Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 282 A New World! Everything Needs to Change!
Ah Xin looked at An Xi, sized her up and down, and seeing that she didn't have any obvious injuries, she still asked, "Xi Xi, are you alright?"

Hearing this, An Xi shook her head. "I'm fine. It was just some minor injuries, and I've already recovered. It's just that my mental energy was used up a bit, but not by much."

"I'll be fine after a nap."

Seeing that Ah Xin still looked worried, An Xi smiled and comforted her, "I'm really fine. I'm not stupid. If I were really injured, I wouldn't have come here. I would have gone straight back to find Xingzi."

Hearing this, Ah Xin finally felt relieved. Then she looked at her with a strange gaze and went over to grope her body.

"Xixi, when can you turn into a white tiger? How come I didn't know?"

As she spoke, she pinched An Xi's hands randomly, "What does it feel like? Does it feel like you're crawling on the ground?"

An Xi was speechless upon hearing this. She swatted away the woman's mischievous hands and said helplessly, "I don't feel anything. It's as natural as walking on two legs."

"After transforming into a white tiger, walking on all fours became instinctive, the mobilization of Geng metal energy became smoother, and the combat power became much stronger."

As the two were talking, Hui, who was standing to the side, only glanced at An Xi a few times before calling everyone to get in the car and heading towards the location where Chu Sheng and the others were.

On the other side, seeing that the battle in the sky had ended, An Xi flew towards the direction Qing Qing had left. Chu Sheng looked at Zhuo Wu beside him and said, "Let's go check out the barbecue?"

"Uh..." Zhuo Wu looked up at the sky, even though An Xi and Qing Qing were no longer there, he still looked at them with reluctance. Hearing Chu Sheng's words, he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Where did they go?

Upon hearing this, Xingzi, recalling Anxi's bald-headed tiger-like appearance earlier, couldn't help but suppress a laugh.

"Ignore them."

"Now that Qingqing is here, our convoy should be around here. Anxi and Qingqing are both Sequence 7, so they won't be in any danger."

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Wu nodded in realization, then looked at Chu Sheng and continued, "Then let's go eat barbecue."

"However, I must say again, this meat doesn't taste very good."

“You already said that,” Kyoko said speechlessly from the side, “No matter how bad it tastes, it’s still food.”

"We still know the value of food."

Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people.

That is to say, the time before the end of the world was a prosperous era, and people paid more attention to the taste of food.

In the past, food was just food. Whether it tasted good or bad, as long as it filled your stomach and kept you from starving, it was considered good.

Food and taste are things that the powerful and wealthy value.

For ordinary people, this is the end of the world, but how is it any different from the famines of ancient times?

Food is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain; just enough to keep people from starving is sufficient.

Upon hearing Xingzi's words, Zhuo Wu fell silent, clearly realizing the problem as well.

The three of us quickly walked to the lava where we had previously grilled the meat. At this time, the survivors who had fled earlier also returned, led by Zeng Lei.

Seeing Chu Sheng and the other two leaning against the lava looking at the roasted meat, no one said a word. They simply surrounded the three of them, watching them curiously, wondering what they were up to.

Looking at the meat scorching on the surface of the lava, Chu Sheng stroked his chin and asked in confusion, "This meat smells quite good, with a unique aroma, and it looks crispy on the outside and tender on the inside."

"Mmm!" Anzu nodded from the side, while poking the roasted meat on the lava with her finger. "Not too soft, not too hard."

"It should taste pretty good with some chili powder on it."

Hearing their conversation, Zhuo Wu sighed, "This thing is just like stinky tofu."

"However, stinky tofu smells bad but tastes good, and in some people's noses, stinky tofu doesn't actually smell bad."

"But this thing is completely different. It smells good and looks delicious, but it has a strange taste and the texture is like eating leather shoes. It can't be chewed or broken down."

"It's harder than cold roasted pork skin."

“Extremely resilient?” Chu Sheng offered a fitting description.

Upon hearing the words "extremely resilient," Zhuo Wu immediately nodded, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what I mean!"

“They’re incredibly resilient.” He looked around at the survivors who had wrapped them up, searched among them, and then pointed to the shoes of a burly man, saying, “Look!”

Chu Sheng and Xingzi looked in the direction he was pointing.

Zhuo Wu's voice reached my ears, "If it's baked and then cooled down, it will turn out like that."

