Chapter 20: Buy and Sell
  Eight days ago, Xiao Bai destroyed all the means of their transportation and held Gu Yang hostage to escape.
  Mu Yechen could only stay at the scene and deal with the sudden aliens and ulterior motives of the bandits.
  Although the operation was won by the other side, many soldiers of the advance force were also injured in the battle, with the great lost of their supplies and vehicles.
  They could only spend three days recovering on the spot, reassembling the modified car of the sand bandits. The captain of the guards, Luo Xiaowei, led the injured soldiers back to the base first.
  At the same time, Mu Yechen took Cang Jie to track down Gu Yang and Lin Xi. However, they only found Gu Yang alone with the truck full of supplies used by Ling Xi before.
  After the commander made a decision, Cang Jie and Gu Yang followed their commander into the city. The three of them received and listened to the preliminary news and came to a dirt house not far from the city gate.
  The earth house is an artificial barrier set up by people to avoid eating by an alien species. The inside of the house is clean and tidy, which is like a safe refuge compared to the outside.
  There is also a dwarf at the reception.
  The dwarf looked like a boy, his eyes narrowed like needles when the three came to the counter.
  “It’s you?”
  Mu Yechen was taken aback.
  He was sure that the other party was staring at him.
  He looked at the boy in front of him again.
  This dwarf was sitting on a chair and looked about the same height as a person. When people looked down, they would find that most of his body was covered with clothes, as if his feet were integrated with the chair.
  This is not the size of a normal person and only mutants who failed to evolve will revert to other forms of living things.
  Such people generally only live two or three years.
  Mu Yechen did not remember that he had ever met this dwarf in the past three years.
  “You know me?” he asked.
  “You do not know me?” The dwarf asked back.
  Mu Yechen frowned.
  The dwarf giggled: “I don’t know you either, I’m just kidding.”
  Out of the three, only Gu Yang believed it.
  Mu Yechen asked about Xiao Bai again. However, the dwarf only said that he did not know with his eyes dodging him.
  Mu Yechen and Cang Jie gestured, they were about to pick up the dwarf’s clothes.
The dwarf noticed their action and finally looked a little scared.
  “Young man with outstanding white hair? You have to let me think about it first. If you want to get news from me, you have to exchange things. Oh, I just remembered.”
  In the dirt house, the things that can be exchanged are the fats of different species.
  Half an hour later, three people came out of the earthen house with iron buckets.
  Overnight, the commander ordered them to kill an alien centipede that had broken into the city.
  The exotic fats that have not been eaten by the lion claws are very rich. The next day, the three of them transported a truckload of fats.
  But this time, the dwarf in the dirt house is gone.
  As if afraid of this group of unreasonable soldiers fron the other side, he slipped away ahead of time.
  The hall was empty. No one was in charge but no one dared to enter the counter.
  The mutants are used to it, as if the disappearance of the dwarf is also a very common thing.
  Mu Yechen had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but at this time, he could only keep the questions in his heart.
  Because another group of people found him.
  This time it was a burly man who was nine feet tall. His arm has the tattoo of Valhalla and the totem of Death’s Gate climbs on his skin, which is particularly dark and eye-catching.
  “You are the mutant who killed the alien centipede last night? Have you considered joining our team?” He asked.
  Last night, a gigantic centipede easily climbed over the city wall and broke into the mutant habitat.
  It could have eaten a good bait in the city but it accidentally bumped into Mu Yechen and his party.
  The commander killed this alien species in a very short period of time and now almost half of the city are talking about it.
  “I already have a team.” The commander refused.
  The tattooed man did not leave but asked curiously, “I heard that you are looking for a slave with white hair?”
  Slave.
  The commander narrowed his eyes and decided to lie.
  “We were mercenaries not long ago. This man stole our goods and was tracked down by us.”
  The tattooed man heard it and immediately snorted: “Then we are people on the same boat.”
  He took the initiative to bring the three people into a room of an earthen house.
  There was a person lying on the floor of the room, it was exuding an unpleasant stench.
  Mu Yechen stepped forward and found that the man was already a corpse.
  The deceased was equipped with a mechanical arm. His throat was cut open, his eyeballs protruded and still maintained the shocked and horrified expression before his death.
  “He’s my nephew and he came to join me. As a result, we found his body in the alley yesterday. It is said that the only contact he had before his death was the slave you said.”
  “…”
  He also saw this the upper body of the corpse was naked but the trousers were wide open and slumped to the base of the thigh.
  “That slave actually coaxed my nephew around in order to enter the city. If the guard at the left gate hadn’t come and told me about this, we would have been fooled by him.”
  Mu Yechen didn’t say anything.
  Judging from the appearance of the corpse in front of him when it died, he could almost guess what happened at that time.
  He didn’t expect Xiaobai’s victim to be a normal human being.
  “Big Brother, condolences. The top priority now is to catch that slave and avenge your nephew.” At this time, the sound of smoking came from the corner of the room.
  The tattooed man nodded with a grim expression on his face: “That’s right. That slave killed my nephew and I, Qiao Daying, must let him taste what it is like to suffer.”
  “Then what are you going to do with him?” The commander looked away from the corpse.
  “I have 30 mutant brothers under my command and they are all lining up to ask for that slave.” Qiao Daying said.
