Epoch of Twilight

Although he didn't sleep all night, with his physical fitness, Luo Yuan was still in high spirits. After breakfast, he took the money and walked out of the community to start scouting around.

He quickly asked about the location of the nearby grain market.

There is a lot of traffic in the food market, but the spacious layout and dense booths make it not crowded here. Luo Yuan went in to find out. Like Donghu City, there is also a maximum transaction volume here, but the transaction amount is far more than , No ID is required, and each person can buy fifty catties of grain each time.

It can be seen that there is no shortage of food in Hedong City, which is naturally due to the policy bias of the provincial capital city, and a large amount of grain reserves are given priority to supply to Hedong City. But the biggest reason is that there is the largest combat food preparation base in the province.

The entire market is filled with an unpleasant mildew smell, and some old grains are even more than ten years old. In the past, these old grains could only be used as raw materials for feed, but now they have become life-saving grains that people flock to.

The one catty of a catty of food stamps refers to these old grains, and the price of new grains is 1.5 times that of old grains.

According to the big characters on the wall of the grain market, these war grains are enough to feed 3 million people for a year. Of course, the government's propaganda and reality may be discounted, but it is still possible for at least three million people to eat it for half a year.

Besides these, what surprised Luo Yuan was that there was corn in one of the large stalls!

Of course, what surprised Luo Yuan was not the corn before the mutation, but the freshly picked corn.

Each of these corns is two feet long, the grains are plump like jade, and exudes a strange sweet fragrance, which makes people salivate. However, there are many people watching the excitement, but there are very few people who buy it.

Luo Yuan squeezed in, asked the price, and was a little shocked. Every catty of corn needs five catties of food stamps, and it needs to be sold as a whole. Buying such a corn of about six catties is enough to buy Thirty catties of old grain. For ordinary citizens who already occupy most of their income in order to fill their stomachs, it is really an extremely extravagant thing!

This kind of thing obviously just came out recently, and many people expressed doubts about the price, thinking that it should not be so expensive, and the scene was very noisy.

It is actually very normal to think so. In the current environment, as long as the plants are planted, they will grow slowly. The corn stalks are extremely high, and we are not afraid of weeds turning yellow and dying due to blocking the sun. The main food that replaces rice for a long time!

In the end, the manager of the official management got a little impatient when asked, his face sank, and he said loudly: "Corn stalks really grow very fast, and they can grow to a height of more than three or four meters. It is the only grain that can be grown in the wild. species. But you probably don’t know that its fruiting rate is extremely low. A corn plant can only produce one corn cob at most, and most of them don’t grow any. But it’s only the first batch now, and the people from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences are working hard Improve the seeds, and the price will come down in the future.”

I heard the other party say that the corn stalks grow very long, but the result rate is extremely low. Luo Yuan suddenly discovered that since the disaster broke out, no matter whether it was flowers, plants or trees, he seemed to have never seen the phenomenon of flowering and fruiting.

Survival and reproduction are two instincts imprinted deep in the genes. If these two behaviors were not contradictory in the past, reproduction is a step in survival. But now that the biological world is experiencing an evolutionary frenzy, the first thing a species needs to consider is how not to be eliminated by other species in this evolutionary frenzy. In order to gain a competitive advantage, the reproductive behavior that consumes a lot of energy is naturally greatly reduced, or even temporarily given up.

Just like an employee who has just entered a highly competitive company, his first consideration is how not to be eliminated in the competition, and he will consider appreciation, salary increase, etc. after he has gained a foothold.

Next, Luo Yuan walked to the vegetable market located tens of meters away.

Most of them are vegetables, which are not only cheap, but also extremely big. Vegetables weighing seven to eight catties or even ten catties can be found everywhere, but the thick fibers of the vegetable leaves are obviously not too tasteful. Well, hard to swallow at least.

Of course, there is also meat, but it is relatively small. Mutated pork, mutated chickens and ducks, and a small part are other mutated creatures, which should be obtained from outside. Luo Yuan secretly appraised it, and found that it was all white meat, but there was none of light blue meat. The price of these meats is quite expensive, and it generally takes five or six catties of food stamps per catty.

He really wanted to buy a few catties of fresh meat to go back, but he didn't have food stamps, so he could only take a look first.

Walking out of the vegetable market, he went directly to the bank. Without food stamps, it was difficult to move a single step in Hedong City, but Luo Yuan did not intend to exchange all his money for food stamps, because he found out that these food stamps were printed privately by Hedong City. Cannot pass elsewhere.

