Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

The group left the shop after looking around for a short while.

They can't really judge other people's prices; it's their own stuff, they can sell it however they want, and there are bound to be suckers willing to pay.

The group continued to wander around inside. When they reached the other side, they spotted a snack shop selling food. Their eyes lit up, and they went straight inside.

It's been so long since the apocalypse, but this is the first time I've encountered someone opening a snack shop. I have to join in the fun.

The snack shop is small. As soon as you enter, you can see a small blackboard on the wall with today's menu written on it. There are only a few dishes written by hand.

Mutant pork wontons, 4 level 3 crystal cores. Mutant pork dumplings, 8 level 3 crystal cores.

变异猪骨汤面，8颗3级晶核。变异鸡汤面，8颗3级晶核。变异鸡杂盖浇面，10颗3级晶核。

Cold Mutant Pork Salad: 20 Level 3 Crystal Cores. Hand-Shredded Mutant Chicken: 20 Level 3 Crystal Cores.

Cabbage, tofu, and bone soup; 22 level 3 crystal cores.

Wow, quite a variety of dishes, all made from mutated beast meat, and there's even a vegetable soup on top...

It seems this restaurant owner has connections. You know, in the apocalypse, vegetarian food is more expensive than the meat of mutated beasts.

However, the price is really expensive. Ordinary people in the apocalypse may never be able to afford a bowl of wontons there in their entire lives. Even ordinary people with superpowers have to grit their teeth and be willing to eat a meal here.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang and his friends were rolling in money. It was just past three o'clock, and they were all a bit hungry, so they found a table, sat down, and ordered everything on the menu.

The owner was a well-off middle-aged man who quickly prepared all the dishes.

There were seven people, but only Zhou Yang ordered wontons; the others ordered noodles or dumplings. As for the two dishes and soup, they shared them among themselves.

It tasted pretty good, but compared to what Yu Jing makes at home, it was still quite different. However, in the post-apocalyptic world, it was already considered a delicacy.

During the meal, the group chatted with the owner for a while. It turned out that the uncle was a cook before the apocalypse. Although he awakened his powers and evolved after the apocalypse, his son is a fire-type ability user and has formed a team of more than ten people with superpowers.

The team usually brought back a lot of mutated beast meat that they couldn't finish eating, and the uncle's son wouldn't let him go on missions with them. So, after getting bored at the base, he opened this snack shop.

The group didn't waste a single bite, finishing everything before leaving, and then continued strolling around the market.

When they were almost at the other end of the square, Zhou Yang and his group stopped in front of a stall set up by a woman dressed in black.

Shen Zechuan and Yan Fei discovered that this woman was actually a level 4 ability user, and the only thing she was selling was crystal cores.

On the left is a pile of level 3 crystal cores, while on the right is a single level 4 crystal core. Although it is only a power crystal core, it is still quite rare.

Logically speaking, level 3 crystal cores are still quite scarce, and level 4 crystal cores are even rarer, so they should sell very well. However, there was no one in front of this woman's stall.

Upon closer inspection, the group discovered a sign next to the stall that read: "Only accepting special drug exchange transactions."

The group then realized that it was only possible to exchange special medicines for it, which explained why no one was coming to buy it.

However, they had no shortage of medicine, so they stopped and took a closer look at the crystal cores on the stall.

Zhou Yang had sharp eyes and spotted a grayish-white crystal core among a pile of level 3 crystal cores at a glance. This was the unique color of a space crystal core.

Although he didn't need it, it was just right for Chai Jin's younger brother.

Zhou Yang picked out the spatial crystal core separately, then looked at the woman: "We want this level 3 crystal core, and the level 4 one next to it. Name your price."

The woman looked up at him and said, "Are you sure? I only accept medicine that specifically treats or regulates heart disease. This level 3 pill is space-type, which is quite rare, and I need at least 20 of it. That level 4 strength-type pill is more common, and I need at least 40 of it."

Zhou Yang thought for a moment and then took out the medicine from his space. Since he couldn't tell which one the other party wanted, he simply took out one of each type and let the woman see for herself.

"I'm not entirely sure which one you need. Why don't you choose one yourself?"

The woman was startled when she saw the several kinds of medicine that had suddenly appeared in front of her. Then she gave Zhou Yang a questioning look and said, "You're really bold, showing me all these medicines like that. Aren't you afraid I'll come after you again to kill and rob you..."

“First, the fact that you can say that means you can’t. Second, even if you kill me, you won’t get what’s in my space. Third…” Zhou Yang smiled and looked at his teammates behind him, “Although you are a level 4 ability user, you may not be able to kill me, and our team has even stronger level 4 users, so if you try to kill me, you might end up dying yourself.”

"It seems you trust your teammates a lot." The woman chuckled, then picked out one of the medicines from Zhou Yang's hand. "I'll take this one. Do you have any more? If not, I'll pick something else."

Zhou Yang glanced at the medicine box in the woman's hand, then put the other medicines into his spatial storage, and took out two more boxes of the same type.

One box contains 20 pills, so 3 boxes contain 60 pills, which is just right.

"Here, payment and goods settled!"

After handing the two boxes of medicine to the woman, Zhou Yang was about to take the other level 4 crystal core when a soil spike suddenly appeared beside him. If Zhou Yang hadn't pulled his hand back in time, he might have been pierced through.

The others standing behind them were also startled. Shen Zechuan immediately pulled Zhou Yang up and stared in the direction of the energy fluctuations.

The others looked over as well, and saw a plump woman who insisted on wearing a tight white dress that accentuated her three layers of flesh, leading four level 3 ability users toward them menacingly.

Zhou Yang also looked up and realized that the person who came was Zhang Nannan, who was extremely unwilling last night.

It seems they bumped into them and deliberately came to cause trouble.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Nannan walked up to the group, she arrogantly shouted at the woman in black, "I want what they've got their eyes on! I'll pay three times... no! Five times the price!!"

The woman in black glanced at her indifferently, then waved the medicine in her hand in front of her eyes: "I only need this kind of heart medicine. They'll provide three boxes, and if you offer five times that, that's 15 boxes. Can you afford that?"

Zhang Nannan was speechless for a moment, then glared at the woman in black and said, "Are you sick? Why do you need medicine? You don't look like you have a heart condition! Are you giving it to someone else? Are you out of your mind? Why are you letting someone with a heart condition survive in this apocalypse? He might as well just die. Give me supplies or points!"

The woman in black's originally indifferent face turned ashen, and she coldly uttered only one word: "Get lost."

The thing she couldn't stand the most in her life was people cursing her brother to die.

They lost both parents at a young age and grew up in an orphanage. Because her younger brother has a mild congenital heart condition, no one was willing to adopt him, so she voluntarily gave up the possibility of being adopted herself.

The two of them lived together, relying on each other for survival. As soon as she came of age, she went out to work to earn money, while her younger brother stayed at home to paint and supplement the family income with the fees from his paintings.

Finally, a year before the apocalypse, they raised enough money for their younger brother's reconstructive surgery. Although the surgery was successful, their brother still needed to take medication to maintain his heart health.

She started setting up a stall because her younger brother's stockpiled medicine was almost finished.

Even after the apocalypse, there were people who cursed her brother to die, and without exception, they all slit her throat.

If she hadn't recognized the fat woman in front of her early this morning as the daughter of Zhang Tao, the leader of another Tiger Roar Ability Group, and hadn't been afraid of implicating the other members of her team, she would already be a corpse by now.