Chapter 14: The Shady Merchant from Giant Stone City
Chu Guang was lucky, he didn't encounter any insurmountable dangers along the way.
Not only that.
When he arrived near Bet Street, he happened to see a commercial team from Giant Stone City unloading at the entrance of Bet Street.
Old Watt, carrying a hunting gun, stood to one side smoking his homemade dry pipe while Old Charlie was having a pleasant conversation with the team's leader, and idle scavengers were unloading under the watchful eye of the gunmen.
The leader of the commercial team was called General Lee, whose first name Chu Guang didn't know; he only knew that he came from Giant Stone City with eight gunmen and about twenty mutated yaks.
Every so often, he would bring his men and beasts to Bet Street to sell some supplies, while taking away the "specialties" from here.
In the Wasteland, especially in urban areas, animals are more reliable than vehicles.
The roads are littered with broken-down vehicles and collapsed ruins, plus the highways, due to lack of maintenance, are severely cracked, even with roots of vegetation breaking through, rendering most wheeled vehicles immovable.
By comparison, donkeys, cows, horses are precious—they may not be fast, but there's almost nowhere they cannot go.
Most importantly, they're cheap to maintain, just thirty pounds of grass for a hundred kilometers.
Technology isn't always reliable, at least not here.