After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret-Chapter 109: Trading Supplies
Finding supplies around the shelter was nearly impossible now.
Compressed biscuits could be lifesavers in a critical moment.
"One Fire Element Crystal Core for a pack,
or forty regular Crystal Cores for a pack."
Nina Jacobs hesitated for a moment before answering.
She noticed no unusual reactions from the crowd in front of her and breathed an inward sigh of relief.
’Looks like my price is reasonable,’ she thought.
Her "Heart of Strange Fire" often needed Fire Element Crystal Cores for replenishment.
The "Superpower Energy Stone" also needed to absorb Crystal Cores.
Most importantly, the system from her past life had a hidden title-triggering mission.
This mission required her to trade the supplies in her storage grid to complete it.
Compressed biscuits were supplies she had absolutely no use for.
Even Wayne Warner found this kind of food a bit disgusting.
But she knew they were also one of the most useful supplies in the apocalypse.
It was better to use them for trading.
"Forty Crystal Cores, I have them.
I’ll give you 120 for three packs."
Someone immediately took out a handful of regular Crystal Cores.
"Deal."
Nina Jacobs briskly handed the man three packs of compressed biscuits.
The crowd watched him with envy.
"York, you’re not a Superpower User. Where’d you get Crystal Cores?"
York, having successfully traded for the biscuits, chuckled.
"Who says you can’t have Crystal Cores if you’re not a Superpower User?
There are tons of zombie corpses outside with their Crystal Cores still inside.
It’s your own fault for being too scared to go out and take a risk."
Before the apocalypse, York had made a living by scavenging scrap. His intuition told him that these Crystal Cores would definitely be useful.
So whenever he had the chance, he would wander outside the checkpoint.
If he came across a zombie corpse, he’d crack open its skull to take a look. He’d actually gotten quite a few lucky finds that way.
"Fire Element Crystal Cores, I have a few here,
and these regular Crystal Cores. I’ll trade them all."
Just then, another man pushed his way through the crowd.
He looked strong and well-built. Nina Jacobs noticed that among the cores he took out were Mutated Crystal Cores of other elements.
"Alright, here are nine packs of compressed biscuits.
Please take them."
Nina Jacobs took the Crystal Cores from him, and the system sent another notification.
[Detected that the host has completed a supply trade. "The Doomsday Supplier" title has been triggered. 18 System Experience Points awarded!]
The earlier trade with York had yielded 6 Experience Points.
’It seems I get 2 Experience Points for every pack of compressed biscuits I trade.’
The system defined different Experience Point rewards for each type of supply.
At the same time, she also acquired more Crystal Cores. It was like killing two birds with one stone.
"Do you have any medicine for sale?"
the man asked after taking the compressed biscuits.
"Medicine? What kind?"
Nina Jacobs asked.
"Cough medicine."
the man said.
"Wayne Abbott, buying medicine for your wife again?
What a good husband, HAHAHA."
The laughter from the crowd was tinged with gloating and ridicule.
The man named Wayne Abbott ignored them and asked again, "Do you have any?"
"I do, but this medicine requires Mutated Crystal Cores in exchange."
Nina Jacobs took out a small brown bottle with no label.
It was a Healing Potion she had diluted to one-fifth of its original concentration.
She had prepared it back when she was killing zombies with Leo Hale and Chelsea Walsh.
"Okay, how many do you want?"
Wayne Abbott didn’t question it at all, taking out his Crystal Cores and preparing to count them.
"Four."
Nina Jacobs thought for a moment before replying.
"That bottle doesn’t even have a label. Are you some kind of scammer?" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
someone in the crowd questioned.
"If it doesn’t work, come find me for a full refund."
Nina Jacobs wasn’t worried about someone with ill intentions buying the medicine to analyze it.
In her past life, Healing Potions were incredibly scarce for her.
She had once tried to have someone analyze the components of a Healing Potion, wondering if it could be replicated, but even with the most advanced equipment, no special ingredients could be identified.
