Ruan Ning had a relatively easy and comfortable time in the safe zone during these few days. He had food and drink, and if he wanted anything he just had to let others know and someone would deliver it.
There are not many psychics in the safe zone now, probably only a few dozen.
And their 5+1 team can have two psychics, which is one of the best configurations in the current safe zone. In addition, someone above has ordered to take extra care of him, so Ruan Ning has been living such a leisurely life recently.
Especially after realizing the importance of psychics in dealing with zombies, the managers of the safe zone have greatly improved the treatment of psychics in order to win over people's hearts.
The apocalypse has only been going on for half a month, and food is not in short supply yet, so even ordinary people staying in the safe zone can get three free meals a day.
Although everyone only has a simple bowl of white rice porridge for every meal, for many people, being able to stay in a safe zone without going hungry and being safe and secure is much better than living outside, sleeping in the open and worrying about zombies appearing at any time.
But Ruan Ning knew that such days would not last long.
These days, more and more survivors have rushed to the safe zone from all over the place, but it is not as easy as before for the teams that go out to collect supplies every day to bring back food from outside.
When supplies in the safe zone run low, there won't be so much free food available to everyone.
First, three meals a day became two meals, then two meals became one meal... Before long, it would become like what is written in the novel, where not only is there no free food, but survivors even need to pay a certain amount of food to enter the safe base. Food, clothing, housing and transportation must all be borne by themselves.
The further we get to the end of the world, the harder life will become for ordinary people.
Ruan Ning doesn't have any special powers, but she is a little luckier than others, and she still has a space.
She basically did not touch the supplies she had collected in the city, so she did not have to worry about food for the past six months.
Ruan Ning had thought about disguising her space as a space power. In this way, she would at least be considered a power user in the eyes of others.
The journey to the imperial capital is long, and even if everything goes well, it will take several months to get there. The other members of the team are taking good care of her now, and they don't care whether she has superpowers or not, but they have no relatives or friends, so she has always been a freeloader in the team, and she actually feels quite guilty. Without value, no one can guarantee that they will not be abandoned by the team.
Anyway, before reaching the sixth level, space psychics have no offensive capabilities. Only when they reach the sixth level will their offensive capabilities increase greatly, and their status will rise from a walking warehouse to one of the top three psychics in terms of offensive power.
So even if she pretended to be a space power user, no one would be able to tell. Because as far as she knew, apart from the male protagonist Gu Yicheng, no one else could successfully upgrade the space power to the sixth level.
However, Ruan Ning thought about it and still felt uneasy about this plan. She preferred to be able to stimulate other superpowers.
In the apocalypse, the status of space psychics has always been awkward, even worse than the water psychics in the early days of the apocalypse.
Unless you have a fixed and mutually trusting team, every space mutant will face a problem: when you go out with the team to collect supplies, others will worry that you will take the food for yourself, and you can't explain it clearly, after all, no one else can see what is in the space.
This is also the reason why Ruan Ning would rather be an ordinary person than pretend to be a space mutant.
If the things in the space can be kept secret from others, they will never be revealed. Ruan Ning always does things in a quiet way.
She couldn't possibly cause trouble for herself.
*****
Where there are people, there will be transactions.
There is a small market in the safe zone, where many people are doing business. Currently, few people know the function of the crystal core in the zombie brain, so in the safe zone, the most common way of trading is bartering, as if returning to the primitive age.
"Boss, how much is this?" Ruan Ning stopped beside a stall and picked up something that looked like crystal.
——This is a crystal core.
Although Ruan Ning herself had never seen this thing, the characteristics of the crystal core were described clearly in the novel, so she easily recognized it from a pile of things.
If you observe this thumb-sized diamond-shaped crystal under sunlight, you can see a transparent thread dancing inside, which is very beautiful.
It is simply unimaginable that there is such a beautiful object inside the head of such an ugly zombie.
The owner of this crystal core is a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard. Like the other people setting up stalls next to him, he looks a bit decadent. It seems that business in the safe zone is not doing well right now.
The middle-aged man has been setting up his stall for three days. Due to the remote location of the stall and the things he sells are not daily necessities, there are only a few people coming to the stall to inquire about his products, and he has not made any business.
If he didn't exchange some food for it, he wouldn't even be able to earn back the stall fee for a bag of biscuits he spent on setting up a stall here.
So when he saw someone asking about the price, even if the person was a strange guy wearing a mask and a hat and his face couldn't be seen clearly, he was very enthusiastic and said, "My son picked this up on the street. It's not worth much."
Even if he wanted to make money, a man couldn't lie with his eyes open and say that a worthless thing was a panacea. This thing was indeed picked up from the ground by his youngest son on the way to the safe zone because he thought it looked good. He just put it on the stall to make up the money, but he didn't expect that someone would like it.
"Girl, why don't you just buy something from the stall and I'll give it to you." He thought for a moment and added. Life is hard these days, and besides, even the smallest bit of money is still meat, so every bit of business counts.
Ruan Ning didn't expect that she would be so lucky today. "Okay, thank you, boss."
Ruan Ning and her team killed a lot of zombies along the way, including some first-level zombies. However, she did not tell the team members that the evolved zombies have crystal cores in their heads, so the crystal cores in the heads of the zombies they killed were also abandoned on the road.
So far, she had never seen a crystal core. Today, she was lucky enough to see one in the market, and it was a colorful one, so Ruan Ning had no reason not to take advantage of it.
Because she knew she was going to the market today, she brought a bag with her, but there wasn't much food in it, just a few packs of instant noodles and biscuits. Everything else was placed in the space so she could take it out whenever she needed it.
Ruan Ning finally decided on a vintage suitcase. Before the apocalypse, this style and material would have cost at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, but after the apocalypse, she only spent two packs of instant noodles to buy it.
Of course, Ruan Ning also took the dark blue crystal core as a gift.
The middle-aged man thought the price was a pack of instant noodles. He originally just wanted to raise the price a little, let the man bargain, and then he would agree. Unexpectedly, the man was so straightforward, and gave him the food without saying anything, without any intention of bargaining.
The middle-aged man felt a little embarrassed about this and insisted on giving her something else.
Ruan Ning smiled and rejected his kindness. She knew the value of this crystal core, and she had already made a profit by picking up the bargain. It would be unethical to cheat the boss again.
Ruan Ning went out alone today, without anyone following her. The security in the safe zone was pretty good, and there were often patrols, so Xue Chen didn't try to stop her when he heard she wanted to go out for a walk.
But after she took a walk around the safe zone, it was time to go back.
Just as Ruan Ning was about to leave the stall and go back to the villa, a curly-haired woman who looked to be in her twenties, dressed neatly and beautifully, walked over from the side.
"Little sister, can you sell me the things you just bought at that stall?"