-metre high earth wall was erected around it by Brother San, leaving only a small door roughly a metre wide for those who need to trade to enter.
Bags of rice, noodles, vermicelli, various kinds of biscuits, and sausages were piled up in the shed. On the other end, it was piled up with various types of winter clothes, quilts, and all kinds of items that were bought by Gu Ning from the other side of the world in the past. Jia DaoZhang and the rest thought it was collected by Gu Ning during their last visit to the supermarket.
Within a few minutes, a large crowd had gathered. All were standing outside of the fence and drooling at the piles of rice and various supplies in it.
Seeing that there were lots of survivors gathered around, Jia DaoZhang cleared his throat and started to introduce the rules of the trade. Not only did they accept the crystal cores but also all kinds of gold, diamond, and other worthy items could be exchanged for supplies. Not many survivors had crystal cores but there were plenty who kept their gold necklaces and rings because they couldn’t bear to lose them.
As soon as they heard of the latest instruction, they all turned around and went back to their tents to search for valuable things they could trade. The survivors didn’t even understand what use they would have for gold in this post-apocalyptic world, just like Jia DaoZhang and the rest who were puzzled but still followed and met Gu Ning’s request.
The first customer that arrived was a small group of special abilities users living in the same building.
Both sides knew each other. An evolved crystal core was exchanged for a bag of rice and several more transparent cores for several winter coats, a couple of quilts, bread, biscuits, and other supplies. All of them hugged their supplies away happily.
The only unexpected thing was that quite a few ordinary survivors managed to take out transparent crystal cores. Jia DaoZhang was also soft-hearted toward them, he wouldn’t give a gram more when trading with the other abilities users but if some ordinary survivors came to trade, he would secretly give an extra bread.
Many children were lying on the fence, staring at the piles of supplies. The children were all starving, and although Jia DaoZhang felt a little bad in his heart, he knew that if he was to give one of them some food, there would be another asking for it and that’s not the way of doing good deeds.
Previously, Brother San had proposed to set up a porridge shed specifically for the children and elderly in the base which was firmly rejected by Hong Jie. Apart from a few enthusiastic soldiers, everyone else was against the idea. There were now over 100,000 survivors in the base, the elderly and children added up to several thousand. Therefore if they were to set up a porridge shed, it might eventually lead to a disaster.
Zhang Ji didn’t expect Gu Ning to come up with such an idea. At the same time, he had also vaguely guessed Gu Ning’s intention but he just didn’t know whether that was her idea or her team members.
The two times he had come in contact with Gu Ning in the post-apocalyptic world, Zhang Ji was keenly aware of Gu Ning who seemed to be the core figure in that team. Generally speaking, a Space ability user in the team was usually just a mobile warehouse, not to mention that Gu Ning was a girl…… Thinking about the fact that most of the team members he saw that day were mostly men, Zhang Ji inevitably had some other thoughts. Coupled with Gu Ning’s words that she no longer had any relationship with Lu JiaZi, and her drastic change in temperament, both made Zhang Ji even more certain of what he thought.
After all, such a way was very common in the post-apocalyptic world.
The main point was if he could win Gu Ning over? Previously, he had very strong thoughts about obtaining Gu Ning’s space. Yet, after all, the both of them knew each other so he couldn’t bear to kill Gu Ning outright to take the stuff from her space. It was also like killing a chicken to get an egg. However, right now, Zhang Ji suddenly found it possible to just take the chicken over.
The exact method would still need longer planning.
Zhang Ji was deep in thought.
