5 Selling The First Can Of Food

Alia walked up to the man on the counter and said

"We want to sell"

"What do you want to sell, we are currently overstocked on child slaves so if its children please go elsewhere," said the man

"No, its food," said Alia

"How radiated is it," said the man

"No radiation" replied Alia

As soon as the man heard it, he was surprised, and immediately asked

"Food that hasn't been radiated, how much do you have"

"Wait," said Alia after which she pushed Max in front of the man and said again

"He is the seller"

Max was suddenly pushed in front of the man but so he asked

"What"

"How much food do you have, listen you better have something to sell," said the man with a slight tone of distrust and annoyance

Max got a hold of himself and took out, two cans of fruits, two cans of baked beans, two cans of chicken in gravy, and two packets of instant noodles.

"This much," said the man shocked

Misunderstanding the tone of the man Max said

" Is it less, but first tell the price of this much"

Picking up on Max's words the man understood that he definitely had more of this food

"Yes, I will definitely give you a good price but first let me check these food" saying this the man went inside a door and then came out with a large looking scanner

"What is that," asked Max

"That is a food scanner, it can scan food even if it is inside something and tell you the exact composition of that food, to the smallest atom, and tells the condition of the food," said Alia

"Ok," said Max

The man scanned the food and confirm their radiation level, their condition, and their content.

He confirmed that this was indeed top quality food.

"It is as you say, now how much do you want for this," said the man

"You, tell us how much you are willing to pay for this," said

"Tell me at least the base price, we can negotiate from there"

Max got pissed off from this and said

"What the fuck this guy isn't even serious, let's just go somewhere else" after which he picked up the cans wanting to put them back into the cans.

"No, No wait," said the man

"Brother you got angry, I was just trying to help you," said the man with a polite attitude stark opposite to the one he had shown when they had entered

"So you are calling me ungrateful," said Max

"No, No, No, how about this I will pay 500 crystals for the fruits and beans, 1000 for the chicken, and 400 for the noodles," said the man

"For each piece," said Max

"That comes to a total of 4,800 crystals," said Max

"Yes Yes" replied the shopkeeper

Max turned towards Alia and said " What do you think"

"It seems fair," said Alia

"Yes, but I think we can get a little more somewhere else," said Max

"No, brother even your partner says its fair, sell it to me," said the man

"But I am not looking for fair, I am looking for-profit," said Max as he started taking the cand from the hands of the man

"Brother, please wait, how about I round it up to 5,000 crystals, this is the absolute best price anyone will give you," said the man

"Ok, 5,000 crystals, Alia do the deal," said Max

After he said this Alia came forward and the man took out the crystals, which she counted and then put them inside her bag.

"Brother if you ever need to sell anything else don't go anywhere else, just come directly to my shop I will give you the absolute best price, here's my number," said the man

A screen popped up inside Max's body watch and the man's contact got saved.

"You can now contact him anytime you want with your earphone" Alia whispered into his ears

"Yes, thank you" replied Max to the man, as he left the store

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"Here's your 2,500 crystals," said Alia

"Keep it, you can pay for anything I buy later out of this money," said Max

"What, do I look like to you, a fucking slave," said Alia angrily

"I agreed to act as your guide, not be your fucking secretary, I will only do what we agreed on, not anything else" continuing Alia

Max got a little sacred, by Alia's reaction

"Well yes but isn't it a guide's job to take the tourist to buy souvenirs," said Max

Alia got a little stunned,

"WHAT" replied Alia

"Well, you know when a tourist generally hires a guide, in the end, they take you to the place where you can buy souvenirs to take home," said Max still a little sacred

"Have gone crazy with radiation" said Alia in a surprised voice

"How about this, let's end your duty as a guide here and," but as he was about to continue, Alia interrupted and said

"Sure, pay me what you owe me and I will leave"

"No, that's not what I meant to let me finish, Instead from now on you will act as my general local contact in this city, you will assist me in whatever capacity you are asked, so I build my business network here and for this, I will increase your pay," said Max

"By how much," asked Alia calming down

"How much do you want, after all, you hold all the cards don't you," said Max

"Then, double my salary," said Alia

"Sure," said Max

"No, I meant to say triple," said Alia hurriedly

"Ok, but that's final," said Max

"Ok," said Alia

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While Max and Alia were arguing outside the shop, inside the shop, after they had left, the man had hurriedly gone inside a door and then opened a thick iron door hidden door, after he entered the door, a screen was in front of him.

