I am weak and friendly

Chapter 201 One Hundred Reasons Why Contemporary College Students Go Hungry
Perhaps because Tang Yiping stopped to look at him, the dark figure suddenly stopped.

In the darkness, he raised his head and looked in Tang Yiping's direction.

The streetlight cast a deep shadow on his face, making it difficult for Tang Yiping to see his features clearly, but he could tell that it was probably a man.

"Uh...do you need any help?" Tang Yiping asked.

"No...no need." The man seemed frightened and turned to run away in a panic.

Tang Yiping looked at his back, somewhat puzzled.

He turned his wheelchair around and went to the vending machine, looking down at it.

This vending machine looks exactly like the one on the eighth floor of Qihang Building, and it's been here for many years.

It's just that because it's placed outdoors, it's become somewhat worn out from the wind and sun.

The paint was peeling off in the corners, revealing some rust, and the glass outside was also a bit blurry, with traces of rainwater remaining.

In the lower part of the vending machine, Tang Yiping saw a box stuck between the shelf and the glass. He didn't know when it had fallen down or if someone had accidentally gotten it stuck while buying something.

Just now, it seemed that the man was reaching for this box.

It was a bowl of instant noodles, and I couldn't tell what brand it was in the dark.

However, it's almost impossible for an adult's arm to reach through the exit.

Tang Yiping reached out and patted it, but the instant noodles were stuck very firmly and wouldn't budge. It seemed that patting them wouldn't get them off.

"Entangled Body, would you mind helping me out?" Tang Yiping asked.

Behind his wheelchair, the wheelchair backpack bulged, and then a charging cable emerged from it.

The charging cable crawled up his back, snaked along his arm, and then reached into the vending machine, wrapping itself around the bowl of noodles through the gap.

With a "thud," the tangled object dropped the bowl of noodles into the retrieval slot.

"If you don't mind, could you bring me a few more of the other things?" Tang Yiping asked.

The thin charging cable slid around inside, and then something else was pulled off and fell into the retrieval slot with a clatter.

For some reason, Tang Yiping had the feeling that he was scavenging boxes in a post-apocalyptic game.

If it's the end of the world, and the Entangling Entities help me, I won't be afraid, right?

However, these things were of no use to him.

He only took out a bag of puffed snacks from it before he was about to leave.

"Thank you, let's go." Tang Yiping said to the entangled body, then turned his hand ring and walked forward.

The tangled mass raised its head, seemingly puzzled.

"I only need this one; the rest can be left to those who need them," Tang Yiping said.

He remembered that in the first month of his university studies, he accidentally spent too much money. He wasn't very familiar with his classmates yet, so he was embarrassed to lend them money, and he also felt awkward asking Master Tang for an advance on his living expenses for the next month.

As a result, during the last week of my first month at university, I managed to survive for a whole week by eating only one meal a day.

He had been eagerly awaiting his next month's allowance, and he quickly went out for a big meal.

then……

Sure enough, by the end of next month, I was broke again.

Anyway, in modern society where the problem of food and clothing has been basically solved, you will never know why a college student would go hungry.

Fortunately, by this time he had become familiar with the other roommates and was able to ask to borrow them.

Unfortunately, the entire dorm was broke. Some bought Labubu, some bought in-game skins, and some became simps. In the end, the four of them managed to buy a case of instant noodles with the last of the simp's savings, which sustained them for a week. The simp then broke up with his girlfriend.

He is truly a benefactor, a godfather of instant noodles.

Even now, when that godfather drags down the team when they're playing ranked games together in the dorm, he can avoid being scolded.

Therefore, Tang Yiping understands that kind of pain. During that time, whenever Tang Yiping saw others eating, he would want to rush up and snatch it away—if he hadn't been in a wheelchair and couldn't have snatched it away.

Now, after meeting many people, Tang Yiping has discovered that extreme poverty is indeed rare in this world, but temporary poverty is everywhere, and for many people, the transition period is the norm.

When you're poor, the first thing you give up is food.

Eating has become the least important element of modern life.

Besides food, rented housing, work clothes, phone bills, and even car fuel costs are more important than food, because none of them can be interrupted, none can be reduced, and none can be stopped at will.

The only thing you can say you won't eat is food.

After all... only you know that you haven't eaten.

But being hungry is really tough.

Tang Yiping maneuvered his wheelchair to the end of the road, turned around and looked back. The vending machine was still standing by the roadside, but he couldn't see the person there. He wondered where he had gone and whether he would ever come back.

I hope he can come back.

Tang Yiping shook his head and turned to leave.

Long after Tang Yiping had completely left, another dark figure quietly returned.

He tiptoed to the vending machine, squatted down, and was about to reach in again when he saw several bowls of instant noodles, two bottles of drinks, and a box of snacks in the vending machine's dispenser.

He tore open a box of instant noodles. The noodles already had a slightly off smell, but that was okay; they were still edible.

The lights were dim at night, and occasionally a car would drive by from afar and then disappear into the distance.

No one noticed that a young man was sitting on a bench by the roadside, eating something while slapping himself twice.

……

Tang Yiping turned the hand ring to propel the wheelchair forward.

He didn't go home. Although it was already very late, as an intern, he was used to being out and about late at night.

He wandered around the nearby roads and found two more vending machines, taking a bag of snacks from each.

Moreover, he had a strong and real feeling that such vending machines might be found all over the city.

At this density, these vending machines might actually become a "stable food source" for him.

We still need to think carefully about the specifics of how to proceed.

After all, he didn't know how the "Survival Guide for the Weak" was defined.

The way this thing is identified is always a bit abstract.

Tang Yiping's current thought is to take a bag of snacks from each vending machine, take a bite, and prove that these are his "food" and belong to him.

Although this process is too abstract, as a human being, eating "expired food" is acceptable, but eating a "rotting giant beast carcass" in the real sense is something I really can't do.

He was unwilling to give up on the mission, and he was also very curious about what the reward would be for completing the survival mission and what the next stage would be.

As he walked, he suddenly remembered an important question:

"Stoka, I forgot to ask, why can vending machines also be used as prosthetic bodies?"

(End of this chapter)