Chapter 128, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City, offers them an irresistible gift...
"He, they, flew away—!" the one left behind shouted excitedly.
Chen Bing's eyes lit up as he looked at the sky above where the car was no longer visible, and he clapped his hands in amazement: "I never thought their car could fly so high! This is perfect! We can pay Brother Lu and the others another fare, and we won't need to risk climbing any ladders!"
The local gentry and wealthy men, regaining their senses, became excited, marveling at the wonder of the hovercar while discussing how much they should pay for it.
"We can't have too few, or they won't want to take us and will think we're trying to take advantage of them."
"That's right, how about we just give them one or two tenths of the supplies we found?"
"Isn't that too much?"
"The hovercar is so big, how much supplies can it carry in one trip? If we make a few more trips, we can easily earn back the fare."
That makes sense.
Feng Hu had already been quite aroused by the flying hovercar, but upon hearing their naive thoughts, he couldn't help but mock them: "You idiots! You're still thinking about the fare? They're too busy scavenging for supplies to think they'd come back for you? Are your brains filled with mush?"
Chen Binggang was about to retort when he suddenly realized that the hovercar, which had been flying in for quite some time, had indeed not returned.
And with the thick city walls separating him, it was impossible for him to wave or shout so that the people on the other side could hear him.
The emotionally charged gentry and the wealthy merchants with the same intentions: "..."
Even Zhang, the chief bodyguard representing the county government, who had remained silent until now, couldn't help but curse: "They have flying vehicles that can easily transport people and goods in and out. The bulk of the supplies in the north of the city will probably end up in their hands, and you still haven't realized that you're letting wolves into your house. You're incredibly stupid!"
By the end, his dissatisfied gaze was clearly directed at Chen Bing.
Chen Bing retorted unhappily, "Even without me, they would still find their way to the county town and get into the north of the city. You blame others for being too capable when you yourself are incompetent; I think you are the ones who are utterly ridiculous!"
Without him bringing Brother Lu and the others here, would the people in the city have had a chance to know that other disasters might occur later?
Is there a chance to trade with Brother Lu for more supplies with magical functions?
In his opinion, everyone who benefits from this should kowtow to him!
Grandpa Chen pressed Chen Bing's shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Alright, stop wasting time talking to them. Time is of the essence, let's hurry in. Once we find the people from Yunlu Village, we'll still have a chance to borrow the hovercar."
"That's right, there's no need to lower ourselves to their level."
Despite their verbal abuse, Feng Hu and Zhang the bodyguard had lost all interest in dealing with them.
While threatening to settle the score with them later, they tacitly instructed someone to go back and quickly call more people over.
Even if the people are already inside, they don't need to worry. They can simply wait for those people to come out and then intercept them!
The majority of the supplies in the north of the city should belong to them; how could they let a group of outsiders take them?
Whether it's supplies or hovercrafts, just take them all!
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"Hahaha—those people outside must be furious right now," the villagers laughed excitedly as they got off the bus.
Some people worry: "Won't we offend the local gentry and wealthy merchants by doing this?"
"What are you afraid of? They'll definitely want to use our car to get in; they're too busy trying to curry favor with us."
"Never mind all that, shouldn't we hurry up and gather supplies? Once they get in, we'll have to compete with others for them."
Li Tie looked at everyone and said, "Just like when we went to the trading street, let's split into groups and if anything seems amiss, sound the alarm."
Lu Xuan reminded him, "The rain will get heavier this afternoon, which will make it difficult to find supplies. We can only stay here for the morning. If we encounter people from other factions, don't waste time with them."
The others nodded to indicate that they understood.
Finding supplies is more important than fighting; they know what's important.
After the groups were formed, Lu Xuan stepped onto the hoverboard and first roughly circled the entire northern part of the city to determine the distribution of various workshops and shops. Then he told everyone the locations of the more important workshops, and the villagers quickly dispersed to find supplies according to their own needs.
Lu Xuan had Lei Yan and Lu Qing join a team with the villagers, while he went to the pottery workshop alone.
