Seeing that people were either attracted here or looking over here while sitting in their seats, Lu Youjie felt very proud. He picked up a sweet potato, not caring about the heat, and gently broke it open. The delicate orange-yellow sweet potato flesh was exposed to the air with steam, and the sweet aroma drifted unrestrainedly in the room.
"Gudong!" Lin Man heard the sound of someone swallowing saliva and couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound. Aren't all the people here psychics? Shouldn't psychics live better than ordinary people? Do they need to swallow so much at the sight of a sweet potato?
She met a tall and thin boy behind Lin Cheng. The boy didn't look very old, only about twenty years old. Standing behind Lin Cheng, he should be his subordinate. Lin Man secretly thought that Lin Cheng was abusing his subordinates or something, which made him so thin.
He noticed Lin Man's gaze, smiled shyly, and then his expression became serious, like a soldier standing guard.
Someone here asked in surprise: "Lu Youjie, where did you get this sweet potato?"
Lin Mancai then realized that the long-faced man was called Lu Youjie.
Lu Youjie, seemingly modest but not at all modest, said he got a batch of sweet potatoes by chance: "It cost me a lot of money...Everyone come and try some, there are not many, everyone should try it."
Lin Man thought to herself that the buyer Zhao Hengshui was looking for should be Lu Youjie. She was a little curious about what kind of blood Lu Youjie had and how much more valuable it was than the old hen and linen she had obtained.
There were only a dozen sweet potatoes in total, and there were twenty or thirty people in the room, so it was naturally impossible for each person to eat one. However, sweet potatoes are large, so it doesn't look shabby if one is broken into pieces and shared by two or three people.
It has been seventeen years since the apocalypse, and food production has been declining or even non-existent for several years. Even these powerful psychics in the northern base can only eat newly developed new types of food that have undergone several genetic modifications and whose safety is still questionable. It is good enough to fill them up, and the taste is not worth mentioning.
Therefore, none of these people with special abilities thought that sharing the sweet potatoes was not nice, and they were all very enthusiastic, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Lin Man didn't expect to eat it herself. She didn't care about it. She was tired of it. She didn't eat boiled sweet potatoes anymore. If she had to eat it, she would eat roasted sweet potatoes. They were more fragrant and tasted better.
Originally, she was planning to make a batch of dried sweet potatoes so that she could eat a piece whenever she was hungry or craving for them. This would be much more convenient than eating the sweet potatoes directly. However, an old hen had just arrived in the space and was still in the novelty stage, running around everywhere every day. She was afraid that the dried sweet potatoes would get covered with chicken feathers when drying, so she put the plan on hold.
Suddenly, half a hot sweet potato appeared in front of me.
She looked up in surprise, and Lin Cheng handed her half a sweet potato: "Try it too."
He was the only person present who was given a whole sweet potato, besides Lu Youjie, the sweet potato owner. Lin Manxin thought that he either had a special status or was very capable. She shook her head: "No, I don't want to eat it."
When Lu Youjie saw this, he said, "Lin Cheng, you eat your own food. Little girl, we are from the same base, so I will share mine with you."
He generously gave Lin Man one half of the sweet potato he had split during the display. Lin Man watched intently, and he hesitated for a moment before finally giving up the smaller one, a look of pain in his eyes.
Lin Man was speechless. She saw that there was something black under his nails, which were stained with sweet potato flesh. She didn't want to take the sweet potato at all.
"Need not……"
"If you don't eat it, you're not giving me face." Lu Youjie stuffed the sweet potato into Lin Man's hand generously, not giving Lin Man any chance to refuse.
Lin Man: “…”
She had no choice but to say "thank you" and gave Lin Cheng an apologetic smile. It was not that she rejected yours but accepted someone else's, but that it was hard to refuse the other person's kindness.
Lin Cheng smiled and gave the two halves of the sweet potato to the thin man behind him: "Take it and share it with them."
The thin man shared a sweet potato with a few others and only got a bite or two. When he heard this, his eyes lit up: "Boss, you don't want to eat it?"
"No, go ahead."
"Hey!" The thin man went out happily. Lin Man couldn't help but look at Lin Cheng again, and then looked at the sweet potato in his hand with some worry. Lu Youjie used too much force, and the sweet potato was steamed too much and was very soft. Several fingerprints were left on it, the skin cracked, and the sweet potato flesh was squeezed out. Thinking of Lu Youjie's dirty hands, Lin Man couldn't eat it at all.
It's strange to say, she had no idea how many dirty foods she had eaten before, but since she started eating the food in the space, she could no longer tolerate unclean food. Just like she now has the conditions to take a shower every day and wash her hair and take a shower every few days, she absolutely cannot bear to go back to the state where she couldn't wash herself for several months.
She seemed serious but lacked interest as she studied the sweet potatoes. She listened to Lu Youjie's boasts and asked this and that, "Are they delicious? Hey, I wanted to cook a few more, but they say they can be used as seeds, and the base urgently asked me to send someone back, so I didn't dare keep too many."
