80 Days of Scavenging
Zhao Conglu came out of the training room, swinging her hands contentedly.
Although she had a bad experience during this mission, she gained a lot and obtained high-quality crystal cores. As a result, after half a day of absorption training, her metal-type ability strength increased significantly.
How could I not make her happy?
Hmm, how about we go to a restaurant and treat ourselves to something luxurious?
With that in mind, Zhao Conglu headed toward the government-run restaurant.
She hadn't gone very far when she noticed that the base was unusually lively today.
Many people were running in one direction. At first glance, Zhao Conglu thought something was wrong at the base and everyone was fleeing for their lives. But upon closer inspection, although these people looked anxious, they weren't panicked. Instead, they seemed...
The way they rushed to the cafeteria after class.
Zhao Conglu looked blank.
As she watched a familiar face run past her, she suddenly conjured an iron rope, tied the person around the waist, and pulled.
"Du Chao, why are you running so fast? And why are so many people running that way? Are they rushing to be reborn?"
Du Chao, caught off guard, almost threw a poisonous leaf at the person he had grabbed, but luckily he saw who it was and didn't.
Upon hearing Zhao Conglu's question, he suddenly realized, "Oh, Sister Lu, you don't know yet? A new shop has opened on the street near the mission hall, and it's overflowing with supplies. Everyone's rushing over there, afraid the owner will regret it and close down if they go too late!"
"Huh? Is that all? There are other shops selling supplies at the base, right? The authorities have one too, so why is everyone running around like this?"
Zhao Conglu was puzzled.
This world is difficult for most people, and resources are scarce, but for those with supernatural abilities, as long as they have the skill and a bit of luck, they can still manage to acquire a lot of resources. Isn't that how the forces behind those supply stores operate?
Is it really necessary?
The area where she lives is large, has a good environment, and is well-managed, so it's mostly affordable for people with superpowers. In other words, most of the people running around now are people with superpowers.
Zhao Conglu couldn't help but wonder, did that shop have high-level crystal cores? Otherwise, why would so many superhumans look like this?
While patting the iron chain around his waist to signal for it to be released, Du Chao explained, "Because that shop uses pre-apocalyptic prices for transactions! Not only can you use paper money, gold, silver, and jewelry, but you can also use anything you don't need, and the owner sets the price based on brand new items!"
"Even if you don't have those things, you can use a pile of weeds, a few broken bricks, or even a few piles of poop picked up from the roadside to trade!"
"The food in this shop is incredibly cheap! You can believe it, a giant grilled sausage is only one dollar! It was already two or three dollars before the apocalypse!"
At this point, Du Chao winked at Zhao Conglu, "Everyone suspects the boss has lost his mind. This isn't opening a shop, it's doing charity work! Anyway, nobody knows how long this shop will stay open, so everyone rushed over while it's still open?"
To be able to open a shop like this, the owner must have plenty of resources behind him. Now, countless eyes are watching him.
After that, whether it was because some forces were eyeing the business or the owner himself came to his senses and wanted to raise prices, no one thought the store could stay open for long.
So how can you not hurry up and grab it!
After saying that, Du Chao saw that he had been released and turned to continue running.
After standing there for a moment, Zhao Conglu finished processing the news she had heard, and then she took off running.
What a joke! How could you not rush to grab such a good deal?!
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The little robot was very satisfied with the surge of customers that came in the afternoon.
Although at first everyone brought valuable items, as the store's transaction rules spread, more and more people started bringing junk items to trade.
This is exactly what the little robot wants.
As for accepting paper money, he was simply using the price level as a pretext. Besides, paper money is now considered garbage by these post-apocalyptic humans; it's just a special kind of paper that he can collect and reuse.
As more and more people became active at the base, and more and more people entered and exited the city gates and went to the mission hall, his shop in the vicinity became known to more and more humans.
The little robot no longer greets guests personally; it's too busy.
By taking the automated trading system used in the magical world and making slight modifications, it can completely replace the function of shop assistants.
The little robot only needs to replenish the consumed goods and some materials that are not on display but that customers want to trade, according to the needs of customers' transactions.
Grilled sausages are the fastest-selling item. After all, they're delicious and cheap; even a child could exchange some dry twigs and leaves picked up from the ground for one.
Next came rice and noodles—foods that were filling and could be stored—and many people carried them in large bags. If these consumables weren't subject to quotas, those with ample funds would probably have emptied the entire store.
Of course, these people didn't know that they couldn't possibly move all the little robots in stock.
Although the little robot hadn't collected that much rice and flour before, and there was food in the warehouse, though not in large quantities, it did have seeds.
He doesn't pick and choose when collecting trash; he picks up anything. Inevitably, he finds some seeds along the way. Although he doesn't collect many at a time, they add up to quite a lot over time.
As for those seeds that are of poor quality, have lost their vitality, or are even damaged, they will recover to their best condition after being soaked in a specially prepared nutrient solution by the little robot for a period of time.
Then, put them into the time-speed zone, and from germination to maturity, it can be completed in the blink of an eye.
With ripe fruit, the process was repeated, resulting in the small robot's warehouse being overflowing with rice and flour, with no shortage whatsoever.
The only thing that required him to put some effort into was meat.
Currently, the little robot's warehouse does not have an animal breeding area. Of course, it's just a trash can, and the manufacturer will not include this in its future evolution. Therefore, the little robot needs to prepare its own meat needs in advance.
The meat in his shop now is all from previous stock, especially from the first war-torn world. The recycling warehouse was used as a cold storage by the servants in the mansion, and all kinds of ingredients were piled up in it, so meat was naturally plentiful.
However, he didn't put much real meat in the sausage.
While looking through information about "grilled sausages," the little robot discovered that humans actually said things like "the main thing to eat is the flavoring" and "I won't eat it if there's not enough starch." Although it didn't quite understand, humans are always so strange.
Therefore, the little robot decided to listen to the humans and not put real meat in the sausage.
However, after examining the grilled sausages that humans enjoy eating closely, he discovered that the meaty flavor mainly comes from additives.
He ultimately didn't follow this method completely, adding all sorts of additives. As for the meat flavor, he had a better option if he didn't use real meat.
—Interstellar synthetic meat technology.
The little robot also made a separate synthetic meat device for this purpose.
Given the advanced technology in interstellar food production, synthetic meat is virtually indistinguishable from real meat in terms of texture, taste, and even nutrition. It is used to supply planets that do not eat biological meat, as well as the inhabitants of various star systems that do not have biological meat.
Using this technology to make sausages, with just a few slight adjustments to the parameters, it can completely replicate the flavor that people like to eat, without adding any strange things that could have a negative impact on the body.
He doesn't even need to worry about the meat supply being insufficient, which would lead to a shortage of sausages.
The final product was obviously fantastic. When the little robot asked several customers who were enjoying the food what they thought, they received comments like "That's exactly the taste" and "Super delicious."
The little robot was very happy.
However, looking at the constant flow of customers into the shop and the ever-increasing consumption of various ingredients and supplies, the little robot realized that it had underestimated the world's demand for resources.
At this rate, his recycling bin will be empty in less than five days.
On the third day, the little robot hung a sign at the store entrance that read, "Restocking tomorrow, closed for one day."
Almost every customer who came to make a transaction couldn't help but ask, "Boss, are you going to come back and open this shop again?"
Of course, it will continue to operate.
He received all sorts of trash during this time, but he still couldn't bear to close the shop.
The little robot already had a plan for where to purchase the goods.
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