Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

The top floors of banks used to be the exclusive domain of senior executives.

After walking down from the executive offices here, you'll pass the innovation lab, as well as the administration, human resources, and operations departments.

However, these places are now deserted, with only scattered papers and overturned filing cabinets remaining, telling the story of the chaos that occurred during the disaster.

The two new girls didn't try to get closer, perhaps because Taozi thought it would be too much trouble to go up and down without an elevator. They set their sights on a private office in the lower-middle-level personal loan department.

As Zhao Jia went downstairs, he silently calculated that there were still quite a few empty offices in the building, which could accommodate many more survivors.

If Bai Shuyuan's plan to cultivate Chlorella is reliable. However, according to her previous statement, the cultivation of this Chlorella is quite simple, so there shouldn't be any problems.

The group eventually went down to the Chlorella cultivation room on the eighth floor, which was probably originally the independent office of a large project.

The temporary generator has been connected to the power grid. The large LED floodlights that were previously removed from the rooftop helipad are illuminating the area very brightly.

The room was filled with a smell similar to seaweed, but slightly stronger.

The original tables and chairs had been completely cleared out by Bai Shuyuan, and replaced with many huge, semi-transparent plastic buckets.

Each bucket contained a murky, eerie, dark green liquid.

Then, Bai Shuyuan took out two samples of Chlorella from a table to the side.

A dark green paste, undried, was placed in a beaker and emitted a strong grassy smell.

The other portion had dehydrated and solidified into hard lumps the size of a finger, which looked quite unpleasant to chew.

"This green puddle, and this lump that looks like it could break my back teeth..."

"...No, Xiaobai, are you sure you can put this in your mouth?" Xia Zhaozhao leaned forward with a look of disgust.

"It has passed toxicity tests and has a complete range of nutritional components, so there's no reason why it shouldn't be eaten."

Then, Bai Shuyuan took the lead, personally picking up a small piece of hard material and putting it in her mouth, and then using a laboratory spoon to scoop up a little bit of the paste and taste it.

"..."

Then, without saying a word, she turned around, walked quickly to the corner of the wall, turned her back to everyone, and began to shrug her shoulders in a restrained manner.

Xia Zhaozhao stared in disbelief, and after a long while, she complained to Zhao Jia:

"Wow, Xiaobai can keep a straight face even when he's throwing up, that's amazing."

However, seeing this situation only made Xia Zhaozhao more curious, with a look of "I won't shed a tear until I see the coffin."

"Is it really that exaggerated? I don't believe it."

After saying that, she stretched out her finger, boldly dipped it into the green paste, and put it into her mouth without hesitation.

The next second, her facial features instantly contorted into a grimace.

"shit?!"

She immediately rushed to the corner and, leaning against the wall, dry heaved for a long time. After recovering, she weakly muttered, "No, this stuff tastes worse than shit..."

"Like a smelly sock soaked in gasoline... Oh right, I'm almost out of socks, remember to come with me to look for some."

"Why don't you just wear slippers?" Zhao Jia ignored her.

After Xia Zhaozhao recovered, a malicious smile immediately appeared on her face.

She grabbed Zhao Jia and shoved him in front of that indescribable thing, enthusiastically urging him on:

"Come on, let's share the good times and the bad! You should try it too!"

……

After tasting it, Zhao Jia looked at the green lump of stuff with lingering fear.

He said weakly, "I never imagined that in my lifetime we would actually encounter a scene from a 20-year-old cartoon where the food is 'terrible'."

"Then Zhao Jia fell into deep thought: 'Oh my God! To be honest, I'd much rather encounter a classic swimsuit episode than this kind of development.'"

"..." Zhao Jia raised his hand to tap Xia Zhaozhao, who was reading aloud, but she easily dodged it with a playful smile.

Sasha, standing to the side, watched them curiously and, imitating Xia Zhaozhao, dipped her fingertip in the liquid.

The moment she took a bite, her eyes instantly lost their clarity, looking pitiful, with tears even welling up in the corners.

The next second, her entire form collapsed, revealing her true form, which degenerated into a fleshy ball covered in eyeballs.

The fleshy ball extended a thin tentacle, trembling as it reached towards the clump of algae, and began to slowly devour it.

The entire ball of flesh convulsed violently as it was being eaten, as if it were undergoing torture.

Looking at Sasha's miserable state, Zhao Jia sighed, "It seems that the awfulness of this stuff is on a conceptual level."

"In other words, this is simply a product of the concept of 'unpalatable'."

"Yeah, yeah," Xia Zhaozhao echoed, still shaken.

"I think even if Cthulhu Benru tasted this rubbish, his SAN value would probably drop drastically, and he would be screaming Fhtagn while rolling on the ground crying and running back to R'lyeh to find his mother."

She turned to Bai Shuyuan: "Xiaobai, you're so amazing, do you have any way to temporarily block out your sense of taste?"

Bai Shuyuan calmly shook her head, rejecting her suggestion.

"Sigh, although this is indeed a model, we can't eat shit every day..." Xia Zhaozhao pondered.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she looked at Zhao Jia excitedly: "Oh right, don't you know how to use ice?"

"Why don't you coat this thing with a layer of ice first, then we can swallow it whole like a capsule?"

"Although it sounds outrageous, it does seem to be a feasible solution."

So, he immediately transformed into Little Green's form.

Little Green used its magic to wrap those finger-sized, dry, hard lumps in a thin layer of ice, making their surfaces incredibly smooth, like capsules.

After doing all this, she picked up a pill and swallowed it cleanly and decisively, just like taking medicine.

Everyone waited for a while.

Little Green didn't seem to react much, indicating that in that case, it was indeed basically impossible to taste anything.

"Yay!" Xia Zhaozhao cheered and immediately picked up another chilled algae to imitate her.

Then, something suddenly occurred to her: "But... if I keep swallowing like this, won't I get diarrhea and vomiting? It doesn't seem like it's good for my sensitive stomach..."

Bai Shuyuan then slowly spoke up: "Emergency food should first and foremost be food. It seems that chlorella can only serve as a temporary nutritional supplement for now."

"However, we at least brought back other crop seeds from the seed bank, many of which are relatively suitable for hydroponics."

"I don't think it's necessary to give up like this," Xiao Lü interjected. "Many things taste terrible when eaten raw, like konjac."

"So, you mean, cook it before eating?"

……

However, in the end, the group disgustedly dumped all the unpalatable food onto the deformed child they had captured first.

The deformed fetus tried to swallow a mouthful, and its body trembled violently before it instantly shrank back.

"It's alright," Bai Shuyuan said, "it will eat on its own when it's almost starving to death."

The group had tried various methods, even calling on all the remaining survivors, but nothing had worked against it.

Whether you knead the dough, make soup, or deep-fry it, in the end, you can only turn it into smelly socks soaked in gasoline and with different flavors.

Ultimately, Bai Shuyuan stated that she would try to extract the unpalatable components through distillation or centrifugation to study which components contain them.

It seems we'll have to take a long-term approach. Fortunately, we still have a relatively sufficient amount of food left, Zhao Jia thought to himself.