Chapter 61 Extremely Hot [VIP]
Tang Tian looked up and saw that the person coming was a dark-skinned man who looked to be in his thirties.
However, it was so hot that almost everyone had darkened, except Wei Mingxia who stayed at home most of the time.
But looking at his aura and sharp eyes, Tang Tian felt that he was more like a plainclothes officer than a person who came to do business.
However, it wasn't the evil look that seemed to plunder, but rather a righteous look that made people feel at ease.
Could it be... that this person is official?
Could it be that he was being targeted because of his large-scale trading?
Tang Tian was silent for a moment, but when he mentioned tea, he thought of Master Yu Guanyin.
Besides, she was someone who had connections with the official asylum, so she nodded in agreement:
"Yes, what's up?"
The man breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"Well, I brought some jade this time and I want to exchange it for tea. Do you have any more?"
With this connection, it is likely that the old man sent someone to come.
Let’s not go into the details of who that old man is for now. How can we refuse a business that comes to our door?
But this time there was no Jade Guanyin, but a box of jade jewelry was brought instead.
Tang Tian opened it and immediately gasped.
Although she didn't know much about glass jade, ice glutinous jade and so on, it was obvious that the condition of these jades was so bad that even an outsider like her felt it was too open!
After confirming that these could be exchanged for real money, Tang Tian took out two boxes of packaged tea from her backpack without hesitation and completed the deal.
After her success, she still smiled and said:
"The old man really loves tea! I still have some. If you don't have any valuables, fuel and medicine will be fine too!"
The man just responded helplessly, put on his hat and left in a hurry.
During this time, people started queuing up behind, and each of them had paid for their ticket before entering.
Someone saw the small blackboard and realized that this time Tang Tian not only wanted valuables, but also fuel and medicine, and couldn't help but ask:
"Boss, fuel is so precious right now. What can you exchange this fuel medicine for?"
After all, not everyone still has a large number of valuable items that they can't use up, and Tang Tian has the conditions and doesn't want those luxury goods, which resulted in many wealthy families before the end of the world being unable to convert their excess items.
Tang Tian replied:
"Medicine is second tier, as are food and meat. It depends on demand and quantity. As for fuel, it's all exchanged at third tier quality. The more fuel you have, the more you can exchange!"
After hearing this, some people looked confused.
Anyone who has traded with Tang Tian knows the value of the second and third tier materials.
However, medical fuel is also extremely precious. Most people don’t have it on hand, and even if they do, they may not be able to exchange it immediately.
Tang Tian was not in a hurry. Fate is everything nowadays, just like that Jade Guanyin master.
Once the reputation of the trading market becomes known, perhaps people with such conditions from far away will come here.
So more people continued to exchange valuables, and the number of people was smaller than last time, so the line was quickly cleared.
Tang Tian checked and found that all the valuables weighed only half a pound in total. Seeing that it was still early, she decided to wait a little longer.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a while, Zhang Huaiping came towards me with a smile.
"Miss Tang, is business still booming?"
"Thanks to you, it's okay." Tang Tian replied calmly.
"Oh, Miss Tang, please don't say that. It's us who should be thanking you for this!"
Zhang Huaiping felt so happy that his heart was overflowing with joy. Tang Tian's two visits to set up stalls not only made his trading market famous, but also made him earn a lot of money just from ticket sales. He was truly the God of Wealth!
But this time he didn't just come to say hello and say a few nice words, he also wanted to exchange supplies.
When they moved to the office building, Zhang Huaiping and Ruan Liru took everything they could from home, including valuables.
The former originally thought they were just a burden, but the latter refused to let me throw them away. I didn't expect that someone would actually want these burdens, so I thought I would exchange some supplies for them.
According to the informant, Tang Tian can not only exchange for food and meat, but also vegetables and fruits.
Ruan Liru and their only son had not eaten this food for a long time and were very greedy. They took out all their stuff and asked Zhang Huaiping to trade them.
