The Rong Town gathering area is actually not very big, only one kilometer deep, and it is built on a hillside. Before the disaster, it was a remote backwater with a total population of only a few thousand people, and most of them had fled to Yu.
Work in the city.
After the disaster, this place turned into a hotspot. It is definitely not easy to obtain the right to live in the gathering place. After all, you may be hungry in the gathering place just like outside, but at least you are a little safer.
Guaranteed, you won’t have to worry about your throat being bitten by a spiny-haired mouse while you’re sleeping soundly at night.
Therefore, there are many people who want to enter the gathering place in Rong Town. Some people are unable to enter and simply set up camp outside the gathering place. However, there is a prosperous atmosphere.
But Wu Ming knew very well that there was no large-scale attack by monsters. If there had been, the gathering place in Rong Town would probably have been directly wiped out.
However, these have little to do with Wu Ming. At this moment, he exchanged a batch of meat for the temporary right to live in the gathering place. The right to live here is simple, just like paying rent. It can be exchanged for gold and food.
If you can afford it, you can continue to live there. If you can't afford it, then I'm sorry and you have to move out.
In a room that was barely sheltered from the wind and rain, Wu Ming was lying on a tattered hard bed, thinking about his future plans.
The owner of the house got three spiny-haired mice from Wu Ming. The price was to rent the house to Wu Ming for three days. He could also live in the house if he wanted in the future. The same price was one spiny-haired mouse per day.
Although Wu Ming was a little disappointed when he didn't hear any news about Li Xia and Liu Bin, he also knew that some things could not be done as he wanted.
This is a new world. It’s not the era where you could just chat for two hours with someone on your cell phone. Wu Ming has to face the reality. He can only continue to look for Li Xia and Liu Bin.
Another reality that Wu Ming must face is that if he wants to continue to survive and maintain his current advantages, he must continue to become stronger.
Wu Ming didn't have a clue about the three fixed grids of cards in the ghost card book, and he didn't know when he would be able to collect all three cards. However, Wu Ming recalled a very important piece of information, that is, about the 'upgrade'
card'.
Upgrade cards are 'props' that allow an awakened person to increase their level. As long as they obtain an upgrade card, a first-level awakened person can upgrade to a second-level awakened person, and can create and use second-level cards.
This is a qualitative leap, and it is undoubtedly the most important prop for the awakened ones. If you can upgrade the level earlier, you can naturally obtain the right to use the second-level cards earlier.
Upgrade cards also fell from the sky, but in very small quantities. Wu Ming, who had memories of his previous life, remembered clearly that the first batch of upgrade cards came six months after the disaster.
After that, a batch of upgrade cards will fall every month, and every time the upgrade cards fall, it will trigger a crazy fight among the awakened ones. It is no exaggeration to describe the fight as brutal.
In his last life, Wu Ming used the accumulated vitality card to buy one from someone else two years after the disaster, and did not actually participate in the fight.
Speaking of which, Wu Ming had a very miserable life in his last life, and he simply did not have enough cards to deal with this kind of competition.
"Calculating the time, there is only less than one month left until six months after the disaster!" Wu Ming said to himself.
The area where Wu Ming moved after leaving Yucheng in the previous life was not here, but that didn't mean that he hadn't heard of the Rong Town Gathering Area. He remembered that one of the places where the first batch of upgrade cards fell was near the Rong Town Gathering Area.
"In that case, then I will stay here for one more month and wait until I get the upgrade card before I leave here and go to the Lion City gathering place!"
The Lion City gathering place is the largest gathering place within hundreds of miles. It was where Wu Ming lived in his previous life. The population is at least 200,000. It is a full 200 kilometers away from the Rong Town gathering place.
Wu Ming thought as he fell into a drowsy sleep. Beside Wu Ming's bed, the petrified Amu was lying there. It has now become Wu Ming's sentinel. If there is any trouble, it will be the first to do so.
Time to discover.
A night of silence.
For the next time, Wu Ming stayed temporarily in this gathering place in Rong Town, waiting for the first wave of upgrade cards to drop in a month.
Every day, Wu Ming would leave the gathering place and go out to hunt some spiny rats. Part of it would pay rent and be paid to the gathering place, and the other part would be sold to butcher shops in exchange for some supplies.