What appeared to Chu Sheng and Xingzi were a pair of shoes that looked charred black, worn on their feet.

Looking at the shoes, Chu Sheng found them increasingly familiar. Finally, his gaze fell on the roasting meat sizzling on the lava, and he fell silent for a moment.

Apricot also quieted down.

Seeing the two of them, Zhuo Wu smiled, took three pieces of meat from the lava, handed one to Chu Sheng and one to Xingzi, and continued, "Here, this meat is already cooked."

"It's ready to eat."

As he spoke, he took out a small knife from his pocket, cut off a piece of meat about the size of a fingernail from the roasted meat, and put it in his mouth.

"Don't let the taste of this meat fool you, it's very filling. I can eat two of these short strips of meat, which are only a few centimeters long, and they'll keep me full all day."

“One of them can last for a whole day, about twelve hours. If they eat it and lie still, they can last for a whole day, that is, twenty-four hours.”

"It's definitely the best choice for dry rations."

"It feels like eating leather shoes."

As he spoke, Chu Sheng imitated him, but instead of using a knife, a wisp of black flame appeared on his fingernail, covering it. With a slash of his fingernail, he cut off a piece of meat the size of a fingernail and put it in his mouth.

As soon as the meat entered his mouth, Chu Sheng instantly sensed that the previously mouthwatering aroma had changed.

Instead, there's an indescribable fishy smell, a mixture of urine and pig/mutton odors, which has fermented naturally for several days, but it's not so bad that it makes you want to vomit.

Chu Sheng frowned immediately, but instead of spitting it out right away, he chewed it.

Sure enough, just as Zhuo Wu had said, it tasted like eating leather shoes.

It's not hard, but it's not very soft either. After you bite into it, it bounces back quickly, as if you've never been bitten.

I kept chewing on this piece of meat, about the size of a fingernail, but no matter how I bit it, the meat would spring back as soon as I let go of it.

After biting for about a minute, Chu Sheng lost patience and swallowed the piece of meat whole, then looked at Zhuo Wu.

Meanwhile, Zhuo Wu was still chewing on the piece of meat that had been cut off.

Seeing this, Chu Sheng took a sip of clean water from his waist to clear the fishy smell from his mouth before saying, "If it weren't for that fishy smell, this stuff would be a good substitute for chewing gum."

"It can fill your stomach and also keep you occupied."

"Mm." Zhuo Wu nodded, still chewing.

Xingzi held the meat strip but hesitated to take a bite.

Just as she was about to eat, she noticed the change in Chu Sheng's expression after he ate the piece of meat.

Although there weren't many changes, she knew Chu Sheng quite well and knew that unless there were special circumstances, Chu Sheng generally wouldn't show any changes in his expression.

The fact that Chu Sheng's expression changed was enough to prove that the meat was unpalatable, even extremely unpalatable. Looking at the strip of meat in her hand, Xingzi was filled with conflicting emotions.

On the one hand, I really don't want to eat this kind of unpalatable food, but on the other hand, I'm very curious about just how bad it is.

Just as she was pondering this, Chu Sheng, seeing her expression, assumed she didn't have the right tools. He immediately used his Black Flame to remove a piece of meat the size of a fingernail from his own strip and handed it to Xingzi.

Upon seeing the piece of meat being handed to her, Xingzi looked up at Chu Sheng, hesitated, and then accepted it.

"Be mentally prepared before you eat," Chu Sheng rarely reminded her, making Xingzi even more conflicted.

But looking at the piece of meat in her hand, and remembering that this was the first time Chu Sheng had given her food, she thought for a moment and then put the piece of meat into her mouth.

The moment the meat entered the mouth, its originally delicious aroma instantly turned into a fishy, ​​foul smell.

Xingzi's face changed, and she instinctively felt like vomiting, but she felt that this stuff wasn't that bad, so she couldn't vomit it up even if she wanted to.

After chewing for a while, Xingzi felt that the meat was still hard to chew and swallowed it directly.

As the chunks of meat went down her throat, Xingzi grinned, sticking out her tongue, trying to get rid of the fishy, ​​gamey taste in her mouth.

Seeing this, Chu Sheng handed over the gourd of clean water in his hand.

Xingzi didn't care about anything else at the moment and took several bites of the gourd directly into her mouth.

