Chapter 19 Roommate Collects Jade
When Ji An heard the sound of a door opening, he knew that his roommate had returned. He withdrew his mental power from the space and took out a roast chicken at random.
The relationship between roommates should be harmonious, which is conducive to a happy mood.
"Hello, I'm your new roommate, my name is... Ji An." When Ji An walked out, he found that the person who came in was an acquaintance, and a completely unexpected person.
"Why is it you?" Ji An narrowed his eyes slightly. Is the Jing City base so poor? Has the highest commander fallen to the point of living with others?
"The family that moved out today is surnamed Gu. What's your relationship with them?" Ji An asked.
"Parents." Gu Jinsheng was still so frugal with words, refusing to say even one more word, as if speaking cost money.
Ji An said nothing and went back to his room.
About half an hour later, the door was knocked again. Ji An didn't want to open the door, so the other party kept knocking. Each time, he knocked three times gently, slowly and politely.
Ji An opened the door, and Gu Jinsheng's handsome face appeared at the door, "Eat."
Ji An walked out and saw candles and flowers, champagne and steak on the dining table.
The lights were dimmed, and Gu Jinsheng led Ji An to the dining table. He pulled out a chair for him like a gentleman, and waited for him to sit down before returning to his seat.
Gu Jinsheng politely poured champagne for Ji An and raised his glass to him, saying, "First of all, welcome to join the Jingshi base, then congratulate you on escaping the sea of suffering, and wish you a bright future, a prosperous road, and a smooth life. May you be happy and loving with him whom you love and never leave him."
Ji An burst out laughing, and the slight discomfort in his heart disappeared. "Who wrote the manuscript for you? It's a bit rustic. Did you memorize it for a long time?"
Gu Jinsheng was exposed, but his face remained expressionless. He did not show any embarrassment at all. He just revealed the culprit, "Kong Zhongcheng."
"He, he can't do it." Ji An said: "His emotional intelligence is too low. Next time for such a thing, you can ask Wan Xueying for help."
Gu Jinsheng nodded very seriously.
He suddenly felt that having a roommate was not such a repulsive thing.
Ji An slept well on the first night at the Beijing base. The next morning, he went to the cafeteria for breakfast and ran into a few acquaintances. Among them were Zhou Fanxiu and Bai Na. Zhou Fanxiu once again expressed his desire for Ji An to work and study in his laboratory, but was rejected by Ji An again.
After dinner, Ji An went to look for Tang Ning. He had Tang Ning's residential address, which he asked Kong Zhongcheng for yesterday. Although Ji An was not familiar with the Jingshi base, he found Tang Ning's residence accurately after asking a few people.
Tang Ning lived in a single dormitory building. Although the environment was not as good as Ji An's, it was not bad either. Before the end of the world, such a single dormitory would cost 700 to 800 yuan a month, or less than 1,000 yuan.
"Mr. Ji, why are you here?" Tangning asked happily.
"Come and see where you live." Ji An said.
"Great," Tangning said happily, "Now that I'm free of Tang Tang, everywhere is heaven."
It was obvious that Tangning was very happy.
"Want to go out for a walk?" Ji An asked.
"Okay." Tangning happily walked out with Ji An, holding the key.
The public security in the Jingshi base has been restored to almost the same level as before the apocalypse, and the streets are bustling with people.
The difference is that there are no supermarkets everywhere like before the end of the world. There was a small store every five steps, a large supermarket every ten steps, and a shopping mall every hundred steps.
Although there are not so many shops anymore, the shops that should be there are still very complete, but the types of shops are no longer so complete. There are snacks like French fries and cola, but the stock is scarce and the price is expensive, more than three times more expensive than before the end of the world.
There are also shops selling in-demand goods like rice, flour, grain and oil, but they no longer use money for transactions. Instead, they use crystal cores and credit points.
"Mr. Ji, the production at the Jing City Base seems to have recovered well." Tangning looked around. "There are rice, flour and oil shops at the Third Base as well, but they are all government-run. I see there are privately-owned shops here?"
"It should be opened by an earth-type mutant, or a wood-type mutant." As far as Ji'an knows, there is no shortage of wood-type and earth-type mutants in the Jing City base. It can even be said that these two types are the most numerous among the mutants.
