Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 349 - : Sky-High Price
Chapter 349 -349: Sky-High Price
Wan Peng shook his head and said to the others, “My sister is like that, she can’t bear to see others suffer, sigh.”
Su Jin watched Wan Li walk away, and memories of Xia Mufei from her past life surfaced. It was a pity that, without some changes, such people might be doomed to not last long in the apocalypse.
The woman took the bread from Wan Li’s hand and began eating voraciously, as if scared Wan Li would ask for it back.
The child by her side whimpered, indicating a desire to eat, and only then did she tear off a piece to share with the child.
“Woof woof woof!”
At that moment, Ah Wang began barking for some reason, and Wan Peng hurried over to hold him back to stop the barking.
“Ah Wang, stop barking, you’re disturbing everyone!” Wan Peng scolded.
“Whine~”
Ah Wang’s ears, a mix of yellow and white, drooped down, looking utterly wronged.
“Behave, Ah Wang, we’ve had many neighbors complain about your barking being too loud. Let’s go back, okay?”
Wan Peng seemed to really like Ah Wang; he even held the dog in his arms as he walked back with Wan Li toward Su Jin and the others.
“Your dog is quite extraordinary,” Su Jin commented.
A mutant dog that still obeys its owner, and its body hasn’t grown larger at all.
“Hehe, because I’ve been raising it since before the apocalypse. After it mutated, it never hurt us siblings and has been protecting us,” Wan Peng said, his expression softening as he spoke of Ah Wang, showing his deep affection for the dog.
“How do you know it mutated?” Lin Xiuyuan asked curiously. After all, Ah Wang didn’t look very big, and if it weren’t for Mao Qiqi saying it was a mutant animal, they would’ve always thought it was a normal dog.
“Don’t let appearances fool you, it’s a water element. Although it’s not very useful, haha,” Wan Peng said, and sure enough, Ah Wang actually spat out a small water column onto his face.
“…”
Su Jin watched with a complex expression as Wan Peng laughed heartily.
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That was water sprayed out from a dog’s mouth…
She still felt she wouldn’t be able to handle that herself.
In the meantime, Wan Peng and Wan Li had already led them to a few empty rooms.
Eventually, Su Jin and her group picked the one furthest inside. This room was a bit farther away from the nearby occupied rooms, which she felt was better.
Wan Peng and Wan Li were living in two opposite rooms.
“There are plenty more empty rooms here; you can pick another one,” Wan Li said as she saw the group choosing only one room. Even though the room had six beds, it was quite cramped for all of them.
“No need, this is already very good, we’re used to sticking together,” Su Jin declined.
Wan Li thought Su Jin was saying that the conditions here were already much better than where they had lived before and couldn’t help but feel sympathy for Su Jin and her group once again.
Upon closing the door, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
Facing the dusty bunk beds, Su Jin decided to clean up a bit. They might be able to enter their space at night, but it was safer to stay outside when living amongst others.
“Su Girl, since we are here, let’s go have a look around the base, shall we?” Nie Qing was already eager to explore.
Su Jin looked at the time: it was indeed still early, and they could go out to see what the situation was like in the freedom-filled Freedom Dawn Base.
Moreover, Lin Yunguo and Li Xiuying didn’t seem tired at all.
“We just came out and took a ride, what’s there to be tired about? We are in great health now, let’s go!”
Lin Yunguo had already walked to the doorway, urging them on.
“Are Grandpa and Grandma getting stronger and younger?” Su Jin also joked.
In fact, Su Jin was also very curious about this place, and even Lu Hao looked interested, so the group quickly got ready and headed outside the dormitory.
They didn’t leave anything behind in the room, and even their backpacks were carried on their backs, although there wasn’t much in them.
Local Tyrant Gold, seeing that Ah Wang wasn’t around, boldly leaped onto Su Jin’s shoulder, and Lu Hao, seeing this, put Local Tyrant Gold on his own shoulder, not wanting the little creature to tire his wife.
The people in Freedom Dawn Base didn’t seem sparse, with many groups like Su Jin’s walking together, but Su Jin’s group, with their clean aura and dress, still attracted quite a few sideways glances.
Lu Hao noticed that there weren’t many shops on both sides of the base, but there were quite a few pawnshops.
“They actually have pawnshops? Shall we take a look?”
Lin Xiuyuan pulled Li Xiuying towards the pawnshop.
This pawnshop used to be a medical room, with a slightly overweight middle-aged man sitting at the entrance. He was wearing a tracksuit and holding a mobile phone, engrossed in a game, but as soon as he saw customers, he threw the phone aside and welcomed them while sizing them up.
Even old people and children?
“May I help you? Do you have something you want to sell?”
The man asked.
“Yeah, we want to see what you accept here,”
Lu Hao said while looking around the pawnshop.
“We take a lot of things here, like Mutated Crystal Nuclei, all kinds of usable weapons, and even clothes, shoes, daily necessities, quilts—everything,”
the boss said as he took out a price list and handed it to Lu Hao.
“A Level Four Mutated Crystal Nucleus can only be exchanged for 10 Ordinary Crystal Cores?” Lu Hao asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Yes, a Level Three can only be exchanged for 6 Ordinary Crystal Cores. The rate for Level Four is already very reasonable,” the boss replied.
Su Jin also stood next to Lu Hao and looked at the price list. A quilt could only be exchanged for 2 Ordinary Crystal Cores? Yet there were already many quilts piled up on the other side of the room.
“Boss, how about I give you 20 Ordinary Crystal Cores for one Level Four Crystal Core, what do you think?”
Lin Xiuyuan looked eagerly at the pawnshop owner. If the owner was interested, he would be willing to exchange even 40 Ordinary Crystal Cores for it!
“Sorry, but we only pawn items, we don’t sell them,”
the boss still wore a friendly smile.
“The boss is really good at doing business,” Su Jin said with a smile.
“Oh, it’s nothing like that. My shop only exists to meet the needs of others. If they need something, I provide, don’t you think?”
Seeing that the group didn’t seem to have the intention of pawning anything and two more customers had entered the shop, the boss turned to attend to the new arrivals.
The two customers brought a bunch of quilts and thick clothes and dumped them on the ground, asking the boss to calculate how many Crystal Cores they could get in exchange.
Su Jin watched as they dropped their items on the ground. It was already autumn, and not far from the cold winter. Were they planning to sell their quilts at a low price now and buy them back at a high price later in winter?
Su Jin shook her head and walked out of the pawnshop with her family…
They then arrived at the base canteen and were shocked to discover that the price for a fist-sized coarse grain bun was set at 10 Crystal Cores?!
A bun was equivalent in price to a Level Four Mutated Crystal Core?!
What exorbitant pricing!
