Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 114 Eat Like This
Lu Xian and Yao Wei both raised their guns instantly.

The old man was so engrossed in his conversation that he turned around to pick corn.

After breaking the corn, he turned around and saw two black holes like gun muzzles. He was so scared that his hands trembled and the corn fell to the ground with a "bang".

"Why why ...

He was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly again.

"Have a gun? If you weren't useful, you'd be dead by now."

Lu Xian narrowed his eyes and sneered, "You just said that others would die if they ate your corn, and now you dare to give us corn?"

The old man quickly explained: "No, no, I'm not giving it to you, I'm giving it to her... this little girl! This corn is fine for me to eat. She can become invisible just like me, so she should be fine after eating it...

"No, no, I don't believe it. I'll eat it for you to see..."

As he said this, he bent down to pick up the corn and eat it raw.

"no need."

Lu Xian stopped the old man and called out, "Dog."

The mechanical dog in the car jumped out immediately. The road here was not suitable for wheels to roll. The dog got stuck in the wheel and staggered to Lu Xian's feet.

Lu Xian took a look at the tires on the dog's limbs. It had only been used for a short while, but the tires were already severely worn out. If they were used any further, they would probably be scrapped soon.

Lu Xian thought that the toy wheels were of poor quality. It would be great if he could find wheels specifically for dogs in the future.

But before that, I have to replace the dog's original metal hooves.

"Scan that corn and see if it's edible."

Lu Xian gave the dog new instructions.

Gouzi went to see the corn.

The old man stood there in a daze, as if he was frightened by the overly intelligent mechanical dog, or perhaps by the muzzle of the gun, and dared not move.

After the dog's two eyes swept across the corn on the ground, light shone in his eyes and remained bright, proving that there was indeed no problem with the corn.

——Of course, there is no problem for him, Yao Wei and Chai Xin.

The dog had long been able to distinguish between people, and its food requirements had always been based on Lu Xian's needs. Now that Yao Wei and Chai Xin had joined the team, the standards had naturally changed slightly.

Lu Xian understood this and felt relieved when he saw this.

But he was also curious about something else, so he asked Gouzi, "What about ordinary people eating this corn?"

The dog's eyes immediately flashed twice.

Well, it seems that the ingredients of this corn are indeed abnormal. Ordinary people will have problems if they eat it, but it will be fine for the new humans.

But...is this old man a new human?

Also, why is the corn here like this? Ordinary people will have problems if they eat it, but the new humans will be fine if they eat it?

Was it like this from the beginning, or did it become like this later?

Chai Xin's father should have left Jianshan City later, so before that, the food here should still be edible, right?

That means, these corns are not affected by strange rain, but by other reasons?

Or maybe it mutated into this form later, making it inedible to ordinary people?
When corn mutated, everything in Jianshan City was affected. Chai Xin's father could no longer live here and chose to leave?

But this doesn't explain what the old man said before -

Whenever someone comes here, the old man will hide and wait for the visitor to die of poisoning from eating corn.

So how did the old man escape danger time and time again before the corn mutated?
Can't figure it out...

If you can't figure it out, just don't think about it and ask again. Lu Xian lowered the muzzle of his submachine gun again. Seeing this, Yao Wei also followed suit and lowered the muzzle.

Although the old man couldn't remember things clearly, he was smart enough to finally breathe a sigh of relief when he knew that Lu Xian and Yao Wei had figured out that corn was edible thanks to the robot dog named "Gouzi".

He quickly picked up the corn from the ground, straightened his back and arms, handed the corn to Chai Xin, and said, "Here, eat, eat."

Seeing this, Lu Xian did not ask questions in a hurry, nor did he stop the old man.

Chai Xin glanced at Lu Xian and Yao Wei, and when he saw that Lu Xian and Yao Wei did not stop him, he quickly took it.

When she got it in her hand, she wasn't sure how to eat it. She looked at it over and over again and didn't rush to eat it.

Seeing this, the old man broke off another ear of corn to demonstrate to Chai Xin.

He also asked Lu Xian and Yao Wei: "I wonder if you two can eat it? If you can, I will break two for you two."

Lu Xian said: "It's edible."

The old man twitched his lips, broke off two ears of corn, and gave them to Lu Xian and Yao Wei with a nod and a bow.

Then he broke off another corn, peeled off the skin, cleaned off the silk, took a bite of it, kernel and core included, chewed it vigorously and said, "That's how I eat it."

Lu Xian was stunned. This old man had really good teeth. He was worthy of being invisible!

He turned around and saw Yao Wei and Chai Xin also following suit, peeling the skin. After peeling the skin and cleaning the whiskers, they were about to put it in their mouths: "Wait!"

The three of them stopped moving at the same time and looked at Lu Xian. The old man's mouth was still full of half-chewed corn cobs and kernels. He was so stuffy that he dared not move, feeling uncomfortable.

"You chew yours."

Lu Xian spoke to the old man.

The old man's mouth started moving again.

Lu Xian said: "Don't eat it like this, let's cook it."

He took action immediately after he spoke, and parked the car on the road so that he could escape at any time. He took out the pot from the trunk, drained out a lot of the water inside, and poured it into the wok.

——There is no need to use a frying ladle at this time, but the ladle can be used as a water storage tool temporarily.

Peel the corn husks, put them in the pot, and place the wok on top of the pot as a lid.

Pile up the firewood, set up the pot, use corn husks as kindling, light the firewood, sit down and wait.

Only then did Lu Xian ask the old man: "When did the corn here start to poison people?"

But the old man just stared at Lu Xian's pot, as if he was in a trance and didn't hear what Lu Xian said at all.

"uncle?"

Lu Xian shouted louder.

"Ah...oh!"

The old man came to his senses, but his eyes were still fixed on the pot.

Lu Xian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why, are you interested in this pot?"

"no no!"

The old man quickly denied it and scratched the tree root on his head again, "I... I just wanted to... can I cook one too?"

He seemed to be savoring the delicious taste of boiled corn and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

Lu Xian didn't refuse, so the old man grinned again, broke off a new corn, peeled it and removed the silk, ran over happily, handed it to Lu Xian respectfully, and said, "Thank you! Thank you!"

After saying this, he looked forward to it. After Lu Xian put the ear of corn into the pot, he felt relieved and smiled at Lu Xian flatteringly, "Brother, you are a good man!"

(End of this chapter)