Chapter 167 Going to the Market
As the system is updated again and again, ordinary players also begin to look for a way out in the future. For now, players with small bases can still survive because their last bottom line has not yet been touched: food. Even after winter, the system still leaves some way for fishing players to survive. However, people with insight can also see that if we cannot produce food as in the real doomsday life, sooner or later we will not be able to survive.
Currently, it is recognized that the most reliable way to obtain food is farming, but farming requires a large outdoor grid, and this is the shortcoming of a small base. In this fishing activity, some players seem to have found the answer, which is the outpost card. Occupying the restaurant with the outpost card consumes 1 manpower every day, and you can get one piece of food every day. There are 3 people in a small base, and a maximum of three outpost cards can be used, and 3 food can be obtained every day. Everyone believes that even if the version is updated, the value of the outpost card will not decrease.
But the problem is that outpost cards are too rare. In this fishing activity for Beishang Town players, only one small base player got one outpost card. In the Abandoned City mission, Maya also redeemed points for an outpost card. After hearing that the player had an outpost card, Shitou immediately contacted him via the radio and expressed his willingness to trade the outpost card. The other party told Shitou that the Invincible Base also wanted this outpost card. If Shadow Base wants it, bids will be held at the intersection next to the factory at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
President Shitou is faced with a decision. With Shadow's current wealth, he will definitely get the outpost card, but face-to-face competition will definitely have negative effects. Shitou then contacted Wudi and asked Wudi if he wanted to bid. After receiving a positive reply, he explained that the other party invited him to bid. Since Wudi was sure to get the outpost card, he would not participate.
Maya is a little confused about this. From a tactical and strategic perspective, it is basically impossible for Invincible to help Shadow anymore. The car is coming, the people are coming, and invincibility has no value anymore. Shitou thinks what Maya said makes sense, but if you are in a slum, you have to behave like a slum. Exposing money and falling out with allies are undesirable behaviors.
Shitou gives an example. If there are two ramen shops on one street, these two ramen shops are bound to be incompatible. There are two office buildings on the same street, both of which are engaged in ramen export business. Their relationship will not be so bad, and they may even cooperate. The bigger your business is, the more peaceful your attitude and behavior will be when facing competition from peers.
Shadow started from a ramen shop and will develop into a ramen company sooner or later. Maintaining the basic image of a company is good for future development.
However, Shitou himself said that he was not sure whether he needed to consider so much in the game, so it was difficult to make a decision.
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Time passes day by day, and it’s the last month of winter. Today is the first market in Zuoxian County after the snowstorm. There are Beishang Town and Nanxia Town in Zuoxian County. As the name suggests, Beishang Town is in the north of Zuoxian County, and Nanxia Town is in the south of Zuoxian County. During the previous market transactions, I learned from inquiries that Nanxia Town did not have a particularly strong base. Only one of the two small and medium-sized bases has an owner, and 80% of the key personnel were lost in the first defense.
This was also Lin Wu's first time to go to the market. After the market opened at one o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Wu and Shana teleported from the base to the market.
The market as a whole is a square and four streets. Each player can rent a stall. The rental fee is one unit of any of the five major resources. Then you can put the goods you want to sell on the stall and go shopping by yourself. When someone asks about the price of goods, the market's exclusive headset will be connected, and the stall owner can bargain with the other party.
Another feature of the market is the shops. There are many shops around the square, such as barber shops that can change hair styles, tattoo shops, foot massage shops, nail salons and other service-oriented shops. You can receive a service by spending any unit of the five major resources.
Shana heard that there was a hot spring, so she abandoned Lin Wu and went to soak in the hot spring. Lin Wu didn't set up a stall either. His goal today was to find and purchase dagger weapons with frontal execution capabilities.
The four streets are Weapons and Equipment Street, Materials Street, Sundries Street and Strange Objects Street. There is no mandatory requirement to place corresponding goods, but most stall owners will still choose corresponding streets in order to make it easier to sell their goods. The length of the street is directly proportional to the number of stalls.
Lin Wu first went to the Material Street and found that most of the stalls were selling building materials, and a few stalls were selling gasoline packs, ammunition packs and medical packs. Food packages are extremely scarce. Driven by curiosity, Lin Wu asked the stall owner, who quoted a standard exchange rate, one food package for three building material packages or two gasoline packages and medical packages.
The prices of the four major material packages are stable, but the ammo package is the weirdest, with prices ranging from high to low. There is one ammunition pack that needs to be exchanged for 3 food packs, and two ammunition packs that need to be exchanged for one food pack.
These rubbish things were Shi Shi's business, and Lin Wu just looked at them casually.
Lin Wu then went to the Sundry Street, where he mainly sold materials, mainly level 2 or 3 materials like iron blocks. Lin Wu used two pistol bullets to exchange for 30 electronic components at a stall, and then was caught by Maya.
Lin Wu pulled Maya aside and whispered. Only then did Maya know that Lin Wu had such an evil plan, that he wanted to rob the safe house of Nightmare, and the worst thing he could do was not tell her. Maya let Lin Wu play by himself and leave this matter to her.
