Chapter 83: I'll Trick You Without Negotiation
A group of people here were having a lively BBQ, and their every move had been reported to the three major organizations in the base.
Lin Jun had his men busy for the whole afternoon, and was thinking with satisfaction that he would get all the guns back tonight. However, his subordinates just now brought him a total of eight beads, saying that was all.
Eight zombies?
It took about half an hour to finish the killing! Spent the whole afternoon?
"Are you sure no one is cheating?" Lin Jun looked at the pile of jade Buddhas, jade carvings and the eight beads prepared on the table.
"No," Wang Ning said, "I also asked, and they said that they killed zombies for an entire afternoon, but not every zombie had beads. There were only these few among hundreds."
There are only a few among hundreds of zombies! ! !
Lin Jun slammed the table, his kind-looking face looking heavy.
"Brother Lin, do you think he deliberately deceived us?" Wang Ning was humiliated by Lu Weiyi and his group. He was left hanging for a long time in front of the people from the three major organizations. He hated Lu Weiyi in his heart. But Lin Jun didn't let him bother, and he didn't dare to provoke anyone, so he could only cause trouble secretly.
"What's the deception? He didn't say that every zombie has a bead. We thought so ourselves. Who can we blame?" Lin Jun sighed inwardly. As expected of the swiftlet that Zhuang Mingxu held in his heart, she was ruthless when it came to biting people. He just said, you who wanted to take advantage, now you find out that you are the ones who were cheated. He didn't say a single definite word from beginning to end.
"Then what should we do? Shouldn't we change?" Although Wang Ning hated Lu Weiyi, he also knew that he had to stabilize his position in the base first.
"Change," Lin Jun said decisively, "Tomorrow we will continue to send people to kill zombies and try to bring back as many as possible. I will also ask them if they need anything else. We will do this on two fronts."
"Brother Lin, my subordinates said that Lu Weiyi exchanged a lot of things in the market today, including clothes, shoes, vegetables, meat, and everything else he saw. He also told Xiao Liu to get some and send them over, saying they would take as many as he could."
Lin Jun raised his eyebrows, "They didn't bring much supplies into the base, what did they exchange for?"
"Water, Lu Weiyi openly said that he had taken down a tap water distributor," Wang Ning said, "I think there must be more than this, and there must be space in their team. What do you think, should we..." Wang Ning stretched out his hand and made a killing gesture.
"Do you know who is sitting in the wheelchair?" Lin Jun asked instead of refutating him.
"President of Weiyi Technology, Zhuang Mingxu." Wang Ning used to be a senior employee of Longteng Group, so naturally he knew Zhuang Mingxu.
"He is the direct grandson of Mr. Zhuang in Kyoto. It is said that he is the most favored one. His family is all powerful," Lin Jun said lightly. "We are struggling just to survive. We can always survive if we have something in our hands and suffer a little loss to protect it. But if people know that Zhuang Mingxu is in trouble here, how do you think we will die?"
Wang Ning thought for a while and said, "Then let's wait until they leave the base before we take action. At least this won't happen to us." Afraid that Lin Jun would disagree, Wang Ning brought it up again, "We only have one space ability user, Lin Fei. If there is another one, even if we can't stay in the base in the future, it will be easier to move away."
Lin Jun thought about it, said nothing, and motioned Wang Ning to go out. Wang Ning walked out, knowing in his heart that Lin Jun had agreed.
Zhang Xun, who knew Zhuang Mingxu's background just like Long Teng, shared the same idea as Lin Jun. They were both worried about getting into trouble, so they thought about leaving this small piece of land so that no one could blame themselves if anything happened. However, they had to make plans for everything to ensure that nothing could go wrong.
As night fell, Lu Weiyi went back to his room to watch over Zhuang Mingxu's infusion. Zhuang Aiyi took Lu Xi to see the newly arranged room. Xi Shi was asked by Lu Weiyi to go to the kitchen to make pancakes. Gu Qingyue ran to help. Xiong Jie and Xu Sa, who were drunk, went back to their room to sleep. Liu Rui followed to take care of them.
The rest of the people were chatting idly after eating under the light of the energy-saving lamps in the yard, chewing on a string of snacks from time to time. In a corner not far away, the little fan Dean was listening to his idol Gu Qingji's solo concert with his chin propped up.
There was a knock on the door. Li Zhuang and Antonio looked over alertly. Lin Yimu and Ning Yuan also stood up immediately. Gu Qingji stood up and pulled Dean over, asking, "Who is it?"
"I'm from the Yongping City Public Security Bureau. Could you please open the door?" Although Zhang Xun knew Zhuang Mingxu's identity, it was the end of the world now, and who knew if he still had the power he had before the end of the world. If he just came to the door in person casually, it would be a lowering of his status, so he sent a subordinate over.
Gu Qingji looked at the others. Li Zhuang nodded. He walked over and opened the door. "What's the matter?"
As soon as the door opened, the aroma of barbecue became stronger. The two people at the door couldn't help but take a deep breath. Then they looked inside and saw Li Zhuang and Ning Yuan in the yard at a glance. After all, they had a brief exchange at the gate of the base before.
Ning Yuan obviously recognized the two of them, "So it's you two, what's the matter that brings you here so late at night?"
"To be honest, I do have something to do." Zhang Qi and Wang Yuan entered the yard, and Lin Yimu handed them two stools to sit on.
