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No one knows what happened to the group of tomb robbers thousands of miles away.
The anonymous letter was sent and within a few days, Chu Huai saw the news about the arrest of a group of drug dealers/drug organizations in City H.
Although the time of this incident is different from his previous life, the result is the same.
In the past two years, the government has severely cracked down on corrupt officials, so it is not unusual for Hu Chaoyang and the others to be arrested so quickly.
Moreover, the mayor of City H just took office this year, and he needs to create political achievements. In this case, once Hu Chaoyang and others have entered the police’s radar, they would’ve been captured in a short time.
As for Hu Chaoyang and others making trouble for him afterward, there is no need for him to worry about it.
If those people really had a background, his anonymous letter would not have provoked a reaction at all, and he will not have been made a scapegoat in his previous life.
Seeing the news that Hu Chaoyang was arrested, Chu Huai didn’t bother to care about him anymore.
He was sitting on the bus heading to R City at the moment.
R City is located in the western part of Yunnan Province. It is the largest inland port in southwest China. It is also an important jewelry distribution center.
Chu Huai went to R city just to bet on rocks.
Everyone knows that stone gambling is an industry where risks and huge profits coexist.
However, Chu Huai was not trying to make money this time. The company and all the real estate under his own name had already been cashed out for more than 50 million. He made good use of his connections to prepare a lot of things, and there is no need to risk betting just to raise funds.
He wanted to bet on stones, mainly to collect jade.
After the end of the world, science can no longer explain many things in this world.
In addition to the supernatural beings who were once merely superstitions, those Chinese medicine practitioners, Taoist priests, monks, and missionaries of various faiths who were once ignored by everyone as superstitious have emerged one after another.
Among them, the country with a long history is the most prosperous.
During an escape, Chu Huai saw with his own eyes how a Taoist priest could intercept hundreds of zombies with only a red rope, and the Taoist sent the zombies back with a just a string of beads.
There are even ordinary people without abilities who use the legendary flying eaves to escape under the siege of zombies.
He felt that it was incredible at the time, but after entering the base to learn more about it, he soon knew the magic of this world.
Jade will soon become a kind of currency after the end of the world, because there are many Taoist monks who need it, and those experts can use jade to practice and so on.
And people with ‘mana’ can make jade into a space storage device.
Although Chu Huai had seen this kind of storage by chance, he knew the space area was not large, and it was not like his space that could keep food from corrupting forever, it was still enough for people in the apocalypse to flock over to buy it.
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Therefore, at this moment, Chu Huai can only use the benefits of his ability brought back by rebirth to gamble on stones.
He checked it on the Internet and found that R City is one of the major jade-producing areas in China.
There was still a lot of time before the end of the world. After arriving in R City, Chu Huai did not find a hotel to settle down.
Instead, he randomly found a small hotel that did not require an ID card to stay in.
Although this kind of small hotel has a poor environment and a place where dragons and snakes mix, it is the best place that one can live in without an ID card, which is convenient for hiding his identity.
For this reason, Chu Huai hadn’t shaved his beard since he was reborn. When he changed into old clothes and humped his back, he looked no different from the down-and-out people in the street who were addicted to betting on rocks.
He didn’t know much about gambling, and he hadn’t been exposed to it before.
However, Chu Huai didn’t intend to find someone to ask. After reading the relevant rules of this industry on the Internet, he started directly.
Anyway, he has the ability to do induction, so he just needs to pretend when he chooses stones.
The slightly more troublesome step is the step of ‘opening the stone’. A layman’s poor technique can easily cut the stone. After returning, he needs to spend time practicing.
Chu Huai spent more than half a month strolling in the gambling street in R City, changing clothes and attires several times in the middle of days, only to use his abilities to pick up the pieces in the ordinary stone pile.
However, he didn’t have much access to that kind of better stone, and the purchase cost was too high.
Another problem is that people will have a record of the kind of stone they purchased, and when the number of times he buys is high, people will notice that he only buys stones but does not open them. It is inevitable that people will be suspicious and he could be robbed.
It was not that he thought the world was so dark, it was just that he was prepared.
The ordinary stones in this rotten streets are cheap but he has special powers so he can easily pick out high-quality jade from them.
However, the opportunities for such things are limited.
Therefore, after half a month, Chu Huai made friends with the owner of a stone stall on the street, and he was about to go to the village that specializes in stone mining with him.
No matter what, wholesale from the source is the most cost-effective.
…
The owner of the stone stall was surnamed Li, and his name was a very common one. He was called Li Guojun. He was a middle-aged man with a standard Chinese face and a high nose.
To describe the village that the other party wants to take him to is remote would be a compliment.
To be precise, it is simply a mountain where the road heading to it hasn’t been repaired, and one would have to rely on mules, cows, and horses to get in and out.
The county leaders also wanted to help the poor in the village, but because of the terrain, they were really stumped, and it was impossible for the government to spend too much money on development for those few dozens of households.
Therefore, the village did not manage to obtain electricity until two years ago.
Although it is remote, Li Guojun said that the ordinary stones mined in the village have a high probability of producing good jade.
The other party didn’t lie about this. The reason Chu Huai approached was that he found that the chance of picking up jade at Li Guojun’s stall was higher than that of other stone stalls.
“…Mr. Chu, no one else knows this secret. I also discovered it by accident. The bigger stones cannot be found in the small village, but the smaller stones are already very good. If you dare to gamble and buy all the stones, I promise to bring them out. The jade is enough for you to earn several times of your investment.”
