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Chapter 176 - 176: The Seaside
Chapter 176 - 176: The Seaside
Chapter 176: The Seaside
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation I Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Ye Xingchen’s previous residence in Jinghua District was not far from the sea. Now that Ye Xingchen was living in the safety fortress, he was even closer to the sea.
The location Wang Mingcong had chosen to build was on one of the small peaks of the mountains. There was a mountain that wasn’t too high behind it and on the other side of the mountain was the sea area that Jinghai City was ’ close to.
There were many outsiders who came to the seaside in broken-down cars that were pieced together from somewhere. The temperature of the seaside was not as hot as that in the city, but it was still about 50 to 60 degrees Celsius. Barrels of seawater were sealed and placed on large trucks, waiting for night to arrive before being transported to the city.
Now that money was no longer valuable, everything was exchanged using the most primitive method of bartering.
Most of the things they bartered for were basically medicine or a small amount of daily necessities.
Living by the sea, they did not lack food after the temperature rose.
With such a large sea area, the resources in it were more than they could eat for several lifetimes. They even caught a lot and sold them together with the seawater.
The stench in the city seemed to have subsided a little. The officials used drones to spray disinfectant powder all over the city. After all, there were so many corpses in the city. The officials were not stupid. They knew that if a plague was caused by these corpses, they would definitely be in trouble.
After all, in the current situation, if there was a plague, it might spread to them at any time.
One had to know that the highe-status they were, the more they cherished their lives. They definitely wanted to nip these dangers in the bud.
At first, the people in the city were still hiding behind the curtains in the hot weather, waiting for death with their chapped lips until the cars carrying seawater and seafood appeared.
Because of the high temperature, if the seafood was not processed, it would stink on the way. Therefore, many of them put the fish and octopuses in barrels filled with seawater to sell.
When they arrived at the big city, the seafood in the buckets of seawater was almost half-cooked.
“Ah, it’s water! It’s water!”
People who had been thirsty and hungry for days were naturally willing to exchange the little medicine left in their homes for food and seawater.
The salty and astringent seawater that had not been filtered was now regarded as a sweet rain by everyone. They were even reluctant to drink it in large mouthfuls, only daring to take small mouthfuls to moisten their throats.
After a period of time, the convoy that came every night and never missed a day had inexplicably become a fixed market.
This market was usually open at night. By then, the temperature in the city had already dropped to around 50 degrees Celsius. The cars that arrived late in the day parked their cars and opened their trunks. Each car was a stall.
On this day, Ye Xingchen finally captured the information of this convoy through the surveillance camera at the entrance of Jinghua District.
Their fleet seemed to have expanded. It was unknown whether it was because their business was getting bigger or because they had already collected most of the medicine in the vicinity, so they decided to expand their business. On this day, a truck carrying goods stopped steadily at the entrance of Jinghua Community.
It just so happened that the vehicle was parked under the surveillance camera installed by Ye Xingchen. Ye Xingchen, who was living in the safety fortress far away, looked at the image on the phone screen and sat up from the bed. Coincidentally, Ye Xingchen was having insomnia today. Perhaps it was because his life after moving into the safety fortress was too good. Every day was like a vacation. It was just eating and sleeping. As a result, Ye Xingchen’s level of exercise could not keep up, and he was still full of energy in the middle of the night.
Ye Xingchen projected the surveillance video on his phone onto the screen in the room. He leaned back on the bed, got into position, and began to see where the truck came from.
On the surveillance screen, a large truck stopped steadily at the entrance of Jinghua District. Then, a man dressed in bright clothes with a gun at his waist got out of the driver’s seat with a loudspeaker.
As soon as the loudspeaker was turned on, even Ye Xingchen could hear it clearly through the sound of the camera.
“It’s actually a peddler?”
Ye Xingchen’s eyes lit up as he listened to the peddling from the loudspeaker.
The gate of Jinghua District had already been opened when the big-muzzled hawker came.
The door of the truck was wide open, and there were a few people guarding it. Although they did not have guns on them and only each held a big harpoon. They did not lack food and drink on a daily basis, and they obviously looked much better than the hungry residents.
Everyone was eager to grab the barrels that were neatly stacked in the carriage, but no one dared to go up and snatch them. After all, the leader was holding a ’ real weapon in his hand. No one dared to be the first. After all, who was not afraid of death?
“We have big bargains for the opening of our new shop. A box of cold medicine or anti-inflammatory medicine can be exchanged for a barrel of fresh seafood’ All of them are freshly caught seafood, and there’s also the original seawater as a gift!”
Sure enough, as soon as the peddler’s voice fell, the pairs of eyes that were staring at them like hungry wolves became even brighter. Everyone could not help but move forward.
It wasn’t because of the seafood, but because they heard there was seawater.
Seawater, that was water. They had not drunk water for a long time. They felt like they were about to die of thirst.
Immediately, someone turned around and went home to look for medicine.
Every household would usually prepare some medicine.
Cold medicine, antipyretic medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, and medicinal oil for bruises were all things that were always available’at home. They were reluctant to use them when it was extremely cold and treated them as life-saving medicine. However, they had been thirsty for so many days now. Compared to water, medicine was nothing.
Soon, someone came out of the house with two boxes of anti-inflammatory drugs in their hands.
“Here, I want two buckets. Ah, give me a big bucket. I want the biggest bucket.” Once someone started this, the people behind followed suit.
These people were all residents of Ye Xingchen’s previous neighborhood. They were all people who had some money. Some of the residents in the villa area even had specialized private doctors, so everyone actually had a lot of medicine.
As for why everyone had the medicine but was unwilling to use it to save Liu Qilong’s son before… Of course, he was just an ordinary neighbor. They weren’t even close.. Why would they use such a precious thing to save him?