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

5 p.m., Base Farmers Market

The farmer's market is still bustling at this time. Unlike the high prices in the commercial street, the farmer's market outside the base has the largest ready-made clothing store in the base and a charcoal and coal supply street. There are at least seven or eight charcoal and coal shops on the same street. However, coal needs to be mined, so the price is three to four times that of charcoal. Therefore, more residents in the base still use charcoal as the main product.

You can occasionally see gas supply points here, but only a few people can afford gas.

In addition, there are some fruit and vegetable stores and non-staple food and oil stores in the farmers' market. The prices are basically the same as those of the supply and marketing cooperatives, but the variety is not as rich as that of the supply and marketing cooperatives. After all, most of the materials are still in the hands of the government, especially rare foods like rice, flour, grain, oil and condiments which can only be purchased in large quantities in supply and marketing cooperatives. The fruit and vegetable stores only have the most common vegetables and flour and rice of average quality.

Because the majority of people doing business here are ordinary residents and the flow of people is large, the market is usually open from seven in the morning to six thirty in the evening. Five o'clock happens to be the prime time when people get off work and most housewives go to the market to shop. Therefore, almost every street in the farmer's market is crowded with people, and it is as lively as a market.

The busiest place is undoubtedly the coal supply street. Perhaps everyone has heard the news that the temperature will drop sharply soon, so they all want to buy a certain amount of charcoal in advance.

Gu Tongwan saw that almost every charcoal shop had a sign outside, [Today's charcoal price is 10 points per pound, and coal price is 35 points per pound.]

This price is acceptable to an ordinary family, because if they just want to make a fire and cook for a day, basically one or two kilograms of charcoal will be enough in summer, and it may take twice as much in winter. Because the base is preparing to open the underground city some time ago, it has recently formulated a population plan and is preparing to temporarily open about 100,000 people to the city. The initial plan is to carry out it in three time periods. The first stage is from this month to early February, which happens to be two or three days before the Chinese New Year. The second stage is the whole of April, and the third stage is June.

The opening of the underground city is indeed a happy thing for most people. Those who are capable can choose to enter the underground city and choose the best place to live. Those who are not capable can also obtain the qualification for housing allocation by lottery through the policies formulated by the base in the early stage. The price of buying a house will be 20 to 30 percent cheaper than on the ground. When this news first came out, it really caused heated discussions among some people in the outer circle, and many people even rushed to sign up. After all, in addition to lower housing prices, the houses in the underground city also introduced the policy of extending the mortgage loan for the outer circle to a maximum of ten years for the first time, which is a huge difference from the maximum two years of mortgage loan on the ground.

When this policy was first introduced, more than 5,000 people from the outer circle signed up online, but in the end only 200 places were released, while there were only 50 places for the inner circle.

"Probably because winter is approaching, many people have fled from the north to the south. Recently, a lot of people from other cities have flocked to the base, and the base has also introduced a lot of high-level psychics." Yan Fan was walking on the right side of Gu Tongwan, and this direction happened to be facing the road. It can be seen that this younger brother takes good care of his sister.

Gu Tongwan glanced at the residents walking on the street and saw that they were dressed differently. It was estimated that some of them came from other camps.

"The base's current thinking is correct. After the underground city is opened, it can at least reduce the population burden of about 30%. Moreover, the underground city is still in the excavation stage. At present, the base has only developed 20% of the area. In the next five or even ten years, the area of ​​the underground city may continue to expand two to three times."

"Sister Wanwan, after I buy the charcoal, I want to go somewhere. Can you wait for me in the car first?"

Gu Tongwan didn't intend to ask where he was going. After all, everyone has their own secrets, so she smiled and said, "Okay."

After hearing this answer, Yan Fan felt relieved. He was not worried about his secret being exposed, but the things he would be dealing with in a while were rather tricky, so if possible, he would try his best not to implicate Sister Wanwan.

