Chapter 80: City of Chaos
Cannibalism has become completely open.
In this city of dust, all the original order of human society has collapsed...
In other words, the basis of all this collapse is not order, but the cornerstone of all order in human society - civilization.
In the face of the pressure of survival, order, law, morality, and civilization have all been thrown away. Everyone has only one belief: to survive!
To survive, even if it means devouring one's own kind; to survive, even if it means selling one's own body; to survive, even if it means betraying one's own family... Almost no one can endure the feeling of being tortured by hunger on the brink of death.
What's more, there's no telling when the zombies outside will break through the city wall and eat everyone, so every day you can live is a gain.
As for what will happen in the future...who knows if anyone will be able to survive to the future?
Sitting in the car, looking at the bustling market outside, Lifeng couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The tragedy that happened all the time in this sand and dust base made him doubt for the first time what he should do next.
Should he try to change these things, so that these human beings, these compatriots, can live more like human beings?
At this moment, Richemont suddenly felt that Crystal, who was sitting next to him, was trembling all over, but she was trying hard to control herself. In her eyes, Richemont saw fear, disgust and deep disappointment.
“How could this happen in Dust City… How could this happen…” Crystal muttered to herself in a low voice.
Seeing Crystal's appearance, Li Feng couldn't help but become interested. He smiled and asked in a deep voice: "Why, didn't you know what the market was like before? Or, you weren't in Sand City before?" Looking at Crystal's appearance before, she seemed very calm about everything. He thought that the other party had struggled in this doomsday for a long time and understood a lot of things. Now it seems that she is still a little immature.
“I used to live in Black Soil City… Although Black Soil City was also extremely chaotic, it had not yet reached the point where people openly ate human flesh… No matter how hungry people were, the trade of human flesh was still carried out secretly on the black market… In Dust City, it’s actually… It’s completely open…” Crystal looked at the people outside who were doing business calmly with a look of disbelief.
Li Feng curled his lips. Although the Black Soil City did not openly practice cannibalism, it was only one step away from the current state of the Dust City. Relatively speaking, there was still a little order. It was estimated that it would become like this in a short time.
At this time, Gao Xiong heard what Shui Jing said and actually laughed with a slightly proud expression. He turned to Li Feng and said with a sneer, "Sir, we in Sand City are different from those weaklings in Black Soil City. Sand City has always been called the City of Chaos. This name is not just for show. Those who survived Sand City are also the most powerful. In all the battles with other bases for supplies, Sand City has never lost."
"The City of Chaos..." Li Feng curled his lips, "Interesting."
"Wouldn't it be interesting if I transformed this town into a city of order..." Richemont continued, as if speaking to the people present, or as if talking to himself, causing the people around him to look at each other in surprise.
"Forget it, forget about it, let's go shopping first and sell the goods." Lifeng picked up a package, pushed open the back door of the truck, and walked out. Crystal gritted her teeth and followed him.
Gao Xiong immediately carried the body of Cockscomb Head with his intact hand, and followed Li Feng obediently with his disabled men. The captives rescued by Li Feng looked at each other and followed Li Feng cautiously.
The street was only five meters wide, and now it was filled with all kinds of stalls, leaving only a two-meter wide aisle in the middle. At both ends of the street, there were five armed black-clad guards guarding. The most surprising thing was that all the business people were well-behaved, and no one dared to rob or rob.
According to Gao Xiong's explanation, this market is the most peaceful place in the entire Sand Dust City. As the city lord, Chai Yunzhou has already issued an order that no matter who it is, as long as they dare to cause trouble in the market, they will be killed without mercy. Obviously, Wu Yunzhou is also a complete reckless person. At least he understands the principle of protecting trade. Otherwise, no one dares to come to this Sand Dust City, and there is no import of any supplies, and the people inside will be trapped to death.
As for the trading of materials, especially imports, they mainly rely on bandits like Gao Xiong who go out to make a living in the wilderness. Of course, their official name is hunters. As the name suggests, they use their own lives as capital to hunt in the wilderness full of zombies and mutant beasts.
Being able to dare to leave the base and enter the wilderness already shows that they have great courage. You know, most people would rather starve to death than step out of the base, they have been scared by the zombies. And those hunters wandering in the wilderness, the relatively timid ones just wander along the road and pick up some things. The braver ones dare to enter some abandoned houses to look for supplies. The most daring ones dare to enter some abandoned towns where zombies roam, looking for all kinds of urgently needed supplies. The survivors they meet in the wilderness will be captured and sold as slaves or vegetable people.