Tang Tian understood what he meant and pointed to her small blackboard and then to the counter.
Zhang Huaiping is now the leader of a shelter and also has this trading market, so it is impossible for him to be without fuel and medicine.
Of course, whether he wants to take it out or not is his own business.
Tang Tian estimated the weight and finally gave him the second-tier supplies, which included grains, dried meat and dried radish.
These alone are enough to make a meal.
Zhang Huaiping was also very grateful after receiving the supplies.
But he stood there for a moment, hesitating for a moment, and then he said cautiously:
"Ms. Tang, I wonder if you will come to open a stall again in the future? You should stay here."
Tang Tian heard something behind his words. Wasn't he just afraid that she would never come again, and he wouldn't make any money from the deal?
"As long as there's something to exchange, I'll come. But I have to go collect supplies first, otherwise how can I get so much to exchange? I can't just conjure it out of thin air."
"When I'm not around, you should maintain the market, find more customers and keep in touch with them. I'll be free when I'm free!"
Zhang Huaiping received a positive answer and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded repeatedly and then left with his men.
Seeing that there was no transaction this time, Tang Tian packed up his stall and left.
Come again next time,
After returning home, Tang Tian first drank a glass of sour plum soup.
This sour plum soup is not a delicacy made in the system, but is made according to a recipe in a Chinese medicine store before the end of the world.
Since the last time Wei Mingxia planted Chinese medicinal herbs, she has harvested two waves of common Chinese medicinal herbs one after another, so now she is doing experiments again.
For example, when it comes to ginseng, the herb is judged by its age. If we use a growth-promoting ability, can we also create a longer age?
Therefore, the constant temperature room that was opened up has not been abandoned.
Tang Yi is setting up the last part of the igloo.
At this time, Tang Tian could already feel the coolness coming from the wall. If she turned on the cooling fan, she would probably no longer need ice cubes.
When the temperature drops, you won’t even need a fan.
After spending all the valuable items on krypton gold, there are 700,000 more gold coins in the gold coin column.
This time, Tang Tian focused on buying recipes. Not only did she buy an SR-level recipe, but she also bought an SSR-level recipe and a color cooking recipe:
【Golden yellow dishes】
After spending so much, there were soon only 150,000 gold coins left in the gold coin column.
Tang Tian took another walk around and finally bought a new piece of equipment - a sap collector.
This device needs to be placed in the forest and can collect sap every once in a while. Tang Tian knows that some sap is also drinkable.
Looking up, she sighed as she saw how quickly the gold coin column was emptying.
It seems that the trading market business cannot be stopped in the short term...
…
“Hiss—hiss—”
Hearing this familiar voice, Tang Tian came back to her senses and frowned again.
It's only been less than a dozen hours, but why do I feel like I'm seeing more and more vultures on the road, and they're becoming more and more lingering?
She quickly told Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia what she had seen and heard on the road.
"But honestly, the dead rot too quickly these days. People have no choice but to leave them outside temporarily. They'll quickly dry up in the sun after daybreak. So, aren't there these scavengers even in Hexin Garden?"
Tang Yi said.
But Tang Tian still felt something was wrong.
She suddenly remembered the mutant piranhas she found during the flood.
Piranhas are creatures that would never appear in cities, but they are similar to these vultures.
Tang Tian immediately put on night vision binoculars, wrapped herself up, and went to the balcony to observe.
Some vultures were circling overhead, occasionally stopping at the edge of the roof.
Others lay on the ground, three or four gathered around a corpse, pecking at it. Others rushed over and fought with the vultures for a bite of food.
Tang Tian looked up, but didn't know what she saw. She was startled and hurried back to her room.
It was the first time that Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia saw her with such an expression, and they asked questions one after another.
Tang Tian patted his chest, paused, and then said softly:
"I saw... the vultures' eyes were blood red!"
That wasn't a bloodshot eye, it was as if a plump ruby was embedded in it, it was extremely weird and didn't look like an ordinary creature at all.
