Chapter 43: When we return from the barter, everyone can carry something good...
Knowing that practicing magic and spiritual energy is not something that can be done overnight, the sensible Bai Yu and Bai Xi are not in a hurry. The still immature Bai Miao naturally doesn't care about this matter. Apart from thinking about learning magic quickly and hoping to use a flying carpet one day, he doesn't have many other thoughts.
The opening of the new dimension gave them a sense of freshness for a while, but they soon returned to their previous lives.
However, a few days later, a demand message popped up in the information of the new dimension. The tenants there were willing to exchange supplies for food, no matter what it was, as long as it was edible.
"Is there a shortage of food over there?" Bai Xi was a little surprised. "It's such a good place."
"Even the best places need suitable fields to grow crops," Bai Yu said, which was understandable. "The conditions over there are strong winds, heavy rain and floods. I'm afraid it's impossible to grow crops."
Bai Xi thought about it and agreed, but he still worried about food. "Even though we have some food stored, it's only enough for us to eat. Even if we trade it for food, it won't be enough for many meals, right? We could go fishing, but I'm afraid just catching fish and shrimp won't fill our stomachs."
Fish and shrimp can of course be eaten, but as authentic fishermen, they know best that if they want to fill their stomachs, they cannot just eat fish and shrimp, so they have to go ashore every few days to buy some staple food.
Now that they lived on the island, fish and shrimp were the easiest to get, and they were almost available for every meal. But in addition to that, there were also wild animals harvested from the forest plane from time to time, and some rice, flour, grain, oil and vegetables from [Sign in]. They could save enough for the three of them, but it was definitely not enough to provide for the tenants.
Bai Yu listened to her sister's words, thought carefully for a while, looked at her and said, "What do you think, if we want to grow food on the island, is that possible?"
"But we don't have any seeds," Bai Xi blurted out. After she finished speaking, she realized something. "Big sister, are you talking about exchanging with the tenants of this new dimension? Yes, although it's difficult to grow crops there now, they must still have a lot of grain and vegetable seeds. We can ask them for seeds. Then, can't we grow crops and vegetables on the island?"
Bai Yu nodded. "That's what I was thinking. As long as we have seeds, we can grow food. Even if it's hard to grow food on the island, we can still go to the forest plane to grow food. It just so happens that we've collected a lot of trees to level up recently, leaving a large area of land free. Maybe we can use it to grow food."
"Then can we also ask them for books? I mean, the kind that tells what wild vegetables look like?" Bai Xi has been thinking about the wild vegetables in the forest plane for a long time, but because the three sisters don't know what wild vegetables they know, they are afraid of picking and digging up poisonous wild vegetables. If there is a book to compare, they can go to the forest plane to dig wild vegetables, so that they can eat more different ones in their daily lives.
"Then let's decide on these two, books and seeds." Bai Yu had the same idea as Bai Xi, and also hoped to learn more about the wild vegetables in the forest plane. After the two of them decided, they quickly opened the panel of the new plane and filled in the relevant exchange information.
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On the other side, several people who tried to use the "room card" to redeem food were sitting around the sofa in the living room, waiting for the response from "Ellipsis".
That’s right, after they made their request, the prompt on the room card turned into an “ellipsis”, which made them excited and looking forward to getting a good result.
But during the waiting process, everyone was still feeling uneasy.
"Is it really possible?"
"Maybe if it doesn't work, we won't lose anything, but if it does, we'll get the most important food," said the man who had asked to exchange the room card for food. "The landlord of this house is definitely not an ordinary person. What we can't get, the landlord may also get. This landlord is very likely to have special means."
"I hope so. We don't know when the disaster will end. Expired food sold outside is very expensive now. If this continues, all the expired packaged food will be gone."
"I heard there's an organization growing greenhouse vegetables."
"The prices of things grown in that way will only be higher than expired food, and those things may not even appear in front of us."
"Speaking of which, I don't know how this landlord chooses tenants. The tenants next door to me yesterday were a mother and her two daughters. They looked very ordinary."
"At least they're not selected based on wealth and power, which is an advantage for us. So, if we run into other tenants when we go out, we'll protect them if we can."
"Don't worry, the reason we can get together is because we all have similar temperaments."
As he was speaking, the room card placed in the middle suddenly lit up.
Several people hurriedly came closer.
"How do you say that?"
"An exchange area has appeared! There's something on it. Is this dried food?"
"And salt fish and meat."
"It doesn't look like something very good, but... why do I suddenly feel like eating it? If I don't eat this, I'll forget what normal dried vegetables and salted fish taste like."
