Wasteland: Hunting the wasteland with a max-level account

Chapter 23 Homeless ②

The third time she came to the mutated mango forest, Hua Xiaoqin was already familiar with the journey. The two parked their pickup truck at the edge of the orchard. They first briefly surveyed the entire orchard before looking for a place to start collecting highly toxic crystals.

However, this time, Guolin changed again.

Most of the residual trees that were originally all over the ground have disappeared, leaving only a few residual trees in the corners, as well as frozen fallen leaves and fruits.

The two looked at each other.

"Has anyone else come here to sweep the shelter in the past few days since I've been out?"

Hua Xiaomao shook his head: "As far as I know, no one does such a thankless thing. This place is too close to the swamp, the trees are damp, and the weather is also bad."

This is strange. Who would come here and drag away all the wood?
  Is it possible that anyone besides her knows the secret of these remaining trees?

Hua Xiaoqin had to search more carefully.

The toxins in frozen fruits and fallen leaves have deteriorated, and what is produced are "rotten and highly toxic crystals." Even the name has changed, and the procedures for handling purification have become more complicated.

But so far, Hua Xiaoqin has only found this kind of toxin. The two of them worked hard to gather all the fallen leaves and rotten mangoes on the frozen soil into cones.

Hua Xiaoqin patiently dug through all the scraps and produced about three liters of "rotten poisonous crystals." It took twice as long to purify the corrupted poisonous crystals into primary venom that could be used directly.

This morning passed.

But in addition, Hua Xiaoqin still had an unexpected harvest. Her collecting skills also accidentally dropped a lot of mutant mango seeds and a few weed seeds that were not afraid of the poisonous mangoes.

There are many kinds of these weed seeds, mixed in the fallen leaves and mulch. If it weren't for Hua Xiaoqin's level 100 gathering skills, she would be blind and unable to pick out just a few.

With these seeds, Hua Xiaoqin can artificially grow mutant mangoes and detoxifying grass.

On the other side, Hua Xiaomao was not idle either, keeping watch while looking for traces of prey. However, this mango forest was the same as the dirt road at the post station two days ago, and there was no trace of any nearby prey.

After hearing that her brother had failed to gain anything, Hua Xiaoqin automatically blamed all of this on the savages.

She thought for a while and took her brother to the place where the savages were last found camping in the mango forest.

"This is it. The missing wood must have been dragged away by savages. Let's look for any clues..."

"Are these the clues you are talking about..."

Hua Xiaoqin leaned over.

I saw a small bee falling on the edge of the stone.

[Identification Technique (Level 100): This is a mutant mine bee. It died from attacking the enemy. The stinger and venom glands on its body have disappeared, and it has no value. 】

"This thing is a mine bee, right? It's useless. It may have died after stinging the savages."

Hua Xiaomao didn't care so much, but followed his experience and picked up the Mine Bee into the collection box, preparing to take it back and hand it over to the armory to see if there were any clues.

Now that the mango grove had been collected, the two got back in the car and discussed going south to continue the unfinished sweep.

To the south, there were obviously more prey under the frozen soil.

A whole group of wild birds, a whole nest of hares, hundreds of pounds of wild boar...

Last time there were five people in the pickup truck, but this time there were three less people, so Hua Xiaomao used all the back seats to load things.

The two of them filled the pickup truck to the brim every time and carried it back and forth three times before they could move the frozen prey under the southern highway ruins back to the shelter.

This meat is estimated to be enough to feed Hua Xiaoqin's family of three for a whole year.

However, the electricity bill in the shelter is very expensive, and their home only has an ordinary refrigerator, which cannot hold so much meat.

Hua’s mother took the time to cut up all the meat that could be smoked and cured and hang it up all over the house. The rest were all taken out by the two brothers and sisters the next day and replaced, whether it was rice, flour, potatoes or cloth and cotton. The next morning, Hua Xiaoqin followed her brother to the market for the first time.

The last time I handled the prey, my brother's friend helped me, and this time it was finally Hua Xiaoqin's turn.

She must keep her eyes open when visiting the market. It costs nothing to throw away the identification skills, and she might miss something again.

Hua Xiaoqin was very excited, her face full of joy.

In Hua Xiaomao's eyes, girls' habit of shopping has happened again...

The largest trading market in the refuge is located in the West District. It is a free trade. There are no fees for entering and exiting, and there is no tax for buying and selling.

However, the security here is not very good. There are pickpockets everywhere, not to mention all kinds of scammers and profiteers.

After all, the free market has a large flow of people and a mixed bag of people. If the security requirements here are raised, the labor cost will be too high, and the shelter cannot afford such high wages.

Just let the crowd figure it out.

Anyway, the space has been given, and how it is used depends on how the people below respond flexibly.

So some friends on the road started to charge fees for demarcating land here, but some gangs did manage it very well, so the officials turned a blind eye and let them go. The gang collects the management fee, but pays for it. As long as there is no big mistake, they can do whatever they want.

As soon as he entered the free market, someone discovered Hua Xiaomao.

Hua Xiaomao is the security captain and a familiar face in the free market. He is known to both black and white.

At this moment, some people rushed to tell each other, and some took the initiative to come forward and say hello.

"Brother Hua, what kind of wind is blowing today? Has it brought you here?"

"Brother Hua, do you want to ship the goods? Come to me and I'll make sure you get what you want!"

"Hey, is this a flower girl? She's so big! Today I'm here to experience life, hahahaha!"

Hua Xiaoqin was not used to this kind of situation, so she was a little timid. Hua Xiaomao protected her, directly found a gang she was friends with, and sold out all the things in one go.

The members of this gang all have pigtails and rubber bands the color of dopamine, making them look very middle-class.

But the gangsters who interacted with Hua Xiaomao were very good.

They were a middle-aged couple, unattractive in appearance, the type who would disappear if they blended in with the crowd.

But not only did they help the two of them get the rice, flour, grain, oil, cloth and leather weapons they wanted, but they even knew that Hua Xiaoqin had recovered from a serious illness some time ago and was promoted from a broken love, so they specially arranged a quiet and tidy suite for the two of them to sit down and inspect the goods.

Hua Xiaoqin needs a wide variety of pharmaceutical raw materials, and everyone knows a rough idea. After making a lot of calculations, the shopping list was written properly, and everything she found was error-free and of high quality.

Sophistication and erudition are two rare talents.

Hua Xiaomao seemed to be very familiar with them, and his demeanor was naturally relaxed, not like he had come to the underworld at all. It even made Hua Xiaoqin feel that her brother might not be so relaxed when Hua's mother was around, and he could do it as hard as he wanted. , if you want to pick your feet, pick your feet...

After they finished changing things and the couple was about to open the door to see the guests away, the middle-aged uncle came close to Hua Xiaomao and his sister and whispered: "Little sister, you have to be careful in the past two days and pay attention to your safety when going out!"

The Hua family siblings looked at the uncle at the same time.

"I can't say more. In short, safety comes first."

Hua Xiaomao patted his shoulder: "Thank you, Old Zeng. I'll treat you to dinner later."

　Big harvest hahahaha, the warehouse is full and I need to buy something else.

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