Cai Yuan and Zhao Xuan prepared a very lavish meal, including two kinds of rice: mung bean porridge and white rice.
The dishes are mostly meat: stir-fried beef with yellow peppers, green peppers with cured pork, braised pork, stewed cured pork trotters with soybeans, stewed cured chicken with radish, braised pork and bamboo shoots, cured pork ribs, sausage, spicy crayfish, braised ribbonfish with scallions, etc.
There were only four vegetarian dishes: cold seaweed salad, cold potato slices salad, stir-fried bok choy, and radish and egg soup.
It's not that I'm deliberately indulging in large amounts of meat and fish, but the temperature is too high, and the cold storage and refrigerator at home have limited stock. If I don't eat the meat that can't be stored for long, it will be a waste!
In the current situation, wasting food is simply outrageous!
Cai Yuan had refrigerated several cans of beer beforehand, giving one to each of Nan Xing, Su Yao, Zhao Xuan, and Fang Yunyun. He then asked Banxia and Su Xiao, who didn't drink, "Banxia, Su Xiao, what would you like to drink? I have orange juice, cola, Sprite, and herbal tea..."
Banxia and Su Xiao ordered orange juice.
But neither of them drank much; instead, they focused on eating.
The men's cooking skills were comparable to those of the restaurant chefs before the apocalypse, so the two of them couldn't stop eating.
Fang Yunyun was initially listening attentively to the men's conversation, but when she turned her head and saw her two younger sisters intently eating, she unconsciously joined in.
The cook loves it when he sees patronizing diners like this, and the men couldn't help but smile knowingly.
After dinner, Banxia and the others helped clean up the dishes and the kitchen, preparing to watch a movie together before going home.
Su Yao picked up a piece of apple, popped it into his mouth, and exclaimed, "This is the life a human being should live!"
With family, friends, and loved ones all around, there's no need to worry about survival or the future for the time being. In this chaotic apocalypse, there's nothing happier than this.
Zhao Xuan turned on the projector and said with some relief, "Luckily you reminded me to back up the videos before downloading them, otherwise I would have been heartbroken!"
After the meteor shower, data on electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, and hard drives was damaged, and downloaded videos were almost entirely lost.
Banxia comforted her, "Nanxing and I have downloaded a lot of videos online. You can make a copy when you have time."
Fang Yunyun also said, "My family also had someone download it, and ours can be copied too."
After watching the movie, Banxia and her friends said goodbye and went home, with Cai Yuan and Zhao Xuan standing at the door to see them off.
Nanxing urged them to go back quickly: "Brother Yuan, Brother Xuan, go back now. There are many of us, we won't encounter any danger."
They always carry weapons when they go out to visit others; if they really run into bad guys, it's hard to say who will be unlucky!
Cai Yuan: "I'm going back now. Just let me know if you need anything."
Despite saying that, she only closed the door hand in hand with Zhao Xuan after seeing that everyone had safely returned home.
After returning home, Banxia fed Jinzi and Yinzi food and water, and stroked their fur vigorously: "Jinzi, Yinzi, you've worked hard guarding our home!"
Gold and silver are sensitive to heat, so these past few days they've been staying in the space during the day and only going out to the yard to get some fresh air at night.
If it weren't for the need to adapt them to the high temperatures outside, Banxia would practically want them to live in the space 24/7.
There's no other reason than that Jinzi and Yinzi have been shedding fur like crazy these past few days because of the heat. Not only are their clothes covered in fur, but occasionally a cat or dog hair will suddenly drift into the air while they're eating.
After the two furry creatures finished eating and drinking, Banxia took out two combs and, together with Nanxing, began their daily task of brushing the fur. She brushed the silver ones, and Nanxing brushed the gold ones.
Banxia gently combed out a large clump of fur. She put the silvery fur in a box next to her and joked with Nanxing, "After the extreme heat is over, the fur that Jinzi and Yinzi shed might be able to knit themselves a sweater."
Both Maine Coons and Golden Retrievers have long fur. In extremely cold weather, the fur on a Golden Retriever can grow to ten centimeters, while that of a Silver Retriever can grow to thirteen centimeters, which is longer than the hair of a summer lily!
Before Nanxing could speak, he was interrupted by the barking of a cat and a dog.
"Meow--"
"Woof—"
Banxia quickly comforted Yinzi, "Sister was just joking, Yinzi, don't be sad." She then patted the dog's head that was nuzzling her, "Jinzi, don't be sad either, we'll open the can of food later!"
Looking at Jinzi, whose head was taller than him when it stood up, Nanxing couldn't help but worry: "Will Jinzi and Yinzi continue to grow in the future?"
He worried that if an unexpected situation arose and he needed to escape, how would he take the gold and silver without revealing his location?
Banxia shook her head: "I don't know, but I guess not. I've never seen a dog or cat that's bigger than gold and silver before."
Gold and Silver were delighted to hear this, as they were clever enough to know that the outside world had changed and many man-eating monsters had appeared.
When they were young, they were protected by their older siblings; now it's their turn to protect their older siblings!
After brushing their fur and eating their canned food, Silver and Gold ran out to play in the yard. Although they had played in the space for a long time, the space was different from the outside!
Their home is outside, and they must patrol their territory every day!
Before Jinzi and Yinzi left, Banxia specifically warned Yinzi: "There's a high-voltage electric fence on the wall. Yinzi, don't climb over it, or you'll get electrocuted!"
The two put away the fur and grooming tools and changed into clean clothes.
Nanxing went to the gym on the third floor to work out.
Banxia returned to her spatial dimension to practice her supernatural abilities. She had just finished picking and storing the mature medicinal herbs, vegetables, and fruits into the Black Fish Space when the Devouring Tree came running over and shouted, "Banxia, I want to go out and fight zombies!"
Becoming stronger is one of its instincts; it was extremely envious of the zombie crystal cores outside the space.
Banxia replied without hesitation, "Okay, can I tell the others that you're a strange plant seeking refuge?"
She originally intended for Tiantian to appear openly in front of people. With Xingzi seeking refuge first, it would be normal for another exotic plant to seek refuge, right?
The Devouring Tree hesitated for a moment: "I'm different from other trees."
No matter how much other trees mutate, they are still trees.
It is bizarrely divided in the middle of the trunk, with black leaves on the left half and white leaves on the right half.
Banxia touched Tiantian's trunk: "Tiantian, no one says a tree has to grow into the shape of a tree. You are more powerful than other trees, so naturally you should grow in a unique way."
She and the Devouring Tree have been companions for two lifetimes, inseparable partners and comrades-in-arms.
In her past life, fearing being targeted by bad people, she only revealed her wood-type superpowers to outsiders, keeping Tiantian and the black and white yin-yang fish completely hidden.
Tiantian has a very lively personality and longs for the human world, but it also knows that its appearance outside can easily cause trouble, so it never blames her for not allowing it to appear openly in front of people.
But this life is different. She is ahead of everyone else, with the strength to protect what she wants, and no longer has to make it hide in the space.
With that in mind, she said firmly to the Devouring Tree, "I will take you out of the space tomorrow night and introduce you to Su Yao and the others."
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