Chapter 109: An unexpected gain?

At this moment, there was no one else selling staple foods in the entire trading market except Liu Yu. As soon as this sign was put up, someone immediately started buying.

"How many crystal cores does this bag of flour cost?"

Liu Yu looked up at the person who came. It was a woman in her forties with clean nails and neat clothes. She was holding a bulging cloth bag in her hand. She did not look at all like an ordinary survivor in a disheveled state.

But the woman didn't bother to look at the owner of the stall, her eyes were fixed on the bag of flour.

To be honest, there were shops selling these things in the base, but they were so expensive that even though she had a son with superpowers, she couldn't afford to buy them.

So she would go to the trading market every few days to look around and see if there was anything good, trying to find a bargain.

She looked at the 5-jin bag of flour and felt a little excited. As she spoke, she squatted down, pinched a little flour from the bag, smelled it, and then rubbed it with her fingertips.

The taste and feel are no different from before the apocalypse, the quality is excellent, and this brand is a big one, so the product is definitely good.

The woman's expression changed immediately, and she covered the crystal core in the cloth bag, looking determined to get it.

"I've sorted and arranged the items by size. Excluding alcohol, everything else costs 100 primary crystal cores or 5 mutant crystal cores. All at a fixed price with no discounts."

Liu Yu didn't have time to find out the current prices in the S City base, but based on his experience in his previous life, he had a pretty good idea of it.

The price she offered was not very cheap but definitely tempting. These things could be exchanged for at least a thousand primary crystal cores, which was estimated to be enough for her and Zhuang Moxing to use to advance to the next level, and the alcohol could be calculated separately.

As expected, as soon as she said this, the crowd around her was in an uproar.

"This, this, this price is at least 10% cheaper than what they sell in the shops in Central City!"

"Oh my god, coming early really does pay off! This is already being sold!"

For a moment, Liu Yu's side was clearly a remote corner, but was squeezed into a "prime location" by the crowd.

Several men on the periphery were desperately searching their pockets for crystal cores, planning to get at least one other thing, if not a bottle of wine.

"Hurry, hurry, do you have any more crystal cores? I've cleaned out my pockets, how many have you got?"

"More than a hundred!"

"Okay! Throw it in for Weizi. Weizi's position will definitely be bought!"

The stall owner divided the things into ten piles, each pile was quite large, not dirty or broken and of good quality. He would definitely make a lot of money by reselling them!

Liu Yu was not picky about his targets. He asked if any of the people who bought the crystal core had used mutant crystal cores. He got no response, so it seemed that there was none.

Without any delay, he sold the items on the stall one by one in the order of the front row.

"No rushing, first come first served!"

A bunch of customers were huddled together, their chests colliding with their backs. Logically, there would have been a commotion and looting, but Zhuang Moxing, sitting behind Liu Yu, had an icy aura.

A few grown men became quiet after taking one look, and those waiting in line behind them could only watch others buy the things, not even daring to make a sound.

Sure enough, Wei Zi was among the buyers. Wei Zi paid the crystal core, picked up the big bag of chocolates and put it in his arms, protecting his chest and squeezing out of the crowd.

Then he exchanged a delighted look with a few brothers and slipped out of the trading market at dawn.

The remaining crowd was extremely disappointed to see that all the ordinary goods were sold out, but most people still did not leave.

Everyone stared at the only three remaining bottles of wine, eagerly waiting for Liu Yu to call out the price.

Before Liu Yu could set the price, a loud voice as deep as a bell suddenly rang out from outside the crowd: "Everyone, get out of the way! I want those three bottles of wine!"

The onlookers immediately looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a bald man at least two meters tall standing behind the crowd with a ferocious and sinister expression.

Behind him were two followers in blue uniforms.

"They are from the Blue Sky Mercenaries!"

"Heaven, make way, make way!!"

As soon as the iconic costume was revealed, no ordinary people around dared to block their way, and even those with special abilities did not dare to easily start a dispute with them.

The Blue Sky Mercenary Group, a group that only recruits strong men and those with special abilities, secretly occupies the top position among the three major forces in the S City base.

The bald strong man saw that everyone was tactful enough to make way for him, so he smiled evilly and strode into the front row of the crowd as if it was a matter of course, then looked down at Liu Yu.

"I want these three bottles of wine. This is the reward!" As he said that, he reached into his trouser pocket and rummaged around in an obscene manner, and immediately threw out a handful of garbage.

Inside were used tissues, yellowish and smelly socks, a mutant crystal core, three primary crystal cores and a black stone.

How could these few things be enough to exchange for the three bottles of wine in front of Liu Yu?

But his followers in the back row saw their boss's arrogant behavior and instead of feeling ashamed, they felt proud. The strong man threw down the "reward" and stepped forward to snatch the three bottles of wine.

All the survivors around looked at Liu Yu with sympathy. What's worse, two middle-aged women gathered together and glanced at Zhuang Moxing with disdain.

Covering their mouths, they whispered, "Good fellow, this man looks terrifying. How come he didn't even dare to say a word when his wife's things were taken away? What a loser!"

"Yes, yes, it's reasonable for the girl to be so small as to not speak out, but it would be a coward for a man to remain silent!"

The "person involved" Zhuang Moxing had sharp ears and eyes, and he took in all the conversations of everyone around him behind Liu Yu.

It would be a lie to say that he felt no emotion at all, but Liu Yu pressed her hand on his knee and told him to take a deep breath and continue to watch from the sidelines.

Seeing that Liu Yu and "her man" didn't dare to say anything, the bald strong man laughed triumphantly, waved his head to signal the followers holding the wine and left.

The crowd saw that Liu Yu was humiliated and no one dared to stand up to speak for her. They looked at the empty stalls and quickly dispersed in all directions without staying any longer.

As the crowd dispersed, the stall finally returned to its quiet state.

Liu Yu glanced at the pile of garbage in front of him with an inquiring look, and then his eyes were fixed on the black stone.

He reached out and touched it tentatively, and surprise flashed in his eyes.