bookbashuk Chapter 241 Iron Guard
Chapter 241 Iron Guard
The campfires on both sides of the lake were completely extinguished in the dim light of dawn, leaving only ashes that had been silent all night.
After a peaceful night of waiting, neither convoy did anything unwise.
After protecting each other, the tense atmosphere seemed to ease considerably as the sky gradually brightened.
Fu Xiaojian got up early, as did everyone else.
Naturally, they needed to take stock of the goods that could be used for exchange.
As for whether I can get something I like in the exchange, I don't know.
Dou Dou and Xu Si, the only two major suppliers in the convoy, were clearly the main players in the transactions, but Xu Si was not as proactive.
The convoy's main supplies right now consist of the dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves they harvested in the valley.
At this time, these supplies were considered "hard currency".
Xu Si doesn't need food or fuel right now.
He has all of those things; his only goal is to fall into the mysterious trap.
The other members of the team were even more eager to obtain the mysterious drop than Xu Si.
Because in their view, a strange drop represents a Sequence Transcendent, something that has been verified several times.
As for how to escape this grassland, that has long been forgotten by everyone, at least for now.
Xu Si leaned against the "Nirvana" car.
Watching Fu Xiaojian and Shao Bing carrying two cloth bags towards the center of the pool.
Across from them, Lu Xun also approached with Bald Tiesheng and Yue Li, the young woman who always seemed half-asleep.
The cool boy, Xiao Zhou, stayed by the car, arms crossed, gazing into the distance, seemingly wanting to join in as well.
The transaction process was simpler than expected.
The Changsheng convoy showed great interest in dried sweet potatoes. Lu Xun even picked up a piece himself to smell and examine it carefully, a complex look flashing in his eyes.
It seemed like a mix of nostalgia and relief.
They didn't haggle and readily accepted Fu Xiaojian's proposed barter exchange.
"What do you want?" Lu Xun put down the bag of dried sweet potatoes in his hand and then looked at Fu Xiaojian.
"Valuable intelligence and strange drops..." Fu Xiaojian paused, his gaze sweeping towards Xu Si's direction in the distance.
Lu Xun then said, "We've basically covered everything we know about this grassland last night. As for more... we're still exploring."
"A strange drop... We do have a few, but they were all obtained outside in the early days. We haven't encountered any battles since entering this grassland." His gaze was candid.
"However, if you are interested, we can take it out for a look, but the exchange value will be determined by us."
Fu Xiaojian nodded: "Okay."
Tiesheng turned back to their car, quickly retrieved a coarse cloth bundle, placed it on the grass between them, and opened it.
Inside were three items: a dull-colored, grayish-white stone covered with honeycomb-like holes;
A black bone spur about a foot long, sharp at one end and barbed at the other;
And a transparent, resinous object that constantly changes color.
Xu Si's starry pupils narrowed slightly as a system notification appeared in his mind:
[Strange Drop Detected: Corrupted Stone]
[Strange item detected: Duke Bone]
[Strange item detected: Cloud Amber]
The other two items were ordinary drops with nothing special about them, but Xu Si was quite interested in the Cloud Amber.
His standards have risen; he no longer cares much for ordinary strange drops.
This [Cloud Amber] is quite nice.
However, Xu Si felt that their team definitely had more than just this much stuff.
Because these three strange drops were all rather ordinary.
"This isn't enough!" Lu Xun said, pointing to the things that Fu Xiaojian and the other man had brought over.
Fu Xiaojian and Shao Bing brought at least a hundred kilograms of supplies, but Lu Xun clearly wanted to get more.
"No, this might be better if we were outside, but we're here now!" Fu Xiaojian said.
Now that he knows there seems to be no way out here, he won't give in easily.
He understands the principle of yielding again and again!
Supplies were also the Achilles' heel of this so-called "longevity caravan".
Although Fu Xiaojian would not resort to force, he was currently in a seller's market and had no reason to lower the price.
"..." Lu Xun and the burly man both looked unpleasant.
"What you said makes sense, but we can choose to exchange with him!" Lu Xun said, pointing to Xu Si, who hadn't come over.
"Oh? Then he'll only pressure us even lower!" Fu Xiaojian had no doubt about Xu Si's shrewd business acumen.
Lu Xun's statement was not actually intended to make a deal with Xu Si, but rather to probe the specific dynamics of the opposing team.
He had already gleaned enough information from Fu Xiaojian's words.
Provocation? Forget about it.
"I can add another item to the drop list, but you'll have to double the price of these supplies!" Lu Xun offered again.
This was purely a test of the supply limits of the salary train team.
However, Fu Xiaojian did not show any anger or rebuttal.
Instead, she exchanged a glance with Shao Bing.
This was unexpected for Lu Xun.
He thought this was already most of the team's reserves, but he was still too shallow.
"It's a deal!" Fu Xiaojian pondered for a moment and felt that he had still come out ahead.
After all, the dried sweet potatoes in Shao Bing's ambulance were basically untouched; there were several thousand kilograms of them. Even if the supplies were doubled, it would only be a drop in the bucket.
Trading these dried sweet potatoes for four mysterious drops is an incredibly good deal.
After all, cows can continue to produce food in large quantities.
Lu Xun then produced another strange loot item called "Paralysis Broken Feather".
When he took it out, Ya Ya couldn't help but glance at it a couple more times.
It turns out that when Ya Ya showed up, the other side wasn't on high alert, but rather acting with complete confidence!
The broken feather clearly demonstrates that they encountered a flying anomaly and even defeated it!
So, this team may not have many members, but they're really something!
Xu Sixing narrowed his eyes slightly.
Although the energy fluctuations contained in this dropped item were weak, its texture was very special, carrying a sense of sluggishness that was almost at the level of "rules".
It clearly originates from some kind of flying anomaly with paralyzing or controlling properties, and is at least a level 3 anomaly.
Otherwise, the crows wouldn't have shown any unusual behavior.
The exchange went smoothly. Fu Xiaojian received one of the strange drops, [Paralysis Broken Feather], while Shao Bing took the other three, which belonged to Dou Dou.
Next, the rest of the convoy went to make the transaction, carrying large and small bags.
However, those supplies held little appeal for the Changsheng caravan.
Tashan, Jiao Jiao, and others brought mostly unused supplies that they had looted from the salt market, such as clothes, pots and pans.
They also had dried sweet potatoes, but not as many as Xu Si and Dou Dou, so they were reluctant to trade them.
After all, we don't know how long we'll be staying here.
What caught Xu Si's attention was that the Changsheng convoy also had special supplies.
That bald, muscular man was actually Sequence 2 – Iron Man.
With his superb iron-manipulation skills, he reinforced all the vehicles in the firewood train fleet and harvested a lot of supplies.
This is a height that Wang Hu cannot reach.
Wang Hu can only repair, not reconstruct at the molecular level.
Repairs leave traces, but Ironclad is a pure rebirth of metal.
However, Wang Hu's advantage is also very obvious, which is the creation of rare items, and the two are not comparable.