Lin Yun came to call Grandpa Rui Gen affectionately, but looked at Luo Dabao, and felt that Rui Gen would abandon him and Luo Dabao to negotiate a deal without telling the truth.
It is not uncommon for father and son brothers to turn against each other over a piece of high-level energy in Jiuxi, not to mention that the interest alliance between Regan and Luo Dabao is not strong. Is it a loss to spend a lot of money to kidnap people to Black Mirror City and still get the bulk of the benefits? Regan took a straightforward route and said, "As long as you have energy, it's easy to go anywhere."
Luo Dabao called a waitress to take his place and took the three of them to the storage room behind the bar to continue the conversation. Yun Lai didn't wait for the two old men to speak, and took out a sapphire blue energy block.
"Frost-covered high-end goods!" Regan was so excited that he almost reached out to reach for it.
Luo Dabao was much calmer than him and asked: "How many do you have?"
"It's just an emergency, I didn't bring a few." Yun Lai put the energy blocks away and waited for them to make a bid with a smile.
Luo Dabao and Regan looked at each other, and Regan rushed to say: "Little guy, it's enough for you two to reach the Star Sea. But the Star Sea is also difficult to connect to the Star Network. How do you contact your friends? There are sixteen in the Star Sea. Habitable stars plus dozens of space stations and more than two dozen semi-habitable stars with a population of nearly 100 billion, finding your friends by just trying your luck is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack."
Luo Dabao sighed sincerely, "No new energy mine has been discovered in Jiuxu for 20,000 years. Some people will do anything for energy. You are not familiar with the place in the Sea of Stars. If you rashly exchange energy blocks, a group of star bandits will surround you immediately." Scam and steal everything you have."
The two old men really love acting. Is it safe to just ask you to exchange money for us?
Yun Lai raised his eyebrows, "You can't just take out life-saving things and exchange them." He took out an unopened game console, "I'll exchange this for money."
There is a market for such stand-alone game consoles in places where you can easily connect to the star network. In places like this where it is difficult to connect to the star network, game consoles that do not require intelligent brain support are no more valuable than high-end energy blocks, but they have more market.
Would a naughty kid obsessed with love think of taking this with him when eloping? Regan looked at the innocent boy who was looking at them curiously, thinking that he might have met a colleague.
Luo Dabao was speechless for more than ten seconds and asked: "New model? How many are there?"
"There are new models and classic models. You don't have to ask how much." Yun Lai rolled the bracelet on his wrist, "When it comes time for me to exchange high-grade energy blocks for money, my ancestors will not be like this now. Just close your eyes and let me play."
The aristocrat is such a noob, so you can just trick him a little bit. If you really grab the younger one, the older one will jump out to make a difference. If the old one can't handle it, you can't live anymore if you ask the seventh uncle or the eighth aunt to help you. Then an old monster who has lived for thousands of years pops up and digs. What should you do if you have a genetic map and settle accounts with your relatives within ten generations?
Regan was sure that he could not squeeze out any benefits from this little cunning man, and he sighed heartbrokenly.
Luo Dabao blinked and said: "The classic model and the new model are all 20 gold coins, the second-hand classic model is 15 gold coins, and the new model is 14 gold coins. I will take a tenth of the commission, and exchange the gold coins for black mirror coins at a ratio of 1:5. Qian won’t take any commission this time.”
Bai Zhi had just seen the menu of the bar. The most expensive set meal was fifty black mirror coins with a bracket indicating that it was out of stock. The drink she drank was three black mirror coins a cup. It was actually soda water with some flavoring and coloring. It smells sweet and tastes really good. The wine that Rui Gen and Yun Lai drank smelled a bit like old beer in both smell and color. Most people in the bar drank this wine, a large one-liter glass with five black mirror coins. According to price conversion, a game console costs four to five hundred Du Luo coins, which is equivalent to buying ten set meals at the most expensive restaurant in Jiang Fengxing. Let’s calculate that one Du Luo coin is equal to one Black Mirror coin, deducting the transportation cost - she is not good at this It is estimated that she came through a random star gate. I don’t know the exact price of the random star gate, let alone how much it costs to go through a normal star gate. But in general, people with space equipment can still make a profit by bringing some not-too-expensive entertainment products to relatively prosperous areas, and their prices can skyrocket hundreds of times. She didn't know if she could make money by flipping these small commodities without space equipment. She wrote in the note: Don’t just look at the prices in the bar, change a few first.