"Where's Shana?"
"Hot spring."
"Tell her that I'll be waiting for her at Pillar 4 of the square in half an hour."
Lin Wu asked, "Are you going to get a manicure?"
Maya was speechless: "Sanna is very good at bargaining. I need to purchase a batch of medical supplies."
"Oh."
Lin Wu was about to walk away. Maya looked to the left of the street and said, "Did you see the group of people 20 meters away? The group of people with a red ribbon tied to their left arm. ."
Lin Wu stepped forward and looked: "Two women and three men. Who are they?"
Maya said: "Members of Chibei, the only small and medium-sized base in Nanxia Town. It is said that this group of people is not good and has a bad reputation in Nanxia Town." Lin Wu said
. Wu said: "We have a bad reputation recently. Others see us smiling on the surface, but behind the scenes we are MMP."
Maya said: "Maybe it's just a prejudice. If you want a dagger, it's best to go to Strange Object Street."
Lin Wu couldn't understand: "Why Aren't you going to Weapons and Equipment Street?"
Maya said, "Because the peanuts are over there." After that, she left.
"A very reasonable explanation." Lin Wu replied to Maya's back and pressed the headset: "Call the puppy."
Shana: "What's the matter, Piggy?"
Lin Wu said: "Maya asked you to be there in half an hour. Meet her at pillar 4 of the square."
Shana: "Xiao Zhu's teammates received it."
Childish devil, you should take advantage of this!
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The Street of Strange Objects has all kinds of miscellaneous things. Since there are so many strange props in the Home Game, this street has the largest number of people shopping.
The first stall attracted Lin Wu. It was a flashlight, but it was not an ordinary flashlight, but a solar flashlight. It can light up when exposed to the sun, but cannot light up without the sun. If you think this is rubbish, you are wrong. Lin Wu, like everyone else, laughed when he saw the flashlight. Afterwards, Su Shi wanted to beat Lin Wu to death because all solar equipment, regardless of size, could break out solar panel fragments. Not only is it an essential item for making solar panels, it's also very rare.
At the second stall, Lin Wu fell in love with the mouse cage. Currently, except for the sewers, rats are not seen in most places in the game. The reason why Lin Wu bought the mouse cage was because of his profession as a hunter. Killing a mammal every day can earn him one food unit. If you can't beat a bear, why can't you bully a mouse? Lin Wu exchanged a pistol bullet for the mouse cage.
Bullets are currently recognized as hard currency by all players. Pistol bullets are the basic currency, and other bullets have different exchange rates. The prevailing exchange rate in the market before the blizzard was that one 5.56 rifle bullet was equal to two pistol bullets, and 7.62 was equal to three pistol bullets. Theoretically, .50 bullets count as five pistol bullets, but they are expensive and no one is selling them.
The exchange rate of pistol bullets has increased today because the doctor's reforms have caused players to be more cautious when dealing with zombies and use more long-range attacks. Pistols are currently the mainstream firearms and will occupy the mainstream position for a long time. Therefore, the current exchange rate between pistol bullets and 5.56 bullets is 1:1.
Because of this, Peanut was arranged by Maya to go to the Weapons Street and use pistol bullets to purchase .22 and 5.56 bullets.
The third stall sold Cad knives. Since the stall owner only sold this weapon, he did not set up a stall in the Weapons Street. This is a very beautiful dagger with a unique shape, and its statistics are also very eye-catching, but it only has endurance.
Lin Wu bought a display mirror at the fourth stall. It was rare, but not uncommon either. Lin Wu casually gave him a pistol bullet and got it.
The fifth stall sells skill books. You should sell them on a consignment basis to a friend or base. There is a hunter skill book among them. Lin Wu was too lazy to bargain, so he took ten bullets in exchange. Lin Wu asked the stall owner if he still had a hunter skill book? The other party asked Lin Wu to return to the stall in an hour.
The seller knew that someone had a hunter skill book, so he found the person's stall and contacted the person, exchanged five bullets for the hunter skill book, and then hung it on his stall, earning five bullets for free every time. In total, Lin Wu had already obtained 3 hunter skill books.
The sixth stall sold books, and all they sold were reference books, such as getting started with lathes. Lin Wu didn't understand why he still needed to get started with lathes. In addition, there are twenty-five books in total, such as Automobile Repair and Maintenance, Compendium of Materia Medica, Encyclopedia of Chemical Industry, and World Knowledge Yearbook. I don’t know which bookstore the shop owner stole from.
Lin Wu contacted the stall owner: "Pack 25 books and set a price."
The stall owner said: "I will sell whatever I want, and you have to give it to you."
Lin Wu asked: "Give it to me?" He subconsciously didn't like this person, so he thought If a stranger shows kindness to you for no reason, you must be vigilant.
The stall owner asked: "Do you want to give it to you?"
Lin Wu: "Yes." It depends on what tricks you play.
