Read Apocalyptic Heavenly Master's Plane Trading System

Although Lü Chaochao was fast, the yellow-haired man chasing behind her was also fast and quickly closed the distance. It seemed like it would only take a hand to close the gap. For some reason, Lü Chaochao suddenly stopped, picked up the flashlight in her hand, and smashed it into the yellow-haired man's temple.

The blond-haired man behind him was grinning from ear to ear as he saw his prey about to be his. But then the road suddenly stopped. He felt a flash of light, a sharp pain in his temple, and then everything went black.

When Lü Chaochao saw the blond-haired man fall, she was so frightened that she almost screamed. When she saw the people chasing after her, she quickly turned around and ran away again.

"Stop!! Stop!!" came the shouts from behind, and Lü Chaochao ran even faster.

When Yuan Zhuan arrived, he saw the girl running towards him, and she looked somewhat familiar.

He frowned and thought for a moment. It was the girl he had rescued in Orange Isle last time. How come she was in Beiyu City?

As Lü Chaochao ran with her head down, she saw a slender figure appear at the street corner and immediately recognized it as a girl. "Girl, girl, run! There are hooligans behind you! Run!"

"You go first." Yuan Zhuan stepped aside to make way. The street intersection was a bit narrow, and cars couldn't pass through, but pedestrians could walk side by side.

Hearing Yuan Zhuan's words, Lü Chaochao, who was about to leave, stopped. She was certain that this was still a young girl, and judging from her voice, she sounded like a minor. It was late at night, and she couldn't let the little girl walk alone on this road without any streetlights.

“Little sister, do you also live nearby?” Lü Chaochao strode up and tried to grab Yuan Zhuan’s hand.

She sidestepped and kicked him. Lu Chaochao was stunned, and then saw the man who had caught up from behind lying on the ground, groaning in pain.

Violent little girl!

Yuan Zhuan stepped forward, grabbed the thug who was still some distance away, and slapped him several times, making the thug howl. His alcohol-fueled mind cleared up. "Grandma, grandma, I was wrong, I was wrong. I didn't mean anything, I really didn't mean anything to her. It's just late at night, I saw a girl alone, and I wanted to chat with her for a bit. I was just bored out of my mind, bored out of my mind, hehe..."

Too lazy to listen to nonsense, he kicked the man to the ground, slamming him against the guy on the ground, both of them howling.

"You go first, I'll take care of things here." Yuan Zhuan said to Lü Chaochao as he turned around.

Lu Chaochao shook her head like a rattle-drum, "No, no, I'll go with you, we'll call the police together." Thinking that Yuan Zhuan's last move was to call the police, Lu Chaochao firmly disagreed with leaving Yuan Zhuan alone.

Helpless, Yuan Zhuan went up and kicked him a few more times, saying, "Get up and come with us to the police station."

Shijie Police Station.

Zeng Jing had just finished washing up and lay down when the pager on her bedside table rang. It was a colleague calling, saying that Yuan Zhuan had taken two thugs to the police station. Since Xiao Gu was on duty today, he had seen Yuan Zhuan before and assumed the two were probably related, so he called him.

Fortunately, the address was not far from the police station. When Zeng Jing rushed to the station, Yuan Zhuan and Lü Chaochao had not yet left, and Xiao Gu was taking their statements.

"Yuan Zhuan, are you... are you alright?" Seeing that there was a young girl present, Zeng Jing changed his address.

“I’m fine. This is Lü Chaochao, the person involved. I’ve finished taking her statement and I’m going back to rest. I’ll leave the rest to you. Once you’re done, take Lü Chaochao home.”

"Okay, sure," Zeng Jing replied good-naturedly.

Seeing Zeng Jing so obedient in front of the little girl, Lü Chaochao opened her mouth in disbelief and said, "Um, Yuan Zhuan, thank you." She didn't forget to thank Yuan Zhuan.