Yun Lai took out a box of ten new game consoles and said, "Exchange them for gold, and then exchange them for two black mirror coins of gold."
Luo Dabao dragged a table to the only light in the storage room, counted one hundred and eighty metal coins that looked similar to ancient Chinese square folding knife coins and arranged them in eighteen stacks, took two more coins back and took a photo. A stack of one hundred black mirror notes.
These white and yellow knife coins have smooth and shiny edges and a mixed smell. They are indeed currency in circulation.
Yun Lai took out a leather bag, put on his gloves and swept all the coins into it. He even threw the gloves in. Then he tied the mouth of the bag tightly and put it in his bracelet. He smiled and divided the pile of banknotes into several piles and put them into his pockets. .
Regan stared at Luo Dabao unpacking the box with greedy eyes. Yun Lai threw him the game console he had just used as a sample and said, "This is for you to play with.
"I can't even eat, I can't afford to play." Regan handed it to Luo Dabao, "In exchange for money."
Luo Dabao counted out eighteen gold coins and gave him three thousand yuan.
Regan put away the gold coins, counted the three thousand yuan, and said with a smile: "Come on, let's go, Grandpa Regan will treat you to a big dinner. This damn place is so expensive, we won't let him make money."
"Get out!" Luo Dabao opened the door of the storage room and saw off the guests aggressively.
The restaurant where Regan was treating guests was located by the river, and the scenery was indeed very good, but the most expensive "meal" on the menu only cost thirty-five Black Mirror Coins, so Regan proudly ordered three guests.
The appetizer for the dinner was a bowl of thin paste with three yellow-green leaves on the edges. It was steaming and smelled very fragrant. Regan picked up the spoon and took a sip, squinting his eyes happily. Yun Lai carefully scraped a little bit to taste it, his brows furrowed so hard he could kill a mosquito.
Bai Zhi silently opened the note and read it.
Yun Lai wrote: The soup before the meal tastes like compressed biscuit batter that has expired eighty-eight years ago.
Zhang Tianzhao complained below: How many compressed biscuits have you eaten?
Yue Dongting joked: Give you a bottle of Sprite from 1982?
Haifengqiu said steadily: Take another bite to make sure it is a compressed biscuit. If so, I still have some inventory from Earth from decades ago. When we encounter a market with people later, I won’t exchange game consoles for money.
Bai Zhi tasted a little with the tip of her tongue. In addition to the sincere essence, there was also the smell of stale grain that had been stored for many years. It was terribly unpleasant. It is not an exaggeration to say that Yun said it was expired eighty-eight years ago.
The main course that the waiter proudly brought included a lump of beans that were almost cooked into paste, and a lump of white sticky paste. The two lumps of paste were also topped with a pool of ugly yellow soup that smelled like a century-old curry.
Regan scraped off the last bit of the paste from the bowl, mixed the two pastes on his plate, and scooped a spoonful of the paste into his mouth, his happy eyes missing.
The contrast between the terrible food and the happy expressions is horrific. Bai Zhi couldn't bear to look at it and turned to look out the window.
In the restaurant on the other side of the river, there was a family gathering by the window. The old people and children were all laughing and chatting in a lively atmosphere. However, on the super large round table, everyone had a bowl of soup in their hands.
In a boat in the middle of the river, a couple was loving each other face to face. On the small square table in the middle were a small basin filled with paste and two spoons.
