However, Lu Yuan's joy vanished in an instant because he discovered that the prices of these dishes were shockingly high.
However, in order to bring back more things, Lu Yuan dialed Chen Ke's number.
Chen Ke answered the phone quickly.
"Lu Yuan, how are you? When are you coming back?" The voice sounded anxious, as if eagerly awaiting his return.
Lu Yuan coughed lightly and said, "I've met Boss Kong, and he agreed to cooperate with me, so I'm now qualified to buy groceries from them. Do you need any groceries? If so, I'll bring them to you in a bit."
Upon hearing this, the other party became overjoyed and told them what Lu Yuan had said. Then, the group transferred money to Lu Yuan, asking him to buy as much as they could.
As Lu Yuan watched the workers loading goods, he casually picked up a cucumber and put it to his mouth to eat. A worker next to him immediately stopped him, saying, "This cucumber costs eight thousand yuan. Are you sure you want to eat it like this?"
Lu Yuan immediately put down the cucumber in his hand. He had no choice; he didn't have much money. He did have a few gold bars left, but he was saving them for emergencies.
Soon, with the help of several staff members, Lu Yuan's electric tricycle was finally fully loaded. The group paid Lu Yuan a total of over 800,000 yuan, which, together with the more than 100,000 yuan that Lu Yuan had on hand, bought a ton of various vegetables, including 70 kilograms of nutrient solution.
The tricycle was provided by Boss Kong and could only deliver to the vegetable market, but it still cost Lu Yuan a thousand yuan, though it was much less compared to the amount of vegetables.
To prevent the vehicle from being robbed by starving people or encountering bandits along the way, Lu Yuan called Chen Ke and the others in advance to ask them to come and pick up the goods.
Holding an iron rod, Shen Tian looked around as he rode his tricycle. As expected, he attracted attention along the way, and more and more people surrounded him and stopped his vehicle. Many people rushed up to ask for some of his money.
But at this moment, Shen Tian pulled out a dagger, stood on the cart, and shouted loudly at the starving people.
"Are you all tired of living? Go ahead and take another step forward!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several people continued to walk over regardless of the consequences. Although Shen Tian was usually quite fierce and always the first to charge into fights, there were only two of them, him and Lu Yuan, while there were about twenty or so starving people around them. Ten of them could easily take on one of them, and a trace of fear appeared on Shen Tian's face.
Holding an iron rod, Lu Yuan looked at the starving people surrounding him, his face expressionless, but his heart was churning with turmoil. If these people rushed up, even if the two of them could fight off a few, they would definitely lose this cart of vegetables.
Sure enough, one of them licked his lips, looked at the truckload of vegetables, and said, "You can choose between starving to death or being beaten to death! I've had enough of starving! I'd rather die stuffed!"
After saying that, he rushed forward with a brick in his hand. Lu Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately swung the iron rod in his hand at him.
With a loud thud, the iron rod smashed down on the man's head. Instantly, blood gushed out, and the brick in the man's hand slowly slipped from his grasp, his face stained crimson with blood.
Lu Yuan's fatal blow immediately made everyone take a step back. The first person to try had been knocked down, and the rest of them didn't dare to rush forward so directly. They were all waiting for others to come and take the fall, but no one was willing to leave.
"What are you afraid of! Let's all go at them together! There are only two of them! Whoever gets it first keeps it!"
There were still many people who weren't afraid of death. Another person shouted and charged forward, followed by a middle-aged man. The two of them attacked from both sides in a pincer movement. Lu Yuan's heart sank. He didn't take these two people seriously at all.
He raised his hand and swung the iron rod out again. The first person immediately raised his hand to block it, while the other person's kitchen knife went straight for Lu Yuan's arm.
Just as the cleaver was about to chop into his arm, Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and kicked out with his right leg. Meanwhile, Shen Tian pulled out a dagger and stabbed the second person in the stomach.
With a "thud," Lu Yuan kicked the second person directly in the chest, while Chen Tian's dagger instantly pierced the other person's stomach.
Blood spurted out immediately, and Shen Tian's arm was instantly stained red with blood. The hot blood stimulated everyone, and the others could no longer care about anything else. They immediately grabbed bricks and stones and rushed over.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan immediately panicked. This was the first time he had faced so many people in close combat, and he was afraid that he might get hit by their stones if he wasn't careful.
However, the other side didn't give Lu Yuan and his group a chance at all. They came forward and started hitting them hard. Lu Yuan was no match for the other group and managed to block a few of them, but Shen Tian was not so lucky. With a dull thud, Shen Tian was hit on the forehead by a stone from a starving man, and blood gushed out and flowed all over his face.
"Damn it! Shen Tian! How are you?" Lu Yuan shouted. If Shen Tian was knocked down, he would face an attack by more than ten people. As the saying goes, even a master can be defeated by a flurry of punches. Even though Lu Yuan had eaten two golden fruits, it only increased his strength and reaction speed. He was helpless against such a large attack.
Suddenly feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder, Lu Yuan turned around abruptly and saw a young man with a greedy look in his eyes holding a dagger, which was plunged into his shoulder.
"You son of a bitch! You dare to hurt me!"
Lu Yuan gritted his teeth, then pulled his body forward, and the dagger was instantly pulled out of his shoulder.
Then, Lu Yuan suddenly turned around and, enduring the excruciating pain, smashed the other person's head with a stick. With a muffled "bang," the other person's head was smashed open like a watermelon, and red, green, white, and all sorts of other colors slid down from the other person's face.
Holding an iron rod, Lu Yuan guarded the tricycle like a war god. When the others saw how fierce Lu Yuan was, several of them immediately grabbed half a cucumber from the vehicle and ran away out of fear.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the others rushed to grab the vegetables at the back of the truck, hoping to get something to eat before they ran away.
However, Lu Yuan was not about to let them have their way. He grabbed an iron rod and chased after them, smashing a man who was trying to take a bag of vegetables with him. Then he glared fiercely at the panicked crowd.
"Who else!"
No one dared to touch the vegetables anymore, and at that moment, Lu Yuan finally felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.
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