Everyone's on a time-travel adventure! I'm raising city beasts in a post-apocalyptic world

The girl stood on tiptoe and looked for a while longer, her eyes shining: "Master Lin, go and ask if these laborers are for sale. Not many, just 1000, no... just 500. I guarantee I can build another batch of vehicles. Recently, more and more survivors have joined the caravan, and I'm almost going crazy with the lack of materials."

Master Lin was taken aback by her rapid-fire questions. He looked down at her and said, "Luo Xiaoxiao, didn't you say yesterday that you didn't lack materials for building cars?"

Yesterday is yesterday, today is today.

Luo Xiaoxiao put her hands on her hips and said confidently, "Yesterday I was thinking about saving money wherever I could, but today I see there are plenty of cattle and horses available, and I feel like I'm losing out!"

The sword-wielding girl couldn't help but chuckle: "Xiaoxiao, be quiet. Master Lin didn't say he wouldn't help you!"

Master Lin withdrew his gaze: "Let's talk about it after the trade fair ends. The other party may not be willing to give up this high-value labor force."

Luo Xiaoxiao stomped her feet in frustration, but eventually stopped yelling. She just stood on tiptoe and kept looking towards the mine, muttering to herself.

The trade fair went relatively smoothly, with awakened individuals in charge and patrol members on duty. Although there were occasional arguments, it was generally harmonious.

The stalls set up by the survivors of Lin Feng's caravan were the most popular, because most of them had searched the city and had plenty of food, as well as good things like red heart berries that could boost mental strength.

The goods displayed by the people in the opposite convoy looked much more meager, with very little food available. Most of the stalls sold pots and pans, various odds and ends, tents, and tattered old clothes...

Of course, there were some good things too. The opposing convoy seemed to have a lot of weapons, such as short swords, long swords, and crossbows. Some stalls also had some mutated beast meat on display.

Lu Hongying and several girls occupied a spot, laid out a clean cloth, and displayed rice, flour, cooking oil, salt, candy, various seasonings, and some snacks on it. There was a wide variety of items, just like a miniature supermarket.

"Excuse me, how do I exchange this instant noodles?" A woman from the South District, wearing a black coat, squatted in front of the stall, pointing to a pack of instant noodles with longing in her eyes.

"What do you have? You can trade seeds, weapons... or even ghost crystals for it."

The young man hesitated for a moment, then took out a palm-sized piece of flatbread from his pocket, spread it out in his hand, and handed it over: "How about these straw flatbreads? Three for a pack?"

Lu Hongying glanced down at the cake in the other person's hand. It looked like it was made by grinding some kind of granular substance into powder.

"What is this?"

"This is grass cake, our main food in the convoy. It's made from the grains that grow from large foxtail grass spikes, ground into powder. It doesn't taste good, but it boosts our strength!"

"May I try some?" Lu Hongying asked curiously.

"Okay," the young man said, handing over a piece.

Lu Hongying took it, tore off a small piece and put it in her mouth. "So hard," was her subconscious thought. It was also a bit bitter and not tasty, but it could fill her stomach. She wondered if it was true that it could increase her strength.

"We can change it! Don't eat it yet! It'll give you a stomachache."

Lin Feng's voice came from behind Lu Hongying, and a flash of golden light appeared in his eyes.

[The cakes made from the seeds of the gray-fleshed grass can slightly increase constitution and strength attributes with long-term consumption, up to a maximum of 10 points. The side effect is severe abdominal pain with each consumption; the more one eats, the longer the pain lasts.]

Lin Feng picked up the instant noodles. "Answer me one question, and I'll give you this pack of instant noodles instead."

A look of delight appeared on the young man's face: "Ask away, I'll tell you everything I know."

"Where did you find this large foxtail grass you mentioned?"

Without a second thought, the young man pointed outside: "Over there, there's this kind of grass everywhere, stretching as far as the eye can see, like a vast grassland, countless in number. Everyone in our convoy eats this, but every time we eat it, our stomachs hurt for a long time. I want to get my sister something that won't cause stomach pain..."

"Okay, here you go." Lin Feng handed him the instant noodles.

"Thank you, thank you!" The young man took the instant noodles, looked around, stuffed them into his clothes, and ran away quickly.

Lu Hongying asked, puzzled, "Lin Feng, we don't lack staple food. This stuff is bitter and will give us a stomachache if we eat it. Why would we switch to this?"

Lin Feng weighed the grass cake in his hand: "This is a good thing. It's made from the seeds of Grey-faced Spike Grass. Although it has some side effects, it can increase an ordinary person's physique and strength by 10 points. The price of doubling attributes is just a stomachache. What's that?"

Sister Hong was also filled with disbelief: "If it's really that good, then what are we waiting for? Let's send people over there to collect this stuff right away, so that the combat power of us ordinary people can also be improved."

"What's the rush? We're definitely going. There's no need to rush. There are so many people in the convoy. We can just issue a mission later. There are plenty of people to help us collect the materials. I'm going to wander around first..."

Lin Feng continued wandering around. Anyway, the gray-faced grass was right there and couldn't run away, so what was the rush? He could just have someone collect it later.

Lin Feng walked slowly between the stalls. Xiao Xuan was still asleep, and the iron ore mining continued.

Every now and then, I could hear conversations like, "How do we switch to the short sword here?"

"I need materials: three pieces of high-quality iron ore, plus materials from a level 1 mutated beast, teeth or claws will do."

"And what about this meat?"

"This is level 1 mutated beast meat, which can increase strength attribute. One pound of meat can be exchanged for one level 1 monster crystal, or 10 pounds of rice!"

There were many similar voices, and the transaction went very smoothly. The Lin Feng team had no shortage of food, but what they lacked was something to improve their strength.

Moreover, Lin Feng occasionally used his Golden Eyes of Truth to observe that the survivors of the opposing convoy were generally much stronger than those in his own convoy. Many of the survivors at the stalls displaying weapons or mutated beast meat had attribute values ​​of 10 or higher, with some even reaching 20, comparable to the combat power of a level 1 Awakened.

Lin Feng thought to himself, this convoy is indeed not simple.

While he was browsing, the Awakened Ones in the opposite convoy were also selecting what they wanted. The girl with the sword walked up to Lu Hongying's stall, glanced at the wide variety of supplies, and finally her gaze fell on a row of colorful snack packaging bags.

The spicy snacks, potato chips, jelly, and candy piled together in this apocalyptic setting seem like a return to the Blue Planet era, a time of abundant resources and peaceful living.

She bent down and picked up a bag of spicy strips, then a bag of potato chips, and then a handful of candy, until she couldn't hold any more in her hands, before finally asking:

"How do we exchange these?"

Lu Hongying: "Whatever you have, vegetable and fruit seeds are preferred."

The sword-wielding girl hesitated for a moment, then hugged the snacks to her chest, even holding a bag of potato chips between her chin. With awkward movements, she took a strange crystal from her bag, placed it in her palm, and offered it forward.

"I'll trade this for it."