Song Kaiji ate the wild vegetable cake in big mouthfuls. This was the best meal he had had in the past six months!
When Shen Qing handed it to him, Song Kaiji didn't think that this coarse grain pancake with a bad color and appearance would be a great delicacy, but it was food after all. Would anyone dislike food these days? Even if it was the black and hard coarse grain pancakes issued by the base, Shen Qing was willing to give him so many for free, which was enough to make him grateful.
Not to mention how shocked he was by the fresh, salty and fragrant taste he had when he took a bite! Oil, salt and fresh vegetables are now in short supply and may not be available even with crystal cores. He knew that "rich people" eat well, but he didn't know that "rich people" eat so well!
Originally, Shen Qing was a little concerned about his image. He went to the store next door to change clothes. After he left, Song Kaiji could not describe him as wolfing down his food. But he was a little puzzled. Why did Shen Qing go to the store next door to change clothes? They were both men. What was there to be shy about?
However, when Song Kaiji thought of Shen Qing's red face and bright eyes when she handed him the wild vegetable cake, he was choked and started coughing violently.
Shen Qing was changing clothes next door. These clothes were so different from his world that Shen Qing fumbled for a long time before putting them on. He folded his old clothes neatly and put them in the backpack. He planned to go with Song Kaiji to look at the stalls and observe more about what this world was like.
He needed to see more and understand more so that he could better integrate into this world and exchange things between the two worlds without leaving any trace. Today's harvest really made him feel excited. With so much gold, silver and jewelry, he only needed to take out a few silver bracelets, which would be enough to buy land, build a house and live a good life!
All his previous worries were solved. He would no longer suffer from hunger and cold, and would no longer have no food to eat. He could buy an iron pot and a water jar to store sauerkraut. If he bought some cloth and cotton, he and his mother could have new clothes and thick bedding for the New Year!
All he needs is a live-in son-in-law! But now that he has so much money, what kind of man can't he find? If he can't find one, he can just buy one from a human trafficker. He doesn't even like those boys in the village!
Shen Qing happily returned to the souvenir shop, and saw Song Kaiji leaning against the wall and coughing so hard that his lungs were about to burst. He quickly took out the water bag and handed it to him, but Song Kaiji waved his hand, took out a mineral water bottle from the space, took two gulps, and then suppressed it.
Water is also very expensive nowadays. He has received so many benefits from Shen Qing, and he feels embarrassed to ask Shen Qing for water again. However, he lowered his head and felt that it was okay to accept the water: Shen Qing was wearing a jacket over a sweatshirt, dark jeans, and a pair of old Beijing black cloth shoes underneath.
Song Kaiji: ...
He sighed, took out a pair of shoes from the space and handed them over: "Thank you for the wild vegetable cakes, I haven't eaten such delicious food in a long time. Giving you a pair of shoes is my return gift."
Shen Qing took it, looked at the shoes on his feet, then looked at Song Kaiji's feet, and put them on awkwardly. He didn't shy away from Song Kaiji this time. Country boys are not like the girls and boys from wealthy families. Their feet cannot be seen by others. When the boys in Shen Qing's village went to the paddy fields to plant rice, who didn't go barefoot? They were used to it.
Song Kaiji suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He just glanced at Shen Qing's bare feet and turned his eyes away silently.
After changing their shoes, the two went to the base. The Rainbow City Base is located next to an amusement park in the suburbs. Because it is sparsely populated in the suburbs, there are not many zombies after the outbreak of the apocalypse. However, the Rainbow City officials did not include the entire amusement park in the base, but built a small base based on the resort town of the amusement park and the surrounding hotels.
The mountain that Shen Qing came out of was the rockery in the amusement park. The apocalypse broke out unexpectedly. There were still tens of thousands of tourists in the amusement park at the time, and many of them turned into zombies. After half a year of cleaning, the entire amusement park was finally cleaned up. The next step for the Hongcheng officials was to expand the base to include the entire amusement park.
Before the apocalypse, Song Kaiji was a junior at Hongcheng University. He was both lucky and unlucky: he was lucky that he was not at school when the apocalypse broke out, but on his way to a part-time tutoring job. Otherwise, with the population density on campus, it was uncertain whether he could run out of the school.
