Rebirth in the last days: 30 million winning prizes at the beginning

It's snowing heavily.

Trading bazaar residential area management center.

The staff inside were busy until eight o'clock in the evening, but there were still people queuing outside.

There are too many survivors asking to turn on the heating. Nowadays, heating bills are very cheap to collect.

It's even cheaper than renting, and it only costs a few tenths of points per day.

Even if you stay for a month, you only get a few points.

This is still affordable for most survivors.

Of course, some survivors felt that the temperature was not too cold now, so they bought some charcoal at a cheaper price for heating.

There are not many pedestrians in the trading market business district.

The total area of ​​the trading market is only a few thousand acres, but it is home to more than 200,000 survivors, which can be said to be very crowded.

Especially in residential areas, it is more crowded.

Areas A, B, and C are overcrowded.

The distance between the buildings in Area C is very small, so it looks like there is a huge flow of people.

The workers who installed the heating pipes are still working today.

Pipeline installation is now done in two shifts.

The installation was being carried out day and night.

Because their temperature may drop later, the lower the temperature, the more difficult the subsequent installation work will be.

Although the temperature has reached minus seven or eight degrees, it is not very difficult to install the pipeline.

If it reaches minus 30 degrees Celsius or even higher, it becomes extremely difficult to work outside.

.......

Residential area.

Area A.

Xie Dongming braved the white snow and walked into the room.

There is heating in the room, and you feel warm as soon as you enter.

He turned around and closed the door behind him to avoid wasting heat.

"Lao Xie, how is the business in the store?" When the wife saw her husband coming back, she put down her needlework and walked over.

She was sewing clothes from animal skins, they opened a barbecue restaurant, and they used to go out hunting.

When the business in the back store was good, they rarely went out to hunt animals themselves.

Instead, buy the hunted animals from the survivors, or buy them from the third shop in the trading bazaar.

Over time, they also saved a lot of animal skins, which they sewed into warm clothing.

The animal skin is very warm and can withstand temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero when worn.

After hearing his wife's inquiry, Xie Dongming smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"The weather is getting colder, the flow of people is much less, and business is not as good as before."

The wife nodded and frowned:

"This is also normal. Now that the city is closed, I heard that the construction of the wall has stopped. Many people have lost their jobs. Consumption has been downgraded. It is normal to be reluctant to eat meat."

"It's just that if we can't sell the meat we stocked up before, we will suffer a big loss."

Before the blizzard came, they stocked up on some meat so that they could still sell it after the city was closed.

To this end, they allocated 80% of their mobile points and used them all to stockpile meat.

Considering their size, this is a big deal.

Xie Dongming took the hot tea handed over by his wife, took a sip and said:

"Not necessarily. Maybe business will get better if we wait a little longer."

"What do you say?" asked the wife.

Xie Dongming looked at Zhu Ziming opposite, and Zhu Ziming smiled thoughtfully and said:

"According to internal information, there will be major construction projects in the future, and a lot of people will be recruited by then."

Xie Dongming’s wife asked doubtfully:

"But the buffer city has been stopped, and the walls have been completed. What other big projects are there? It can't be inside the trading market, right? There is no room for construction in the trading market...

"

"Sister-in-law, no."

Zhu Ziming explained:

"There are guards on the buffer city wall now, why? Why not simply retreat to the trading market."

"That's for double protection of the trading market!" Xie Dongming's wife said.

"More than that."

Zhu Ziming continued:

"I observed it when I passed by the Trade Market Industrial Zone. There is a factory there that produces a lot of greenhouse building materials. I'm afraid they will be used in the buffer city."

"Furthermore, a level 3 person I know told me that a recruitment notice for the construction of a greenhouse in the buffer city should be issued in the next two days or so.

Think about it, the buffer city is so large, there will definitely be a lot of greenhouses built, and it will probably require a lot of manpower."

The old man Xie Dongming was there and threw a corn silk cigarette to Zhu Ziming.

"The price of corn silk cigarettes has increased again. Now a pack of cigarettes costs 5 points."

Zhu Ziming took it, lit it with a match and sighed:

"There is no way, the city is closed, prices may rise later!"

"By the way, who is watching in the store now?"

Xie Dongming pursed his lips and replied:

"Zihao and Wen Qian, there are few guests now, so I asked everyone else to come back."

"Um."

Zhu Ziming thought for a moment and said:

"Now that the No. 3 store has implemented food control, the price of meat has increased, and there are also limited purchases. I wonder if we need to increase prices in our store now, otherwise we will lose money."

Xie Dongming raised his head and took a deep breath before replying:

"Okay, then let's increase the price by 10%. If the No. 3 official store raises the price later, we will follow suit. By the way, has the No. 2 tortilla shop raised the price? They..."

"No, it's still the same price."

Zhu Ziming continued attentively:

“Corn tortillas and multigrain cakes are guaranteed food supplies, so I don’t think there will be any big fluctuations.

The barbecue meat we sell is actually a luxury product, so the price increase is normal."

Today, more than 99% of the survivors in the trading market eat corn tortillas or multigrain tortillas, as well as the recently introduced sweet potato pancakes and potato pancakes.