In her understanding, Healing Potions were perhaps not a product of this world, which was why their composition couldn’t be analyzed.
Besides, this Healing Potion, diluted to one-fifth strength, would only have a slow healing effect.
Hearing what Nina Jacobs said, Wayne Abbott directly took out four Mutated Crystal Cores.
Those were also the last Mutated Crystal Cores he had.
[Detected that the host has completed a supply trade. "The Doomsday Supplier" title has been triggered. 10 System Experience Points awarded!]
’One-fifth of a Healing Potion gives 10 Experience Points... doesn’t that mean a full bottle would be worth 50 Experience Points?’
Nina Jacobs was shocked by this discovery.
However, until she found a suitable way to sell medicine, she planned to stick mainly to trading supplies.
Business at Nina Jacobs’s stall was booming.
Many people who heard about it rushed over with their Crystal Cores.
In just over half an hour, Nina Jacobs sold more than 100 packs of compressed biscuits.
Although her "Facial Adjustment" Skill was still active and she had plenty of compressed biscuits, Nina Jacobs decided to pack up.
It was her first day trading; selling this much was enough.
"I guess you really have to fight for the good stuff."
Some people who had rushed over saw Nina Jacobs’s empty stall and were extremely disappointed.
As the crowd gradually dispersed, Nina Jacobs packed up her picnic blanket and deflated backpack.
Just as she was about to leave the trading area, she saw a dejected Wyatt Jacobs anxiously asking about something at every stall.
"Do you have any beer?
Is anyone selling beer?"
"How can no one be selling beer?"
Wyatt Jacobs went from stall to stall, asking the same question.
"Beer’s a good commodity.
Usually, people only sell it after Superpower Users return from a run outside.
How could you possibly find any to buy right now?"
one stall owner kindly explained.
However, Wyatt Jacobs was undeterred and kept asking.
"It must be because I didn’t drink any beer. That has to be it.
I have to drink some beer today!"
Wyatt Jacobs muttered to himself.
Seeing that Nina Jacobs’s stall was empty, Wyatt Jacobs walked right past it without a second glance.
But even if he had looked, he wouldn’t have recognized Nina Jacobs, who currently had a different face.
’Beer?’
Nina Jacobs remembered something, and realization dawned on her.
Today was the day Wyatt Jacobs had awakened his Superpower in her past life.
The day before, in her past life, not only had they managed to escape the zombies by the skin of their teeth, but they had also found a safe place to stay with supplies.
To celebrate, they had drunk until the early hours of the morning.
Of course, they had only had some beer.
The next morning, Wyatt Jacobs discovered he had awakened a Gold Element Superpower.
But now it was already afternoon, and he still felt nothing.
It was normal for him to be anxious.
Watching Wyatt Jacobs continue his search for beer, Nina Jacobs picked up her things and left the second-floor trading area.
She had gained 15 Fire Element Zombie Crystal Cores today.
In these early days, when mutated zombies weren’t yet that numerous and there were few Superpower Users hunting them, she was already very satisfied.
The gunfire outside the shelter didn’t begin to thin out until the afternoon, eventually falling silent.
"The great omen of misfortune has finally passed."
Sherry Renner lay sprawled on the table, randomly spinning her Compass.
"Hmm, it seems that even though your Compass is broken, it still works."
Nina Jacobs hadn’t expected Sherry Renner’s prediction to be right again.
"It was a fluke. I know my own limitations.
For example, I never foresaw what would happen to the Superpower User Alliance."
Sherry Renner had once tried to divine the future for the Superpower User Alliance.
No matter how she divined it, the future looked prosperous and thriving.
That’s why she had made a fuss about escaping.
She never expected it to be completely wiped out just a few days later.
"If I had known it would turn out like that, I wouldn’t have gone through all the trouble.
I could have just leisurely waited for Cole Dempsey to be captured."
