Vol 6 Chapter 2: Water Business Group

Has it been so long?
When Su Ziyu learned that the time is now twelve years later, the expression on his face could not help but feel a little lost.
I don't know how many of those friends I once knew are still alive.
The average life expectancy of the wasteland world is very short, and it may be less than forty years on average. He really did not expect that this world has passed so long.
It was calmer along the way.
Su Ziyu saw a group of mutant wild wolves, all of which were as big as calves. The headed wolf king actually looked a bit like a husky. They chased Mercedes-Benz's fleet, but they did not immediately Launch an attack.
"Hey!?"
"Who else has food there? Roasted venison? Throw it away!" Jie Se also awoke at the wolf howl, and he stood up and shouted at the others in the convoy.
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Su Ziyu,
Don’t worry.

"That's blood teeth."
"The nearby wolf king often moves in the forest over the Grand Canyon. It doesn't attack humans very much, but he likes cooked food very much, as long as throwing them some meat will not attack us."
There is actually such a thing.
Wouldn't that Wolf King have turned on the wisdom?
Su Ziyu's eyes could not help showing a trace of aura, and then looked at the giant wolf in the distance. Its body was almost the size of an adult cow. Its muscles were extremely strong. There were many scars on the surface of the body. Kan Yue felt that he looked somewhat similar to the Husky, obviously not the same as the other wolves around him.
"After the catastrophe, there are fewer people who keep dogs." Jie Se naturally placed a cigarette and swallowed. "People sometimes don't have enough food, where can they have the energy to keep dogs."
"Some domestic dogs are almost extinct."
"However, some dogs are mixed with wolves. The blood teeth seem to be the mixture of huskies and wild wolves. It is a bit different from other wolves and has a friendly attitude towards humans."
"I like cooked food very much."
"As long as you bring cooked food, you won't be vulnerable to them."
The aura of the wolf king is indeed a bit like the animal companion around the druid, but the aura of wisdom is not so bright, it should be only smarter, and it does not mean that it already has wisdom.
really.
After seeing the cooked food, the wolves stopped chasing, like a gust of wind leaving some barbecue.
The wolves in the wasteland era are still alive and well.
Many species are gradually extinct, but wolves can be seen everywhere. They kill other mutant creatures. Now they are all cunning and ferocious, and ordinary firearms may not be able to deal with them. And the wolves are very vengeful. As long as they run away, there will be endless troubles. Under normal circumstances, they will not actively attack.
Wild wolf life is not long, although there are many wolves, but it is difficult to spread.
After the catastrophe, the reproduction of mammals is more difficult. The wild wolf can have two to three births, but even one can survive. Even if the wolf is severely deformed, the wolf cubs will be bitten or killed by their parents. Into the wilderness.
Su Ziyu listened silently to bragging, and this guy didn't know if the ancestor was a northerner. Anyway, he was quite able to talk, and he blew all the way.
"Why are you a monk? This is the era of waste soil!" Su Ziyu asked curiously.
The expression of abstinence froze for a moment, and then smiled and said, "The parents died when they were very young. After all, this is not Huaxia, and it is not easy for the Chinese to live in America."
"Later was adopted by an old monk."
"When I was young, I risked a little injury, half of my body was infected with radiation, and some variation in the entire arm."
"Although I later changed a pair of mechanical prostheses, my own body is very clear that it is absolutely impossible to give birth to offspring, and I don’t want my child to come to this world with a disability distortion and simply inherit it. The monk of the old monk shaved himself to make a monk."
"Unfortunately, I didn't learn a little more from him at the time. I don't know those scriptures very much.
"I was idle and thought about a scripture of mechanical Buddhism."
"how about it?"
"Is it very genius?"
Su Ziyu nodded, as if infected by his open-mindedness, and smiled and said, "It is indeed refreshing."
"It still needs a little spiritual sustenance in this era." Quit smoking a cigarette and spit out a cloud of fog. "Don't believe it. There are really a lot of people who ask me to read the sutras, not only the Chinese, but even some. White and black people will invite me."
