Chapter 114 Two-in-One
Fu Le nodded, looking at An Yi with admiration. He was quite clever, able to apply what he learned to other situations.
"How much do you have?" An Yi glanced behind him. "Could you give me some? I want to cook it and let my teammates try it, is that okay? Don't worry, I'll calculate the fluorite content for all these samples for you." Seemingly afraid that Fu Le would misunderstand, An Yi added another sentence.
Fu Le reached into his sleeve, grabbed a handful of white rice, and handed it to An Yi.
An Yi lifted his linen coat and tucked it in, but his gaze was fixed on Fu Le's sleeve. A look of doubt flashed in his eyes. Why was someone stuffing food into their sleeve? "Don't you have a cloth bag? Why are you stuffing it all into your clothes?"
"I forgot to bring it today." There was a little girl's cloth bag in the space, so I turned around and found a black one to carry.
"Okay. Wait a moment." An Yi handed the rice to one of the men, then whispered to his teammates to try cooking it in a food pot.
"Do you have any rooms available for rent? I might need to stay here for a while." When An Yi came over again, Fu Le directly asked about renting a room.
"Yes, there's no one left in the caves below. They're all dead, not a single one survived. I'll take you to Brother Mo; he's the one in charge of the caves now."
An Yi went inside and brought out two linen gloves, handing them to Fu Le. "Let's slide down, so we don't waste any fluorite."
"good."
An Yi put on his gloves, grabbed the short rope on the left side of the roller skate, and jumped. The roller skate made a rumbling sound, and then he swung into the hole below, sticking his head out to call her down.
Fu Le gripped the rope stiffly, feeling a little panicked; below was a cliff.
"Jump! It's okay, I'll catch you down here," An Yi shouted, grabbing the rope.
What a lousy place! Damn it!
It's all or nothing, jump!
Fu Le gripped the rope tightly and jumped down. He heard a rolling sound in his ears and began to fall. His heart pounded in his throat and his mind went blank.
Not long after, she felt someone grab her clothes around her waist, and then her feet stepped onto the stone ground.
call……
"Hahahaha... Fu Le, you're such a coward, hahaha..."
Fu Le: ...
“Fu Le, didn’t you used to live in the caves?” How could an ordinary person be afraid of the zipline in the caves?
Meeting An Yi's questioning gaze, she asked, "We're just making a deal, it doesn't include investigating identities, right?"
An Yi: Uh...
Finally realizing what was happening, Fu Le became unhappy. An Yi awkwardly touched his nose. "This cave costs fifty fluorite per month. How long do you plan to stay?"
"Let's do it for a month for now. I don't know how long I'll stay," Fu Le said. "But I don't have any money. Can you lend me some? I don't need the fluorite for that handful of rice. I'll pay you back after I sell my supplies."
“Okay.” An Yi thought for a moment and agreed. Fu Le’s rice was a new food, tasted good, and was filling. Plus, she would pay him back. He got a handful of rice for free, so it wasn’t a bad deal. “I’ll go pay for you. You can check inside first. Here’s the card.”
Fu Le took the thumb-sized stone from An Yi, not knowing what the card was.
"I'm leaving now, I'll be back in a bit." With that, An Yi grabbed the zipline and jumped down.
Clearly, this Moge lives in the cave below.
Fu Le walked into the cave. There was no strange smell. The layout was the same as above, with stone doors blocking both sides.
Seeing a long, narrow groove on the right side of each door, exactly the size of the key, Fu Le immediately understood that this was the key.
The locking strip was inserted, and the stone door swung open from the inside with a rumble, like a modern door that opens inwards. Fu Le walked in and took in the entire environment at a glance. There were two rooms, each about twenty square meters, adjacent to each other in an L-shape. Inside, apart from a large stone that looked like a bed board and a square stone table, there was nothing else.
Fu Le went to look at the other side, and it was the same. It was an L-shaped arrangement of two adjacent rooms, and even the furniture was arranged as if they had planned it together.
Is this what a four-bedroom, one-living-room apartment looks like?
Tsk tsk...
Fu Le clicked his tongue in disdain.
"Fu Le, I've finished everything. I'll go back upstairs first and come find you later," An Yi's voice came from the cave entrance.
When Fu Le got up and went outside, he was already gone.
Fu Le returned to the stone house on the right, ate some dried meat and rice balls, and drank a large glass of milk. No one came down from upstairs.
About an hour later, there was another commotion outside. "Fu Le, Fu Le!!!" An Yi shouted.