The man sat in the chair in front of the screen and started typing something after which, a window popped up in the screen, in which a man spoke

"Who are you," said the Man

"Sir, I am Raj, the owner of the pawn store in the 5th street," said Raj

"Yes, yes why did you call me," said the man on the screen

"Sir, I just bought something very special, that will intrigue you very much" replied Raj

"Stop wasting my time and tell me what it is," said the man on the screen

Raj put one of the chicken cans in a machine and pressed a button after which the can disappeared, after which Raj said

"Sir, I have just sent it to your transporter please check"

The man went off-screen but after some time, the man came back on and said

"Hmm, this is delicious, where did you find canned chicken of this quality, moreover it isn't even radiated, I smell the freshness even when it isn't heated up,"

"Yes, sir, they are my most recent purchase, I just acquired these luxurious products from a very high powered source," said Raj

"Hmm, how much do you have and how much do you want for it" replied the man

"I have three more pieces each of a different kind, they are very rare, and thus I will only ask you for 5,000 crystals for them," said Raj

"Three more, but still 5,000 crystals for four seems a little too much," said the man

"Believe me, sir I am selling you these at practically the price I bought them at, I am barely making any profit here, after all, we have years of relationship, and furthermore I will not try to anger one of the esteemed council members for a little bit of profit will I," said Raj

"Yes," said the man on the screen

"Sir, I paid a high price for them, because my contact suggested that he had more, which he would sell in the future, when he does I will contact you before any other council member," said Raj

The man on the screen realized what Raj was hinting at and said

"Ok, I will transfer the crystals to your account, send me the products"

"Yes" replied Raj as he sends the products, and then he discounted the call after he typed something else and another man popped up on the window on the screen. An identical conversation took place between this and Raj as it had before and in the end, this man also agreed to buy the products for 5,000 crystals

Raj had a profit of 5,000 crystals instantly, and this was just with selling to two members, there were still 8 more left and they all could buy much more, that man had brought him an instant profit of 5,000 crystals, Raj now stood up and went back to the counter of his shop, praying that, that man will contact him soon.

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Alia and Max were now proceeding towards a part of the city that looked very dirty compared to the part the city head been in till now.

"Where are we going now," said Max

"To, the recruiter market," said Alia

Max didn't exactly understand it but still followed Alia.

Both of them walked inside a shop and Alia talked to the man on the counter after which he handed them a tablet.

The tablet had a list that contained a lot of information.

"What is this" asked Max

"This is the database of all the people you can recruit, you can filter the type of people you want by their, age, gender, their use, etc," said Alia

Max played around with the information, the UI was simple enough and understood how to use it easily, he then clicked on the tab listed purpose. After which a drop-down menu displayed many different types, like meat shield, hard labor, vanguard, ranged attacker, maintenance and repairman, sex, etc.

Max was truly shocked when he saw the types of jobs available, they were mostly horrible jobs and in some of them even death was guaranteed, why would someone take these jobs.

Max asked Alia this question

"They are using the term jobs, very loosely you know, actually they are just slaves, that have been sold here, but since the council doesn't like the word slave, they use recruitment instead, when you choose a person they are fitted with a chip inside their brain which allows you control their actions and even what they think, which makes it impossible for them to betray you in the heat of the battle, and once you hire a person, they are hired by you for 1,000 years, meaning they are basically yours," said Alia in a hushed tone

"But, when I looked at their price I thought it was their salary, but isn't it a very low if they are being sold forever," said Max

"Do you think, keeping a slave is free, they require food and a place to stay which all costs money, not to mention the fact that the council made a rule that if any of these slaves died due to starvation or hygiene issues then the shopkeepers would be hanged too, thus many people actually come and sell themselves as slaves in this shop, also, the jobs inside the city only needs hard labor which is easily fulfilled by people in the slums, thus the only need is outside the city for fighting and most of these people are extremely weak and so they die very easily when outside, therefore the fighters don't want to spend a lot of money on slaves since they die so easily, thus they are so cheap?" said Alia

"But, there are some exceptions, of course, If you look at prices of sex slaves or experienced fighters they are very expensive" continued Alia

Max checked this out and indeed they were very expensive.

After some time of window shopping, both Alia and Max left the store, Max had said that he currently didn't need any slaves but he soon might.

The sun had already started to set, Alia suggested that they should now leave and go back to the mansion, with which Max agreed.

By the time Alia and Max arrived in the mansion, it was already night, both Max and Alia, were very tired, and thus they got to their rooms and went to sleep.