"We were lucky. We had the advantage of the terrain." Yan Gu smiled bitterly. "Not completely. The tsunami almost wiped us out."

That really caught them off guard. At this moment, he didn't know whether he should be glad that he didn't retreat early or regret not making more adequate preparations in advance.

Xie Pu Rou didn't know what to say about this.

The man who looked like a chef beside him said sheepishly, "Shopkeeper, you... you want chopped green onions and chili peppers?"

"Or maybe the owner wants the oysters to be plain without the garlic?"

"I want one with the original flavor, and another with garlic, no chili, and some chopped green onions." She didn't want to eat chili today.

The cook responded enthusiastically, "Okay, it will be ready in a few minutes. Please wait."

Rong Shang followed behind and ordered some according to his taste.

Yan Gu brought Xie Pu Rou to the only large table that had just been set up.

"Shopkeeper, please sit down."

Xie Pu Rou sat down, feeling hungry and tired.

If she were asked to cook now, she would definitely not want to do it. She would just want to fill her stomach and go to bed.

It would be awkward to just sit there and say nothing, so she took the initiative to speak: "Does the base also grow peppers?"

Yan Gu smiled and said, "We live by the sea, and the humidity is quite high. Many people grow chili peppers at home. Eating something spicy can help reduce the humidity, right?"

Before Xie Pu Rou could say anything, Rong Shang came over and sat down next to them.

"The shop owner might not understand this just now, but growing these ingredients here isn't just a base. Every household grows a few on their balcony, so it's convenient to just pick them when cooking, right?"

Yan Gu clapped his hands: "That's right!"

Xie Purou shared what she had seen at other bases: "I've been to other bases, and I don't know if it's the climate or something else, but I never saw anyone growing vegetables."

"Then what do they eat?" Yan Gu and Rong Shang expressed their incomprehension.

Xie Purou didn't rush to answer their questions. Instead, she asked, "Is this all the food you people here eat? Can everyone get enough to eat?"

"Most of them can, but a small number are lazy and don't want to go into the sea." Yan Gu said.

As the base commander, he has conducted investigations in these areas.

"Even if other bases work very hard, the resources are so few that ordinary people can't even get enough to eat."

What Xie Purou said was very realistic, and it was what she had seen and heard herself, but it was also the reality before she came.

What she didn't say was that once she got to a place, most people there could get enough to eat.

"So they don't hunt?"

"I didn't see anyone running to the beach."

Two voices rang out simultaneously, and Xie Purou didn't know which one to respond to first. They were clearly in the same world, but without a phone, they had no means of communicating with the outside world. The information gap was too great.

She pursed her lips and said, "Mutants are not that easy to kill. It takes a group of people working together to kill a larger mutant beast."

"Maybe someone died along the way instead of heading to the beach? Or maybe most people wouldn't dare run that far without cars?"

Who would be willing to separate themselves from the masses and travel thousands of miles alone to the coastal areas?

Most people believe in returning to their roots, and they can’t stray too far from home. Not only are there dangers along the way, but even if they die, they can’t die in their hometown.

The precious resources and the constraints of old ideas have directly led to no one coming to the coastal areas, even though the sea is full of fat fish.

Yan Gu sighed. If it was a resource problem and fuel was in short supply, they really couldn't get that far.

The base's cook came over with two plates of grilled oysters. "Here they come, freshly grilled oysters."

According to the instructions of Base Captain Yan Gu, the two plates that just came up were for Xie Pu Rou. After the plates were placed on the table, he went back to get more.

Two more batches of oysters arrived, from Yan Gu and Rong Shang. Both of them were used to oysters.

"I'm sorry, owner. It was so hot before, so we went to the beach every day to catch fresh seafood. We only made some dried seafood to eat, but the tsunami destroyed the dried seafood, so we only have oysters left."

Now, under the protection of the cruise ships, the base is surrounded by blue water on all sides, just like living in an underwater world. Even if you want to go out to fish, you can't.

When people reach the critical point between the water and the sea water, they dare not get close, let alone touch it, for fear that a small action will cause the entire base to be flooded.

The cruise ship will provide fresh air replacement so that they won't suffocate.

Xie Pu Rou was not used to using tableware from outside, so she took out three pairs of chopsticks and a box of disposable gloves from the disposable tableware stored in the space.

Handing them the chopsticks and disposable gloves, Xie Purou put on the gloves and said calmly, "It's great that you have oysters. No need to be so polite."

The taste of the seaside is all about freshness. I don’t know how these oysters are preserved, but Xie Purou thought they were very fresh.

After eating a few, Xie Purou became curious about the difference between the grilled oysters she made and those made by others.

She didn't feel very tired anymore with someone to talk to her, and her mind was suffocating with the thought of making something delicious.

After thinking about his words, he said, "The food the chef made was delicious, but I want to go back and make some myself to try."

Before the two of them could figure out if something wasn't cooking to her liking, Xie Purou continued, "Actually, I sell food at a stall, and my cooking skills are pretty good. If you're interested, you can bring your crystal cores back to the ship with me and buy some to try."

She had said so, and she was everyone's savior, so how could they refuse? They thought since the shop owner had invited them so kindly, they should go. Patronizing business was a common thing in reality.

but……

Rong Shang grasped the key point, "Shopkeeper, didn't you say... that there is little food outside?"

As soon as he said this, Rong Shang realized that something was wrong and whispered, "No." His voice was so soft that it seemed as if he was talking to himself.

The owner is so capable, so serving just some food seems normal.

Fortunately, Yan Gu was slow to speak. If Rong Shang hadn't spoken first, he would have wanted to ask the same question.

It was an impulsive and subconscious question that came to my mind. After a few seconds, the event passed through my brain and everything became reasonable.

Yan Gu: "I'll go!"

Rong Shang: "I'm going too!"

Survivors who came over to see their benefactor asked: "Um... can we go too?"

Xie Pu Rou glanced at them, taking in all their little thoughts.

But she didn't refute it. Instead, she was looking forward to seeing them slapped in the face after eating her cooking.

"Then let's go." She turned her back and went back the way she came.

A group of people followed her in a mighty procession. Some of them did not follow her because they did not have the crystal cores with them and went home to get them.