Everyone's faces changed when they heard this, and they started praising Lu Youjie, not knowing whether it was true or false, and asked about the details.
Lu Youjie was extremely proud, but he changed the subject and talked about how much effort he had put in and how many risks he had taken to get this batch of sweet potatoes. He made it sound as if he had just mined a mountain of gold and silver after escaping death.
Lin Man raised her eyelids and rolled her eyes subtly. How could she not know that her sweet potatoes had gone through such a torrent of twists and turns?
Everyone was a little fed up with listening, but in order to get some useful information, they had no choice but to listen and even praise him when it was important.
Lin Man was somewhat amused by what she heard. Seeing this group of people with special abilities holding her family's sweet potatoes and chewing them happily without any image, and being so excited about the pile of sweet potatoes that she lost herself in excitement, she suddenly felt... these people were no longer as high and mighty as the legend said. She even developed an inexplicable sense of superiority.
She was watching a show, and someone was watching her.
Lin Cheng found it very interesting. Everyone here was attracted by the sweet potatoes. People who usually paid great attention to their appearance were even trying hard to peel them, unwilling to waste a single bit. However, this little girl held half a sweet potato in her hand but did not touch it at all, and there was no interest in her eyes.
Although Lin Cheng didn't eat the sweet potato herself, she knew it must taste delicious just by smelling it. However, she disliked it just because Lu Youjie's hands were dirty. How good did he usually eat?
He couldn't help but pay attention to her secretly. Her complexion and skin were very good. Although she was not fat, she was not thin either. Although her clothes were very old, her exposed hands and face were very clean. Although her hair was not very long or short, it was casually braided, like many people who cut their own hair, but there was not a trace of dirt in her hair.
She eats well, cleans diligently, yet pretends to be ordinary and downtrodden in this southern base. She can't be here for fun. Is there such a person in Dongyang base... No, Lu Youjie doesn't know her, and she obviously doesn't know Lu Youjie either, and she's evasive in her words...
He didn't seem to know anyone here, but this room was filled with people from the five major bases in the north, each of them quite famous in their own base...
Lin Cheng tapped her fingers on the table and suddenly paused, because Lin Man stopped turning the half sweet potato. She suddenly raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Youjie who was talking big.
Lin Cheng also looked over.
Lu Youjie was saying, "...I only brought a small amount of that nerve repair medicine this time, and ended up exchanging it for a bunch of sweet potatoes. If I can't plant them, I'll be punished."
Someone said sourly, "That kind of medicine can repair any severe nerve damage. How many people have been paralyzed for over a decade and can stand up after just one course of treatment? They must have the confidence to make such a claim."
Lu Youjie laughed and said, "I think so too. Who dares to make fun of my Dongyang Base?" Then he praised the Dongyang Base openly and secretly.
Lin Man returned to normal, but Lin Cheng, who had been secretly observing her, found that she began to become absent-minded.
After talking about sweet potatoes for a while, someone called them down to compete with the supernatural beings from the Nanming base. Lu Youjie stole the show, feeling like he was the center of attention in the room. After one person was asked to leave, he said, "It's rare for us to get together. Why don't we have a competition?"
Some people had been getting impatient after listening to him bragging for so long, but he hadn't revealed any useful information yet. So they sneered, "Then I'll go first." As they said that, they took a step towards Lu Youjie. When their feet stepped heavily on the ground, the ground froze inch by inch, and clusters of ice crystals emerged, suddenly attacking Lu Youjie like an ice arrow.
Lu Youjie's face changed. He obviously didn't expect that someone would eat his food and then turn around and treat him so rudely. He almost burst into a curse. He was not here alone. He had a follower. The follower jumped out and suddenly a big golden hammer appeared in his hand. The hammer was neither square nor round, but a very sharp cone shape.
He held the hammer and hammered it hard on the ground, just breaking the first cluster of ice crystals. The ice crystals exploded, and a golden line shot quickly along the frozen ground towards the attacker. Wherever the golden line passed, one line turned into two, and two lines turned into four, quickly cutting through the ice like a knife.
A piece of broken ice crystal flew towards Lin Man. Lin Man sensed danger and before he could move, a hand grabbed his arm and pulled him to the side. The next moment, the ice crystal dinged and nailed into the table.
Lin Man turned his head.
Lin Cheng took her back two steps before letting go: "Be careful."
"Thank you." Although she could have avoided it, she still had to thank him. She looked at the ice crystal nailed to the table and couldn't help but touch it. It was really icy, but it soon dissipated like smoke, leaving only a deep hole in the table.
“Ahhh! Spiritual energy, spiritual energy, so much spiritual energy!!!” Guan Guan suddenly screamed, startling Lin Man. “It’s so thick, so thick, much thicker than down there. Oh my God, I’m going to faint from happiness!”
Lin Man was surprised and speechless, his mouth twitching: "Don't faint, absorb it quickly!"
If possible, Lin Man would like to faint. She can only absorb spiritual energy when she is asleep, which is quite a scam.
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