"These are not important. Let's see what we can exchange for them."
"Yes, here," one of them pointed to the contents below, "you can exchange them for books and seeds."
"Seeds are hard to find, and the prices outside are very high right now."
"But books are easy. After the disaster, the most easily neglected things are books and other things. They can't be eaten, worn, or used... I remember there's a bookstore nearby?"
“It seems to have collapsed too.”
"If it collapses, we can dig it up. The most important thing is that the books inside can be exchanged for food!"
"yes!"
As they were talking, they heard the sound of a door opening outside.
After looking at each other, they all guessed something and immediately started discussing in a low voice.
"No one except us knows about the rental, so we are all in the same boat. Although the house itself has protection, the fewer people who know about the rental, the better."
"You can't walk out like that."
"Together as a group, we can keep an eye on and evade."
"Raise your hands if you agree to form a group."
Several people raised their hands.
Everyone agreed, and someone immediately walked to the door and opened it. "I'm sure you've seen the information on the room card. There's a bookstore nearby that I believe you might be interested in. Instead of going out alone and facing danger, why not team up?"
Without waiting for the person on the other side to speak, the other side continued: "We live in this building together. I believe no one would want their hard-earned peaceful life to be disrupted, so we are the best allies."
As soon as the words fell, someone opened the door: "Can we go together?"
After discussing for a while, the other party turned around and said, "Since we're all together, we don't need so many people. Each family should select someone to go out and look for books this time. To avoid being discovered, there shouldn't be too many people."
"Okay, then each family will pick someone out and form a team together!"
Not only the tenants on this floor, after discussion, they also looked for tenants upstairs and downstairs. Everyone wanted food and wanted to live in this wonderful house, and soon everyone reached a consensus.
However, in the end, there were too many people, so a part of them was sent out to look for the place where the seeds were stored in their memories. Books were convenient for finding, but if the seeds could be found, more food could be obtained, which would benefit everyone.
The three sisters who were the landlords saw the whole process clearly from the top floor.
Knowing that these tenants had formed teams to find food, they knew that the amount of food needed next would not be too small. After these people went out, they also returned to the island and planned to go fishing by boat to a place some distance away from the island.
Before that, they moved a lot of firewood and temporarily stored it in the cabin under the boat.
Then he put the firewood, the tinder made of fire grass, and the wooden sticks with magic elements into the sale column.
When these people moved in, they brought pots, pans, and some combustibles and fire-making tools with them, but these things are consumables, so the more the better.
Bai Yu had stayed on the water the longest and knew that the most troublesome thing on the water was when there was no fire, so he guessed that these people might also have the problem of lack of fire, so he put the things on it.
It would be best if it can be sold, but it doesn’t matter if it can’t be sold.
After putting everything away, she went to the bow of the boat and started the boat.
The ship is now docked at a small pier, and there is no need to move the ship with great effort. It is very easy to leave the island. She is mainly at the bow to control the direction of the ship, and the movement of the ship mainly depends on going with the flow.
Occasionally, when they encounter large waves or are too far off in the water, Bai Xi and Bai Yu now have enough strength to row the heavy oars.
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"It's right here."
"A lot of it has collapsed, but the inside isn't completely caved in. Let's look for an easy passage inside."
"Will there be any danger?"
"As long as the load-bearing columns remain intact, there won't be a big problem. These houses have already collapsed to the bottom, and even another strong wind won't have much of an impact, let alone a small action like ours."
"Found it! There's a hole here that you can get in. Does anyone have a flashlight? I'll go in and take a look."
"I have one, but use it sparingly. The battery is almost out."
"When I find the location of the book, turn off the flashlight. Then I'll hand it out and you can read it outside."
"Is it better not to look for the same book?"
"It doesn't matter if it's the same. You can still use it to start a fire."
"Tsk, then we have to find the books quickly, otherwise when the other fuel runs out, someone will covet these books. We should keep a set of the extra books for ourselves, it would be a waste to burn them."
"When there's nothing left to burn, these books will just serve as fuel."
At this point, the atmosphere became much more gloomy.
Fortunately, the person who went into the cave soon handed out a small stack of books, breaking the silent atmosphere. Everyone quickly got into the mood and began to pack the books one by one with the ropes they brought, so that when they went back, everyone could carry several stacks.
As more and more books piled up outside, everyone's faces became happier.
"So many books, enough for us to exchange for a lot of food!"
"Well, maybe I can get a lot in exchange."
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