158: Tang Alliance

"Brother Tang, should we build a wall around Peach Mountain at the foot of the mountain?" Zhang Xile munched on an apple.

"No need. On this trip, I'll get something that can separate Peach Mountain from the base," Brother Tang said.

"What is it?"

"You'll know when I bring it back."

"By the way, how are the shelter fragments coming along?" Tang Ping asked.

Zhang Xile immediately rubbed his hands together: "Hehe, we've collected a wave from the new Talent Users, and we already have the blueprints. We're just a few hundred short of gathering enough now."

Tang Ping nodded: "Then I'll borrow some from my friends. Today, we'll prepare to upgrade your Shelter to a level five shelter."

After some thought, Tang Ping said: "Many treasures have appeared in Peach Mountain that can enhance the four-dimensional attributes. They also offer many benefits to ordinary people. In the future, ordinary people will definitely be forbidden from entering. Since Peach Mountain is already treated as a forbidden area, your Shelter will be located at the foot of the mountain from now on, and the manor will be within the area below the mountain."

"No problem!" Zhang Xile nodded.

Tang Ping began to contact Sister Wang and Gao Changfeng, asking if they had shelter fragments. Sister Wang and Gao Changfeng both already had level five shelters, and it would be difficult for them to gather enough fragments for another level five shelter in a short time, so they should still have quite a few left.

Sure enough, he soon borrowed over two hundred shelter fragments from Sister Wang and Gao Changfeng respectively. Zhang Xile would be able to return the fragments in a few days, so Tang Ping didn't use any trade.

"It's all gathered. Get ready to upgrade the Shelter to Level Five," Tang Ping handed the shelter fragments to Zhang Xile.

"It has to be my Brother Tang! His connections are so wide, borrowing four or five hundred fragments just like that!" Zhang Xile gave a thumbs-up.

Subsequently, the shelter fragments were placed into the Shelter, and the Level Four Shelter immediately upgraded to a level five shelter.

A level five shelter has a thousand-acre manor. As for buildings, depending on the blueprints, different buildings will be obtained, including castles, villas, gardens, high-rise buildings, and so on.

In addition, a level five shelter can also use building facility blueprints, such as arrow towers, bunkers, warehouses, planting greenhouses, power plants, steel mills, residential buildings, etc. However, these building facility blueprints still require shelter fragments, and not a small amount.

Tang Ping's plan was to first acquire a few residential building facility blueprints, and then build them, which would save effort. Moreover, these buildings themselves also have certain defensive characteristics.

But after searching, he couldn't find any in the trading area. Clearly, these items were hot commodities for all major bases. With so many bases eyeing the trading area, as long as the price was reasonable, they were instantly bought out.

At this moment, Gao Changfeng sent a message.

Gao Changfeng: "Brother, has your Shelter been upgraded to Level Five?"

Tang Ping: "My friend's Shelter has been upgraded to Level Five. What's wrong?"

Gao Changfeng: "A level five shelter has a manor and can be permanently placed in one location, without needing to be carried around. It would be a pity not to establish a base. Are you and your friend planning to establish a base?"

Tang Ping: "We've already started establishing one. What's wrong, is there something?"

Gao Changfeng: "Hahaha, good, establishing a base is good. I still have three residential building blueprints that I snatched from the trading area here. If Brother Tang needs them, I can trade them to you."

Tang Ping: "I need them! I need them very much!"

Hearing that Gao Changfeng had residential building blueprints, Tang Ping's mind became active.

Tang Ping: "Big Brother Gao, how do you plan to trade?"

Gao Changfeng: "I exchanged these for shelter fragments, so I can sell them to you at cost, or if Brother Tang Ping offers something suitable, that works too."

Tang Ping thought for a moment. He had many items he could trade at the moment, such as some high-quality shelter items, prop equipment, etc., but he also needed these very much and certainly couldn't use them for trade. Besides these, the most suitable would be Gu worms. He could continuously produce these, but most were low-level Gu worms, with very low value. To trade for three residential building blueprints, he would probably need a large quantity.

However, Tang Ping himself was actually unwilling to trade Gu worms, because one major reason why Gu worms were terrifying was their mystery; you simply didn't know how they would attack you.

So, for many Gu worms, it was best if others knew nothing about them. Therefore, Tang Ping didn't want to widely trade Gu worms to others.

