Cave Refuge

After Dong Tianyu boarded the ship, both parties initially exchanged pleasantries. Then, Dong Tianyu took out a bag of marinated luding chicken eggs and two processed luding chickens from his carry-on bag.

Ye Liuyun accepted these two items from Dong Tianyu, first opened the bag containing the luding chicken, and inspected the quality of the chicken meat.

The examination of the chicken was mainly to determine whether the processed luding chicken was frozen meat or fresh meat.

If it was frozen chicken, Ye Liuyun speculated that Dong Tianyu might have been lucky enough to find a cold storage. But if it was fresh chicken, it indicated that Dong Tianyu had a stable source to acquire it.

In order to distinguish between fresh and thawed frozen chicken, Ye Liuyun consulted professionals and learned a few tricks.

A simple test method is to squeeze the chicken meat forcefully. Because freezing destroys the cellular structure of the chicken, meat that rebounds quickly is fresh, and meat that rebounds slowly is frozen.

Another way is to look at the sheen on the meat's surface. Of course, if you only have one type of chicken meat, many people might not be able to distinguish. But if two types of chicken meat are put in front of you at the same time, most people could tell at a glance which one is fresh.

This is the method of distinguishing by looking at the sheen on the chicken's surface. Most people use this method with a reference, while those who frequently deal with chicken can tell at a glance.

Although Ye Liuyun had dealt with many types of meat, he was not a professional. But through the first test of the chicken's springiness, he felt that the chicken Dong Tianyu brought was most likely freshly slaughtered meat.

Therefore, he was even more eager to establish a long-term stable trade channel with Dong Tianyu.

After confirming that the chicken he held was fresh, Ye Liuyun felt satisfied despite the small size of the luding chicken. At this time, it was already wonderful to eat fresh meat, and no one would demand too much.

After setting down the luding chicken, Ye Liuyun took out a luding chicken egg from another bag.

Upon seeing the luding chicken egg in the bag, Ye Liuyun found it somewhat unbelievable.

Seeing Dong Tianyu's casually shaken bag, Ye Liuyun thought the luding chicken eggs that Dong Tianyu brought were all processed eggs.

Ye Liuyun assumed that Dong Tianyu could at most boil them, to prevent others from wanting to incubate the luding chickens.

However, he never expected that the luding chicken egg taken out of the bag had not only been peeled but even marinated.

You must know that at this time, not to mention the price, the difficulty of simply acquiring it is relatively high.

Although the survivors can basically eat their fill now, the seasonings they use are all leftovers at home. Perhaps the severe cold during the Cold Catastrophe extended the shelf life of these seasonings.

But now, the ordinary people's various seasonings are really running out, the source of seasonings in Pengville depends entirely on the private salvage teams. The official salvage teams are still at the Granary, busy rescuing grains flooded under the water.

Looking at the two items that Dong Tianyu brought out, which are better than he imagined, to establish a long-term partnership with Dong Tianyu, Ye Liuyun turned his head and shouted, "Bring out box number one and box number two."

Hearing Ye Liuyun's shout, a young and strong man carrying a box in one hand came out of the cabin.

After the man put the box on the deck, he returned to the cabin under Ye Liuyun's gaze.

After the man entered the cabin, Ye Liuyun squatted down and opened the boxes. Each of them holds a different firearm.

Ye Liuyun pointed at the two guns and started introducing them to Dong Tianyu, "This is the Barrett in the game, and this is a shotgun. I won't specify the model, but I guarantee they're exactly like in the game, perfectly replicated 1 to 1."

Upon hearing this, Dong Tianyu squatted down and tried to take out the gun from the box.

But as soon as Dong Tianyu touched the firearm and tried to lift it, Ye Liuyun held down his arm, stopping Dong Tianyu's next move.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Hearing Dong Tianyu's cold voice, Ye Liuyun realized immediately that his action of preventing him from taking the gun made Dong Tianyu feel uncomfortable. So he promptly pointed to the office building not far away, and then explained to Dong Tianyu:

"We're too close to the West City District Command Post. Even though they're currently tolerating our Mutual Aid Centre, this thing is not suitable for open trading.

If you trust me, I can take you somewhere. At that point, not only can you examine the firearms closely, but you can also even test them if you want."

Hearing this, Dong Tianyu stood up straight away.

Seeing Dong Tianyu get up, Ye Liuyun casually closed the boxes and then shouted towards the cockpit, "We're heading back."

After a while, the yacht that was originally stationary on the surface of the water began to move slowly. The pedal boat tied to the deck with ropes was also dragged and followed along the side of the yacht through the ropes.

The sailing speed of the yacht was extremely slow, probably not even exceeding 10 knots, possibly slower than manually rowing a small boat.

Luckily, their destination this time wasn't far, it was in the residential complex not too far away. If it wasn't for the flood that submerged the land, they could have simply crossed the road from the office building and arrived at the residential building in less than five minutes by foot.

However, although it had been modified, without the power of the engine, relying purely on manpower was really slow. A distance that should be covered in less than 10 minutes on foot took almost an hour for the yacht to sail.

During this period, Ye Liuyun gave Dong Tianyu a detailed introduction about the Mutual Aid Centre, hoping to invite Dong Tianyu to open a long-term and stable rescue station (trade shop) in the Mutual Aid Centre.

Regrettably, no matter what Ye Liuyun said, Dong Tianyu wouldn't give a clear answer.

Thinking that Dong Tianyu was probably eager to test the guns and thus had this attitude, Ye Liuyun didn't say more. Instead, he started to chat idly with Dong Tianyu about recent affairs in Pengville.

Just like what Dong Tianyu remembered, after the flood disaster, even though the land was flooded, the casualties in Pengville were small, even less than the number of deaths when the Cold Catastrophe hit.

Although the survivors are trapped in various places now, the social structure of Pengville has begun to recover. It was even heard that the Officials plan to restart education soon.

Starting education at this time indicates that the Officials have recovered sufficiently. However, Dong Tianyu had not heard of this in his previous life, maybe because he was old and living in a residential building and thus was not in the know.

Apart from the Officials planning to restart education, the trees on the base mountain in Pengville have also been almost completely cut down. Most of the trees have been turned into temporary boats.

Although the boats made from these unprocessed and untreated timber have a short lifespan, for now, the issue of commuting needs to be solved first.