As soon as the purified water entered my mouth, the fishy smell vanished instantly, as if it had encountered its natural enemy.

Only after the fishy smell disappeared did Xingzi return the water gourd to Chu Sheng, but she still grinned and said, "This stuff tastes awful."

"I have never eaten anything so bad in my life."

As she spoke, she placed the intact piece of meat back onto the lava.

But she still asked, "Won't it break if we just leave it there like that?"

Hearing her words, Zhuo Wu stopped refusing, then swallowed the piece of meat in his mouth. Whether he had gotten used to it or didn't care about the taste, he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said, "That's one of the benefits of this kind of meat."

"It's easy to bake through, but once it's cooked, it seems to retain its temperature."

As he spoke, he seemed to remember something and continued, "I've tested this before. It takes five minutes to cook on lava, but once it's cooked, it won't spoil or burn no matter how long you cook it."

"I don't understand why either."

"Won't it spoil?" Chu Sheng turned his gaze back to the roasting meat on the lava, and placed the two pieces of meat he had cut off on it as well.

"Is it something that will never break or what?"

"It won't spoil." Zhuo Wu answered directly: "Unroasted meat will spoil in three days, but the piece of meat I experimented with took ten days to spoil."

"This is the result of the experiment, which was conducted during our rest periods while we were still traveling."

At this point, Zhuo Wu looked at Chu Sheng and continued, "I reckon if you keep roasting it over the fire, the meat won't spoil."

“What peculiar meat,” Kyoko remarked from the side. “The apocalypse is here, and all sorts of things are coming out.”

“Yes,” Zhuo Wu chimed in, “We were all shocked when we first found out how amazing this meat was.”

As the two talked, Chu Sheng seemed to be deep in thought.

After a long silence, Chu Sheng finally spoke, "It seems we won't need to worry too much about food anymore."

She was originally discussing the amazing flesh of apricots with Zhuo Wu when she heard his words and subconsciously looked at him, "Huh?"

Zhuo Wu looked at him, puzzled.

"This kind of meat is only found in this place, right?"

"If we leave this place, even if we can store some, it probably won't be much."

He assumed that Chu Sheng wanted to store this meat for emergency use and expressed his doubts.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng shook his head. "It's different."

“You haven’t been in contact with other racing teams, and you don’t have any other sources of information, so you don’t know much.”

As he spoke, he looked at Zhuo Wu and asked, "How big do you think this world is?"

"How big?" Zhuo Wu was taken aback. After thinking for a moment, he calculated according to his own understanding. "It should have gotten a bit bigger, right?"

"There is no such large group of volcanoes on Earth."

Hearing this, Chu Sheng smiled. "It's gotten bigger?"

"more than!"

"This world has twelve regions. We are in the Southern Wilderness. Our caravan has been traveling for a year and we have not yet reached the edge of the Southern Wilderness."

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Wu scratched his head.

He was illiterate. Although he read many books after the awakening sequence, they were all Taoist and Daoist books.

I don't understand the meaning behind Chu Sheng's words.

Seeing his expression, Chu Sheng sighed, "Do you know about the solar system?"

"I know that." Zhuo Wu nodded; he did know about this.

"So you know the solar system is very big, right?"

"Yes." Zhuo Wu nodded again.

"The Southern Wilderness is about the same size as the solar system, and even if it is small, it can't be much smaller."

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Wu's eyes widened as he looked at Chu Sheng in disbelief. This time, he understood.

Chu Sheng still didn't intend to let him go, "And there are twelve regions as large as the Southern Wilderness."

"It's not that the Earth has gotten bigger, but that the Earth has been broken up and integrated into this world."

"This is a new world, and this world has its own rules."

“Life can survive in the magma of a volcano, and it can provide food, even if it doesn’t taste good.”

"This is a new way of life."

"There are still minerals underground that we don't know about, and some convoys have already found these minerals."

Hearing his words, Kyoko, who was standing next to him, understood and said with a sense of realization, "So every place we go will have new food, and they exist in all sorts of ways."

"We need to discover the rules of this world, and we need to try different ways of surviving."

"Is that right?"

Chu Sheng nodded. "There are more kinds of food and more kinds of minerals. We can no longer look at this new world the way we do on Earth."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Before the apocalypse, did any of you ever imagine that life could actually exist inside lava?"

(End of this chapter)