Chapter 3: Zombie Surrounding
In the marketplace.
There are already players selling goods, and because of the lack of currency, bartering is the way to trade.
One unit of wood for a bag of noodles; two units of machine parts for 550 ml of mineral water and so on.
Prices are set on their own, there is no uniform standard for everyone and they fluctuate a lot.
For the entire bazaar, there were only two pages of merchandise ( twelve items on one page ), all of which were materials of various kinds, and no one put food or water for sale.
"There are outlets and appliances in the safe house, just no electricity, and when I make the generator, I have electricity for boiling water and cooking cooked food. The probability of materials coming out of the resource box is much less than food."
With this in mind, Lin le contacted the player who was selling two units of mechanical parts.
"In? I want to buy mechanical parts, but 550ml of mineral water is too much." Lin Le wanted to press the price.
The other party quickly replied: "How much can you offer?"
"100ml."
"Big brother you're kidding me, how much is 100ml of water, it's sucked dry before it reaches my throat."
The person said: "400ml, the lowest price."
"Materials are useless, water and food are the key to staying alive."
Lin le argued with him, "Do you see anyone selling food and water at the bazaar? Everyone is selling materials, this is only the first day, in a few days it will be worth even less."
"But 100ml is too little."
The person said, "I almost got fucked by a zombie to open the resource box."
"I mean 100ml for one mechanical part, you have two, so I'll give you 200ml," Lin Le loosened up slightly.
"Well, I've got three mechanical parts, and a unit of lumber, same price, all for sale, can you eat it?" The guy on the other side was actually a bit worried, as wood was more plentiful at the bazaar and should be cheaper.
"Yes, let's mail trade." Lin le said.
" Alright."
In a short while, Lin Le received three mechanical parts and a unit of wood from the other party, Lin Le also passed 400ml of mineral water over, with the game system guarantee, no one can fool anyone.
Lin Le continued with the same tactics again, acquiring materials at low prices.
In the end, at the cost of two buckets of noodles, five sausages, and 500ml of soda, the 25 units of materials needed for the primary generator were assembled.
Tap into the workbench, lay out the drawings and materials, and the system starts crafting, which takes an hour.
During this time, Lin le looked at the world channel again (99120) .
It's only the first day and the death toll is already close to a thousand.
"I'm starving to death, does anyone send me something to eat ah, leave the game I will definitely thank you heavily." Jin Dahai.
"I've been bitten by a zombie, does anyone know how to detoxify it? My health keeps dropping and I'm dying!" Spicy Brown Sugar.
"My house is going to break down, is there any Greenwood players ah, come and save me." I'm a social animal.
Lin le was right there peering at the screen, and when he saw the message about me being a social animal, he raised an eyebrow and automatically ignored it.
In the evening people were mostly asking for help messages as opposed to the morning when players were cursing the game.
Opening the regional channel again, there were already 49 people, and Lin Le wasn't sure if that was too many or too few for a region.
Among other things, I'm a social animal's plea for help swiped the screen and no one cared about him.
Lin Le ignored his message and looked up the messages sent by others, which were similar to those on the world channel, all begging for resources.
"Has anyone found any water yet? I'll trade for wood." The sheep bleats.
"There's a rookie treasure chest in the restroom, go get it if you haven't, there's a machete to chop up the zombies, and the social animals should stop screaming and chop up the zombies themselves, they aren't that hard to fight." Baseball Guy.
"It's not hard to hit you come help me hit it!" I'm a social animal.
"Anyone near Fumin Road? Let's team up and fight tomorrow, split the resources equally when we find them." Big Shark.
"I'm near Fumin Road, we can get together." Zhang Nian.
"Okay, I'll look for you tomorrow."
[ System : Primary Generator has been automatically equipped to the Safe House. ]
Lin Le turned off the nutrient-less regional channel and checked up on the generator's attributes.
[ Primary generator : consumes one unit of Petrol or ten units of wood to generate electricity for 100 minutes. ]
Petrol this material, Lin Le have never seen, ten units and too much.
Lin Le checked the help book to find the instructions for this type of item, and found that it was possible to activate it with one unit of wood, but minus the activation loss, one unit of wood could only have a 5% effect, which meant generating electricity for 5 minutes.
"Try it."
Linle traded a sausage for two units of wood and burned one unit.
A lightning symbol appears on the safehouse's property panel, which is slowly dimming.
Lin Le turned on the light, poured the remaining mineral water in and boiled it, and the boiling water washed into the seafood noodles, the aroma was overflowing.
After a day of cold intestines, Linle ate the instant noodles in one big gulp, finally drinking all the soup and burping :
"It's true that I need to eat something warm to feel comfortable."
Seeing that there was still a little bit of boiling water left, Lin Le had a sudden idea to make another bucket of bubbling noodles and put it up on the bazaar, asking for 15 units of any material.
Because items in the marketplace are suspended in time, the bubbles are hot.
A bucket of steaming hot noodles had just hit the shelves and attracted countless private messages.
"Holy shit, how did you get hot water, big brother?"
"Is it okay to be cheap? I only have five units of glass."
"You mail me the bubble noodles and I'll give you a hundred thousand dollars back in reality! I, Jin Dahai, will never cheat anyone. "
" Hello? Can I trade you the drawings for this bucket of bubble noodles?"
The last private message caught Lin Le 's interest and he wrote back asking :
"What kind of drawings?"
The person on the other side posted a system message.
"[ Dim Electric Lamp ] : Glass*2, Iron*2 are required to make it. "
Lin le didn't reply to the letter, the drawings didn't seem to do much good when the safe houses all had electric lights.
Lin Le just wanted to utilize the time freeze function of the marketplace to save this bowl of bubble noodles, so that he could eat it hot tomorrow morning, and it didn't matter if he really couldn't sell it.
Five minutes passed, the generator ran out of power, and the house was once again plunged into darkness.
"'Gonna look for petrol tomorrow, don't know if there's any in those scrapped vehicles out there."
After there was no light, Lin Le 's ears became much more sensitive, he felt that the voices of the zombies outside the house seemed to be much louder, he was a little worried, so he rolled over and got out of bed, crouched at the corner of the window and peeked at the street.
At night, the zombies turned out to be a lot, almost one every two meters, but only a large chunk of the street near his house was empty, and all the zombies here had gathered around Lin le 's safe house.
"Strange, the other houses aren't surrounded either, is it a safe house for players only?" Lin Le pondered and suddenly thought, "It's the lights!"
Zombies have vision, just now the generator generated electricity and turned on the lights themselves, naturally attracting all the nearby zombies.
"Then in that case ."
Lin Le hurriedly opened the private message from earlier and reconnected with the person who had sent the drawings.
"Drawings, a little more materials, and the bubbles are traded to you."
"How much material do you want?"
"Make up your own mind, I'm looking at sincerity."
There was a moment of silence on the other side before responding, "I've wrapped up the drawings and the materials for its creation, you should have some water left over, right? Give it all to me."
"Good. In advance, there's not much water left, less than 100ml."
"It's okay. There's still water."
The two completed the transaction and Lin le began to make the dim electric light, quickly this time, it was ready in a minute.
[ Dim electric light : The light it emits does not easily attract the attention of monsters. ]
"Indeed."
Changing the lights in the safe house, Lin le went to bed, she had a house full of zombies to fight tomorrow and a headache.
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