Unfortunately, he was in the suburbs, in the opposite direction of the base. Fortunately, the suburbs were sparsely populated, and he lived with two employees in a coffee shop for half a month, relying on the coffee and desserts in the shop to survive. Then he received the news that the base was built near the amusement park and everyone was allowed to go there on their own.
He set out with two shop assistants, and it took them nearly a month to reach a distance that could only take two hours by subway. During this time, one of the shop assistants was scratched by a zombie and mutated, and the other shop assistant awakened his fire ability in a hurry.
Song Kaiji's space ability was awakened half a year after the outbreak of the apocalypse. Therefore, he only had space, but there was nothing good in it: half a year was enough for other people who awakened their space ability earlier to plunder the city.
However, space users have no attacking ability and are likely to hide things, so they are not popular among other users. Unless they bring a large amount of supplies to form their own team, other teams need space users but are wary of them. In the end, most teams choose to temporarily hire space users for each mission, and agree in advance what supplies the space users need to bring back for them, and the other supplies encountered along the way belong to the space users themselves.
For example, a few days ago, Song Kaiji took a job to find supplies at a cannery. It was agreed that all the food in the cannery would belong to the team, and someone in the team would count it, and then Song Kaiji would pack it up. Song Kaiji, with the mentality of being here since he was already there, collected some stainless steel basins, glass bottles, and a few battery-powered vehicles and bicycles parked in the factory shed - now most of Song Kaiji's space is filled with things that he could pick up, and it wouldn't be a pity not to pick up.
Song Kaiji was quite open-minded. If the base was to be expanded to include the entire amusement park, with an area of three to four thousand acres, there would always be people who needed bicycles. He could just sell them when the time came!
"My home is in Hong Province, not far from Hongcheng. It only takes four hours to drive there. However, there is no base built in the small city. Before the communication was completely cut off, my relatives told me that they would come to the Hongcheng base to find me." Song Kaiji took out a bicycle and took Shen Qing slowly to the south wall of the base.
Shen Qing was tense, clinging to the seat tightly. In order not to reveal his true identity, he did not refuse Song Kaiji's offer to ride him, but he really couldn't understand how two such thin wheels could carry two living people! He was worried about falling off the bike, and he had to remember the way.
Fortunately, it wasn't far and they arrived soon. Shen Qing quickly jumped to the side and watched Song Kaiji put away the car and took him to where he usually set up his stall: "So I set up a stall here, in addition to making a living, I also hope to get more information and find my relatives as soon as possible. So no matter how busy I am, I will come here every day. If you want to find me, come here before dark."
As soon as he stretched out his hand, the familiar cloth roll appeared on the open space in front of him. Song Kaiji skillfully spread out the cloth roll and placed the things on it one by one.
The reason why it was before dark was that after dark, this place would have a different look, and Song Kaiji would also leave. The south wall was an informal trading market outside the Doomsday Base. Compared with the trading market inside the base, the advantage was that there was no need to pay stall fees, but the disadvantage was that the public security was far worse than inside the base, and there were all kinds of people, which was dangerous. Many people who couldn't afford the entrance fee also set up tents and lived here, and it seemed to have become an outer city. At night, many women and even young men would expose their bodies to solicit customers, exchange food or hope that someone would take them into the base.
The entrance fee to the base is three crystal cores or one kilogram of food, and then a management fee of one crystal core is charged every week. Song Kaiji can afford it, but since the end of the world, there are still many people who dare not hunt zombies and only want to rely on others, which is why they have fallen into these places.
Song Kaiji used to collect jewelry and cosmetics because he thought that since there were many people doing the flesh trade here, they might need cosmetics and jewelry to dress themselves up. Unfortunately, they were reduced to doing the flesh trade and could barely make ends meet, so where would they get the spare money to buy these things? They never sold any of them.
Shen Qing stood behind him, observing the world calmly, and gradually discovered something shocking: he had not seen a pregnancy mole between any of the men's eyebrows.
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