Even if there weren't any vultures in the city, hadn't she seen pictures of them? They looked unusual in every way!
With the mutant piranhas in front and these bizarre, essentially mutated vultures behind, Tang Tian gained some new insights into this apocalypse, but also some new fears.
Everything flying in the sky and swimming in the water can mutate, so who knows if there will be other things in the future?
Tang Yi comforted:
"Vultures are scavengers. They only eat corpses and are not aggressive towards other living things. What if they finish eating what's here and fly away to somewhere else?"
"Yes, at least they can eat the corpses cleanly. If the corpses are not cleaned up quickly, they will cause plagues over time and pollute the land and water sources. It's better to be eaten by them."
Wei Mingxia also adjusted her glasses and said.
But having said that, they themselves actually don't quite believe that things are really as easy as they say.
Although the official radio station did not say anything specific about the corpse, it should be slowly being cleaned up and cremated.
But China has a large population base, so this has become a big deal and cannot be accomplished so easily and quickly.
Other survivors in the building also saw the vultures, but since they seemed non-aggressive, they didn't pay much attention to them.
At worst, you can just close the doors and windows, stay at home and wait for the next wave of official rescue.
But what was unexpected was that the official rescue came two days late.
The survivors all leaned against the windows, looking eagerly and hoping that the familiar truck would arrive soon.
Tang Tian could even vaguely hear crying coming from downstairs. Such a shrill voice couldn't possibly belong to Choi Sooyoung, it was probably her grandson's.
After waiting for a long time without any rescue, some people gritted their teeth and decided to go out to look for supplies, or simply go to the shelter to ask for them.
It's been a while since the shelter closed, so they should have built a few more rooms for people to stay in, right? Even if it's just porridge and paste, it's better than not having a meal!
So at an ordinary sunset, after the sun had completely set, a few people carrying large and small bags walked out of the building and headed out of Hexinyuan.
…
Ever since discovering the vulture mutation, Tang Tian would take out a telescope to observe from time to time, and he didn't have to go to the trading market so quickly.
Since official rescue efforts have not arrived for a long time and there is no news from Gu Bin, this deal can be put on hold for the time being.
Tang Yi tore off the last page of the calendar.
It has been a year since I started stockpiling.
If it weren't for Tang Tian's golden finger, not only would they have felt like they were living a year in a day, they wouldn't even know if they could survive. Perhaps they would have already become a piece of rotten meat under the beak of a vulture.
The world is experiencing extreme cold and heat, so there is no hope of normality throughout the year, not to mention that there is still no sign of the extremely hot temperature dropping.
Tantan has really grown into a large dog, and the nest he used when he was a child is no longer usable. Fortunately, Tang Tian bought many nests of different sizes in advance, so he can just replace them with new ones.
At this time, Tan Tan was curled up in his nest, his eyes staring out the window, as if he had anticipated some unknown danger.
Wei Mingxia was kneading dough in a basin. People in Chuncheng don't mainly eat noodles, so they don't buy flour often, let alone knead dough by hand.
But there was a lot of flour stored in the system warehouse, and her two daughters had no appetite, so she decided to simply make a bowl of scissor noodles with a tomato soup base this time.
The room was originally quite quiet, but suddenly a scream came from outside the window, echoing through the night sky:
"Help! Help! Birds are eating people!——"
Because it was late at night and quiet outside, the roar could be heard more clearly.
When Tang Tian heard this, her heart skipped a beat.
What she was most worried about finally came true.
The next moment, she took out a flashlight and tiptoed to the balcony.
Looking down, there were indeed two vultures attacking the man in the bright light.
The man was full of adrenaline. He ran at a very fast speed, couldn't help shouting, and kept flapping his hands, probably trying to drive the bird away.
It’s a pity that it was not an ordinary bird, but a vulture, and a mutated vulture at that.
They hit and pecked the man's head heavily with their hard beaks. After a while, the man fell to the ground before he could even enter the building.
He was still struggling, but soon two or three vultures flew over and started cracking the man's head, almost like cracking melon seeds.