This is the end of waste land.
It would be nice to have a monk. Don’t expect any clear rules. It’s impossible to live in the wasteland era without killing.
About two or three hours later.
In front of a group of people, there was a gathering place with a large area, which looked like an abandoned town. Many cities suffered nuclear strikes during the catastrophe. Basically, the gathering places are all the previous comparisons. Remote places, because the degree of nuclear radiation pollution will be smaller. Outside the camp is a circle of mottled iron skin. There are two guard towers at the main entrance. On the stands are guards with guns. One is white and the other is yellow.
"Many of the people in the elk camp escaped from the Chinatown camp before." The ring color extinguished the cigarette road. "There are a lot of Chinese here. If you are in trouble, you can report my name."
"I'm still a little connected here."
The team drove in directly.
Su Ziyu just couldn't help but froze for a moment, because he actually saw a paper dragon with a hand, and there was a little ugly four unlike a lion head. Some residences were obviously attached to the character of Fu, which made him think back. New Year's breath.
"Right." Jie Se patted his head and said, "It's all confusing."
"Forgot about the Chinese New Year."
"If you are fine, there will still be a lot of people coming to me for New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow."
A person next to me smiled and said, "The end of the world can't stop you Chinese New Year..."
"That's necessary!" Jie Se jumped out with a laugh, and walked directly to the tavern's position.
It's really New Year.
Su Ziyu saw that two young Chinese were playing with some Spring Festival couplets. There are indeed many Chinese here. Su Ziyu's spirit was a little trance, even he didn't know how long he had been wandering outside.
"Would you like a roast mouse?" An Indian from the sidestand shouted towards Su Ziyu.
Are they monopolizing the roast mouse business?
Su Ziyu shook his head with a smile, and turned directly to the direction of the weapon shop, but he was really a bit hungry. When walking on the road, he could smell a strong barbecue smell, not like a street stall, more like It is a carefully cooked barbecue, it should be roasted venison in their mouth.
He took out the mechanical watch of the year and brought it directly to his hand.
The radiation pollution in the wasteland world is very serious. This mechanical watch can detect most of the radiation pollution. Before returning to this world, Su Ziyu still prepared a lot of food, but it was definitely not enough to eat before leaving.
Zizizi.
There was a harsh metal friction sound.
Su Ziyu took a few bends along the street, and soon saw a wide-ranging weapons workshop. A middle-aged man was driving something on a machine tool, and someone was hitting with a hammer hit. Many of the firearms in the wasteland are self-modified, and some old guys can’t use them after they find them out. Most people in this era have some experience in the transformation of firearms.
"What's the point?" The middle-aged man put down a dagger and greeted him "Old Bob's weapon shop has everything!"
Su Ziyu looked at the various firearms in the cabinet on the wall and asked casually, "Are there any fat people?"
The middle-aged man could not help but stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "If I could make that stuff, what other weapons shop would I open?"
Right.
Although the nuclear weapons in the wasteland era are a bit overwhelming, most of them are in the hands of chaebols and other powerful forces in various places. Ordinary people have no access to nuclear weapons at all.
"Some bullets." Su Ziyu thought about it and asked, "What are you paying for here?"
"I just arrived."
The old Bob in front of him couldn't help but look at Su Ziyu up and down and asked, "Are you a wild hunter?"
"Huh." Su Ziyu nodded.
Old Bob looked thoughtful and said, "I will also collect supplies and medicines here."
"But the currency used in this area is the nuclear bottle cap."
Bottle cap?
Su Ziyu couldn't help but stunned for a moment, then wondered, "Can the bottle cap also be used as currency?"
"Of course." The old Bob in front of him nodded. "It's all tokens anyway. The original people still used shells as currency! I heard that some places in California are using paper money issued by water consortiums. What about the cap?"
"At least it's not easy to damage."
It is very easy to damage the banknotes in the wind and rain in the wild. It is very convenient for modern people to use banknotes. It is not necessary to kill and kill outside. With a little water and a few rains, the banknotes can be scrapped directly.
