Upon learning that things were not peaceful in the city, Cheng Zhi's heart immediately tightened.
Xiao Feiran comforted her, "Didn't you buy a lot of things for your aunt and uncle before? They're definitely staying at home safely and without incident."
Cheng Zhi bought a lot of things for her parents, enough for them to stay at home for a whole year. She was scolded by her father for buying too much, who said she had money to burn and hoarded so much stuff that it would expire sooner or later.
It was pitch black outside the window, and the streetlights had long since stopped working. Cheng Zhi's mood worsened, and she sighed, "I'm not worried about material things. I'm just worried that they'll go out to join in the fun or get bullied."
Huang Yiyi still felt a draft around her neck, so she wrapped her scarf around her neck again and said, "They definitely won't. They must have noticed something was wrong with this awful weather, so they won't come out easily."
Everyone offered a few words of comfort and then stopped talking about it. Besides, they were almost in Shenzhen, and seeing is believing.
There weren't many cars along the way, but as we got closer to the city, there were more cars, parked in twos and threes on the side of the road.
Zheng Wan also slowed down. She saw a row of roadblocks ahead and many burly men with guns.
Huang Yiyi gasped when she saw the gun. "Holy crap, they have guns? Really?!" Zheng Wan was also surprised. This was the first time she had ever seen a gun on an ordinary person. "This is too blatant! Where did they get the guns and ammunition? They would have been arrested long ago if this happened normally."
They died young in their previous lives and never saw how rampant people could become when there was no discipline. But Cheng Zhi and the other two were already used to it; in their previous lives, they heard gunshots almost every day and had even had something pointed at their heads.
Cheng Zhi stared at the guns, lost in thought. Half a minute later, she said something that startled everyone: "I think we should get a few guns too."
Cheng Zhi uttered such terrifying words in a calm tone, which gave Chen Siyu a headache. She rubbed her forehead and said, "Sister, do you think this is like going to the market to buy vegetables? You can just buy them anywhere."
Xiao Feiran didn't react as strongly. She seemed to remember something and patted Chen Siyu's thigh, "Do you remember when we had a black market? There were guns and ammunition sold there!"
There was indeed a black market back then, selling everything imaginable. However, the black market Xiao Feiran mentioned was in Xiashan, the city where their university was located. They genuinely didn't know if such a thing existed in Shenzhen.
At this moment, Huang Yiyi, who was huddled to the side, spoke up, "Going to buy things definitely costs money, right? We've spent all our money, and even if there are places to go, we don't have the money to buy anything."
Cheng Zhi shook her head in denial. Who would use currency to buy things in the apocalypse? They would barter or exchange food for what they wanted.
While they were talking, Zheng Wan had already joined the convoy heading into the city; there were probably four or five cars ahead of them.
It seemed like an argument was starting around the second car, and a woman exclaimed incredulously, "Such a small child has to be counted?!"
The burly man standing next to the car with the gun replied impatiently, "So what if you're small? You're not considered human? I've already given you a half-price discount. Pay it or don't, if you don't, don't even think about entering the city!"
It seems that entering the city is now charged per person.
"Then let's quickly hide inside the space, leaving Zheng Wan to drive outside to save money." Huang Yiyi pulled Xiao Feiran beside her, ready to dash into the space.
Xiao Feiran quickly calmed down the restless Huang Yiyi, "Let's discuss this first, don't rush."
We should definitely spend as little as possible, but leaving Zheng Wan alone is definitely not an option. First, it's not safe to leave someone alone, and second, Zheng Wan doesn't know the way at all.
Seeing that the person collecting the fees was about to arrive, they quickly asked everyone to take out potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other things from their storage space.
Cheng Zhi, carrying a large bag of potatoes, said, "Just Zheng Wan and I will stay outside. The three of you should go into the space. We'll bring you out when we get there."
Xiao Feiran and the other two nodded, hid their belongings under the seats, and immediately slipped into the spatial dimension.
Cheng Zhi also climbed from the back seat to the passenger seat.
The burly man walked over with a gun, and Zheng Wan's hands, gripping the steering wheel, began to tremble with nervousness.
The driver's side window was broken, and the tape covering it made communication difficult, so Cheng Zhi called her older brother over. As soon as she rolled down the window, the burly man said in a formulaic manner, "If you want to enter the city, each person has to pay ten kilograms of grain, rice, flour, cooking oil, anything goes. Children and pets have to pay too."
Good heavens, ten kilograms per person, if all five of them are together, that's fifty kilograms. In this day and age, who can easily produce that much food?
Cheng Zhi leaned against the car window, trying to negotiate the price, but the man next to her immediately guessed what she was up to and banged on the window with his gun, saying, "No bargaining."
Since the other party had guns, Cheng Zhi was quite worried about her own life, so she immediately backed away and said she had come to collect the food.
He handed the three large bags of potatoes at his feet to his older brother, who weighed them in his hands and indicated that they were probably not enough.
Cheng Zhi knew it wasn't enough, but that was part of her performance. She couldn't just throw it all out at once and make herself look rich, so she had to give it out little by little, appearing stingy.
Cheng Zhi laboriously squeezed into the back row and took out more than half a bag of sweet potatoes. Her older brother put it on the scale and found that it was still a little short.
Cheng Zhi was quite something; she took out another large sweet potato, thought it was too much, and broke it in half, handing it to her older brother.
The older brother's face darkened: "..." If I say you're poor, you can produce twenty kilograms of grain; if I say you're not poor, you'll haggle over half a sweet potato.
Cheng Zhi didn't care about other people's opinions. She looked at the scale with anticipation. It was just the right size. Then she looked at her older brother with anticipation.
"..." The older brother was speechless. He waved his hand and shouted to the people in front, "Let them through."
The roadblocks were removed, and they were able to drive their car into the city without any problems.
Zheng Wan finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief. "She had a gun and you still dared to bargain with her? Weren't you afraid she'd shoot you? And the way you dawdled with the potato, it really scared me to death."
Cheng Zhi disagreed. She insisted on trying, just in case, what if this older brother was a good person?
Zheng Wan strongly disagreed with her gambler's mentality, and snorted, saying, "In a sense, you also made the right bet. If that guy had been hot-tempered, you would probably be having a midnight snack at your great-grandmother's right now."
Cheng Zhi: "..." Now that you mention it, I feel a little scared.
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