Chapter 209: Exchange of Supplies
Lu Weiyi pondered for a moment, took out a bead core, put it in Li Zhuang's hand, and said, "Try it with all your strength."
As if he was gambling everything on one throw, Li Zhuang forced his body to absorb the energy with all his strength the moment Lu Weiyi finished speaking, and the bead core disappeared at a visible speed.
The energy broke through the shackles, scattered vastly, and then gathered in an instant.
Li Zhuang opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and said with a smile in the expectant gazes of everyone, "Upgraded."
Several people cheered and asked about how it felt after reaching Level A, and the excitement was still there when the three of them went to eat.
Lu Weiyi sat on the rooftop to keep watch, listening to their noisy conversation in the hall, holding a crystal core without any color in his hand.
Unlike other crystal cores, which have some color, this is a pure colorless crystal core, like a transparent glass. It does not contain anything inside, but if you feel it carefully, you can feel the overflowing energy.
This is a human spiritual crystal core, which belongs to Liu Dali's spiritual bodyguard.
Under normal circumstances, the upgrade of psychic abilities is very slow. It took Lu Xi almost five months to reach level B, and Lu Weiyi also spent nearly four months from level C to level A in his previous life.
Now Li Zhuang is already A-level, but he is not even at the middle level of A-level. This is even though he consumes a lot every day and the crystal cores he replenishes every day are at the limit.
Although the higher the level, the slower the upgrade, but if it continues at this slow rate, I'm afraid they will surpass me sooner or later, especially now that the primary crystal core has little effect on him.
Strength determines status. His superpowers have always been the strongest in the team, so he never felt that he was a burden to anyone when he led Zhuang Mingxu, Zhuang Aiyi and Lin Yimu, three ordinary people, and Lu Xi, a superpower who had been unable to upgrade. However, if his strength dropped, his right to speak might not necessarily decrease, but it would ultimately affect his confidence.
Who knows if one day someone will think that he is a burden with four children?
"What are you thinking about?" Li Zhuang's voice rang out, he grabbed the eaves and jumped up, sitting next to it.
Lu Weiyi quickly put the crystal core into the space. Antonio in the yard was already staring at the searchlight and continued to "work". The tinkling sound accompanied by the cold moonlight echoed all night long.
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The car looked very similar to the drawing Antonio had made.
As they were excitedly preparing for the event, there was a knock on the door, followed by someone shouting, "Are you guys up? I'm here to take you away." It was the voice of Zhulu, who had been determined not to let them in yesterday.
"I'm here," Xu Sa went to open the door, "Brother, why are you up so early?" Outside were the two people he had met last night, Zhuzi and Junzi who had sent them back.
"It's getting late," Zhuzi came in and stared at them warily, and said again, "I'll take you away."
"We're already cleaning up," Xu Sa said, and then asked, "By the way, brother, when I came here yesterday, I seemed to hear sheep bleating in the village. I want to ask, does anyone in our village raise sheep?"
"No." Zhuzi looked at him warily.
"No, brother, I didn't mean to do anything. It's just that our children don't have special powers and can't eat meat outside. I heard about it yesterday and wanted to ask, are you selling your sheep? We are not short of supplies, we just want to buy some. Let's see what you need, and we can exchange, so no one will take advantage of anyone, right?" Xu Sa took out two cigarettes from his pocket, lit one for himself, and handed it to the two men.
He continued, "In today's world, more than half a year has passed. There must be limited supplies near the village. It is impossible to say that there is no shortage of supplies. After all, we came from the city, and we have a wide variety of supplies. Let's see if there is anything we can exchange. Isn't it convenient for everyone?"
"We don't need anything, just leave quickly." Zhuzi frowned so hard that he could pinch a fly to death. He waved away the cigarette handed to him by Xu Sa and said in a cold voice.
Seeing that this man was unmoved, Xu Sa didn't waste time on him. He turned to look at Junzi who was following behind him and said, "Brother, can you take us to see the village chief? Every family has something they need. It's impossible for every family in such a big village to have something they need, right?"
"I……"
"No," Junzi just opened his mouth, but Zhuzi stared at Xu Sa with wide eyes and said sternly, "You guys leave quickly, or I won't be polite if you don't." He looked towards Xu Sa, as if he wanted to use his supernatural powers.
This reaction seemed excessive, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over.
"Xu Sa, forget it," Lu Weiyi said. It is impossible that this is the only place where the thing is. There is no need to force it.
Xu Sa nodded and said nothing more.
After making the bed, Lu Weiyi stored the two trucks in the yard into the space, and the group walked out of the yard.
When passing by the pillar, Lin Yimu picked up a bag of 50 kilograms of rice and placed it at his feet, "This is the accommodation fee for last night. Thank you all for taking me in."
Regardless of their attitude, they would definitely not be so at ease if they had rested in the wilderness last night.
While Zhuzi was stunned, Lu Weiyi had already taken out the truck again and carried Zhuang Mingxu, who was in the wheelchair, onto it. Others also got on the truck one after another.
