The other party was still somewhat unwilling to give up and continued to ask.

"Lu Yuan, we'll join you from now on, and you can be the leader! How does that sound? There's strength in numbers, and we can help each other out in case of emergencies!"

Lu Yuan smiled bitterly to himself. It was true that there was strength in numbers, but there were also many troubles that came with it. If you had food, these people would follow you willingly, but once you ran out of food, they might even feel that you didn't want to give them any more food. Power was a double-edged sword, and Lu Yuan did not intend to expand his operations too much.

"Sigh! Let's talk about that later, let's discuss the cooperation first!"

So Yuan Yuan had no choice but to give up, and the two discussed the allocation of resources and the timing of the operation.

"Then I wish us a pleasant cooperation. By the way, I have a question I shouldn't have asked: what do you need so much gasoline for? There are so many homeless people outside! Are you planning to go out?"

Lu Yuan looked at the other person and felt that it wouldn't hurt to tell him his thoughts, since many people were now preparing to find a place where they could settle down more easily.

"I'm planning to get a batch of gasoline for the relocation; we can't live here anymore!"

"What? You're planning to move? You don't want this place anymore, it's so nice here?"

Lu Yuan gave a wry smile.

"It's just a temporary idea. We'll decide whether to leave or not later. The main problem is that there are so many refugees here, eyeing us with hostility. Living here is very nerve-wracking and exhausting. We plan to find another place to start a new life!"

The other person nodded.

"That's right, I had the same idea. Have you decided where to go yet?"

"Not yet, we can only take it one step at a time and see how it goes. Let's get the oil first!"

"Oh, by the way, after we finish this batch of oil, we plan to go to Shanxi Province. They have abundant gas resources there, and the mountains and forests are full of wild delicacies that we can use. Do you want to come along?"

Upon hearing the other party's words, Lu Yuan was immediately startled. He hadn't expected that the other party had already thought of the very thing they had planned for.

"Well, we'll talk about that later. By the way, didn't you just say you needed a batch of grain? Go ahead and ask. As long as I can accept it, there won't be any problem."

The other party was also somewhat excited after hearing this.

"I don't really intend to take your food, because I don't lack food where I am. If you have meat, we can exchange it!"

"Oh, that would be fine too!"

Lu Yuan's warehouse did have very little grain, oil, rice, and flour, but plenty of meat. This was because the chickens raised in his dimensional space could mature in about a week, while the ducks and geese took about half a month.

He has stored a lot of meat, but he can't eat much of it every day. The main reason is that there isn't much meat at home, and taking it all out at once would attract attention.

Because there are too few plots of land in his dimensional space, he cannot grow crops on a large scale. If he were to plant crops on all of them, he would have to harvest them every day, which would be too tiring.

The next day, the other party came again in their motorboat, but this time the motorboat was covered with a thick tarpaulin, and the waterline was obviously lowered.

Two other people accompanied Yuan Yuan this time.

"There's a thousand catties of rice here! Enough to feed you for a long time! At market prices, that's about five hundred catties of meat! You should have that, right?"

The other person pointed to the bags of rice on the boat and said.

Lu Yuan lifted the canvas to look at the rice on it. There were no signs of dampness or rat damage, and the quality was quite good.

"Okay! We'll go with the market price! I'll get it for you in a bit! Do you guys like chicken?"

The other person was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"Does that mean you have other meats besides chicken?"

Lu Yuan nodded.

"Yes, besides chicken, we also have duck and pork, some lamb, and beef! It depends on what you want!"

A hint of envy flashed in the eyes of Yuan Yuan and the two people behind him.

"Damn! I should have brought more! There are over fifty of us over there, and 500 pounds won't last long! Bro, can we come back and exchange some next time?"

Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Sure! But it depends on how many you have!"

So the group carried all the rice ashore, and Lu Yuan also found a cart and moved all kinds of meat over, which weighed exactly 500 jin.

After exchanging grains, the other party followed Lu Yuan back to the factory.

Yuan Yuan pointed to the area circled in red on the map and said, "This is the location of the gas station I told you about. However, there are a lot of refugees there, so we can only break through their defenses to get the gasoline!"

"Oh? Are there any organizers among these refugees? How about we charge through them?"

The other person nodded.

“I know the boss there, but we had a pretty bad falling out recently. His name is Liu Yu, and he has about a thousand men under his command. He leads these refugees to plunder everywhere, and the others sometimes go into the city to loot.”

"And this gas station is under their control, except that they don't have ships, and they use this oil to trade for food with other forces in the vicinity."

Lu Yuan nodded thoughtfully. From the other party's words, Lu Yuan learned that besides Liu Yu and Yuan Yuan in front of him, there were several other forces nearby, but obviously none of them were as powerful as the two of them.

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