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

Lan Cen came close to Gu Tongwan and said mysteriously, "I heard that another child went missing recently."

"Again? What's going on?"

Lan Cen then talked about several cases of missing children that had occurred here recently, and contrary to the norm, they were all boys, aged between eight and twelve years old. The older ones were fine, and all of them disappeared when the children were alone at home or out.

"Now the families with little boys here are in a panic. They are not even allowed to go out, for fear that they might be kidnapped." Lan Cen sighed, with a hint of sadness in his tone.

Cai Min and her mother shared a room, while Cai's father, Cai Xing and Xu Xuesong, three men, had to temporarily squeeze into a small room of ten square meters.

Hearing the conversation between Lan Cen and Gu Tongwan, Cai Min also turned around and joined in. "Children between the ages of eight and twelve should be sensible. Even human traffickers should not target children of this age, after all, this age group is not easy to control."

The reason why Cai Min knew so much about these situations was that she had seen many children abducted by human traffickers when she was in the homeless base camp. These children were basically two or three years old, and the oldest was no more than six years old. They were all trying to cultivate their values ​​and consciousness while they had not yet formed certain social concepts. Such children were also easier to discipline.

There are two main reasons why there are so many children abducted from outside in the wanderer base camp. First, most people are unwilling to give birth to their own children in the apocalypse, and the external environment is harsh, so the survival rate of newborns is low, so it is better to adopt a child. Second, the children can be used as labor when they grow up, which can reduce the family's living burden in the future. After all, children of a few years old cannot eat much, and they don’t need to go to school in the apocalypse, so the investment cost is low. It is precisely because of these people’s distorted ideas that there are more and more human traffickers, and trafficking incidents are emerging in an endless stream, and parents who have lost their children are heartbroken.

"I'm not very clear about this. It was just two days ago that an 11-year-old boy who owned the butcher shop next to our guesthouse disappeared. The boy is one year younger than me and is usually quite smart, so it's impossible for him to be deceived. I heard that he was watching TV at home alone, and when his parents came home they didn't see him. At first they thought he had gone out to play, but he didn't come back until the evening, so his parents asked the neighbors and finally had to report the case to the security bureau. It's been the third day now and the boy hasn't been found yet." Lan Cen said with a hint of fear in his eyes. After all, this kind of thing was really too unbelievable.

"Is it possible that they kidnapped boys for some kind of activity or experiment, but this experiment can only be done on boys, so their target was this age group from the beginning."

Standing in the corridor, Liao Yunyun stroked her chin and slowly explained her point of view.

"Sister Yunyun, what you said is so creepy, could it be a human experiment?" Lan Cen subconsciously crossed his arms over his chest, thinking back to the time when he wandered with human traffickers and saw a man whose whole body was covered with sores due to human experimentation.

"That's a possibility. By the way, Lan Cen, in addition to missing boys, are there any young women missing?" Gu Tongwan was thinking of the few people she killed in the afternoon. The men mentioned that they would usually sell the women they tricked into buying. She just didn't know if this criminal gang would also target other innocent women.

Lan Cen thought for a while and said, "I don't think I've heard of it. Except that last year, after the old lady who lived in the store was exposed as a human trafficker, the grandfather also moved out. Now Aunt Man verifies the identity of all guests who stay in the store, and only allows them to book a room after confirming that they have no criminal record."

If what Lan Cen said is true, then the criminal gang she met has little to do with the currently missing boys.

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After making arrangements for the Cai family, Gu Tongwan and Liao Yunyun said goodbye, and the two chatted as they went downstairs.

"Yunyun, I see Sister Cai has just arrived at the base. I am considering whether to hand over the fruit and vegetable store to her. This way, you can continue to do the online work and she can be responsible for the offline work."

Considering that Liao Yunyun might be too busy if she were to carry out both online and offline work at the same time, the best way is to find an acquaintance to be responsible for offline work as much as possible. It just so happens that Cai Min is at the base now, so this matter may be the most appropriate one to be entrusted to Cai Min. Cai Min also has many years of business experience and is more familiar with fruits and vegetables. Gu Tongwan can feel more at ease if he entrusts it to her.