Bai Zhi looked away and looked at this restaurant, which according to Regan, was the most luxurious restaurant in Black Mirror City. The four people at the next table were also eating happily. She raised the spoon to take a mouthful of the paste, but she couldn't lift it to her mouth.
Yun Lai snatched her spoon and said considerately: "If you can't eat it, don't eat it."
"I ate a lot of snacks before coming here." Bai Zhi explained with a smile. She didn't have to play the role of an innocent girl who is picky about food and maintains aristocratic demeanor. She is what she is.
"Me too." Yun Lai also put down his spoon.
"Then pack it up and go back to eat." Regan took out two large lunch boxes and scraped away the thin and thick paste in a very graceless manner.
The waiter standing aside rolled his eyes so hard that his eyelids almost cramped.
Walk out of the restaurant cloud and ask Regan for help finding a long-term residence. They walked slowly along the river embankment, and Bai Zhi observed carefully. The tables on the tall restaurant tables on both sides of the river were all filled with paste, and the difference was only in different colors. The food sold in restaurants that look very ordinary at first glance has slightly changed. The staple food is a black hard-treaded pancake about half a meter thick and thick in length, which is sliced on the spot. A piece of pancake is added to a bowl of very thin batter soup. Different restaurants The batter soup has its own unique aroma.
However, the best business is in the nutritional supplement stores. There are long queues at the door of every store, and there are signs that limit the purchase of 60 pills per person per month with ID card.
"I stay in this apartment every time I come to Black Mirror City." Regan pointed to a multi-story building in front of him and said, "It's clean."
Although the building with the sign of Riverside Apartments is as old as its neighbors, the clean windows and bright lights are very attractive. Bai Zhi nodded. The unnecessary aristocratic backing is not only useful for Wang Zhiba, but also for Regan. Yunlai also used visible benefits to dangle Regan and Luo Dabao. These two people would not create trouble for them until they found out their true identity or made them willing to be defrauded of all their money. As long as they don't cause trouble, there will be no problem living here.
The proprietress of the apartment had the same indifferent attitude towards Rui Gen and Yun Lai. She threw out two keys and took the rent she had just received to queue up across the street to buy nutritional supplements. The suite was indeed clean. Yun Lai had checked that there was no problem in the bathroom and asked Bai Zhi to take a bath first. He was checking on the balcony of the outer living room to see if there were any monitors in the building opposite, when Regan pushed the door in with a tray.
On the tray were two bowls of colorful rotten beans.
Regan smiled and said, "I think you might like Xingxu's food."
"Yunxu eats bean paste, and Xingxu eats boiled beans?" Yunlai frowned. The two bowls of beans smelled a bit fragrant, but he was not a mule and had no interest in beans.
"There are very few agricultural planets in Yunxu, and food is basically imported. Many people eat nutrients from birth to death." Regan sat down and kept sighing, "It's not that we don't want to develop the planting industry, but we can't afford it. "
"I think that one looks good, but can't we grow food on the balcony?" Yunlai opened the window, and the green plants planted in the stone trough outside the window sill were thriving and full of green.
"Green plants are easy to grow, but you can't eat them." Rui Genhaha sneered, "Seed companies have had a moral policy for tens of thousands of years and will never let people who buy seeds keep their own seeds. Planting cannot be done on the surface of a place like Planet 3. Most seeds do not grow well underground, and it is cheaper to directly import food, so no one in Black Mirror City grows anything to eat."
Yunlai was indeed hungry. In order to better play the role of a noble boy who knew nothing about the sufferings of the world, he took out two boxes of sushi made by Bai Zhi who purchased ingredients from Jiang Fengxing, opened the lid of the box and pushed one box over for Regan to eat.
A piece of sushi goes into your mouth. Regan's eyes widened. He chewed a few mouthfuls, swallowed, and stammered, "Is this pure... pure natural food?"
"The businessman said yes, so it should be." Yun Lai was shocked to find that Regan was in tears. He quickly wrote a note to inform his friends: the 800-year-old slippery man cried while eating sushi. If you have pure natural food, don’t eat it for others to see.
