Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded
#10 - Trading, Slave Market, Lin Feng lv4
Lin Feng woke up with a yawn.
This was the most comfortable sleep he had since waking up in the wasteland.
He glanced at the old-fashioned clock hanging on the front of the bus; it was only twelve noon.
He had only slept for four or five hours, but it was enough to dispel the mental fatigue that had been accumulating.
Even the injury to his right leg was healing quickly.
Sleep was the best way to recover, although this was also related to the improvement of his strength.
The higher the enhancement level, the stronger the self-healing ability.
Ding Yi, who was lying on the middle bunk, also woke up.
The two of them got out of the bus with the captain and saw Boss Huang under the bus's solar panels, sporting a slicked-back hairstyle and sunglasses, using the bus's battery to power an induction cooker and start cooking.
Wolf meat sizzled in the frying pan.
The aroma of meat filled the air.
A folding table and four stools had already been set up nearby, creating a feeling of camping in the desolate wilderness.
As the pan-fried wolf meat was taken out of the pan, divided into four plates, and placed on the table.
A sumptuous lunch officially began.
"Taste my master-level cooking skills!"
"For this wolf meat, I added the most precious cumin!"
Boss Huang put his hands together, symbolically giving thanks, then eagerly picked up a knife and fork and began to taste it.
The other three who were seated also started to try it.
The barbecue flavor matched the medium-rare wolf meat, and the seasoning perfectly masked the gamey taste.
The taste and texture were both excellent.
Boss Huang raised his glass and continued to celebrate:
"Come, let's toast this damn world!"
Everyone then raised their glasses and clinked them together.
Lin Feng tasted the light, sweet and sour orange juice, which had a low alcohol content and a strong fruity aroma.
"Seabuckthorn fruit has twenty-five times the vitamin C content of lemons, and is known as the king of vitamin C.
It's also a hot commodity in the wasteland,"
Ding Yi introduced the ingredients of the juice.
Lin Feng remembered those wastelanders he had seen at the beginning, whose teeth were blackened and gums were bleeding due to long-term malnutrition, which might also be related to this.
After drinking a glass of seabuckthorn wine, he was full and satisfied.
A warm current spread throughout his body from his stomach.
Lin Feng glanced at the attribute panel in the corner of his eye, and his health and physique were both approaching the upper limit of twenty.
He estimated that it wouldn't be long before the next enhancement upgrade.
Chen Shanshan wiped her mouth, put down her mask, and slowly stood up, preparing to leave.
In order not to attract attention, after discussing it, the three decided that Ding Yi would stay behind to guard the home and take care of the twenty kilograms of wolf meat in the compartment.
The other two would take the remaining wolf meat, organs, and bones used for trading to the central market of the Fifth Village.
After being dried, the wolf meat shrunk by more than half.
The original sixty kilograms were only a little over thirty kilograms.
Chen Shanshan took twenty kilograms of it, along with ten kilograms of organs and a batch of wolf bones.
Not long after leaving the bus, Lin Feng asked why Ding Yi was left to guard the important wolf meat supplies, worried that something unexpected might happen.
Chen Shanshan shrugged her shoulders:
"You can't run away with the temple.
Besides, a motorhome is worth much more than a few kilograms of wolf meat.
Old Huang is a registered villager in the Fifth Village and has official status.
Plus, with the strength of a later-stage enhanced person, no one dares to do anything."
"Official villagers are allowed to carry guns, which is different from us outsiders."
Lin Feng nodded silently.
After eating a meal, he also saw that the living standards of the residents in the convoy were much better than those of the wastelanders behind.
No wonder so many wastelanders were racking their brains and trying their best to squeeze in.
After seeing the life in the convoy, who would want to continue wandering in the barren and dangerous wasteland?
According to what he had seen and heard in the Fifth Village, the resources in Oasis Town were not scarce, at least there was no shortage of water.
With water and solar energy, you basically have everything.
Being able to afford to brew wine with food and set up bathhouses, the abundance of supplies was enough to support tens of thousands of wastelanders.
But they didn't do that…
Lin Feng raised his head and looked at a steel behemoth not far away, a kilometer away, with lush green branches on top, quietly parked and standing on the wasteland.
That was the mobile oasis, the core of Oasis Town.
The residence of the upper class, the true paradise of the wasteland, the supreme existence that thousands of vehicles closely followed and tens of thousands of wastelanders looked up to.
They were the creators of the wasteland's order.
Lin Feng licked his lips, wondering when he would be qualified to board this steel behemoth.
But for now, he should first find a way to take root and settle down in the convoy that was following behind, to avoid the hardship of running around.
Following Chen Shanshan all the way, they entered the central area of the Fifth Village.
There were many shop-like cars here, selling everything.
From food and water to daily necessities, it was very similar to the country fairs of the past, and not much different from wholesale markets.
Because the two of them had hundreds of kilograms of dried meat and bones in their hands, which were inconvenient to carry, Chen Shanshan went straight to the clothing store and exchanged half a kilogram of wolf meat for two woven cloth bags.