"You and I think the same thing. I wanted to talk to you about this before. What I meant was to let Sister Cai be the manager of the fruit and vegetable store. Once your guesthouse is set up, I will be in charge of the restaurant. But your fruit and vegetable store has been closed for a while. If you don't open it, the rent will be wasted." Liao Yunyun joked with a smile.

"Luo Mei contacted me last night and asked if I could open a store. I felt quite embarrassed for this girl. We had agreed to employ her long-term and her performance was indeed good. But I didn't expect that the store would be robbed and closed due to weather reasons after just over a month." Gu Tongwan originally planned to give Luo Mei an advance on the next few months' salary, but Luo Mei refused to do so. She meant that since she didn't have a job, she couldn't get an advance.

Liao Yunyun had also met Luo Mei in person and had a good impression of this girl. She could tell that she was a child who was willing to endure hardships. She immediately understood Gu Tongwan's feelings and put her arm around her best friend's shoulders. "Well, this is all because of the sudden extreme cold. I don't know how many shops have gone bankrupt in the past few months due to the extreme cold. This is an uncontrollable natural cause. Now that the weather has gradually stabilized, you can continue to open the shop. But I think it would be better to sell some fruits and grain by-products. It seems that you can't grow any vegetables in winter, and your suppliers will definitely raise the price."

When Gu Tongwan heard her friend's concerns, she could only laugh it off. After all, she couldn't say that she had no cost price at all, because she was the supplier.

After resolving the Cai family's issues, Gu Tongwan planned to tackle the renovation of the unfinished building in the underground city within the next few days. However, it cannot be called an unfinished building now. After all, with the efforts of the construction team, the original unfinished building has been completely renewed. Even the outside has been painted light blue according to her requirements, and then tiled. No one would have thought that this was a shabby building that no one looked down upon a few months ago.

The daughter-in-law Sister Liu introduced to him by the contractor is a cheerful and capable working woman, who should be a few years older than her. She works in a construction company, but I heard that she is now planning to resign.

The other party gave her several sets of interior design suggestions. In the end, Gu Tongwan adopted set C of designs, but also added some of her own ideas on top of it.

The price Sister Liu gave her was also very favorable. The entire design + decoration + materials for a building would require a total of 65,000 points. This price was at least several thousand points cheaper than that of her peers. Others tried to make a profit from the price difference in decoration materials, but Sister Liu would let customers contact the building materials market to inquire about the price themselves, focusing on openness and transparency. It was precisely because of this that Sister Liu was envied and excluded by her colleagues. Although she was very capable and her business performance had always been very high, she just couldn't move up in her original position.

Sister Liu is a person who works in a hurry. After Gu Tongwan paid the first half of the deposit, Sister Liu rushed to the underground city with her decoration team the next day.

The entire decoration team consists of six people in total. Since it is only interior decoration, Sister Liu took a quick look around and said that it can be completed within half a month.

“With four floors and the yard, the total construction area is 1780 square meters, and the usable area of ​​each floor is about 400 square meters. But this is two buildings combined. I heard from my father that the unfinished building at the beginning was another one. Miss Gu, you bought the land next door and demolished it to build a new building. Since the foundation is ready, it will only take two months to build this building.” Sister Liu looked around the house, exclaiming "tsk tsk". She probably didn't expect that this unfinished building could be renovated into a brand new building.

Gu Tongwan nodded and said, "I originally planned to live here myself, but later I found that there are a lot of people around here, so it would be better to use it as a guesthouse. I also planned to do some small business in the underground city, but the original house is too small, so I considered buying the one next door as well." In fact, the land next door was funded by Chen Yanxi, but he will return it to him after the guesthouse makes a profit.

"Let me have a look. Each floor is 350 square meters. The first floor has a restaurant, a front desk lounge, a kitchen and a utility room. The remaining two to four floors have nine rooms on each floor (including a utility room), five single rooms and three double rooms. The single rooms are about 15 square meters and the double rooms are 22 square meters. Both rooms have balconies, and the roof is made into a sky garden. Miss Gu, your guesthouse is well planned. No wonder my father said that you have your own ideas. The guesthouse's business will surely prosper." Sister Liu is chubby and her smile makes people feel happy.

