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Chapter 16 Libraries(1/2)

The cans that needed to be exchanged for coins, energy bars and compressed biscuits were put into a cardboard box without special marks, and after handing them to Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen shook the tent cloth open, covering the "Orange" rifle, "Berserker" assault rifle, "Tyrant" grenade gun, "Death" individual bazooka, various types of ammunition, first aid kit and remaining supplies.

In this way, you can't find any valuable items just by looking in through the window.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Baimian nodded slightly, with many praises in his eyes.

After sorting out the trunk, Bai Chen turned around and saw Long Yuehong's rather puzzled expression, and explained briefly:

"It's easy to hide from the thief, but it's hard to guard against the thief.

"Aunt Nan is not a very orderly place."

In places where there is too order, outsiders are relatively conspicuous.

Jiang Baimian added with a smile:

"When I come back later, some things have to be moved upstairs and placed next to me, so that I can be safe."

She didn't mention how to continue taking turns to watch the night and monitor Jeep on the second floor, because she didn't know what would happen next, so it was very important to keep your energy.

Sometimes, when I don’t have enough sleep for several consecutive days, even if I feel energetic and have no problems, I will react half a beat or even one beat when I encounter an emergency.

People have illusions, especially in their cognition of themselves.

Long Yuehong nodded as if he was ignorant and saw Shang Jianyao holding the cardboard box and walking towards the exit of the yard near the "Afu Gun Shop".

In Wild Grass City, all alleys are relatively narrow, allowing only one car to pass by, and the surrounding buildings are also more than ten meters high. This leads to the sunshine here only at noon every winter, which can dispel the cold feeling.

But after leaving the alley and coming to the street, the sun suddenly became warm, making people feel warm, and the wind was not so harsh.

"We are in a team of two, and we will slightly distance. The characteristics of four people and a group are too obvious." Jiang Baimian glanced at the pedestrians coming and going and said to Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.

Without too much explanation, Bai Chen understood the team leader's meaning immediately, and took Long Yuehong and accelerated his pace.

Soon, the two teams were separated by five or six meters.

Long Yuehong looked around with a novelty:

“There is no public canteen here?

"There are quite a lot of people in the restaurant..."

This does not fit his imagination of the settlement of wilderness wanderers.

In this regard, both Shuiwei Town and Qifeng Town are closer.

"There are many foreign ruin hunters here." Bai Chen explained in the simplest words.

Long Yuehong knew this fact and even knew that Wildcake City was a center for material exchange in the junction of the three major forces. There were many people coming and going every day, and it would be a little deserted in winter.

However, he didn't understand what this had to do with his own problem.

Looking at him, Bai Chen said further:

"Most of the outsiders don't stay in Wild Grass City for too long. Every time they come here, they stay for at most two weeks. They either stay in small hotels or rent short-term houses, and there is no place to cook."

"That's how..." Long Yuehong finally figured it out.

This is an impossible situation inside "Pangu creatures".

Even if they go to other floors to visit relatives and friends, they can go home quickly or be left alone. Therefore, there are no hotels in the underground building and no rental houses calculated on a daily basis.

While they were talking, Jiang Baimian suddenly accelerated and caught up.

She said in a stranger's way:

"Will there be more people in the alley here at night?"

She refers to the alley opposite the "South Street Slave Market".

Bai Chen recalled:

"On winter nights, there are no people outside except West Street."

"Thank you." Jiang Baimian showed a clear smile.

Then, she returned to Shang Jianyao's side.

"The team leader acted like a lot..." Long Yuehong exclaimed from the bottom of her heart.

Bai Chen didn't say much and continued to walk towards the central square.

Compared with other places in Wild Grass City, it looks very spacious, and the ground seems to have been repaired and quite flat.

There is a stone statue of a human in the middle of the square, an old man holding a gun in one hand and a book in the other.

His face was thin, and he was wearing a hooded robe that seemed inconvenient to move. His slightly sunken eyes were staring at the humans coming and going ahead.

"This is the illegitimate son, Xu Erde?" Long Yuehong asked with interest.

