Chapter 565: Oh no, oh no
Chapter 565: Oh no, oh no
These seasonings were collected along the way. On their way north from Xiangcheng, they had also looted a frozen meat warehouse. It was filled with frozen meat from before the apocalypse. The weather was freezing, so the meat had been stored in ice, which never melted. The frozen meat remained rock-hard, never thawing.
There were also quite a few vacuum-packed steaks and other items. With some vegetables from Fatty, the barbecue could officially begin.
"It's pitch black here, we can't even afford a light, and yet we're still messing around with all this!"
An Ran shook her head and took Doll from Little Mint's hands.
Doll let out a clear "ma, ma" sound. She was incredibly excited after not seeing her mother for hours.
Zhao Ru came down from the second floor holding a candle. She carefully walked down the stairs and said to An Ran: "You'll have to ask your husband about that. It would be great if we had the electricity for the barbecue to light up."
"If he'd listened to me, we wouldn't have gotten divorced." Holding Doll, An Ran kissed her along the way, chatting idly with Zhao Ru. Suddenly, she asked: "Hmm, it's strange, I haven't seen Zhang Boxun in a while. What has he been doing these days?"
"Maybe he went to see Lei Jiang. Who knows?" Zhao Ru shrugged, unconcerned about Zhang Boxun's whereabouts.
Holding the candle, she retrieved a stack of small bowls from the kitchen, all of which she had already washed, and carried them toward the dining room.
Complaints aside, when it was time to satisfy your appetite, you still had to.
Just as An Ran was about to take Doll for a hot bath, there was a sudden knock on the door of her villa. Everyone looked up. Little Mint dragged her feet to open it, looking half-dead with fatigue.
"An Ran, Zhan Lian, this is bad, this is bad." Standing outside was Fatty, who spoke impatiently, "There's a group of people outside looking to buy charcoal. But I’ve got no stock left. I had Luo Feifan take all the stocks away and give them to Zhou Zheng during the day."
“Liu Zhi wasted no time spreading the word, huh?” An Ran, seemingly anticipating this situation, remained calm.
No one could survive such a harsh, freezing cold environment. Who wouldn’t be tempted by Liu Zhi’s charcoal?
An Ran stood inside the doorway, holding her doll and playing with it on the sofa.
Fatty hurried in and said to An Ran:"I've sold all the wood. Here, these are the crystal cores for you, Lady An, Goddess An. We need lots and lots of wood!" As he spoke, Fatty placed a large bag of crystal cores on the coffee table in front of An Ran.
She bent down, opened the bag, and took a look. It was all ordinary crystal cores, with a few slightly higher-grade ones scattered inside, but it was better than nothing.
She suddenly asked, "I heard this base is using crystal cores as currency. I wonder if there's any specific exchange rate for them?"
"This is a level one crystal core." Zhan Lian came over with a bowl of baked potato chips and pulled out a common crystal core from the bag, the color of a diamond. He gave the potato chips to An Ran and pulled out a brighter one from the bag, shaking it at her. "This is a level two crystal core."
An Ran and her friends hadn’t known how to distinguish the levels of crystal cores before. They only knew about level one and level two, and they found them useless. Level one crystal cores were only useful for Xiao Mint, while level two crystal cores had only a mediocre effect on Zhao Ru.