Transmigrated into Another Apocalyptic World (BL) - Chapter 221

Chapter 221: Chapter 220: Roaming the Sunset Base 2
There were a lot of people who obviously weren’t just people who were buying and selling things.

Some people were just looking around, and some people were obviously there with bad intentions.

Luciel was just looking around, but he immediately saw a man stealing noodles bought by another man.

Afterwards, the man who had the noodles stolen from him chased the thief, and then they started having a fight.

Then the noodles that they were fighting for were sneakily stolen by a child who was standing at the corner.

When Luciel looked at another part of the market, he saw someone stealing goods from the stall.

He also saw someone who was obviously threatening a seller, and he also saw someone who was obviously conning a buyer.

Luciel saw all of it transpire in just a few minutes of looking at the market.

It seemed that such a chaotic situation was really very common at the market because no one cared about those things and just continued what they were doing.

“Is the market here at Sunset Base always like this?” Yang asked.

“It’s not always this chaotic; in the beginning the situation in the market was still good, and no one would blatantly fight or steal.

At first we could still just trade normally. We were indeed on guard, but we would still be alright even if we weren’t that cautious.

Nowadays, you can’t even go to the market properly without getting ready to defend all the things you wanted to buy.

The market became more and more chaotic now that the situation is getting worse and worse.

It probably wouldn’t have been this chaotic if the person who was leading the base hadn’t changed,” Lottie said with a regretful tone.

“The leader of the base had been changed?” Yang asked.

“Yes, the Sunset base originally had a different leader in the beginning.

Three months ago the leader announced that the previous leader of the base was sick.

So the next person with the highest power or rank replaced him and became the leader.

This place was established by the officials and businessmen around to begin with, so they don’t have a lot of capable people suitable for fights like the army.

That’s why this place hadn’t been that peaceful since the beginning.

However, the situation obviously became worse after the leader of the base had been changed.

Together with the terrible changes in the weather, the people were suffering more and more, and they started resorting to drastic measures like stealing.

So, now the state of Sunset Base is just like what you can see,” Lottie said.

“So that’s why most of the people in the market are men,” Yang said.

As Yang said, most of the people in the market were indeed men.

The people in the market also seemed to have been carrying their self-defense weapons carefully, especially the few women that were there.

Even the kid he saw that stole the pack of weapons actually had a knife in his hands.

The kid ran away quickly, but Luciel still briefly saw the knife before the kid disappeared.

“Yes, it’s really chaotic, so most of the people who went there are people who have higher protection ability.

I also go to the market, but I would only go there when I’m trading small items that wouldn’t attract too much attention.

But if I need to buy a lot of things, I still need to pay our landlord a high fee for him to go and buy the things that I need.”

“Your landlord?”

“The person who owns the place where we are living has water ability, so most people won’t mess with him because they also need to trade water with him.

The base also values those with superpowers, especially those with water abilities, now that we couldn’t drink water from other sources.

So those thieves also knew that they couldn’t target those with abilities; otherwise, they would be tracked down by the base,” Lottie said.

“Have you ever tried going out of the base to look for things that you needed instead of trading for them from others?” Yang asked.

“Yes, of course, I have been going with other people who also needed a lot of things outside.

However, with the appearance of those higher-level zombies, I stopped going outside.

I couldn’t go outside anymore because I’m sure I couldn’t even run if those kinds of zombies attacked me.

I might even be used as bait for others if I continued going out of the base.

So I can only stay in the base and look for odd jobs every day, even though most of the time I couldn’t even find any work at all.”

“Is that why you are willing to sell yourself for enjoyment?” Luciel asked nonchalantly.

He clearly heard Lottie’s introduction, and it was obvious that she was willing to offer sexual services if needed.

“Yes, of course, looking for a proper job is getting more and more difficult because a lot of people are looking for a job and only a few can afford to offer a job.

The construction of the wall in the base was also finished already, so I can’t even go and work there anymore.

As long as I can feed myself and my sister, then just offering such sexual services is nothing to me.

At least I still worked hard to earn it and didn’t steal or kill,” Lottie said without any embarrassment.

With what Lottie revealed, it could be seen that the lives of ordinary people were really harder compared to those with abilities.

The people who are trying to survive are really having a hard time.

They were already trying very hard to look for jobs.

They were doing different odd jobs and even had to offer sexual services, but they earned very little.

And they still had to pay for different things just so they could successfully get things that they needed.