Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Beginning of Chaos
"Brother, do you want to exchange something?"
A man riding on a thermos looked around, and seeing that no one noticed his gaze, he cautiously whispered to the man closest to him.
Looking at the shifty look of the man on the thermos, the person who was approached frowned in disgust. Looking at his appearance, it was as if he saw a man selling pirated discs wrapped in a windbreaker on the street.
"No, no, go find someone else," the man waved his hand as if to shoo away a fly, not taking his words to heart at all.
"No!" Seeing that the first exchange attempt was about to fail, the man with the thermos quickly lowered his voice a few degrees and persuaded kindly, "Brother, please help me. Even though there is water here, can seawater be used as drinking water? Besides, this is a beverage!"
"Drinks?" Hearing this key word, the man's eyes lit up instantly, and he asked the man with the thermos bottle, "Is what you want to exchange a drink?"
Seeing him nod affirmatively, the man finally looked at him seriously, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Seeing how filthy you looked, I thought you were selling something illegal! Turns out it's drinks. We can discuss it properly..."
Illegal stuff? Looking at the silver thermos bottle beneath him, the man belatedly realized that something seemed, indeed, a little off.
It was all because of his habit of soaking wolfberries in beer glasses and putting drinks in thermoses. He almost failed because of this!
After the two people gradually synchronized the information about the things they were trying to exchange, a transaction that returned to the most primitive barter was also achieved in this sea area, but all this was just the beginning.
Most of the things in everyone's hands are different, and the types of materials needed to survive in this sea cannot be single, so using limited resources to exchange for more possibilities is an inevitable trend for everyone.
However, for most people today, supplies are divided into necessities and non-necessities.
"Wow, brother, I'm really hungry. Could anyone please be kind and give me something to eat?" A girl cried miserably.
"Girl, if this thing of yours was any use, I would have traded it with you because you look so pitiful," the man said with some embarrassment, "but I can't use your lipstick at all right now!"
"Brother, look at this color! It's a hot seller that was so hard to get before! Take a look!"
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"Come on, a limited-edition piece of sweet and sour pork is on sale! Bid!" A girl, standing on a large, dark wok, raised her plastic box and shouted, "First come, first served! Once they're sold out, they're gone!"
"Fuck! Sweet and Sour Pork, I want it, I want it, I'll give you three throat lozenges!" When they smelled the sour and sweet aroma of meat, everyone around the girl was instantly stunned.
"No, no, no, girl, look at me, I'm giving you five facial masks. You've been exposed to the scorching sun, you need to hydrate and moisturize your skin!" The man smiled flatteringly, as if he saw a piece of crispy and juicy sweet and sour pork entering his mouth.
"Get lost! You're still thinking about face masks at this hour? I don't know where a grown man like you got these things!" He glanced at the person in front of him with disdain, and then another person threw out the most important chip, "I'll give you a bottle of mineral water!"
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Watching the lively scene of the entire sea area returning to its most primitive state of bartering, Chang Ruijia did not forget to occasionally show off her own "abilities" while watching the excitement, trying to barter.
"Brother, don't you think my knife is shiny? How about this? I'll help you cut something, and you can give me something edible in exchange?"
"Cang Langlang! This is a really good knife, a great heirloom from my family. I used to chop large bones for ten yuan a pound, and now I only get you an umbrella?"
"Sister, do you want to change the water? I can help you unscrew the bottle cap, huh?"
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The request to exchange labor for goods was rejected one after another. Seeing Chang Ruijia's miserable situation of getting nothing, the people around him laughed in their hearts.
What kind of stupid berber is this? She went crazy and drove away so many people, leaving others with the impression that she was crazy. Now no one wants to exchange things with her, so she must be dumbfounded, right?
Chang Ruijia, who was being ridiculed, was actually mocking them in her heart. This time, she was standing on the atmosphere level!
Although her attempts to exchange things with people around her were repeatedly rejected, this was exactly the scene she wanted!
The more profound her image is now, the less likely others will dare to approach her in the face of her potential madness at any time. This is safer!
Besides, who said she had nothing to eat?
Last night, when many people could only hold their useless things and smell the fragrance with envy, she was already eating spicy chicken with the aroma, and she was eating Lao Chang’s secret Chinese hamburgers!
Now, no matter what other people think, Chang Ruijia doesn't care at all. Although she went crazy with a kitchen knife today, she didn't say that her only ability is that kitchen knife!
As time went by, she could harvest many more things from her home in bed every day.
Her good days are still to come!
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The rules and order of civilized society still constrain human behavior, and the basic behavioral norms that have been followed for more than ten years since childhood have not disappeared from people's hearts so quickly.