Tang Tian turned off the power and returned to the room. There was no need to continue watching the following scenes. The man was definitely dead.
And after death, they will be quickly eaten by vultures.
Vultures have an amazing appetite and can eat ten kilograms of meat in five minutes. With flocks of vultures, can't they eat a man into a skeleton in minutes?
But Tang Tian didn’t understand. Was it because the vultures didn’t have enough food that they started attacking living people, or was it because the vultures were indeed mutated and their habits had changed drastically?
In any case, these vultures may be the next enemies that humans need to face!
The fragrant tomato noodles are ready, and Tang Tian turns on the radio.
Before each closure, it was the national radio station. Now Spring City has its own radio station. The last time the shelter closure was broadcast from there.
The broadcasting time of each radio station is also different, but Chuncheng usually broadcasts most of the time during meal times, even though many people do not have three meals a day now.
The ice house is very cool, perfect for eating these hot, sour and delicious tomato scissors noodles.
But before Tang Tian had taken a few bites, the radio beeped a few times and suddenly a message came out:
"Emergency broadcast... Emergency broadcast..."
"A large number of unidentified giant carnivorous birds have appeared throughout the city and have become aggressive towards humans. Please stay in shelters and do not go out without permission. Officials will do their utmost to kill the birds!"
"Repeat that..."
Hmm? Those birds aren't actually vultures?
In any case, it is a dangerous large carnivorous bird, and it may have undergone mutation!
Tang Tian drank tomato soup, the color of which was just like the two pupils of the mutant bird.
…
So after that, the Tang family chose to obey the order and stay at home.
Wei Mingxia was still studying planting and various equipment for making processed products, Tang Yi was reading books to supplement her knowledge and training Tan Tan, while Tang Tian continued to exercise and practice weapons.
The ice house made with the LV8 ice property can continue to emit coolness for five days. They decided to wait and see how many days it can last.
From time to time, you can hear the sounds of attacks from outside, sometimes far away, sometimes near, sometimes loud, sometimes soft, as well as the hoarse and high-pitched cries of those mutant birds. I wonder what a fierce battle it is.
The newly purchased [flower garden] has begun to harvest. Apart from the flowers, what Tang Tian is most looking forward to is the honey inside.
Compared to the low-yield wild honey in the forest, the honey in the flower garden becomes multi-flower honey, and after being packaged by a packaging machine, it can fill a cardboard box these days!
Honey was not a necessity before the end of the world, but it is a valuable commodity after the end of the world. Who knows how many times its value will increase!
However, she also collected a lot of flowers.
Some flowers can not only be used to make dishes in color recipes, but also can be used to make SR or even SSR-level dishes, so the place where these ingredients are obtained must also be purchased.
But now, Tang Tian used the jasmine harvested from the flower garden to make a jasmine melon tea with a thirst-quenching effect of LV8.
The LV5 thirst-quenching ability can already allow a person to go four whole days without drinking water. I'm afraid that the maximum level ability will double that.
But sometimes Tang Tian makes it just to drink it.
"Emergency notice! --Emergency notice! --"
Suddenly, the radio broadcast a message again.
Tang Tian listened to it in its entirety and found that it contained quite a lot of information.
After killing these birds, the authorities took some of the bodies back for research. It turned out that they were exactly the same as the mutant piranhas, and were special birds that had never been seen before.
Let's call it a mutant bird for now. This bird is not only huge in size, but also has hard wings and beak.
It will eat anything, whether it is carrion or living things, so in order to get food, it is extremely aggressive towards humans.
Moreover, during the eradication, the authorities discovered many nests and bird eggs, and the reproduction rate was also very fast.
The most important thing is that after being killed for a period of time, this group of strange birds actually evolved again.
When attacking, they not only bite and tear with their feathered beaks, but they also often start spitting strange acids from their mouths to corrode people and weapons in their hands.
And like the mutant piranhas, these birds will eat too much rotting corpses, so it is best not to eat them, even if they are dead, to avoid poisoning.
