Chapter 87

After the tough battle the day before yesterday, all three of them were seriously injured, and their only healer was nowhere to be found, with no sign of him alive or dead. They could only wait for their injuries to heal on their own.

Among the three, only Bayard had a certain recovery ability, but the conversion rate was terribly low. Even after sucking the blood and flesh of the three people dry, he was only barely able to recover from serious injuries to minor injuries.

The three of them sat around the fire. Now that the helicopter was destroyed, there was no way to go back. Their employer and the team's therapist were also missing. It was like adding insult to injury. For a moment, the three of them didn't know what to do.

Just as Neil was worrying about what to do next, his stomach started to growl.

Neil covered his stomach embarrassedly. He hadn't eaten for two days and his stomach felt like it was on fire. However, they didn't bring much food with them before they set out, and Neil didn't dare to ask the other two for food. After all, they had been hungry for a long time, and Neil didn't expect them to share the few foods they had with him.

The captain silently stirred the firewood, took out a pack of compressed biscuits from his pocket and threw it to Neil. Neil almost didn't catch it in his panic, and it almost slipped out of his hand and fell into the fire. Fortunately, he managed to grab the pack of biscuits in the end.

Neil held the bag of biscuits in both hands as if he had found a treasure, and looked at the captain with surprise, who had not said a word the whole time. However, the captain did not seem to care about it, but continued to stir the fire, as if he had something on his mind.

Neil opened the package with gratitude and took a bite. The dry taste instantly brought Neil back to reality.

Not tasty...

The first feeling when you put it in your mouth is that it is dry. It is not the crispy taste of ordinary biscuits, but like a lump of soil mixed with flour. As soon as you put it in, it starts to absorb the moisture in your mouth crazily. Your mouth and lips are covered with powder. Needless to say, the taste is powdery and granular, and it is difficult to bite.

The taste is salty and spicy, like eating pepper mixed with salt.

Neil was choked by the powder and the strange taste and started coughing. Bayard, who was wiping his scimitar at the side, took a look and sneered.

"Neil, are you starving? You're just eating something raw that needs to be cooked?"

"What?"

Neil tore open the package of compressed biscuits and saw a line of small words next to the large product name.

Add hot water and soak before eating.

So this is actually a pack of instant food.

Neil's expression changed again and again, while the captain beside him remained silent.

His stomach protested again. For dinner, Neil reluctantly dug out an iron lunch box from his bag, threw the compressed biscuits in, filled it with water, and placed it beside the fire. He stirred it with a spoon from time to time to make the compressed biscuits disperse faster.

After cooking for about three or four minutes, the compressed biscuits in the iron box had turned into a paste, which looked a lot like oatmeal porridge with a little less water.

Neil carefully took the lunch box out of the fire and put a paper towel under it to keep it warm before he dared to pick up the iron lunch box.

Neil stirred the paste with a spoon. He still looked unappetizing, but his stomach wouldn't let him be picky anymore.

After scooping up a spoonful of paste and blowing it to cool, Neil closed his eyes and put the paste into his mouth.

What made him feel relieved was that the cooked compressed biscuits were not very unpalatable and the taste was still acceptable. There was enough salt and pepper in it to make the paste taste good. It was just that the taste was too monotonous. After eating a few bites, his stomach felt a little full, so it was not too uncomfortable. Neil didn't want to eat it anymore.

"Captain, when can we go back?"

Neil mustered up the courage to ask the captain who had been silent for a long time. The captain paused while stirring the firewood and turned to look at Neil.

"You want to go back?"

"I, I didn't mean that. I just wanted to ask," Neil unconsciously tightened his grip on the spoon handle, "and Lina hasn't been found yet..."

"Linna?" Bayard chuckled. "She'd probably have been killed by the exploration team long ago. Even if she hadn't been captured by the exploration team, she would have encountered a distorted creature."

"Bayard!"

"What's wrong? Am I wrong?"

Bayard leaned against the tree trunk behind him, crossed his legs, and said, "Lina's only ability is to command you. If you really let her go, I guess she wouldn't even be able to hold a knife steady. Besides her special ability, what else is she valuable for? If it weren't for the high growth rate and rarity of her special ability, people like her who are always crying, making a fuss, and threatening to commit suicide would have been eliminated from the mercenary industry long ago."

Neil's face turned red with anger, but he didn't dare to say anything bad to Bayard directly. However, when he saw Bayard's contemptuous look, he couldn't help but get angry.

"Okay, now that Lina's gone, is it your turn to bicker?"

The quarrel died down instantly, and both of them turned their heads away, not wanting to see each other.

"We can't go back to the base," the captain said, throwing branches into the fire. "This place is too far from the base. There's no transportation. We can only walk back. The risk is too high and it's not worth it."

Because there has been no one outside the base for many years, the original man-made terrain has been affected. It may be a mudslide that buried the mountain road, or a flood that flooded some areas, or it may be a steep mountain wall caused by an earthquake.

Many places were originally passable, but after ten years of no one taking care of them, they have returned to their original natural state.

