Chapter 417 – Caravan (1)
In any online game, when a new server opens, all items become in demand. If everyone is holding a dagger on their bare body, no matter what they pick up, it will be better than now.
It gets to the point where you can’t sell things that you didn’t even bother to look at, or even thought, ‘Is this for sale?’.
This also applied to the reality reset by the infection war.
Numerous tents set up on the outskirts of the polis each sell different products.
Food that is edible, food that even dogs are conflicted about, alcohol that gets drunk in one glass, alcohol that causes vomiting in one glass, stolen goods, herbs used in folk remedies, small quantities of shelter-made products, repair and repair of equipment, massage, gambling, circus, theater, duel. Prostitution, and even animal breeding.
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“You nosy bastard, if you come to Korea, speak Korean. “Look at some Japanese friends here and learn”
“Kamshahamuni.”
“Yes, you have to show this level of sincerity.”
The marketplace, which was filled with only Koreans until last year, is now overflowing with foreigners. This is thanks to the opening of roads and sea routes to Manchuria.
Among the tents, there is a wooden sign with a sign saying, “Put your baby well.”
(. Y.) It’s a large drawing of a woman’s breasts, and if you look closely, there are several white paint dots under her nipples.
This is a place that sells breast milk.
The supply of contraceptives has been cut off, abortions are impossible, and everyone lives dangerously, causing their sexual desires to boil over. As people who only live for today, babies were born here and there.
But there is no way to get powdered milk. There are constitutions that produce less breast milk, and there are also cases where the mother dies or disappears.
It was natural that breast milk began to be traded as a commodity. It’s a world where anyone does anything to make money.
Women who are producing good milk come here as a side job during breaks from work. If you’re going to rest anyway, it’s better to make at least a little money.
“The milk is coming out well, and it’s cumming! Their brother! Hear, hear!”
A woman in her 30s, wearing an old and worn-out uniform, jumped up and down and called out to the man holding the baby.
“Mister, come this way, not there!”
A younger woman dressed as Gongsun intervened. Her elbows are thick, and her face is bronzed, as if she was working in the fields.
It is a battle for customers that often occurs between women who come out to sell breast milk.
It’s against the rules, but it’s not strange because they had a very bad relationship with each other.
“Why are you interfering with other people’s business? “I added that oppa first, right?”
“Mister, do you know that this lady is a bitch who sells her body?”
First, other services are possible if agreed upon with the breastfeeding center or customer! There are many cases where women who originally provided such services do it as a side job.
“Don’t feed dirty milk to your precious baby and come to work. “You’re going to catch a sexually transmitted disease.”
“Hey you fucking bitch! “Have you said everything?”
“You haven’t done everything yet? How dare you take something that hundreds of men have bitten and sucked at you, you conscienceless bitch! Hey mister, if you suck on that bitch’s nipple, you’ll come out with more tar than milk. Are you going to teach a child who can’t even walk how to smoke? Buy clean and healthy organic milk here.”
A young woman dressed as a gongsuni rolled up her sleeves to show off her biceps, which were toned down by farming.
The man holding the baby notices and changes his direction towards the young woman.
Seeing that, the face of the woman who had solicited the customer first distorted grimly.
Women who work hard and women who engage in prostitution cannot get along well, and their fight is as fierce as a gangster struggle.
“Ssivaaaaal!”
“Ahh! Won’t you let go of this?!”
While breastfeeding, a situation occurred where she was dragged out by her hair. Women rolling around with their breasts exposed, dripping with milk.
It is a specialty that can only be seen here.
“Oh, stop fighting!”
A man with black hair and tattoos intervened between the two women.
“What’s the point of getting along well with business partners? “They swear and often fight.”
It is the business manager’s job to drive out Jinsang and mediate these disputes. Due to the nature of the work, it is often operated by gangsters.
Since it is a small amount of money, it is not subject to protection tax. It feels like volunteer work(?) To protect the area’s influence against competing organizations.