The viewers in the live stream twitched.
No way, no way, hasn't the streamer collected enough jars yet?
[Can't we collect some legitimate supplies?]
Why are you focusing on collecting water tanks when you can be collecting food and other essential supplies? I'd be very grateful!
[I don't understand what you guys are complaining about. It's not like you can't eat the food the streamer makes by collecting more water tanks and pickling more delicious food.]
"...That does seem to make sense."
[It's probably because collecting water in a water tank isn't nearly as satisfying as collecting large quantities of grain.]
[Besides, the streamer isn't going to give away water tanks in a raffle! But he has a lot of food in his hands, so is he really going to give us a real one? It's obvious to everyone whether we'll eat the fake or the real thing!]
The upstairs neighbor ordered it!
Lu Xuan landed in the courtyard where a large number of water vats were stored. As he collected the vats, he casually replied, "What's the rush? There will be food later."
Water tanks are a different story. You can't exactly let him play around with wilderness infrastructure and build his own kiln to fire pottery, can you? That would be too much trouble.
After collecting the water vats in the courtyard, Lu Xuan began to scour the rest of the workshop.
Pickling jars, earthenware pots, earthenware bowls and cups—anything that could be used was taken along, the point being to ensure that no thief left empty-handed.
After clearing out the workshop, Lu Xuan didn't go to other places where there might be a lot of supplies. Instead, he went to the adjacent residential area and went door-to-door to collect water tanks.
Live stream viewers: ...That's enough!!!
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At the same time, the villagers also arrived at the location of the first batch of supplies that Lu Xuan had told them about.
This included a cloth shop, a vinegar shop, and a grain store!
The first place they went to was the grain store.
Several of the grain storehouses had their doors wide open, but they were completely empty, indicating that the supplies had clearly been moved out by previous owners.
In other warehouses where there is still stock, there is almost no refined rice or flour; what remains are brown rice flour and various beans.
Fortunately, this grain store is very large, and the remaining quantity is still quite considerable.
The villagers didn't mind the variety of grains at all; like mice that had fallen into a rice jar, they excitedly filled the space with bag after bag of the free grains.
"This much grain is far more than what we could harvest after several months of hard work!"
"Haha, with today's batch, we've got all the supplies for this year's Evolution Elixir!"
"What's this year? If we find more other supplies, we might be lucky enough to return the entire supply of the elixir in one go."
"That's even better!"
Apart from a few isolated individuals, each household in the village has several people, and the cost of repaying Lu Xuan's evolution fluid far exceeds five thousand catties of supplies. Of course, they should save up as much as possible when they have the opportunity to "buy for free," because there may not be such an opportunity again next time.
After the grain merchants finished, the cloth shops came next.
After being stored for more than two months, the fabrics in the cloth shop had faded even more than the ones the women had bought in the shop before. Some of them still retained their original color and had not been dyed. The women did not mind and took as much as they could get.
When they went to the vinegar workshop again, the vinegar that was still well preserved was also completely looted.
The villagers were only using 10-cubic-meter spaces. After taking all the supplies from these three places, the spaces were already full and couldn't hold any more. Helpless, they had no choice but to urgently ask Lu Xuan to exchange them for larger spaces on the spot.
Because of existing debts, everyone is being conservative and only upgraded to the larger 50-cubic-meter model. The village chief and other wealthy households haven't upgraded yet.
Some people also paid off their debts for evolution fluid, freeing up a large area of space.
Lu Xuan, who had received several thousand kilograms of grain without lifting a finger, said to the viewers in the live broadcast room: "Look, the grain has arrived."
Audience: The gambling den wants to use the villagers as cheap labor, and you're not much better.
Later, the villagers arrived at the distillery, soy sauce workshop, and other workshops.
Apart from the portion lost due to accidents and human error, the remaining intact inventory hidden in the cellar was still taken away by them.
Along the way, we stopped at inns, restaurants, teahouses, and general stores, but these places were probably too conspicuous, and most of the items inside were looted.
