Chapter 720: Chapter 481 Buying a House_2
Zachary every time he took over the tablet, felt the electromagnetic pulse as if it had never appeared.
Idly flipping through the exchange prices on the tablet, he noticed that this price list not only had purchase prices but also selling prices.
On this list, the marked-up price difference between most products was not too large, basically not exceeding thirty percent.
However, there was no limit on purchasing, while selling was restricted based on the talent rating indicated in the household registration, with different monthly purchase caps for each person.
Seeing this, Zachary couldn’t help but inwardly criticize, although they preach equality for all, in reality, wasn’t there still a division into ranks? No matter how nice the talk, it’s the actual actions that reveal the truth.
The exchange prices for ingredients here were actually much higher than those in Kyoto, especially the various meats, which were several times more expensive.
Thinking about it, it was understandable, although the Platform also built food production areas, the output from these areas was primarily aimed at maintaining basic survival needs.
While there were both meat and vegetarian options, the meat consisted of cockroaches and worms that could consume kitchen waste, and the vegetarian options were various fungi that preferred dark and moist conditions—although there were some hydroponically grown leafy vegetables, their yield was not high.
Therefore, without finding new food sources, the Logistics Department had raised the purchase prices for ingredients.
Even though the Logistics Department had posted purchase prices for ingredients, they could hardly buy any food materials; instead, the survivors in the base would use up their monthly purchase limits.
Theoretically, the Logistics Department’s food supply was in a constant state of only going out and not coming in; of course, the food sources on the Platform were not solely reliant on the purchases by the Logistics Department.
The food on the Platform mainly came from two sources, the most important and stable being the self-produced food within the Platform, which consisted either of cockroaches and worms or of mushrooms and lichen, an edible type of moss.
These ingredients could only satisfy the basic nutritional needs of the survivors, with virtually no taste. Overcoming the psychological barrier to these food sources, in all honesty, the nutrition they provided was entirely sufficient for the daily consumption of every survivor.
Of course, for those in the Body Tempering Realm and Inner Breath Realm who needed to eat large amounts, it was the same: if they could overcome the mental barrier, it was entirely sufficient for the daily consumption needed for their training.
Besides the self-produced food within the base, another major way of obtaining ingredients on the Platform was through conquering the Mysterious Realm.
If one hasn’t forgotten, the Mysterious Ship, to the survivors, would take on two different states.
The first was when the Mysterious Ship fused with the survivors’ ordinary boats, turning the boat owned by the survivors into a Mysterious Realm, with an influence only extending to the size of the boat itself.
Simply put, the ordinary boat owned by the survivor was transformed into a unique Mysterious Realm. This kind of Mysterious Ship fusion only had one mode: eliminate all monsters on the boat.
No matter the size of the survivors’ boats or the size of the Mysterious Ship, once fused, the Mysterious Realm would be based on the size of the survivors’ boat.
After the survivors eliminated all the monsters in the Mysterious Realm, the Mysterious Ship would disappear, but the materials inside the Mysterious Realm would materialize on the boat—from fake to real, becoming tangible and usable goods.
This was the main way survivors currently obtained high-end ingredients.
Of course, once the Mysterious Ship underwent fusion and turned into a Mysterious Realm, the Mysterious Core would already be gone. Even after destroying all the monsters within, the Mysterious Core would not appear.
The Mysterious Ship’s other form in the Mysterious Realm was that of Zachary’s type, which directly breached the Mysterious Ship without waiting for fusion, possibly because the Mysterious Ship didn’t integrate with an ordinary ship and so, upon breaking the Mysterious Realm, yielded the core of the Mysterious Ship—the Mysterious Core.
Watching Zachary idly flip through the price list on the tablet, the staff member felt in his heart that Zachary was just putting on a show, but he did not rush Zachary.
After all, everyone was just working here, and most importantly, Chester stood next to Zachary. Although he didn’t recognize Chester, he could tell from the badge pinned on Chester’s chest that his standing on the Platform was not low. Even if he didn’t know the specific position, he was definitely the leader of a department, hence his patience was good at the moment.
After briefly looking at the exchange prices for some basic materials, Zachary prepared to search for any black technology for sale.
However, after looking for a while, Zachary couldn’t find any black tech—let alone hot weapons weren’t even present on the exchange list, leaving him wondering whether they were not allowed to be exchanged, or if the tablet didn’t have the necessary permissions.
Zachary handed back the tablet to the staff member, and before they could speak, he directly asked, "The pricing for bulk pork seems a bit low, can you ask your leader if the price can be increased, as I have a large quantity of pork."
Hearing Zachary’s inquiry, astonishment showed on the staff member’s face. He had seen whole pigs before; the Cold Storage had several dozens of them.
But those dozens of pig carcasses were treasures in the Platform; if not for the explicit rule against unwarranted entry into the cold store to save energy, it was likely that people would be assigned daily to count the pigs in the Cold Storage and inspect each one carefully.