“My business partner is a bastard! Should I be put in the same class as that whore?!”
“Fuck you, I was a lawyer before the war!”
“But now you’re a prostitute? I guess there are no customers who come for legal advice, only customers who come to buy pussy?”
“You bitch!”
“If you give me money, I’ll even give it to a dog!”
“This young bitch is so fucking cheesy!”
“Old bitch’s wrinkles are so fucking bad!”
The gangster forcibly stopped the woman who was roaring at her.
There is no such thing as extracting milk from a milking machine and selling it. Because it makes no sense to operate the refrigerator all the time.
Moreover, people did not trust anything unless it was a sealed product or a shelter-made product.
There is no surer sign of safety than breastfeeding a baby right in front of you.
The number of nomads coming from Central Asia has also increased.
After the Chinese army was destroyed, the explorers advanced into Manchuria and Shelter’s army advanced into northeastern China, opening a trade route leading to Europe.
“Me. 3. You. 1 piece. Transaction. OK?”
A Mongolian speaking in very poor Korean while looking through an old travel dictionary.
This is a market where livestock trading takes place.
He tried to exchange one horse and two goats he had brought with him for one GMO horse from Shelter.
“You could give me a mare and five goats, but why bother bringing a male? A bastard with no conscience.”
The Korean merchant waved his hand and pointed to a nearby area.
“Look over there. That’s the minimum market price.”
A little distance away, another Russian merchant is trading one horse for five GMO pigs.
Even though the pig is a subadult, the Russian merchant rubs his hunched hands.
In the meantime, I turned the pig over and carefully checked whether the male’s hips was okay.
The GMO livestock distributed by shelters to the private sector was expensive as the quantity was limited, but once they were put up for sale, they disappeared in an instant.
It is very common for people to shout and fight over who will buy first.
“Everyone shut up! “If you don’t want to get beaten up!”
When things got a bit worse, riot police wearing protective clothing appeared and threatened.
Officially, this is outside the jurisdiction of the police. Therefore, merchant and explorer associations or backworld organizations allocated and managed their own areas.
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The summer heat has subsided and fall is soon approaching.
The weather was nice. I wanted to smell the wild for the first time in a while, so I went on a secret hike to the outskirts of the police station.
“Every time I come here, it gets bigger.”
Not everyone can enter a polis where the number of residents is limited, taxes must be paid, and strict compliance with the law is required.
Of course, there are bound to be a lot more people sitting on the outskirts.
“They say it is better to serve as a slave at the Daegam’s house. The ground on the outskirts of the police is safer than most camps, and a lot of this and that kind of waste falls down. Above all, there are many jobs.”
As always, Seyoung is in charge of secret security.
Unlike before when they walked on foot, now they both ride horses.
If you have comfortable feet and are riding a horse, it means you have good feet, so you don’t get caught up in unnecessary arguments.
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“I’m not selling it! I’m not selling it! No Trade!”
Sometimes, western merchants recognize GMO horses and cling to them, but it’s annoying.
Seyoung was tearing open the rattlesnake she bought at her stall.
“It’s perfect to eat.”
“It’s because I grew up not being able to eat well.”
Until recently, it was just salted, but these days, it’s sold with various seasonings.
This is because, as the proper harvest began, the number of cases of making basic soybean paste increased.
In good military units, it was possible for soldiers to mix barley rice with red pepper paste and eat it.
We were riding side by side, falling left and right for a moment and then coming together again.
“It’s okay to grow, but if it continues like this, it will become too disorderly.”
“Sure. Ugh, the smell.”
There was a lump of poop on the road that I couldn’t tell if it was from a pig or a cow.
An ordinary horse would just step on it, but Shelter Mountain horses are adept at avoiding mud and other dirty places.
“It has become too disorderly.”
The tents on the outskirts, which grew every time the season changed, are now multiplying at the rate like cancer cells.
Looking down from the police guard post, it feels like the khan of a nomadic empire is gathering all his tribesmen and holding a feast.
