i have a dead world

Chapter 227 What do you need?
The two followed behind the crowd, walking along the winding metal steps in the countryside.

An Baichen found that people walking on the stairs leave one or two positions between each of them, except for each other's partners, they will not get too close to strangers.

Even if there are acquaintances who know each other, they just nod their heads from a distance, and there is no more communication.

Everyone is walking towards the depths of the ladder, eager to go back and deal with the harvest this time.

All the way without talking, the two turned a corner, and a spacious hall appeared in front of An Baichen.

It was an underground hall about half the size of a football field, covered with metal panels, and dim metal lamps hung from the ceiling and around the walls.

The hall is full of pedestrians, at least hundreds of people are staying in the hall, watching a metal electronic panel in the center of the hall, on which some information and data are written.

"Master, this is the underground plaza of the gathering place. The underground plaza was originally not that big. After several renovations, it has reached its current scale."

Meizi explained in a low voice next to An Baichen, as a qualified tour guide: "The underground square connects most of the streets and other areas of the gathering place. There are eight passages near the central square. The streets connect the commercial area, residential area and core area. .”

"Business areas and residential areas are the places I often go to. I have never been to the core area. Only the big figures in the gathering place can enter it. Usually, there are many soldiers patrolling around the core area. It is strictly forbidden for unqualified people to mix in it .”

Meizi asked, "Master, where are we going now?"

"Go back to your house and go see your brother."

An Baichen's words warmed Meizi's heart. It turned out that the master still remembered what I was worried about.

An Baichen really doesn't have any ideas at the moment, he doesn't know anything about the situation in the gathering place, he might as well go and see Meizi's younger brother first, lest she get lost all the way.

Meizi's home is in the residential area, and An Baichen followed behind Meizi and walked straight through the hall.

When passing by the huge electronic screen in the center of the hall, An Baichen looked up curiously.

"Regulations of residents of the sea dungeon: private fighting and stealing are strictly prohibited."

"A level 14 monster was found in the C-1 area. The City Lord's Mansion purchased the relevant information of the monster and offered 1000 Karon points as a reward for the corpse."

"The blood moon is here, the Whirlwind team convenes an alliance to meet capable individuals and teams to develop Haiti City together, contact information."

Various information slowly scrolled on the large electronic screen, including information about rewards, information about calling teams, and information about selling valuables
The rules of the gathering place were hung on the top, and An Baichen only learned the name of the gathering place from the electronic screen.

"Ocean Dungeon?"

An Baichen smiled. It is not a problem to be in the underground city. Where does the sea come from?I don't see any rivers around here either.

The founder of this gathering place is also really an interesting guy.

The hall has eight street entrances, located in different directions of the hall.

The two walked through the hall and walked into one of the streets. There were rooms on both sides of the street. Many rooms opened their windows, like a simple store, with various items hanging on the window sills.

However, most of the things are not so precious, they are all small gadgets from the wild.

"The patrol team does not allow people to set up stalls in residential areas, so everyone will open their window sills to the street, and use them as temporary stalls when they have nothing to do."

"Aren't they afraid that someone will climb into the windowsill and steal something?"

"When selling things, there are people watching at home. After closing the window sill shop, each household will install anti-theft nets. Ordinary people can't sneak in quietly along the window sill."

The two asked and answered, and walked deep into the street amidst a bunch of yelling and greetings.

The street is very long. Along the way, An Baichen found that there are many forks in this street, connecting different areas. After walking to the end of the street, there are several more street entrances.

Meizi took An Baichen around. Fortunately, each street has a special street sign as a guide building, so that people will not be confused about their direction.

However, An Baichen reckoned that if outsiders entered the gathering place, they would definitely be confused by the complex terrain structure in the gathering place.

Just a residential area is so complicated, and it is not simple compared to other areas.

According to Meizi's introduction, the entire gathering place covers a large area, which is no less than the deserted towns and villages on the ground of the dust-free blue star.

Transforming an air-raid shelter into an underground city should require a lot of time and resources.However, it has been 300 years since the disaster, and it is not surprising that the sea dungeon can reach its current scale.

"An Ning Street."

An Baichen looked up at the street sign, and Meizi said that this is where her home is.

This is a small street, the entire street is only a hundred meters long, and there are only a few families living there. Meizi's house is in the innermost door of the street.