The stall owner teleported back to the stall. He was a male, in his thirties, with hair oil and a slicked back hair. He was wearing a suit and looked a bit like an executive. Lin Wu noticed that the stall owner had a red ribbon tied to his left arm. It was obvious that the stall owner was the person Maya mentioned about Chi Bei before.
The stall owner looked at Lin Wu for a while: "Master Wisdom? Double Wisdom?"
Lin Wu asked back: "Do you need to look at attributes when buying a book?"
The stall owner said straight to the point: "I am the commander of the Chibei Base in Nanxia Town, and my name is Soy Sauce.
" Wu said: "I am the leader of the Invincible Base, my name is Invincible."
Soy Sauce was a little surprised: "Are you Invincible?"
"No, you are kidding. My name is Liang Ren, and I am the Happy Base in Beishang Town."
Soy Sauce said, and continued: "Our base is recruiting engineers to be in charge of the production room. Main intelligence is enough, dual intelligence is best. The only condition is that you can endure loneliness."
Lin Wu said, "But I'm in Beishang Town."
Soy Sauce said, "It's not a big problem. , we will soon be stationed in Zuoxian County. These books can be regarded as deposits and meeting gifts. We will pay tribute first and then fight. I can give you the books, but if you break your promise, we will definitely settle the score with you." Lin Wu thought for a while: "You
still Sell it." This thing is not worthy of being called a liar.
Soy Sauce looked at Lin Wu. Lin Wu didn't have any weapons and only carried a backpack. So Soy Sauce stretched out his hand and said, "Twenty-five bullets, one round per book."
Lin Wu looked down at Soy Sauce's slap: "25?"
Soy Sauce misunderstood Lin Wu's meaning and nodded: "Well, I won't sell it for a penny less." He simply marked the price and then looked at Lin Wu provocatively. I almost said, get lost and stop wasting my time.
Lin Wu saw the transaction information clearly and reached out to remove the tag. The transaction was completed and 25 reference books entered his backpack.
"Hey." Soy Sauce stopped Lin Wu: "Are you stupid? Spending so many bullets to buy a book?"
Lin Wu thought for a while and applied for the transaction. After opening the transaction, Lin Wu placed 200 rounds of rifle bullets and 200 rounds of pistol bullets. , and then cancel the transaction. Seeing that Soy Sauce was frightened, Lin Wu leaned closer and whispered: "A reference book can be exchanged for 30 bullets. Who do you think is stupid? Haha." Soy Sauce was dubious: "Where can I change it?"
Lin
Wu said nothing, shook his head and left. Soy Sauce hurriedly followed up: "Brother, tell me." Although he didn't believe it, he didn't believe that someone could have so many bullets.
Lin Wu was a little embarrassed. He hesitated for a moment and said, "I can only tell you that it's near the corner office."
Soy Sauce asked, "That corner office near the city hall?"
Lin Wu was really surprised this time: "How do you know?" The corner office is One of the bases recommended by the system, Shadow spent a lot of effort to get a system map in Nightmare's hands.
As if to express his sincerity, Soy Sauce said: "Someone sold us one-eighth of a map of Zuo County. No, how did you get there?" Lin Wu replied: "
Sewer."
Through these questions, Soy Sauce saw that Lin Wu didn't lie, so he became even more enthusiastic: "Brother, tell me, how do you exchange a reference book for bullets?"
Lin Wu shook his head: "You can't say that, I was led by an expert."
"Who?"
"Fortress agent."
"NPC?"
"No." Lin Wu said: "I have to go."
"Wait a minute, brother." Soy sauce traded 25 bullets: "These books are for me to give to my brother."
Lin Wu couldn't afford 25 bullets and refused. Although he seemed to be moved by the soy sauce, he came closer and said, "Nightmare." "
Nightmare?"
Lin Wu didn't know which city Nightmare was from at all, so he said casually: "Nightmare is a fortress agent. He has a tablet on him. Sewer electronic map. I bought books for him, and he was responsible for exchanging books for bullets, and we fired 55." It
doesn't sound very believable, but the less believable it becomes, the more believable it is. This can't be blamed on Lin Wu. Lin Wu is good at bragging but not good at lying. Soy Sauce asked Lin Wu a very strange question: "Is his computer an exclusive item?" "
No."
"Oh."
Lin Wu was curious: "Do you know Nightmare?"
Soy Sauce said: "I know there is this person, someone is here I’ve seen him several times in the southern suburbs of Zuoxian County.”
Damn, it’s so close!
"Let's go."
"Thank you, brother, for having a chance to drink tea at Chibei."
"Okay." Lin Wu raised his hand: "Goodbye." He turned around and blended into the crowd.
Lin Wu couldn't say he had a favorable or unfavorable opinion about soy sauce, basically he had no feelings towards it. Lin Wu feels the same way about Nightmare. He doesn't hate Nightmare, at least for now. He is only responsible for fanning the flames and delivering the knife. If you insist on pinching me, it's none of my business.
(End of chapter)