"It's so delicious." Regan picked up the second piece with his right hand and chewed it, wiping tears of happiness with his left hand and murmuring to himself: "It's so delicious, so damn delicious."
Bai Zhi came out of the bathroom to see the old man who was crying and licking the bottom of the sushi box. At Haifengqiu's suggestion, he contributed a big meat bun.
After Yun Lai took a bath, Grandpa Rui Gen was burping and gnawing on a small red melon and still wiping his tears. The tears now were not only because of happiness, but also because this was the first time in his life that he had eaten spicy food.
Regan thought very clearly that he could afford to cheat the aristocratic children who could give away precious natural food to others, but as long as he made these two people happy, a little leakage between his fingers would be enough for him to live in the safe zone. Half a lifetime. Being an honest bitch would bring more rewards, so why would he go to the trouble of cheating? He confessed honestly: "It takes more than a month to reach the nearest stargate spacecraft directly."
"Is there a shortcut?" Yunlai asked.
"Use a random stargate, but it's not safe. You might not be able to come back." Regan took out his spherical random stargate and paid tribute, "I can open this one twice, and the next time it might be Star Ruins. But maybe it's in Yuxu. Yuxu has been in chaos for the past two hundred years. In the past two years, six star gates have been damaged and closed. If you are teleported to the star field where the star gate is closed, even if there is a spaceship and energy, it will take several years to fly. Ten years... There are few companies in Jiu Xu that have so many resources to support fleet sailing for decades. If you teleport to a place like that, you can only wait for death in peace."
The possibility that both teleportations would damage the star field at the Yuxu Star Gate was very small. Regan actually just didn’t want to use his star gate. But they don't know whether his star gate is really random or whether it can choose where to land, and they won't take the risk of using his star gate.
Bai Zhi took the metal ball slightly larger than her fist and looked at it carefully. This is a device similar to an ivory ball set. It can be seen from the shell that it has been carefully preserved, but the charging interface is severely corroded. The energy warehouse is very new, and the workmanship is rough and looks like it is handmade. She did not use her ability rashly to observe the inside of the metal ball and wrote a note:
The random stargate is very much like a reused waste product dug out of a garbage dump. I guess it was originally a small stargate that could choose its landing point, but now its interior is severely corroded, causing the landing point to be random. If we have the opportunity, we can collect more samples, and maybe we can restore and imitate them.
"You didn't buy this thing with money. Where did you pick it up?" Yun Lai took the metal ball and threw it back to Regan. Wang Zhiba's random star gate that can only be used once was bought with public funds. It's too expensive. King Zhiba scolds mother, this can be used several times Regan definitely can't afford it.
"In the Xinglin Ruins in the next galaxy, someone bought it from the market there. Ten basically complete ones are exchanged for one they have processed, which can be used five times." Regan added uneasily: "It's very dangerous there, really. I I went there twice when I was young, but now I don’t want to go at all.”
Yunlai asked according to Haifengqiu's note: "The galaxy next door is dangerous, why does Black Mirror City seem safe?"
"Most of the people who use random star gates to escape are not poor. They must have taken all the property they can carry with them when escaping. If one of them dies, no one will dare to use random star gates to escape in the future. Leave a place for others to breathe. Everyone is happy with the money, the steady flow of water, and the wealth generated by anger. There is such a safe zone near each random star gate location. As long as you don't use force, no one will trouble you."
"But cheating and abduction are free, right." Yun Lai said with a smile.
Regan rubbed his head and smiled innocently, and confessed honestly: "I really have no ill intentions towards you two. I just want to make some money and retire in a safe zone."
"This place looks nice," Yun Lai knocked on the table, "Take me around the city."
When Yun Lai took Old Rui Gen out for a walk, Bai Zhi was not idle in the apartment. She opened the boxes of seeds she bought at the Usnea Space Station, counted half of them and soaked them in water. The instructions on the back of the box said that the germination rate was 100%. She also used a little bit of wood power, and only a few germinated out of dozens of pills.