These two types of people with special powers are good at farming in the end times. One can purify the soil and the other can promote the growth of plants.
The Jingshi base gives the greatest preferential treatment to these two types of people with special abilities. They can choose to go on missions, help the base farm, or contract the land themselves.
Of course, if you contract the land yourself, you have to bear the losses yourself, and you can deal with the income from the land yourself.
If you help the base to farm, the base will give you a certain guarantee regardless of whether there is a harvest or not. If the harvest is good, you will be given at least 20% of the share.
Many earth-type and wood-type psychics will choose to carry out missions and farm at the same time. Therefore, although the combat effectiveness of these two types of psychics is not outstanding among all psychics, their lives are still relatively good.
"There's a gold shop over there!" Tang Ning said.
This is also normal. In addition to absorbing zombie crystal cores, gold-type mutants can also upgrade their abilities by absorbing gold and silver.
Effect: Silver < Gold < Zombie Crystal Core.
The Beijing base even resumed bus service. Ji An and Tang Ning took a ride on the bus and felt as if they had returned to the time before the end of the world.
"There's a shop for rent over there. Let's go take a look." Ji An saw a small shop for rent. The shop was not big, about 40 or 50 square meters, and there was a separate bathroom inside.
"Are you the shop owner? How do you rent out your shop?" Ji An asked.
The shop owner said, "One level one peak superpower crystal core per month, or three thousand credit points per month."
Ji An took a look and thought that the location of this store was not too good, but not too bad either, and the price was acceptable.
Ji An said, "Credit point transaction, rent for one year first."
The credit points were given to him by the base because the experimental equipment he brought out was too expensive and they thought he was at a disadvantage. He had over 300,000 credit points, and Tangning also had over 30,000 credit points.
"OK." The store owner printed the contract on the spot and both parties signed it.
"Mr. Ji, what business are you going to do with the house you rent?" Tangning asked curiously. Didn't Ji An just arrive at the Beijing base? He was unfamiliar with the place, so how could he already have a source of goods?
"If possible, I would like to ask you to come to the store to help?" Rather than leaving the matter to a stranger and worrying about it, it would be better to leave it to Tangning. After all, they had been through so much together, and Tangning was a pretty good person.
"Let's collect jade for now." Ji An wanted to do research on space storage props, and the carrier that can carry space has special requirements, it must be jade with spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy in jade is naturally nurtured and is a very special energy. Only this energy can be converted and made into space storage props.
"But I don't know Yu." Tangning said awkwardly.
This is indeed a problem. Not all jade has spiritual energy, and not all jade is suitable for space storage props.
In fact, the quality of jade often mentioned before the end of the world is closely related to the degree of spiritual energy in the jade. Often, good jade has rich spiritual energy and is more suitable for space storage props.
Ji An said: "I will accompany you for a few days. When the jade is almost collected, I will leave and we will think of a solution then."
Ji An didn't know jade before the end of the world, but he discovered it when he was exploring the space necklace. He seemed to be able to sense the mysterious power in the jade. He believed that this power was the most special spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
Ji An didn't hire anyone to renovate the shop, so he just did it himself and Tang Ning.
I don’t know where Gu Jinsheng got the news from, but he brought Kong Zhongcheng and Wan Xue to help.
With the addition of three people with special abilities, the shop could be tidied up even faster, and it was done in just one day.
After all, they helped clean up the whole day, and Ji An wanted to treat them to dinner in the evening, so they all left with smiles on their faces.
Before leaving, Wan Xueying said meaningfully: "You don't have to repay this favor. There are people who repay it much more than you do."
Kong Zhongcheng asked stupidly, "Who is it? How come I don't know?"
Wan Xueying slapped him back to the headquarters.
The next morning, just as Ji An opened the shop door, someone came to the door. He was a wood-type mutant. Ji An couldn't see through his rank, but he should be stronger than him.
The visitor was very polite and said with a smile, "Yesterday the boss saw that you were short of a few decent counters, so he asked me to make a few exquisite and sturdy ones and send them to you. Do you think it's feasible?"