"I'm leaving." Yuan Zhuan waved his hand and walked out.

·········The Second Apocalyptic Dimensional Boundary Line, long time no see, my darlings.

Because of the unknown, there is fear. The safe zone is good, but there is no opportunity for growth. The Hunter's Gathering Place is a place that the residents of the safe zone fear. It is said that there the strong are respected and the weak are servants and lackeys. The weak are bullied as a matter of course. No one there has any compassion. Therefore, the weak will inevitably be crushed. This is the rule of the Hunter's Gathering Place. This is some very one-sided information that the system told him, but it is enough for him to keep it to himself.

Therefore, even after reaching the outskirts of the hunters' settlement, he did not blindly advance. Instead, he chose to hide in the nearby forest and use the concealment array he had exchanged to avoid being discovered by the people in the hunters' settlement.

Every day, he would watch from the high branches of a tree as the hunters emerged from the city in groups, setting out at sunset and returning at sunrise. The bags hanging from their waists were empty when they went out but bulging when they came back. They didn't bring food with them; they hunted mutated beasts, so it was common to see them carrying chunks of mutated beast meat on their shoulders.

These scenes, which are commonplace in hunters' encampments, would never appear in the security industry.

The meat consumed by residents of the security sector is obtained through an exchange point run by the management, and it is expensive. It can only be exchanged for flour or rice. However, the production of wheat and rice is sufficient to maintain household expenses, but it is far from enough to exchange for meat.

Therefore, people can only exchange for some very cheap crustacean meat, which tastes bitter and sour and is extremely unpalatable. But at least it is still meat and is enough to replenish the energy needed by the human body.

Lu Ze's eyes were dark and deep. When he saw the fresh chunks of flesh being carried on the men's shoulders, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his lips.

Mutant beast meat—at least 99 percent of the people in the security industry have never eaten mutant beast meat in their entire lives. The rest are the management, a level that ordinary people can never reach in their lifetime.

However, after getting the system, he was able to eat meat, and he ate it every day. He just didn't know which tasted better, the meat of the mutated beast or the meat he exchanged for.

After this period of training, Lu Ze's body has undergone a qualitative leap. He has learned all the boxing techniques he exchanged from the system, but since he has not practiced for long, he cannot use them freely yet. Every time he hunts a level 0 zombie, he relies on his improved endurance and speed to defeat it.

A month has passed since the system gave the time to enter the hunters' settlement. He has already delayed for too long and cannot delay any longer. He does not want the system that gave him life and a future to die.

He needs to support the system.

so……

He could choose not to enter the city, but he had to find a way to exchange some Tier 1 crystal cores with the hunters.

He also found a target that was not too dangerous, but still had crystal cores that could be exchanged.

Every three days, a group would appear outside the city with a girl of seven or eight years old. The tall, bearded man, about two meters tall, would usually carry her on his shoulder as they set off. When they returned, the girl's clean animal skin coat would be stained with blood. The man would carry the meat on his back, and the girl would walk beside him.

Therefore, he thought that the girl must be the man's daughter.

He used a concealment talisman to follow her out no less than ten times. Besides watching the hunters hunt zombies and mutated beasts, he also wanted to find an opportunity to get close to the girl. In the palm-sized pouch at the girl's waist, there were crystal cores that her father had given her. Every time, she would happily take them, put them in the pouch, pat them, and then go to the area designated by her father to pick mushrooms and edible green plants.

The area designated by his father would be far from the hunting grounds, but it would be protected by a powerful barrier of supernatural abilities, so neither zombies nor mutated beasts could detect the girl's presence.

But for some reason, he could see the hidden barrier.

so……

As usual, Xu Cai hummed a song as she gathered the green plants she found into a small mound. Then she would run to another location to collect more. Soon, many small mounds appeared in the designated area. The abundant harvest made Xu Cai very happy. This was her mission: to ensure that the team members had enough green plants so that the team would become stronger.

