Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Perhaps her request was quite reasonable. Ten minutes later, the boss came online and replied to her message. This time, he sent her several pictures from multiple angles in the background, and even a ten-second video, which was a shot of a sleeve arrow shooting through an abandoned glass bottle.

The range of the sleeve arrow is roughly the same as the mini crossbow used before, with the longest distance being around twenty meters. Moreover, after improvements by the seller, it can be fired in single or double shots, but the number of arrows is a bit small.

Probably because he saw that her inquiries were all about practicality, the boss said that if she was willing to add another ten kilograms of mutant meat, he could make some improvements to her arrows, changing the six arrows to ten.

Gu Tongwan knew that the price was actually not too expensive. First of all, the weapon was purely handmade, and it was basically difficult to find a second one in the base. Therefore, he quickly added the boss's contact information in a private message, and temporarily agreed to go and see the goods once the acid rain was completely over. If he was satisfied with the goods, he would pay five kilograms of rice as a deposit in advance.

After clicking it, Gu Tongwan continued browsing other areas. Although it was already midnight, it seemed that many people had stayed at home to rest because of the acid rain. Most of them were night owls, and the latest posts were all from three minutes ago.

Having clicked through other areas, I'm not interested in the [Food Area]. Basically, everything sold there is already in the space, and their taste and quality control are even far superior to the products above.

However, the prices in the food section were shockingly high. Canned meat that used to cost 15 points now sold for 40 points, and even canned beans sold for 20 points. The worst quality compressed biscuits sold for 10 points a pack.

The most fundamental reason for the rise in prices is that the extremely hot weather some time ago caused many food processing factories to shut down completely. The temperature in the operating workshop once reached nearly 60 degrees. The machines would emit heat during the processing. Even if central air-conditioning was installed in the factory, it could only reduce the temperature by a dozen degrees. In such an environment, many workers suffered from heat stroke, and the large-scale use of land caused the factory to trip and power outage many times. Some factories even caused fire accidents due to improper use of electricity. For this reason, more than half of the factories had to announce the suspension of operations.

With fewer factories capable of processing food, the amount of food will decrease accordingly. Therefore, the food stored in the base warehouse to prevent emergencies has to be used, but this will cause the price of food to rise accordingly.

The price increase can control residents' unlimited purchases and maintain a certain balance between income and expenditure. The extra money can be used to purchase food from other bases, such as the fourth base, which has not been greatly affected by the extremely hot environment due to its special geographical environment.

Gu Tongwan thought for a while. A few days ago, she asked Yan Fan to clean up the small room on the first floor that was originally used as a storage room. The room was only about seven square meters, and she used it to store some flour, rice and beans. These things were moved out of the space warehouse before, and there were about a dozen bags. Yan Fan didn't ask where these things came from, probably because she had kept them in the bedroom on the second floor.

In fact, Yan Fan once privately asked her curiously whether she had a friend with a powerful background, otherwise he would not have suddenly brought back fresh fruits and vegetables, large amounts of meat, and quality-controlled flour.

No wonder Yan Fan thought so. After all, her spatial ability has not yet been announced to the world. However, it is estimated that after the National Day next year, the spatial ability will be exposed, because she thought of the National Day of the fourth year of the apocalypse. At that time, the spatial ability was widely reported in newspapers, but that news did not bring too good an impact to the spatial ability. After all, various types of abilities have become mature in the fourth year, and people who have just developed spatial abilities have just gained an excuse to "free their hands."

At that time, Yan Fan might gradually doubt himself, but even if he doubted himself, he would never know how big his space was and how much supplies were in it. After all, the special thing about space-based psychics is that even if they are killed, the space supplies they carry with them will disappear. Perhaps it was because of this that space-based psychics at that time were called "waste".

However, this life is different from the previous one. In the previous life, space-related abilities had already emerged in the early days of the apocalypse, but this time is different. It is the third year of the apocalypse, and except for Zheng Fan who was killed by himself last time, no third space-related ability user has been found.

