Immortal in The Apocalypse
Chapter 56: Rules

Chapter 56: Rules

Just as Zhu Lin was considering whether to lower the price or not, the woman pulled her boyfriend aside and whispered: "It’s very cheap! We have to buy as much as we can."

The man thought for a while and said, "Baby, water is indeed really important. But we also need to eat. It is impossible for us to spend all the crystal nucleus to buy water. You also know we can’t go out right now because it’s too hot during the day and it’s too dangerous at night. How can we pay for the rent and food if we spend all our money here?"

The woman rolled her eyes and asked, "Do you think I’m stupid?"

Hearing her question, the man looked at his girlfriend silently. Sensing his skeptical gazes, the woman patted his arm and said in a low voice: "We should buy all her water and sell it back to the trading hall or set up a stall here. Her water is very cheap and we could make a lot of money from the price difference."

After hearing her words, the man’s eyes lit up. He smiled at his girlfriend and said, "Baby, you are very smart!"

The woman snorted and they walked back to Zhu Lin’s stall. Sitting cross-legged on the cloth, Zhu Lin had already heard everything they said. Thinking of the greed of human nature, she sighed.

Sensing the change in her mood, Tu Tu said, [Master, you can’t change human’s nature.]

Zhu Lin gently stroked Tu Tu’s head and said, [I know.]

When the couple stood in front of her stall again, Zhu Lin looked at them and calmly said, "I forgot to tell you. One person can only buy three liters of water a day from me."

When the woman heard Zhu Lin’s words, she said angrily: "Why? Do you think we can’t pay you?"

Unlike the woman’s angry questioning, Zhu Lin said calmly: "If you don’t want to follow my rules, then you don’t need to buy my water."

Hearing what she said, the couple became anxious. The man lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Baby, let’s just buy the water from her and forget about the business. If we don’t buy water from here, we won’t be able to buy water today."

Although the woman wants to make quick money, her life is more important than money. She looked at her boyfriend and saw that he had a pale face from dehydration and hunger. After a moment of silence, she finally nodded.

The man breathed a sigh of relief, took out twelve ordinary crystal nucleus, and said, "We want to buy six liters of water."

Zhu Lin took the crystal nucleus and said, "I don’t have anything to hold water, so you need to use your own."

After she finished speaking, the man opened his backpack and took out three empty bottles. He put the bottles on the ground and said, "Please use these."

Zhu Lin opened the bottle and scooped up water with a ladle. The ladle could hold half a liter of water, which she used as a measurement tool. After she had scooped twelve times, she filled three empty bottles.

Looking at the full bottle, she thought: ’So this kind of bottle can hold two liters of water.’

Remembering the size of the bottle, Zhu Lin closed the last bottle and said, "Thank you for your patronage."

The man put the water bottles into his backpack and asked, "Do you sell water here every day?"

Zhu Lin thought for one second and said, "For now."

After the man got her answer, he left with his girlfriend. When the couple bought water from Zhu Lin, the stall owners around her watched from the sidelines. Seeing that the price of a liter of water is really only two ordinary crystal nucleus, the stall owners were moved.

The stall owner next to Zhu Lin is a middle-aged man. He licked his chapped lips and asked, "Miss, can I buy more than three liters of water from you? I have a wife and three children at home."

Zhu Lin turned to look at him, shook her head and said, "No. If they want to buy my water, they have to come personally."

The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Miss, I really didn’t lie to you."

She shook her head again and said, "I know you are not lying."

"Then why don’t you let me buy water for my family?" The middle-aged man asked again anxiously.

Hearing his question, Zhu Lin thought that his brain must have been damaged by the high temperature. After a moment of silence, she noticed that the middle-aged man really couldn’t figure out her reason.

After thinking about it, she said, "If I let you buy more than three liters of water, then what’s the use of me establishing the rules? Also, if I change the rules for you, then when other people find out, they will demand the same treatment from me. At that time, even if I knew someone was lying, there was nothing I could do. If I refused to sell water to those liars, they would attack me instead. Would you be held responsible if this happens in the future?"

The middle-aged man was speechless after listening to her. As a seller, he also encountered many unreasonable customers, and knew that what she said could happen anytime.

After careful consideration, the middle-aged man thought that all he needed to do was ask his family to buy water, so he asked, "Do you only accept crystal nucleus?"

Zhu Lin thought for a while and said, "If you have paper or the blood of mutant beasts, you can exchange them for my water."

As soon as she said this, the young man selling goods across from her asked, "Miss, why do you want these things? You can’t eat paper and you can’t drink the mutant beast’s blood."

Hearing this, Zhu Lin smiled slightly and said, "Everything has its purpose."

Hearing her answer like this, the young man could only shrug his shoulders. He was just curious when he asked.