  “Don’t be trick by his fragility, he killed my friend’s brother. We want to punish that person.” The left door guard said.
  “He is also our target. After finding him, we need him to give an explanation first.” Mu Yechen also said.
  There are three people on the scene plus the burly men, seems like everyone wants the white haired slave.
  Qiao Dayi quickly laughed: “It’s not difficult, we’ll leave him a sigh of relief after it’s done. But I don’t do business without capital, so you must join my team first. You will be responsible for the killing while I will be responsible for harvesting, we will divide it into three to seven.â€
  It is self-evident that the alien species that were directly hunted by a person have a higher proportion of oil refining than the alien species eaten by the Lion Claws.
  Qiao Daying originally approached them and he had this idea from the very beginning.
  However, the commander remained silent.
  “I want to meet person first.” Mu Yechen said “and there is no risk to us to divide the fat oil, I’m good with twenty toeight.”
  Qiao Daying was embarrassed and believed Mu Yechen even more: “I heard that this slave is extremely skilled. He once killed more than a dozen rodents outside the city by himself.”
  “It’s just a dozen rodents. If we need to take action, we will help.”
  Qiao Daying laughed: “Yes! It’s just a small little slave, we still have a way to hold him.”
  He said it with confidence, Mu Yechen and Cang Jie looked at each other and didn’t say too much.
  They had a fight against Xiaobai before. With the reaction speed and skill shown in that confrontation, they did not think that Xiaobai would be captured by these muscular mutants in front of them.
  He have excellent fighting skills, good at hiding his strength, and have an absolutely terrifying power.
  But even if he had seen it with his own eyes, Mu Yechen didn’t feel how reassured he was.
  He felt nameless anxiety.
  Anxiety has nowhere to vent and comes after a panic in the heart.
  The day after cleaning up the desert lizards, Lin Xi did not continue to collect materials outside the city. He took the gold coins he had exchanged for the past few days and went to the city’s trading market early in the morning.
  This city has been built for a long time. In addition to being able to exchange materials from dwarf boy, mutants have also opened a trading market outside the earthen house. They are selling knives for harvesting fat, weapons made of alien bones, and furs from various animals.
  But here, the most traded commodity is slaves.
  Ah Ye slowly followed Lin Xi while looking outside the market for a long time in surprise, then finally followed up with gritted teeth.
  Lin Xi is now her cash cow but at the time, she is afraid of losing hin.
  Yesterday Lin Xi’s words made her sleepless all night.
  She could only follow Lin Xi unwillingly, hoping that things would turn around a bit.
  She followed for a while and found that brother Bai came here to select slaves.
  Almost every human being displayed in his face will stop and take a look, the intention is self-evident.
  Ah Ye’s face turned pale.
  The mutants shouted loudly at the customers and Lin Xi stopped walking. He finally paused in front of a small booth.
  The mutant in this booth is a yellow-faced and thin middle-aged man who sells a thirty-year-old human woman.
  The human woman are wearing dog tags, basking in the sun while staring blankly at this noisy market.
  Her belly bulged slightly and looked like she was pregnant.
  Lin Xi stopped.
  “How many months is this child in her stomach?” he asked suddenly.
  The woman was taken aback.
  In the crowd that came and went, no one ever asked about the life in her stomach.
  Except for this young-looking mutant in front of him.
  But before she could answer, the middle-aged man next to her had already stepped forward.
  “This child is not very big and it is only four months pregnant,” said the slave trader.
  Afraid that Lin Xi would not be satisfied, he hurriedly said again: “Little brother, this woman is very cheap. If you don’t want the child, I can also help you kill it.”
  He seemed to be saying a very simple thing.
  The woman’s body suddenly began to tremble.
  “Then, how long did she come to this city?” Lin Xi asked again.
  “Five months, not half a year yet.”
  Lin Xi calculated the time and fell into silence.
  He has already see fewer pregnant women in the city but only few women who can match his time of pregnancy.
  The woman in front of her is also not right.
  The middle-aged man saw that he was silent, thinking that the other party was hesitating and hurriedly seized the opportunity.
  “Little brother, if you take this person away, it’s only five gold coins. If you don’t want the child, I’ll give you another cheaper offer, okay?”
  Lin Xi was interrupted and frowned.
  The woman beside her finally screamed in collapse.
  “No, no, you are the father of the child, how can you just kill my child?” The woman could not wait to go up and wanted to kill the beast in front.
  But she is less powerful than mutants.
  The beast who insulted her restrained her and kept beating her, “Stinky bitch, I can’t even feed myself, so what about that child!”
  The woman was beaten and red marks starting to appear at once.
  There were many people who are crying, desperate and suffocating in this place.
  Lin Xi felt that his lower abdomen began to ache in the noisy environment. Immediately, he reached out and grabbed the mutants to stop the violence.
  “I have something to ask her. If you fight again, your four gold coins will be gone.” His face was currently not very good.
  The mutant shivered and quickly put on a smile on his face.
  Only then did Lin Xi pull the woman aside.
  The woman was still crying, her face was swollen and she looked very embarrassed.
  Lin Xi quietly waited for her to finish crying.
  After a long lapse of time, the woman choked up and recovered a little.
  “What do you want to ask?” she asked quietly.
  Lin Xi watched silently.
  “If you have a Xenogeneic in your stomach, would you still give birth to it?”
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Edited: 7/20/22
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