The full-scale tuba is in the apocalypse

Chapter 489
"To enter the city, you must first pay [-]% of the goods as a city entry tax."

Shen Rui looked at an avenue in front of which there was a circle of alienated fences. Inside was the strange city. There was a simple wooden gate on the avenue.

He watched as a leader of the caravan was bargaining with the two wolf monsters guarding the city gate, and finally handed over the goods of a truck before driving into the city.

Sitting in one of the trucks, he asked the driver next to him:
"Is the cost of entering the city so high?"

"It's okay, they don't count as the specific value of the goods. We just make up the number with the goods that are large in size and low in value," the driver said indifferently. One-thousandth of the total value of the caravan."

"Oh, then why don't you trade outside, why do you have to enter the city?" Shen Rui continued to ask.

"No, Mr. Shen, this is a strange place. If you don't enter the city to trade, you will be caught or eaten directly, or you will be made a slave. The risk is too great, and they have a keen sense of smell, and they want to avoid the patrols in the city , basically impossible." The driver replied while driving carefully.

"However, I heard that some large caravans can trade outside the city without paying any taxes if they can get through the upper-level links in the city," he continued.

"Hehe, it seems that they learned us very quickly." Shen Rui shook his head.

"Yeah, if it wasn't for the completely different appearance and shape, they would be people in monster skin." The driver sighed.

The caravan of hundreds of trucks headed west along the road after entering the city.

Shen Rui looked out the window and saw that the ground was full of sewage, garbage, and monsters running past from time to time.

This is normal, Shen Rui will be shocked if it is really clean.

"These weird cities are not as good as our castles anywhere, but there is one advantage." The driver said mysteriously, as if he was also a chatterbox.

"What's the benefit?" Shen Rui asked.

"Wherever you go, you will not see a beggar." The driver revealed the answer.

"It's normal, because most of the strange monsters have no mercy." Shen Rui nodded.

The truck continued to drive bumpily, and all the monsters on the road had their eyes lit up, looking at the tightly-packed truck body one by one.

"It seems that there will be pick-ups..." Shen Rui reminded upon seeing this.

"It doesn't matter, they didn't dare to do this, because before the goods entered the city, they were sprinkled with the buyer's smell, no matter how greedy they were, they didn't dare to move. From this point, they are much better than us humans." The driver explained. .

"It's really an eye-opener. These are all accumulated trading skills." Shen Rui praised.

"There are still a lot of tricks. In short, as long as you find a way to do business with these monsters, it is still easy to make a fortune. After all, although they know how to buy low and sell high, they don't know the market prices of many goods. And as long as they curry favor with a leader, It will open up a large market." The driver continued.

Shen Rui thought back to the wolf city he had been to, and compared many things that happened there with what he was seeing.

There are many human-like shops in Wolf City, as well as patrols to maintain order, and there are also guys who bully the city.

On both sides of the road, some handicraft factories began to appear, mainly processing fur and drying meat. The workers in them were all strange monsters that could stand upright and release their two front paws, such as bears and the like.

However, Shen Rui soon noticed a phenomenon. Some strange monsters doing fine work, such as monsters manipulating machines, all had human-like hands, as if they had grown out of thin air.

"Those are all deformities, who knows how they were born, they look really disgusting." Seeing that Shen Rui was interested, the driver explained immediately.

"No, that's the hand of the shadow." Shen Rui shook his head and said, with his eyesight and insight, of course he could tell the difference.

"The Hand of Shadow? Could it be that those guys did it? Those of us still don't know about it, and we don't dare to inquire about it casually." The driver was shocked.

"Yeah, we seem to have a truce with the strange monsters and unite to deal with the shadows. In fact, the tentacles of the other party have penetrated into the production and life of these strange monsters. No wonder they are willing to give up the frontal battlefield." Shen Rui suddenly felt that this trip Great rewards.

If you don't come here for this information, just look at some shared intelligence materials, it's hard to have a real experience.

The driver didn't speak. After all, with his status, these important people can only worry about things, and it's not his turn to say anything.

Shen Rui continued to look all the way, and saw that this strange city was much more developed than Wolf City, because it began to have industries that only humans had.

Although most of them are primary processing industries, such as iron smelting, woodworking, food processing, etc., it is undeniable that they will greatly improve the living and production standards of the strange.

"It's been a long time since the truce, it's really possible to let them develop." Shen Rui sighed.

"These monsters are very smart. A few days ago, I heard that they wanted to import our high-end lathes, but they were rejected by the bosses, and they almost got into trouble because of it." The driver continued to mention one thing.

Shen Rui nodded silently, and then he saw another building that shocked him.

I saw a school ahead!
But near this school, the roads are much cleaner, and there are many monsters in half-length uniforms patrolling.

Those who entered and left the school were all monsters with shadowy hands, mainly wolves, bears, and eagles.

The truck was slowed again as it passed.

Shen Rui glanced at the school gate, and saw a dozen large one-story houses inside, with high roofs, about seven or eight meters above, and many different signs hanging on them.

On campus, there are some humans walking around.

"They actually started education, they really look a bit like that." Shen Rui said in a complicated tone.

"That's right, these monsters are all crowned with monkeys, and what's even more hateful is that there are many human teachers teaching them, all of them are raped!" The driver said with righteous indignation.

He thinks that the trade with the strange monsters is to squeeze and exploit the strange monsters and strengthen his own side, which is different from these guys who know how to strengthen the other side.

"There is also a way to use this. The education is different, and the effect is also different," Shen Rui said, "But from this point of view, it is a bit difficult to stop the development of strange things."

"Yeah, for more than a year, every time I drive here, they will change, almost every day, and more and more things will be sold to us. They respect the strong and have good obedience , the rules are strict, the management is convenient, and there is no moral pressure, their factory is the real sweatshop." The driver sighed.

While the two were talking, the convoy had slowly slowed down and started to stop in front of a large market surrounded by wooden fences.

Seeing that the place is very lively, intertwined with people and animals, Shen Rui looked up, and saw that the two avenues divided the market into four areas simply and neatly.

The infrastructure of this market is much better. It is paved with cement and has a lot of strange monsters patrolling.

The caravan of trucks entered the market after talking to the gatekeeper of the market and stopped in the southwest area.

(End of this chapter)