"Oh! I'll read it for you, Brother Yi."
Ninth Sister nimbly jumped onto Old Seven's shoulders and straddled his neck with practiced ease.
Old Seven turned his head and sniffed.
"Ninth Sister, why do I smell the ocean?"
"Hold me steady! Turn around!" Ninth Sister said, her face red.
"Oh." Old Seven smacked his lips, thinking Widow Little Liu next door was still better. She sprayed herself with perfume every day and always smelled nice.
Ninth Sister read the text displayed on the LCD screens of the [Trade-O-Mats]:
"One coin can buy... one jin of rice, flour, soybeans, or corn. Five coins can buy 100 milliliters of cooking oil or a five-jin bag of grain. Ten coins can buy one Ordinary Energy Crystal Core or a ten-jin bag of grain. Oh, and there are two booths for exchanging coins. Ten one-yuan coins can be exchanged for one ten-yuan coin, and five one-yuan coins can be exchanged for one five-yuan coin. Oh, so there are three denominations!"
"What else? What else?" Lu Renyi realized that Home No. 1 was being very generous with the food it offered this time. The coins everyone started with could be exchanged for ten jin of grain.
An ordinary adult wouldn't go hungry eating one jin of grain a day, and even a Pseudo-Superhuman only needed two jin a day.
That meant the initial ten-yuan coin was equivalent to giving everyone ten jin of grain, enough food for ten days.
For sixty thousand people, that amounted to six hundred thousand jin of grain! A full three hundred metric tons!
That was no small gesture.
Ninth Sister wriggled around on Old Seven. "Let's go look over there."
The three walked to the row opposite the little booths.
"I see it! This side also sells... 'Gene Optimization Serum