Hearing the boss say this, Qin Qing shook his head and said.
"Sorry, boss, we only have two cans and I've been reluctant to eat them! Also, the price you're giving us is too low! The store we just visited gave us three crystal cores for each can! We just agreed to come to your place with the old man in the parking lot, so you can't rip us off like this!"
After saying that, he pretended to reach out to take back the crystal core from the boss's hand.
When the boss heard this, he immediately became anxious!
"Hey... no no no... So it was the old man in the parking lot who recommended it! Why didn't you tell me earlier? How about this! Two cans, and I'll give you seven crystal cores. I guarantee you, no one in Qingcheng can match this price."
Qin Qing didn't know if anyone in Qingcheng had offered a higher bid than his, but looking at the pained expression on the boss's face, he thought it was probably not far off!
She pretended to hesitate for a moment before muttering softly, "This is the best thing in our team!"
However, the hand that was about to be extended was slowly retracted. Seeing this, the boss could not hide the joy in his eyes and hurriedly took out seven crystal cores from the inner room.
Qin Qing put the crystal core away with a smile, then inquired indirectly, "Boss, why are the crystal cores getting increasingly scarce? I see a lot of teams not searching for supplies anymore, and more are hunting zombies!"
"Ah... who's to blame for someone's superpowers being activated by the anti-zombie virus injection? Plus, after activating superpowers, a large number of crystal cores are needed to enhance one's own superpowers. It would be strange if everyone didn't go crazy hunting zombies!"
The boss shook his head helplessly. Because everyone in the city went to hunt zombies, he was out of stock and his inventory was always incomplete. Now he was selling some unnecessary inventory!
"You mean, someone else has activated superpowers?" Qin Qing asked, alertly seizing the loophole in his boss' words.
The boss didn't take this to heart. He nodded at Qin Qing and hid the two cans of luncheon meat inside like treasures.
When he emerged, he resumed his crossed-arms, rolled-up sleeves look. He sniffed, lowered his voice, and whispered to Qin Qing, "If you don't go hunting zombies and instead look for supplies, I'll give you a few things the base desperately needs. If you find them, the crystal cores you'll get will be just as good as those you'd get from hunting zombies."
He could get ten crystal cores by selling those two cans of luncheon meat. Although it was half less than before, it was still a very lucrative profit.
After all, he would not be in any danger, while Qin Qing and the others were risking their lives to search for supplies.
Although he also wants to make more money, he will not lower prices like other stores. As long as there is a little profit, he will do it.
Therefore, he has more channels to obtain things, and the base will also hand over some urgently needed things to the people below, and the people below will tell him the news.
As long as he makes one order, it will be enough for him to eat for a month.
He wouldn't ask people this every time a group of people came, but it was obvious that these two cans of food made him feel very good.
Anyway, since he has asked, if he is willing to take the challenge and can find what he needs, that would be the best. If he is not willing to take the challenge, he will not lose out.
Qin Qing was stunned by his boss' question, and then his mind started to spin rapidly.
"I don't know what it is. If it's something very difficult, we won't be able to find it even if we try!"
Qin Qing is not stupid. What if the task given is impossible to complete? Wouldn’t they be courting death?
The boss waved his hand and said, "Don't dwell on it. It's just the families of the higher-ups at the base who want to live their lives as they did before. My requests are all sorts of different. They require cosmetics, eggs, chicken, duck, fish, vegetables, and even food, noodles, flour, and rice. If you could get some canned food like this today, that would be great! After all, compared to those impractical things like chicken, duck, fish, and meat, these cans have a longer shelf life, and every can is better."
Just as he was saying this, he saw Qin Qing looking at him with an expression that seemed to be about to laugh.
The boss immediately stopped talking, he almost gave away all his money to others.
"Ahem...whether you want to accept the mission or not is up to you!"
Qin Qing nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back and discuss this with our teammates!"
The boss also knew that he had let the cat out of the bag, so he quickly nodded in agreement.
Qin Qing and Zhou Shan immediately left the shop and headed back.
Li Xiong and Xiang Zuo's teams had already returned. They only got three crystal cores in exchange for their small bag of rice and wheat flour. Xiang Zuo and Wang Xiaobao were even worse off. They only got two crystal cores in exchange for their sweet potatoes and potatoes. It was only after Wang Xiaobao had to talk his mouth off that he finally got the boss to add another crystal core, as he was originally only willing to give them one.
Seeing Qin Qing and the others take out seven crystal cores, the two teams who originally thought they had exchanged a lot suddenly turned pale.
They all felt that they must have been cheated by a black shop!
"Damn it, I'm going to ask that boss for an explanation. How could he cheat us like this?"
Qin Qing reached out to stop Wang Xiaobao from dashing off the bus, then said, "Forget it. We're unfamiliar with the place, so it's already quite good to be able to give us this! I guess it's because it's canned meat, so I gave him a bit more."
Zhou Shan nodded and said, "If Qin Qing hadn't tricked the boss, he wouldn't have given us so much. However, we did get a lot of information from him! It turns out that someone in Qingcheng has already used the anti-zombie virus injection and activated superpowers. Judging from what the boss said, the success rate of activating superpowers should be quite high."
Qin Qing pointed at the crystal cores they had exchanged for on the table and said, "It's not just about activating superpowers. The boss also gave us a tip: there are missions at the base that you can take. If you succeed, you can also exchange them for crystal cores. You don't have to go out and hunt zombies like everyone else to get them."
Wang Xiaobao was immediately discouraged when he heard this. "What's the difference between searching for supplies and hunting zombies? I guess if the supplies haven't been taken away yet, there must be a lot of zombies. Otherwise, they would have been looted clean long ago!"
"Xiaobao is right. Although the boss made it sound easy, it's actually quite difficult to complete the task!"
Li Xiong thought about it carefully, then said seriously.
Qin Qing didn't think too much about it, and simply said to everyone, "If we don't stay here for a long time, it won't matter much. After all, when we came back, we only told the boss that we would consider it, and we didn't say that we would definitely accept the task he offered."
Hearing Qin Qing's words, everyone suddenly fell silent! (To be continued.)
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