Xin Sui echoed, "Yes, this place is much more prosperous than Thorn City. We can explore more of the area."
Li Beibei seemed encouraged: "Right? But the cost of living here is exceptionally high. The little money I brought is long gone, and I even owe Ak a huge sum of money to buy upgrade cards."
"I don't know how I'm going to explain this to my dad when I get back."
Her eyes darted to Xin Sui, "How about you lend me some money? I'll definitely pay you back later."
Xin Sui refused decisively: "No."
Li Beibei: "You're so rich, what's wrong with lending me some money?"
Xin Sui was speechless at her matter-of-fact tone.
"It's my business whether I have money or not, what's it to you?"
Li Beibei: "Aren't we still sisters? If your older sister is in trouble, shouldn't you, as her younger sister, help her out more? A family should work together, shouldn't we?"
Xin Sui found it all quite amusing.
That makes a lot of sense, but isn't it a bit ridiculous to apply it to her and Li Beibei?
"Fifth sister, dear sister, please lend me some money, okay?"
When hard tactics failed, Li Beibei resorted to softer ones, constantly pestering and cajoling Xin Sui.
Xin Sui was completely overwhelmed by her.
You might say Li Beibei is annoying, but she's not to the point of making someone want to hit her.
You might say she's not annoying, but she's like a leech, sticking to you like glue.
Xin Sui suddenly stopped.
"How about this, you do me a favor, and I'll give you a reward if you do it, okay?"
Anyway, there's no way I'm going to lend it to anyone.
Li Beibei asked eagerly, "What is it?"
Xin Sui: "After you go back, help me set up a food purchasing station to buy all kinds of food from the desert, such as sandworms, sand onions, and thorny fruit (mutated wheat)."
"Then we'll send it here regularly, okay?"
She plans to open a restaurant after the food festival competition ends.
She is, after all, the leader of the Shuangxi Alliance. Although she currently only has Shui Duoduo as her subordinate, she will definitely expand her membership in the future.
Having subordinates makes things easier.
To hire people, you definitely need funds.
Opening a restaurant is a good option.
Through this competition, she also realized that the post-apocalyptic world does not lack an environment for the development of delicious food, but rather the methods for making delicious food.
When the restaurant opens, it will be a good opportunity to capitalize on the popularity of the competition.
There's no need to worry about customers anymore.
But the first thing to do when opening a restaurant is to solve the problem of ingredients.
Xin Sui plans to utilize both land and sea resources, making sure to have the available ingredients on the island and also sourcing ingredients from the desert.
As for who should do this, Li Beibei is a good candidate.
With the backing of the Li and He families, there shouldn't be too much resistance to her opening a food purchasing station.
Li Beibei: "You want me to work for you?"
Xin Sui: "You can interpret it that way too."
Li Beibei really wanted to refuse firmly and turn around and leave.
But what can she do when she's short of money?
Without money, how can you stand tall?
So she was silent for a moment, then asked, "How much is the daily wage?"
In the end times, people live hand to mouth, so wages are basically paid daily, one day at a time.
Xin Sui gave a number, which displeased Li Beibei.
The two bargained back and forth for a while, and finally settled on a wage that satisfied both of them.
Li Beibei felt awkward for a moment when she thought about working for Li Xueli, but she quickly got into the role and started looking for ways to benefit herself.
“To build a food collection station, you can’t skimp on site fees and labor costs. You can’t expect me to pay for it out of pocket, can you?”
Xin Sui glanced at her and said, "Don't worry, I won't make you pay."
Li Beibei happily started calculating how much she could squeeze out of it.
Xin Sui saw through her little scheme at a glance. "But if I find out you deliberately swindled me out of my money, hehe."
Li Beibei gave a half-hearted assurance: "Don't worry, we're sisters. I'd never cheat you, let alone anyone else."
"When it comes to transporting the ingredients, it's a long way and not safe, so I'll definitely have to hire a few mercenaries, and the transportation costs will be another expense."
Xin Sui: "Let's go."
"Where are we going?" Li Beibei followed her.
"Go to the magical artifact shop and buy a spatial magical artifact. But let me make it clear beforehand, this spatial magical artifact is for storing food, not for your personal use."
Li Beibei thought to herself, "Once the spatial artifact is in my hands, how can you possibly know how I use it?"
He readily agreed, saying, "I understand. I promise it won't be used for my personal purposes. At most, I'll put some important things in it, like crystal coins, weapons, water, or something like that."
Xin Sui wasn't a heartless capitalist; he still had some humanity. He said, "I can only approve 2 cubic meters of space for you at most, no more than that."
Two cubic meters is about the size of a suitcase, enough to hold some essential supplies.
This time, Li Beibei didn't say anything more and just smiled and agreed.
Upon arriving at the magical artifact shop, Xin Sui selected a spatial artifact, a bracelet style.
Li Beibei said disdainfully, "This bracelet is ugly. The design is too outdated, and the color is too dark. I wonder what people will think of me if I wear it out."
Xin Sui: Do you think I have no taste? Of course I deliberately picked the ugly ones, that way it should be cheaper.
Anyway, it's not like she wore it herself.
When asked about the price, the salesperson explained, "This spatial artifact was made by Master Fangyuan. It contains 100 cubic meters of space and costs 200,000 crystal coins."
Xin Sui was astonished.
She knew that spatial artifacts were expensive, but she didn't expect them to be this expensive.
A 100-cubic-meter spatial artifact costs 200,000 crystal coins, so how much would a spatial ring with an enormous internal space that Xuan Tu casually tossed to her be worth?
It was probably because the people she knew—Xuan Tu, Xiao Ming, Shui Duoduo, and Lou Jiali—all had spatial abilities that she got the wrong impression that spatial abilities were commonplace.
But that's not actually the case.
Both spatial ability users and spatial artifacts are extremely rare.
Among these people in Xuan Tu—the main villain, the rare spiritual robot, the protagonist, and the Lou family from a prestigious clan—which one is simple?
Ordinary people will probably never have the chance to come into contact with spatial artifacts in their entire lives.
You can tell just by looking at Li Beibei's reaction.
She came from a small family, but when the price of the space bracelet was revealed, she, who had previously had some reservations about the bracelet's design, suddenly had nothing to say.
"Fifth Sister, I think this bracelet is quite pretty when you look closely. It has a kind of understated luxury. Why don't we buy this one?"
How could something worth 200,000 crystal coins not look good! Her taste must have been terrible before!
Xin Sui: "..."
As expected of you, Li Beibei.
Although Xin Sui won a piece of white crystal and a crystal card with 10,000 crystal coins in it from Lou Jiali, how could he bear to spend 200,000 crystal coins like that?
Setting up food procurement stations and opening restaurants will all cost money.
So she smiled and said to the shop assistant, "Let's look at some others."
The shop assistant's attitude remained unchanged, still polite and professional: "Okay, please feel free to call me if you need anything."
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