Her fingers were sliding around randomly in the [Miscellaneous Area] out of boredom. She was already feeling a little fed up with it. The things in the [Miscellaneous Area] were even more bizarre. Some people were exchanging their old hats, some were selling used plastic basins, and there were even used underwear.

Just when Gu Tongwan was about to exit the page, he was suddenly attracted by something. This post did not have any pictures, but simply wrote [Selling crystal cores, D yellow crystal cores, C blue crystal cores, B green crystal cores are all in stock, the purchase method is barter, points cannot be used to purchase. D-level crystal cores 20 kilograms of rice or 20 kilograms of fine noodles or 40 kilograms of coarse noodles, C-level crystal cores 30 kilograms of rice\\fine noodles, 20 kilograms of mutant meat, B-level crystal cores 50 kilograms of rice\\50 kilograms of fine noodles, 30 kilograms of mutant meat, 20 canned meats and 5 kilograms of dehydrated vegetables.]

There were many comments under this post, most of which complained about the outrageous prices, and some even cursed the poster and asked if he was crazy. Now everyone is almost unable to eat, who would buy useless crystal cores?

Having said that, there are still posts expressing willingness to use fifty kilograms of rice to directly exchange for a B-grade crystal core and a C-grade crystal core. This person is obviously a psychic. After all, currently only psychics need crystal cores, because crystal cores can be made into nutrient solution that has an auxiliary effect on psychics.

However, this reply was drowned out by more replies, and the seller did not reply either. I guess he thought the price was too high.

Gu Tongwan actually didn't have much interest in the crystal core. Just when he was about to click the exit button, a certain fluctuation immediately emerged in his mind and the space system.

Then the system's voice sounded, [The space system has been upgraded to version 2.0. This version adds a crystal core exchange system points channel, which upgrades the space land to purple land. ]

Gu Tongwan immediately frowned, and unable to suppress his curiosity, he used his consciousness to temporarily enter the space to check the specific information. After all, this was the first time that the space system had received an upgrade notification.

After entering, I found that before I could only use gold to exchange points, but now crystal cores can be used to exchange points.

D-grade crystal cores can be exchanged for 500 system points, C-grade crystal cores can be exchanged for 1000 system points, B-grade points can be exchanged for 2000 system points, A-grade crystal cores can be exchanged for 3000 system points, and S-grade crystal cores can be exchanged for 5000 system points.

Purple soil increases the maturity time of all crops by 1.5 times without the need for accelerated nutrient solution, and increases the yield by 20% after maturity.

But currently it takes points to upgrade from black soil to purple soil.

Not only that, once upgraded to purple land, the land area will automatically expand from half an acre to one acre.

That is to say, 30,000 points can not only upgrade the land but also expand the space.

It would be a lie for Gu Tongwan to say she wasn't tempted by this, but her current system points were less than 10,000, so even if she wanted to upgrade, she was still 20,000 points short.

Thinking of the previous post, an idea came to his mind. Gu Tongwan immediately came out of the space and sent a private message to the poster.

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Xu Hang is a B-class hunter of the [Long-Range Hunter Guild]. Originally, he led a very comfortable life as a hunter. Even in extremely hot weather, Xu Hang and other brothers in the guild would stay in the guild dormitory, enjoying the air conditioning and drinking and eating meat. After all, their guild was one of the large guilds. There were five A-class hunters alone, thirteen B-class hunters like him, and an astonishing eighty-plus C-class hunters. There were also more than fifty D-class hunters and ordinary people who served as assistants and cleared prey. In total, the large guild had nearly two hundred people, and they even rented two floors of an office building in the inner circle as an office location.

They originally thought that the extremely hot weather would not last too long. Even though it affected their hunters' activities to a certain extent, as long as they survived the extreme heat, they would be able to go back to the big forest in the north and several closed counties nearby to continue their hunting operations.

Unexpectedly, this extreme heat lasted for nearly a month and a half, and the prices at the base were getting higher and higher. The guild had reduced various subsidies after the extreme heat, and started to cancel meal subsidies last month. It originally started with the lowest-level staff and D-level hunters, but after the acid rain period, the guild once again issued the latest notice. Except for A-level hunters who still enjoyed various benefits before the extreme heat, all hunters below B-level, except for the most basic living points subsidy, all other benefits were cancelled, even including personal electricity and water.

