Chapter 53

Chapter 53 – Old Classmate

The skinny young man wrapped the canned meat on a clean cloth . He organized his words and began to speak .

“The establishment of Lindong Shelter began on the third day after the doomsday . It’s been more than a month now . This shelter is also the largest shelter within hundreds of kilometers around the Lincheng area . The shelter hosted hundreds and thousands of survivors . ”

“People said you can live a good life here . But the reality is different than what people preach about . ” The skinny young man smiled bitterly . “After all, there were too many survivors and the food is limited . The distributed food is too little so people had to find their own source of income . ”

He pointed at a nearby building . At this time, the door was locked .

“That’s the job market, some jobs will be assigned each morning . But they’re all short term jobs like building the wall . And there were not much empty slot . People would line up every morning in front of the job market but so many people still can’t get a job . ”

“Of course hunters or professional are excluded . But ordinary people like me who can’t get a job works as a guide . If we’re lucky enough, we’ll find someone like you . I can trade the canned meat from you for a few days’ worth of food . Some people went out to the shelter to loot for goods . We call them scavengers . Sometimes they were lucky enough to find valuable goods, but mostly…”

Scavengers…

Tang Yu knew exactly who they were . On the way to the shelter, he had encountered many thin survivors . It was impossible for them to hunt demonic beast . They didn’t possess the required ability for searching materials . After some combat teams finished searching, they went to pick up the leftover goods .

The goods didn’t worth much . Moreover, outside the shelter, no matter how close or far the combat team explored, there’s no guarantee for safety . Sometimes, if they managed to find something valuable, they had to guard against the other survivors who would snatch it .

Indeed, in Lindong shelter, the life was better than anywhere else .

Tang Yu frowned .

They had this many idle survivors…it’s a waste of labor!

In his territory, he had a porter team . But as the waste materials from the resort gradually depleted, they had to travel further to get materials . Naturally, they needed to increase the manpower . There were also lumber yards and quarries in the territorial buildings just like the one in game . But it’s very unrealistic to produce woods and stones out of thin air like in the game .

Even if these resource buildings were built, they’d still need survivors to inspect the operation .

“It can’t be helped . Even if I had survivors, I lack spirit stones, blueprints and advanced metal materials . ”

He found out that he lacked of all material . He should’ve changed his name to Tang Que .

Lindong County area was not small . But it’s not particularly big either .

Hundreds of thousands of survivors who suddenly flooded the Lindong shelter occupied most of the land . Buildings with low function were demolished and transformed into crowded micro-apartments for the survivors to live in .

Except for a few main street, the entire Lindong shelter was very crowded . It was hard to breathe in such view .

Following the young man, Tang Yu walked along the main street . The young man introduced some of the main construction facilities of Lindong shelter as he walked .

“The original bank building over there was now transformed into a mercenary mission management center . Many combat teams went there every day to get a suitable mission . After they finish the mission, they would return to report in the mission center . They also could redeem the accumulated mission point for a handsome reward . That’s why the mission center is the most visited place for most hunters . ”

Tang Yu stroked his chin .

After all, it was commissioned by the Lindong official . Naturally, there were many good things on the reward lists in the mission center .

No wonder why the hunters looked delighted .

The rewards were ranging from the most basic foods to guns and even rocket launcher, armored vehicles . The types of weapons that would stir jealousy of their fellow combatants . There were also a few things that tingled Tang Yu’s attention .

Awakening Elixir .

Lindong Shelter’s research on human awakening was obviously advanced . This Awakening Elixir had a greater auxiliary effect and fewer side effects compared to the simple awakening headband . Although it’s kinda useless for him, it’s effective enough to attract outsiders to his shelter .

Tang Yu thought carefully .

He only needed a few Awakening Elixirs . With this sample, he could research it and possibly derived the formula of this elixir .

In addition, Tang Yu was surprised when he saw container of spirit power .

Could this container really absorb spirit power?

After the death of a demonic beast, spirit power would quickly dissipate if not absorbed by a hunter . But the scientist in Lindong had discovered a special crystal that was compatible with spirit power . Through their research, they managed to create a crystal vessel to contain the spirit power .

Tang Yu’s eyes brightened . This trip to Lindong was indeed worth the risk .

“Can I buy Awakening Elixir and Spirit Power Container with spirit stones?”

“You can buy Awakening Elixir with spirit stone . But Spirit Power Containers are only exchangeable with mission points . Also, Awakening Elixirs were categorized into grade three, six and nine . The high-grade elixirs are hard to buy . ”

He couldn’t get it unless he took missions?

He was a little depressed .

Doing mission was out of the question . He went to east to do things, not just doing missions . Moreover, nobody knew how long it’d take to accumulate mission points in order to redeem the container .

“Is there really no other way?” Tang Yu had a glimmer of hope .

The skinny young man pondered for a while . “They said there are various goods in the black market that can be bought with spirit stones . But that’s all I heard, I don’t have any information about the black market . ” He was a bit distressed but it couldn’t be helped .

Tang Yu didn’t expect him to know everything . After all, this man was just an ordinary survivor .

More importantly, he would eventually found the black market . He was worried if the item he was searching for was available there or not .

Tang Yu gave hint at Gray Blade .

The guide left and Gray Blade continue walked down the street to found some information regarding the black market .

Elaine looked delighted as she looked at the goods at the small street vendors along the street . Tang Yu let her be .

Just in a few moments, Tang Yu was alone .

Suddenly, a familiar voice called him from behind .

“Tang Yu?”

When he turned, he saw a young man with glasses with a flat head .

“Are you Xiaoming? Li Xiaoming?”