Chapter 60 The Calm Before the Storm
Besides, there are people from Xuantian City among the outsiders who come to Wuyu City. They also have bicycles with the words "Xuantian Zao" on the body of the bicycle. They have also heard the price, which is much cheaper than what they sell here.
"Captain, what do you mean? Should we go to Xuantian City by ourselves?" asked the team member standing by the window.
The slightly overweight man thought for a moment and said, "I definitely won't go there for the time being. You each paid several thousand yuan in accommodation fees, which can't be wasted. But you can negotiate with the city lord to lower the price."
The other team members were a little hesitant, "But will the city lord agree?"
The slightly chubby man's eyes dimmed slightly when he said this. "We professional players are still the main consumers of equipment in the city. We are also indispensable to every city-state. They just ask the city lord not to make too much money from us, but it's not like they won't let us make any money."
Moreover, he always felt that there were too many city-states in each district. Although many people were sacrificed on the day when the world was gamified, they only accounted for about 20% of the total population at most.
Finally, wild monsters appeared. I'm afraid that the casualties were less than 10%. China's population is nearly 2 billion. Yangshan City is a first-tier city, and the population of one district is about 800,000 to 1.5 million.
After deducting those who sacrificed in the early stage of the apocalypse, the remaining population is still quite large, but currently no city-state has a population of over 10,000, at most 8,000-9,000, and the population of Wu Yu City is around 4,000-5,000.
You can imagine how many city-states there are in a region. Even if the regional territory becomes larger, this is still not reasonable.
"Anyway, we'll listen to you, Captain. Considering the price they paid for it, selling it to us at this price is indeed too high."
Their copper coins were also accumulated bit by bit through their hard work in clearing the fields. It would be fine if they didn't know the original price, but now that they know it, they will always feel unhappy when they are ripped off.
Yao Bing'an originally wanted to count the money quietly, but unexpectedly he received letters from several team captains. In addition to the plaid backpacks they needed, they also said that they already knew that these good things were products of Xuantian City in Jinjiang District.
Some of the letters she received asked her to sell the property to them at the original price, while others suggested lowering the price so that she, the city lord, would not lose money.
In fact, she had guessed this would happen, but it was impossible to say that there was no profit at all.
It is not uncommon to set a high price and then let the other party bargain.
Yao Bing'an directly refused any offer that would not allow her to make any profit, and instead had a detailed conversation with those who were willing to negotiate the price.
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On the other side, Li Aoting fell into deep thought. From the strength of their Jinghe District city-state to the strength of the city lord, she found that even though her city-state seemed to be developing well now, that was because the real test had not yet come.
For example, the game system mentioned that there was a beast tide besieging the city, but there has been no sign of it for more than four months.
There are so many people in one district, but there are more than 8 to 90 city-states, which is too many for one district. Moreover, after the city-state is upgraded to a second-level city-state, it can accommodate a population of up to 500,000.
You have to know that the population at level one is only 10,000, so I really don’t know how many people level three can accommodate.
This is a world where the fittest survive, but there have been no major discoveries in the game world so far. Perhaps in the next update, some city-states in each district will be eliminated.
Her guess was that a district would only have a few powerful city-states at most.
Although she was reluctant to admit it, Li Aoting knew that her city-state would not be one of them.
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“Mee——”
A few furry sheep were bleating, and their ruby eyes and cute appearance made them quite adorable.
Unfortunately, they were all wild monsters that attacked people. Now several sheep were trapped in the fog and could not see the surrounding environment clearly. The sheep in the fog heard a shrill sound.
Before it knew what the sound was coming from, an arrow shot through its neck and it turned into a white dot and disappeared.
There was a person standing in the fog with an arrow on his head, ready to shoot the next sheep monster. After all the sheep were killed, the fog automatically dissipated and Lu Jiu took back his Green Spider Bow.
Looking at the mutton dropped after killing the sheep, Lu Jiu thought that she wanted to eat roasted lamb legs when she went to Zhuang Yunjia for dinner today. The other mutton could be cut into mutton rolls for hot pot.
When Zhuang Yun received Lu Jiu's message, he immediately put down what he was doing and started preparing the seasoning. An An was still sewing bags in her room. She could already make a two-grid backpack by herself, and it was very popular when she sold it.
In Xuantian City, the game world is about to be updated, and it is an open secret that personal backpacks may no longer be limited.
It is difficult for lifestyle players to get backpacks with many slots. Even if the price is not expensive, they can still feel at ease by buying a few backpacks with fewer slots.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s autumn now, but there are more and more wild monsters around the city-state, but after a few months of training, some herbivorous and life-oriented players dare to fight a few wild monsters.
During this period, Zhuang Yun would go out to kill more wild monsters and accumulate more materials for his daughter to make cloth.
“An An, your sister Lu and brother Shen are coming to dinner today.”
Hearing Zhuang Yun's words, An An put down what she was holding and ran to the living room. "Really? I just made two small wallets and will give them to them when the time comes."
"Okay, the bag you made is small and easy to carry, they will definitely like it."
An An was holding a palm-sized wallet in her hand. It was the grid equipment she made, but it was too small. Unlike a backpack that could hold anything, this one could only hold objects that were three times larger than it.
Inspired by this, the NPC in the tailor shop would directly make pockets for clothes into grid equipment, and the pockets were hidden, which made it quite popular for a while.
Lu Jiu and Shen Jufeng arrived at Zhuang Yun's house not long after. When An An saw Lu Jiu, she went up to her and hugged her legs.
"Sister Lu, this little wallet is for you. It took me a long time to make it."
As he handed her the wallet, Lu Jiu saw a few small flowers painted on it. "Thank you, I like it very much."
"Brother Chen has one too." An An handed him a black wallet. Dad said that Brother Chen liked bags of this color.
Shen Jufeng took it and said gently, "Thank you, An An."
They have been staying in the city these days and have not gone out. It’s not that they don’t want to, but one time Lu Jiu went to a pharmacy and the manager told her to be careful in the near future, but didn’t say what to pay attention to.
Therefore, the plan to go out again with Shen Jufeng was also suspended. Who knows what the system will do next.
Just as I was thinking about it, Zhuang Yun had already prepared some delicious food. "Come and sit down. An An, move the chair."
An An grunted as she moved the chair and then sat down in her seat. Today's dinner was roasted lamb leg and hot pot. Zhuang Yun also roasted a sweet corn for his daughter.
An An was happily chewing the sweet corn. The leg of lamb that Lu Jiu had killed this time was as big as her little arm, so she couldn't pick it up and chew it. She could only use a small knife to slowly slice the meat and eat it.
"Well, Brother Zhuang, your cooking skills are getting better and better." Lu Jiu said while giving a thumbs up. The mutton itself was of good quality, and with Zhuang Yun's cooking, the taste was even better.
"I learned it from Uncle Zeng. His craftsmanship is really good."
Zhuang Yun was talking about Old Man Zeng. The old man was now quite famous at his stall in Xuantian City, and many people would go to buy food from him every day.
(End of this chapter)
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