Tortillas and sweet potato tortillas, corn tortillas are the same price.

Both are worth 0.25 points each.

And, like the tortillas, they are the same size and the portions are very solid.

But the taste is just different.

As for multigrain tortillas, they are mixed with more vegetables, cooking oil, and salt, and they taste better than corn tortillas.

These cake-like foods are easy to preserve, simple to make, and easy to satisfy your hunger.

The most important thing is that it can provide more energy and is very suitable as a staple food.

It is the cheapest food in the trading market and the most affordable food.

From top to bottom, people eat this kind of food.

It is the thing with the largest supply and largest sales volume in the trading market.

Sometimes, even level 2 and 3 personnel can be seen eating this kind of food.

But for them, it is just an emergency alternative food.

In the Da Zhangshu Base, the food production area in the north, the most important crops grown are these three categories:

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes.

Because these three types of crops have the highest yields, they are relatively simple to take care of.

In Da Zhangshu Base and Petroleum City, in order to stabilize the points system after the natural disaster, price guarantee measures were adopted.

The unified price is 0.25 points. No matter when it comes, we must ensure that this price can be stable.

Once food prices rise, it will cause great trouble.

The price of this most basic food has increased, which will make many survivors think that the price of tortillas will increase in the future, in order to prevent the points in their hands from devaluing.

Then spend as much points as possible and exchange them for tortillas.

Anyway, corn tortillas are easy to store, and since the weather is so cold now, they can be stored longer.

In some ways, tortillas also serve as a store of value.

Once all the survivors use their points to redeem tortillas, a run will break out.

The daily production of tortillas at Store No. 2 is based on demand.

For example, if 50,000 copies are sold today, about 60,000 copies will be produced tomorrow.

Once the bank run breaks out, the official store will not be able to exchange enough tortillas, which will cause a trust crisis. So many points accumulated by the survivors in the trading market cannot be exchanged for food.

That's fatal.

It is very likely to cause a riot, and it is a riot that is extremely difficult to suppress.

After all, food is no longer available, and this problem is extremely serious.

Therefore, the stable price of corn tortillas is the stable fundamentals of the trading market.

This is also the reason why domestic rice and flour prices were stable before the end of the world.

This is also the reason why these basic foods remain in a stable state no matter how the market economy changes.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the foundation for a country's stability before the end of the world.

In the apocalypse, the fundamental stability in the trading market is food and housing.

In terms of accommodation, living is also very cheap.

Among the worst housing in Zone C, the room on the top floor only costs 0.01 points per day.

Even if you stay for 100 days, you only need 1 point.

Even the poorest person can afford to live in this house and have a place to live as long as he is willing to move and do something.

And water is very cheap now, and ten liters of water only costs 0.01 points.

In terms of food, based on corn tortillas, each one is only 0.25 points.

The tortilla is about the size of a face, about the same size as XJ naan, and the ingredients are solid.

If there is no need to perform physical labor and only the energy to keep a person alive,

According to the standard of not starving to death, one piece of bread can last for five days, or even longer.

But if an adult man performs hard labor, he can easily finish it off with one tortilla for one meal.

People in the apocalypse don't have very good stomachs.

But they have one common characteristic, that is, they can both eat and be hungry.

In the house, Xie Dongming, Zhu Ziming and others chatted about the latest situation of the trading market and analyzed the policies that will be promulgated by the Oil City in the future.

They do business in the trading market, and it is important to be well-informed.

Since they were the first team to enter the trading bazaar, the patrol team members had a pretty good relationship with them.

After all, they all watched the commercial district rise with their own eyes, and they were also the first team to set up a shop before they could do anything. The patrol team also took good care of them.

"Brother Xie, I think...

We still have to find ways to increase our contribution points. Our current transaction points are actually quite a lot, which can fully support the lives of everyone in our team for a long time."

Zhu Ziming squinted his eyes and continued:

"Right now, all we have are trading points. To advance to a higher level, from the current point of view, we can only do some tasks..."

"There are people in the DPRK who are easy to get things done.

If there is someone in our team who is a Level 3 personnel, our life will be much easier in the future. Although Captain Li Zhengping is pretty good to us now, if he is transferred in the future..."

"In the long run, I think we still need to find ways to upgrade our levels. Even if not all of us, some of us must upgrade."

Xie Dongming crushed the cigarette butt and blew out a puff of smoke.

He nodded and said:

"You're right, I've thought about this problem before,

But now that the city is closed, outbound missions have been suspended, and contribution points can only be obtained through engineering and construction tasks."

"You mean, how many people should be photographed to take on engineering projects?"

"Yes, although the quota is limited, we are level four personnel after all, so it should be easy to pick them up." Zhu Ziming nodded.

Xie Dongming took a sip of tea, thought for a moment and said:

"That's okay. The pipeline project is almost finished now.

Later, we may recruit people to guard the buffer city wall, but that is more dangerous.

There is also a greenhouse to be built. If the greenhouse is built, there may be indoor planting and farming in the future..."

"Aren't there already several experimental greenhouses being built in Oil City... There will definitely not be enough farmers by then, I think...

