At night, all members of the Coke Base returned to the cave before dawn.
As soon as they came in, they felt something strange.
Maya just came over to take their things and put them down when Tian Li pulled her aside and asked, "Why do I feel weird? Did anything happen while we were out?"
"You're back." Yu Xiaoxia came over and asked Xiang Tianli, "Did you get anything by trading crystal cores today?"
When Tian Li mentioned this, she looked dejected: "Oh, forget it. The bike broke down halfway through the journey. We had no choice but to carry it back to see if we could fix it before we could go again."
Tian Li's team is the purchasing team for this mission. Most of the members in this team are men, and Tian Li is the only girl.
Because they had searched every place they could for bicycles and only found ten, and there were only eleven boys, they had to leave two people from the Earth and Gold elements to guard the door.
Tian Li couldn't bear to waste a travel spot, and because one less person would mean one less thing to bring back, she decided to go with them.
The end of the world was not a good time, and women were inevitably in danger when they went out. However, Tian Li had a level 5 fire ability, the strongest among all the people in the Coke base. She had the ability to protect herself and could go out and trade with people from other bases.
"How did it break?" Maya squatted down and wanted to take a look at the bicycle, but the sun had set and she could not see the internal structure of the bicycle clearly.
A boy came over, who was on a mission with Tian Li. He was also quite familiar with these metal parts. "It's just normal aging. Damn the apocalypse, they keep causing trouble every day."
Tian Li pretended to be relaxed and said, "It's a pity that we didn't find anything today. We can only continue to drink the wild vegetable soup."
The girls who stayed in the cave today and did not go out smiled at each other and said, "No need, we have food, meat, rice, and delicious food."
Tian Li looked at them all suspiciously: "Did you eat some poisonous mushrooms and have hallucinations?"
Well, it's still a mass poisoning, and it's quite severe! No wonder she felt weird as soon as she came in.
"We actually found something to eat. It was a girl that Maya and Milian brought back. She actually came here to set up a stall and sell things. We bought a lot of rice dumplings."
Tian Li was skeptical. It was such a niche language, how come she couldn't understand it when everything was combined into Chinese?
"Zongzi?" She increasingly suspected they had eaten poisonous mushrooms. But given their experience, how could they make such a basic mistake? Even if they had forgotten everything the teacher had said, the book was all there, and they would have read it over and over again.
Could it be a mutated poisonous mushroom?
"Hey, Sister Tian Li, come over and take a look."
Tian Li followed him with half belief and half doubt.
But what did she see?! Boxes were packed neatly on the ground. She couldn't see what was inside, but the packaging proved that someone had been here today!
And those piles of bottled water made her feel thirsty herself.
"These……"
"We exchanged these for the herbs we grew in the cave. I didn't expect the herbs we picked were so valuable. We exchanged them for a lot of food."
Tian Li stared at the pot of braised pork with wide eyes, looking incredulous. Then she turned to look at Maya beside her and asked, "Can our herbs be exchanged for so much food?"
It must be fake!
Not to mention the rice dumplings whose authenticity is unknown, just looking at those boxes of mineral water you can tell they are worth a lot of money!
Maya rolled her eyes at her and said rudely, "The things are right in front of you. We are so many people that we can't cheat you, but we can't cheat you with the things."
"It's actually real!" Tian Li picked up a rice dumpling wrapped in a box, opened it and saw the familiar rice dumpling leaf.
The fresh fragrance of leaves wafted towards her face. She had a very sensitive nose and could definitely smell the scent of glutinous rice in the lunch box!
Her nose moved and she sniffed more carefully, there was meat!!!
Feeling some residual warmth, she was so excited that her eyes were about to turn red.
"Have you all eaten yet?"
"We had lunch. Each of us ate two or three zongzi. But we're almost hungry again now."
"Sister Tian Li, I'll go heat it up and we can eat it when everyone comes back."
Tian Li was stunned: "Does everyone have it?"
"Yes, there are so many that everyone can eat three."
Knowing what she was worried about, Maya patiently explained, "The owner said he would set up the stall again tomorrow. We can just finish eating and buy more tomorrow."
"Okay." Tian Li's mind and eyes were now filled with the rice dumplings in front of her. The bag she picked up casually contained three rice dumplings, each with a different flavor packed together. She could just take it away and it would be her portion for today.
She stopped Maya who was about to light a fire and said, "No need to heat it up, it's still hot."
Maya touched it and found it was indeed hot. She was surprised and said, "It's still hot after being left for so long. Is it because the weather is too hot? I didn't feel that way either."
"We took out all the crystal cores we collected with great difficulty. Luckily, we can exchange herbs for food, otherwise we would have missed this meal."
Tian Li and her returning team members sat by the fire and ate rice dumplings. The delicious food made them even more savorful when it entered their mouths.
"Sis, we're from the same base, so let's not be polite. It's a risk for you to take the crystal core out. We don't even feel comfortable letting you protect us."
"By the way, why don't we go out tomorrow? Let's wait for the boss to come and see if there's anything else we can buy."
Tian Li thought about it and felt that this was the truth, so she agreed.
"We won't go out tomorrow. We won't go out. We'll just wait here for the boss you mentioned to come."
The purpose of going out is also to exchange some seasonings. Since the boss is selling things, he should also have seasonings, right?
Maya casually stuffed a mouthful of Liangzong into her mouth, her eyes curved and her smile was sweet. It felt so good to have food fill both her mouth and her stomach. She wished she could always be full.
While eating, Milian talked to the members who had just returned about what happened today. When talking about prices, she asked them to guess, but unfortunately none of them guessed correctly.
There were also many people who went out to look for edible plants, firewood, etc., and they returned at this time when it was dark.
The people who came back later could smell the smell of food coming from the cave from a long distance. For people who had been eating bland food for a long time, the smell of meat and glutinous rice was amplified countless times.
That night, all the members of the Coke Base drank the drinks they bought by the fire, just like their carefree years, and talked about the future.
As they were chatting, someone suddenly said, "The owner is so kind to us, why don't we tell her our secret?"
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