The domed building is made of ordinary stone, with a thin protective layer of underground ore on the outermost layer. It stands there like a circular fortress, and the flag of country Z is planted on the roof.
Is this the official lobby that woman was talking about?
Her eyes narrowed slightly. Was her bounty mission located here? She had to go and check it out.
"I didn't collect much this time, only exchanged for 50 points, which can only last for two days. What bad luck!"
"Alright, at least you still have 50 points. I do odd jobs at this base and only get 15 points a day! Damn it! That's not even enough for my daily food expenses!"
Lin Ruo walked along the main road, listening to passersby chattering about their day's gains. It turned out that 15 points a normal adult man could not get enough to eat in a day.
Adding to the fact that the woman had previously said that 10,000 points were enough for a family to live on for half a year, she gained a new understanding of her worth, which was roughly the same as the feeling of being tempted by Tang Sanzang.
She walked quickly to the outside of the official hall. There were two buildings right next to the east side of the official hall, and a lot of people were queuing outside, some carrying or dragging things.
Lin Ruo used his spiritual power to probe the two houses and saw that some people were in charge of weighing items, some were in charge of exchanging points, and others were in charge of exchanging supplies.
She thought of the seven resident cards in her space. She also wanted to buy some supplies. She picked out one from her space and held it in her hand. This one belonged to the person who was the first to have a gun among the group of people. He should be richer than the others.
"Have you heard? I heard that the earth-type ability user in the superpower team got caught by the guards again for doing something bad."
"Everyone knows this now."
"Sigh, I don't know what I've done wrong this time?"
"What else could he have done? He took a fancy to a woman, but she refused him no matter what, so he beat her whole family to death, not even sparing a three-year-old child. I heard the whole family died a terrible death, their intestines were even ripped out."
"Catching them won't do any good. This isn't the first time they've done this kind of thing. In the end, nothing gets done. They have connections above them, and the base doesn't dare to do anything to them!"
"Who said that! I heard that Commander Ye Lin went directly to the deputy base commander! He said he wanted an explanation."
"What's the use? In this world, how many high-ranking officials are like Commander Ye Lin..."
Ye Lin… Lin Ruo raised her eyelids to think. She seemed to have heard this name before, but where was it?
Just as she was racking her brains, it was her turn in the line. She walked through the door and saw a huge brazier burning inside, with all the staff members' seats arranged around it.
Lin Ruo carefully sensed the temperature in the room and found that it was not low, actually around minus ten degrees Celsius. Wearing this outfit, she felt very hot in the room. Then, her water-based superpower began to regulate her body temperature.
The staff members, all wearing masks and gloves, took the card from Lin Ruo and swiped it on the card reader. Then, their voices, muffled through the masks, came out: "There are 50 points in total. What supplies do you want to redeem?"
Lin Ruo lowered her voice, "Exchange it for rice."
"Exchange for rice?" The staff member glanced at Lin Ruo this time. People usually exchanged for grains here, because after a natural disaster, rice was not something everyone could afford.
"right."
"Rice costs 30 points per pound, and your points can only be used to redeem one and a half pounds." The staff member asked Lin Ruo again, "Do you still want to redeem it?"
Lin Ruo nodded firmly, and then the staff member called out inside, "One and a half jin of rice."
She naturally knew why the staff member was surprised. Although there was a lot of grain in the granaries in City B before the apocalypse, many granaries were destroyed by the flood, and the grain inside had long been washed away with the flood. In addition, although many granaries were waterproof and sturdy enough, the lack of electricity for a long time caused poor air circulation inside the granaries, resulting in excessive moisture and mold.
After the extreme cold, there was further destruction and waste caused by mutated rats and other mutated animals. The current grain reserves at the B City base should not exceed 2 million tons, and there is still a lot of miscellaneous grains in them.
With the increasing population, food has become a top priority, which is why food prices are so high.
After the staff called out to the inside, they operated the screen for a while, and then the card reader in front of them made a "beep" sound, indicating that the points inside had been cleared.
The staff member then returned Lin Ruo's card to her, saying, "Go wait over there to get your supplies."
Lin Ruo took the card, nodded, and went to wait to the side. The next person immediately went to process their business.
The person inside handed a bag to Lin Ruo. Lin Ruo took it, opened the bag, and saw that it contained some yellowish rice, which was already very good, as it did not smell musty.
For this quality, 30 points isn't expensive.
She put the card and rice bag into the backpack behind her, turned around and left the exchange hall. As she left, she glanced back before turning away.
Following that, she entered the official hall. As soon as she entered, a wave of heat hit her. Lin Ruo then saw that there was a huge brazier in each of the four corners of the hall, filled with wood. Many people dressed in thin clothes were gathered around the braziers to warm themselves.
Lin Ruo scanned her surroundings and found that this place was no different from the official window before the apocalypse, and there was even an electronic screen hanging on the wall directly opposite the hall.
She glanced at the tasks above; they were all collection tasks and recruitment notices, with her own bounty task being the most eye-catching.
Lin Ruo's lips curled slightly beneath her mask. Ten thousand points could buy over 300 jin of rice—that's quite a generous sum!
As she turned to leave the official hall, she saw a sticker on the wall by the door that read the B City Base Rules.
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