Upon entering the city, each person paid ten magic cores and received a new identity card with their name, a photo, and a number on it. This identity card was required to leave the city. If lost, it could be replaced, but a magic core would be required.
Upon entering the city, he also learned that before the army withdrew, people used food stamps to exchange for goods, but after the army left, it seemed that people used magic cores as the currency.
Wang Bin was shocked when he heard that grain coupons were a form of currency. Although he had never experienced the era of exchanging grain coupons for goods in the real world, his parents had, and his family had a lot of grain coupons when he was a child.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. When the end times come and the old monetary system collapses, a new currency will be needed to replace it.
In human settlements, people earn food from government-provided food by selling their labor, and the old food rationing system was perfectly suited to measuring the value of a person's labor.
Once inside the city, Wang Bin led everyone south. Many houses on the outskirts of the city had been destroyed in the last major battle, but the deeper they went, the better the buildings inside remained.
Although the city is not as prosperous as it was before the apocalypse, everyone can still tell that it must have been a world-renowned metropolis before the apocalypse.
The streets are wide, lined with tall buildings, and cars can be seen driving by from time to time. However, most people choose to use bicycles as their mode of transportation, since gasoline is very precious and not something that ordinary people can afford.
Bicycles are different; they only require a little physical strength.
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