Wait a little longer, and when farming personnel are released later, join them."

Zhu Ziming shook his head and said:

"Brother, I think the contribution points for farming are definitely not high, and there will definitely be some training... In addition, the construction of greenhouses is actually very cold."

"The most important thing is that the people you can contact,

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you are engaged in farming, you can only contact the planting experts in Oil City, and if you are building a greenhouse, you can only contact their engineers."

"They are not violent real power agencies."

"I think we should still guard the buffer city wall. The people on top are from the Civil Armed Forces Division brigade. Some of the people on the patrol team are now from the Civil Armed Forces Division!"

"If you want to go, just go to this."

“And you can get more contribution points!”

Xie Dongming frowned and said:

"But guarding the wall is very dangerous. Judging from our current conditions, there is no need for us to take risks..."

He hesitated. He had been at the trading market for a long time and had not been out for a long time.

Staying in such a safe place, he was somewhat accustomed to his current comfortable life.

But he also knew that if he continued to be at ease and was not prepared for danger in times of peace, he would definitely encounter problems one day.

After finishing speaking, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Okay, then I'll listen to you."

"Let who go?"

Zhu Ziming said freely:

"I'm the first to take the lead. Anyway, I can't help much with the business in the store, and I don't really like doing business."

Xie Dongming glanced at him blankly and made a decision.

"I asked Zihao to go with you."

"You're crazy, Lao Xie! We only have a son, Zihao!"

When Xie Dongming's wife heard this, she couldn't listen anymore and stood up and pulled Xie Dongming.

Zhu Ziming also advised:

"Brother, Zihao is still young, otherwise..."

Xie Dongming took out a cigarette and smoked it loudly.

"Zihao is not young anymore, he is already 25 years old, he is still young!"

Half a moment.

He continued seriously:

"Besides, if you can go, why can't my son go? His life is even more precious? The lives of you old brothers are also lives! Don't persuade me, just let him have a try!"

"ah!!"

"Lao Xie, if you let Zihao go, I will fight with you."

Xie Dongming’s wife pulled Xie Dongming’s arm and cried:

"The end of the world came when Zihao just came of age, and he suffered so much with us.

In the past, our living conditions were almost the same.

Now that the living conditions are better, you still ask him to go on duty at the wall. He has to stand for such a long time in such a cold weather, and it is also dangerous. What on earth are you thinking!"

"How can anyone send his son to the front line?"

Xie Dongming threw his wife's hand away.

He pointed at her and said angrily:

"A loving mother often loses her son, I have decided!"

He waved his hand and said seriously: "If you keep talking, I will let you guard the wall!"

"Gah?" Xie Dongming's wife was confused.

"Ah?" Zhu Ziming was even more confused.

What an annoying circuit.

Brother Xie is still ruthless and lets his wife and children fight against the zombies.

I admire you!

Xie Dongming's wife stared blankly for a while, gritted her teeth and stamped her feet and said:

“Just go!”

"Go! Go and get a hammer! Although the previous illness has healed, but the root of the disease has been left, go!

You can't pass the physical examination, just stay patient!" Xie Dongming said in an unpleasant tone.

Xie Dongming actually thinks Zhu Ziming is right, their explorer team must have a good future.

You can't just open a shop and do business in the trading market.

Someone must move up step by step.

Since ancient times, power has been more important than money.

If my son can upgrade, he will definitely have a bright future.

Because they have a relatively solid points foundation, and if the two cooperate with each other, his son's path will be easier. This is his consideration.

Xie Dongming's wife was so shocked by the firmness in his tone that she did not dare to continue crying.

A man sat by the bed, covering his face and crying bitterly,

Crying.

Xie Dongming loves his wife,

Otherwise, he would not have taken out so much bacon and yams and risked his life to trade in the market for antibiotics, just to save his wife's life.

But the expression of his love is not words, but actions.

He can give his life for her, but he can never lose in a verbal quarrel.

........

........

Oil City.

conference room.

Night discussions.

Lao Luo, Ju Tianrui, Li Zhengping, Zhong Chuchu, Lao Huang and others in the conference room are all here.

Xie Changshan dragged his exhausted body to the conference room with Liu Yu, Ding Wu, and Fang Jingxin.

People in their engineering department have been working hard for many days.

Since the establishment of the trading market, they have hardly had much rest.

One project after another.

Especially recently, the progress of the project has been rushed, the requirements are high, there are many problems, and the project is large, which makes them overwhelmed.

"Minister, we are here." Xie Changshan's figure appeared at the door of the conference room, his voice a little hoarse.

After the third uncle saw his, he stood up enthusiastically.

"Chief Engineer Xie, I'm waiting for you. Before you could come, we discussed it first.

That big greenhouse project, I just want to tell you in detail!"

Another big project...

The faces of Ding Wu, Fang Jingxin, and Liu Yu behind Xie Changshan suddenly fell.

I wailed in my heart: Didn’t I say there would be a holiday?

The buffer city wall has just been completed, but the heating pipes haven't been laid yet!

Why is there another big project?

.........

(asking for monthly ticket)