But this is much more troublesome than piranhas. The former only needs to stay out of the water and not attract fish to bite, but mutant birds are everywhere, and they will swoop down when they see food, which is more dangerous.
Therefore, in this radio broadcast, the official called on the public to participate in the operation to kill the mutant birds.
After all, not everyone went to the shelter. Those who were capable set up their own businesses outside, and there were many powerful people.
The bird carcasses obtained can be taken to the nearest official shelter and exchanged for rewards.
When Tang Tian heard this, she shuddered all over and became alert.
After so many days of squatting, I finally got to do something important!
"Great, Mom, Sister, let's clean up and go kill the bird!"
Tang Tian said excitedly, and Tan Tan next to him also howled twice.
"Don't worry, the number of mutant birds outside seems to have increased again, and they are good at swarming. We need to make a plan first!"
Tang Yi advised.
Tang Tian touched his chin and quickly came up with a solution.
To deal with this mutant bird, I'm afraid I'll have to use my superpowers.
But outdoors, whether there are people around or not, there is a risk of being discovered.
Catching birds always requires traps. Tang Tian plans to lure the bird into a trap and then catch the turtle in the trap!
I don’t know if it’s because the authorities haven’t come here to kill them yet, but there are more and more mutant birds in Hexin Garden, and they often stand on the edge of the railings.
Some even stood directly on the survivors' balconies, where their blood-red eyes could be seen more clearly.
They stared into the room as if they were staring at some good pieces of meat. The frightened survivors quickly closed the windows and listened to the roaring outside trembling.
The authorities also said they hunted them down, but how could they do that when they were powerless? Even if they could exchange it for a reward, it would still cost them their lives in the end!
So most people just want the authorities to handle it and wait quietly.
But Tang Tian is not someone who is willing to just wait there. She has already thought of a plan to catch the bird.
"Mom, sister, are you ready?"
Everything in the living room has been moved out to make room.
Tang Tian, Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia stood in a triangle formation, with the former standing by the balcony door.
The latter nodded vigorously, and Tang Tian asked again:
"Tan Tan, are you ready too?"
"Woof!"
Tan Tan wagged his tail with a determined look on his face.
So Tang Tianmo counted to three and suddenly opened the balcony door again.
Tan Tan ran out, shouted a few times on the balcony, then went back into the house with his tongue sticking out.
“Hiss—hiss—”
As Tang Tian expected, as soon as Tantan, this big piece of meat, ran out of the door, he attracted groups of mutant birds, which flew towards the balcony roaring.
This group of mutant birds seemed to have the habit of snatching food. Not long after, there were as many as six or seven mutant birds flying in.
Tang Tian closed the door and shouted:
"Mom, sister, it's now!"
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia raised their hands, and an ice-blue light appeared, hitting the mutant birds!
“Hiss!——”
The mutant bird flapped its wings, but its entire body was immediately frozen and fell to the ground with a thud.
Some are completely frozen, and some are only half frozen.
Half of its wings were still flapping slowly, but it could not escape. Its ruby-like pupils stared at the three people, making it look even more terrifying.
However, the most terrifying thing at this moment is Tang Tian, who is about to kill the bird.
She smiled evilly and took out a dagger, cutting off the mutant bird's wings and then cutting open its stomach.
Not only did the color in his eyes darken, but the blood was also a dark purple, unlike usual. This confirmed that he was dead.
Following these steps, all the mutant birds can be killed, and the flowing blood can be frozen using the ice attribute and then cleaned up.
Originally, Tang Tian wanted to use her fire-attribute ability to solve the problem. She didn't believe that these birds were not afraid of fire.
After thinking about it, they decided to use the cleaner Ice attribute. Anyway, as long as they used this move, it meant that they had to take their time in killing the bird.
"Tan Tan, let's kill some more birds so we can give you some more jerky!"
"Woof!"
So, the three men and the dog teamed up again and sharpened their knives to attack the strange bird.
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