Two people entered one of the charcoal shops. As soon as they entered, they were dazzled by the various types of charcoal inside. The prices ranged from 10 to 30 points. The cheapest was the most common banyan branch charcoal. This kind of charcoal was extremely easy to ignite and durable, but its disadvantage was that it burned quickly and released more carbon monoxide gas during the burning process. The most expensive was the mutant pine wood, which cost 30 points per catty. The advantage was that it produced the least carbon monoxide and there was basically no smoke, and even had a pine fragrance. Secondly, this kind of charcoal burned twice as long as ordinary coal. If you put aside the price, it is indeed the most suitable heating material for winter.

Gu Tongwan also talked about the processing of raw tree branches. The processing fee here is normal. It will be slightly more expensive in winter than in summer. Only raw tree branches weighing more than 200 kilograms are allowed to be processed. The price of processing once is fifty points. However, it is also because it is more expensive in winter. In summer, the processing fee is generally thirty points.

The branches behind the car were basically ordinary raw branches. The mutated raw branches could basically only be obtained in the north of the danger zone, so in the end Gu Tongwan used more than two hundred kilograms of raw branches to exchange for about thirty kilograms of ordinary charcoal. In addition, she bought one hundred kilograms of mutated pine charcoal, which cost her three thousand points at once. However, considering the problem of charcoal in winter, she couldn't save this little money. However, she made up her mind that she must get the mutated raw branches the next time she entered the northern forest. After processing one hundred kilograms of branches, she could get about thirty kilograms of charcoal. If she could collect more charcoal at a time, at least half a month to a month's charcoal could be saved.

In addition to buying charcoal, Gu Tongwan also bought some plastic film this time so that he could build a plastic greenhouse in the winter. At least if it snowed, the outdoor crops would be somewhat sheltered.

After buying everything he needed, Gu Tongwang returned to the car. The parking fee here was still not low, and fifteen points were charged for the first hour.

Yan Fan went to do his thing, and Gu Tongwan simply took out a cup of hot longan tea from the space, and drank it while looking out the window at the situation outside.

At this moment, they saw a familiar figure. Who else could it be but the old lady Qin who they warned last time?

After not seeing her for a few days, Old Lady Qin seemed to have become much more haggard. Her originally dyed black hair had turned white. She was wearing an old light blue cloth shirt and standing on the street with a hunched back. Her hands were tightly clutching her red cross-body bag, and her cloudy eyes were constantly glancing at any young girl passing by who met her "standards".

Unexpectedly, this old lady hasn't stopped after being taught a lesson last time. The so-called organization has brainwashed her deeply, making her always believe that she can stimulate her body's potential to create superpowers. However, it is now the fourth year of the apocalypse, and it will be the fifth year next month. Most people's superpowers have been initially formed in the second year of the apocalypse. Even if there are new superpowers, they are very few. Most people stimulate their body's potential and become superpowers when the extreme cold of the apocalypse comes. Among the superpowers currently registered in the base, less than two thousandths have their potential stimulated recently. Moreover, most of them rely on nutrient solution made from crystal cores and excellent physical fitness, which allows some young and middle-aged people to "awaken for the second time" and become superpowers.

It's not that Gu Tongwan complained that Old Lady Qin was too old, but at her age, with sufficient financial resources and the company of her old partner, it would be the best choice for her to enjoy her old age. But no one expected that she would still be thinking about the so-called "rejuvenation" at her age. If she just wanted to become younger, it would be understandable, but she used crooked methods to deceive young girls into becoming victims to achieve her goals.

Old Mrs. Qin had indeed not had a good time recently, mainly because she had been in a state of panic since she was threatened with kidnapping last time. She was especially wary of everyone and always felt that everyone was out to harm her. Even Uncle Ye became suspicious, thinking that he had betrayed the relationship between them that had lasted for nearly forty years.

Gu Tongwan originally placed a blood vine on Old Lady Qin's body. Although he could not control the old woman remotely, he could use the branches of the blood vine on her body to sense her whereabouts within a range of ten kilometers.

After a while, Old Lady Qin was seen approaching a girl in pink clothes who was picking charcoal with a smile on her face. The two talked for a while, and the expression on Old Lady Qin's face suddenly became a little disappointed. It was probably because after asking questions, she found that the girl's situation did not meet her requirements, so she could not be her target.

