2 A Crappy General Store (2)
"Alright! Who's next?"
"What you want?" fired up by all the weird things happening around him, Zhang Qin Feng took the emotion inside him positively instead of feeling sour about it.
"Brat, give me a can of beef stew and a soft roll," another middle-aged man came to purchase some food. Not even a minute after his second customer left, the sound of something dropped into a box came.
"Dit... Dit..."
Then, the sound of a paper is dispensed out followed. It did not take too long for a person to walk over to the cashier and hand Zhang Qin Feng a slip.
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QIN-FENG GOODS TRADING (UPDATED)
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Deposit:
[1] Daschund Manufacturing Side Server/Repairable **4**
[2] Daschund Manufacturing Server Cover/Broken **1**
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Issued:
(5) Red Meteorite Core
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"Holy, the damn side server is much more expensive than anything else," Zhang Qin Feng gasp for air when he sees the price on the first item printed out.
"Five credits. Anything else?" the youth asked.
"Give me five bottles of drinking water." the customer that came with some trading goods were a young lady around Zhang Qin Feng's age. Surprisingly, she did not exchange them with food but with water instead.
"Here you go. Five bottles of drinking water in exchange with 5 credits." Zhang Qin Feng placed the water into her bag. After she got what she want, the lady run without looking back at the General Store.
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The store closed at 8am in the morning.
In his 12 business hours, Zhang Qin Feng sold 20 bottles of water, 5 can of soft drinks, 50 rolls of bread, 10 cans of beef stew, 10 cans of chicken curry, and 5 chocolate bars.
That's 100 Red Meteorite Cores in total.
After counting the total of goods sold and earning, Zhang Qin Feng prepared to take a quick nap to replenish all his energy used in that 12 weird working hours.
But too bad for him, the metal shutter for deliveries opened and his uncle came back.
"How is your first day goes? Fun?" Zhang Hao Ming came back with some fried dough sticks, soy milk, and stirfry noodle with some spicy sauce.
"Fun? What is wrong with this shop, can you tell me about it before I recklessly accept it?"
"I don't want to take over your business and die the next morning due to what happened, and I'm sure you know about it." Zhang Qin Feng grabs and takes a bite on the fried dough stick. He was starving a little earlier due to the twelve hours of work without stopping.
"Hahaha, its nothing to worry." Zhang Hao Ming took a sip of the now cold soy milk before he continued. While across him, Zhang Qin Feng is staring at his uncle angrily.
"This shop is something special. You should remember that uncle works oversea for two years before coming back to Changzhou. In fact, I am still in the country, just my work is a little special."
"The supplier contacts I gave to you are all dependable people that will work as long you gave them their payment on time. The only thing that wasn't nice is that we have to pick what we order by ourselves."
Zhang Hao Ming took another sip of his drink before he continued.
"Apocalypse Trading."
"That's what I know after using this system for more than two years. Although it's somewhat different from what you know, this is still a job, and you can work at your own time without people controlling your schedule."
The information part finally here after Zhang Qin Feng listened to his uncle's boring prologue.
"By activating the power generator using the Meteorite Cores, each one of them allows the shop to be open for an hour. Since I placed a dozen cores into the generator, that's why it works for twelve hours."
"It always starts the transfer at the first second of that hour. Because we reach the shop at around 7.05pm, so the transfer happened at 8pm sharp." the current sentence answers why Zhang Hao Ming left in a hurry.
He reaches for the soy milk again, but this time, Zhang Qin Feng asked instead of keep waiting.
"Tell me how to turn them into money," the youngster asked. At the end of the day, his interest is more to make a living, and not work as a mere shopkeeper.
OK. Maybe a special shopkeeper.
"I'm going into the topic even without you asking, alright?" Zhang Hao Ming finished his soy milk and continues. The topic turns attractive to the youngster when it involves money.
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Red Meteorite Core.
A specialized material that only found and widely used in the apocalypse, Dimension X31-ITE. Although it was named as meteorite core, the item itself doesn't come from space, but instead, from organic material.
Seed Crystal Virus, or (SCV) in a simplified way.
First found on the bones of a mammoth fossil located in Antarctica, the scientist found out that the SCV might turn into the next Ebola or Black Plague. But at the same time, the SCV also capable of granting a boost in tissue cell recovery.
To try the miraculous effect of this SCV culture, they conducted a living test on an injured soldier. This soldier recovered after six months with the ability to walk again.
Unfortunately, the first SCV culture ended up with failure after the soldier's condition starting to turn worst. Decayed flesh starts to appear randomly on his body, with hallucination and anxiety attack.
At the end of the test, the body of this unfortunate soldier deformed into something less human. It also provides the SCV with a new property, where it can be now transmitted via sex.
About a hundred test subjects later, with over a thousand labs having a sample of the SCV culture, the outbreak finally happened. 90% of humanity turned into aggressive creatures that attacked others on the spot.
Then, multiple variations of the SCV infected creature started to appear all over the place.
And four kinds of creatures took over the helm as vanguard to harass the survivors.
Devourer, an aggressive creature about the size of 8 to 10 meters tall, walk on all four but has the movement similarity to a human when attacking. Loves throwing heavy things at target. Often found keeping 10 to 15 Red Meteorite Cores in its Lungs.
Seedling, a creature that often stays still near water and slowly grows into a plant similar to bamboo but with fruits growing on the body. Red Meteorite Cores grows on the body of this plant, but harvesting it requires loads of effort.
Carrier, recognized as a wandering nest by the survivors. Carries close to a hundred eggs that can be hatched anytime. Always followed by a group of crab-like reptiles wherever it goes. The carrier has a habit of invading survivor's camp.
And Titan, the deadliest predator in the apocalypse. This predator is bulletproof, agile, infectious, and violent. Standing tall at around 15 meters, this predator doesn't move as often, but often deadly. The heart of this predator is filled with at least 10 to 15 Green Nephrite Cores.
Although dangerous, it did not stop the survivors from hunting the creatures in exchange for energy. Due to apocalypse, the technology in this X31-ITE dimension is facing towards the application of cores in their daily life.
One of the most important about the Red Meteorite Core is because they can be processed not only into fuel energy but also into precious metals!
As example...
Gold!
