Chapter 193: Trade with them Chapter 193: Trade with them “Yeah, of course, there is. Don’t you know?”
Seeing Su Yinhe’s slightly contemptuous gaze, Lin Murong impulsively said, “Of course I know. How could I possibly not? I’m well aware.”
“Good, go play then. Have you finished your puzzle?”
Conversing is conversing, why drag puzzles into it.
“I’m going to see if anyone needs help.”
Lin Murong changed the subject very awkwardly.
Su Yinhe: “If you don’t want to do it, just say so. I won’t look down on you.”
But you’ll think I’m incapable. Lin Murong curled his lips; a man must not admit defeat.
Even though he really was incapable.
Who the hell invented such puzzles? Are they fun?
Not at all, just torture for him.
Lin Murong ran away. He said he was going to help; in fact, those people didn’t need his help at all.
Those who wanted to leave had already smuggled themselves out. Some preferred solitude and went on their own; some didn’t want to leave their sisters behind, so they found a spot outside the base, a place high enough to shield from wind and rain, and made it their home.
On the first day they came out, they faced food shortages. After leaving, they couldn’t just eat meals at regular times like before.
Now they had to find and prepare their own food.
A few of them were Superpower Users and took charge of searching for food, while the rest began decorating their future home.
The food the searchers brought back was not plentiful; it wasn’t enough to fill everyone and was hard to swallow.
But everyone ate with great appreciation and satisfaction.
This was food they had found with their own abilities, not exchanged with their bodies.
Such food was really delicious.
They distributed tasks orderly; everyone had their part to do. The outdoor life was difficult to adapt to for those who had stayed long in the Underground City, but no one complained or thought of going back underground just because they couldn’t bear the life above.
They were trying hard to readapt to life on the surface, facing the harshness of the apocalypse.
Lin Murong did help them. When he arrived, everyone was grateful, but no one asked him to do anything.
“You’ve already helped us a lot. We can take care of the rest ourselves.”
So Lin Murong ended up with nothing to do.
And because he was there, they even had to pull someone away from their work to chat with him, which seriously disrupted their efficiency.
Lin Murong told the person keeping him company to go back to work; initially, the person demurred, willing to chat with Lin Murong, but after he insisted a few more times that he was fine alone…
That companion, perhaps actually busy, hurried back to work.
Lin Murong cupped his chin, watching their bustle and felt superfluous.
Yet he really did want to help.
Lin Murong felt like he was slightly useless.
He sat for a while, then left.
He went back to find Su Yinhe.
“Are you asking whether I can move the supermarket to trade with them?”
Su Yinhe looked surprised; truth be told, she hadn’t opened the supermarket for so long she nearly forgot she had one buried under the greenery.
It wouldn’t have crossed her mind if Lin Murong hadn’t mentioned it.
“Sure, I can. But… do they have anything to exchange?” Although she sympathized with them and was willing to help, she wasn’t going to let them freeload.
She had seen them; they didn’t wear any jewelry, much less have any gold.
As for Crystal Cores, even though some of them were Superpower Users, those from Sweetheart Base who had confined them never intended to let them function properly as Superpower Users.
They wouldn’t be given any Crystal Cores.
So now, they were quite impoverished, with nothing but each other.
After leaving, they found a cave. The cave was deep and dark, completely empty.
It was her and Chi Yan who supplied brooms and shovels for them to clean out the cave. Then Chi Yan gave them the furniture they had collected from this small villa so they could at least have a place to sit and beds to sleep on.
Their clothing fabric was scarce upon leaving; the night temperatures on the surface were much colder than underground. Their thin layers of cloth offered little protection. In the end, it was Chi Yan who dug through his space and pulled out a pile of clothes.
He also gave them some blankets…
Chi Yan’s space was really stuffed with things.
All things considered, a lot of items they were using now had been given to them by her and Chi Yan.
She could set up the supermarket next to their cave, but would they be willing to purchase?
Surely she can’t give things away for free.
“Hey, there are Superpower Users among them, aren’t there? They may be weak now, but killing a few Zombies is no big deal. They can kill low-level Zombies without using superpowers, and there are quite a few of them. It would be easy if they worked together. Your supermarket prices are low anyway, so they can definitely make exchanges. It’s just that… you might not make as much.” They were neither too many nor too few; they were weak, yet not too weak, strong, but not that strong.
They certainly couldn’t exchange as much Crystal Cores and jewelry as previous shoppers did.
She could make a profit, but it would be much reduced.
“Okay, let’s do it.” It was good to be able to open for business, since it was profit without investment.
She had made back her original investment in the supermarket tenfold, a hundredfold.
Money was just a number to her now.
It was too much; she didn’t even know how to spend it.
It was fine for her whether she made more or less; being able to open was what mattered. She feared opening a supermarket and waiting half a day without anyone coming to buy anything.
That would be really awkward.
Once they decided, Su Yinhe, Chi Yan, and Lin Murong went again to the vicinity of the cave where they lived. They were busy at work, but when they saw them, everyone stopped, greeted them, and thanked them for their help.
Su Yinhe’s face nearly froze from smiling before she finally got away from them.
She came to survey the terrain, looking for a suitable place to situate the supermarket.
There was a spot near their cave, not too far, not too close. It was a bit steep, but it wasn’t a big problem.
She trusted in the supermarket modified by the system.
“Alright, this will do.” After choosing the spot, Su Yinhe took out a tablet to control and transfer the supermarket. Logically, she should have gone back to the supermarket to transport it.
But the trip from the supermarket to Sweetheart Base before had taken so much time and effort, and Su Yinhe really didn’t want to be that exhausted again.
The supermarket had grown and learned to move on its own.
She set it on a timer to fly over in the evening.