Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 467 - So Many People

Chapter 467: Chapter 467 So Many People

Chapter 467: Chapter 467 So Many People

Yao Rui had finished counting her Crystal Cores, but she faced a distressing problem. She hadn’t expected to be able to buy so many supplies here. Since she wasn’t a Space Element Ability User, where was she supposed to put all the exchanged goods?

Keeping such a large amount of supplies in the dormitory was clearly too unsafe.

But she couldn’t carry them around with her every day, could she?

“Just put it in Zhao Le’s space, we’ve all stored our goods there,”

Da Yu, who had sold out her porridge, said. She had found some more Crystal Cores, so she came to exchange for more supplies and unexpectedly bumped into Yao Rui, who had a massive amount of Crystal Cores.

“Zhao Le?”

Yao Rui knew who Zhao Le was, but she was not familiar with him. How could she trust to leave her belongings in his care?

“Don’t worry, Zhao Le is just a fool, and his legs turn to jelly at the sight of zombies. That’s exactly why we chose to store our stuff in his space,”

Da Yu’s blunt words made Yao Rui laugh, but she was still not at ease, until Zhao Le, proudly learning that Yao Rui wanted to store her goods in his space, said, “Put it in my space? You’ll have to pay a Crystal Core as a storage fee, otherwise, I can’t just store it for you for nothing.”

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“Yao Rui, don’t be offended. We all pay him a storage fee for keeping our supplies in his space,”

Kong Shangjie also came over and said.

“I’m not angry. I’m willing to pay the storage fee, but let me speak frankly—if you even think about coveting my goods, I’ll hunt you down to the ends of the earth and dry you into jerky,”

Yao Rui ignited a sizable fireball in her hand and glared at Zhao Le.

“…”

Zhao Le felt a little depressed. Could keeping someone’s things really endanger his life?

Perhaps he should just forgo this storage fee…

As timid as Zhao Le was, in the end, he reluctantly accepted the not insignificant pile of supplies under Yao Rui’s intimidating gaze; of course, the substantial storage fee Yao Rui paid helped ease his mind somewhat.

Yao Rui had not only bought rice and flour from Su Jin, but she also purchased many ready-made pancakes, eggs, stewed meat, and even personal hygiene products and clothing, eliciting envious sighs from Da Yu.

“Thank you for being willing to come here to sell supplies,”

Yao Rui said her thanks to Su Jin. Although the transaction was merely fair and normal, in some sense, it indeed saved her life.

“Don’t mention it. You’re Yao Rui?”

Su Jin asked with a smile.

“Yes, I’m Yao Rui,”

Yao Rui suddenly felt a sense of illusion. Did this person know her? Why hadn’t she ever met her?

“Nice to meet you, I’m Zhang Xiaohong,”

Su Jin said. She wanted to encourage Yao Rui, but that might come off as too obvious.

Because, if she remembered correctly, the name Yao Rui was the name of the Base Leader of D City in the second year after the Apocalypse.

The reason she remembered the name of this Base Leader was that she was the first female Base Leader in the Apocalypse. It was said that after becoming the Base Leader, she had cleaned up the corruption within the murky management circle of D City, proving to be a very capable leader.

Yao Rui smiled at Zhang Xiaohong in front of her and then left the place with Da Yu and others.

“Do you know her?”

Lu Hao leaned in and asked.

Su Jin shook her head, intending to explain, but as more customers came to buy supplies, she had to say, “Don’t know her, I’ll explain it to you later.”

Lu Hao nodded and continued to greet guests who could hardly stand steady, even with the support of a table.

Lin Yunguo started to feel troubled again. “Why are these people living in such misery?” he thought. Taking advantage of a break, he went into his “Space” and cooked a large pot of porridge adding some Chinese yam grown in there.

After learning about Lin Yunguo’s idea, Su Jin also expressed her support.

They set up a stall by the door to distribute the porridge, which was not free of course. Anyone coming in to buy supplies just needed to give five Crystal Cores for a bowl of plain porridge. This offered relief to those who were dizzy from hunger and could barely walk straight, sparing them from losing even the strength to speak.

…

The courtyard at the very north of the base became famous in just two days.

At first, people just noticed that many who struggled to rise from their beds would stagger toward that place, leaning on walls, pausing after every step. But shortly afterwards, when they came out, they were full of vigor and even carried a load of goods on their backs…

Later on, the survivors in the base gradually came to know that a team was selling supplies there!

And the prices were extremely low; thirty Crystal Cores could buy a pound of grain, and there were even eggs for sale?

Before long, the entrance to the courtyard was so crowded with people rising from every corner that Su Jin had to issue some supplies to ask Kong Shangjie to help maintain some order. At the very least, there had to be a queue, right?

“No wonder he said there were many people in the base, but isn’t this too many?”

Lin Xiuyuan stood on the rooftop and looked out, the queue was so long it seemed endless…

“Seems like there are quite a few, they’ll have to sell day and night.”

Lu Guanhai also clicked his tongue in surprise. So there were this many people in the base, and those who came to buy supplies actually had quite a number of Crystal Cores. Even the elderly and the weak had hundreds or thousands of them.

“That’s pretty normal. There was a Zombie Tide before, and there was also a period when everyone went out to kill zombies every day. It’s just that later, no one could buy supplies any longer, so the Crystal Cores were left over,”

Kong Shangjie had pretty much become a regular in the courtyard, always able to provide immediate explanations for any questions that arose.

“D City used to be an important grain-producing area before the Apocalypse, shouldn’t be short of food, right?”

While weighing some rice, Su Xiangzhe casually chatted with Kong Shangjie. D City used to be next to H City, and many edibles in H City were produced here. It was unexpected that this place was now suffering the most from hunger.

“Ah, it was monopolized by some people. There used to be a Captain Xing. He risked his life every day to bring back loads of supplies. It’s said that later on, they were starved to death,”

Kong Shangjie said in a low voice.

“…”

For the first time, Su Xiangzhe thought Kong Shangjie’s information might be unreliable. In the minds of D City’s people, had Xing Taining and the others really all starved to death?

“Pfft,”

Lin Xiuyuan turned his head and quietly laughed. He wondered what the expression would be on the faces of that group now in S City when they heard this.

“It’s a shame though, if developed properly, this place could support quite a few people,”

Su Jin said with regret.

However, the news of their selling supplies quickly spread to the base’s management. By the third day, a team in uniform arrived at the base, intending to disperse the survivors who were queuing up to buy supplies.

“We’re buying our own stuff, what does it have to do with you?”

“You don’t sell us anything to eat, yet you won’t let others sell?”

“Do you want us to starve to death here?”

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