Merchant caravan? Can it be bought for free?

Two giant, ten-foot-tall two-headed camels, pulling a small, yellow and blue train, slowly approached from the north.

Bells tied to the camels rang with a 'ding-dong' sound.

They echoed and drifted through the Four Mountains.

The small train was painted with flags, the insignia of Colossus City.

The three people were stunned at first glance.

Thin Dog: "What kind of creature is that?"

Demonic Fox: "What kind of pattern is that?"

Lin Tang raised his crowbar: "I don't know what kind of mutant that is, nor what those patterns represent, I only know I'm going to go wild!"

The other two quickly covered Lin Tang's mouth.

"Damn it, don't get us killed! We can't even tell if they're friend or foe and you want to attack? This intro CG seems to have a lot of information, we need to think before acting. Let's see what the people on this train are up to, they're likely plot characters who will introduce the later story."

Demonic Fox added: "Besides, I don't think we can beat them."

Lin Tang pouted: "But that little train looks like it has a lot of supplies."

Thin Dog: "Lots of supplies? Then it's even less likely we can touch it right now! The designer definitely wouldn't let us cheat too outrageously in the early game. If we get a huge cart of supplies right at the start, wouldn't we be able to steamroll everything later? So this is clearly a story cutscene, let's follow it and see if we can find an NPC to get a quest from."

"That makes sense."

The three moved closer.

They saw the two camels stop, then bend their knees and sit down on the ground.

Boom~

The small train behind them also stopped.

The yellow door of the first carriage opened, and two well-dressed yellow-skinned people emerged. They looked nothing like they belonged in the Wasteland.

One man and one woman, they shouted towards the three:

"This is Colossus City's caravan, the representatives of integrity in the Wasteland! Do you have anything you wish to trade with our caravan? As long as your goods have value, you can exchange them for anything you desire on our train!"

The three players looked at each other.

Thin Dog: "Uh, are they talking to us? But why can't I understand them?"

Demonic Fox: "Based on my extensive linguistic knowledge, the language they're speaking doesn't belong to any Chinese, Japanese, Korean, European, or American languages."

Lin Tang: "Hahaha!"

Demonic Fox: "But they don't seem hostile. Lin Tang, go check if there's any danger."

Lin Tang: "??? Why me?"

"Because you have the least health, and you're injured. It wouldn't be a shame if you died."

"I'm so angry! When will the injured ever stand up!"

Despite his words, Lin Tang still walked over, attempting to speak with the people who had disembarked from the train.

However, after a lot of effort, neither side managed to communicate.

Lin Tang shrugged at his two teammates behind him: "Clearly, we have a language barrier. It's probably a designer oversight. I'll give Sentinel feedback about this bug later."

Just as he was about to leave, the man who had exited the train grabbed his arm.

He pointed at the two hyena corpses on the backs of Demonic Fox and Thin Dog, then pointed at the train behind him.

Clang!

The last two carriages of the train opened upwards like flip-tops, revealing the neatly stacked goods inside.

Food, clothing, materials...

Lin Tang suddenly understood.

"Thin Dog! Demonic Fox! Carry your prey over here, this must be a merchant in the game! They want to trade their goods for ours!"

The two had already guessed as much when the cargo boxes opened.

After a brief exchange of glances, they reached a consensus.

"We can still hunt prey in the mountains, but we might not encounter a merchant caravan often. This is probably an introductory quest in the game, teaching us how to trade with caravans."

"Let's go! Let's see what we can exchange for!"

The two carried the mutated hyenas over. The man and woman from the caravan nodded, gesturing for them to place the prey on the scale.

After weighing, the woman nodded.

She led the three to the last two carriages of the train and gestured for them to choose.

Rice, beans, bread, salt, seasonings, jam, clothes of various sizes, intimate apparel... a whole carriage was packed full.

Demonic Fox said directly: "No need to look at these. I secretly checked the base leader's supplies this morning, and he has a lot of beans. We can go back and ask him for food. We get food for doing quests too, so we won't starve. We can eat good-tasting food in reality, so we shouldn't waste this opportunity."

