Chapter 68 [VIP]
Old Zhao looked at the gilded tourist ID card in his hand for a long time without saying a word.
"Can only store Starlight Coins?"
"You can also connect to the Internet." Ao Lin said suddenly, causing Fu Chun to widen his eyes and stare at him.
"Who said that?" Fu Chun said angrily. "Why don't I know?"
"Because they're still researching it," Ao Lin said. "You know Huo Mingjia, right? He's the sole survivor of the Huo Group. When the flood hit, he took refuge at the Taoyuan base, bringing with him a wealth of technological equipment. He's currently working with Professor Fu and his team on wireless communications. Their goal is to build a local network capable of remote communication using personal ID cards."
Ao Lin said: "When we return, we should have achieved some results."
"A personal ID card is a medium?" Fu Chun pondered. "Can the personal ID cards of Taoyuan Base residents and non-Taoyuan Base visitors communicate with each other?"
"That should be it."
Technically speaking, Ao Lin was an assistant to several veteran professors. However, after joining the Taoyuan base, the veteran professors didn't need much care, so Ao Lin joined Zhang Junfang and his team, sometimes following Fu Chun, sometimes following Zhou Ming. Overall, he was quite busy.
Moreover, he has more channels to learn about the news than others.
"That's a good thing. Hey, Old Zhao, we've been friends for a long time. Now that we're separated and each belongs to a different base, I've overcome all difficulties and traveled all the way from the south to the north to share something with you. And I only charge you cost price, not a premium. That's quite considerate, isn't it?"
"Thanks."
Old Zhao thanked him sincerely, but he was still worried about the arrival of extremely hot weather and was quite skeptical.
However, considering that Fu Chun is unreliable in small matters but absolutely decisive in big matters, it is impossible for him to exaggerate about natural disasters. So even though he has some doubts, Lao Zhao still chooses to believe him, and even asks if there are any other summer escape artifacts besides the ice room blueprint that sells for 880,000 Starlight Coins.
"Actually, if the power is restored, we can use air conditioning indoors. However, using ice to cool down is the most environmentally friendly way."
“There are also many kinds of trees that naturally regulate the climate.”
"?" Old Zhao: "There's a 90% chance that the trees planted now will mutate. Who would dare to plant trees randomly?"
"That can't be helped," Ao Lin 7 said. "The world needs plants, whether they are mutant or normal."
"I understand." Old Zhao said distressedly, "It's just that sometimes we would rather grow crops than trees. Our A City base is not like your Taoyuan base, where you have special farmland that can grow normal crops."
"Since blueprints can be sold now, I'd like to ask if special farmland can be sold?"
"Probably not," Fu Chun replied, adding, "We brought back 100 mulberry saplings, 100 peach saplings, 1,000 rice seeds, 1,000 wheat seeds, and 1,000 sets of agricultural nutrients. Do you want them?"
"???" Old Zhao didn't react for a moment. After a moment, Fu Chun7 said, "Using the saplings produced in the Taoyuan base and the accompanying nutrient solution can achieve rapid growth while suppressing mutations."
"And it can be harvested year-round," Ao Lin also said. "The peach tree is even called the Yueyue Peach. As the name suggests, it produces peaches every month."
Old Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard this. "What about mulberry trees? What special uses do they have?"
"Mulberry fruit? Mulberry leaves and silkworm pupae?" Ao Lin pondered for a moment, then asked Fu Chun. "I remember last time, our market seemed to be selling silkworm pupae?"
"10 Starlight Coins per pound," Fu Chun replied. "They sold out within half an hour of going on the market, and that's even with the limit of one pound per person."
“Fried silkworm pupae are delicious.”
"I didn't say it wasn't good to eat," Fu Chun said with a smile. "I remember that in addition to mulberry fruits, they also sold young mulberry leaves from time to time."
"Mulberry leaf and lean meat soup is good for relieving summer heat."
Fu Chun and Ao Lin were chatting and actually brought up the topic of menus. Old Zhao was speechless, but more than anything else, he felt envious. After all, while they were eating a mess of food, the food at Taoyuan Base was almost back to pre-apocalyptic levels.
And they...
"We need 10,000 sets of nutritional supplements," Lao Zhao suddenly said. "I think you should have brought that many nutritional supplements."
At Taoyuan Base, nutritional supplements were very cheap. The people at Taoyuan Base were accustomed to eating natural foods at the base and stocking up on nutritional supplements when going out. And because they were cheap, the teams accustomed to going out often chose nutritional supplements as their first choice when selling Taoyuan Base supplies as middlemen.
After all, at the Taoyuan base, the daily output of nutritional supplements was 200,000 tubes, or 20,000 sets. Over time, the number of nutritional supplements in the hands of the middlemen could be counted in the tens of thousands.
And just so happened that the team led by Fu Chun and Ao Lin had a total of 100,000 units.
"I'll sell it to you at cost price."
In addition to his good relationship with Lao Zhao from the A City base, he also understood the difficulties of the A City base.
Indeed, before the apocalypse, City A was rapidly stabilizing order, but due to the isolation of roads, City A was a political center, not an agricultural or commercial center.
As for food reserves, well, they weren't stored in City A, but in... And due to the strange climate, most of the stored food had spoiled.
Of course, the same is true for other cities except City A, but compared to City A, other cities are slightly better.
However, the situation has now stabilized for the most part. After all, after the flood, the number of zombies and mutant plants has decreased by over 90%. Now is a good time to recuperate, so most bases are engaged in infrastructure construction, not just Taoyuan Base.
In other words, it wasn't just Taoyuan Base that was lacking basic materials; the other bases were equally lacking. Of course, the other bases were lacking everything, but Taoyuan's infrastructure... in terms of food, was truly not lacking.
Soon, Fu Chun and Lao Zhao reached a cooperation agreement and gained a large fortune. At the moment of their successful transaction, Mingzhu received the news.
Mingzhu, being short of Starlight Coins, 'diverted' about fifty percent of the Starlight Coins and started to work on infrastructure construction. Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, he began to build walls and defensive towers!
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