It is filled with various tents and tents, flags of merchants and unions, and livestock gathered in groups of twos and threes.
“But I don’t know where to start organizing this? You can’t just push it away like a bulldozer. Looking at it this way, the administration of the shelter is very convenient. If you want to criticize me, just criticize me.”
Seyoung threw the last piece into her mouth and shook her hands off. That weak-hearted girl became really tough.
“You were also a high-ranking civil servant. “Do you have any know-how for this type of situation?”
“Hey, what kind of high-ranking government official is Level 5?”
Seyoung waves her hand as if she is saying nothing.
“If I had passed the performance, that would have been fine.”
“Besides, she was a former correctional officer.”
A herd of goats stampeded in front of us.
“Like you said, it would be easy to push it away like a bulldozer, but then there would be cries from all directions.”
Children running after the goats with laughter and women carrying baskets on their heads. Their livelihood will collapse in an instant.
“But if we take care of each situation and organize it like a surgical operation, the workload will increase endlessly.”
“That’s right.”
Nearby, seven men were gambling with dice.
There are three participants, two onlookers, one host, and one muscular man watching with his arms crossed nearby. The latter will be the shoulder that looks after the back of this gambling house.
“In places like this, even a small street vendor space is woven with all kinds of interests and relationships like a spider’s web.”
Another herd of livestock passes by. This time it was a camel.
Seyoung, who loves animals, looks on with her bright eyes.
“But is it true that GMO livestock have been reconditioned?”
“That’s right. Originally, we were going to use an ‘overwrite gene’ that would inherit the improved traits during breeding, but after much consideration, we removed it. In mixed breeds, only 50% of the genes are inherited, and the more they breed, the more their blood becomes disintegrated.”
“That was a little scary. It feels like all the animals we knew are being replaced.”
“There are sentimental reasons, but there are bigger practical reasons.”
I pointed to the Mas Market about 50 meters away.
There are a variety of survivors from Southeast Asia, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, and former Soviet Union countries ending with ~stan. It is full of all kinds of languages and the sounds of animals.
These were people who traveled a long way to obtain GMO livestock from Shelter.
“Maintaining a monopoly in trade is convenient in many ways. Whether in materials, information, or immaterial forces. Still, it won’t work like this.”
People kneeling can be seen near a hill in the distance. Muslims bowing towards Mecca. It can be easily seen not only here but also on the beaches bordering the West Sea.
“It’s amazing that you can maintain your faith even during this time. “Other religions are full of people who have turned to atheism.”
Unlike my somber reaction, Seyoung looked somewhat happy.
“It feels like the Jerusalem I saw in the movies. “It’s a gathering place of all kinds of spices, street food, races, languages, and livestock.”
Aside from work headaches, are you proud of the shelter becoming stronger and recognized for its power?
“When did you buy that again?”
In Seyoung’s hand, there was a mushroom the size of a palm. She grilled it with spices from Muslim tops.
“Manager, would you like to try it too? “Sour and sour things are delicious.”
I touched Seyoung’s stomach, ignoring her thrusting into my mouth.
“Why, why?”
“I was wondering if I was going to poop like this. It’s still okay.”
The only thing I could feel was my abdominal muscles.
“That’s rude!”
A pouting Seyoung bit off half of her mushroom in one go and rode her horse ahead.
I giggled and ran after her, comforting her. Since there were so many places to eat and things to see, Seyoung’s mood quickly eased as she enjoyed the place together.
In some ways, this place feels richer and more vibrant than Polis.
If you operate the PDA and look at the map, the trade route is indicated by a blue line.
Caravans crossing Manchuria from Central Asia and entering the northern part of the Korean Peninsula are displayed as green dots in real time.
The results of the numerous battles that have been waged so far are beginning to have an impact beyond Asia.
But not everything comes smoothly. Red dots were approaching some unlucky merchants.
It is a color that symbolizes dangerous enemies such as wild beasts, predators, and infectious agents.