However, how long can this situation last? No one knows the answer.
Chang Ruijia is not naive enough to think that this friendly situation where everyone is happy will last forever.
Just like the big brother she pushed back, when people's hearts are dominated by jealousy and greed, how could such a harmonious scene remain the same?
Perhaps the ideal communist society really exists, but it will definitely not be born under the current conditions where the problem is not scarcity but inequality.
However, no one expected that the change would come so suddenly.
The transactions on the sea are actually still going on, but everyone has only gained something in the dark of last night. Currently, there are not many things that can be exchanged, so everyone is being very cautious in order to exchange for something more profitable.
Chang Ruijia was holding on to her current piece of land. No one approached her because of the threat of her crazy behavior and the kitchen knife. She was actually a little satisfied with the current situation.
It is a rare opportunity to enjoy the waves and the sun, and lean on a comfortable big bed. If you don’t consider the possibility of being in danger every day, this kind of life is actually what I dreamed of most in the past.
Looking at the lively exchange scene in front of her, Chang Ruijia squinted her eyes and enjoyed the comfort at the moment, but in her mind she had already begun to think about the rules for expanding the authority of the system.
She is not the kind of person who likes to live off her savings. In order to feel more comfortable with her laziness in the future, she must think of everything in advance.
However, the promotion of authority seems to be stuck at a bottleneck. Even though she tried to chop everything around her, she couldn't find any breakthrough.
In order to avoid falling into an increasingly passive situation, Chang Ruijia must find a way to obtain the third-level exchange authority before her existing exchange authority is used up.
But where is the way out? Chang Ruijia's eyes wandered around randomly, waiting for a moment of inspiration to run into her head.
However, just as her eyes passed over the two people who were exchanging not far away, she was suddenly shocked by a discovery.
Rubbing her eyes in disbelief, Chang Ruijia's heart skipped a beat as she looked at the picture which hadn't changed at all.
“Don’t go over there!”
A sudden loud shout attracted the attention of everyone around. Seeing a girl looking anxiously into the distance, everyone looked over curiously.
In Chang Ruijia's view, the two people should have just reached a deal, but the long distance between them made them worried about not being able to throw the things into each other's hands, so one of them was trying hard to shorten the distance between them.
This was originally an extremely normal scene, but at this moment, for some unknown reason, as the distance between them shortened with every step, the floating object under the person who was waiting to be approached, which was clearly a large ceramic bowl, began to gradually become transparent under the dazzling sunlight.
As the others' eyes gradually focused, they could almost see through the ceramic surface and see his legs crossed in the bowl and the waves hitting the edge of the bowl on the other side.
"Come back soon! Come back soon!"
"Stop! Don't go any further!"
"Ah, help, why are they suddenly like this!"
When they suddenly discovered this, the people around them didn't have time to think about anything else and hurriedly started shouting.
However, despite the shouting in the air, the two people seemed to be in another space, and did not react to the sound at all, and were still trying to get closer to each other.
Until... as a shrill scream resounded throughout the sky, everyone was stunned by what was happening before their eyes.
The ceramic bowl that the person being approached was sitting on became increasingly blurred, and even after another person successfully reached his position and met each other, it directly merged into the floating objects under the person who was paddling over.
Because he had lost the thing he could ride on, he let out a shrill scream and disappeared into the ocean in the blink of an eye, just like the person who jumped into the ocean yesterday.
"What's going on! What's going on!" The already frightened crowd became even more panicked when they saw such a tragic scene.
Amid the uncontrolled commotion of the crowd, Chang Ruijia clearly saw through the gap that the man who had just swallowed the ceramic bowl suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and looked at the panicked crowd in front of him with a momentary look of helplessness on his face.
But soon, the man seemed to sense some changes, his eyes lit up instantly, and he began to try hard to control the things under him and move closer to the others.
"Everyone, spread out!" Chang Ruijia didn't need to remind him this time. The bystanders who were always paying attention to the actions over there shouted loudly, "Don't let the things under other people get close to you. Protect yourself and your life!"
"Scatter! Everyone, spread out and keep your distance!"
Everyone witnessed what had just happened, so as soon as the voice appeared, everyone tried to make sure there was space around them.
However, the large crowd will still cause some confusion.
There are always people who try to avoid others in a panic, but end up accidentally entering other people's space.
And the moment I got closer, the same tragedy was still happening.
Having witnessed what happened to many people around her, Chang Ruijia endured it and still spoke up to remind them, "Everyone, stay still! The distance we have now is fine. As long as there's no chaos, there won't be any problems!"
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