Chapter 233 Chapter 235 Searching for Spiritual Stones
"It has rained for four or five days in a row and the roads are muddy. For safety reasons, we should wait until the sun is higher before setting off. There is no rush. We can reach Xiangshan Town before tonight." Rong Xianxian put away the map and said with a smile. She was thinking that there were still things to find along the way and it would be impossible for her to walk fast.
"Sister Rong, didn't you say before that this place is very close to where mutant beasts are active and it's unsafe, so we should leave quickly?" Wang Qirui asked.
"Those people over there are about to deliver themselves to the Tiger's doorstep. The Tiger King is busy now! He can't take care of us." Rong Xianxian silently lit a candle for the Wind Wolf Squad. They were a civilian team that went in and out of adjacent safe zones and performed tasks in fixed areas. They had safety route maps officially released by the safe zones in their hands. They would definitely avoid areas where mutant beasts appeared. Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that the mutant beasts' territory had just expanded.
Not to mention that Rong Xianxian didn't want to tell them about this, even if Rong Xianxian told them, they probably wouldn't believe it.
The smokeless charcoal used to stew pork bones these days has been used up, and the gas tank for the gas stove is running low. It's time to replenish these things.
Before the end of the world, Taijing was a light industrial city, mainly engaged in agriculture, light textiles, and service industries, while Xitang was a heavy industrial city with highly developed automobile manufacturing, coal, and oil processing industries. After the end of the world, the prices of various commodities between the two cities varied greatly. In the Taijing safe zone, items such as quilts, clothes, and cotton towels were flooding, while in Xitang, items such as cars, steel, and cement were ignored. Rong Xianxian had the misty space in her hands, so she could stockpile some things for her own use or for trading, especially cotton towels, and compressed towels. Compressed bath towels are particularly useful and can be used for washing your face when walking outside, or as toilet paper for wiping your face. It is very convenient. It is still unknown when cotton planting will resume and processing factories will resume production, so it is better to stock up more now. When you arrive in the capital after a while, these things will definitely be in great demand.
It is a hot summer now, and many people do not take things like cotton-padded clothes and quilts seriously. But when the city is blocked by a snowstorm and the wind is biting cold, these things can save lives.
There are many cotton spinning mills, printing and dyeing factories, and garment processing factories in the small counties and towns near the Taijing Safety Zone. Since these materials are not valuable in the safety zone, it is estimated that not many people would collect them.
Of course, energy and food are scarce resources everywhere now, and these two resources were controlled by the army at the first opportunity. Although Taijing is a major agricultural province, the price of food in the safe zone is still expensive. Although Xitang is a major energy province, there is not much energy trading in the safe zone.
According to the 24 solar terms, the dog days of summer are already over. However, I don't know if it is affected by the revival of spiritual energy, but this year's summer is exceptionally hot and long. At around seven in the morning, the sun was scorching, evaporating the rainwater on the ground. Some low-lying areas formed patches of mist. The evaporating water vapor had a cooling and heat-relief effect to a certain extent.
The abandoned farmlands on both sides of the highway were flooded by rainwater, and countless puddles of various sizes formed in the originally bumpy places on the highway. Rong Xianxian and his party moved towards Xiangshan Town. When they walked along the highway to an intersection leading to Pingyuan Mountain, Rong Xianxian directed Wang Lin to change lanes to Pingyuan Mountain.
"Sister Rong, the exit we agreed upon before is still ahead, not this road!" Wang Lin said with some confusion.
"We can also go around Xiangshan Town from Pingyuan Mountain. High-quality cotton is produced in abundance nearby. Let's go around and take a look. Besides, the mountainous area is high and the road is easier to travel on." Rong Xianxian explained.
The reason why Rong Xianxian had to go to the official supply point in Xiangshan Town before was because a treasure trove she recorded according to her memories was in the nearby Pingyuan Mountain area. She originally wanted to settle down in Xiangshan Town and look for an opportunity to look for treasures. The treasure trove was on a small hill in Pingyuan Mountain. Now that she has plenty of time, Rong Xianxian plans to look for treasures first.
They encountered many monsters along the way, including a minotaur with two horns as sharp as knives, a huge armored monster wearing iron armor, and a poisonous dragon monster that looked like a lizard. While Cui Lie was experimenting with new moves, these monsters that blocked the way eventually became reserve materials in Rong Xianxian's foggy space.
In the off-road RV, Rong Xianxian touched the black stone and sighed continuously. Rong Xianxian originally believed that since the foggy space could grow plants, it could also accommodate other life forms. However, when she tried to put the injured Minotaur into the foggy space, she found that it was not feasible at all. Only after killing the Minotaur could her body be put in. It seemed that her idea of breeding in the foggy space was completely shattered.
The mysterious figure in the body of the goat monster Bai Xi in the small secret realm once said that the Domain Stone is against the will of Heaven and cannot be tolerated by Heaven. Rong Xianxian still hasn't figured out where the Domain Stone is against the will of Heaven?
There is no difference in the speed of time flow, nor can she enter the foggy space to avoid attacks. She can't even raise some monsters or livestock. The only thing that makes Rong Xianxian relatively satisfied now is that the area of the foggy space is not small and can be expanded.
A certain place in Pingyuan Mountain where Rong Xianxian is going now is shrouded in black on the original map. That area is the so-called mysterious area. In her previous life, Rong Xianxian discovered an unknown mineral in that black mysterious area. The mineral is not very hard, is white in color, and feels warm. It refracts pink light under the sunlight, which is very beautiful. There is a small amount of spirit stone mixed in the mineral, which is the kind of stone containing a lot of spiritual energy that is spit out after the black hole explodes. Using this spirit stone to feed the foggy space can make it bigger.
Finding spirit stones is the main purpose of Rong Xianxian's trip.
The establishment of official supply points is a purposeful act. Take the official supply point in Xiangshan Town as an example. This place is shown on the original map as a red dangerous area radiating to the left and monitoring the movements of the black mysterious area to the right. There are special areas near most official supply points. At this time, the military does not have much control over these areas. One year after the end of the world, it is unknown what secrets the official discovered. These special areas on the original map have been blocked by the official, and the original map has been recycled and destroyed.
If the red danger zone is guarded by the army because of the existence of mutant beasts, which threatens the personal safety of civilian groups, then what about the black mysterious zone? Of course, the danger in the black mysterious zone is no less than that in the red danger zone, but since it is marked with different colors, it means that there is still a difference between the two areas.
Rong Xianxian guessed that there were new types of resources in the black mysterious area that were produced after the great changes in heaven and earth.
(End of this chapter)
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