Xu Duoduo took out a large bag of snacks, all varieties from before the apocalypse. She placed them on the counter, and the Clown Puppet took them and thanked her.
Lin Qianxing couldn't help turning to look, either. He was delighted to spot so many familiar snacks. "Thanks, Sister Duoduo. These things are ridiculously expensive now."
Before the apocalypse, a little over a hundred yuan could buy a whole bag of snacks. After the apocalypse, that same bag could fetch five or six thousand points on the forum.
Combat Squads often went out on missions, and the hardworking ones generally did pretty well for themselves.
At present, the bases still had too few supplies and too many points in circulation, and the imbalance was only growing. So there really were people willing to spend five or six thousand points on snacks.
Scarcity made things precious, after all.
It hadn't been so bad in the early days of the apocalypse, but as time went on, snacks from before the apocalypse became increasingly scarce.
Although all kinds of sweet drinks mixed with Mutant Core Diluent were available, they still didn't taste the same as they had before the apocalypse. People tended to grow nostalgic when times were hard, which made those pre-apocalypse snacks absurdly expensive.
Xu Duoduo glanced at the densely packed snack compartments in her Rubik's Cube Space and felt a little guilty. She really had stockpiled a lot.
Qin Luo and the others had only just returned and hadn't heard about this, so he casually asked, "How many points does a bag of potato chips cost now?"
Sitting on the Clown Puppet's arm, Lin Qianxing opened a bag of potato chips and began munching away. "At least three to five hundred points, right? That's actually pretty cheap. Last time, someone