Chapter 432: Apocalyptic Trading System (4)

After receiving the original owner's memories, Xie Yang finally turned her attention back to the Sub-system.

The cute, chubby Pang Tuanzi was boredly squatting in her sea of consciousness, twiddling its fingers.

It could have been returned to the factory directly, but now it was bound.

However, according to the Main System, the original owner still had many Bonds in this plane, and the Task had not yet ended; even if she returned the Sub-system to the factory, she would still have to remain in this plane to continue the Task.

Putting it that way, binding a Trading-type Sub-system was not bad at all.

Xie Yang summoned it over: "Explain the Trading System to me in detail."

【Okay, Host! Tuantuan is very happy to serve the Host!】

Seeing that there was work to do, the chubby Pang Tuanzi Sub-system bounced excitedly and began to explain to the Host in a milky voice.

Through its diligent description, Xie Yang understood the rules for using the Trading System.

First, it required Trading Coins.

Trading Coins could be converted from all things.

For example, if you upload an idle item, the Trading System will provide a recycling price based on its value.

If you agree to the recycling, the item disappears and is converted into Trading Coins.

Once you have Trading Coins, you can purchase the items you need on the Trading Platform.

It truly lived up to the name "Everything Trading System"!

Xie Yang browsed through a few pages of product descriptions at a glance and discovered that it really did have everything, and everything could be traded.

From things as small as toothpicks and cotton swabs to things as large as spaceships and Starships, there were even bizarre items that could not possibly exist in the real world.

In short, regardless of whether they were useful, useless, expensive, or cheap... they were all-encompassing and varied; there was nothing you couldn't buy, only things you couldn't imagine.

Xie Yang felt her pants pockets; there was nothing there.

She remembered that before Yu Baozhi fled, she had stuffed a few gold bars into the inner pocket of her daughter's backpack.

Following her husband's instructions, she had taken all the gold bars from the house, hiding a few on herself and stuffing a few into her daughter's bag, keeping in mind "don't put all your eggs in one basket" to avoid being wiped out all at once.

After Yu Baozhi fell asleep, Xie Yang took one small gold bar out of the backpack's inner pocket.

【Ding! Scanned B-Class Metal-Gold 30g, recycling price 300 Trading Coins, proceed with Trading?】

Xie Yang raised an eyebrow; a 99.99% pure gold bar only got a B-grade evaluation here?

However, looking at the recycling price, it was not much different from the real-world gold price; the platform had to make a little profit, after all.

Xie Yang clicked confirm.

In an instant, her palm felt light; the small gold bar in her hand had already disappeared, and her Trading Coin balance changed from 0 to 300.

Xie Yang flipped directly to the self-defense supplies interface; these were the items most needed in the current situation.

Both mother and daughter were "combat-five-scum" in physique, so what they needed most was naturally the ability to protect themselves.

Originally, she had wanted to spend points to redeem a Physical Fitness Potion and then pretend she had awakened a strength ability.

But upon discovering that the Trading System also had a similar Body Strengthening Fluid, she decided not to spend her own points.

Xie Yang first spent 1000 Trading Coins to buy one bottle.

After receiving it, she found it looked a bit like a Little Blue Bottle for zinc supplements, the difference being it had no packaging, no instructions, and no straw.

She unscrewed the cap and drank it straight; the cool liquid entered her mouth, and she had finished it before she could even savor the taste.

Xie Yang sat quietly, feeling the changes in her body.

Suddenly, she found that the bag stuffed with supplies in her arms seemed to have lost its weight; she lifted it and weighed it, and it felt as light as if she were holding a sheet of A4 paper.

She stood up with light movements and tried the solid wood desk in the center of the room, which had the most weight; unsurprisingly—she lifted it with one hand.

Did this mean the body strengthening was finished?

So fast?

So simple?

There was neither any discomfort nor any discharge of dirty black filth.

Wasn't this much more useful than the Physical Fitness Potion she had spent high points to redeem?

【Host, the Body Strengthening Fluid strengthens the body's surface; the Physical Fitness Potion can also make you immune to all diseases.】

The Main System, terrified of being disliked by the Host for not being as useful as a Sub-system, hurriedly spoke up to explain.

Xie Yang: Oh! So that's how it is!

However, with strength, this body wouldn't get tired or run a fever at the drop of a hat; from another perspective, it could be considered an improvement in physique, just not as heaven-defying as the effects of the Physical Fitness Potion.

"Gurgle..."

Perhaps because her body had been strengthened, her stomach began to sing an empty-city song.

Xie Yang clicked on the food trading area; the cheapest item was a Vegetarian Meal Bun for 0.5 Trading Coins.

Xie Yang bought two; upon receiving them, she found they were two fist-sized, solid steamed buns. She took a bite and found there was filling inside; although it was just three types of vegetables, it was quite friendly for the price.

Xie Yang felt full after eating one and wrapped the other in a napkin.

While wrapping it, a thought occurred to her, and she asked the Sub-system:

【Lovely Tuantuan, does our Trading System have a Storage Function?】

She still remembered that the Appraisal System of the Seven-Zero Plane provided a storage service.

【Yes! Does the Host want to activate it? But activation requires paying 50,000 Trading Coins, yo.】

50,000 Trading Coins looked expensive, but this was a one-time investment, unlike the Appraisal System of the Seven-Zero Plane, which took a cut of every transaction; what was there to wait for?

With a wave of her hand, she charged two more gold bars into it.

"Activate!"

The next day after breakfast, after the head of the Xie Family made the final decision, the group decided to set off for the Safe Base at the entrance of the bypass road.

Xie Laosi had been trying to persuade Yu Baozhi to go with them.

But Yu Baozhi insisted on waiting for her husband and son and refused to leave now, so the others said impatiently:

"Laosi, since the third sister-in-law wants to wait for Lao San, then let her be; time waits for no one, and it is impossible for so many of us to wait for those few."

"Laosi, you have good intentions, but some people may not appreciate them."

"That's right, Fourth Uncle, you can't bear to see what happened to Fourth Aunt happen again, but since Third Aunt is unwilling to go with us, we cannot force her."

"Let's go, Fourth Uncle, the sooner we set off for the base, the sooner we'll be safe; I can't stand it here for another moment."

"Have you noticed? The water from the tap was very slow this morning; perhaps the tap water has already stopped, and once the water in the storage tank is used up, the water supply will be completely cut off, so we must set off."

"Let's go, let's go! Laosi, hurry up and keep up!"

Xie Yongqiang was helpless, but he was also afraid to leave the main group to stay behind with Yu Baozhi.

In the end, he looked back once and then followed the main group as they hurried downstairs.

Between a woman and his own survival, he ultimately chose survival.

Once the main group left, Yu Baozhi hurriedly closed the glass doors of the second-floor lobby.

The company doors in this building are all automatic glass doors, but after the power was cut, the access control system failed, so the doors would neither open automatically nor lock.

Fortunately, when searching for supplies earlier, Xie Laoer found a chain lock, and thanks to that chain lock these past few days, the Zombies on the street hadn't wandered into the Foreign Trade Building.

But today, when the main group withdrew, the eldest family's two sons actually took the chain lock away.

Without a lock, even if the glass doors were closed, it wouldn't be safe.

Yu Baozhi braced herself against the door, looking around for anything that could replace the chain lock to secure the main entrance.

"Mom, let me."

Xie Yang walked over carrying a heavy sheet-metal filing cabinet and blocked the main entrance with ease.

Yu Baozhi was dumbfounded: "..."