After hearing Lin Xuan's outrageous story about cutting off the octopus monster's legs, Zhou Lerui was in a bad mood.

She had seen the octopus monster in the sea with her own eyes once, and Gu Xinghuo said that she had also encountered one on the road.

They were the ones who could easily wipe out a team of a hundred mutants, and they actually went to cut off the feet of a Cthulhu behemoth as big as a small mountain.

These two must have gone completely insane.

What kind of friend did she make? How could someone be so powerful? Is she even human?

She couldn't help but reach out and tug at Lin Xuan's chubby cheeks, and Lin Xuan made a squeaking sound as she was tugged...

Great, her friend wasn't possessed by aliens!

Peng Ze also reached out and poked Lin Xuan's head, which tilted to the side, making a "duangduangduang" sound...

Yes! It's a real flat-faced Nini, not possessed by aliens.

Faced with her friends' incredulous looks, Lin Xuan smugly tidied her hair.

"You'd better treat me well from now on. I'm someone who has fought sea monsters and can help you achieve freedom for your octopus legs."

Zhou Lerui quickly hugged her and pressed her close, "Of course, of course, isn't this to take you to get a haute couture dress? Today, everything will be paid for by Third Sister."

"Zun Du is fake?" Lin Xuan's eyes lit up.

"Zun du zun du!" Zhou Lerui rubbed Lin Xuan's face again.

"Yay! Third Sister is paying the bill!" Lin Xuan jumped up and down happily in the back seat.

"Third sister, it's on me! Third sister, it's on me!" Peng Xiaozhe always followed along like a puppy.

The three people in the back seat started making a ruckus again, and Xia Feng, who was driving, drove irritably the whole way. Fortunately, there weren't many cars on the street.

The free market that Zhou Lerui was going to was located outside the A City base, in the former suburbs of A City. Compared to the free markets in the city, this place was quite chaotic, and the security was practically nonexistent.

Both buyers and sellers are capable individuals, and their mutual deterrence creates a peculiar balance, preventing major disturbances from occurring frequently in this free market.

The four people got out of the car and put it directly into their storage space. Unlike in the city, there are no parking lots here. If someone steals your car while it's parked on the roadside, they deserve it.

Zhou Lerui and Peng Ze blended in with ease as soon as they entered the market, showing that they had been here quite often during the two weeks Lin Xuan was away.

Although the three were clean-cut and had youthful faces, with Xia Feng, a burly bodyguard, accompanying them, none of them dared to cause trouble.

This was Lin Xuan's first time visiting such a chaotic market, yet it had many novel and interesting things to do.

The stalls displayed various mutated beast fur garments, dried mutated beast meat, strange mutated beast bones, edible mutated vegetables and fruits, handmade household items, furniture, and more.

There are even some hallucinogenic mutated plant medicines that are openly displayed for sale.

Looking at a bottle of pills labeled 'Happy Little Mushroom,' Lin Xuan couldn't help but ask the stall owner curiously, "What are the effects of taking this?"

The stall owner was a middle-aged man with a stubble beard. He seemed kind enough. He smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth. "Young lady, this stuff will make you very happy, like you're floating on air, or even dying of pleasure. It's only 500 points a bottle. Want one?"

"So expensive!" Lin Xuan exclaimed in surprise when she saw that there were only a dozen or so fluorescent green pills in the small bottle.

Zhou Lerui, who was looking at the mutated plant vine vase, saw Lin Xuan attracted by the 'Happy Little Mushroom', so she quickly dropped the vase and came over to drag Lin Xuan away.

"Little Bao, Little Bao, good children don't look at that, it's not good stuff."

"I know, but the name 'Happy Little Mushroom' is so cute, I was just curious to take a look," Lin Xuan said, rubbing her cheeks.

"That stuff is like a drug, it's addictive, it's a terrible thing. Countless superhumans have died because of it."

Zhou Lerui turned Lin Xuan's head back from looking behind her and continued to instruct her, "Don't look, you can't even look, you'll get poisoned if you do. There's an ice cream stand up ahead, I heard it's really delicious, your third sister will buy you some."

In fact, Lin Xuan had heard of these hallucinogenic and addictive mutant plants in her previous life, but she had never come into contact with them and never thought that they would be sold openly.

In the apocalypse, people lack food and clothing, live in constant danger, and many who have no hope for the future live one day at a time.

As a result, various drugs extracted from mutated plants emerged, which could temporarily free people from the cruel apocalypse and allow them to enter a beautiful world imagined by their minds.

However, these imagined beauties are particularly fragile and easily broken, and upon waking up, one often has to face a much crueler reality.

The ice cream that Zhou Lerui wanted to buy for Lin Xuan was made from the milk of mutated mice mixed with several mutated fruits that had slight toxicity.

In the post-apocalyptic world, rats mutated to the size of cats. Generally speaking, animals with a high reproductive rate like rats tend to multiply and cause disasters.

However, because other mutated animals have mutated to be larger and more ferocious and have increased their appetite, the large number of mutated rats have become food for other mutated beasts.

Furthermore, because rats are relatively weak in attack compared to other mutated beasts, they have become a staple food that low-level superhumans and ordinary people can easily obtain.

People even discovered that the milk of the mutated rats was non-toxic and edible. As a result, this creature, which was hated by everyone before the apocalypse, became a treasure after the apocalypse and was welcomed by people.

Zhou Lerui bought everyone a mouse milk ice cream. Although this stuff was poisonous, it was no big deal for the superpowered individuals.

This ice cream costs 25 points, which is not cheap at all.

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