With absolute strength, they can get away with anything.
Xia Lunong and his friends sold fish in the market without any trouble. Even the hooligans who came up to ask for protection money avoided them.
After selling the fish, they went back to the hotel and counted the money, and found that they had made a lot of money.
Yan Xinian laid out the supplies and black gold coins, and said thoughtfully: "Experts, it is much more convenient and faster to earn supplies here than in our base."
Xia Huoqu said calmly: "This is inevitable. There are only so many people in our base, and the market is so small that it is impossible to support many merchants."
Yan Xinian patted the black gold coins in his hand, "It seems that it is not easy for us to build a big base."
What Xia Lunong was more concerned about was: "Brother, how many seeds can we get with these supplies and black gold coins?"
Xia Huoqu said: "We will know when we go to the market tomorrow. Don't we still have fish? We will sell them tomorrow. A wave of fish. We can go out and pretend to go fishing, dump the fish out and put them in the truck at night, and we can get by for a few days. "
Yan Xinian said: "This is also possible. The supplies we have are relatively concealed. We can drive out during the day under the pretext of fishing, and fill the truck when we come back at night. As long as the number of times is not too many, we should not be targeted by others."
Xia Lunong took a deep breath, "I don't have any objection to the other things, but if we have to go out fishing frequently, it feels like there are too many supplies to hand in every day."
The entrance fee to the Black Gold Base makes the locals feel unbearable. They are relatively wealthy, and they will feel painful when they pay it.
"That just saves the accommodation fee." Xia Huo said, "We have seen the Black Gold Base. Let's go back to live with Xiong Antian and his friends from tomorrow."
No one had any objection.
After they counted their supplies and ate some fried rice they had packed, they went back to their rooms to sleep.
They still had to conserve their energy to go out to work tomorrow morning.
Xia Lunong didn't recognize his bed and always slept soundly at night.
But in the middle of the night, he was awakened by the noise outside.
Xia Lunong looked up in surprise and looked at Kong Zhi.
There were sounds of cars, hawking, conversations...all kinds of sounds outside, and it felt just like daytime.
Kong Zhi sat up, got out of bed, opened the curtains and looked down.
Xia Lunong quickly got out of bed and looked with him.
Soon, they found that there was a row of stalls set up under the street lights below.
Countless fully or semi-beastial people were walking in front of the stalls, and it seemed even more lively than during the day.
"How could this happen? They set up stalls at night?" Xia Lunong found it incredible. "Don't they need to sleep?"
Kong Zhi looked at a leopard on the street and said, "It seems that there are beastmen outside who are nocturnal beastmen."
After his reminder, Xia Lunong also discovered, "Are these people compromising with their beast forms?"
"I guess so." Kong Zhi said, "If they are nocturnal beastmen, they will gain more power at night, so it is not surprising that they choose to come out at night."
"No, I feel very strange." Xia Lunong murmured, "It seems that they are going to abandon human civilization and officially turn to beastman civilization."
The two stood by the window and did not speak for a long time.
Xia Lunong felt a little cold.
He didn't know if it was because of the cold weather or the scene in front of him that made him shiver.
Kong Zhi reached out to hold him, grabbed a piece of clothing and wrapped him around him, and asked: "Since you can't sleep, why don't we go downstairs and take a look and see what they are selling?"
Xia Lunong took a deep breath, "Go shopping! Let's go downstairs and broaden our horizons."
The room was not soundproofed, and Xia Lunong estimated that his brother was also woken up. After getting dressed, he simply went to knock on his brother's door.
He knocked lightly. If his brother didn't wake up after the first knock, he wouldn't knock the second time.
Unexpectedly, the door was opened as soon as he knocked.
His brother and his ex-brother were dressed neatly, and said to him at the door: "Take all your belongings with you, let's go downstairs and take a look."
Xia Lunong hurried back to the room and put on huge backpacks with Kong Zhi.
They went downstairs to the street to see together.
It was unknown when the sky began to snow. Fine snow fluttered under the street lights, and soon covered the streets with a thin layer of snow.
The snow did not affect the business of the vendors at all.
The vendors were set up in a very formal manner, and many patrolmen from the Black Gold Base were patrolling the streets.
Their patrol density was even higher than during the day.
Xia Lunong and the other three walked along the street.
There were all kinds of things on the stalls, and pedestrians could negotiate the price for whatever they liked.
Xia Lunong soon discovered that many of these people were probably not from the Black Gold Base, as shown by the fact that they did not accept Black Gold coins at all.
They were only willing to barter.
Xia Lunong whispered to Kong Zhi, "I feel that the Black Gold Base is the main city, and the people living outside are equivalent to the secondary city of the Black Gold Base, protecting the Black Gold Base in the middle."
"Maybe?" Kong Zhi said, "When a base develops, it must expand outward, but I didn't expect the Black Gold Base to expand so quickly."
There were many stalls, and they only visited the ones they were interested in.
They soon saw the seeds flowing out of the Black Gold Base on the stalls on the street.
The most common ones were seasonal seeds such as radishes, cabbages, lettuce, and rapeseed.
