Chapter 439: Apocalyptic Trading System (11)

"Finished with your work?"

Seeing her daughter finish installing the main gate and return to the Recreational Vehicle, Yu Baozhi took a moment to ask.

She was preparing dinner.

The father and son had been sleeping until now and hadn't woken up yet; she hadn't gone to call them either, as they must have been exhausted from the journey, and they would naturally wake up once they had slept enough.

Seeing her daughter take out a prepared old duck and a packet of Pickled Radish seasoning, she stewed a sour soup old duck pot; in the middle of summer, everyone wanted to eat something appetizing and refreshing.

Besides the old duck pot, she also tossed a few side dishes: smashed Cucumber with garlic, Tomato with sugar, and Century Egg with mashed eggplant.

While preparing dinner, Yu Baozhi asked her daughter:

"Are we settling down in the house here? Or staying in the vehicle for the night and heading out of the city to the Safe Base tomorrow? Is that Safe Base your eldest uncle mentioned far from here?"

Xie Yang washed her hands clean, took a remaining Cucumber and started gnawing on it, saying:

"Mom, this is what I'm planning. There aren't many Zombies in this residential area. I've already cleared out the perimeter, and there are only a few scattered ones inside. It won't be hard to clear them out, so we might as well stay here. So many people are flocking to the Safe Base, I reckon it's quite chaotic over there."

"That's what I was thinking too. This development hasn't been handed over yet; if there are any Zombies, they'd be the developer's staff, so there won't be many. Staying here isn't any worse than going to the Safe Base. It's just that aside from the furniture and appliances provided by the developer, there's nothing in the house."

"Don't worry about that, you have me."

Hearing this, Yu Baozhi thought of her daughter's miraculous Trading Ability and said: "Then it depends on what your dad thinks; I'm fine with anything."

Having experienced fighting Zombies for a day, Yu Baozhi was no longer very afraid of those monsters.

Plus, with the family of four reunited safely, she didn't care whether they went to the Safe Base to meet up with the Lao Xie family or not.

On the contrary, she privately felt that it was better for the family of four to live alone; the people in the Lao Xie family weren't all good sorts. Living together, there would inevitably be conflicts and friction.

But they were her husband's family after all, so it wasn't easy for her to say much.

She only stated her own thoughts, and would listen to her husband and son's opinions later.

Regardless, as long as the family of four was together, life would be happy wherever they were.

Xie Yang finished the Cucumber, wiped her hands, returned to the driver's seat, and started the vehicle to continue driving inside.

The scale of this development was not small; looking at the residential building layout map hanging in the security room, there were three hundred units.

Each Heyuan looked about the same.

However, the locations varied in quality.

Her family had bought theirs in the first batch, choosing an independent Heyuan in the first row facing the lake; although it wasn't the "king of buildings" in the center, it was still a very good location in the residential area.

Diagonally in front was an artificial lake, behind were dense bushes, trees, and other green areas; it could be said there were no obstructions in front, no neighbors behind, and the neighbors on the left and right were ten meters away.

Don't look at it as only being ten meters apart; after the "villa restriction order" was issued, this type of detached Heyuan or villa had become quite rare.

Only the thirty houses in the first row facing the lake in the entire residential area had this treatment.

The remaining two hundred and seventy units were Heyuan in the literal sense—that is, sharing a wall with a neighbor.

Xie Yang reversed and parked in the parking space belonging to their own house next to the entrance door.

"Mom, you stay in the vehicle. I'll go in and take a look. If there are no problems, we'll live here."

"Okay, watch your safety."

The entrance door had a dual fingerprint and password lock and used a lithium battery, so even though the power was out in the general environment, the entrance door was still fine.

Since it hadn't been handed over yet, she didn't know the entrance door password, so Xie Yang simply destroyed the door lock; if she decided to live here later, she could just change the main gate.

She went in and walked around, seeing no Zombies, and because it was about to be handed over, every room, as well as the terrace and courtyard, had been cleaned very thoroughly.

Nowadays, it is generally required to be handed over with fine decoration; except for soft furnishings that need to be added by oneself, most furniture and appliances are customized and installed in advance, so one can move in directly with just their bags.

Xie Yang simply filled in the soft furnishings from the Trading Platform:

Sofa, coffee table, dining table, curtains, mattresses, quilts, pillows, cushions, as well as the family of four's change of clothes and toiletries...

Oh, the power was out and the central air conditioning couldn't be used; although it was September, the "autumn tiger" heat was still very fierce, and it was quite hot without air conditioning, so she bought a set of Light Energy Generator produced in the Interstellar Plane.

In the Interstellar Plane, it was a very ordinary generator, but in the current times, it was very advanced.

The Light Energy Generator consisted of two parts—

A machine the size of a computer host, which took up no space and made no noise, placed on the terrace to receive light energy; and a Photoelectric Converter smaller than a mobile phone, attached to the main circuit breaker, allowing all the appliances in the Heyuan to be used normally.

The air conditioner was running, the water heater was heating up, and the double-door refrigerator in the kitchen was also functioning normally...

Besides filling the refrigerator with fresh vegetables, fruits, seafood, eggs, and meat, Xie Yang also placed a pile of supplies that could be stored at room temperature for a period of time in a storage room of about three square meters next to the kitchen—

Drinking water, Rice, flour, Edible Oil, beverages, instant noodles, biscuits, dried vegetables, dried fruits, salted meat, ham, as well as various Canned Food, Canned Fish, canned porridge, canned fruit, and so on.

After finishing these, she returned to the Recreational Vehicle:

"Mom, are Dad and Brother awake? I've set everything up, we can go inside to eat."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Xie Yan poking his head out from the second floor: "Awake, awake."

He paused and said: "Dad is awake too, just his arms and legs are a bit sore and weak."

Xie Yang understood: this was the aftereffect of excessive fatigue and overexertion.

"Brother, you and Dad drink this."

She took out two bottles of Body Strengthening Fluid.

"What is this?" Xie Yan took them, curiously examining the two Little Blue Bottle.

Xie Yang looked at him with a smile: "Good stuff that can turn you into Popeye."

"!!!"

However, it was getting late, and seeing her husband and son awake, Yu Baozhi urged them to get up quickly.

The family of four went inside to settle down, ate a sumptuous sour soup old duck pot, and then took the Body Strengthening Fluid Xie Yang brought out, as well as various magical cards from the Magic World that rivaled abilities.

"Dad, Brother, after taking the strengthening fluid, it will take effect in anywhere from half a minute to two minutes. Feel your body carefully, don't be scared."

"As for abilities, I chose Thunder Element and Healing Element. Mom, besides Wood Element, also has Ice Element and Beast Taming. You can choose according to your own preferences, or you can choose Water Element, Metal Element, Fire Element, etc. Our family will complement each other."

"However," Xie Yang paused, looked at the Trading Coin balance that was almost five million, and changed her train of thought, "for safety's sake, how about we get one set of each ability?"

Yu Baozhi: "Can everyone have a set? Will it have any effect on you?"

Xie Yang: "No impact."

Yu Baozhi: "Are the gold bars enough?"

Xie Yang: "Enough."

If the gold bars aren't enough, Trading Coins will do.

Yu Baozhi: "Then everyone gets a set!"

Xie Yongcheng: "..."

Xie Yan: "..."

Are the abilities the mother and daughter are talking about the same thing as what they are thinking of?

But since when can abilities be chosen by oneself, and since when can one decide how many to pick?

Or even have all of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and so on?

Are they too behind the times, or is this world too magical?