Not to mention four-wheel drive vehicles, even two-wheeled motorcycles can only move around near the base. It is difficult to move forward a little further. The randomly distributed trees and unpredictable terrain make it difficult to enter an unknown area without prior exploration. If a vehicle enters an unknown area, those who are unlucky will directly suffer the loss of life and death.

But there was no point in thinking about these things. Even if the three of them wanted to find some means of transportation, they couldn't find any. In the wilderness, it was difficult to get enough food.

Thinking that he would be hungry more often in the future, Neil ate up all the porridge that was not very tasty.

Bayard opened the two backpacks and poured out all the contents. There were quite a few things inside, including a high-intensity flashlight, a Swiss Army knife, a mirror, sterile patches, paper and pen, ropes, and various small gadgets. It can be said that there was everything you could think of, except for a sleeping bag.

"Fuck, it's all garbage. I took so long to carry it around."

Bayard threw two black backpacks to the ground and stepped on them twice. He originally wanted to see if there were any sleeping bags or other things inside, but it turned out that they were all small bits and pieces. They might be useful to ordinary people, but to them, they were pure garbage.

"Didn't you find anything valuable?"

"No," Bayard replied to the captain, "Those three don't even have special abilities. They're probably just low-level scum, called in to make up the numbers. They don't have anything valuable in their bags."

As if he had thought of something, Bayard's frown relaxed and he lay back down.

"Those grown men in the base are still so pretentious. They actually called in a bunch of noobs to do the work. I thought they were so powerful."

"Tsk, then you're still injured." Neil muttered.

"What did you say, little brat?"

Bayard glanced at him coldly, and Neil shut his mouth instantly, regretting that he had spoken out his true feelings again.

The people chasing them were far inferior to them in strength, but they had more people than them. The human wave tactics alone were enough to defeat them. Bayard was besieged and seriously injured by a group of people weaker than him. He was already feeling aggrieved and uncomfortable, and now he was openly ridiculed by Neil. Bayard was so angry that he wanted to drag Neil away to teach him a lesson.

"Captain! Captain, save me!"

Neil was so scared that he almost cried. He had no fighting ability at all now. If he faced Bayard again, he would only be beaten!

When Lina injected him with the potion, he just wanted to wait until the battle was over and let Lina treat him. After all, mercenaries had used that thing many times. But now Linna is gone!

Although the drug has been improved and will not cause instant death after injection, there are a lot of side effects.

For example, he is now completely unable to use his supernatural powers.

If a person with super powers is compared to an egg, a normal person with super powers is a complete, round and plump egg that needs to be hit to crack, while he is an egg that has been hollowed out and carved, and the eggshell may shatter into pieces at any time. What is the difference between using super powers at this time and committing suicide!

Bayard was also aware of this, so his attitude towards Neil was even worse than before.

Fortunately, the captain took timely action to stop such a bad incident within the team.

The captain held his long sword across Bayard's face, warning him not to touch him again.

Bayard's gaze gradually shifted to the captain's face. With a half-smile on his face, he jokingly asked, "Captain, you've been seriously injured, haven't you?"

The captain did not respond to his provocation, but just looked at him coldly.

The two men's eyes met for a moment, their gazes like knives, silently clashing. Suddenly, Bayard put his arm around the captain's shoulder.

"Hey, I'm just concerned about you, why are you taking it so seriously, hahahahahahahahaha."

The captain brushed his hand away and sat back with Neil.

"Go to bed early, we will start our journey tomorrow."

"Hurrying?" Neil asked the captain in confusion, "Where are we going? Isn't it impossible to return to the base?"

"To Dawn Base."

The captain looked up at the sky and could only vaguely see a little starry sky through the gaps between the leaves.

"This place isn't too far from Dawn Base, so it's more practical to walk there."

Going to a completely unfamiliar place, the worst that could happen is that you have to start from scratch, and you will be able to make a comeback sooner or later. But if you insist on going back to the Dawn Base, you might die on the way.

When you lose your life, you lose everything.

The three of them each found a place that was some distance apart but not too far, and fell asleep with their own ulterior motives.

*

On the way, Yu cut the tender white meat into thin strips as thick as fingers, and then cut it into sections so that it would be easier to season.

Because there is a lot of meat in the trunk, Lu Shiyu plans to divide it into two dishes, one for stir-frying and the other for making soup.

First, the soup takes time to make. Lu Shiyu heats the pan and beats in two eggs. When the oil is hot, fry the eggs until golden brown. Pour water in and wait for the water to boil before adding the chopped mushrooms and tofu. The tofu needs to be cut into slices of appropriate thickness, and the mushrooms only need to be cut in half.

After letting these ingredients simmer in the pot with the lid on for a while, you can add the vegetables and tender meat, mix them together with a spoon, and then add appropriate amount of salt and pepper for the final seasoning.

After pouring the soup out of the pot, sprinkle a little chopped green onion on it, and a bowl of tofu and mushroom soup is ready!