novelsite Chapter 76 The King of Bargain Hunting in the Apocalypse! Trading Luncheon Meat for Spirit Fruit, Te
Chapter 76 The King of Bargain Hunting in the Apocalypse! Trading Luncheon Meat for Spirit Fruit, Te
Stepping into the trading area, an even stronger, suffocating stench of decay and despair assaults the senses.
It's more crowded and chaotic here than at the docks.
Everywhere there were makeshift stalls made of rags and planks, and most of the stall owners had blank eyes and emaciated bodies, like living corpses.
The stall displayed rusty machetes, expired canned goods, and even several pieces of clothing stained with dark red blood.
This is the gray area of the Zijinshan campsite, a place where survivors traded their last shred of dignity for a glimmer of hope.
Qin Yue frowned and subconsciously held her breath.
A barely perceptible hint of unease flashed across Lin Hu's resolute face.
They were soldiers, accustomed to steel and order, and instinctively repelled this chaos and filth.
Only Lu Sheng remained calm, as if he were simply strolling through an ordinary vegetable market.
He ignored the mainstream weapons and food stalls, his gaze instead lingering on the corners that were treated as junk.
The Dragon Eye has already been activated in the shadows.
Countless streams of disparate information flashed across my vision, only to be quickly filtered out.
Soon, he stopped in his tracks and spotted a small stall covered with a tattered waterproof tarpaulin.
On the stall, a few dark red fruits covered in mud and emitting a strange smell were casually tossed in a corner, seemingly used to weigh down the waterproof cloth.
The stall owner was a man who was so thin he was just skin and bones, and he slumped weakly on the ground.
In Lu Sheng's field of vision, a golden information panel clearly appeared.
[Target: Earth-grade spiritual plant - Constitution Spiritual Fruit]
[Effect: May slightly improve physical fitness after consumption.]
Earth-grade spiritual plant!
Although it can't compare to the Enlightenment Tree, it's still a rare and valuable item!
Lu Sheng walked over without saying a word, simply took out a can of luncheon meat from his storage space, threw it in front of the stall owner, and then pointed to the few dark red fruits used to weigh down the cloth.
The stall owner was taken aback at first, then looked at the well-packaged can of luncheon meat, and his cloudy eyes burst into a light of wild joy.
He could hardly believe his eyes, thinking he had encountered a mentally unstable idiot.
Those few fruits were picked from the bushes on Zijin Mountain. They didn't look like any kind of fruit, and who knows if they were edible? He didn't even dare to touch them himself.
"I...I want this?" the stall owner asked in a trembling voice.
Lu Sheng nodded.
"Here you go! All of it is for you!" The stall owner, afraid that he would change his mind, used both hands and feet to pick up all the fruits covered in mud and handed them to Lu Sheng. Then he hugged the can of luncheon meat tightly, as if he were hugging the whole world.
Under the increasingly confused gazes of Qin Yue and Lin Hu, Lu Sheng took the fruit, and with a simple flip of his hand, the fruit vanished into thin air.
"This..." Lin Hu's eye twitched, and he finally couldn't help but ask in a muffled voice, "Brother Lu, is this thing edible?"
"I don't know, it looks pretty unusual, I'll buy it for fun," Lu Sheng replied casually.
What a waste! Such a waste!
These were the thoughts that simultaneously popped into Lin Hu's and Qin Yue's minds.
However, Lu Sheng's wasteful behavior had only just begun.
He did the same thing again, and soon in another corner, he traded a bag of precious compressed biscuits for a strange, pitch-black fruit that was also considered trash.
[Target: Earth-grade spiritual plant - Bone Strengthening Fruit]
[Effect: May slightly increase bone strength after consumption.]
Qin Yue's gaze towards Lu Sheng had changed from initial confusion to utter incomprehension.
She felt that Lu Sheng's behavior was full of a kind of bizarre artistic sense.
He seemed to have no interest in truly valuable food and weapons, but was instead keen on exchanging precious resources for some strange and unusual things.
What exactly is this person trying to do?
Finally, in a most remote corner, Lu Gao found one of his main targets for this trip.
A middle-aged man with glasses and a gentle demeanor had dozens of small bags neatly sealed in plastic bags arranged in front of him.
The bag contained all sorts of plant seeds, plump and full.
He was a researcher at the Nanjing Academy of Agricultural Sciences before the apocalypse. At this moment, he is trying to exchange these seeds, which he considers more precious than life itself, for fever-reducing medicine that can save his daughter's life.
His daughter was dying in a nearby shack because of a high fever.
However, in this apocalyptic world where human life is less than a dog's, who would use precious medicine to exchange for a bunch of seeds that might never grow?
The man's eyes were filled with deep despair.
Lu Sheng stepped forward, his dragon eyes sweeping over the seeds, confirming that they were all ordinary but highly active, high-quality seeds.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rice... everything is available.
He looked at the man's face, which was filled with despair, and didn't haggle or waste words.
He simply said calmly, "I'll take them all."
Having said that, he waved his hand in the man's shocked gaze.
A whole box of unopened amoxicillin.
A whole box of brand new 666 Cold Remedy.
In addition, there were two packs of compressed biscuits and two bottles of mineral water.
They appeared before the man, neat and tidy.
The middle-aged man looked at the box of life-saving medicine and food, which was as valuable as gold in the apocalypse, and could no longer hold back. The man in his forties burst into tears on the spot and was about to kneel down in front of Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng held him up.
"Take these things and go save your daughter." Lu Sheng's voice remained calm.
He put all the dozens of bags of seeds into his storage space, and a huge weight was finally lifted from his heart.
The post-apocalyptic farming plan is launched!
With the seeds in hand, Lu Sheng had a sudden thought: it was time to inquire about clues regarding the divine tree.
He said to Qin Yue and Lin Hu, who were completely lost in self-doubt beside him, "Let's go back and find that old gentleman."
"Still looking for him?" Lin Hu asked, puzzled. "You really believe his nonsense about that divine tree?"
"Perhaps." Lu Sheng smiled but offered no explanation.
Although Qin Yue was equally puzzled, she still followed, assuming that he was just being kind and wanted to see how the old man was doing.
However, when they followed the directions of passersby and found the old man's dilapidated shack, the sight before them made the three men's faces instantly darken.
The shack's curtain was roughly torn off, and the surrounding area was a mess.
The old man and his thin grandson were surrounded in a corner by seven or eight thugs wielding steel pipes and machetes. The two huddled together, trembling with fear.
The box of braised beef noodles and bottled water has long since disappeared.
The leader, a bald thug with a hideous scar on his face, was standing with one foot on the bag of rice that the old man was desperately protecting in his arms, which Lu Sheng had given him, and he was grinning maliciously.
"You old fool, be smart and hand over the rice!"
"In this Purple Mountain, those who don't know the rules won't live long!"
The bald thug spat and slapped the old man's face with a steel pipe, his voice filled with cruelty and brutality.
"Remember this: here, in the Blood Wolf Gang, the rules are in place!"
P.S.: First update of the day!