Boss Jiang is obviously aware of Wu Ming's existence, and because he has many butcher shops, and has even included some previous butcher shops such as Tian's Butcher Shop under his umbrella, Wu Ming can only sell to Jiang if he chooses to sell.
In the boss's shop.
So this scene appears every day.
While many people queued up in the cold wind, and on the other side of the line waiting for the inspection and weighing of rat meat, Wu Ming was alone and was respectfully welcomed into the shop by the butcher's clerk, who made tea and water.
And he would often buy his rat meat at twice the price of the other person.
Naturally, some people expressed dissatisfaction with this unfairness, but when Mr. Jiang accidentally met Wu Ming in the store one day and showed a respectful look, those people never expressed any dissatisfaction again.
A person who can make Boss Jiang so respectful is naturally not someone they can offend.
Because of Boss Jiang, no one in the Rong Town gathering place dared to provoke Wu Ming. Boss Jin unexpectedly did not come to trouble Wu Ming. Jiang Chi felt very sorry for this, secretly thinking that if Boss Jin sent someone
It would be best to deal with Wu Ming. In this way, Boss Jin will definitely be killed by Wu Ming, and then he can dominate the Rong Town gathering place and challenge Mayor Wei.
Of course, he only dared to think about this idea.
Boss Jin seemed to have become quiet these days. He didn't make any big moves. Jiang Chi could only act anxiously, but there was nothing he could do.
Time passed slowly, and ten days passed. When Wu Ming was preparing to leave the gathering place in a dilapidated car as usual, suddenly a large number of armed men appeared at the entrance of the gathering place.
The defender is subordinate to Mayor Wei.
All the people looked serious, and there were many heavily armed people rushing in that direction. Wu Ming knew that something big must have happened.
Soon, a truck drove into the gathering place under the protection of everyone. There was something unknown in the back of the truck. It was covered with a layer of oilcloth. The blood stains seeping from it indicated that it should be some kind of monster.
There were many people with guns guarding the truck, and no one was allowed to get close to it.
Seeing this, Wu Ming was naturally very curious and wanted to know what was pulling on it. Even if it was a monster, there was no need to be so nervous.
After thinking for a while, Wu Ming turned a corner and walked into a weapons store on the roadside.
When it comes to the most well-informed person in Rong Town, Boss Jiang is undoubtedly one of them. This weapons store also belongs to Boss Jiang.
Wu Ming walked directly in. There is no control over weapons in the new world, so the weapons store has everything you need. Pistols, rifles, and submachine guns are neatly placed on wooden shelves. Next to them are golden bullets. Of course, all
The weapons were old and badly worn, and many of the bullets were 'replica bullets'.
There are also some homemade firearms, and on the other side are various knives, including machetes and bayonets, all of which are polished to extremely sharp edges.
No matter which gathering place it is, butcher shops and weapon shops are the most popular. After all, both are related to survival and cannot be careless, so the business in this shop is very good. When Wu Ming came in, many people were shopping.
Weapons, but Boss Jiang had given orders, so most of the guys here recognized Wu Ming. They immediately put down their business and walked over diligently.
Wu Ming asked this guy to send a message to Jiang Chi. The content was very simple, that is, he wanted to know what was being pulled in the truck. Wu Ming believed that Boss Jiang could definitely handle this trivial matter.
Just when Wu Ming was about to leave, the guy hurriedly stopped Wu Ming and said fawningly: "Boss Wu, don't leave yet. Boss Jiang has given instructions. Recently, we got some military bullets in stock. They are brand new and they are all returned."
The package has not been opened. Boss Jiang said that if you come, I will give you three hundred rounds!"
While talking, this lighter came over with a backpack. Inside were six packs of bullets wrapped in kraft paper, each pack fifty rounds. Wu Ming took a brief look and knew that the quality of these bullets was absolutely fine, and the quality was
It's awesome. It's much better than the reloading ammunition he used these days. The possibility of a dud is extremely small.
Thinking of this, Wu Ming secretly thought that Jiang Chi is really good at doing things. During this period, his purchase price of rat meat was obviously higher than others, which gave him bullets. Wu Ming is not afraid of others doing bad to him, but afraid of others being good to him.
, Favor is very important in Wu Ming's eyes.
"Tell Jiang Chi that I owe him a favor!" Wu Ming smiled, then walked out, got into the tattered car that he had exchanged for fifteen spiny-haired mice, started it, and drove out of the gathering.