Along the way, Li Guojun told him this very positively.
He is to blame for the enthusiasm of the other party. In order to deal with Li Guojun as soon as possible and let him lead the way, Chu Huai put on a suit and glasses to put up an image of a small boss who had a small amount of money and was fond of betting on rocks.
He also promised that as long as the other party brought him to the village, he would give the other party a huge sum of money for bringing him to there.
Although Li Guojun was reluctant to share with others the secret of “the chance of stone production from Zaoer village is high”.
But the most taboo thing in the stone gambling world is the confidence to walk the world with his ‘discernment’. What he discovered was only a probability, not an absolute thing.
And the most important thing is that he is poor and doesn’t have the capital to dig a huge mountain. Even if he knows that there is a mountain of gold in front of him, he can only watch it.
It’s better to sell the secret to Chu Huai for money at this moment.
Anyway, the other party doesn’t look like someone who can buy that mountain. With the capital, he can make money and invest it there, this is a good deal.
Thinking about it this way, Li Guojun was more willing to lead the way.
Chu Huai didn’t talk much, so he followed silently.
Zaoer village is really poor and remote. Both of them, men of good physical quality, have climbed the mountain for a long time. Even then, they have walked through the cliffs, which is really a difficult journey.
This kind of remote village with deep mountains and old forests is not a place where big development can happen, and it really can’t get rich.
After carefully walking through the last narrow mountain road, walking through multiple twists and turns, Chu Huai finally saw the Zaoer village which heard from the mouth of Li Guojun.
Since it is a poor village, the houses of each family are very dilapidated, but after all, it is the 21st century so the village development is limited by how poor it is.
Despite the lack of access to the outside world leading to material backwardness and poverty, the people here at least have fields and land to eat, and their lives are peaceful and simple.
“Let’s go, let’s go to Lao Wang’s house and rest, and we will talk about buying stone materials tomorrow.”
After climbing the mountain road for nearly a day, Li Guojun was too tired, so he was ready to find a place to rest first.
He was very familiar with the place and the villagers in Zaoer village, so he took Chu Huai directly to stay with a family surnamed Wang.
Because the mountain village is remote, the villagers in this village don’t have much contact with outsiders, and they are very honest and simple.
In addition, every time Li Guojun comes, it proves that there will be a new income in their village.
Therefore, Lao Wang was very enthusiastic towards them, and immediately asked his wife to take out his homemade bacon sausage to entertain the guests.
Stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, steamed sausages, fried potato shreds, plus an egg soup, ordinary meals in the city is already the most compelling hospitality in the village.
Although Chu Huai didn’t dislike it in the past, this ordinary home-cooked meal would not be too rare.
But after experiencing the end of the world once, he can taste the delicacy of Mantou kimchi!
Especially meat, although there is no shortage after the end of the world since the meat of the mutant beast can be eaten, as long as one has the courage to get out of the base, they will not be afraid of being starved to death.
But the problem is that the meat of low-level mutant beasts has a very bad taste. Not only is it difficult to cook, but it is also bitter and sandy, and no one really eats that stuff unless they’re starving to death.
Only the meat of high-level mutant beasts is delicious, but that is not something ordinary people can enjoy.
So no matter how restrained Chu Huai was at the dinner table, his eating manners were not very polite.
Not to mention that Li Guojun was gulping nervously, even the old Wang family had a little doubt in their hearts if he was really the rich boss from the city? Why does it seem like he had less meat than them…
Being stared at like this, Chu Huai didn’t care about the eyes of others, but he was still a little embarrassed.
Silently putting down his chopsticks, he changed the subject and smiled at Lao Wang.
“Old man, your bacon sausages are delicious. I have a friend who is in the food business. I want to buy some agricultural and sideline products from people in your village. I wonder if it is possible?”
It is still too early to the end of the world, and he is not in a hurry to hoard food for the time being, and dozens of villagers in Zaoer village do not have enough food for him.
The reason for saying this is that Chu Huai wanted to help the simple farmers here.
He is not kind, and compassion is actually a trait rarely seen for those who have returned from the last days.
But when there is no threat to his own, he doesn’t mind showing kindness, the last days are too cruel, he can’t save everyone, but he can remind and help if he can.
“Mr. Chu, you really want to buy our grains and bacon? But this year our grains and dried products are all sold…”
Lao Wang was very happy when he heard what he said, but then it was a pity.
Rural people rely on various agricultural and sideline products for their income. It is a good thing that some people buy them. However, this year’s time is not good. At this time, every household’s grain and various mountain products have long been sold outside.
Chu Huai was not disappointed and continued.
“It’s okay, don’t worry, I won’t need it until February next year. For now, I will give you some deposit first, and you can prepare for some stock slowly.”
“Then daring to accept your kindness, I will take you to the village chief tomorrow.”
Lao Wang was happy that he smiled as he slapped his legs. This kind of big business related to the whole village had to be presided over by the village chief.
The author has something to say:
Regarding the setting of this article:
- There are natural disasters.
- There are zombies.
- Mutant Beasts: Mutated animals wherein their meat can be eaten.
- In addition to abilities, such as ancient martial arts, Taoism, etc. can be used.
Thanks for the chapter!
Powers of Taoism, interesting
It’s interesting that this zombie apocalypse is more of a curse I guess ?? Rather than a sickness as usual
This translation really isn’t CG-esque, y’all didn’t even bother to properly edit from whatever source y’all translated on
Quit complaining so much. Have you ever translated a novel before that you are acting all high and mighty
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