Chapter 266 "Hunger"
"No!" Li Junwen shouted immediately, "You can't send me back to that place! You must be threatening me!"
"Yes, I am threatening you." Wang Xiyi replied happily.
"It's useless...I am a precious observation sample, Tianshu Tower will not allow you..."
Before Li Junwen finished speaking, Wang Xiyi interrupted him: "Tianshu Tower has been observing you for twenty years, and the remaining value in you has long been drained... If you are still unwilling If you cooperate, you don’t think Tianshu Tower will have the patience to continue to support a waste like you, right?”
"You...I..."
"Do you know how much taxpayers' money is needed to maintain the operation of this cell?" Wang Xiyi pressed forward step by step.
"Haha...haha...that...that's none of my business..." Li Junwen said with a sharp expression, "Kill me! Otherwise you should kill me!"
"Wouldn't it be too easy to kill you?" Wang Xiyi raised her eyebrows.
She wanted to continue talking, but Yang Qi tugged her clothes.
"Mr. Li, I have read your file... Although you are a wanted criminal, you are not actually a very evil person. The first time you killed someone was because that person occupied your house. Base, they also gathered a crowd to cause trouble and injured your father; later, you decided to shut down The supermarket that has been in operation for half a year gave all the remaining items in the warehouse to the elderly people living in difficulty nearby; after that, you decided to eliminate harm for the people... Although you were deceived in the process, your starting point It's not bad..." Yang Qi said calmly.
"What...what do you want to say?" Li Junwen's original excitement calmed down slightly, and he stared at Yang Qi and asked.
"We only need a small favor from you." Yang Qi said, "One of our colleagues is currently trapped in the occupied area... Coincidentally, his position is very close to yours."
"Someone went in again?" Li Junwen's pupils shrank slightly.
"We want to save him, but we don't know anything about it." Yang Qi said, "So, we come to you for help."
Li Junwen was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Can you let me think alone for a while... I may need to recall it."
"Okay."
Yang Qi took Wang Xiyi and left the room.
"You two can cooperate." Ye Jiu waved to the two people who returned to the monitoring room, "One is a good guy and the other is a bad guy. This guy was stunned for a while."
"You may have misunderstood my thoughts." Wang Xiyi glanced at Ye Jiu and said coldly, "I really want to throw him into the occupied area."
"But if you do this, Tianshu Tower will definitely be the first to disagree." Yang Qi said, "Li Junwen has lived here for twenty years, and Tianshu Tower must have tried all the ways to get him to speak. . It is precisely for this reason that he showed such a confident look at the beginning... because he knew that even if he didn't say anything, Tianshu Tower would save his life. "
"Have you ever tried torture?" Wang Xiyi looked at the researcher who led the way, "Tianshu Tower is not a place that talks about human rights, right?"
The researcher smiled awkwardly and whispered: "It's useless."
Twenty minutes later.
After Li Junwen finished "eating" again, he took the initiative to press the communication button that had been pressed a handful of times in twenty years.
"I've thought about it, come in." Li Junwen said.
……
"Are you sure you really want to go to the occupied area?" Li Junwen stared at Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi seriously and asked.
"Sure." Yang Qi nodded, "That person is very important to us."
"Hungry." Li Junwen said suddenly.
"What did you say?"
"Hunger...the biggest enemy you have to face there is hunger." Li Junwen repeated.
"The estimated operation time is one month, and we will carry enough supplies to last more than three months. One month after entering the occupied area, regardless of whether we find the person or not, we will return... If we don't have any in three months, If we can’t get out of the enemy-occupied area, I think the most serious problem at that time will not be the supply problem.”
"No." Li Junwen shook his head.
"This has nothing to do with the amount of supplies..." He suddenly sighed, "Your enemy is hunger."
"As long as supplies are sufficient, no one will be hungry. What we are more worried about is the battle that may break out after encountering monsters. We need you to describe the situation in the fall in as much detail as possible...such as environmental changes, geography and landforms. The frequency of occurrence of strange things..."
"Hungry! I mean hunger!!!" Li Junwen suddenly interrupted Yang Qi with excitement and growled, "Don't you want to know what is there? Then I will tell you, it is hunger!! Hungry ! ! ”
"Is he a little out of his mind?" In the monitoring room, Ye Jiu pointed at Li Junwen on the screen and asked.
"It shouldn't be... Logically speaking, just after eating, his mood should be the most stable." The researcher also frowned, "Could it be that you asked him to recall that experience and had an impact on him? What excitement..."
"Then can you describe it in detail?" Yang Qi patiently asked in a good voice, "What is it specifically like...hunger?"
"Hunger is hunger, haven't you ever been hungry?" Li Junwen looked at Yang Qi like an idiot.
"Then if we carry enough supplies..."
"It's useless." Li Junwen's originally tense body relaxed. He leaned back, and the layers of fat on his body drooped down and were piled on top of the giant sofa that was larger than the bed.
"No matter how many supplies you bring...it's useless." Li Junwen sighed and repeated.
"Why?" Yang Qi asked.
"There is no reason..."
"You said 'hunger'." Wang Xiyi, who had been silent since entering this time, suddenly said, "Is it a strange thing?"
Li Junwen's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at Wang Xiyi.
"Is it some kind of regular monster? As long as you are affected by it, no matter how much supplies you carry or how much you eat, you will always feel hungry." Wang Xiyi said, "That's what you mean, right?"
"I...I don't know." Li Junwen shook his head mechanically, "Don't ask me...Please stop asking! Stop asking..."
"Attention, drastic changes in Li Junwen's brain waves have been detected. His mood has fallen into an extremely unstable state. Please leave the room immediately!" The researcher's voice came from the headphones of Yang Qi and Wang Xiyi.
