Chapter 193: Cannibalism
"I heard that there was a cannibalism incident in Pengcheng, and it was eaten raw!"
"Officials found several skeletons in an abandoned building. Some of the flesh on the skeletons had been scraped clean, while others had been eaten clean."
"From the tooth marks on the skeleton, we can tell that they were left by human teeth."
Lei Minghu overheard this incident when the two soldiers were chatting.
Although food is precious, has it reached the point where we have to eat human flesh?
After hearing what Lei Minghu said, Han Ying and Lu Yuan looked at each other. In the apocalypse, human flesh is also a kind of food for some people.
But they didn't expect it to appear so early.
"So you must be careful when you go out, and I will try to leave the base as little as possible."
If Lei Minghu hadn't been unable to buy cockroach medicine from official sources, he wouldn't have come back today.
But the most important thing was that he also had a knife and the crossbow that Han Ying gave them.
Otherwise he wouldn't dare go out alone.
"Thanks for the reminder, we will be careful."
Although they had anticipated the cannibalism incident, they were still grateful to Lei Minghu for sharing the news with them.
"By the way, we recently did some business with the people at the night market and exchanged some potatoes and insect repellent from them."
"Bring some back to the base later, and ask Brother Lei to bring some to my teacher as well."
Han Ying had already brought the things over when she went home to get the keys.
Han Ying put potatoes, cockroach medicine, anti-itching cooling oil and a few pieces of cactus in the two bags.
That day, Qin Qinghai gave a handful of points to Han Ying. Han Ying came back and counted them, and there were a total of 4300 points.
When Lei Minghu returned, Lu Yuan gave him a beekeeping suit, saying that he had exchanged it at the night market and it was very effective in repelling mosquitoes.
Although it is not needed now, Lei Minghu has always been very safety conscious. He is worried that if things continue like this, mosquitoes will become rampant.
In addition to the beekeeping suit, Lu Yuan also wanted to give him the keys to the stairs and corridor, but Lei Minghu refused.
Lei Minghu said that he could only come back a limited number of times, and if one more key was leaked, it would be more dangerous.
Since they don't live here anymore, there's no need to share.
However, Lei Minghu did take a key to his house.
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Just now at the gate of the community, Han Ying gave Ge Jiaojiao the order to exchange points for crawlers.
After packing up her stall, Ge Jiaojiao went straight home.
I returned home and told my family about it, and they immediately started cleaning the house.
I closed the bathroom, blocked the drains, and then removed the ceiling. In an instant, cockroaches fell everywhere.
Several fat rats fell down among them.
After the mouse is cooked, there is still some meat that can be eaten, so it should be put separately after being caught.
While the family was catching cockroaches, Ge Jiaojiao also told the incident to several families around them.
But it was she herself who was going to collect the reptile's corpse, not Han Ying.
One pound of reptile corpses can be exchanged for 1 point, and it will be needed in two hours.
Han Ying offered her a price of 1.5 points for 1 kilogram, but she wanted to make some money before others knew about it.
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"I didn't expect that there would be cannibalism now. What do you think?"
After Lei Minghu left, the two returned to Han Ying's house, and Lu Yuan helped Gou Zi take off his thermostatic suit.
"I feel like the order in this life is much better than the last life. How come the cannibalism incident happened earlier?"
Han Ying only heard about the cannibalism incident in her previous life when the extreme heat was almost over, and now the insect plague hasn’t even really begun.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to the government keeping supplies under its control.
The downside is that extreme people become even more extreme.
"Are you collecting those bugs with the intention of selling them to the authorities?"
Lu Yuan wanted to ask when he was outside the community just now, but it was not convenient at that time.
In the previous life, many bases and shelters distributed a free piece of multi-grain cake every day.
But are multi-grain cakes really made of multi-grain?
There is also some insect powder mixed in the multi-grain cakes!
Of course, these insect powders have undergone special official processing.
Some harmful substances inside are removed, including some germs and pesticides.
"Well, I think there will be news from the base in a while."
In her previous life, there was a time when Han Ying couldn't even get enough to eat a multi-grain biscuit, so she didn't care whether insect powder was added to the biscuit.
In fact, after special processing, insect powder can not only fill the stomach but also has good nutrition.
In the previous life, the major bases relied on those grain insect powder cakes to feed countless people.
"That thing is too disgusting. I'll collect it later."
Lu Yuan never forgot the pale face Han Ying looked at when she saw the cockroaches all over the floor that day.
Although she recovered quickly, she was actually still disgusted by these things.
"It's okay, let's go together."
Han Ying was scared when she saw the cockroaches all over the floor, but it was just because she was thinking about the past.
In fact, she had long been forced to no longer be afraid of insects.
The two chatted about the insect plague while eating a table full of delicious food.
To be honest, these topics have no effect on their appetite at all, because they have already experienced it once.
After finishing their meal, they looked at the time. It was already 4 o'clock, and it probably wouldn't be long before dawn.
Because there must be a lot of food smell left on their bodies after just finishing their meal, they both went back to their rooms and took a shower.
After dawn, the two went downstairs on time and came to the stairs on the 25th floor.
They saw Ge Jiaojiao and a middle-aged man who should be her husband, already waiting there.
There were two large barrels beside them, filled with some reptiles, mostly cockroaches.
"Put it in a bag."
Han Ying opened the door and handed them a few bags.
It looks like there are quite a lot of them. I estimate that they have caught at least one third of the cockroaches in the entire building.
What Han Ying didn't know was that in addition to catching them in their own home, they also collected them from their neighbors.
They plan to look for unoccupied houses tomorrow.
Some of those houses still have wooden floors, so there must be a lot of things hidden underneath.
Ge Jiaojiao and her husband poured all the reptiles in the bucket into the bags, filling three full bags.
Han Ying took out a hook scale and weighed the three bags separately.
Wow, it weighs a total of 6.6 kilograms!
Most of the 6.6 kilograms are cockroaches, and these are not all the stocks in the entire building.
There are even more cockroaches hiding.
Han Ying directly gave them 10 points for the 6.6 kilograms.
Seeing the 10 points they received, Ge Jiaojiao and her husband were very excited.
Ge Jiaojiao had been setting up a stall for several days but didn't earn a single point, but they earned 10 points just by catching cockroaches for two hours.
Of course, the 5 points paid to others will also be deducted.
But they still made a net profit of 5 points.
Suddenly, the two of them became full of energy and determined to catch more cockroaches tomorrow.
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