After entering the city, the guards led Jiang Feng and Cui Wei to a security room and asked them to wait.
Five or six minutes later, a woman brought a large tray with two large bowls of water and seven or eight large, roughly made steamed buns.
Although they were just ordinary steamed buns, these were enough for the hungry Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng ate with gusto, but Cui Wei ate a little reluctantly, with a slight look of disgust on her expression.
If it weren't for the fact that she was so hungry now, Cui Wei would not eat such crude dry food.
After Cui Wei finished eating three big steamed buns, she said to the guard: "Can I see Shi Xing?"
Cui Wei felt that as long as she saw Shi Xing, she would be able to eat more decent food and have a good place to take a bath.
However, the guard replied angrily: "Ordinary people don't want to see the city lord. The city lord has ordered that only those with a strength of over 80 are qualified to see the city lord."
"I see, you still need to prove your strength when meeting a city lord. When did your city lord become so arrogant?" Cui Wei said unhappily.
"There is no way. Recently, the city lord doesn't want to see anyone, unless he is a powerful person."
"Send Jiang Ze's name to the city lord. He must know Jiang Ze's name."
"You already informed your superiors when you first entered the city, but the superiors sent a message saying: The city lord does not recognize Jiang Ze's name and does not consider meeting."
"What's going on with Shi Xing?" Cui Wei said resentfully.
Under the table, Jiang Feng lightly kicked Cui Wei.
"Forget it, we can just eat what we have. Besides, we are not Shi Xing's real friends." Jiang Feng said.
Cui Wei felt that there was something in Jiang Feng's words, so she stopped asking to see Shi Xing and continued to eat the big steamed bun.
Although the steamed buns were very unpalatable, the two of them were still full.
After eating and drinking, a refugee instructor came into the security room. He said to Jiang Feng and Cui Wei: "This is the only meal we can provide for free. You have only two choices next, either leave Shicheng or join Shicheng."
"How to join Shicheng?" Cui Wei asked.
"Just apply for an account, and then someone will arrange a job for you. The job will get stamped banknotes, which will be distributed every week. Newcomers can advance a week's salary to cover daily expenses."
"Can't I stay in Shicheng as a tourist?" Jiang Feng asked.
"That's also possible, but you must use your valuables to exchange for the stamped banknotes here for your expenses."
"Like what?"
"Gold, jewelry, pistols, oil, etc., but I see that you are so down and out, you probably don't have anything valuable anymore, and the broken motorcycle you brought just happened to be out of gas, so you still Just open an account with peace of mind and work hard."
"So what do we newcomers mainly do?"
"It depends on what skills you have, but generally speaking, newcomers go to construction sites, mines, quarries, etc. to do hard labor."
"Hey, I'm a girl, do I have to work as a coolie?" Cui Wei actually didn't plan to work in Shicheng, but she was a little curious about the working mechanism of Shicheng, so she asked tentatively.
"Girls are also cyborgs, so of course they can work as coolies. However, there will be new recruitment needs in the city every week. At that time, some of the girls who work as coolies can be selected to be waiters, front desks, tour guides, etc. In short, the current work in Shicheng The mechanism is very complete. Although it is not as good as the society before the apocalypse, it is still very humane. Everyone can find a suitable job according to their needs. Working as a coolie is just an excess." The instructor explained.
"So, what if you want to leave Shicheng after registering? What will happen?" Jiang Feng asked.
"It's very dangerous outside. In principle, Shicheng does not allow anyone to leave without permission. But if you have to leave Shicheng, you must pay a fee to cancel your household registration, and you must also buy enough weapons, food, equipment and other survival tools."
"Understood, let me guess, the cost of canceling the household registration must be quite high, and the weapons must also be expensive, right?"
"It's not very expensive. Most people can almost cancel their household registration with half a month's salary, and a weapon made from ash ore can be bought with one month's salary."
"After working hard for a month, I can only buy a gray ore weapon. Isn't it expensive enough?"
"Why do you think so much? Basically no one is willing to leave Shicheng. Wuchuan City is different from other cities. This is the Devil's Triangle. It is very dangerous outside Shicheng. There are many fire beasts and poisons. You may be driving motorcycles. Cars, so I'm lucky and didn't encounter them, but I would like to advise you that once you leave Shicheng, you must save enough money to buy weapons and transportation."
"What kind of creature is Salamander?"
"A creature with red and fiery skin. It looks like a leopard, but it is huge. One is equivalent to five ordinary leopards."
"Why do these creatures carry fire?" Jiang Feng was a little curious.
"I don't know about this. These creatures have only appeared recently, and Wuchuan City has only started to get hotter recently. If there was not a huge lake in Shicheng, Shicheng would have withered long ago."
"Then why are the lakes in Shicheng okay, but the lakes and rivers outside Shicheng have dried up?"
"I don't know the specific situation, but I heard it was because the barrier in Shicheng played a role."