Opening the door reveals a dark passage, without a metal lamp, Meizi walks into the room relying on her own familiarity.

An Baichen can see at night, he can see clearly, the structure of the whole room is a bit like a tube building, there are several wooden doors, and there are stairs going up, this is obviously a "poor apartment building" in the underground city.

Meizi groped her way to the attic in the corner of the first floor. It was a small attic about seven or eight square meters in size, with a small wooden door about 1.5 meters in size.

"Dong dong dong."

Meizi walked to the small door, knocked on the door, and lowered her voice and called, "Dongdong, are you home?"

Plum knocked four times rhythmically, then stopped for about three seconds, and knocked three more times.

After seven times, the door opened, and a little boy held a dim metal lamp and poked his head out: "Is it Sister Meizi?"

"Winter."

Meizi breathed a sigh of relief and touched the little boy's head.

An Baichen looked at the little boy. He was about 1.3 meters tall and looked like he was in his teens. He had a thin body, small muddy and confused eyes, dirty hands and cheeks, and large burn marks on his arms.

He was all dirty and looked pitiful and ugly.

"Why did you knock on the door seven times?" An Baichen asked aloud. The little boy was holding a dim metal lamp and could only see his sister in front of the door. At this moment, he suddenly heard An Baichen's voice, and he was startled. One jump, the conditioned reflex is to close the door.

Meizi grabbed Dongdong's arm, she turned around and explained: "This is an agreement between me and my brother. There are many capable people in the gathering place, and some of them can imitate other people's voices. So I told Dongdong that I must hear it." Only when there is an agreed knock on the door can you lean on the door, otherwise even if you hear my voice, you can’t open the door easily.”

"What if others also know the rhythm of your knocking on the door?"

"I change the signal to knock on the door every day."

"so smart."

An Baichen paused, then smiled and said, "Very cautious too."

It seems that the environment in the gathering place is not safe, otherwise Meizi wouldn't have to do this.

The siblings want to live a safe and stable life in the gathering place, but they can't be too cautious. It is very difficult for women and children to survive in such an environment.

"Dongdong, this big brother is my sister's benefactor. He is not a bad person. If you want to trust your sister, trust him."

"Ah."

Dongdong nodded, and he looked at An Baichen standing in the shadow with some fear.

Dongdong couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but could only hear his voice.

An Baichen and Meizi didn't enter the room. The room was too small for three people to stand up. Normally, Meizi and Dongdong would be crowded in this room.

According to Meizi's introduction, she rented this room from the landlord. The landlord is a big man in the core area who comes to collect the rent every month. The whole street is full of such "poor apartments", all of which are the same Landlord's property.

People who can have their own independent houses in the gathering place are all big shots, even if they are not big shots, they are still the best among ordinary people.

The two stood and chatted for a while, Meizi might feel a little embarrassed, she said in a low voice, "Mr. An, are you tired? Why don't you take a rest in the room, Dongdong and I can just stand outside."

In front of her younger brother, Meizi didn't want to call An Baichen the master, perhaps because she wanted to preserve her dignity in front of her younger brother, An Baichen didn't care too much.

"no need."

"Mr. An, it's okay. It will be dawn soon. It must be very hard for you to explore the city of Haiti all night. You can sleep in the room, and Dongdong and I can sleep outside the door."

Meizi's kindness made An Baichen unacceptable. He really overestimated the living standards of ordinary people in the dungeon. It wasn't that An Baichen was hypocritical, but he really couldn't get used to living in this kind of house.

Let a normal earth person suddenly come to the world environment of the doomsday wasteland, most people will not be used to it.

"Is there no other house here?"

Mei Zi was taken aback by An Baichen's question, Mei Zi hesitated for a while and said: "This street should be gone, it is difficult to rent a house in the underground city, and most of the time you have to make an appointment in advance, because people who don't have a house to live in really It's too much."

"If there is any vacant room to live in, there is only a detached house, but a detached house needs to be purchased, and it will cost a lot of Caron."

Charon is the currency unit of Wuchen Blue Star, but it is worth mentioning that Meizi said before that although the current Wuchen Blue Star's Karon and the 300-year-old Karon coin have the same name, they are not common.

Today's Caron Point is a newly issued currency and an electronic credit point.