Because the dungeon has not yet been fully opened, the decoration team has a time limit, generally from 7 am to 5 pm, which means there are only nine hours of decoration time per day. Moreover, there are less than 20 days before the dungeon opens, so the guesthouse must be decorated before then.

Gu Tongwan prepared some of the building materials herself, so she was busy going around various major markets in the past two days. Xiaoli also went with her. Xiaoli came out to play with her simply because she had nothing to do. However, as she had run the guesthouse with Aunt Man for several years, Xiaoli could occasionally give some advice on some small matters.

Nearly 40,000 points were spent on buying materials in the past two days. Looking at the almost negative number on the card, even Gu Tongwan had to admit that the investment before doing any business was really a waste of money.

Fortunately, I sold some supplies in the space a few days ago, so I was able to buy these materials.

"Wanwan, my aunt said that if I encounter any problems in the future, I can ask her. Also, we should get better materials for the doors and windows of the guesthouse so that they don't have to be replaced in the future. As for electrical appliances, electric fans are necessary among the supplies. As for air conditioners, this is a bit troublesome. Of course, it is best to install them if you are capable, but she does not recommend installing them. After all, how many air conditioners are needed for a whole building? There are no more than two hotels in the entire base equipped with air conditioners, and they are designated hotels for dignitaries and important visitors to stay. I heard that an ordinary standard room costs nearly 300 points a night, and a luxury suite is at least four digits." Xiaoli's face was full of disbelief when she said this, but there was also a hint of curiosity.

Before the end of the world, most ordinary business hotels were equipped with air conditioning. Who would have thought that after the end of the world, rooms with air conditioning would represent power and status.

In fact, there are quite a lot of air conditioners collected in Hai City in Gu Tongwan's space. After counting them last night, she found that there are 21 old air conditioners repaired by the repair robot, including four vertical air conditioners. There are also seven or eight new air conditioners that she bought at the department store. It would not be enough to place all of them in the guesthouse, but as Xiaoli said, there is no need for that at all.

Firstly, the target group of the guesthouse is ordinary working class people or small-time workers. Installing air conditioners means that not only will the price of the room have to be raised, but the issue of electricity bills must also be taken into consideration.

However, Gu Tongwan did not completely give up on air conditioning. Two vertical air conditioners were placed in the restaurant on the first floor. The most important thing for a restaurant is to have sufficient air conditioning so as to attract more people to dine in the restaurant.

In addition, air conditioners are installed in one single room and one double suite on each floor. The prices of these two rooms are about 20% more expensive than other similar rooms.

She had been running back and forth between the underground city, the building materials market, and her home for the past two days. During this time, she heard that Cai Min had moved into the rented house. Gu Tongwan, Liao Yunyun, Xiao Li, and others planned to visit in two days, mainly to "welcome" the Cai family. However, before they could ask Cai Min, Cai Min sent a message first. The meaning was very simple, asking them to have a meal at the rental house the day after tomorrow, in fact, it was also to thank everyone for their help in the past few days.

Gu Tongwan, who had just returned from the building materials market, did not go home directly. Instead, he drove towards the fruit and vegetable store. He had made an appointment with Luo Mei to meet here at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

I haven't seen Luo Mei for almost three months since the extreme cold came, but the two did not lose contact. Instead, they kept in touch online using their mobile phones. I learned that Luo Mei had been doing some knitting work at home with Zhou Ruchu recently, which could somewhat supplement the family expenses.

As soon as the car arrived nearby, we saw from afar that Luo Mei was still wearing the same pink down coat as before, stamping her feet and breathing out in front of the store.

Compared to three months ago, Luo Mei has not changed much, except for her slender and frail figure. The only difference is that her complexion is much better than before. It is estimated that she has not had much to worry about at home during this period.

Hearing the sound of the car, Luo Mei raised her head and immediately recognized that it was Gu Tongwan's car, so a smile appeared on her face.