— To claim oneself as a higher-dimensional being and to manipulate the fate of humanity at will is an act of extreme arrogance and complacency.
Those who disregard life will eventually pay the price for their actions.
"Probably. When City A fell, many survivors scattered and fled to other survivor bases. Our Hope Base also received a lot of refugees."
Xiao Ding deftly tore off the root of the mutated potato in his hand and casually asked:
"Yu Lu, do you have any friends at the base in City A? Do you need me to ask them for you?"
Xu Milu shook her head: "No, I was just asking casually."
For her, she had only been gone for a year or two, but for the two children, she had been gone for a full nine years.
Nine years is enough to change a lot of things.
Moreover, her current appearance is so different from her original form that Xu Milu believes that even if she walked up to the two children, they would definitely not recognize her.
"Oh, I thought you knew someone at the A City base. Sigh, my classmate's parents are at the A City base. When we heard that the A City base was wiped out by the zombie horde three months ago, we were all sad for her for a long time."
Xiao Ding seemed to enjoy chatting with people, so she didn't mind Xu Milu's "weird" appearance in other people's eyes at all, and was even willing to tell her some little-known perks:
"Don't underestimate the small amount our temporary food truck contributes each day; we actually generate extra income."
For example, if the pioneering team wants food that isn't on the menu, they have to pay extra contribution points. However, they haven't found any good ingredients these past few days. The only good thing they found a few days ago was a patch of mutated corn, but it was completely dry, and they didn't know how to cook it.
Xu Milu looked in the direction Xiao Ding pointed and sure enough, she saw half a basket of dried-up corn cobs in the corner of the food cart.
—These corns have also mutated; instead of neatly arranged kernels on the cylindrical corn cobs, they now have individual semi-circular yellow granules, each about the size of an orange.
These particles are sparse, spaced a few centimeters apart, and look like the circular patterns on a ladybug's body.
Xu Milu looked around and found a bottle of sea salt in the storage area:
"Dried corn kernels are delicious too, how about we make some corn porridge?"
Xiao Ding hesitated for a moment: "Just add salt? Will that taste good? Besides, it'll be too tough to chew."
Xu Milu shook her head, reached out and broke off a kernel of corn, chewed it, and after tasting the faint starch flavor, affirmed, "It's edible, let me try it."
Xiao Ding agreed without even thinking about it.
The food cart was full of automated kitchen equipment. She usually just threw the prepared ingredients into the food processor. If the other person wanted to try it, let him try it. Anyway, that basket of dried-up mutated corn was going to be thrown away anyway.
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