I Am Cultivating in the Apocalypse-Chapter 982 - 1072: Deal Reached

Anang translated the words and explained to Jing Shu:

"If there’s food beneficial for children, that would be even better."

Soon, two enormous Hulks arrived.

Jing Shu gently stroked the Hulk, and instantly it was filled with various kinds of food.

At that moment, Jing Shu snapped her fingers, and the Hulk’s head opened up, revealing a collection of assorted foods inside.

An array of options, just like opening a supermarket.

Everyone seated around gradually widened their mouths in surprise.

Jing Shu smiled and said, "Although I don’t have canned meat, I do have many other long-lasting items. I wonder which ones you are interested in; let me explain them to the lady."

Then she took out a few cans of milk powder: "This is premium milk powder made from pure milk with a shelf life of around three years. One can of milk powder can make 300 cups of milk, and 3 cups of milk can be exchanged for a barrel of crude oil, meaning one can of milk powder can be exchanged for 100 barrels of oil."

Everyone swallowed hard upon hearing this; this was truly a luxury item.

A barrel of oil, a huge one, 150 liters, equivalent to 300 pounds.

After Anang spoke, the woman’s eyes showed excited desire; this was truly good stuff. Nowadays, only super-rich homes have cows, but they probably don’t have milk, as it hasn’t been seen on the market for a long time.

Jing Shu took out a second item, "This is soy milk powder, just cook and it’s ready to eat, very convenient. This one’s cheaper, a can makes 300 cups of soy milk, only exchanged for 10 barrels of oil."

"This is smoked meat and sausages, with a shelf life of around five years, one pound of meat for a barrel of oil."

"This is pure honey, never spoils, one pound for 20 barrels of oil."

The price of sugar today is astronomical, and pure honey has almost disappeared after more than six years of apocalypse; exchanging for 20 barrels is not high, but not low either.

With Anang’s introduction, everyone’s breath quickened; they hadn’t expected to encounter so many good items today.

Everyone clamored to exchange some, for to them, oil was abundant, but these pre-apocalypse treasures were rare.

Anang shook his head regretfully, then said to everyone, "Sorry, these are Ms. Jing Shu’s private items. If it’s only for oil, she won’t exchange them now; only rare items like Ms. Dilidar’s would make her willing to trade."

Many felt a bit regretful. Some began making calls, preparing some rare items. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The woman in the black robe stepped forward, carefully inspecting these items, increasingly reluctant to leave; these were truly good items, clearly fresh post-apocalypse goods and not expired ones, making them even rarer.

The woman waved her hand, having someone transport up a pine tree over two meters tall; this pine tree had a peculiar shape, like being bald at the front and back, with only a small tuft of hair at the top, but dangling from the tip were a few basketball-sized jackfruit-like items.

Peeling the jackfruit revealed densely packed, robust pine nuts.

Jing Shu had planted pine trees before, but the pinecones on ordinary ones were completely different; even space-planted pine nuts were no larger than a fingernail, far from being finger-thick.

Jing Shu was thrilled at such a sight.

It was like encountering cherries, where fingernail-sized ones are never satisfying, but ones you can bite into, as big as a fist, crunchy and sweet, are truly satisfying!

The woman talked to Anang in a flurry of words, and Anang translated for Jing Shu:

"Ms. Jing Shu, this is Dilidar’s pine tree, which can thrive anywhere with just watering; its life force is strong, and each year it yields basketball-sized pine nuts, with approximately tens of thousands of seeds.

She said she’d be willing to sell you this tree along with the pine nuts, but it’s the only Dark Tree; although she has tried to replant thousands of pine nuts, none succeeded, and it remains the only one. Thus, she hopes you understand its value."

Jing Shu nodded; she certainly understood the value of Dark Plants. If her guess was correct, it probably involved a unique phenomenon of Dark Energy amalgamated within the pine tree, making it unlikely for another to appear, hence she could exchange so many valuable foods.

"I understand, Mr. Anang, Iran is our ally, so I won’t push the price too low; as long as both parties find it appropriate, we can make a deal. Please ask the lady how much she requests."

Anang consulted with the black-robed lady for a while, then counted with pencil and paper, finally saying:

"Rest assured, Ms. Jing Shu, we wouldn’t want to disadvantage Huaxia’s ally, hence the government could compensate Ms. Dilidar with 20% of the food’s value.

These pine nuts are roughly worth over 1,000 barrels of crude oil, exchanged for 15 pounds of honey, how about that?"

Upon hearing this, Jing Shu considered; although the basketball-sized pine nuts equated to thousands of meat cans, trading for honey only netted 15 pounds, thus she said: "Alright, add another 2 pounds for the lady."

The woman was very pleased after hearing the translation.

Anang continued, "For this tree, based on our evaluation, its value is at least 3,000 barrels of crude oil. She wants to trade 10 cans of milk powder, 50 cans of soy milk powder, 150 pounds of smoked meat and sausages, how about it?"

Jing Shu thought, wow, what a profit; these items wouldn’t even reach half a day’s worth in her space, yet could obtain something related to Apocalypse Dark Energy, so she didn’t haggle:

"Alright, I’ll also give the lady 50 eggs."