Ji An asked. The faint scent of camphor in the air was very refreshing. Ji An could feel that there was no spiritual energy on the camphor wood, but there was a faint residue of supernatural power. This should be the wood that was ripened by supernatural power, but this was also rare.
"Thank you." Ji An thanked him. There was some Coke in his space, so he took a bottle and gave it to the visitor.
The visitor smiled and said, "You're welcome. If you need any help in the future, just come to me. My name is Zhou Qin and I live in Xitong Community."
After Zhou Qin left, Ji An found that many people in the surrounding shops were looking at him curiously, acting mysteriously, as if they were afraid of being discovered by him.
Ji An thought about it and understood that these people probably knew Gu Jinsheng, the commander of the base, and they might be secretly guessing his identity.
Ji An pretended not to notice, turned around and went back to the store, and quickly got a white board to stand at the door. On the white board was a simple line of words: This store collects jade all year round and exchanges it for various materials.
Less than a minute after the whiteboard was put out, the owner of the shop next door came in. He looked around the shop and found that the shop was not very big, only about 50 square meters in total.
This is a rectangular shop with a large counter facing the entrance. The counter is placed against the left wall, and there is a half-person-high door on the right that can accommodate one person.
Behind the counter was a nearly square bed, just long enough for a woman of average height to lie down, and wide enough for two adult women of average build to lie side by side.
Behind it is a very small house, which is divided into two small rooms, one is the bathroom and the other is the kitchen.
The walls on both sides of the entrance are newly built counters, divided into small grids of varying sizes, which are very artistic. But at this moment, it is empty, with nothing on display.
With this arrangement, the entire room feels very small.
The shop owner next door rolled his eyes and asked, "Hello, I see your shop collects jade all year round?"
Ji An saw that the shop owner just wanted to get information and didn't really want to make a deal, but in line with the business principle of being polite and making money, he still said politely: "Yes, sir, do you have jade? As long as it is of good quality and you want to exchange it for something, everything is easy to talk about."
The shop owner inquired, "Jade was fine before the apocalypse. People who liked it sold it for sky-high prices. But after the apocalypse, it's not worth eating or drinking. It's just a beautiful piece of broken stone with no practical use. No one wants it. What do you want to buy it for?"
When the shop owner saw that the base commanders had arrived, he wondered if the jade might have other uses, so he didn't release it for the time being.
Ji An glanced at the shop owner and said, "It's a personal thing. I liked this thing before the end of the world, but I didn't have the money to buy it. Now that the end of the world has come, I have money, so I want to pay for my former dream."
The shop owner knew that Ji An was not telling the truth, and understood that he would not get anything out of him, so he did not expect to find out anything useful.
"Is that so? Hahaha." The shop owner laughed awkwardly. "I have a piece of jade here. Do you want to buy it?"
Ji An thought that this person was just here to gather information, but he didn't expect that there really was jade.
Ji An used his mental power to probe and found that there was indeed spiritual energy in the jade, but it was very weak. It could be used, and even if it was made into a space storage item, the space would not be large, about one cubic meter.
"You can take it. One hundred credit points." Ji An said.
The shop owner didn't expect that this piece of broken jade, which was equivalent to a stone in the end times, could actually be sold for one hundred credit points. He was a little excited for a moment.
"I don't want credit points, can I exchange them for other supplies?"
"No." Ji An said directly: "The quality of the jade is not good enough."
The shop owner was not discouraged. Instead, he sighed and said, "I spent more than 400,000 yuan to buy this jade before the end of the world. Now it's only worth 100 credit points. Forget it, any exchange is good. Before, this thing couldn't even be exchanged for a loaf of bread. I saw many people dislike this thing and just threw it away."
Ji An gave the other party 100 credit points in exchange for the jade.
Tangning looked very puzzled, "Mr. Ji, what's the use of this thing? It was valuable before the apocalypse, but after the apocalypse, no one wants it.
When I was fleeing from famine, I saw a woman using this thing to exchange for a drink of water, and she even knelt down to exchange it for nothing. It is said that the jade bracelet she bought cost two or three million yuan.
That's such a pity. A jade stone worth two or three million should be of good quality and contain a lot of spiritual energy. Conservatively speaking, it should not be a problem to make it into dozens of cubic meters of storage space.
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