"But no one has ever dared to enter those abandoned cities. After all, that is clearly seeking death. Unless someone is crazy, no one would do that." Gao Xiong said to Lifeng with a smile.
Gao Xiong was obviously a frequent visitor to this market. The stall owners around him kept greeting him and looked at Richemont and Crystal with confusion. They also knew the two pieces of corpses on Gao Xiong's back.
Richemont strolled in the market, looking at the various goods on both sides of the road.
Pieces of dried meat, balls of browned dough, and occasional candies are one of the most precious commodities in this market: food.
Fruit knives, machetes, sticks, guns, etc., all kinds of weapons are also sold here.
Energy storage devices, wood, seeds, fuel, etc., most of the things sold here are necessities.
At the same time, people would put gold and silver jewelry, jade and jewelry on the ground, waiting to be sold. However, these items, which were extremely valuable in peacetime, were not even looked at at this time. Even a piece of bread was much more valuable than a piece of gold of the same weight!
Here, there are only two real hard currencies: food and weapons.
Therefore, those who buy goods are all bartering in their transactions . All activities are aimed at survival.
When he came to a stall filled with gold, silver and jewelry, Lifeng suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, and a feeling similar to approaching a homologous energy body came over him instantly!
He immediately stopped and frowned as he looked at the pearls, jade and gems in front of him that were supported by a piece of gorgeous silk.
The stall owner was a slightly fat man with wrinkles all over his face. He looked about fifty years old, but his wrinkles made him look like he was seventy. No one came to this jewelry stall. He was sitting there with his hands on his stomach and a dull look on his face. When he saw Richemont parked in front of his stall, he immediately sat up with excitement and said, "Sir, you really know what's good. To be honest, these are all my collections from most of my life, worth at least hundreds of millions of Red Star coins! Now, just three cakes, no, one cake, and they will all be yours!"
Seeing that Lifeng didn't say anything, the stall owner immediately gritted his teeth, looked at the gems in front of him with reluctance, and said: "Sir, half a piece of bread, I can't sell it for less, I haven't eaten for two days... I..." As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes and he almost cried.
Li Feng picked up a jadeite and asked, "Are you a gem collector? Do you know where there are a lot of gems?" Seeing that the other party was stunned and didn't say anything, Li Feng pretended to take out two bags of bread from his pocket. He threw them to the stall owner and said, "Buy all these things for one loaf of bread. Follow me, one loaf of bread every day."
The stall owner, holding the bread in his arms, began to be dazed again, unable to believe that what was happening to him was real.
Richemont stood up impatiently and said, "Don't want to?"
"Yes, of course!" The stall owner woke up instantly, rolled over and rolled to pack up the jewels on the ground, followed behind happily, and at the same time began to tear open a bag of bread impatiently and started eating it.
This scene immediately caused a small commotion in the market.
Bread, that's bread! This kind of high-end food is far more precious than ordinary food! A bag of bread can be exchanged for at least three pieces of bread, but now it was eaten by the old man.
Seeing that Richemont used two bags of precious bread to buy a bunch of junk and an old man, many people felt that they had met a prodigal son, and some even thought that Richemont wanted to treat this old man as a loser...
At this time, Li Feng remained calm on the surface, but he was extremely excited in his heart. You know, he just felt the breath of the same energy body in those gems! Some of these breaths were strong and some were thin, but they were basically sealed in the gems and rarely leaked out.
Although he didn't know what these auras meant, Li Feng was sure that these gems would be of great help to him. He couldn't wait to find a secluded place to study them carefully.
At this time, a group of people had arrived at the meat market. Here, human bodies, some intact and some broken, were being dismembered and processed. Everything was not much different from the previous slaughterhouses, the only difference was the source of the meat.
The body of Cockscomb was immediately sold for bread that was 20% heavier than the original weight. It was called bread, but it was actually a coarse cake made by roughly grinding wheat and mixing it with wheat bran. Li Feng indicated that all the cakes belonged to Gao Xiong and his friends, which immediately made them burst into tears of gratitude and almost kneel down.
After selling the corpse, the group came to the gate of a small courtyard. Inside the courtyard, there was a brick and stone platform, on which stood a dozen ragged men and women tied with ropes. There were thirty or forty people surrounding them, pointing and talking at the men and women on the platform.
Then there was a gong sound, and a man wearing glasses shouted in a sharp voice: "Slave No. 1, base price, same weight plus 30% of bread, please increase the price!"
Immediately, a beautiful young girl with a noose around her neck was pulled out from the group of slaves and left for inspection by the people below.
"Add 10%!" Someone has already started bidding.
