Chapter 025 Chapter 25 Happiness Value +1000
Today, everyone in the base was shocked.
In fact, two days ago, there were vague rumors in the base that the base research institute had reproduced the instant noodles before the end of the world.
The news spread quickly because food had become something of a legend to them. They only knew about the various delicacies before the end of the world from the picture books and novels in the library.
But it is impossible to imagine the taste of something you have never eaten.
Although everyone in the base keeps their distance from each other and avoids forming close relationships, they rarely even talk to each other.
Perhaps the news that instant noodles were reproduced in the base was so shocking that everyone was very excited and couldn't help but want to share the news with people around them.
That's why the rumor spread so quickly.
But some people are skeptical, while others don't believe it at all. It is indeed hard to believe this before seeing it with your own eyes.
Today, there is a restaurant branch in each of the four directions of the base, and almost everyone's route will pass by one of these stores.
Therefore, everyone finally knew that the story of the base replicating instant noodles was actually true.
Unlike the initial quiet day when An Qing opened the restaurant, these four branches became very busy soon after opening.
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In the dim room, a woman lay on the bed in a daze, staring at the ceiling.
"In a world like this, is there really any need to live?" She moved her lips as if she was talking to someone, but in fact she was the only one in the room.
"It's boring and I'm so tired...even breathing is tiring." Yu Lili slowly closed her eyes, and a tear slid down the corner of her eye.
Why do people live? Life is so painful.
Yu Lili is a senior member of the field team 2917. She is 35 years old this year and has been on field missions since she was 18 years old. It has been 17 years now.
She is very strong and lucky. She has suffered many injuries, big and small, over the years, but she has always been alive.
But she felt that every day of her life was so shocking that she wanted to just sleep and never wake up.
Yu Lili has a good memory. She can clearly remember every teammate who died in front of her during the 17 years when she was on missions outside.
Including their names, appearances, and how they died in front of her, those scenes played frame by frame in front of her like a video.
She thought of many ways to forget these things, such as reading novels, playing games, dancing, and indulging herself, but no matter what, whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, those scenes would replay before her eyes like a nightmare.
Half a month ago, Team 2917 went on a mission again. This time they encountered a very ferocious mutated blood vine. The level of this mutated blood vine was so high that five people in their team died in this mission, and the remaining five who escaped with difficulty were seriously injured.
Two of them collapsed as soon as they returned to the base and died before they could receive treatment.
In this mission, their team was almost wiped out, leaving only three people including Yu Lili.
When Yu Lili was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, she was desperate. She didn't want to be rescued, she wanted to die.
But in the end, she was rescued, but this time her injuries were serious and she needed to rest for a while.
Because of the serious injuries, Yu Lili was discharged from the hospital only yesterday.
Before being discharged from the hospital, a psychologist gave her psychological counseling, but Yu Lili could not forget. She could not forget the teammates who were pierced and torn to pieces by the mutated blood vines, nor could she forget the teammates who had returned to the base but collapsed in front of her.
Yu Lili slowly stretched out her hand, covered her mouth with her five fingers, tightened them, and applied more force little by little.
It became increasingly difficult to breathe. My neck was being strangled, and I couldn't absorb oxygen. My brain also began to ache slightly.
However, strangling herself to death was obviously unrealistic, because in the moment when her consciousness briefly fell into darkness due to suffocation, her hands unconsciously loosened.
Yu Lili, who was almost suffocated to death, took a deep breath of oxygen, which choked her and made her cough heart-wrenchingly.
She punched the wall hard and then burst into tears.
Her cry was shrill and desperate, carrying the sorrow of wanting to die but being unable to.
I don’t know how long I cried, but Yu Lili was tired. She curled up on the bed and hugged herself tightly, as if she wanted to give herself warmth and a sense of security in this posture.
Suddenly, there was a noisy sound outside.
Yu Lili closed her eyes, tears still flowing out, and she didn't even bother to look at why there was suddenly a commotion outside.
But the noise outside was getting louder and louder, and the noisy and clamorous voices were becoming more and more deafening.
So noisy——
So annoying——
Yu Lili picked up the pillow to cover her head and ears, but still couldn't block out the noisy sounds outside.
The sound was pervasive, and despair and depression gradually turned into anger in the noise.
She threw the pillow in her hand and hit the wall with it, screaming shrilly, and threw the quilt on the bed out like crazy.
Yu Lili went crazy in the room and even overturned her own bed.
Even though there weren't many things in the room, she threw them around and made the room a mess.
She stood on the ground, gasping for breath.
The noise outside still did not subside, but seemed to be getting louder and louder.
Yu Lili took a deep breath. After venting her anger just now, she calmed down a little, but only a little.
She walked to the window, opened it and looked outside.
She lives on the third floor, which is not very high, and she can clearly see what is happening below by opening the window.
