Cheng Shaolin lowered his eyelids, looking at his hands. His left hand tapped on his leg, while his right hand still gripped the sharp dagger.

"Xiaoxiao, you guys go cook. They're hungry too. Make them something nice to eat. Thank you for your hard work."

This was the first time Li Xiao had heard Cheng Shaolin ask her to cook something delicious. She had been worried that Cheng Shaolin would take out all the good food and eat it all, leaving her with nothing.

But today, unexpectedly, I asked her to cook something delicious.

Looking at Cheng Shaolin's face turned to the side, Li Xiao could still sense that he was angry.

The coldness and ruthlessness I had never seen on his face were hidden beneath his calm facial features.

His slightly raised jawline, slightly furrowed brows, and slightly pursed lips all betrayed his suppressed anger.

Li Xiao nodded, got up, and headed towards the kitchen. Tian Tian followed her without hesitation.

"Let me go too, Xiao Peng, let's go." The beautiful Qiu pulled Xiao Peng into the kitchen. More people, more work.

Then I heard noises coming from the kitchen; things were already bustling around inside.

The other three watched as Li Xiao took out pork ribs, mushrooms, grass carp, frozen shrimp, and chilled squid from his spatial storage...

Li Xiao continued taking things out blankly, and the three of them were getting numb watching...

"Xiaoxiao, isn't this too much? You don't need to use this much at once."

Li Xiaomu nodded and stopped what she was doing.

At this moment, the cutting board was already full of food, fresh, frozen, and refrigerated. Even before the apocalypse, it was a decent meal.

Xiao Peng couldn't help but discuss with Li Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, you can't eat this much at noon, how about we save some for dinner?"

Li Xiao also realized that she had been distracted and had accumulated too much information. Since that was the case, she decided to follow Xiao Peng's advice and leave some behind.

"Well, let's leave some that can be stored."

The three of them then laughed. They really couldn't bear to finish building it all at once.

I picked out a few vegetables and cooked them quickly.

As the food was served, everyone sat down around the table and ate the most reassuring meal they had had in the past two days.

"You've worked hard for two days, eat quickly, we can talk after you eat."

Meng Yang and Shao Jie nodded; there were still things to discuss later, something everyone knew.

Looking at the dishes on the table, Shao Jie deliberately exclaimed loudly, "Ah, it's so good to be back home. Tsk tsk tsk, today's dishes are truly amazing!" His exaggerated expression made everyone laugh involuntarily.

Everyone understood that he was trying to cheer everyone up because he saw that they were in a bad mood.

Yu Yanbin gave a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, but the smile quickly vanished with his voice. "Alright, eat up."

Perhaps Shao Jie's performance eased the atmosphere, and everyone seemed to be in a much better mood.

Xiao Peng pushed the spicy squid and braised pork ribs toward Shao Jie and Meng Yang. "Eat up, come and try it."

Meng Yang inhaled the aroma wafting over and replied with a smile, "How could your cooking not be delicious? It's definitely delicious."

Shao Jie nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, how could it not taste good? It has to taste good!"

Hearing Shao Jie say that, everyone burst into laughter again.

"Mmm, so delicious! Oh, the taste is amazing!" Slurping up a piece of pork rib and licking the broth from the corner of his mouth, Shao Jie looked completely satisfied.

"Then eat more." Xiao Peng put another piece on his plate.

"Alright, alright, you guys eat too. I've already had several pieces."

The meal concluded in a harmonious atmosphere. It was already noon, so the door was closed and everyone sat down inside.

"Now that we have a pretty good understanding, let's talk about what needs to be addressed next." First up was Yu Yanbin, who was still sitting at the table, calmly arranging the things that needed to be done next.

"Uncle Meng has already explained what he knows. We're here now to arrange the follow-up matters and see how to resolve this."

"This matter is actually very simple. They've come to bully us on our doorstep, and the outside world won't tolerate it. Since they've already provoked us, we'll just have to accept it."

Yu Yanbin looked around. Everyone was listening attentively, like soldiers waiting for their mission, quietly waiting.

"Since things have already come to this, and Sun Cheng even helped us find out the details of that group, then we should just go directly to them."

"Yes, Sun Cheng helped us a lot this time, we should thank him properly. Shao Jie is right, if we're going to cause trouble, we should go to them first, and make sure everything else is arranged before we go."

Shao Jie sat up straight and looked at Yu Yanbin. "Captain, is there anything else you need to arrange?"

Yu Yanbin glanced at him and continued, "We're going to find someone this time, so we definitely won't be coming back. Since we're not coming back, everything here needs to be cleaned up."

"oh."

"Pack everything up tomorrow. We'll head north as soon as we're done. Oh, and give those things to Sun Cheng as a thank you for his help. Xiaoxiao."

Hearing Yu Yanbin calling her, Li Xiao quickly responded.

Yu Yanbin turned to Li Xiao and said, "Prepare some things for Sun Cheng later."

Li Xiao understood what Yu Yanbin meant. "Okay, I'll prepare it. Is there anything else?"

"If we just put our things away, everything will be fine."

"good".

"Okay, let's talk about what needs to be done now. Shao Jie, have you found out their daily movements?"

"Oh, their team is under base management, and they take turns every day..."

Yu Yanbin nodded after hearing this.

Then he turned to Cheng Shaolin, who had been silent, and said, "Shaolin, say something. You are the main source of power."

Cheng Shaolin glanced at him. "You mean to talk about brute force, right?"

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