Nowadays, food is precious. No one will be polite and eat and drink water as soon as they enter the door like before. Several people just sit there in silence. Zhang Qi simply said, "I am here on behalf of Director Zhang, the person in charge of the base. I heard from a friend in the afternoon that your team is exchanging water for supplies, so I wanted to come and ask how the exchange is done?"
"You have so many supplies?" Ning Yuan asked.
"Not much," Zhang Qi smiled bitterly, "but there is less water."
"Then what do you want to exchange? I have to consider whether we need it." Ning Yuan glanced at the other people in the yard who had been silent and said.
"Clothing and daily necessities can be cheaper." After all, to be honest, these things are really not scarce and can be found, but water is different. Now there are very few supermarkets that can find water.
"This..." Ning Yuan looked embarrassed, thought for a while and said, "You should have heard that we have already changed a lot of these things in the afternoon. We only need to prepare some of them for emergency. Too many will be useless. Do you think there is anything else?" Although Ning Yuan didn't know why Lu Weiyi changed so many things, since he asked him to change them, it would be better to change them into edible things instead of changing clothes that were useless.
"So what do you want? To be honest, we don't have much food," said Zhang Qi.
"Vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat and so on are all fine. In fact, vegetables and fruits are available in the village at this time of year. It's impossible not to get anything if you go around. But you should have heard that we are in a hurry to return to Qingyuan City, and we don't want to waste time on the road. If the price is right, we can collect some." Ning Yuan said, observing the two people in front of him. Seeing that they were not too embarrassed, he tentatively said, "In fact, there will be no shortage of food. Think about it, every household in the village has a lot of food stored. Now that the wheat has just been harvested and most of it has not been sold, the corn will soon be ripe, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the field should be harvested in a month or two. Going to the city to get some food will be enough to support us for two months, don't you think?"
Ning Yuan saw that the two people had no intention of refutation, and he felt a bad feeling in his heart. He didn't think that these two people were convinced by him. They must have been told when they first came that these things could be exchanged. What does it mean to be able to exchange food for water? Either there is too much food, or it is determined that even if it is changed, it does not matter.
And the supplies in Zhang Xun's hands did not seem to be so abundant that they could squander them like this. It was only possible that even if he changed it today, it would definitely not affect them. How could it not affect them?
It will return to them.
We are showing courtesy now, but I am afraid that troops will come later.
Ning Yuan didn't know if other people had thought of this. He glanced around, tried to calm himself down and continued, "But water is different. There is less and less drinkable water now. We rely on the mineral water we stored in the past, but it will run out eventually, right? Without a source of replenishment, who knows what will happen in the future?"
"Aren't you afraid that you won't have any water to drink in the future if you consume so much water?" asked Wang Yuan, who had been silent.
"To be honest with you, we have stored quite a bit in Qingyuan City." Ning Yuan laughed as he said this, like a mouse that fell into a rice jar.
Zhang Qi and Wang Yuan looked at each other and finally decided to ask about the prices of vegetables, fruits, meat, etc. first. After all, these things are not necessities of life.
"It depends on whether vegetables and fruits are in season. If they are in season, they will definitely be cheap. After all, cucumbers and tomatoes are grown in everyone's yard in every village. But if you take out durian, mango, or other fruits that are not produced here, it will definitely be expensive." Ning Yuan thought of the prices of the things Lu Weiyi had exchanged before, and said, "And we have already exchanged a batch this afternoon, the price will definitely not be high."
"How to change?" Wang Yuan asked.
"One bottle of water can be exchanged for 20 kilograms of ordinary vegetables and fruits, and 10 kilograms of rare vegetables and fruits." According to the current prices in the base, a bottle of water can only be exchanged for 20 kilograms of flour, and the most common vegetables can be exchanged for 10 kilograms. After all, although water is scarce, it is not in short supply yet. The three major forces in the base seem to have water-related mutants in their hands, and the even more embarrassing thing is... they are all stronger than themselves. The price Ning Yuan mentioned was obviously too expensive. He said this to test them. If they could accept such an expensive price, then they would definitely do something small.
When the others heard the price, they just looked at Ning Yuan silently without any extra comments.
"Isn't this too expensive?" Zhang Qi frowned.
"It is expensive, but I think water will be more expensive in the future." Ning Yuan looked confident, as if to say, "This is the price, you can sell it or not if you want."
"What about food? Flour, rice, and wheat. Are the prices the same?" Wang Yuan was relatively calm. His eyes didn't change when he heard him say that.
Ning Yuan's guess became more and more certain, "Thirty kilograms of flour and rice, and sixty kilograms of wheat and corn. You also know that flour mills are extremely expensive whether they use electricity or gasoline."
When Zhang Qi heard this, he was about to say something, but in the end he held it back, his face turning red.
Ning Yuan acted as if he didn't see it and continued with a smile, "But these animals are not common now, so it's definitely more cost-effective to exchange them for meat. Chicken and pork are ten kilograms for a bottle of water, mutton and beef can be up to five kilograms, and eggs are also fine, eight kilograms."
"Cough cough cough..." Zhang Qi couldn't help it and was choked by his own saliva. Wang Yuan waited until his coughing subsided before saying, "Okay, I'll go back and ask. If it's a change, I'll come to you tomorrow."
"Okay," Ning Yuan stood up and saw him off, "If you ask me, you don't have to consider it at all. My price is a bit expensive, but to be honest, it is definitely more valuable than water. After all, science says that people can survive for seven days without food, but without saliva in this weather, they can't survive for three days."
"Okay, we will definitely consider it carefully," Wang Yuan said politely and left with Zhang Qi.
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