Chapter 43: Analysis of the Current Urban Situation (Seeking Recommendations, Favorites, and Investments)
Having exchanged two boxes of vegetables with Mo Qingyan, Chen Xin received in return a box of canned luncheon meat, a box of canned pork, a box of rum, along with a hundred liters of gasoline and a large freezer.
The gasoline and exchanged goods could fit into Chen Xin’s SUV, but the large freezer was too big to take back because the SUV could not accommodate such a large item.
However, Mo Qingyan generously offered to use her own car to help Chen Xin transport the freezer to his shelter, without even requiring him to cover the transportation costs, after all, gasoline was relatively easy to acquire for them in the city.
After sorting all this out, Chen Xin gave up the idea of continuing to gather information in the city. Originally, he planned to exchange vegetables for supplies at other shelters, but since he could already get what he wanted from Mo Qingyan, there was no need to go to the other larger shelters.
After all, the amount of vegetables he had was enough for Mo Qingyan’s small shelter, which had only a few people, to eat for a month. But for a large shelter, it might not even be enough for one meal.
In such a situation, going to a large shelter to exchange goods might not be valued by others; the exchanged materials might not be as much as he’d get from Mo Qingyan, and there’s a possibility of being targeted.
Though the city’s shelters were still under the control of the Mayor, maintaining order, in this apocalyptic situation, if the officials decided they wanted to requisition his greenhouse, saying that the city’s supply is a unified plan and asking him to move to a large shelter and hand over the greenhouse to professionals, what chance did Chen Xin have of resisting?
Of course, as long as the social order has not collapsed, this possibility is low, but since the risk of this happening cannot be ruled out, and there’s no essential need to exchange goods with large shelters, Chen Xin naturally wanted to keep trouble to a minimum.
As for having exchanges with large shelters, it’s bound to happen, but until a safe trading method is found, Chen Xin thought it’s better to temporarily avoid dealings with large shelters.