Copy of the reckless man: I can see the status bar

Seeing Lu Wenwu's hungry eyes, Liu Linan's mouth twitched: "I have almost used up all my savings to buy the treatment products for you two. These ten tubes of nutrition paste are my last property. If I eat them myself, I can last ten days if I save them."

"You mean, because one piece of this thing can barely sustain an adult's daily energy expenditure? And it doesn't take up space in the stomach, so it's sold at a very high price?"

Lu Wenwu slowly typed a question mark.

He remembered what Liu Linan had said just now, that people in this era have to pay a very high price to learn knowledge.

Maybe Liu Linan himself doesn’t know how to cook.

If you make it yourself, the cost will be lower. At most you will have to eat more and digest and absorb it while you eat.

Thinking of this, Lu Wenwu said confidently: "You can get some ingredients. I'm a very good cook. Just give me salt and fire, and I can make even the most unpalatable things as palatable as possible. We can cook by ourselves."

"Salt? Food? It seems that your era was unexpectedly wonderful. It's really desirable."

A fleeting longing flashed across Liu Linan's eyes.

"Nutrient paste is the cheapest thing. Because it tastes too bad, it is usually used in conjunction with the taste regulation system and the perception shielding system. As for the ingredients and salt you mentioned, they are only affordable for the rich and can only be found in restaurants. We, the bottom-level rats, can only eat artificially synthesized nutrient paste."

"What is this? Artificial synthesis?"

Lu Wenwu was shocked.

At this moment he realized that the chef might really be starved to death.

Make bricks without straw.

Even a chef of his level can't cope without eggs and flour!

It is indeed a cook's hell.

Lu Wenwu was a little upset: "Does everyone have to eat this for their whole lives? No rice, flour, meat, or vegetables? Can anyone tolerate not having a hot meal in their entire life? Can they get enough nutrition?"

"Not really. For someone like me who works hard to scavenge and can barely save some money, we can occasionally eat a few pieces of synthetic meat grown in a flesh factory throughout the year." Liu Linan spread his hands. "See, I told you that you are an old-fashioned person who doesn't understand modern technology. All the nutrients necessary to maintain vital signs are already integrated into the nutrient paste."

"What the hell is synthetic meat? Are the costs of raising ducks and rabbits that high?" Lu Wenwu scratched his hair and started to get mad. "If I dare to feed my cat like this, it will immediately slap me with its claws and mouth, saying it's abuse!"

"Look, back when you lived in an era where you could keep a pet cat, it was such a wonderful thing, wasn't it? In this era, only the gentlemen in the upper city have the leisure to take care of such things. We can hardly even feed ourselves, and my living conditions are considered good among the lower class."

Liu Linan patted his intact shoulder and spoke earnestly.

"Maybe the cost of large-scale breeding is not high, but the company does this because artificial synthesis has lower costs and higher profits. In front of the company, profit always comes first. In this city, credit points are above everything else, and credit points can do anything."

"What about leeks? I don't believe that something that can survive with just a little soil and a little water can be undercut by artificially grown vegetables." Lu Wenwu was eager to find something edible.

"It has been fought, but not completely. The prices of natural plants are very high in Coconut Juice City, even the former agricultural crops."

Liu Linan explained slowly, a tiny light screen flashing in his eyes.

"Oh, I just searched it. The plant called leek you mentioned can be exchanged for a bottle of Shengguling for 50 grams. The price of the artificial synthetic version is about one tenth of that."

Lu Wenwu: "???"

He couldn't hold himself any longer.

Less than 6,000 yuan per pound?

With this calculation, if you want to eat a meal of leek and egg dumplings made with natural ingredients, it will cost tens of thousands! ?

Wdnmd, this is an international joke!

Just when he thought this was already very unbearable,

Liu Linan continued, "Well, not all natural plants are that expensive. For example, cocaine, poppy, marijuana, tobacco leaves, these highly addictive things are very cheap. The price of low-quality finished cigarettes is even so low that I can afford to smoke them every day. Low-quality alcoholic beverages are about the same."

Lu Wenwu was silent.

He suddenly thought of a very free and democratic country.

All the top echelons are time-tested and unwavering socialist fighters, and all their actions are aimed at gaining more and greater benefits.

Someone once imagined it.

When zbism develops to its extreme, it is replaced by cyberpunk society - at least in terms of social structure.

The upper class reaps huge profits, while the lower class spends a lot of money on addictive consumer goods such as alcohol, DP, cigarettes, and gambling, and indulges in cheap pleasures every day to be exploited by the upper class.

Therefore, in the main mission of this dungeon, the shackles should refer to the company.

So, to break the shackles means to replicate V Zhentian's operation, attack major companies single-handedly, and kill all these damned vampires directly?

If we dig deeper and peel away the surface meaning, the shackles should also be hinting at this kind of anti-heaven ideology?

Do I need to break this deformed social system and reshape and reorganize the entire social class?

Thinking of this, Lu Wenwu just felt a headache.

In such an environment, he was asked to complete Taizu's great deeds and bring about a new world. How could he, a barbarian who only knew how to make egg-filled pancakes, figure it out?

If it really doesn't work

All we can do is to grow and then pay tribute to the legendary Candy Crush player, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Chongba.

