The next morning, Banxia and the other two said goodbye to Su Yao and the others, and drove towards Shahe City.
The car had driven less than ten kilometers when it encountered another group of survivors. However, they didn't make any attempt to rob the car; instead, they watched it drive away warily and indifferently.
This isn't the early stages of the apocalypse; impulsive and thoughtless people would have died long ago.
Banxia took a few extra glances at the group as she passed by. Like the survivors she had met yesterday, there were no women in the group.
This was quite unusual. Banxia frowned slightly, deciding to wait and see what happened.
The closer they got to Shahe City, the more survivor teams they encountered. In just one day, the two met thirteen teams.
Banxia frowned: "Still no woman."
Nanxing also realized the seriousness of the problem: "Should we ask someone?"
When they encountered the survivor team again, Nanxing stopped the car.
Banxia deliberately ignored the other person's flustered look: "Hello, are you from Shahe City?"
The young man at the head of the group rubbed his hands nervously: "Yes, yes, may I ask what's the matter?"
The couple had a car and warm clothes; they shouldn't have bothered with their belongings. But in this post-apocalyptic world, there's no shortage of thugs who enjoy killing. What if they were unlucky enough to run into them?
The young man grew increasingly panicked, even sadly hoping that the other party would leave him a bone.
Banxia had no idea that the young man had so much on his mind. She took out a basket of steaming hot meat buns from her spatial storage and said, "I have a question. Whoever tells me the answer will get the buns."
After saying that, he stuffed the bun back into his spatial storage. The temperature was too low; if he waited a few more seconds, it would definitely freeze into an ice cube.
The young man was a little confused. They weren't going to kill him?
However, the survivors in the team did not freeze. They immediately became excited as if they had gone crazy. Steaming hot meat buns! Were they really not dreaming?
"What's the problem?"
"Ask me!"
"Please tell me, beautiful lady! I will answer everything I know!"
...
If they didn't know that the meat buns were in Banxia's space and that outsiders couldn't take them, they would have loved to snatch them.
Banxia pressed her hands down, signaling everyone to be quiet: "Don't talk, listen to me."
The crowd immediately fell silent, their eyes fixed intently on Banxia's right hand as she took the steamer.
Banxia looked around at everyone and asked, "Where have all the women from Shahe City gone?"
The crowd fell silent, like ducks with their necks choked, a stark contrast to their earlier excitement.
Banxia and Nanxing's hearts sank. What on earth had happened in Shahe City?!
Banxia's voice was soft and gentle: "Don't you want to eat meat buns anymore? My husband got up early this morning to make them. The dough is made with mutated wheat flour, and he kneaded it for a full half hour, so it's absolutely chewy and delicious. The meat is selected mutated wild boar meat, three parts fat and seven parts lean, and he even added two eggs inside..."
"Glug!"
"Gurgle, gurgle!"
The sounds of swallowing saliva and rumbling stomachs rose and fell.
The first man to speak up couldn't take it anymore: "I'll talk!"
His brother whispered a dissuasion: "Are you risking your life for a bite to eat?"
The man shook off the brother who was grabbing his arm: "But you have to give me the steamed buns first, or what if you deny it?"
Banxia raised an eyebrow slightly: "How about this, I'll pay half the payment first, but if you dare to try and fool me—"
Nanxing cooperated by conjuring several small golden daggers: "Then pay with your life!"
The man nodded indifferently: "Okay."
It's just a worthless life, but if I can get some good food before I die, it's worth it!
Banxia handed half a basket of buns to the man: "You eat first."
The man eagerly took off his mask and stuffed the steamed bun into his mouth, tears welling up in his eyes. Before the apocalypse, he always found meat buns greasy, eating only the skin and not the filling. Who would have thought that one day he would be unable to eat them even if he wanted to?
He swallowed a steamed bun and shouted excitedly, "Awesome!"
After saying that, to his brother's surprise, he lifted the other's mask and stuffed a plump white bun into his mouth: "Don't just stand there, eat up!"
"Burp," the man burped contentedly after finishing the steamed bun. "Beautiful lady, you've come to the right person asking me where all the women in Shahe City have gone!"
He wiped his eyes, his gaze vacant as he stared at the sky. "Have you ever heard of the Holy Light Cult?"
After the apocalypse, many people suddenly lost their relatives and friends overnight. Coupled with the harsh external living environment, they suffered huge blows to both their minds and bodies, and it can be said that they lived a life worse than death.
So when people can't hold on any longer, they instinctively place their hopes on ethereal deities, and all sorts of churches come into being.
The Holy Light Church is the most famous church in Shahe City, with one-third of the city's population being its followers. Its doctrines are mainly divided into two aspects: one is to eliminate the causes of suffering and cultivate oneself in this life; the other is to do good deeds and accumulate merit to cultivate oneself in the next life.
The so-called cause of suffering...
The man scoffed: "The leader of the Holy Light Cult is fond of beautiful women, so he deliberately claims that women are born with impurities and demands that his followers offer a beautiful woman every day so he can personally perform rituals to cleanse them. Although some people know that something is amiss, the leader of the Holy Light Cult will subsidize the woman's family with a large amount of food after obtaining the woman, so no one dares to say anything more and instead competes to offer sacrifices. Even families without daughters will deliberately deceive or abduct young girls in order to obtain subsidies."
"As the saying goes, if you walk by the river long enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet. There was a daring girl who pretended to be innocent and was tricked by the cult members. Then, when she met the cult leader, she used the mutated plants she had subdued to seriously injure him."
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