Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

"It was so windy last night, and you asked everyone else not to go out, so why did you go to the tower alone?"

Early the next morning, Mei Qian went to work as usual without having time to ask for leave. With dark circles under her eyes, Mei Qian began to slack off.

I was brewing a pot of strong tea to refresh myself when I heard Su Jingkang coming to me and telling me what happened last night.

"Can't sleep."

Mei Qian's voice was hoarse, and Su Jingkang could tell at once, so he asked, "What's wrong with your throat? Did you get caught in the wind last night? Did you catch a cold?"

"Ah... it's just normal hoarseness."

I spent almost the entire night just reading out the names of the people I invited to dinner. It would be strange if my voice wasn't hoarse.

After Mei Qian finished speaking, she poured the brewed strong tea into the teacup. Seeing that Su Jingkang was still there, she also poured a cup for Su Jingkang.

Su Jingkang took it and blew it gently. The moment he drank it, the expression on his face clearly showed that it was bitter.

Looking at his expression, Mei Qian felt that her mood improved again.

"You'd better not drink such strong tea. Go back and have a good rest. I noticed that you haven't had much rest in the past two days."

The night before yesterday, Mei Qian was half asleep when he encountered an enemy attack. It seemed that Mei Qian did not sleep during the day yesterday, and he ran to the city gate alone at night.

No matter how you look at it, what Mei Qian needs most right now is rest.

But Mei Qian still took a sip of strong tea, indicating that she didn't want to sleep yet.

Seeing this, Su Jingkang suddenly had an idea. He thought that Mei Qian didn't want to sleep because she was frightened by the horrific appearance of the dead people that night, so she was afraid to sleep.

So Su Jingkang said, "I will invite the monks from the Buddhist temple to come and perform a water and land ritual in a few days. Don't be afraid."

"What am I afraid of?"

"So many people died..."

"It's not like I haven't seen it before."

Mei Qian drank tea and looked up at Su Jingkang, as if remembering something, and asked, "Don't you know that my hometown is on the border of Xing'an Prefecture?"

"Xing'an..."

Realizing that the hometown Mei Qian was talking about was in the north, which was also the first place occupied by Xirong, Su Jingkang was stunned and looked at Mei Qian in disbelief.

Su Jingkang's eyes could not hide his thoughts, so Mei Qian simply said that their family fled all the way south from Xing'an Prefecture.

During her escape to the south, she saw many dead bodies.

In addition to the battle with Zui Xing, Mei Qian had seen it many times.

Su Jingkang felt a little embarrassed when he realized that his idea was outrageous. Then he suddenly remembered what he was doing here, so he said:

"Oh, by the way, how did you make those Xirong soldiers catch fire instantly that night?"

"Oh, that~"

Mei Qian saw that Su Jingkang had never asked this question and she almost forgot about it. After thinking about it, she told Su Jingkang the simple operating principle of dust explosion.

What about combustible materials and oxygen-assisted combustion? Although Mei Qian tried his best to avoid using these words, he still couldn't help but say them a few times in the end.

After hearing this, Su Jingkang asked out of curiosity. Mei Qian could only talk to him about combustible materials and oxygen to assist combustion.

After Su Jingkang heard the last part, he walked away in a daze, as if he had received a huge shock. Mei Qian's energy from drinking tea just now had also worn off. Thinking of Su Jingkang's behavior just now, she thought that he would not look for her again in the short term.

So this time Mei Qian followed her heart and went back to rest.

Perhaps because she was too nervous before, Mei Qian fell ill again after she went back to rest.

Mei Qian fell ill again because of her excessive relaxation and tension. Mei Qian felt annoyed. When she was conscious during her illness, she began to browse the food exchange platform to see if there was any food that could increase her lifespan. Mei Qian's body gradually improved after five or six days, and then Su Jingkang forced her to rest again.

In Su Jingkang's opinion, Mei Qian was exhausted. Although Mei Qian kept emphasizing that she was well and could continue to work, she still rested for more than half a month, which made Mei Qian very depressed.

There are indeed foods that can bring health and longevity on the food exchange platform, but most of these foods appear in some kind of immortal cultivation or fantasy world.

As for Mei Qian's cold vegetables, barbecue, hot pot, etc., no one is interested in using them.

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During the half-month recuperation period, Mei Qian missed a lot of news, so when she recovered, she was suddenly frightened when she heard that Wuzhou was almost breached.

"My master is in charge of Wuzhou! How come the city was almost breached?"

Mei Qian couldn't believe it, but this was the news Su Jingkang received.

"It's similar to our situation. A group of Western Rong soldiers went to Wuzhou wearing the same clothes as the soldiers escorting the baggage and food. They were in a very bad state and said that they were ambushed by Western Rong soldiers on the way, so they had to ask for help from Wuzhou nearby."

"Hiss—those words..."

The Western Rong soldiers over there are better at acting than them. They are even crying thief and saying that they were beaten by themselves.

"Although Mr. Chu discovered that something was wrong in time, the generals guarding the city had already believed the words of the Western Rong soldiers and were about to open the city gates..."

At this point, Mei Qian and Su Jingkang sighed at the same time.

"How can it be so easy to repel the Western Rong soldiers who have entered the city?"

"Who said it wasn't? Fortunately, Mr. Chu was in command and was able to withstand the pressure. However, the Xirong soldiers' strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao was very successful this time."

As Su Jingkang spoke, Mei Qian's heart skipped a beat as if she had thought of something: "The front line must have known about what happened in Wuzhou, and has the prince sent a group of generals and troops back to help?"

"how do you know?"

"Does your expression look like you're saying something nice?"

Su Jingkang: “…”

"Since my master is confident that he can deal with the Western Rong soldiers who came to attack the city, he would definitely not send people to the front line to ask for help saying that Wuzhou is in trouble."

Mei Qian knew Chu Ji a little bit. Thinking of the clothes worn by those people who pretended to be transporting grain and supplies that day, Mei Qian remembered that she had seen them before.

"This group of Western Rong soldiers must have attacked the troops that had left Ningcheng earlier. In that battle, our troops transporting supplies must have suffered heavy losses, but there are still some survivors.

Then those who survived would definitely go to the front line and inform the prince and others about this.

The possibility of Wuzhou being forced to "besiege Wei to save Zhao" is not small.

If the prince sent someone to investigate the people transporting the supplies, he would find that many Western Rong soldiers had indeed attacked the baggage train but disappeared. If you were the prince, what would you think?"

When asked by Mei Qian, Su Jingkang lowered his head slightly and said, “There are quite a few of them. The Western Rong soldiers who came to help disappeared without a trace after looting the supplies.

Since I am not going to the frontline, but I want to do something that will have an impact on the frontline, Wuzhou is a good choice."

"That's right. And - it's possible that the news of Wuzhou being besieged was spread by the Xirong soldiers themselves."

Mei Qian helped to add a point.

"Also, after the incident in Wuzhou was resolved, Lord Chu also received our message, and he also sent a letter that only you can read."

Su Jingkang handed the unopened letter to Mei Qian. Mei Qian opened the envelope happily. After reading the letter written by Chu Ji inside, the smile on Mei Qian's face disappeared.

Although Chu Ji praised her decisiveness and methods in the letter, in the end Chu Ji still gave Mei Qian some advice -

Don't do everything, don't do everything. (End of this chapter)