This time, in addition to An Yi, another man came. He was the same man who had received the rice from An Yi before. The tall and strong man had a serious and upright face with deep features, showing some characteristics of people from the frontier.
"Hello, Fu Le, I am An Sheng, the captain of the mercenary team, and also An Yi's older brother."
"Hello." The man's voice was very pleasant, a deep, resonant tone.
"Hello."
The three of them went into the bedroom on the right, looked around, and found no place to sit. "Let's sit on the bed. You're all tall, so it'll be easier for you to talk if you sit down. My neck won't get tired."
Upon hearing this, An Sheng raised his hand and pointed, and two stone benches the size of tree stumps landed next to the stone table.
Fu Le: ...
“It’s a shared meson space within our team,” An Sheng explained, seeing Fu Le looking at him with surprise.
"oh."
Seeing that Fu Le was only surprised for a moment, An Sheng said, "You have one too, right?"
Listen to how certain you are.
"Otherwise, how can I bring goods out to trade?" Since the man was so straightforward, Fu Le stopped hiding anything. Let's be open and honest. There's no need to be secretive about the transaction. As for being afraid of them robbing us, we'll see if they're afraid of machine guns. If not, we'll have mortars and grenades.
Hearing Fu Le's words, An Sheng's eyes lit up with a smile, and the atmosphere was no longer as tense as before.
An Yi looked at Fu Le with a mournful expression, "Why didn't you say so earlier? It would have been so much better if you had brought the bucket down with you in the container!" It was a waste of a fluorite.
"Aren't you afraid I'll swallow you?"
"Hehe, that's not the case. No one in this cave would dare to steal supplies from our Black Rock." An Yi said with a smug smile.
Fu Le smiled and said, "It seems you guys are quite strong."
"That's right, otherwise we wouldn't dare go to Black Wind Canyon. Without some strength, we wouldn't be able to come out alive."
Black Wind Canyon?
"You don't even know Black Wind Canyon?" An Yi seemed to be joking, but Fu Le had already sensed the hidden meaning in his words; he was testing her identity.
"Do you think I should know?" Fu Le looked at An Yi with a half-smile, his aura suddenly surging outwards. The latter's face stiffened, while An Sheng frowned and looked at An Yi, "You go out first."
After saying that, An Sheng smiled and reassured him, "I'm sorry, A Yi didn't mean it. Let's talk about the deal now."
Fu Le glanced at An Yi's departing figure, shrugged at An Sheng, and asked, "How do you want to exchange it? How do you want to measure it?" With a wave of his hand, a 50-pound bag of rice appeared on the stone table.
"Measure out?" An Sheng's eyes lit up when he saw so much rice; he really liked this new food.
"Yes, you need a standard for exchanging supplies, right? How is the exchange calculated?"
An Sheng roughly understood what Fu Le meant. "Our staple food is this, white millet. One red fluorite costs one pound. Your rice, when cooked into soup, tastes good, is very filling, and is also comfortable to eat. Can I give you five red fluorite per pound? Thirty red fluorite can be exchanged for a ten-liter bucket of animal milk."
Fu Le looked at the cassava in the man's hand with some surprise. She hadn't expected that this thing was also widely used to fill an empty stomach in another world.
"I want beast blood. One pound of beast blood is worth two pounds of rice, and ten liters of milk is worth two pounds of rice. Milk won't fill your stomach; at most, it's just for children to nourish their bodies." Fu Le began to bargain.
"Beast blood is rare and is usually exchanged for medicine at the exchange center. Five catties of rice equals one catty of blood. The milk is as you said."
"Three catties of rice, any more than that won't do. Your beast blood is rare, and my rice is rare too. I can guarantee that you won't find another place in all the caves combined where you can buy rice." She has a total of one thousand tons of rice in her space, which, when converted into beast blood, is only a little over three hundred and thirty tons. She doesn't know if it can last for ten years to supply medicine to the army.
"Okay." An Sheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. "How much rice do you have?"
"That depends on how much beast blood and milk you have. By the way, for the milk, instead of rice, how about this?" Fu Le waved his hand, and a large stack of Simmons spring mattresses appeared in the stone house, a total of ten mattresses.
"What is this?" An Sheng was stunned, having never seen anything like it before. "Is this cloth?"
I got up and approached the mattress, reaching out to touch it. The feel of it was so real; it really was fabric, seamless fabric! Pressing down on it, I could feel its elasticity.
