Desperate Night.

Chapter 45 045 Thought Three

"Are you planning to buy some? Is that yours?" Yu Hong looked at the fat girl and asked in a low voice.

"Well, my daughter, Aisina." Li Runshan said with a smile, "She is very sensible and can draw. I will show you her paintings when I have time. They are very beautiful."

As he spoke, he pulled out a rolled-up piece of white paper from his waist bag.

On the paper were written lines of things that could be exchanged.

'Edible wild vegetables'.

'Bull's Leg Mushroom'.

'Hygiene cockroach'.

'Red-tailed lizard'.

'Custom made small furniture'.

'Postal Letter'.

'Postal Items'.

'Candle'.

'Basic survival skills taught'.

'Teaching basic fighting skills'.

'Basic gun and knife skills teaching'.

"." Looking at this extremely detailed exchange table, Yu Hong was silent.

"No wonder you dare to bring a child here to this desolate mountain area by yourself. You are really amazing!" he exclaimed in a low voice.

"Thank you very much." Li Runshan smiled, "These are actually necessary skills for a postman. After all, in some places, there is a lack of everything and you have to do everything yourself."

"What can I exchange these things for?" Yu Hong asked, "I see there's no price marked on them."

"It depends on what you have. For example, I am now cultivating mushrooms and breeding cockroaches. Food and drinking water are relatively scarce. If you can support some, you can also trade them as exchange items. Of course, it would be even better if you have pyroxene and giant pyroxene." Li Runshan said with a smile.

"I have pyroxene, but we need to negotiate the price. Also, if I exchange this basic survival manual, will you teach me how to grow mushrooms?" Yu Hong asked.

"That's fine. It depends on what you need and what you lack. Then check and fill in the gaps." Li Runshan nodded. "These are not actually confidential. They are all necessary skills for survival in the wild."

Yu Hong nodded. It seemed that this Li Runshan was much more versatile than the previous postman.

"I would like you to teach me how to grow mushrooms and lizards, as well as basic fighting skills and firearms skills. How much do you want?"

"Is there any extra food? I don't have enough food here." Li Runshan asked.

"Is this okay?" Yu Hong took out a protein bar and handed it over. "One of these can keep you full for a whole day. It's very filling. I made it myself."

Li Runshan raised his eyebrows, took the protein bar and took a look at it.

"Can I try?"

"Of course." Yu Hong nodded.

Li Runshan picked it up and smelled it, then broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth, squinting his eyes and a faint wrinkle appeared on his face.

"It's high in calories! It has sesame seeds, peanuts, butter, sugar, cream, rice flour, and a lot of other things I can't taste. You can't have made this. You don't have that many ingredients."

Yu Hong was shocked. He didn't expect that the other party was so good that he could distinguish so many ingredients with just one taste. You know, this protein bar is very sweet, and most of the flavor is covered up. He couldn't taste it at all.
"You're right. This is my previous stock, and the quantity is indeed small. Can you tell me if I can exchange it?" He remained calm.

"Okay, if you want to change to breeding techniques, I'll give you ten of these, provided that one of them can really last a day." Li Runshan nodded. "The other fighting and firearms. Fighting is divided into many subcategories, and the calorie requirements are extremely high. You must supplement your diet, otherwise it will hurt your body. I suggest you choose to learn the subdivisions first. For example, boxing, ground skills, leg techniques, swordsmanship, etc.

As for firearms, I can only give you the manual I wrote down, and you can practice on your own. To be honest, there is a shortage of bullets now. Because firearms are useless against the Black Disaster, a large number of military factories have been converted to other uses. So firearms and bullets are used less and less. Generally, they are only used for internal use. I suggest you change to shooting, and I happen to have a lot of experience with slingshots. "

"Slingshot?" Yu Hong blinked, suspecting that he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, that's it. This one." Li Runshan pulled out a metal slingshot with a handle as thick as an egg from his waist. There were more than ten elastic bars hanging on it.

"You can consider it. Although it's a bit laborious, you can use stones as ammunition. You can pick them up anywhere and they are powerful enough."

"Well, let me think about it first," Yu Hong was speechless. "Since you know the breeding technology, I heard you just said that you seem to have started growing mushrooms?"

"Yes, mushrooms will grow in a week, and the cycle will be very fast. I brought some seeds." Li Runshan nodded. "So I need a week's worth of food now. If you can give me fourteen protein bars a week, I can exchange them for your survival manual instruction and three combat classification training sessions."

Yu Hong was somewhat tempted.

If he could get the survival manual, he would be able to supply his own food without always relying on outsiders.

Fighting skills are also his rigid need, because he will be able to upgrade his bulletproof vest sooner or later. When guns are gradually eliminated, fighting will become a very critical ability.

Most importantly, the advanced physical training methods he developed greatly enhanced the strength of his legs and the endurance of his entire body.

So, we have to prepare for a rainy day.

If he hadn't had a gun last time, he would definitely not have been able to beat Jenny. And if Jenny had a bulletproof vest, he would have probably rushed over.