The world has used nuclear caps as currency for many years.
Not much was used in the beginning.
However, the scope of use has become wider and wider, but the medical supplies and ammunition are still hard currencies, and they belong to the living materials with higher purchasing power than currency.
Using this gadget as a currency is similar to steel plutonium.
Not many materials can be exchanged in Su Ziyu's hands. The value of gold in the wasteland era is not so amazing. The food has to be kept for eating. It must not be used for exchange. Other things are not very convenient to take out. It is better for him to look for opportunities while making news in the past two days. Click the bottle cap. The bullets given by Paul are not much, and at first glance are the bullets made by the clay workshop, which is far inferior to those that Pasha gave to Su Ziyu. Even the bullets in the weapon store in front of me are of average quality, and they are not up to the level of military products. .
If you want to replenish a relatively ample amount of ammunition, the squid will probably earn about 300 caps.
"Is there any task to be entrusted to the wilderness hunter?" Su Ziyu asked.
There are some terrible mutants in many parts of the wasteland world.
Ordinary people can't deal with these mutant creatures, but there are some hunters who will hunt them, of course, provided that there is sufficient rewards. The commissions that are usually hung out are monsters that are quite difficult to deal with, and most of them are entrenched in some valuable areas, otherwise they will threaten the residents of the gathering place.
Su Ziyu's return to the world consumes a full 10 points of source power. Of course, he has to find a way to earn it. While hunting monsters to earn bottle caps, he will harvest some source power.
The best of both worlds.
"Of course." Old Bob pointed to the other side. "There are hanging in the tavern. There are not many people willing to take risks in the gathering place. Many commissions have been hanging for several years."
If you want money, you have to spend your life.
In the wasteland era, it is not worthwhile to earn a little bottle cap, and many people prefer to have a life of congestion and do not want to risk their lives at all.
Bang bang
When Su Ziyu thanked him and prepared to go to the tavern, a heavy knock on the door came, and then he saw a man with two gunmen, knocking door to door to collect money.
"It's these vampires again!" The old Bob next to him spit a thick sputum on the ground, looking suspiciously at Su Ziyu's expression, and explained, "The people in the water merchant group."
"Today is the day they collect water fees."
It turns out that there is no relatively clean water source nearby. Daily drinking water needs to be filtered many times in evolution. Selling water in the era of waste is an extremely profitable business. All those who can afford water purification plants are all It's a wealthy background. The water supply of the elk gathering place was monopolized by some people. They and the water merchant group jointly charged high water fees. The consumption of water fees in the daily expenses of the residents of the gathering place can reach nearly one-fifth.
In other words, one-fifth of the money they make is given to these water merchant groups.
The cost of purifying water is not high.
The energy in the wasteland era is still abundant. The use of nuclear energy can produce a large amount of pure water, but the technology is completely monopolized by the chaebol group. How can ordinary people have the technology to do this kind of thing.
This is equivalent to a salary of 3,000 yuan a month, and you have to pay a full 600 yuan for the water fee~EbookFREE.me~ The residents here have a very bad attitude towards the water merchant group, but there is no way to take them. Because there is no place for them to get clean water, and the power of the chaebol group is also quite large. There are a lot of thugs under their hands, almost the level of regular army.
Monopolizing water is indeed a lucrative business.
Because this is an essential substance for survival, the top chaebol group controls the business of medicines, arms, etc., and the next group is these combined water merchants.
They are not excessively exploited, but they have greatly increased the cost of living for everyone.
Su Ziyu does not intend to be busy.
Such things are very common in the wasteland era, he turned to the bar after a few glances.
Make money first.
By the way, gather intelligence and see how much the wasteland world has changed over the years.
Don’t know if the Brotherhood is still here?
At that time, Su Ziyu gave them the bionic technology, but it still seems that ordinary people still use mechanical prostheses. The bionic technology has not been popularized, but many people have heard of this technology.
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