Bai Zhi rummaged through her backpack again and found canned seeds produced in Yuxu. She selected a box with a picture of beans on it and counted fifty seeds soaked in water for germination. Only a few germinated. She coaxed the poor seedlings to grow, bloom and bear fruit, and then used seeds to grow them. The yield of these seedlings was horribly low, and not a single seed sprouted.
Ragnarok Reagan didn't lie about the crops. Bai Zhi thought about it for a moment. After crossing the star gate, she could clearly feel that it was not as comfortable as the Duluo star area. The water ruins where Jianye star was located were growing very well with earth crops, so the battle of the nine ruins that year might have only destroyed some of them. The energy balance of the region, Yunxingyu, and the three ruins are no longer suitable for crop production. These three places are not only short of energy but also short of food. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the seeds produced on the earth are more suitable for the current environment of Jiuxu than the seeds native to Jiuxu.
Although there are plant seeds native to the earth in the backpack, it is a bit dangerous to take them out in Black Mirror City, so I can only find another opportunity to experiment.
It's too inconvenient not to have StarNet, and I don't know where this naughty kid Qi Haoyu is and whether he's eating well. Bai Zhi sighed and packed away the seeds and petri dishes, and continued to rummage through her backpack to prepare supplies for going to the ruins of Star Forest. In her backpack, there were dozens of space wallets that were hastily put away when she left the earth, and they were filled to the brim. The canned instant porridge is mushy when boiled with hot water. It tastes good and has a simple smell, but it doesn't have the aroma of old grains in restaurants. Bai Zhi rummaged through the travel souvenirs she bought at Jiang Fengxing, took out the metal can she bought in dozens, and poured the porridge into the metal can. Write a note asking Yun Lai to buy daily necessities such as pots, stoves, bowls and spoons.
Yun Lai, who traveled around Black Mirror City twice, only brought back a few large boxes of "Golden Luxury Nutritional Supplement Packages".
"No one in this place starts their own business. If they don't take nutritional supplements, they just go to restaurants. I also went to Luo Dabao's kitchen and saw that they don't have pots, just a few water bottles. It's rare for someone to have a meal and open a package of century-old grain powder. , pour some water to soak it, squeeze some sauce and serve it, I dare to charge you dozens of yuan." Yun Lai shook his head, "That is to say, it looks good from the outside, but the quality of life in this ghost place is not as good as the East China Sea in the first two years of the apocalypse. I let Regan went to look for a spaceship to go to Star Forest, and I also bought some things that Regan said were useful."
He dumped out a pile of odds and ends. A thin tube that works similar to a fluorescent stick. Some unknown rock climbing equipment, a suspended motorcycle with a bucket. There are also several sets of protective clothing and two unpacked whistles.
"In our Chang'an planet, they are all thrown into the garbage and no one wants them." Bai Zhi brought him the rebranded instant porridge, "I put more than a dozen cans, you take two cans, this one tastes better than theirs. It tastes much better, just pretend it’s there when there are people around.”
Yun Lai smiled and put away the two jars and the pile of odds and ends, "By the way, Regan said that the largest space equipment here is only fifty cubic meters. The kind we use has only been around for a few years and is very expensive." , in Star Forest, you can exchange for three or four random star gates that can be used more than five times. Do you still have any in stock there?"
"There are more than a dozen left. I'll give you two first. I'll save these for the random star gates that Hao Xingtao repaired." Bai Zhi gave him two, "Where did the space equipment used by Rui Gen and Luo Dabao come from?"
"I picked them up from the ruins of Xinglin." Yun Lai put the two bracelets on his wrists. "It feels like the most promising people in this place have gone to Xinglin to die and pick up rags. Those who are lucky enough to come back alive. It’s a treacherous guy like Ruigan Luo Dabao.”