At the same time, several researchers wearing full protective suits rushed in, tied up Li Junwen's limbs with restraints, and then pushed sedatives one after another into his body.
"This amount of medicine... can even knock down an elephant?" Ye Jiu twitched the corners of his mouth twice - if these sedatives were injected into a normal person, only one-tenth of the amount would be enough to make that person The person fell into a coma forever.
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...? ? ? Area, "Maoyun Town".
"So, how much money do you plan to pay for this bait?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the flickering fire in the crack of the door.
"Seven cents... no, eight cents! This is the highest price I can give." The shop owner said solemnly.
Eight cents?
Sun Hang was a little surprised by the price.
Based on the excited performance of the townspeople just now, coupled with the "middle-aged woman" who offered him the right to buy... Sun Hang once had the illusion that this thing was hot, but now you tell me it Can you only sell it for eight cents?
Wrong...
Sun Hang suddenly realized a problem. He didn't know the purchasing power of currency in this place.
In Tianfu City, the cheapest bottle of mineral water costs RMB 1.5. As for those high-end chain coffee shops located in prosperous commercial areas, it is not uncommon for a simple cup of iced American style to cost 40 to 50 RMB... But if we go back a few times, In ten years, a worker's monthly income will be only a dozen yuan. This amount of money can buy almost most of the products in the store, and only "big items" such as TVs, bicycles, and sewing machines are priced at will reach three digits.
"Boss, how much do these things you sell cost?" Sun Hang asked, pointing to the "commodities" placed on the dustpan floor.
He had to first find out the price level in "Maoyun Town" before he could determine whether the price offered by the other party was reasonable.
And...how important "food" is to the townspeople.
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"Do you want to buy it?" The shopkeeper's tone was a little strange.
"I'm a little interested." Sun Hang nodded, "What are the prices of these things?"
"Money is used to buy precious food. No one will buy these things with money." The shop owner said quietly.
This guy... actually has a good conscience?
Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. If he were a profiteer who opened a shop in a popular tourist attraction, he would have already raised the price if he met a "stupid young man" like himself who didn't understand the market. "Important information" is revealed to yourself.
"Since they are not valuable...how to buy them?" Sun Hang asked.
"Exchange." The shopkeeper said, "You can exchange things for it."
It is actually still a barter transaction mode... As for currency, it is specially used to purchase precious food...
This is a valuable piece of information, Sun Hang thought, but it's a pity that he still hasn't been able to find out the actual purchasing power of currency.
"If you think eight cents is too low, for nine cents, you sell me the bait and I'll give you nine cents!" The shopkeeper said in a hurry, "It can't be any higher. For nine cents, give it to me." Me!”
"I can sell it to you, but I have one more thing to ask." A somewhat crazy idea came to Sun Hang's mind.
"As long as you can sell it to me, you can ask any questions!"
"How much would it cost to kill all these people on the street now?"
The other party was silent for a few seconds, and then said slowly: "Two cents, you pay me two cents, and I can kill them all for you."
Good guy!
Sun Hang was shocked. Is the "human life" in this place so cheap?
Or is the money here more valuable than gold?
Then if he took out the five-cent bill, wouldn't he be able to massacre the entire town?
But it’s not right either…
If "human life" is so low...why is the price of food so high?
Assuming that one cannot survive without eating, then it is unreasonable to use such expensive food to maintain such a poor life. If society collapsed to this extent, "people cannibalize people" would have already occurred.
And assuming that the citizens of Maoyun Town can survive without eating...why is food sold at such a high price?
High prices need to be supported by market demand. For a product without market support, its price is meaningless.
You can’t say that food and luxury goods are synonymous in this place, right?
"Then if I grab some townspeople to come over and chop it, chop it, pour the chopped green onions in hot oil, and smother it with a spatula, wouldn't it be possible to turn a few cents into a huge sum of money?"
People who are hungry will eat their own kind, let alone strange things?
"The bait is yours, give me another seven cents, and then kill them all." Sun Hang said coldly.
A skinny hand poked out from the darkness, grabbed the container containing the bait, and retracted it. After a few seconds, seven one-cent coins rolled out from the crack in the door, all the way to Sun Hang's door. At feet.
Sun Hang picked up the coins and saw that these coins were the ones issued by Xiazhou Federation in the early years.
It's a pity that he doesn't have the hobby of collecting old banknotes. Otherwise, if he brought a stack of old banknotes worth 100 yuan, wouldn't he become a rich man?
Money can make ghosts go around, and money can also make "devils" go around.
"It's time to execute our deal." Sun Hang urged.
"It's over." The shopkeeper's voice sounded faintly.
Sun Hang turned his head and saw that the townspeople who had just gathered around him were lying on the street, lifeless.
He used a mirror to look at the "corpses" on the ground - what appeared in the mirror were puddles of degrading carrion, and disgusting pus and blood flowed into the gaps in the paving stones and slowly seeped into the bottom. in the soil.
But not all "people" on the street were killed.
The two chubby little girls were still alive. Not only that, they were still playing about themselves, turning a blind eye to the "tragedy" that happened under their noses.
"Are you sure you have completed the transaction?" Sun Hang turned his head, stared at the light in the crack of the door, and asked.
"Everyone on this street, except you, is dead." said the shopkeeper. "Isn't this considered complete?"
"What about them?" Sun Hang pointed at the two little girls.
The fire in the crack of the door suddenly went out.
The shopkeeper's voice stopped ringing.
"Hello? Where is the person?" Sun Hang waited for a few seconds, but saw no response from the shop owner. He stood up and suddenly found that the two little girls had stood behind him.
They stopped playing and dropped the rattles and kites on the ground.
They stared straight at the dark crack in the door with stern eyes.
(End of chapter)