The scavenger suddenly sniffed hard, a meaningful smile on his face, and said:

"I smell meat."

The businessman's gaze then turned to Li Yu, and he held up one finger:

"If you have meat made from ponies, you can exchange one piece of meat for an arrow."

"Trying to trade arrows for meat? Dream on!" Fu Xiyao retorted immediately, clearly dissatisfied with the merchant's price.

Others might not have noticed, but Li Yu was keenly aware of it.

When the merchant took the arrow out from under his trench coat, he clearly felt a surge of supernatural power.

Li Yu found it hard to believe. He had already guessed why the scavenging merchant had nothing with him.

The seemingly ordinary businessman in front of me is actually a user of spatial abilities.

This ability is so useful that even Li Yu is a little envious.

"A piece of meat for an arrow? That's too little," Li Yu shook his head. These days, refugees are starving to death every day, so the value of meat isn't that low.

The merchant glanced at Ma Yuanbai, realizing that this must be meat chunks made by Xiao Ma, and his mouth involuntarily moved.

He really hadn't tasted meat for several days.

"If it's the kind made by Little Horse, I can give you five arrows for a piece of meat." The merchant looked at Li Yu with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Li Yu took out the package that Ma Yuanbai had given him earlier, opened it, and glanced at the dark snake meat inside. There were about a dozen pieces.

All the meat pieces were made by Ma Yuanbai to the same size, and the size of the meat pieces was not much different, which is why the merchant measured them by the size of the meat pieces.

Li Yu glanced at Ma Yuanbai, who nodded slightly, indicating that the merchant's price was reasonable.

Considering that the materials for making arrows are hard to come by now, Li Yu had no choice but to compromise.

"I'll buy fifty arrows first, which means I'll give you ten pieces of meat," Li Yu asked tentatively, since he wasn't buying a large quantity this time.

"Of course, no problem, hehe." The scavenger chuckled, his expression remaining as enigmatic as before.

Li Yu couldn't tell from the businessman's expression whether the deal was profitable or not.

However, with these fifty arrows, it should be enough for him to use for a while.

We can come back to exchange for supplies later if we have any extras.

Once the transaction was complete, Fu Xiyao took out ten pieces of meat from her package and handed them to the other party. She always felt that merchants were cunning and treacherous, and could not be trusted at all.

The scavenger hurriedly took out a bag and stuffed all the meat into it.

Then, without waiting, he tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth to eat.

"Hmm~, not bad, this tastes just like the meat Xiao Ma made."

The merchant closed his eyes, his face filled with a blissful expression, seemingly savoring this rare delicacy.

"Xiao Ma's skills are getting better and better."

Hearing the praise, Ma Yuanbai smiled modestly and said, "Not at all, I'm still the same as before."

After the transaction was completed, Li Yu did not linger and parted ways with Ma Yuanbai.

Although Ma Yuanbai looked at Li Yu's back and seemed to want to say something, he ultimately did not speak.

"Li Yu, should we leave?" Fu Xiyao asked softly.

"No, we'll follow too."

Although Li Yu didn't quite believe that a natural disaster had actually occurred, everyone was migrating westward, which was a rare opportunity to leave Black Mountain.

He had noticed long ago that the living environment near the Black Mountain was becoming increasingly difficult, and the number of plants and animals on the ground had also decreased significantly.

Li Yu had long wanted to leave this place, but was constrained by the difficulty of the long-distance migration.

Now is the perfect time to join the large group of refugees and leave this place with the people in the safe zone.

Li Yu deliberately followed behind the main group with Fu Xiyao. He did not choose to act with Ma Yuanbai, since they were two different teams.

Moreover, Li Yu felt that it was better to be more free. Putting aside the question of trust, it was still inconvenient for both parties to be together.

As night slowly fell.

Li Yu, who was hurrying along, noticed that everyone in front of her had stopped.

He looked ahead curiously and saw that the team that had walked quite far into the safe zone was now standing there motionless.

Although the refugees caught up, none of them dared to overtake them and leave first. Instead, they all set up camp and waited to act together.

At this moment, the young master of the Zhang family once again arrogantly arrived at the back of the safe zone line.

Fireworks are coming!

Young Master Zhang suddenly shouted excitedly, his voice filled with unrestrained arrogance.

Then he raised the rocket launcher and fired a shot at the refugees behind him.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, a hapless scavenger squad was instantly blown to the ground.

Before they could even scream, the ground was instantly a mess.

Even though the refugees had deliberately kept their distance, they were still within the range of the weapons.

"Run!"

"spread."

The refugees, like startled birds, ran around in panic.

The young people burst into laughter at this scene.

"Yes, run—get moving!"

The young man casually pulled out a pistol for self-defense, closed one eye, and slowly aimed at the vagrants running around behind him.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

He fired several shots in succession, but due to his poor marksmanship, he only managed to wound a few refugees.

"Bingo!" The young man shouted as he fired, speaking in a language no one else could understand, gesturing wildly with great joy.

"Bang!"

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