"This is a mattress. Take one down and try lying on it. It's more than a hundred times more comfortable than a stone bed."
An Sheng did as he was told. When he lay on the Simmons mattress, he wanted to smash the stone bed and throw it away. It was so comfortable that he didn't want to get up. He tried to turn over, and it was still bouncy and not uncomfortable at all.
After rolling around a few times, An Sheng was as excited as a child. He half-propped himself up, his eyes shining as he looked at Fu Le, "I want it! How many do you have? I want as many as I want!!" This kind of thing could never come from the cave, so there's only one place it came from: Star City! That place that all the cave dwellers keep a deep secret!
It's a mystery how Fu Le managed to get such good stuff from those beasts in Xingcheng. Those people felt that the people of the cave, as slaves who could be taken from at will, had no right to enjoy such good things. So they tightly controlled the outflow of resources from inside, and did not allow the residents inside to trade with them. The exchange center only accepted beast blood and beast corpses, and only exchanged them for fluorite, not for other resources.
Although itinerant merchants occasionally appear, bringing some controlled supplies, the quantity is so small that ordinary people can't even exchange them before they are all traded away.
For hundreds of years, they have struggled to survive on their own. They have very little land, and if they want to eat vegetables, they have to risk their lives to plant and harvest them in Black Wind Canyon or Poison Barrier Ridge. The place where the cave dwellers live is barren, and even surviving is so difficult. In addition, the Star City steals the energy from their bodies to enable their leaders to live forever.
How could the people of Shiku not hate such a city?!
Fu Le watched as An Sheng's expression constantly shifted, his eyes filled with hatred and resentment, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.
It's obvious that this person is thinking of the Star City where they were exploited and fed, just like Grandma and her group did before.
Therefore, he felt that he came from Xingcheng.
Tsk...
"I have a total of 1,200 beds, and I need to exchange them for 1,200 tons of animal milk."
"Ha, you really dare to ask for that. You want to exchange a mattress for more than a year's worth of animal milk production from the entire grotto!" An Sheng's eyes flashed with mockery.
Fu Le shrugged it off, “You must have dairy-producing animals, right? It’s just a little over a year’s worth of milk; it’s not like there won’t be any more animal milk in the future. Don’t the higher-ups in the grotto want such a comfortable mattress? The mattress you have is unique; only you have it. You can use it to exchange for the good resources you’ve always wanted but couldn’t get. How much of a loss could you possibly incur? Or are you just obsessed with the hardness of the stone bed?”
AXA: ...
Only a madman would become obsessed with stone beds!
"You only have 1200 beds?" An Sheng's expression softened, and he continued to ask.
Fu Le nodded. That was really all she had. It was all she had stored up, and it was all from the Ice Age Apocalypse. Of course, she hadn't forgotten to save ten beds for herself.
"Oh, right, I also have this." Fu Le looked at An Sheng's leather boots and picked up a pair of men's sneakers, size 48. "Try these on."
AXA: !!!
"These are shoes?" What are these shoes made of? Why do they have such a strange design?
"You'll know once you try it. This manufacturing process is quite rare in some places," Fu Le said ambiguously.
With Fu Le's help, An Sheng lived to the age of 25 and wore comfortable, non-irritating sneakers for the first time in his life.
Then, Fu Le saw An Sheng jumping up and down on the floor like a monkey. He was so excited that he had lost all his previous inscrutable demeanor and had become a naughty child, running and jumping all over the room.
"How many do you have? I want them all!!" His voice trembled with excitement.
Fu Leyi smiled smugly, her eyes crinkling with pride. "Great!"
"No rush, here's another set of clothes!" Fu Le found a set of black men's casual trousers and a short-sleeved shirt.
"This is cloth!!!" This time, An Sheng's voice rose and became shrill. It was just too stimulating. What he had seen and come into contact with today was enough to make him die on the spot without regret.
Half an hour later, An Sheng took one of each item and left in a hurry. His team couldn't eat all of this, so they needed to find someone who could.
With everyone gone, Fu Le had nothing to do, so she started decorating her room. She used a Simmons mattress, which was already there, then sheets, a quilt, a duvet cover, a rug, bowls and chopsticks, and a stainless steel basin, planning to cook some vegetables for herself later. She also threw in a soft double sofa, lay down on it, and started showing off her strawberries.
I haven't eaten fruit in so long, I'm about to burst!
As a big eater, I devoured two pounds of strawberries in the blink of an eye, followed by a few sips of fresh milk. I felt so comfortable that I wanted to hum.
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