"Yeah." Bai Chen walked around the stone statue and walked towards the municipal building in the north. "In fact, the most accurate name for him should be the Governor of Wild Grass City, but everyone is more accustomed to saying the city lord, well... there is also a tax officer who is directly responsible for the 'first city', and the exchange window is also under him."

Long Yuehong originally wanted to ask what "tax" is, but he also felt that he had asked too many questions along the way, so it would be better to ask again next time.

Not long after, they arrived in front of the municipal building.

This is a four-story building with a brownish-yellow overall color and some flower beds in front of it.

There are nearly ten windows on the ground floor of the municipal building, and there are a large number of people in front of each window.

"The seven on the left are exchange windows." Bai Chen took Long Yuehong and found the team with the least number of people waiting. "The blackboard in front has different exchange prices for today's goods, and the materials that are not on the goods cannot be exchanged."

"We're okay?" Long Yuehong suddenly felt a little worried.

"No force will refuse food." Bai Chen was very confident.

In fact, those who exchange food for coins like them belong to the minority gang.

Most people come to Wild Grass City to exchange other supplies for reserved food, but the coins from "First City" must be used as the measure.

Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously:

"What should I do if there is materials that cannot be redeemed? Go to the underground market?"

"You can also go around the streets, sell one by one, or spend some supplies and set up stalls in regular markets. This is a waste of time." Bai Chen looked around, as if he wanted to determine the length of other teams. "When you come a few more times, you will be familiar with them, and you will be able to know the main buyers of different materials and just talk to them directly."

At this time, Jiang Baimian put his hands in his arms and pointed at Long Yuehong and his team:

"You go there and queue up. I see a public library next to me, go in and have a walk."

On the right side of the square, there is a white-walled building with multiple entrances. One of the entrances is the "Wild Grass City Public Library".

This is also one of the achievements of the greatest city lord Xu Erde, represented by the stone statue.

Therefore, stone statues are just pistols and cannons and the other hand books.

Shang Jianyao glanced at Jiang Baimian, and without saying much, he walked towards Long Yuehong and the others.

Jiang Baimian then let out a sigh, watching it spread into white mist in the air, and then came to the door of the library with satisfaction.

A piece of white paper was pasted on the wall next to it, and it was written in both gray and earth languages ​​and Honghe languages:

"Only citizens of this city and hunters above official positions can be borrowed."

Here, the hunter badge is really useful... Jiang Baimian sighed and walked in.

This is similar to the library of "Pangu Biology", and it is also composed of a bookshelf area and a reading area. Jiang Baimian goes straight to the former.

She browsed casually, and soon came to an inconspicuous corner and pulled out a rather old thick book.

The title of the book is written in pure Red River language, and it is translated as:

Domestic Income Code

On the dust, at the current stage, this is a useless book. It is placed here, and it is more of a filling of bookshelf, and no one will borrow it at all.

Jiang Baimian quickly turned to 650 pages of the book and folded it up.

Then, she took out a sticky note and a water-absorbing pen from her pocket, and wrote a passage from this place where no one was blocked by many bookshelf:

“At 8 pm, in the alley opposite the slave market in South Street.”

This is the contact information with intelligence personnel.

If it is completed before 2 pm, 8 pm means 8 pm tonight. If it exceeds 2 pm, it means the next night.

After folding the note paper, Jiang Baimian clamped it into the middle part of the book, and then she pushed the book back to its original position.

…………

In front of the exchange window, Long Yuehong looked at the coins in her hand and said in a voice:

"Isn't this paper?"

Their supplies were exchanged in total for 10 Aures, and today, they could buy about 12 kilograms of raw pork.

But these Aures are just thin, more textured paper with colorful patterns on it, a man's side face and the number "1".

"They are indeed equal to paper after the sphere of influence of the 'first city'." Bai Chen echoed indifferently, "If you have a choice, it would be better to choose the gold coins minted by the 'first city'."

Unfortunately, this is hard to come by.

"Then let's go for lunch quickly." Long Yuehong suddenly felt that the money in her hand would quickly turn into paper if she didn't spend it.

At this time, Jiang Baimian had already come back and met them and kept a distance.
To be continued...
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