Chapter 332: Surviving with Difficulty
In the end, Zhang Heng still did not absorb one of the crystal stones. After all, the situation of his small team had reached its most perilous juncture. He decided to sell all the crystal stones first, pay off his debts, and use the remaining money to buy food and store some away for future emergencies.
Ever since the Day of Descent, following the initial period of confusion and the appearance of the employment system, virtually all Descenders had taken up professions. Each person received one gold coin as a starting bonus. It might not sound like much, but with seven or eight million Descenders in a single major city, one gold coin per person added up to a colossal sum. Even calculated individually, a single gold coin was a substantial fortune.
As far as Zhang Heng knew, one gold coin could be exchanged for ten silver coins, one silver coin for one hundred copper coins, and one copper coin for ten copper cash. A large meat flatbread sold on the streets—the kind where a single adult male could eat one and not feel hungry, or two and feel completely stuffed—cost only one copper cash each. In other words, if one were to exchange a gold coin entirely for flatbreads, one could get ten thousand of them. Since an adult male needed at most five flatbreads a day to feel full, a single gold coin could keep someone alive for a full two thousand days!
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