Chapter 40
Upon hearing this, Bai Ji's face darkened. He walked to the city lord's side, leaned down and said something, then gave Fu Le a meaningful look. "Alright, I'll go get it for you."
After Bai Ji left, Fu Le was sent back to his room, and the restrictions on his body were lifted, but there were still many guards at the door.
Seeing that the large iron gate was firmly shut and there was no possibility of it being opened again, Fu Le breathed a sigh of relief, took out a glass, and drank a few sips of the nutrient solution. The damage caused by the obstruction of her energy instantly subsided. This was something she had only recently discovered. The giant race's nutrient solution was considered to be of the highest quality in terms of repairing and improving bodily functions, and she had not yet found any side effects.
On the second night of her confinement, Bai Ji appeared, unexpectedly bringing what she wanted.
"The things you bought and the things you ordered are all here. Just circulate your energy and let it see inside. As for the cloth you wanted, apart from the 10,000 flawed pieces we found for you over there, I've added another 200,000 pieces for you. 10,000 of them are dyed cloth, which is all the result of our three months of work. They're all brand new. There are also 3,000 pieces of black feather cloth and 10,000 pills of each kind that you bought from the shop before, a total of 25 kinds. You can count them. As for the cannonballs you wanted, I can only give you 10,000. They're all inside."
As Fu Le listened to Bai Ji's words, she was so excited that she could hear her head thumping. These were all the good things she wanted.
Looking at Bai Ji with a complicated expression, Fu Le seemed less angry at this moment. "What do you want?"
"Fruits, vegetables, food, or anything you think is suitable for exchange, anything is fine."
Fu Le was silent for a moment. "Have you ever eaten rice?" In her space, rice was the most abundant commodity. There were three hundred tons of old rice stored in her space ring. They could eat it until they died.
"This is it." Seeing Bai Ji's confusion, Fu Le took out a bag of rice balls in a plastic bag.
Baiji looked at the red and white rice ball and curiously took it.
"Try it, and if you like it, I can give it to you."
Upon hearing this, Baiji asked, "Is this rice?"
"yes."
After finishing the rice ball, Bai Ji's gaze towards Fu Le completely changed. "It's soft, sweet, and delicious—much better than millet. It's very filling." If there were enough of it, would they never have to eat millet to fill their stomachs again?! If it weren't for the fact that they'd eaten too much meat and felt greasy, no one would eat millet—it's hard, unpalatable, and even choking.
"Is it delicious? I don't have many vegetables, but I'll give you two of each." She was quite generous with three hundred of the giants' various vegetables. Of course, she didn't give any fruit, and if she did, there weren't many kinds: strawberries, apples, and grapes.
Fu Le packed all of it into that small ring, which was over a hundred square meters in size, along with three hundred tons of rice; she didn't keep a single bit for herself.
After helping Bai Ji with the blood oath, Bai Ji's face flushed with excitement, and her eyes were full of gratitude as she looked at Fu Le. "Thank you, Fu."
"An equivalent exchange." There's nothing to thank them for; ultimately, they were both giving each other what they needed.
"Um, could you give me some Qiqi fruit? I'll trade you beast milk and beast blood for it."
Finally, the three thousand Qiqi Fruits were exchanged for two hundred tons of beast milk and one hundred tons of beast blood. The beast milk was from different mutated beasts, and its effect on strengthening the body was far superior to that of the beast milk from the giant race plane. As for the beast blood, it goes without saying that it was a top-notch medicine for repairing physical strength and internal injuries. It could also be used to repair external injuries, as long as one could tolerate the stench of blood.
The water containers in the city lord's mansion in the post-apocalyptic world were all iron barrels, only three large barrels in total. Fu Le put them into the shuttle's warehouse, which automatically counted and weighed them, eliminating the possibility that the goods were fake or poisonous.
The grudges between the two were completely dissolved during this exchange.
That evening, 1,500 Qiqi fruits were delivered to the city lord.
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"Mmm, I've never eaten fruit like this before. It tastes really good, and it makes me feel so comfortable all over." Bai Na squinted her eyes and enjoyed sucking on the Qiqi juice.
In fact, she could have easily tortured this person to take away his valuables. After all, she had obtained so much through a mere transaction, so the amount of supplies stored in her ring must be immeasurable. However, they dared not gamble, dared not extinguish the hope of finding the outer realms, not even the slightest possibility.
"This is wonderful stuff. If only we could all leave this dead land, how wonderful that would be!" There would be endless rice, fruits, and vegetables—what a heavenly life that would be! Bai Na thought to herself, her eyes filled with longing.
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On the third day, Fu Le was summoned again. This time, her martial arts acupoints were sealed, and she could move freely.
"You mean the way out is in the Sand Hell?" The city lord narrowed his eyes, clearly not believing it.
"Bai Ji met me in the slums outside Wancheng. What were the circumstances? Didn't he tell you?"
She explained it in great detail, but she still felt that something was off.
"How did you get into the Sand Hell?"
"You'll find out once you go in," Fu Le said, a mysterious smile playing on his lips.
Departure time: 28:15:54.
Sand Prison is a death trap for ordinary people, but a training ground for martial artists and lone travelers. The former prefer to stick together, while the latter usually travel alone. This is why everyone called Fu Le a lone traveler when she first appeared.
Ordinary martial artists only dare to hunt small, less dangerous beasts on the outskirts of the Sand Prison. They dare not venture any deeper. In the depths of the Sand Prison, besides mutated ferocious beasts, there are also poisonous foes. Even with medicine, they cannot guarantee that they can leave the Sand Prison alive.
Yellow dust billowed and swirled in the sky. Fu Le rode on a walking mechanical beast, surrounded by a hundred-man squad, all armed to the teeth and covered in bone armor from head to toe. Fu Le himself was also clad in bone armor.
Following them out to find a way out were Bai Ji and ten of the city lord's strongest warriors.
The tall, muscular warriors and the giant mechanical beasts with their steel bodies galloping across the desert, kicking up clouds of yellow sand that, from a distance, resembled messengers of hell riding on dark clouds, sending chills down one's spine.
Wearing a mask, Fu Le squinted, his eyes filled with contentment. He was about to go home; how wonderful.
The restrictions on her body had been completely lifted, because to the surrounding martial artists, Fu Le's little bit of energy was like a child blowing a breath, completely insignificant.
After traveling at high speed for a short while, high, arched sand dunes began to appear in the sand.
Fu Le's breath hitched, not out of fright, but out of excitement. Here it comes! Sand cricket pupae teeming with treasures!
The next second, countless green caterpillars leaped up from the sand dunes and pounced on the crowd!
"Prepare for battle!!" Even Bai Ji was not spared.
Fu Le opened the protective shield and hid to the side, watching the generals fight the green worms up close. It was like watching a 4D movie. The generals' moves were really fierce. All sorts of strange weapons kept appearing in his sight, including knives, halberds, pot lids, hinges, and strange mechanical weapons that would transform when thrown.
Good stuff, all good stuff. Those caterpillars died so tragically, one head off with a single cut. Ugh, blood, blood, what a waste, what a waste...
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