An Baichen nodded and asked, "What is the most popular material in the dungeon, should it be food?"

"Food, weapons, metal."

Meizi said three things. Food is something that is scarce in every gathering place. The food grown in the gathering place can only ensure that most people will not starve to death, but they will definitely not have enough to eat.

Weapons are what every search team needs most, but such things are usually made by officials or craftsmen with strong backgrounds. Ordinary people do not have the right to manufacture weapons, but they can sell weapons they get occasionally.

Metal is the third type of hot-selling resource, because each gathering place has its own mech fighters, and the update and repair of mechs require a lot of metal as the initial material.The better the quality of the metal, the more expensive it is to sell, and the special alloy can be sold at a sky-high price.

"I see, if I want to sell something, do I need qualifications or official license certificates?"

"No need, just go directly to the commercial street. As long as there are no prohibited items, they can be traded freely in the commercial street."

"Then take me there."

An Baichen smiled and said, "I want to sell some things."

If you have money, you can travel thousands of miles, but if you don't have money, you can't travel an inch.

As a newcomer, An Baichen planned to get some carons in his hand.

Among other things, at least the problem of living has to be solved. Although An Baichen can return to live in the earth and the world of the undead at any time, in the environment of the end of the wasteland, I don't know how many people are secretly observing others.

An Baichen doesn't want to be too noticeable, he doesn't know enough about the gathering place, he needs a house to hide his behavior that sometimes appears and disappears suddenly.

"Sell something?" Meizi murmured in her heart. She saw that An Baichen didn't bring any parcels, so what was she going to sell?

Although she was very curious, Meizi nodded obediently.

"Take your brother, it's not safe to be alone at home."

An Baichen led Meizi and Dongdong all the way to the commercial street according to Meizi's introduction.

There are many commercial streets, and each commercial street is very prosperous. There are stalls on both sides of the street, leaving only a narrow road for passers-by to move forward. The commercial street is full of people, rubbing shoulders, and stall owners yelling. The voices of greeting guests are endless.

According to Meizi's introduction, setting up a stall on a commercial street requires paying the street owner. This is also a big man in the core area, and you don't usually see it.

Moreover, it is very difficult to buy stalls on the commercial street. I heard that you have to have a strong relationship to have a stall of your own in the commercial street.

Although Meizi didn't know what An Baichen needed to sell, she took An Baichen to find a regular stall owner who usually sells supplies from the search supplies team.

Most of the search teams are very poor and have no money to buy a stall, so most of them will find some acquaintance stall owners, and regularly sell resources obtained in the wild to this acquaintance stall owners at low prices.

Stall owners buy resources and sell them, earning the price difference and avoiding the danger of exploring in the wild; team members also save the trouble of selling harvested materials, and can directly convert the harvest into caron.

"Good morning, Eddie."

Meizi took the initiative to greet the stall owner very enthusiastically.An Baichen looked up, he was a strong man with a beard, brown hair, wearing shabby cloth clothes, he looked inconspicuous, but the booth in front of him was quite large.

Along the way, An Baichen observed that the owner of the Edsey stall had the largest booth area, which was five times the area of ​​ordinary stall owners. It seemed that his funds should be very strong.

"Meizi, why are you here?"

Edsi was arranging the goods. He raised his head when he heard the voice, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is Captain Wang? Why are you here alone today?"

"Who is this person?"

Edsi saw An Baichen, and also noticed the clean and tidy clothes on An Baichen's body, the clean and neat black windbreaker, the texture looked very good, and there was not much dust on it.

An Baichen's dress was different from most of the people in the gathering place. Clean clothes always attracted more people's attention. Along the way, many people had been secretly observing An Baichen.

"He is... um." Meizi hesitated, not knowing how to introduce her.

"I'm a businessman."

An Baichen took the initiative to introduce himself, looked at Edsi with a smile and said, "I heard from Meizi that you are buying some supplies here? I happen to have a batch of supplies to sell."

"Oh? Do you want to do business?"

Edsi smiled. He sat on a small bench and asked lazily, "What do you want to sell?"

An Baichen smiled and said, "What do you need?"

"Ok?"

Edsi was taken aback, straightened up, and looked at An Baichen seriously.

This kid is a bit interesting and has a big tone.

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