After putting the supplies into them, they would trade them again.
"Is there no unified currency here?
Isn't it troublesome to barter and bargain?"
Lin Feng saw the bustling market with people coming and going, everyone carrying a bag of things on their backs or pulling a trailer, and couldn't help but ask.
Chen Shanshan had already locked on to her target and explained:
"Because most of the wastelanders live one day at a time, money is just a burden in their hands.
Food and water are more practical.
Dried meat is the hard currency here."
In short, the commodity economic scale of the market was not enough to support the issuance and circulation of currency.
Lin Feng nodded and continued to follow her.
The captain, who was in shopping mode, changed from being silent and reticent in the wilderness, as if she had become a different person.
She was very talkative and didn't hold back when it came to bargaining.
In the end, she spent ten kilograms of wolf meat and ten kilograms of organs in exchange for a pile of things.
Including flatbreads and steamed buns baked from plant roots, a water filter, and a tin bucket filled with two hundred liters of water.
Enough for three people to consume for a month or so in the wasteland.
Moreover, Holy Spring Day was when fresh water was the cheapest.
In addition, what surprised Lin Feng the most was that the captain also exchanged for a solar stove.
In fact, it was just a focusing mirror with a diameter of one meter.
The inner concave surface was covered with a layer of reflective metal film, which could form a focal point on the iron frame.
You could boil water by putting an iron kettle on it, and you could also steam and cook in an iron pot.
It was just that the speed was a bit slow, taking an hour or so.
It wasn't as direct and convenient as a car battery.
But the advantage was that the structure was simple and not easily damaged or aged.
With this thing, it would be much more convenient to hunt in the wilderness, and there was no need to live the life of a savage who drank blood.
After buying most of the living supplies, the two of them carried things in both hands and strolled to the end of the market.
Suddenly, Lin Feng smelled an inappropriate stench, the smell of urine and feces.
Although the smell was not strong, it was very abrupt in the relatively clean market.
Looking in the direction the smell came from, the scene in front of him made him stunned in place.
In a row of rusty iron cages, countless ragged men were imprisoned.
Outside the iron cages were women with handcuffs and shackles, also mentally depressed and scantily clad.
"This is the slave market, the third largest business in the wasteland besides food and fresh water."
Chen Shanshan's voice came from beside him.
Having seen it all before, she was once one of them:
"Don't look.
The slaves in this kind of place will only be bought by some convoys or wealthy people in the village to be exploited to death.
They don't have any combat ability."
With that said, Chen Shanshan found an open space next to the slave market and placed the remaining organs and wolf bones in the cloth bag, as well as the remaining eighteen steel wolf teeth, on the linen:
"You guard here.
If someone wants it, sell it.
I'll go exchange for other supplies.
I have to go to a special place for medicine.
After buying it, I'll push the cart back on the way."
"The wolf teeth can be sold for a higher price.
Specifically, these should be more expensive than twenty kilograms of dried meat."
Lin Feng nodded and sat in front of the stall.
The official also accepts these things, but they will only offer the minimum price, and they will only consider the Hunter's Guild if they really can't sell them.
"Team… Captain…"
"Captain Chen…"
At this time, several very weak calls came from the iron cage not far away.
Lin Feng looked up and saw several familiar faces, but compared to their original sallow and thin appearance, these former team members who followed Qi Shan to leave had been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable.
Their eye sockets were sunken, their cheekbones were prominent, and they looked haggard.
Chen Shanshan didn't even look at them, picked up the remaining ten kilograms of dried meat, and turned around and left.
Lin Feng watched her leave, then turned his head and showed a sneer, took out the dried wolf meat he had left in his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, and drank water in big gulps.
This piece of dried meat was from the hind leg of a wild wolf, rich in nutrition, and could help him improve his enhancement level.
The big mouthfuls of meat and water made the former team members in the iron cage envious and jealous, their eyeballs bulging, their veins standing upright, and shaking the rusty railings.
The slave owner next to him immediately scolded and waved his whip.
Lin Feng carefully scanned it, but Qi Shan's younger brother, including the woman who cooperated with him in the double act, was not among them.
They were all potential threats.
Soon after, as the wolf meat in his stomach was digested, an extremely comfortable warm current flowed into his whole body.
Lin Feng completed the upgrade and was promoted to a mid-stage lv4 enhanced person:
「Lin Feng, lv4 / 9」
「Health 24, Physique: 24, Spirit: 23; lv4 upper limit of each attribute 25」
「Item upgrade upper limit increased to lv4」
「Can consume 1 point of Health to upgrade the lv3 Fine Revolver」
「Can consume 1 point of Health to upgrade the lv1 Water Purifier」
「Can consume 1 point of Health to upgrade the lv1 Solar Stove」
Just before Lin Feng could finish reading carefully, the footsteps of two figures stopped in front of the stall:
"These iron teeth, are they wolf teeth?"
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