<span><strong>Chapter 354 - Marketce</strong>


    <span>TL: xDh20, LifeisaJourney


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    <span>Their training was not the same as what Liu Gan had in mind. The zombie was chained at the neck and held down by a pir. The neers would hold their wooden stick and stand far away. The zombie would stretch out their hand and the yer would have to figure out the best position to strike.


    <span>These zombies were all caught alive by high level yers. Their purpose was for neers to kill, but payments in points were required.


    <span>The person catching the zombie could earn twenty points, but the yer that killed the zombie has to pay up forty points.


    <span>The neers usually didn''t have many points to start with, so they would use their personal belongings to trade for points. Otherwise, they would have to do chores like cleaning clothes, cooking, and other mundane tasks for points.


    <span>Of course, between yers they can negotiate personal deals such as services in exchange for points. For example, female yers tended to offer up their body in exchange for points from the male yers. These incidents weremon as long as both parties agreed, with additional supervision from a governing party. The exchange had to take ce at a set location.


    <span>If the exchange took ce outside of the designated location, and a dispute arose, then the majority of the time the female yer would have the upper hand. As a result, the Elder Committee would find fault with the male yers and severely punish them. This was in ordance of their motto of protecting the weak.


    <span>Along his way to the market, Liu Gan noticed quite a few incidents of neers begging for points from veteran yers. There were some lucky individuals that received point tickets. This vige was bing more simr to a small society, even to the way it operated.


    <span>"Can I walk around?" Liu Gan asked Kong Mu.


    <span>"It is best that you stick with the group. It will benefit your future development," Kong Mu replied with a suspicious look.


    <span>"I just want to familiarize myself with the location, I still haven''t decided if I want to remain here," Liu Gan insisted.


    <span>"In that case… go have your free time" Kong Mu wasn''t happy with the question, but ultimately agreed. Ever since establishing the Beginners Vige, there was no one that had decided to leave after joining. So when Liu Gan said he was still deciding whether he wanted to stay, it was unfathomable for Kong Mu.


    <span>Liu Gan had Han GuangMing and the rest of the group to follow the newbies to the training ground. As for Liu Gan, he had Yin He, Lee DingXiang, and NaNa apany him. Aside from this College of Agriculture, there were severalrge schools nearby that had also been taken over as part of the property of the vige.


    <span>Due to the nature of the missions and rewards system in this vige, there were tasks that someone would be willing to do. Overall, this entire vige was very well-designed. No matter which path was taken, there were directions avable at every fork in the road. There were even maps to illustrate the district lines.


    <span>The directions would usually point toward the training ground, cafeteria, lecture hall, ssroom and others. Liu Gan was most excited to see the words "marketce". There were multiple marketces, so Liu Gan headed toward thergest marketce. This was the prime location for exchanging goods and services.


    <span>The marketce stretched far and wide, lying in between several school grounds. It must have been aprehensive marketce before the catastrophe.


    <span>Arriving to the marketce, Liu Gan found out that majority of the items up for sale weren''t lifestyle products, but were zombies. These zombies were missing limbs and had their teeth removed.


    <span>This exchange market was simr to a market for selling experience. In the training ground, the neers would require forty points for a zombie caught by the veteran yers, but at the market, it was priced at thirty points. As long as there was a difference in the price range there would be a market. For the neers who were terrified of leaving the vige to level up, this safe method of leveling up was a very attractive offer.


    <span>Aside from selling zombies, the second highest transaction in the market were humans, the majority of them women. They were trapped inside metal cages.


    <span>Their wrist didn''t have the watch, so they were definitely local survivors. They were most likely caught by yers and taken as personal property used for trading.


    <span>Selling humans covered several districts. Lee DingXiang wanted to go search for her sister in thergest district. Liu Gan had Yin He follow Lee DingXiang. Liu Gan headed towards a smaller district of the marketce. As he starts walking through the district, he walked by his first cage.


    <span>Inside the cage was a woman locked inside.


    <span>"Hey handsome, are you interested in getting a round in? One time buyout, you can do whatever you want after you buy her out. No need to go to red light district for each time," a merchant walked over to greet Liu Gan.


    <span>"Buy me! I know how to do chores, and other stuff… I can also satisfy your needs…"


    <span>The woman inside the cage crawled to the edge of the bars and started selling herself to Liu Gan. With a begging look, she looked at Liu Gan. She was a twenty year old woman with barely any clothes on her, so she was shaking whenever the wind blew.


    <span>This merchant was employing underhanded marketing techniques on Liu Gan. If apassionate yer saw this sad scene, they would''ve made an impulsive buy.


    <span>Other women in the cages also tried their best to sell themselves to Liu Gan. Some women took off the remaining clothes off from their body to stimte Liu Gan''s urges as a selling point.


    <span>The Beginner Vige did everything it could to protect the interest of the yers, but the local survivors were treated like tools and products. Local survivors were the personal property of yers. The yers had the final say in what they did with their personal property. As long as they didn''t kill the survivors, the Elder Committee didn''t care.


    <span>If a yer had multiple survivors as ves, in theory, they could just live as a ve owner. Even if the yer earned only a few reward points, he could still live quitefortably.


    <span>So whenever these yers had a chance, they would proactively catch local survivors. They would treat them as their personal ve. Even the top ten Elders had dozens of male and female ves. They could live a life of being serviced by ves.


    <span>When Liu Gan saw this scene, he frowned. He was neither a saint nor a savior, but he felt terrible when he saw another person trapped within a cage, to be sold as another person''s toy.