Especially since he planned to use Gu worms in the future, combined with gene agents, to build a powerful Gu army for the base, the secret of Gu worms could not be exposed too much. Tang Ping even somewhat regretted trading the Red Heart Ant Gu before, but at the time he hadn't thought so much and wasn't very concerned about Gu worms. However, after studying the Gu worm secret manual traded to him by that person from the Gu worm family in recent days, Tang Ping had a new concept of the preciousness of Gu worms.

This thing, the less it was known, the more terrifying it was. It was best that when facing an enemy, the opponent didn't even know you were a Gu Master, and died inexplicably, which was the most frightening.

Fortunately, the trade was with someone from the Gu worm family, who surely understood how important it was to keep Gu worms secret.

Now that Tang Ping had considered these things, he naturally wasn't willing to trade Gu worms.

But without Gu worms, what else could he trade?

"The population of Hongan Base, established by Gao Changfeng, seems to be very large."

Population! Tang Ping's eyes lit up! He quickly replied.

Tang Ping: "Big Brother Gao, I wonder if you need food, lots and lots of food!"

Gao Changfeng: "Food? Isn't that nonsense? Which base doesn't need food now? Seriously, since the disaster struck at the beginning of the month, everything in the world has been contaminated. My base's tens of thousands of people are already struggling to cope.

Even if tens of thousands of people are frugal, the daily food consumption is a terrifying figure! Even if the food from the level five shelter's thousand-acre manor is harvested, facing the increasing number of people, it's still a struggle.

Moreover, the actual land used for planting in the base certainly isn't a thousand acres, and the yield, according to the observations of several agricultural graduate students in the base, is that these lands are merely uncontaminated and barely suitable for planting. But without pesticides and fertilizers, the yield will definitely be much lower than before the apocalypse."

When talking about land, Gao Changfeng in Hongan Base looked worried, pulling at his hair: "If only I had known, I wouldn't have rescued so many..." As soon as this thought emerged, Gao Changfeng immediately suppressed it, feeling a chill in his heart and some disbelief. How could he have such a thought!

At this time,

Tang Ping's shoulders relaxed, this trade was almost certainly secure: "Big Brother Gao, food for five hundred people for one month, approximately two catties of sweet potatoes per person per day, in exchange for these three residential building blueprints, how about it?"

On the other side, Gao Changfeng was startled: "Didn't Tang Ping just establish a base? Where did he get so much food?" Food for five hundred people for a month was no small amount.

Actually, with Zhang Xile's "fertile land" characteristic and the mysterious energy of the peach tree, these items could ripen in almost just one month.

Gao Changfeng was ecstatic: "Brother Tang Ping, when can you trade this food?"

Two catties of sweet potatoes per person per day, if I save it, calculated at one catty per person per day, it would be enough to support a thousand people for a month!

Tang Ping: "I have enough of these sweet potatoes in stock now."

Before he arrived, the village at the foot of the mountain had planted many autumn sweet potatoes on their own mountain. These sweet potatoes had grown quite well, and since they were plants in the ground, they were not within the scope of the corruption disaster, allowing Tianfu Base to store a considerable amount.

Gao Changfeng was now ecstatic: "Brother Tang Ping, how about this: I'll also give you the six hundred shelter fragments needed for the residential building blueprints, and you give me one month's rations for two thousand people?"

Tang Ping's face showed difficulty. This quantity indeed made him somewhat strained, but considering his relationship with Big Brother Gao, he didn't want to take advantage of him: "Big Brother Gao, it's not that I don't want to trade with you, but it's genuinely difficult to produce such a large amount in a short time."

It wasn't that he didn't have that much food; after all, their base had dug up quite a bit initially, and the reserves were definitely that large. But their own base had nearly three thousand people who also needed to eat.

Gao Changfeng asked anxiously: "Then when is the latest you can get it out?"

Tang Ping: "Big Brother Gao, to be honest with you, our Heavenly Mansion Base..."

Ten minutes later

In Hongan Base, Gao Changfeng looked at the agreement in his hand with excitement. Although it was just a piece of paper, this paper carried the sustenance of the base's tens of thousands of people!

And Tianfu Base, through food, also established contact with its first base.

In Tianfu Base, Tang Ping also held a piece of paper, his eyes gleaming: "These are all future Tang Alliance members."

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