The sky gradually darkened, and some flickering flames appeared in the dark abandoned city.
Although the fire was far away, Ye Feng could feel the presence of someone there.
I walked into a five-story shopping mall-like building, with broken glass all over the floor and some burnt tables and chairs.
After passing through the building, he stopped in front of a wooden door made of many kinds of wood. There was a thick iron ring welded on the door, and there was a rusty lock on the iron ring.
"Little brother, what's your name?"
"My name is Ye Feng."
"Ye Feng, this is my residence. Although it's a little small, it's definitely warm. The temperature in the northern ice field is at least minus 30 degrees Celsius at night. You will freeze to death if you stay outside."
Hu Datou used the key to open the lock and pushed the wooden door. A rotten smell came from the room.
Ye Feng could still tolerate this kind of aura, but Jiang Yixue and the others frowned.
Hu Datou showed a lewd smile and a mouth full of incomplete yellow teeth.
"My ladies, my room is a little small, but I promise that once the fire is lit, it will be the warmest room in the abandoned city."
The room was dark and cold. Hu Datou lit a fire in the middle of the room. Some broken wood quickly burned and black smoke was discharged through the exhaust duct on the roof.
Just as Hu Datou said, after the fire was lit, the room suddenly became warm.
This small house is located in the center of the building, and its walls are well preserved, unlike many buildings in the abandoned city, most of which have damaged walls and are high-risk buildings with leaks everywhere.
The hut was filled with soft plastic foam, which was Hu Datou's simple bed.
Hu Datou took out a piece of black and hard bread and a small kettle from a broken cabinet. That was his dinner for tonight.
He looked a little embarrassed and said reluctantly, "My place is rather simple, please make do with me for one night. I have some bread here, would you like some?"
Jiang Yixue and the others shook their heads. They had just eaten hotpot, so of course they looked down on this piece of black bread.
Ye Feng took out a large piece of bread from the Medicine King Ring with a smile. It was the snacks Jiang Yuxin bought for her trip to Antarctica. Most of it was distributed to the employees at the Antarctic base, and a small half was left in the Medicine King Ring.
"My friend, your bread looks dark and hard. Why don't you eat mine?"
Taking the soft, milky bread from Ye Feng's hand, Hu Datou almost shed tears of excitement.
"Rich man, I really misjudged you. How can your bread be so delicious? I ate a piece of bread they gave me after I fixed the water pipes for the city lord in Ice and Snow City, and it tasted like this."
Hu Datou put his small black bread back to its original place, wolfed down half of the bread given by Ye Feng, and then asked embarrassedly.
"You really don't want to eat it, right? Then I'll eat it all?"
Ye Feng and Jiang Yixue smiled at each other, and Ye Feng said, "Eat it all. We have other food. This piece of bread is for you, so feel free to eat it."
Hu Datou happily put the unfinished bread in his food cabinet.
"Such delicious bread, I have to save it and savor it slowly. It would be a shame to eat it all at once."
Ye Feng took out a box of canned fish and a box of canned ham and put them in Hu Datou's hand.
"These two cans have a longer shelf life. You can eat them slowly."
Hu Datou was stunned. In the Ninth Demon Realm, he had never seen food packaged in tin cans.
From the pattern on the can, he knew what kind of food was in it. He could actually eat meat and fish. His hands holding the can were trembling a little, and he was smiling with joy.
He wrapped the two boxes of canned food in several layers of cloth and then carefully placed them in the cabinet.
"In the abandoned city, these two cans can be exchanged for a red lighting crystal. If you are lucky, you can even get an orange crystal."
Just as Hu Datou was telling Ye Feng about the situation in Ice and Snow City, noisy footsteps were heard in the empty building, which was particularly loud in the quiet cold night.
Hu Datou's expression suddenly became nervous and he pulled out a sharp dagger from his waist.
A rough voice came from outside the door: "Big Hu, come out."
Hu Datou signaled Ye Feng and the others not to make any noise, and he opened the door and walked out.
There were four big men standing at the door. They were wearing tattered leather coats, cotton hats, holding sharp machetes in their hands, and looking menacing.
The man seemed very fierce: "Big Hu, you stole my wood last time, how do you want to settle this account?"
When Hu Datou heard the other party asking for wood, he muttered to himself, "What a narrow road we meet. How did I find him?"
Those pieces of wood were clearly ownerless and piled in the corner, so how could they be his
He looked nonchalant and said, "So it's Zhao Laosan. I thought the wood you mentioned was ownerless, so I picked it up and used it to burn. Ignorance is not a crime."
Zhao Laosan raised his sharp machete and pointed it at Hu Datou. "Bullshit! We secretly cut those from the woods outside the city. How could we cut ownerless things so neatly? Don't play dumb, kid. According to the rules of the abandoned city, you stole my things, so I have to chop off one of your hands."
The three big men who came with Zhao Laosan were about to rush over.
Seeing that the other party had more people and was a well-known local tyrant in the abandoned city, Hu Datou softened his tone and said, "Wait a minute, I really didn't know that the wood was yours. Since it's yours, I used it too. I'll compensate you."
"Compensate? Okay. Although I am a rough man, I am not unkind. Since you don't know and are willing to compensate, I will not chop off your hand first. However, my wood is worth ten silver coins. Bring me ten silver coins."
Ten silver coins in the abandoned city are enough to cover a person’s living expenses for half a year.
Zhao Laosan said that the wood was his, and Hu Datou planned to compensate him a little in order to keep the matter peaceful.
Unexpectedly, the wood he picked up was worth at most one silver coin, but Zhao Laosan wanted to pay ten silver coins himself.
Hu Datou was immediately overwhelmed: "Zhao Laosan, I've already done a good job by agreeing to compensate you. Don't be too unreasonable. I just picked up a piece of wood worth less than a silver coin, and you want me to compensate you with ten. You might as well go rob."
"Big Hu, you're not going to accept my toast, so why don't you drink the wine? Brothers, come on."
"Zhao Laosan, please don't mess around. I don't have ten silver coins to give you."
Zhao Laosan held a machete in his hand and walked towards Hu Datou with a grim smile. It was obvious that they had bad intentions.
In fact, they knew that Hu Datou would not compensate them with ten silver coins. Their real intention was not to pay him any compensation, but to rob Hu Datou's so-called warm little house.
"If you don't have ten silver coins, give us your place and find another place to live."
Hu Datou was very disappointed, and then he realized that Zhao Laosan was taking advantage of the situation and deliberately trying to steal his residence.