As long as you kill enough, the problem will be solved.

Lu Wenwu quickly finalized the final plan and goals based on his many years of experience in capital investment.

So next.

Next, finding a way to make some big money becomes the most important thing at the moment!

Thinking of this, a good idea suddenly popped up in Lu Wenwu's mind.

"Hey, Lao Liu, how strong is the binding force of your current contracts?"

"Contract?" Liu Linan had a strange expression on his face. "In the Lower City, the legal effect of a contract is about the same as a piece of waste paper, because the laws jointly formulated by various companies basically do not apply here. The management cost is too high. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you spend a certain amount of money to ask a company to notarize it, and if it involves a transaction, you have to give the company a commission, so that the contract will be binding. As for the strength... Anyway, even if you give the scavenger birds a tactical nuclear bomb, they will never dare to violate it."

"That's it!"

Lu Wenwu slapped his thigh excitedly and grinned, revealing a row of big white teeth.

"Do you know any big customers who are just a bit rich and can afford a few hundred tubes of nutritional cream?"

"Help me get a mission, any mission, preferably one that involves hiring someone to kill someone or massacring a certain force or gang. After the mission is confirmed, you must sign a contract, and you must ask the company to notarize it, and they will pay for the notarization fee."

"You can negotiate with them about the mission compensation. The base price is no credit points, just two meals. These two meals will be all you can eat with Maomao's nutritional cream. But the first meal must be paid in advance before the mission officially begins."

"It would be best if we can get credit points as compensation, but if not, just two meals will be fine. We won't lose out."

Having said that, Lu Wenwu showed a kind smile.

Liu Linan was stunned for three full seconds.

Then, he slapped the metal prosthesis he had removed and screamed, "Blood hell! Damn it! Lu Wenwu, you are such a genius!"

Chapter 404: Eating people can be done in many ways

"Rather than saying that I'm a genius, it's more that your business model has degenerated."

Lu Wenwu changed his posture slightly and used a little bit of energy to improve his self-recovery ability. He slightly repaired the injury on his right arm and was able to move it barely.

He untied the neatly wrapped gauze, revealing tender skin with pink new flesh growing underneath, which did not look very pretty.

"Buffets are still quite common in our place, although I don't have a big appetite when I still need to eat buffets."

“It’s an amazing ability to self-heal.”

Liu Linan looked at him sideways.

He didn't care about the buffet. His eyes were completely attracted by Lu Wenwu's right arm, as if he was appreciating a piece of work of art.

"I now feel more and more that my previous actions were absolutely correct. If the people from Zulong Company find out, I don't know what will happen to you and Maomao. I will definitely be silenced."

"It's really hard to imagine that Zulong Han had already created such a perfect life transformation technology two hundred years ago, but now they have regressed because they can't reproduce it, just like monkeys returning to the Stone Age."

"It sounds like you know a lot of inside information? What you know doesn't seem like the information that the lower-level people have." Lu Wenwu raised his eyebrows, "And the place we are staying in now should not be your daily residence, right? There is no sign of living here."

"I am just a small employee who was optimized by the company's supercomputer big data. This is the apartment I once bought."

Liu Linan had no intention of hiding his feelings, but just smiled bitterly.

"You can see that after losing my stable source of income, I can't afford the various paid services here for a long time."

Lu Wenwu was a little puzzled: "Why don't you just use the paid service? Why don't you just treat it as a house? It's safer to have a house than to sleep on the street, right?"

Liu Linan was silent for a moment and pointed to the air outlet on the window that simulated sunlight.

"If you don't pay, the room doesn't provide air filtration service. Since the room is extremely airtight, the natural air flow here is almost zero. In other words, if you don't pay, you will suffocate to death sleeping here. I might as well sleep in a shack in the slums, at least there is natural sunlight."

Now both of them were silent.

Even breathing is taxed.

Lu Wenwu didn't ask why the idle houses were not rented out or simply sold.

It is obvious that in a society where money is taken to the extreme, the upper echelons such as consortiums, companies and enterprises will find ways to restrict the behavior of buying low and selling high.

This can be circumvented by making up a clause such as "only permanent right of use, no right of ownership".

Or simply say

Only they can make a profit from the price difference. Ordinary people should just work hard and enjoy the blessing of 996 all their lives.

oppressive rule.

Steamed buns? Are you dissatisfied?

Sorry, but money really can do anything.

Oh, no, maybe 996 is really a generous treatment in Coconut Juice City.

"Speaking of which, the money I have left is only enough to pay for seven days of air filtration. The package I bought also comes with six hours of artificial sunlight." Liu Linan added, "So we'd better hurry up now. If we go back to the shack now, we will definitely be caught by scavenger birds."

"So cautious, don't they know you have a house here?" Lu Wenwu was a little surprised, "It seems that even if I don't agree, you won't be in big trouble."

"There has to be some secrets. Besides, it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death."

Liu Linan shook his head, not wanting to talk more about this matter, and simply changed the subject.

"Let's get down to business. If you want to be a mercenary, there is a hurdle you can't get around. Let me confirm one thing first. Do you have any prosthetic modifications, network chips, supercomputer chips, or the like in your body?"

"No, it's 100% physical." Lu Wenwu shook his head.