These seeds were sold at a very high price, and each stall owner claimed that they were the latest seeds from the Black Gold Base.
Yan Xinian took them to a stall owner who looked relatively honest and motioned Xia Lunong to look for herself.
Xia Lunong grabbed a handful of seeds with curiosity and held them up to look.
There was a vigorous vitality running through the seeds.
He felt that the vitality was very strong, but not balanced. He was afraid that these seeds would not be able to reproduce after they grew into plants.
Yan Xinian knew what Xia Lunong was thinking when he saw his expression, "Do you want it?"
"Yes." Xia Lunong said, "We have to see how to exchange these seeds first? If they are too expensive, forget it."
The stall owner looked at their expressions and greeted them warmly, "Don't worry, my seeds are almost the cheapest in the whole base. If you can find seeds cheaper than mine, you can come to me and I will refund you!"
Yan Xinian smiled, "That's what I said, but after we leave, we may not be able to see you again when we come back."
"Of course not. I'm doing business and am accumulating old customers. I won't move easily." The stall owner said, "How about it? You name a price and I'll change it if I can."
Yan Xinian said, "You name a price. If you name it too high, we'll go somewhere else."
The stall owner originally thought they could make a lot of money based on their attire, but when he heard his attitude and looked at the expression on his face, he knew it was hopeless and offered a reasonable price.
Xia Lunong and the others had already inquired about the price of seeds when they were selling fish. Now after hearing what the stall owner said, they knew his price was not outrageous, so they nodded and exchanged 500 seeds of each kind.
The stall owner didn't expect them to be so generous, and he even gave them five more chili seeds. "You can grow chili seedlings after spring. My chili is also very good. If you are interested, you can take some chili seeds back."
Xia Lunong took the chili seeds and examined them, and immediately felt that the vitality inside was much weaker than cabbage seeds.
It is estimated that the vitality of these chili seeds has declined after being stored for a long time.
He took the seeds and said nothing, and had no intention of continuing to buy seeds.
Seeing him like this, the stall owner looked disappointed, and it was difficult to say anything, so he just asked them to come again next time.
Xia Lunong and his friends had no intention of collecting all the seeds at the stall.
After buying, they continued to shop.
In addition to the roadside stalls, the markets and shops they visited during the day were also open.
The decoration of various shops was rather rough, but the things they sold were not simple.
They found a lot of weapons and even scientific testing instruments in the shops.
However, these things were very expensive, and they could not exchange many of them with what they had.
After Yan Xinian looked at them, he said, "There is a long time to come, let's exchange them when we are about to leave."
Xia Lunong looked back at a testing instrument reluctantly.
The selling price of that testing instrument was as high as 1,600 black gold coins, which was a price that they looked up to.
Even if they exchanged everything on their bodies, they could probably only barely buy this instrument.
Kong Zhi patted him on the back and motioned for him to follow.
They continued to shop forward.
Walking to a darker place, there were men and women standing in front of many doors, all of them were very good-looking.
Xia Lunong took a look and immediately understood what they were doing, and quickly looked away.
His face looked rather flustered, which attracted a burst of laughter.
Kong Zhi stepped forward, stood beside him, and glanced at those people in the dimness with a warning.
The laughter soon disappeared, and the people hid in the shadows.
Xia Lunong sighed, carrying her bag and continued to walk forward.
For people with sufficient supplies, the Black Gold Base is probably a paradise, where everything is available and anything can be exchanged.
However, for people with insufficient supplies, this place may not be so wonderful.
They had to think of every possible way to earn their own food and taxes in this base, so as not to be kicked out and have to spend a lot of supplies to get back in.
There didn't seem to be many jobs in the base, and it was not easy for ordinary people to gain a foothold in this base.
If they couldn't find enough supplies to support themselves and ensure their safety outside, it would be even more difficult inside.
They walked around and had no idea what to do about the current state of society.
After seeing it, they could only go back to the hotel to sleep with a bad mood.
The next morning, the four people got up after getting enough sleep, checked out of the room first, and then drove the truck out of the base.
When leaving the base, the inspector specifically reminded them that they had to pay the entry fee after leaving and coming back.
Several people said they knew.
After they left the base, they returned to where they lived the day before to look for Xiong Antian.
Xiong Antian had gone out to collect supplies, but Mai Dong was still there.
Mai Dong had been injured yesterday, and now he had simply applied some medicine and was resting, and it seemed that he was not very mobile.
Xia Lunong saw the bloodstained cotton cloth on his leg and couldn't help asking, "How did you get hurt?"
"I was accidentally bitten by a wild beast. It's okay. I have a strong recovery ability and I will recover in two days." After Mai Dong poured them some water, he asked them, "Why are you out again? Have you bought everything you wanted?"
Yan Xinian said, "I have run out of supplies. I plan to go out hunting for two days and then enter the city. Where are there more wild beasts nearby?"
"There are many wild beasts everywhere." Mai Dong showed a pale smile on his face, "The Black Gold Base is such a big base here, the beasts treat us as reserve food, you can hunt anywhere."