"Tsk, little Qin, when will you stop being so cold to me? Can't we develop a relationship other than just a business one?"
The man said to Qin Yourong with a playful smile.
However, before he could finish his words, Qin Yourong suddenly raised the Eclipse rifle with one hand and pointed the muzzle at the man's forehead.
Seeing this, the man immediately restrained his frivolous expression, raised his hands high, and asked seriously, "Ms. Qin Yourong, how can I help you?"
Qin Yourong said without changing his expression, "One level one and one level two gene potion, please."
"No problem, your loyal Li Fengnian, at your service!"
The man first bowed to Qin Yourong as a gentleman, then turned around and limped to the freezer.
He reached out and opened the door of the upright freezer, then took out two medicines from it.
"The thicker ones are level one potions, and the thinner ones are level two potions. You know how to use them, so I won't say any more. But this youngster is so innocent. Qin Xiaoniu, you must keep a close eye on him. Otherwise, even if he becomes a level two awakener, it will still be difficult for him to ensure his own safety."
As the man spoke, he handed two potions to Qin Yourong.
The serious expression he had just put on was replaced by exaggerated body language, making him look quite nonchalant.
"Don't worry!"
Qin Yourong took the potion, then threw the bag of crystals to the man. Without any intention of staying any longer, she turned around and left the shop with Chen Yan.
"Li Fengnian was once a full member of Life Oasis, one of the five most powerful factions in this wasteland. Therefore, Li Fengnian's insights and vision are first-rate."
After leaving the shop, Qin Yourong put the medicine away.
While walking in another direction with Chen Yan, he continued, "I just told you that the smell on you is too clean. Anyone with a little sensitivity can basically detect your difference, which will put you in a very dangerous situation.
Of course, the number of awakened people in this survivor camp ruled by the Blackthorn Company is very small, so as long as I am here, your safety will be basically guaranteed. But your own strength is the foundation. If you want to survive in this wasteland, you either eat others or be eaten!
So when we get home later, you'll immediately be injected with the gene potion and become an Awakener! As for now... since this is your first time at this camp, I'll take you around the camp market and see if there's anything you'd like to buy."
While talking, Chen Yan followed Qin Yourong and turned a few corners, and came to a relatively wide dirt road. On both sides of the dirt road, there was a row of survivors setting up stalls.
It’s just that the things these survivors sell seem worse than the last.
Rather than saying that there were merchandise on their stalls, it would be more accurate to say that all of that stuff was garbage they had picked up from who knows where...
"The Blackthorn Company isn't large, so their rule over the camp isn't brutal. This market was established under the auspices of the Blackthorn Company, but those willing to set up stalls there are basically scavengers. They primarily make a living by scavenging within the ruins of the city, and most of the time, they only find low-value junk. So, even if they set up stalls at the market, they don't have to worry about being targeted."
Qin Yourong began to explain.
Chen Yan nodded without saying anything more. He just walked along the dirt road while taking a quick look at the goods displayed on the stalls on both sides.
Seriously speaking, it does look like a garbage recycling street, with all sorts of things, but not a single one of them is eye-catching.
However, Chen Yan noticed that some of the survivors traveling on the dirt road were using gold for transactions!
This made Chen Yan's heart flutter. He waited until he had walked the entire street before he whispered, "Is the gold here still valuable? Since even eating and drinking water has become so difficult, no one should want gold, right? If you can't eat or drink it, why would you want it?"
Qin Yourong saw that Chen Yan didn't want to buy anything after walking around, so she led Chen Yan back the same way.
He also explained, "Although the entire world's industrial system has been destroyed, some industrial production capacity still remains in the areas occupied by some powerful forces. However, due to the harsh living environment of the wasteland and the threat of a large number of zombies and mutant creatures in the ruins of the city, these industrial production capacities cannot be integrated into a system."
Coupled with the near-total collapse of the ecological chain, food sources have become extremely scarce, making food and water extremely precious. Furthermore, the vast majority of food and water are contaminated. Overall, however, the wasteland is merely a post-apocalyptic scene, not a direct return to primitive times by nuclear war.
Gold, due to its exceptionally stable physical and chemical properties, plays an irreplaceable and important role in key industrial production applications. For the top powers and major forces in the wasteland, the more gold the better. Therefore, both gold and crystals can serve as universal currencies.
Of course, compared to the ease of obtaining crystals, the Cataclysm has been going on for fifty years now, and most gold is actually owned by top-tier and large-scale forces, making the amount of gold in circulation extremely scarce. What you just saw couldn't be high-purity gold, it was probably just an alloy with gold added."
Qin Yourong's explanation made Chen Yan quite disappointed.
He originally thought that since the world had become so messed up now, gold must be just a piece of rotten stone that no one wanted.
By then, with a little trickery and some mineral water, instant noodles or something like that, wouldn't he be able to cheat people out of tons of gold?
Although it would be difficult to deal with the excessive amount of gold after bringing it back to his world, the worst that could happen would be that he would just go to a few more cities and sell only a small amount of gold in each store that specialized in recycling gold.
If he does a good job, call him Mr. Chen, and we will have a beautiful cruise ship and a grand feast! If he does a bad job, call him Mr. Chen, and learn from his mistakes!
Compared with the huge foreseeable profits, the risks involved are actually not that big.
Unexpectedly, the plan was beautiful, but the reality was cruel!
In this wasteland world where treatment has basically been abandoned, gold is still an extremely rare precious metal. How can this be justified?!
It is really a death before the mission is accomplished, which makes the hero shed tears...
Chen Yan was crying silently in his heart, but suddenly his eyes blurred and more than a dozen figures appeared, surrounding him and Qin Yourong!
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