The middle point station is NT0204, located at the junction of the Green and Yellow zones, and on the edge of the city. After passing this station, Jiang Ling has truly left her birthplace. In fact, many stations are called middle points, just like the 150,000 Chinese named Zhang Wei before the war. Often, people think they have chosen unique names, but in reality, they are neither unprecedented nor unprecedented.
The midpoint station wasn't the middle of Jiang Ling's journey, but it was a good place to stop for a while. This station was generally located in the Green Zone, so there was a constant flow of merchants and supplies, making it quite lively. Furthermore, Jiang Ling still had some loot to sell.
By the time the three of them arrived, the sky had once again turned pitch black. The exhausted men took Jiang Ling to the station's service area. After a brief price negotiation, they disposed of the pork they'd been carrying all day. Honestly, their price was a bit low, but thankfully, the quantity was substantial. After a brief discussion, the men divided the proceeds equally and then dispersed. The two men clearly had something important to report to their superiors, but Jiang Ling suspected they would receive nothing.
After disposing of the pork, Jiang Ling gained about 2,400 points. Now her personal assets can only be considered as a small fortune, right? Forgive her, she really doesn't know how rich the rich are.
Living conditions inside the station were much better than her hometown. It was obvious the administrators had transformed it into a hub for supplies and personnel. Having not seen bright lights for a long time, Jiang Ling took a long time to adjust. Of course, her so-called long time was relatively short compared to that of ordinary people. She stayed in the service area, drank a cup of hot tea, and sorted out her belongings. She decided she should first find a hotel to clean herself up and consider the next step tomorrow.
The website's network was overflowing with job postings and business offers. Jiang Ling felt a bit lost, as if she'd been transported back to her college graduation. But the pay was significantly better than her previous job, when they weren't hiring college graduates, but rather slaves. She shook her head, brushing off the nonsense. Now that she had her own job, there was no need to look at things like those offering a few hundred points a month. She'd earned what others earned in a year in just two days. What else did she need?
She found a house with good reviews online and left with her wet travel bag. The structure of this site was conventional—a round chassis with a pentagonal prism. She was familiar with the look of this place, like home.
Well, it was still a little unfamiliar. Along the way, she encountered a number of vendors setting up stalls in the passage, selling a wide variety of items. Jiang Ling saw quite a few people selling nuclear-contaminated items found on the surface. She checked some of them with her radiation detector and found that they must have processed the items, and the radiation levels were within normal range.
Jiang Ling wasn't interested in these items, but she still scanned the prices of each item. The prices for these recycled items were only decent, roughly half the original price if used to make up the numbers. These items were mostly easy to dispose of, like plastics, steel, ceramics, and some aluminum cans. These cans were the cheapest, and once again, the discerning tastes of the Z people came into play.
She walked all the way to the distribution center at the entrance, where she traded twenty rounds of ammunition at a vendor's stall for two unopened standard filter canisters. Her quota had run out at the beginning of the month, and considering she might be traveling to the surface more often, she planned to use the few days of rest to stock up on consumables. Of course, it would be best to ship the bucket of crab roe sauce right here. While it had a long shelf life, she didn't want to carry it to places where demand wasn't high.
Moreover, if she encountered danger one day, she might lose everything. Besides, not all the things in it were her property, the guide also held a 10% stake.
She spent three points online, and a simple business order popped up: "Fresh crab roe sauce, starting price 20 points per gram. Pre-order now, first come, first served!" The guide had told her the base price. He'd said this kind of crab roe sauce was practically a luxury item at the station, and typically fetched 24 to 30 points at black market auctions. She left a meeting address and time at the bottom of the order and left it alone.
She had set the address for the warehouse at the junction of the residential area, so she had to pay the painful price of 200 points for a month's rent—the minimum timeframe. She anticipated several buyers for the transaction, so she made several plans. The most convenient option was for one buyer to take the entire barrel in one sitting, but that was likely unrealistic. The next best option was for the buyers to form a group and purchase the barrels themselves. In that case, Jiang Ling would only have to count the money, and the distribution would be their responsibility. The least comfortable option was for them to individually negotiate the price and purchase quantity, and then have Jiang Ling divide the profits among them, which would be far too cumbersome.
She decided to take it one step at a time. This kind of business was actually quite inconvenient, unlike the simple black market auctions. But she also didn't want to go directly to the black market; there were too many middlemen, and she felt it wasn't worth it. A simple exchange of money for goods was better. Besides, the goods weren't stolen goods, so there was no need to launder them on the black market.
Jiang Ling wandered around the distribution center before heading to the residence she'd booked. During this time, she'd simply bought some water purifiers and filter cans, spending a total of eleven points. The residence was in the second residential area, near the connecting passageway, and she quickly found it.
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