After a while, old lady Qin was seen staggering in another direction. From the back, she looked like an ordinary old lady, but who would have thought that this old lady would be an accomplice in the trafficking of more than a dozen young girls.

On the other side, Yan Fan came to a shop that looked like a hardware store from the outside. There was only one clerk in the shop hammering and banging. The bald boss at the cash register yawned out of boredom. The shop was more than 20 square meters in total and displayed many hand-made iron products, but it formed a sharp contrast with the snack bar opposite that was crowded with people.

When Yan Fan went in, neither the waiter nor the cashier looked at him, as if they were already used to people coming in, taking a look around and then leaving.

Yan Fan walked straight to the cashier counter and said, "Boss, give me a bowl of dumplings."

The boss, who was dozing off with his hand on his chin, still didn't raise his head. He just lazily replied, "You must have come to the wrong place. This is not a snack bar. Look, do you see the one across the street? That's the one across the street."

Yan Fan had no intention of leaving and continued, "We're right. The dumplings here taste better."

When the boss said this, he finally raised his head, and looked him up and down with his eyelids raised. The employee who was hammering metal utensils on the side also stopped what he was doing and couldn't help but look up at the young boy.

The bald boss asked calmly, "What kind of dumplings do you want?"

"Pork and celery."

The bald boss involuntarily straightened his body and his eyes no longer became lazy.

"What kind of dipping sauce do you want? We don't have balsamic vinegar in our store."

"Just light soy sauce, and put it in a small dish." Yan Huigui replied.

The boss finally looked at the employee who had been squatting. The employee put down his tools and stood up. After seeing the bald boss nod, he turned to Yan Fan and whispered, "Come with me."

The employee went around to the back of the cash register. There were several expired posters on the wall. The man put his hand on them and pushed to the left, and saw that it was a sliding door.

When the employee was doing this, the boss stood up to block the two people's movements. After hearing the sound of the door being pushed back, he pretended to yawn and continued to sit down, but in fact, he kept glancing at the flow of people outside. If you look closely, you will find a gleam in the bald boss's eyes.

This was actually the first time that Yan Fan came to this store. This so-called hardware store was actually an out-and-out "black shop". "Black shop" was actually the name for this line of business. In fact, this kind of store specializes in collecting contraband goods of unknown origin or that cannot be sold in the open, including gold bars or crystal cores, and even some rare mutant beasts.

The power behind these "black shops" is the black market. Although the base has always been wary of the infiltration of the wanderer base or the black market, in fact, these shops have long taken root in the base, and more and more people would rather choose to trade in "black shops" than let their goods end up in the trading center.

Yan Fan actually did have a few items in his hands that needed to be sold immediately. One was the crystal core of the seven-colored lizard and the other was the crystal core of the three-headed green-leaf snake. Both were B-grade crystal cores. Due to their small quantity on the market, their selling prices have remained high. But the most important thing was that the nutrient solution made from this type of crystal core could increase the efficiency of cultivation for those with special abilities twice as much as that of ordinary B-grade crystal cores. Therefore, the price of the finished nutrient solution on the market had already reached nearly ten thousand yuan per bottle.

This time Yan Fan mainly needs the "black shop" to process the crystal core for him into a nutrient solution that is easier to absorb, but the labor fee is also extremely expensive. The black shop needs to charge a certain amount of compensation, but this kind of black shop generally does not charge points, but adopts a "barter" method.

What Yan Fan paid for this time was the corpse of a colorful lizard. He froze the corpse directly using the ice surface, and tried his best not to damage the body of the lizard when taking the crystal core. The corpse of a colorful lizard alone can be sold for thousands on the market. The most important thing is that the body of a colorful lizard is a material that is extremely resistant to toxicity.

"It's really good stuff. The corpse was handled very well. It takes about half an hour to convert the crystal core into nutrient solution." The employee picked up the body of the colorful lizard and observed it carefully. The original contempt in his eyes gradually turned into admiration. He really didn't expect that this young man could kill a B-level mutant beast with a single click at such a young age, and they were all rare goods.