is outrageous

Author: fried bean curd

"Sell books, sell books."

"Vegetables, fresh vegetables, do you need them? 10 points per pound, very cheap, very cheap."

"Starry Night Bar is hiring, from 8pm to 5am..."

The elevator door slowly opened, and a burst of noisy sales sounds reached my ears.

The basement was densely packed with people. Some people set up tents and some spread out mats. There were small vendors in the opposite corner working hard and shouting, but no one came to visit.

Observing carefully, everyone is holding their backpacks and supplies tightly to guard against others, but they don't look very nervous.

After glancing around, Jiang Ran walked to a deserted corner and sat down, took out his cell phone and checked the time.

It's already mid-June, and the extreme high temperature should end in a while. Only then will the horror of the apocalypse be truly revealed, and a new round of more terrifying natural disasters will follow.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ran took out a box of cold noodles from his backpack and ate it slowly. The aroma made people around him sniff.

Although many people were salivating and their eyes were glowing green, no one came forward to ask for trouble, which surprised her.

After eating the cold noodles, Jiang Ran sat down against the corner and started practicing. She had to try to advance before the high temperature ended.

After a while, several young people came over.

"Sister, are you a new tenant? I am a member of the community safety management committee. If you stay in the basement for a long time, you will have to pay safety management fees."

"What?"

Jiang Ran looked at the young man in surprise. He was wearing a red uniform and sleeves on his arms. He looked quite presentable, but the reason for charging him was really outrageous.

Jiang Ran asked: "Is this your rule or the rule of the safe zone? You didn't tell me this when you rented the house."

It was obviously not the first time that the young man had encountered such a situation, and he said with ease: "Of course it is the regulation of the safety zone. After all, our community is so safe. Have you seen what is happening in the basements of other communities? Anything can happen there."

Jiang Ran looked at several young people and continued to ask: "So as long as I pay the fee, I can sleep peacefully without being disturbed, and I won't have my things stolen?"

"certainly."

"How many?"

When Jiang Ran asked about the price, the young man thought she wanted to pay, so he smiled and said, "1 point for two days, 3 points for a week, and 10 points for a month."

Jiang Ran stood up from the ground, and the young man hurriedly asked with a smile: "Which package are you going to buy? I prefer the monthly package, which is a few points less."

Jiang Ran said calmly: "No money."

"???"

The young man looked at Jiang Ran in bewilderment, looked up and down, saw the white bracelet on her wrist, and affirmed: "Impossible, you can afford to rent such a good house, how can you not afford to pay the security fee."

He looked at Jiang Ran seriously and said, "I know you are the taskmaster, and I know you must be very powerful, but I want to tell you that this is the fee specified in our safe zone."

"If you refuse to pay, we will report it to the Street Safety Management Committee. Even if you are a taskmaster, you have no privileges."

Others quickly echoed.

"right."

"Assigners can't do anything special. If everyone pays you, why shouldn't you?"

…

Seeing that the crowd was excited and made it look like he was the villain, Jiang Ran glanced around, looked at a kind-faced old man and asked, "Is what they said true?"

Not only did the old man nodded, but other people around him also nodded.

Someone advised: "Girl, you should pay the fee. Our community is indeed safer than other communities. You have just moved here and you should know what the conditions are like in other communities."

"Bullying men and women, using the strong to bully the weak, sneaking and abducting...these are endless. We are here just because of safety."

Another family nearby said: "We can't afford the house here, so we live in the basement and pay a monthly security fee of 10 points and a cleaning fee of 5 points."

"You came in through some connections, right? You can't enter our community just by paying a fee."

The family nodded.

The young man looked at Jiang Ran and said, "Look, I didn't lie to you. This is a prescribed fee, and every household must pay it."

Jiang Ran spread his hands and said: "I really have no money. All my points were spent on renting a house, and the staff didn't tell me about this fee and didn't reserve extra points. By the way, they gave me 10 points for electricity when I rented a house. Otherwise,

Did you deduct my electricity bill?"

young people:"……"

There were people around who were watching the excitement and started making sarcastic remarks.

"This is a strange reason. The power company and the safety committee are not the same company. Where can he deduct it from you?"

"You can't be stingy like this. It's really weird."

"She just ate a bowl of cold noodles. Those things are not cheap. One bowl costs one or twenty points."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you have money to eat noodles, but you don't have money to pay security fees."

"Haven't you heard? The richer people are, the stingier they are, and the less they want to spend money. The happiest people are free prostitutes."

…

Jiang Ran pursed her lips and looked at the people who were complaining unhappily, "What are you doing after you've had enough to eat all day? You have nothing to do except gossiping about others? If that's the case, go back to study as soon as possible."

Hearing from people around him that Jiang Ran had just eaten a bowl of cold noodles, the young man looked around Jiang Ran and saw the cold noodles box on the ground, feeling envious in his heart.

Rich people!

You can afford such a luxurious thing, and you have so many points. Wouldn’t it be delicious to exchange for ten or twenty kilograms of grain?

At this moment, the young man was a little unsure whether the new tenant really had no points or whether he was pretending to have no points. He thought about it and said, "If you don't have points, you can exchange it for food of the same value."

"What's worth 10 points?"

Jiang Ran rummaged through his backpack, and there were some milk biscuits, candies, chocolates, etc. in it. These were collected on the way here. Due to the high temperature, the taste may have changed a little, but they are still edible.

"That's a lot. Generally, a large piece of chocolate can be exchanged for 10 points, 10 pounds of white rice is 10 points, 7 pounds of white flour is 10 points, and two boxes of milk are also 10 points..."

The young man was counting in detail. Jiang Ran took out two boxes of pure milk from his backpack and stuffed them into the young man's hands, "All cleared."

"Hey, that's good."

Seeing the two boxes of milk in his hand, the young man was immediately delighted. Although the official exchange ratios were similar, food was actually more valuable than points.

Moreover, the backpack is bulging, and it looks like it contains a lot of supplies. This person is a rich man, and he is worthy of being a mission leader.

Jiang Ran's arrogance surprised everyone. Many people knelt down and licked her, trying to help her find her place, hoping to get acquainted with her.

"Some people were slapped in the face, right?"

"I'm a mission official. How can I be short of such supplies? I just don't have any points, and I'm saying that I'm stingy."
Chapter completed!