When they arrived at the second grain store, they were surprised to find that there were still people there!
The other party clearly did not recognize them, and just shouted, "This is our Tianhai Gambling House's territory, so get lost if you know what's good for you."
The villagers speculated that the other party was probably a person who stayed behind to guard the supplies that hadn't been transported in time during the previous visits.
If the other party were a local gentry or a wealthy merchant, the villagers might hesitate a little before taking action, but what about Tianhai Casino?
That's alright then.
Xiong Mao walked over and knocked out the two guards with a single punch.
Without anyone guarding it, the grain store naturally became ownerless again.
The villagers launched another round of raids.
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After parting ways with the villagers again, Lu Xuan went to the spice shop and the warehouse.
The former was to replenish spices that were not in hand or that were not in sufficient stock, while the latter was because the warehouses might contain all sorts of goods from all over the country, and if you were lucky, you might find something new.
The raids on both resource points yielded mixed results.
The bad news was that the spice shop had been completely emptied, and Lu Xuan hadn't gotten a single thing.
The good news is that he discovered a shipment of spices and overseas goods of unknown origin at the warehouse.
In addition to the spices he already had, he also had a good one that he hadn't been able to buy before: fennel, also known as cumin.
Among the overseas goods were many useless decorations and luxury items, such as Western sculptures, clocks, oil paintings, and simple telescopes with low magnification.
Lu Xuan didn't care about these things, and he just picked them up casually because he was already here.
What he really valued was a small, unremarkable packet of fruit and seeds.
Coffee beans, cocoa beans, and... tomato seeds!
Most coffee beans and cocoa beans are processed by roasting, but a small portion are raw beans that can be used as seeds.
But these two are ultimately just optional additions; the real surprise is the tomato seeds.
With this, you can enjoy classic dishes like scrambled eggs with tomatoes, braised beef brisket with tomatoes, tomatoes with sugar, and tomato and egg soup!
While the water tank and grains certainly put Lu Xuan in a good mood, the tomato seeds were his biggest gain of the day!
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An hour later, the villagers regrouped in the area where the hovercars were parked.
After working so hard for so long, they only managed to take supplies from a small area, but everyone's space was already crammed full.
After gathering, many people were excitedly discussing whether they should move to a larger space to continue.
It wasn't until Ge Yuan suddenly reminded them, "Have you considered what would happen to the other forces in the city if we really took most of the supplies from the north?"
The villagers subconsciously imagined it for a moment, their feverish minds gradually calming down. They swallowed hard and said, "He'd probably go crazy..."
After filling both public supplies and his own space, Li Tie calmed his wildly beating heart and nodded, saying, "Ge Yuan is right. We can't be too greedy. There are still many disaster victims in the city who are struggling to survive."
Leaving aside the gambling dens and the county government office, a portion of the supplies obtained by Master Miao and his group is intended to be distributed to the disaster victims. If we take too much and their harvest is insufficient, many disaster victims may starve to death.
It was said that these were unclaimed items and would be given to whoever was capable, but in reality, these things belonged to the people of the county town. They had already taken quite a lot, and if there were no additional consumption, they would have enough to last until long after the catastrophe ended.
People shouldn't only think of themselves; they should also leave a way for others to survive.
Liu Chun hesitated for a moment and said, "But we've taken quite a lot now. Those people outside won't let us off easily once we get out."
Xiong Mao waved his fist, his eyes fierce, and said, "What are you afraid of? We'll just have a fight!"
Chen Rong said, "We can also just take a car and leave." Since we've already got the supplies, we might as well make a quick getaway.
“No need to run, no need to fight,” Lu Xuan said calmly. “Give them an irresistible benefit, and they will naturally not dare to make things difficult for us.”
The others perked up: "What's the benefit?"
Lu Xuan smiled and said, "Didn't you already mention that before?"
He succinctly expressed his thoughts.
Upon hearing this, the others' eyes lit up even more.
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