Therefore, even if the currency depreciates further, it is better than a sudden change in Hedong City one day, resulting in all the food stamps turning into a pile of waste paper and becoming nothing. But even so, he spent 46,000 yuan in exchange for 2,000 catties of food stamps. Up to now, all his funds have been less than 80,000 yuan.

These food stamps plus the food in my own reserves should be enough for a long time.

Just as Luo Yuan walked out of the bank, there was a commotion in the street.

In the distance, a group of people who looked like refugees came here in a mighty way. Some people still had blood on their bodies. Except for a few people who seemed to have just cried and looked sad, most of them had blood on their faces. With lingering fear and joy.

"Who are these people?" Luo Yuan pulled a middle-aged man who was watching the fun and asked.

"Oh, it's the people from Donghu City who escaped." The middle-aged man said slightly disgusted, with a hint of dissatisfaction on his face: "It seems that they were attacked on the highway and some people died."

"This is the second batch. It seems that there will be a third batch and a fourth batch. Alas, life will be even more difficult in the future. I really don't know what the higher-ups think. There is not enough food in the first place. If they divide it, everyone will be hungry. Dead." Jian started the conversation, a young man with nearsighted eyes who looked like a college student said.

"I don't think it should be rescued. There are so many people in the whole province, so they are all going to Hedong City." A woman looked at the group of people unabashedly and agreed.

Luo Yuan understands this kind of mentality very well, just like a family living in a very difficult situation, suddenly hearing that outsiders want to come to the house for a long time for free, anyone will feel repelled, but understanding is understanding, as Donghu City people, seeing the mentality around them wishing that all the people in Donghu City would die, he was also very angry.

"I'm from Donghu City!" Luo Yuan said, glancing around coldly.

After being upgraded to proficient in knife skills, the aura he exudes is even more terrifying. In addition, he is still unable to fully control it. Under the influence of anger, the terrifying aura emits uncontrollably, and the faces of several people nearby become pale. , as if extremely frightened. One of them seemed to have a bad heart, clutching his chest in pain, and then fell limply on the ground.

The onlookers were in an uproar.

"Kill it!"

"Help!"

"The soldiers killed people here!"

"Catch him!"

...

Some people who reacted quickly shouted with malicious intent, but no one really dared to pull him!

Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, and he didn't expect such a thing to happen. Several soldiers stationed at the bank noticed that something seemed to be happening here, and they were walking towards this side hesitantly. on the man who fell on the ground. Hurriedly squeezed into the crowd, relying on strength and agility, quickly escaped from here!

Because he was worried about the pursuit of the soldiers, Luo Yuan didn't go to the vegetable market anymore, and went home directly. When he walked to the living room, he saw that some fresh meat and vegetables had been bought on the table, and there was even a big corn.

"I'm back!" Huang Jiahui walked out of the kitchen wearing a scarf when she heard the voice.

"You bought this!" Luo Yuan asked in surprise, pointing at the dishes on the table.

"Of course I bought it, did I pick it up?"

"That's not what I mean, I'm asking how do you still have money? Well, I seem to have forgotten such things as bank cards, by the way, how much money do you have now?" Luo Yuan smiled wryly.

"I still have more than 1.7 million in my card. I just went to withdraw 100,000 to exchange for some food stamps. What's wrong?" Huang Jiahui said frankly without hiding the slightest bit.

Luo Yuan was a little surprised. He didn't expect Huang Jiahui to be a rich woman, but when he thought about the current situation, he said, "Don't put the money in the bank. Take out all the money while it's still available. I'm worried that it may happen again in the future." Can't get it out either."

When Huang Jiahui heard this, she immediately became worried. This possibility is extremely high. Maybe something like this will happen. She frowned slightly, and then said: "It doesn't seem very safe to change it into money. Gold in troubled times, gold in prosperous times Antiques, coins are the easiest to depreciate, and I don’t know if the bank can still exchange them for gold.”

Huang Jiahui has relatively rich experience, not comparable to a fledgling young man like Luo Yuan, and soon thought of a better way to preserve value!

"It's still early for dinner, why don't we go now?" Huang Jiahui asked eagerly after turning around a few times.

"Forget it today, some accidents happened." Luo Yuan smiled wryly, not knowing whether the heart patient would die because of it.

Thinking of the dislike and hatred that the people of Hedong City had for the people of Donghu City before, he couldn't help but worry a little. As the people of Donghu City came over one after another, there might be fierce conflicts in the entire Hedong City.