"Isn't there anyone to investigate?"
"Of course there is, but the investigation will not be made public. The higher-ups cannot let ordinary people like us know too much. By the way, have you asked enough? Decide quickly, do you want to stay in Shicheng?"
"Wait, definitely stay, we are scared to stay outside." Cui Wei said.
"Then fill in the information quickly and I'll register for you." The instructor took out two pieces of information from his backpack.
"No, no, no, we want to stay in Shicheng as tourists." Cui Wei replied.
"Then do you have gold? If you don't have gold, don't waste my time." The instructor said impatiently.
"Of course." Cui Wei took off two gold earrings from both ears and put them on the table.
These two gold earrings are not big, adding up to about 5 grams.
The instructor picked up the gold earrings, looked at them, and said with disgust: "These two things can only exchange you for about 100 yuan of stamped banknotes at most. 100 yuan is only enough for you to stay in a hotel for one night, so you should be honest and apply for a household registration. Work part-time. Common people with household registration have free housing, and the rooms are pretty good, not inferior to hotels."
"How come 5 grams of gold is only worth 100 yuan? 1 gram is only worth 20 yuan?" Cui Wei said unhappy.
"Gold has depreciated. It's depreciating every day."
"But in the land east of Hedong, gold doesn't seem to depreciate so fast, right?" Jiang Feng asked back.
"We don't care about gold here anymore. Apart from being beautiful, it has no practical value. Now there is gold ore. If you have any rare ores, you can exchange them for a lot of money."
"It's really troublesome, Jiang Ze, what should we do? You don't really have to work, do you?" Cui Wei said unhappily.
"This..." Jiang Feng hesitated.
"You don't even have enough to eat anymore. Accept the reality as soon as possible. If you work here for a day, you can get 100 yuan, which is not bad." The instructor continued to urge.
"No, I don't want to work as a coolie. Jiang Ze, go work and support me."
"Are you sure you're not kidding me?" Jiang Feng smiled.
"You have no money, so you can only make money. You are responsible for making money to support the family, and I am responsible for looking beautiful." Cui Wei said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, stop joking." Jiang Feng took out a small cloth bag from his waist, which was about half the size of a hand.
Jiang Feng took the small cloth bag and poured it on the table, pouring out eight or nine small blue ores.
When the instructor saw the small ore with flashing blue light, his eyes suddenly lit up and he was very surprised.
"Is this a blue mine?"
"Exactly, commonly known as Xuanbinghan Iron Mine." Jiang Feng smiled.
"You actually have this mine."
"With luck, I found it on a corpse."
"I'm really convinced by this luck. Let me weigh it." The instructor took the gram scale and put the blue ore on the scale and weighed it.
"Yeah, yeah, that's good. It adds up to 100 grams. 1 gram can be exchanged for 100 yuan, and 100 grams is 10,000 yuan."
"Oh my god, you guys are so deceitful. Are you bullying me? I don't understand? In Hedong, 1 gram of blue ore can be exchanged for thousands of dollars at least."
"You're talking about the past, right? Don't you know that blue ore is also depreciating in value? It's not the beginning of the end of the world. There are more and more blue ore veins now."
"Blue ore is a consumable, how could it depreciate?" Jiang Feng asked rhetorically.
"There's nothing you can do about it. It's just a price anyway. Do you want to change it?" the instructor said disdainfully.
"Why are you being so unreasonable? You want to kill someone for dozens of times the price?" Cui Wei shouted unhappily.
"Then how many do you want?"
"At least 100,000." Cui Wei shouted.
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, can I get you 30,000 yuan?"
"Hey, did you work in the market before the end of the world? You were so good at bargaining."
"There is really no way. I can only increase it to 30,000 yuan for you. You can sell it or not." The instructor continued to say disdainfully.
Jiang Feng sneered: "This is really far from our target price. If we don't sell it, we'd better leave Shicheng."
"Whatever you want." The instructor said coldly.
Just when Jiang Feng was about to put away the blue mine, Cui Wei covered the blue mine with her hands, and then shook her head at Jiang Feng.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Feng asked.
"I really want to take a good bath, or I might as well sell it." Cui Wei looked pitiful.
"But the price is too low."
"Husband, please." Cui Wei said coquettishly.
Cui Wei's husband's call made Jiang Feng feel extremely soft in his heart.
"Oh, it's up to you."
"Okay, we sold it for 30,000 yuan, get the money quickly." Cui Wei shouted to the instructor.
"No problem." The instructor left the security room happily.
A few minutes later, the instructor brought three thick stacks of banknotes.
"Here, it's equal to more than three months' salary. Not bad. Let's go to the city and enjoy the happiness."
Cui Wei took three stacks of banknotes, pulled Jiang Feng out of the security room, and then rented a rickshaw to head to the city.
PS: Thanks to Song Yuan for adding 100 yuan to his character. (There are very few people who can continue their roles nowadays, it’s not easy)