The other two nodded in agreement.

What's the difference what we eat in the game?

With eyes closed, he poured the boiled beans into his mouth, and that was large caviar!

The Demonic Fox's gaze followed the carriage to the third-to-last un-opened carriage, where a stack of three-fan graphics cards was displayed on a shelf.

"Electronic components!"

He quickly pointed to the graphics cards inside and said to the woman, "We want this! We want this!"

A quest item!

This was clearly something that couldn't be found in the wild.

However, the woman shook her head and gestured that it couldn't be exchanged.

Demonic Fox: "Why? We'll trade you two big hyenas for a few broken graphics cards, won't that do? This fresh dog meat sells for 30 yuan a pound on the market. Two of them weigh over 100 pounds, which would be 3,000 yuan, right? For 3,000 yuan, I could buy 10 pounds of used mining cards! You guys are ripping us off!"

However, the woman still waved her hand, indicating that they could only exchange for items in the last two carriages.

"It seems that good electronic components like these are valuable in the Wasteland,"

Thin Dog said.

The three of them could only look at the electronic components that could complete the quest, placed in the third-to-last carriage, unable to obtain them.

Lin Tang gripped his mace: "Brothers, have you played that city game where you ride around causing destruction? The fastest way to get weapons and supplies early on is called a Zero-Cost Purchase.

I don't think these two have much combat power. Let's ambush them, take control of them, and then have them operate the camels to pull all the supplies from this entire small train back to our base. Then, when the lord needs anything, we can just take it directly from the train! We'll max out our merit points!"

The other two's hearts stirred slightly, but they hadn't spoken yet.

Four Raiders, carrying large clubs, rushed out from the Raider camp to the east.

"Awooo!"

Like four muscle tanks, they charged directly at the food carriage.

The Raider camp also began to stir.

The three of them immediately tightened their weapons. If two Raiders walked side-by-side, they would have to retreat. These four Raiders were definitely not something they could handle now.

Facing the charge of the four green-skinned muscle-bound brutes, the two people from the caravan remained unfazed.

The man snapped his fingers.

Snap

Bang bang bang bang!

Four gunshots rang out from inside the carriage. Blood spattered from the heads of the four Raiders, and they all fell to the ground.

Thud

The next second, the commotion in the Raider camp abruptly stopped. From a distance, the behavior of the Raiders inside became much more civilized.

The woman still smiled, gesturing for the three of them to pick their items without being disturbed.

Gulp

Thin Dog swallowed his saliva: "Lin Tang, what was that plan you were just talking about?"

Lin Tang glanced at the powerful physique of the Raiders and then at his own slender frame.

"I was saying... we should look at the world with a vision of sustainable development. It's not about whether heads get blown off or not; it's mainly about maintaining good relations with the caravan. Let's pick our items quickly!"

The three of them turned their attention to the last carriage, where various sundries were piled up.

A talking Silicone Doll, a bag of well-preserved sealed plastic bags, a box of glass beads, a tetanus knife...

They looked like trash that had been picked up.

"This one!"

The Demonic Fox pulled out a box of cracked and rusted electronic boards and leaking batteries.

Clearly, these items were difficult to repair, having undergone who knows how many years of baptism. In any case, they were definitely no match for the graphics cards displayed in that sealed carriage.

After glancing at them, the woman directly handed the box of broken materials to the Demonic Fox, then closed the carriage.

The two got into the car, the camels stood up, and pulled the small train further west.

Jingle jingle

The sound of bells rang out again.

Thin Dog asked, "Demonic Fox, do you think... we can turn in this stuff to the lord for the quest? It looks broken."

Demonic Fox: "I'm also taking a gamble. I'm gambling that these materials can be utilized. If I lose the gamble, it means we've lost two prey. But if I win, then this box of items will provide all the electronic components needed for the three of us clones!"

"And regardless of whether we win or lose, we've already made a profit."

The Demonic Fox's gaze fell upon the corpses of the four Raiders who had been shot in the head by the caravan.

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