The base was rarely so noisy unless there was a fight, but now it was obvious that it was not caused by a fight.
Yu Lili looked out the window with an unclear expression.
I don’t know what happened, but there was a long queue downstairs of this building.
The queue was winding and almost filled up the entire street, but the tail of the queue was so curved that it actually extended to the end of the street. Or maybe even more, because every place she could see with her naked eyes was filled with people queuing, and maybe there were people queuing at the corner at the end of the street.
With so many people around, and they were still talking to the people around them, the street naturally became noisy.
The noise made by these people made Yu Lili more and more irritated. The anger in her heart was like a volcano about to erupt, and sparks had already begun to burst out.
She wasn't curious at all about why these people were queuing here, nor did she want to know how they were in the mood to chat with the people around them. She just wanted these people to shut up.
Bang--
Yu Lili slammed the window shut, strode out of the room, eyes blazing with anger, and quickly went downstairs.
At this moment, she had nothing in her mind and just wanted these people to shut up.
As she walked out of the building, her hands were clenched into fists.
But before she could explode, a fragrance rushed into her nose.
Yu Lili was stunned and stopped in an instant, standing there in a daze.
This was the first time Yu Lili smelled this scent, but her first feeling was that it was fragrant, very fragrant. She took a deep breath almost as if intoxicated, wanting to inhale as much of the fragrance as possible.
She had clearly never smelled this scent before, but she just thought it was fragrant. She swallowed her saliva unconsciously, and the feeling of hunger rose, and her stomach made a rumbling sound.
It was a strange smell, but the moment she smelled it, her brain gave her the feedback that it was food.
Food? How is that possible?
She quickly shook her head vigorously to get rid of the idea in her mind and stop thinking about it. Things like food could only be seen in novels.
But she couldn't help but indulge in this fragrance. When she smelled it, her previous sadness, despair and anger were just like being gently caressed by a warm hand, erasing all these emotions.
Yu Lili's heart skipped a beat as she gradually regained her composure. Now, thinking back on her previous state, she broke out in a cold sweat.
Her thoughts just now had become so extreme.
If she just didn't want to live, she could have just died, but she actually wanted to kill everyone who was making noise downstairs—
Yu Lili was still a little confused and frightened, when suddenly she caught a word among the talking crowd - instant noodles.
She patted her chest soothingly to calm her pounding heart, then pricked up her ears and listened carefully to what the group was saying.
There were so many people talking at once that the sound became a buzzing noise, and it was difficult to discern what was being said.
However, she was very close to the group of people now, and the voices of the people speaking were different. She could not hear clearly those who spoke softly, but she could hear clearly those who spoke loudly.
Soon, Yu Lili extracted shocking and incredible information from it.
She was a little dazed, her eyes wide open, and she murmured, "Instant noodles were reproduced in the base? How is this possible? Impossible..."
But with so many people outside, it shouldn't be a lie to her.
Yu Lili subconsciously looked towards the front of the team.
Because there were too many people, she couldn't see what was happening in front of her clearly, so she could only walk over to see.
The place where she came out was not far from the front of the line, so she walked over quickly. Then Yu Lili was shocked to find that there was actually a store here.
Looking at the sign of "Happiness Hotel Branch 1", Yu Lili blinked in a daze. When she came back from the hospital yesterday, there was no such restaurant here.
The fragrance she smelled before seemed to come from here.
Yu Lili subconsciously inhaled again, taking in the smell in the air into her nostrils. However, the more she smelled the smell, the hungrier she became. She subconsciously wanted to follow the smell into the store.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Don't you see the queue behind you? You can't cut in line!" A man in the queue saw Yu Lili walking straight towards the restaurant, glared at her, and immediately became anxious, shouting at her.
Now, everyone in the queue looked at Yu Lili.
"Exactly. I've been waiting in line here for so long, and it's finally my turn. You can't cut in line."
"Go line up at the back. If you dare to cut in line, don't blame me for being rude!"
"Line up, line up, no queue-jumping!"
Faced with the shared hatred of so many people, Yu Lili stopped walking forward. She looked at the restaurant and finally did not move forward. Instead, she turned around and walked towards the back of the team.
At this moment, her mind was empty and she could only remember the fragrance she had just smelled.
Is this the smell of instant noodles?
It smells so good, I wonder what it tastes like or what it feels like?
Yu Lili arrived late and waited very far in line, so it was not her turn until 6:30 in the afternoon.
Yu Lili paid three coins and successfully ate instant noodles. Tears rolled down her face like beads from a broken string, and the tears fell into the bowl of noodles.
In the main branch of Xingfu Hotel, An Qing, who had been cooking snail noodles so much that she felt like she was almost marinated in the flavor of the noodles, received a system notification sound.
[Ding——Happiness value +1000]
An Qing's hand shook and she almost dropped the pot that was half full of water.
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