novelTele Chapter 62 Switching Apples
Chapter 62 Switching Apples
Of course, this was the first time they had ever heard of the Botanist Sequence! They never expected there to be such a sequence!
If only this old man were one of their team members, then they could eat fresh fruit every day!
"What would you like to exchange for?" Xu Wenchu asked.
"Gasoline! These two apples for fifty liters of gasoline!" Zhou Jian'an said decisively.
"Too much!" Xu Wenchu shook his head almost immediately. "In this situation, you all know better than we do how precious gasoline is. Even if these two apples have the effect of healing injuries, they're not worth fifty liters."
"Five apples for fifty liters, maybe we can negotiate. Captain Zhou, this... isn't very sincere. In that case, we don't need the apples!"
Xu Wenchu knew that the opposing team didn't have much gasoline left, and they would definitely want to exchange gasoline with him. Therefore, he wasn't in a hurry at all. It was definitely the other party who was in a hurry, so he could confidently and boldly negotiate a lower price.
"Five apples for fifty liters of gasoline? Captain Xu, that's a really steep price to ask for. Let's not even talk about whether we can come up with five apples. Even if we could, we wouldn't make the trade!"
"If you really want to trade, two apples and thirty liters of gasoline!" The old man gave his bottom line.
"No way! Thirty liters of gasoline is still too much! Our convoy hasn't refueled for a while, and we don't have much gasoline left. We can't possibly trade that much gasoline with you! Twenty-five liters at most!" Xu Wenchu said, his face flushed.
Although Xu Wenchu said that, in fact, they had just passed by a gas station two days ago and had plenty of gasoline on hand!
When the old man heard that Xu Wenzhu had lowered the price to 25 liters of gasoline, his face turned ugly. He then looked at Zhou Jian'an and asked for his opinion.
Seeing Zhou Jian'an nod slightly, the old man also nodded in agreement, "Alright! Twenty-five liters it is!"
Afterwards, Xu Wenchu gave the old man twenty-five liters of gasoline, and they successfully obtained the two apples.
"We have some cigarettes and alcohol here. Would you like to exchange some?" Zhao Hai had previously noticed that the fourth-sequence extraordinary individual in the other team liked to smoke, so he asked as well.
The tall, middle-aged man thought for a moment and then declined, saying, "No!"
Hearing this, Zhao Hai wasn't disappointed. If the other party didn't want to exchange it, so be it! Anyway, cigarettes and alcohol are valuable items, so there's no worry about not being able to exchange them.
"We have some betel nuts here, would you like to exchange some with us?" Zhou Jian'an asked, clearly wanting to exchange some gasoline as well.
"No!" Xu Wenchu shook his head and refused.
All four members of their team were abstaining from tobacco, alcohol, and betel nuts, so they didn't need to exchange betel nuts with the other team.
Seeing that there was nothing more to exchange, both of their extraordinary sequences departed.
However, the extraordinary beings from both sides also headed towards the stalls set up by the ordinary survivors of the other convoy to see if there were any items they needed.
Zhao Hai strolled past each of the other team's stalls as if he were walking through a market.
"Are you exchanging this? What size is it?"
Zhao Hai pointed to a pair of red and white Air Jordan sneakers and asked.
If these shoes are real, they would have cost at least one or two thousand before the apocalypse.
Zhao Hai didn't have a good pair of sneakers, so when he saw these almost brand-new sneakers, he naturally wanted to trade them.
The stall owner was a young man with slightly sunken cheeks. Although he was very dirty, Zhao Hai recognized his brand-name clothes, so he probably wasn't short of money before the apocalypse.
Upon hearing this, the young man looked up and said, "41 yards, two kilograms of rice or five packs of instant noodles."
"These shoes are a collaboration model, guaranteed authentic, feel free to verify!"
Zhao Hai is 165 cm tall and wears size 40 shoes, but size 41 shoes are also possible if he tightens the laces a bit.
Zhao Hai sneered, "Are you out of your mind? You think you can trade a pair of shoes for two kilograms of rice?"
If Zhao Hai had dared to say that before the apocalypse, a lot of people would have spat in his face.
The young man became agitated: "I spent a full 2500 yuan on these shoes. Is exchanging them for two kilograms of rice a lot?"
"You know it's before the apocalypse? It's just a packet of instant noodles, take it or leave it!" Zhao Hai didn't hold back at all.
Although I like these shoes, I don't absolutely need them!
"A packet of instant noodles? You...you..."
The young man's chest heaved violently, as if he had been insulted.
Looking at the shoes, then at Zhao Hai, she realized that she didn't have much food left, and most people didn't lack shoes. If this young man in front of her didn't want to trade, probably no one else would trade with her for these shoes.
Immediately, he gritted his teeth and said, "I... will change..."
These two words seemed to have exhausted his last bit of strength, as if he was so reluctant to part with them.
Zhao Hai opened his backpack, took out a bag of Master Kong's Lao Tang pickled cabbage and tossed it over.
The young man looked at the pickled cabbage in his hand, his face contorted with constipation: "Stop asking for a packet of braised beef! This pickled cabbage just tastes like pickled cabbage, it's awful!"
"Take it or leave it, that's all, nothing else..."
Zhao Hai then ignored him, bent down and picked up his increasingly pleasing collaboration AJ, taking the box with him.
Not long after they left, Zhao Hai arrived at the stall of Lin Yuhan and her brother.
"What a coincidence! We meet again!" Zhao Hai greeted him with a smile.
"What a coincidence!" Lin Yuhan also didn't know what to say, so she said the same thing.
"How much are these two phones and power banks?" Zhao Hai asked, initiating a conversation.
The two cell phones on the ground were the latest pre-apocalyptic models of Apple phones. Zhao Hai wasn't surprised; he knew Lin Yuhan came from a wealthy family back in high school.
Back then, he lived in the countryside with his grandparents, and many people in his class said things like he was a poor boy trying to climb the social ladder by confessing his feelings to Lin Yuhan!
"Just give me whatever you think is worth! They're all worthless stuff anyway!" Lin Yuhan hadn't expected Zhao Hai to be interested in these things.
After all, the apocalypse has arrived, all electromagnetic signals have disappeared, and these electronic devices are certainly useless, naturally becoming a pile of scrap metal.
Lin Shudong felt a surge of anxiety upon hearing his younger sister's words.
The extraordinary being in front of him was clearly not short of resources, yet his silly sister said such a thing. He was at a loss!
But since his own sister had said that, there was nothing he could do.