Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

After noon, the family planned to continue their journey. Lu Guanhai claimed he had rested long enough and volunteered to drive to find a gas station.

However, shortly after driving forward, the car wheels got stuck in a thick pile of sand and couldn't move any further.

Nie Qing used Wind Element Ability to blow away the sand a few times, but it didn't work very well, and the flying sand further obscured the view ahead.

Although using Lin Cheng's Earth Element Ability would be more effective at this moment, looking at the long route on the map, Lu Hao was already considering whether to give up.

"Someone is coming in front"

Mao Qiqi said.

It seemed to be a group, only about eight people, but each was a Special Ability User, and their speed was not slow.

"Coming in our direction?"

Su Jin asked again, and if that was the case, they had to prepare in advance.

When the family appeared in the car again as Dragon Ruler, the team Mao Qiqi mentioned was about to arrive.

Amidst the flying sand in front, a tank-like heavy vehicle was driving, its tracked wheels crushing the thick sand like there was no resistance. However, there were no weapons on its body, or else Lu Hao and Su Xiangzhe would have been ready to defend.

The tank stopped about 100 meters away from the SUV, and two men bundled up tightly stepped out.

"Don't get out of the car yet"

Lu Hao told the people inside the car, his vigilance led him to lock all the doors.

Outside, the two men approached, Luo Yuan knocked on the car window and pulled down his sandproof mask, revealing a big smile with white teeth.

"Hello, do you need help?"

"Hello, our car is almost out of fuel, we were planning to find some gasoline, didn't expect the road here to be so hard to pass"

Su Xiangzhe spoke with an honest face, saying honest words, making the two outside immediately drop all doubts.

"Hahaha, of course, do you think a car like yours can travel a sand road? Even if you stood here and didn't move, you'd be buried by the sandstorm after a while"

The man next to Luo Yuan laughed loudly.

"Well then, forget it, we're just preparing to return the way we came"

Lu Hao said, these people clearly looked like experts, he didn't want to have any conflict with them.

Unexpectedly, the two men outside stopped them.

"Don't go, aren't you looking for gasoline? We're actually selling gasoline"

Luo Yuan blocked the car, shouting at the barely opened window crack by Lu Hao.

Selling gasoline? Is there still someone selling that nowadays?

"How is it sold?"

Lu Hao asked.

"We're a legitimate trading caravan, one liter gasoline for 500 crystal cores, it's the same price everywhere"

Luo Yuan raised a finger and said.

"That's too expensive"

Su Jin calculated inside the car, filling up the car would cost fifty to sixty thousand crystal cores, quite exorbitant.

"We don't have that many crystal cores"

Lu Hao also thought it was highly unreasonable, it might be better to go to Dead City Y territory and look around.

"Oh come on, gentlemen, we can make it cheaper. If you buy more, price is more favorable, bartering with resources is also more economical..."

Trying to retain them, Luo Yuan said, and Lu Hao, who had started the car, stopped upon hearing the last sentence.

"Barter with resources, how?"

Spending crystal cores was not feasible, exchanging resources, they could hear more about it.

"You have resources?!"

The man beside Luo Yuan also got interested, pushed Luo Yuan aside and asked.

The family didn't expect that when they asked how to barter, the other side became more enthusiastic, and Luo Yuan even called the remaining few people from the car.

"We're truly not frauds, Xiao Yezi, show them our goods"

Luo Yuan said to his companion.

A short person with a headscarf stepped forward, merely made a gesture, and a large oil tank more than two meters high appeared before everyone.

"We have tons of these tanks back where we are"

Luo Yuan said proudly.

The family had already gotten out, seeing this genuine large oil tank, they couldn't help but show delight in their eyes, such a big tank of fuel could last them half a year.

"Hello, we are also a trading caravan, if resource exchange for gasoline is possible, I think we can discuss it further"

Lu Hao then said seriously.

It turns out Luo Yuan and his party were a team living by selling gasoline and diesel, their team was sizable and stationed in Z province long-term. They would go to surrounding bases to sell gasoline, exchange the obtained crystal cores for resources at bases with supplies, living off of this.

"Wow, so you guys are Dragon Ruler!"

Luo Yuan exclaimed after hearing Lu Hao, this was a legendary team, he didn't expect to encounter them.

"Yes, so our gasoline consumption is also relatively large, as we need to travel outside all year round"

Lu Hao nodded in response.

"If so, we can have long-term cooperation, our goods could be directly traded for your resources, saving the markup from middlemen"

The man beside Luo Yuan, Zhao Nian said.

"Brother is quite calculating, but the 500 crystal cores per liter rate, we wouldn't dare to buy at that price"

Lin Xiuyuan said.

"No worries, if you're Dragon Ruler, that's fine, come with us to our base station ahead, we can exchange as much oil as you want"

Luo Yuan persuaded, hoping Dragon Ruler could trade more oil since Xiao Yezi's space wasn't big.

"Well, if we're cooperating long-term, we can directly go to your base station when we lack this in the future"

Su Xiangzhe thought it was workable, even if there really was danger then, they could just hide in Space.

It's just the way to go...

"Xiao Yezi, quickly bring out our backup vehicle"

Zhao Nian urged, what luck they had today, able to trade with Dragon Ruler.

The spare tank vehicle was spacious inside, although scattered with sand everywhere, which was inevitable since Su Jin found that even standing outside for a while, clothes and hair were full of sand, no wonder Luo Yuan and others wrapped themselves up so tightly.

"I see they don't seem like bad people, they even know about us"

Huang Yunxiang said, now in the car only the family was present, the other side just let them drive and follow the car ahead, without using any other methods.

"Hmm, at least they genuinely have oil"

Lu Hao pointed at the dashboard, the car being able to travel on sand meant fuel consumption wasn't average, any team without enough gasoline or diesel would struggle to maintain operations.