Speaking of which, if a skilled fighter wearing a bulletproof vest, who is agile and not easily shot, comes close to me quickly, I might be finished.

"This danger is much more troublesome than the black disaster and the evil shadow. At least these will not try to open the lock in various ways." Yu Hong thought to himself.

He counted the number of protein bars he had now. All the jerky had been converted into protein bars. Together with his own and the two bags of jerky he had looted, he had a total of thirty-six protein bars after all were converted.

If I exchange fourteen with the other person, I will have twenty-two left, which is enough.

"Sure, it will take a week for the mushrooms to grow. If you can make up for it, that's fine." Yu Hong nodded in agreement after calculating.

"That's great. I'm planning to cut my daily food intake in half. That will be a big help." Li Runshan said with a smile, "So, what kind of fighting skills do you want to change? I know boxing, swordsmanship, leg techniques, and ground techniques."

"Let's practice leg techniques." Yu Hong felt that his legs were getting stronger with practice, and continuing to strengthen his strengths and expand his advantage over others was the best option.

"It's a good choice. First, practice running fast! You don't need to run faster than Ghost, as long as you run faster than the people around you. The same goes for Black Disaster." Li Runshan chuckled.

The two agreed on a time to exchange and then quickly separated.

Yu Hong went back to get the protein bars, counted them, and then went to the post office again.

The two men stood across the fence of the stone house.

"This is the survival manual you wanted, as well as the basic leg training steps I compiled. Take a look at them first, and ask me if you don't understand." Li Runshan handed the two booklets to Yu Hong. The edges of the booklets were worn and torn, and it was obvious that they had been sorted out a long time ago.

"Remember to return it to me after you finish reading it. You can also copy it, but just don't damage it."

Yu Hong took the booklet speechlessly, and watched his bag of protein bars being taken away by the other party. He felt a little cheated.

If I had known earlier, I would have only given him two booklets. He wouldn't have been willing to spend so much on protein bars.

Pick up the booklet and the survival manual and open it.

The first page clearly states: Detailed explanation of the ecological cycle breeding system.

"Go back and take a look at it slowly. If you have any questions, ask me. But it's limited to three times. Three times for survival and three times for leg techniques." Li Runshan reminded with a smile.

"Three times? Why didn't you mention it before?" Yu Hong was speechless.

"Before was before. It's impossible for me to teach you for a long time just for such a small amount of food. It's only more than ten days of food in total. Do the math yourself and see if it's worth it?" Li Runshan said with a smile.

He seemed to like laughing very much. He was obviously a very strong man, tall and burly, but when he laughed he gave people a feeling of being treacherous and calculating.

"Okay." Yu Hong could understand. "Well, if I have any questions in the future and exceed the three times, and want to ask again, I will exchange it with you for the pyroxene, two hours each time, how about that?"

"Dahuishi" Li Runshan's eyes moved slightly, "Okay, two hours is a good deal."

"Okay, I'll go back and take a closer look." Yu Hong nodded and slowly retreated until he was more than ten meters away. Then he quickly turned around and rushed into the woods and soon disappeared.

While running, the outline of the pistol he was wearing on his lower back was unexpectedly highlighted, allowing Li Runshan to see it.

Li Runshan smiled unconsciously, weighed the protein bar in his hand, turned around and walked towards the stone house.

"Esina, look what I brought back? Delicious sweets!" He walked in happily and soon the cheers of a little girl were heard from the stone house.

"It's my daughter again? Bringing my daughter to a place like this alone?" Yu Hong had some vague guesses in his mind as he walked back.

"Jenny is like this, and so is Li Runshan. Could it be that he brought his daughter here because she had an accident and tried to use pyroxene disease to solve the problem?"

Judging from the experimental records in that manual, pyroxene disease seems to be able to offset some of the marks and troubles brought by the black disaster outside.

'Otherwise, if there is no necessary need, who would be willing to leave the Hope City area, which is perfect in every way, and come to such a remote and dangerous place.'

All the way back to the cave, Yu Hong put down the two booklets.

I picked up the first survival manual and opened it. In addition to the title on the front page, there was actually a table of contents at the back.

'Mushroom Farming - Pages 1 to 4'

'Cockroach Farming - Pages 5 to 8'

'Lizard Farming - Pages 9 to 13'.

He continued to flip backwards.

'Mushroom cultivation requires sufficient humus, clean strains, and a suitable environment. Because of the special environment today, there are not many mushroom varieties suitable for cultivation. Therefore, after thousands of attempts, Yinta and the research institute developed a special strain called Oyster Mushroom. This mushroom is rich in protein, fat and calories, which are more than 40% higher than other mushroom strains under the same conditions.'

'The most important point is that the Oyster Mushroom is a light-free fungus that does not require any light to grow, making it extremely suitable for underground cultivation. The following are the preparations required for cultivation.'

Yu Hong looked at the schematic diagram below.

A mushroom cultivation box, rectangular like a large wooden box.

A bag of clean bacteria. It is like an arm-length cylinder of soil, wrapped in thick white plastic.

A pile of black soil with small words marked on the side: humus soil.

(End of this chapter)