"The plants are so lush today, haha, we can dry and store the leftovers." Xu Cai smiled, revealing her white teeth, by the light of the small lamp above her head.

After working hard for half a day, I got tired, so I stood up, took out the collection bag from my backpack, and started filling it until the small mounds on the ground disappeared and the bag was almost full.

After skillfully tying it up with hemp rope, Xu Cai sat down, leaning against the collection bag, ready to eat some dried meat.

"Xiao Cai, hello." A childish male voice suddenly came from outside the formation. Xu Cai was so startled that she jumped up from the ground and subconsciously reached for the call device on her waist.

"Hello, I am a resident of the security community. I would like to exchange crystal cores with you."

Xu Cai could see the outside from inside the formation, but those outside could not see what was happening inside.

So when the boy, whose entire body was hidden in a linen robe, appeared, she stopped pulling the call button.

Security community?

From the slums?

"This is a hunter's settlement, you shouldn't be here." Although the hunters wouldn't bother the poor people from the safe zone, it didn't mean they liked seeing them. Moreover, to avoid trouble, the hunter's settlement guild had reached an agreement with the management of the safe zone, prohibiting people from the safe zone from entering within one kilometer of the hunter's settlement area. Otherwise, the hunters could treat the poor people as mutated beasts and drive them away.

Hunters all know about the safe zone, but no one pays attention to a gathering place for the weak, because it is so poor that even a first-tier zombie wouldn't bother to wander there.

She felt neither ill will nor goodwill toward the poor in the security sector.

So, "Please go back, I won't exchange crystal cores with you." They're so poor they can't even afford to eat, what good things could they possibly have to exchange?

"Have you ever tried crystal candy? It's delicious and very sweet." Two pink candies appeared in Lu Zeshen's palm at some point. Under the bright moonlight, they looked extremely tempting, as beautiful as gemstones. "I'll trade you these for twenty of them. How about one of your first-tier crystal cores?"

Xu Cai didn't speak, so naturally she didn't know that Lu Ze, who was outside the formation, could see her expression.

She wanted to say no, not to change, but her eyes had their own thoughts, and she simply couldn't look away.

"Is it candy?" Xu Cai sighed inwardly and gave in.

Okay, she really has no control when it comes to sweet candy. There is candy for sale in the settlement, but there really isn't any candy this pretty.

She had never seen pink candies before, so she wanted them.

"Add ten more, and I'll trade with you." Xu Cai stood at the edge of the formation, tilted her head, and looked at the boy, saying.

Lu Ze didn't answer immediately, seemingly thinking for a few seconds before saying, "I only brought 25 with me today, that's all." The melancholy in his tone was undisguised.

25? Xu Cai frowned. Hmm... it's not impossible.

"Wrap the candy together in leaves and put it on the ground. I'll inspect the goods first."

"Let me give you one first, you can try it. This is one I secretly hid, you can try it." With that, Lu Ze threw one on the ground and took a few steps back.

Xu Cai's eyes lit up when she saw that touch of pink amidst the lush greenery.

He was just a child, not very wary. He pulled off the whip from his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, the shiny candy was in his palm.

Because of her absolute trust in the formation, Xu Cai didn't think twice, opened it, and put it in her mouth.

The strawberry-flavored candy she had never tasted before made Xu Cai exclaim, "Wow...it's so delicious..."

The transaction between the two proceeded very smoothly, and the first transaction was completed perfectly, opening up new avenues for Lu Ze.

"When will you come again? My dad still makes a lot of candy, and there are other flavors too, like banana, apple, orange, and tangerine. If you want any, I can exchange them with you. We need some first-tier crystal cores."

"Really?" Xu Cai was stunned to hear that there were so many flavors. Could there really be such a good thing in the world?

"It's true, candy is easy to make, but it's hard to sell in the security industry because the cost is high. I came here today to try my luck, and I didn't expect to run into you. Thank you for trusting me, I'm very happy today."