Chapter 240: Dinner is ready

Thinking that he would have to continue digging in the afternoon, Xiang Yu ate three bowls of rice in a row, and used the last bit of shredded pork with green peppers to mix with the rice.

The stir-fried vegetables were all eaten, but there was still a little pork rib soup left.

After finishing his meal, he took out the deodorizing spray that he had made in his spare time from the space and sprayed the entire tunnel with it.

Xiang Yu continued to dig.

In the afternoon, when the backpack was filled with a lot of crushed ore, she pulled the backpack out. At this time, the cargo boxes were already full of more than forty.

Just a dozen more to go before it's completely completed.

The crushed ore was poured in, making clanging sounds. Xiang Yu turned his head and looked around. Some elderly survivors were leaning against the wall to rest.

The weather was too hot and they were always tired and hungry, so their bodies were already at the end of their strength.

"Hey, old man, if you don't work and just lie here to rest, the boxes will be filled. Aren't you just being lazy?"

One of them pointed at his nose and cursed him angrily. He was also very tired, but thinking that the cargo box was not full yet, he could not stop to rest.

This guy just lies here.

"If everyone is like you, then we'd rather not eat this meal," he said, getting angrier and angrier, and he picked up the old man who was resting.

"Get up and work. You want to wait and eat for free, right?" After the man lifted the old man up, he looked at other elderly people who were resting.

He walked over and lifted up all the elderly people who were resting. "All of you get up and work. There are still more than a dozen boxes to be filled. Don't be lazy here."

If we are going to work, we should all work together. What does it mean for these people to take a break halfway through the work?

"Young man, please be kind and let my old bones rest for a while. I have already carried ten baskets today. My hands and feet hurt, and my eyes are not good anymore."

"Yes, let's take a rest. I really can't move anymore," another old woman continued.

But the man ignored them, "Who here is not tired? Do you feel ashamed to do this every day? Then eat less when you eat later."

The old men had no choice but to continue digging. Xiang Yu listened halfway and went in to continue digging.

After having dinner in the tunnel at six o'clock in the afternoon, she came out dragging a basket of broken ore.

More people means easier work. At this time, more than 60 cargo boxes were already full, and they did not foolishly continue to pour the extra ore into the cargo boxes.

Instead, they were quietly piled up in the tunnel. At half past six, the lifting chain above the volcanic crater slowly started to move.

The cargo boxes filled with ore rose little by little until the people on top counted all the ore.

A voice came from the loudspeaker below, "You've done a good job today, let's eat."

Soon, ten cargo boxes were lowered to the ground via the elevator. The elderly people were very experienced in this and quickly ran to the cargo boxes.

These ten cargo boxes were filled with several large barrels, all of which were filled with porridge. As for the vegetables inside, no one knew where they came from. They seemed to be leftovers of other people.

Anyway, they have nothing to eat outside all day, and the environment now is different from before, so they don’t feel any burden at all to eat other people’s leftovers.

Everyone was already tired after a long day, and the number of bowls and chopsticks was limited, so some people couldn't get any at all.

But they wanted to eat, so they didn't care about anything else and reached into the buckets of food.

Just scoop it out and eat it. These days, it’s good enough to have something to eat, and no one will be picky.

There is no one who cannot let go of his face. After all, who would be picky about food these days?

Xiang Yu also squeezed into the crowd, grabbed some food and ran out, squatting in the corner with the backpack in front of him.

She looked at the food in her hand. These leftovers were probably brought from the cafeteria in City B.

Everyone was scrambling for the food voraciously. Almost no one touched the bowls and chopsticks, and they just started eating with their hands.

Xiang Yu looked at the vegetable leaves in his hand, which still had some pepper skin stuck on them, and he had no appetite at all.

The old woman next to her had finished the food in her hand and was staring at the direction of the cargo box. She was no longer young and her physical strength was not as good as before.

If you want to squeeze in and grab some food now, you can probably only get some scraps.

After all, the little thing in his hand was food, and it would be a pity to throw it away. Xiang Yu walked towards the old man.

He scraped the food in his hand onto hers and said, "You eat it, I've already eaten," Xiang Yu pretended to be full.

"Thank you, thank you," the old man kept saying thank you, and then he started eating the food in his hand, even though he had already finished it.

She also licked the palm of her hand that had held the food repeatedly, licking every bit of residue on it into her mouth.

Some of the people squeezed in the front ate very full, while those squeezed in the back were only half full, and some people were lying on the edge of the cargo box.

They reached out and scooped up the little scraps that remained at the bottom of the bucket.