The guild originally provided free accommodation to all employees. Now that there are problems with the guild's operations, being able to issue a basic living allowance is already the greatest possible consideration for the employees.

As a B-level hunter, Xu Hang was also among the people whose benefits were canceled this time. Currently, he can only receive a basic living allowance of 1,200 yuan per month, but he also has to pay an additional 300 yuan in water, electricity and internet fees every month, leaving him with 900 points. If the prices were the same as before, 900 points would be enough for one person to live a middle-class life.

But now the prices in the base are terribly high. He just bought ten kilograms of rice, five kilograms of dehydrated vegetables, and ten cans of meat, and he has already spent more than a thousand points.

He used to rely on the fact that he was a B-rank hunter and received subsidies from the guild for food and drink. Almost all of his monthly salary was spent on eating and drinking with friends, and some was used to buy various gadgets he liked. He basically couldn't save much money every month. He just went out for a trip two days ago and almost half of the savings on his points card were deducted. If the acid rain period continued into next month, he was worried that the guild would go bankrupt due to improper operation, and might not even be able to pay out living subsidies.

It's not just Xu Hang who feels a sense of crisis. Many hunters of his generation are currently troubled by high prices and a shortage of food.

One of the hunters in the same dormitory building learned from an acquaintance that the [Exchange Market] was open, so they organized a meeting. After some discussion, they decided that they could exchange a batch of crystal cores that they had brought back from hunting in the past few months and that were still in the guild's custody.

"There's not much point in selling the points. According to the market price of crystal cores, an ordinary D-grade crystal core can only be sold for 500 points. 500 points could buy about 30 kilograms of rice before, but now it can only buy 10 kilograms at most. If it is through barter, I think 20 kilograms of rice can be used for the exchange. For C-grade crystal cores, 30 kilograms of rice and some meat, or flour will also be fine." One of the hunters proposed such a plan, and everyone said that they could sell crystal cores online in this way.

“Will the guild find out that we’re secretly selling the crystal cores from the warehouse?” The timid ones were still worried about being held accountable by the guild.

"Now the guild can hardly pay out living allowances. I heard that the A-level hunters are considering switching jobs to other places. It seems that some powerful people are recruiting A-level hunters, and the conditions they offer are quite tempting. But unfortunately, we are not qualified."

"Anyway, those crystal cores are just sitting there in the warehouse. No one is likely to buy them for the time being. We are almost starving to death. Why should we consider so much?"

"Yes, I agree to sell these crystal cores, otherwise I will really be unable to make ends meet." someone shouted.

After the final discussion, Xu Hang, as the contact person, posted the product online for sale. Unfortunately, the post was left online for quite a while. Many people responded and sent private messages, but some of them were bargaining for the price or complaining.

Just when Xu Hang was about to give up, he suddenly saw a new private message.

[Boss, I want to buy crystal cores, but I only want B-grade crystal cores. How many do you have?]

After Gu Tongwan sent a private message to the other party, he didn't receive a reply for a while, so he turned off his phone and planned to take a rest.

At two o'clock in the morning, a burst of noisy calls suddenly came from outside, immediately breaking the tranquility of the night.

The reason why housing prices in the inner circle are expensive is that not only does it have good geographical conditions, but its public security and defense levels are also incomparable to the outer circle. For example, when it was attacked by mutant pests, the Self-Defense Force members of the inner circle were basically dispatched at the first time, and subsequent disinfection and insect prevention work is also ongoing.

The outer circle, especially the areas closer to the periphery of the base, are more vulnerable to various risks and have the worst public security, with robberies and thefts occurring frequently.

When Gu Tongwan lived in a guesthouse at the junction of the outer circle and the inner circle, he could occasionally hear drunkards or so-called "motorcycle gangs" making sounds similar to the howling of ghosts and wolves on the street at night. Since moving to the vicinity of the villa area, let alone people shouting, the night is so quiet that the only sound is the "rustling" sound of the wind blowing through the leaves outside, and other than that, there are only the chirping of birds and insects.