Chapter 280 The Price of Life
When Jian Changsheng saw this, his expression changed and he quickly stepped forward.
His fingers touched the aunt's nose, and she was still breathing weakly, but her body temperature was slowly dropping... When the other aunts saw this scene, their eyes were full of numbness, and they moved stiffly and continued to other streets. Go.
It's not that they don't want to save anything, it's just that they have no way to save it at all... What's more, their own situation is no better than that of the fallen aunt. They don't know when they will fall down, and their homes are still in trouble. Someone is waiting for them.
"Hello... hello?" Jian Changsheng tried to shout twice, but the fallen aunt did not respond at all and was still unconscious.
Jian Changsheng looked around and saw no other people. If he left her alone, he would almost certainly die... After struggling for a long time, he gritted his teeth, carried his aunt on his back and walked back towards the courtyard.
squeak——
He opened the courtyard door again.
Chu Muyun and Bai Ye were stunned when they saw Jian Changsheng suddenly coming back. After seeing the figure on his back, doubts appeared in their eyes.
"What are you..."
"She's going to freeze to death. Isn't there just a fire? Let her warm up a little." Jian Changsheng put the aunt down beside the bonfire, and there were waves of ice mist as he spoke.
Chu Muyun narrowed his eyes slightly, put his fingertips on the sleeping aunt, and slowly spoke:
"It's hypothermia. When the human body is exposed to extremely cold conditions for a long time, its own temperature will drop accordingly, and it may even feel that the surroundings are very hot. It will start to take off its own cold-proof clothes, and finally it will freeze to death..."
"Can you be cured?"
"...This is not a question of whether it can be cured or not. As long as the human body can be warmed up, it will naturally be fine. But if it cannot be warmed up..." Chu Muyun did not continue, "By the way, where did you bring it back from? ?”
"At the doorstep."
"you know?"
"……do not know."
Jian Changsheng lowered his head slightly, seeming to feel guilty... He knew that this was Chu Muyun's house after all, and it was really inappropriate for him to do this.
Fortunately, Chu Muyun was not angry, but nodded calmly,
"knew."
Bai Ye always lowered his head and said nothing.
Jian Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and was about to turn around and leave when Chu Muyun's voice sounded again.
"Little Jane."
"……Um?"
"You know, we can't save everyone...right?"
Jian Changsheng was silent for a long time, then he opened the door and walked out...
Chu Muyun looked at his leaving back and sighed.
…
Goya Hotel.
"President, our shop is almost overcrowded with people coming to buy coal!"
The squinting man followed Yan Sheng, the president of the Stars Chamber of Commerce, and walked quickly in the brightly lit corridor, and spoke in a deep voice,
"Almost everyone in the city is looking for coal now, and our Stars Chamber of Commerce holds 60% of Aurora City's coal reserves. Our boiler plant is now choked with people coming to buy coal, and the queues are already there. The fight is about to begin...what should we do next?”
"Science is regressing... at this time." Yan Ye's eyes flashed, "It seems that this is the Star Chamber of Commerce!"
"what do you mean……"
"Have the presidents of the other two chambers of commerce arrived?"
"We're here, waiting for you in the lounge."
Yan Sheng walked straight to the door of the lounge and was about to open the door. Suddenly he thought of something and turned to the squinting man and said, "Is 'Lifu' activated?"
"Okja has gone."
"good."
Yan Sheng pushed open the door to the lounge with both hands.
In the splendid room, two figures were sitting on the snow-white sofa, wearing only two thin shirts. They seemed to be talking about something. When they saw Yan Sheng walking in, they immediately stood up and greeted him with a smile:
"President Yan, you are the warmest in the entire Aurora City right now."
"When I heard your invitation, I rushed over from the Chamber of Commerce immediately. According to what you said, the coal in our warehouse is still there."
Yan Sheng took off his coat, sat down on the sofa on the other side, and said slowly:
"I won't go into too much nonsense... We, the Stars Chamber of Commerce, currently account for 60% of the coal reserves in Aurora City, your two major chambers of commerce, Silver Moon and Cold Spring, together account for 30%, and the law enforcement officers account for 10%... What do you think of the current situation? What do you think?"
The two presidents spoke thoughtfully:
"The sudden collapse of the heating system means that the coal we have has become the scarcest resource in Aurora City. Maybe... we can raise the price appropriately?"
"Yes, one moment and the other... When doing business, what matters is the right time, the right place, the right people, and now is our opportunity to make a fortune... We came here because we also wanted to discuss with President Yan how much the increase should be... "
Yan Sheng said calmly: "Oh? How much increase do you think is appropriate?"
The two presidents looked at each other, stretched out two fingers at the same time and crossed them across their chests, "...ten times?"
"Ten times?" Yan Sheng shook his head, "It seems that you two are not well informed..."
"What does President Yan mean?"
"Just a few minutes ago, news came from the Aurora Base that Mr. Aurora was missing..."
"What???" The two presidents were shocked.
"Jiuguang Jun's disappearance means that the countdown to the destruction of Aurora City has begun... It also means that those people who are rushing to buy our coal will die soon." Yan Ye pointed at the two of them, "But you and I won't Similarly, our industries are spread across several other major realms, so we can get away with the last ticket on the realm train... Therefore, this will be the last business we do in the Aurora realm."
"Then...you mean...what price is more suitable?"
Yan Sheng smiled slightly and slowly raised five fingers.
"Fifty times?"
"No, half a million times."
"Half a million times?" The two presidents widened their eyes in disbelief, "The current market price of coal is about one copper coin per kilogram... Five hundred thousand times, that's half a million copper coins per kilogram? ! That’s already the income that a middle-class family in Aurora City can earn without eating or drinking for several years!”
"Fifty thousand copper coins... is enough to buy half a house in Aurora City, but now I can only buy one kilogram of coal? This... this is not enough to burn for one day?!"
Even the two presidents who thought they were black-hearted were shocked by the sky-high price offered by Yan Sheng. What was the difference between this and directly taking the lives of those residents?
"Coal? Do you think what we are selling now is coal?"
Yan Sheng sneered,
"What we are selling...are the lives of those ordinary people."