Bright Village
At this time, the Southbound group had also arrived and was setting up their area.
It took them a while to get there because of a monster mob, which amounted to about a hundred, delaying their arrival.
They were a relatively big group, but the territory had been seeing influx after influx of refugees so they, except for their handsomeness, didn’t capture much attention when they arrived.
Ansel and his team eventually got to their target location, finding a place in the makeshift Marketplace in front of the village center shortly after.
"Where do we go to meet the lord?" Jun asked Ansel, the former visitor of this territory.
Unlike Vismont Village which they didn’t really care for, Bright was a much more decent village somewhat worthy of partnership.
Ansel smirked. "Just sell as planned. If he has any brains he’ll come to us himself."
Jun was silent for a moment then thought it made sense. Hence, he just asked the team to settle down in an area, with the few guards surrounding the place.
The grand positioning made the people around—who were selling either fruits or meat—stare at them.
"So much spazz?" One said, biting off a nearly overripe fruit he couldn’t sell.
Anyway, dinner shopping would begin soon. People here had developed a habit of consuming fruit with the horrid gruel or bread to make it more palatable.
"Heh, they’re so confident," he said, "They must have foraged something new."
The person who spoke was a stall owner in the store next to him. It also happened to be the popular store—the barbeque stall.
Although the meat he prepared couldn’t compare with what they were used to, he still managed to soften it and add a good combination of fruits to make it relatively edible.
"Well, they carry big bags. Means it doesn’t fit in their space anymore right?"
The others shrugged, not really expecting much.
It was just that a minute later, their eyes almost fell.
They watched as the small group unpacked their things from boxes.
Rice, flour, jars, and others were revealed and those who saw had their feet moving on their own.
They couldn’t believe what they were seeing. It was only after staring, and then asking, then staring again did they finally believed it.
They didn’t know how all these things got here, some even assuming someone brought them from Terran, so they knew the price would naturally not be cheap.
Someone finally stepped forward and asked someone who had been arranging his stall. "Are you… by some chance… selling these?"
As soon as the person nodded, the surroundings basically exploded with a cacophony of noises.
"I want all this rice!" The person said, opening his arms wide to make his point. The people around glared at him, ready to fight as soon as he uttered his words.
The salespersons’ lips twitched. "We only sell half a kilo per person, sorry."
"Fine! Sell me everything I can buy!" He said, waving around his silver, and eventually getting some.
He pointed at the other things in the shall as well. "Get me this loaf of bread and jam."
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