Following the path, the group soon reached the exit. Like the entrance, this place was a wall without a door. There was a small room raised above it. A teenager poked his head out of the room. “Are you guys leaving?”
"Yes." The temperature dropped too much. Ordinary people now just stay in the carriage. Ning Yuan is the one driving at this time.
"Wait a moment, my uncle went to the toilet and I can't open this wall," said the child.
"We can just drive ourselves," said Wu Yue, who was in the passenger seat, and he opened a door on the wall. The car moved forward. He met the child's surprised eyes and said, "Don't worry, I will make it up to you."
"no……"
"Wait, wait a minute... You little bastard, let them wait," a breathless shout came from behind.
"You can't leave." The child immediately became alert and quickly took out a gun from the room and pointed it at Wu Yue. Although he is very young, he is full of wildness, like a ferocious wolf cub.
Ning Yuan stopped the car, and Xu Sa opened the door at the back of the car and looked at Junzi who was running over. "Brother, what's wrong?"
"Our village chief... asked you to wait..." Junzi stopped not far from them and said while panting, "Gouwazi, put... put down your gun."
Gouwazi put away his gun without knowing why, and looked around at the group of people curiously.
Xu Sa looked at Lu Weiyi in the car.
Lu Weiyi thought about it, nodded, picked up the walkie-talkie and said to Ning Yuan, "Go back a little, wait."
"Is there something the village chief wants to talk to us about?" Xu Sa jumped out of the car and asked Junzi.
"Don't you want to buy livestock? The village chief would like to ask how many you want to buy, what supplies you have, and how much you want to pay," Junzi said directly.
"Well, the prices of materials are definitely different nowadays. Let's discuss it in detail and decide on a price that satisfies both parties," Xu Sa said with a smile. "Brother, what other livestock do we have in our village besides sheep? Are there many?"
The two men were talking to each other, and soon the black-faced Zhuzi brother came over on a bicycle with the old village chief.
Junzi told the old village chief the news he had just learned. The old village chief looked at Xu Sa and said, "Every household in our village raises livestock. We still have some now. It depends on how much you want."
"We will take whatever you want to sell, chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, sheep, everything," said Xu Sa.
The village chief's eyebrows trembled, and his wise eyes stared at Xu Sa, "Do you have so many supplies?"
"Don't worry, village chief, you will definitely not be left out," said Xu Sa.
The village chief was silent for a while and said, "We want medicine, salt, and crystal cores."
Xu Sa raised his eyebrows, "...Okay, but, Village Chief, medicines and salt are scarce commodities everywhere, and different medicines have different values. You also know that if they are available in ordinary pharmacies, the price may not be high, but those prescription drugs are only available in hospitals, and the price of them will definitely not be low."
"What price do you want?" asked the old village chief.
"That depends on the medicines you need. Give me the list of medicines you need, I will weigh their value and we will discuss it. How about that?" Xu Sa said.
After reaching a deal, even the most detailed matters needed to be discussed in detail, and the group returned to their residence from last night.
It was a short distance, so Xu Sa didn't get on the car when he went back. He walked with the old village chief and talked about the situation in the village. The old village chief also explained Zhuzi's attitude in detail, "You are not the first group of people passing through our village. There have been some before, but most of them were not so friendly. They either sneaked around to steal things or wanted to attack people. Zhuzi's sister was almost bullied last time, and Zhuzi was worried that these things would happen again, so he has been trying to discourage people from coming again."
"It's human nature. We still have to be alert to the world today. It hasn't been easy for us to get here." Xu Sa recounted some of their experiences on the road, both true and false.
"You also encountered mutant rats and mutant snakes?" Junzi's serious face was full of surprise.
"Yes, the largest rat king was as tall as my calf, and had superpowers, and they moved in groups, filling the entire village. When they attacked, it was a massive mass. Many people in the village seemed to have been eaten, with only skeletons left." Xu Sa said this to remind everyone, "And there were the mutated snakes before, with thighs as thick as two or three meters each. We met friends there before, and they said they were stung by mutated bees, which were as big as fists and had extremely strong toxins. Some people died at the time. Haven't these happened in the village?"
"Yes," Zhuzi, who had been listening attentively, replied with a sad face, "Two months ago, mosquitoes as big as a child's fist appeared in the village. The places bitten were extremely swollen, and there were also signs of fever and convulsions. Medicines didn't work, and those who couldn't survive died."
"How did you eliminate them later?" These were all valuable experiences, Xu Sa asked actively.
"Everyone in the village uses mugwort to fumigate mosquitoes. Every household does it every day."
“Is it effective?”
"A little bit at a time, and then when the weather got colder, it gradually disappeared." The old village chief put his hands behind his back and sighed, "I don't know how we will survive when the weather gets hot next year?"
Unknown mutant animals made the atmosphere a little depressing. It was Junzi who broke the silence and asked, "So how did you deal with the mutant animals you encountered?"
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