After the car entered Yunnan, the vegetation became lush, and towering trees lined both sides of the road, making the originally hot weather much cooler.
As expected of K City, which enjoys a spring-like climate all year round, the air is filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.
After driving for four hours, Li Jianguo found a hillside where there were hardly any people, parked the car in front of a lake, and told everyone that they could get off the car now if they needed to use the restroom.
The water on the roof of the RV is drinking water and is only for drinking.
For the past few days, they had been relieving themselves in the fields outside the car. Finally, they managed to park the car in front of a lake that looked fairly clear. Zhang Qiang wanted to take a shower and change his clothes, so he asked Qiao An'an, "Sister Qiao, do you have any clothes here that I can wear? My clothes are starting to smell."
Qiao An'an and the others were all wearing the same tracksuits issued by the safe zone. There were a few sets of clothes to change into in the car. She picked out a larger size and handed it to Zhang Qiang: "The clothes might be too big."
Zhang Qiang took the clothes: "It's okay, I've gained quite a bit of weight these past few days, these clothes will fit perfectly in a few more days."
Perhaps as a side effect of the viral injection, Shen Zhou's injuries, though severe, have unexpectedly healed almost completely.
While everyone was getting out of the car to stretch their muscles, he used a dagger to cut a branch off a tree, sharpened the end of the branch into a spike, and took it to the river to catch fish.
It looked like it was about to hit a fish.
Zhang Qiang suddenly jumped into the lake, splashing Chen Zhou's face with water and scaring away the fish.
Seeing that Zhang Qiang was taking a shower, Shen Zhou didn't say anything and prepared to find another place to continue spearfishing.
Just as another fish swam into attack range, Shen Zhou was about to throw a spear made of tree branches when Zhang Qiang reappeared beside him. He had already taken a shower and changed into clean clothes. Now he was shaving his beard in the lake water with a dagger in his hand. As he shaved, he gave Shen Zhou a smile and asked, "What are you doing, Brother Shen?"
The fish that was almost in my hands has disappeared again.
Chen Zhou threw away the stick in his hand, turned around and went back to the car: "You should be older than me, right? I don't deserve to be called brother, just call me by my name."
Zhang Qiang gave Chen Zhou an OK sign: "Alright, bro!"
Chen Zhou: "..."
After shaving, Zhang Qiang couldn't even recognize himself.
He used to be a fat man weighing around 200 pounds, but now he's 1.8 meters tall and weighs only around 100 pounds. His skin, which is rarely exposed to sunlight, has a slightly sickly white appearance. Because he's so thin, his face has become more angular. His already large eyes now look much bigger, and they are also dark, deep, and have a captivating luster.
Unexpectedly, the weight loss was comparable to plastic surgery. He excitedly looked at his reflection in the lake again and again: "How come I look so good?"
Yan Ling, who was passing by Zhang Qiang, glanced at him speechlessly. At best, Zhang Qiang was considered handsome, but he couldn't compare to Chen Zhou. Even Ye Jing, who hadn't fully grown up yet, was better looking than him. He was only slightly better looking than Li Jianguo. In terms of masculinity, Zhang Qiang was not as good as Li Jianguo.
Yan Ling shook his head as he read.
I don't know where Zhang Qiang got his confidence to say he's good-looking!
Zhang Qiang was so engrossed in the joy of becoming more handsome that he completely failed to notice Yan Ling's gaze. He happily asked Qiao An'an, who was leaning against the car door gazing at the clouds in the sky, "Sister Qiao, do you think I've become more handsome?"
Qiao An'an was staring blankly at the clouds, thinking about Ya Ya, when Zhang Qiang asked her a question. She looked at Zhang Qiang, who had shaved and looked much more handsome, and nodded: "Much better looking."
Zhang Qiang immediately started talking: "Right? Let me tell you, I used to be a fat guy weighing around 200 pounds..."
The parking lot is near a small hill with woods on it.
Although Chen Zhou didn't catch any fish, Chi Xiaoyu took advantage of a break to shoot a pheasant in the woods. She lit a fire for the pheasant in the woods, plucked its feathers, and gutted it. After cleaning it by the lake, she returned to the car.
They brought an induction cooker and a soup pot for hot pot in the car, but they didn't plan to cook any meals on the way, so they didn't bring any seasonings.
Yan Ling said, "How about we grill it and eat it?"
Ye Jing: "Without any seasoning, there's not even a hint of salt, so it won't taste good when grilled."
Qiao An'an thought for a moment, then used the large scissors she had in the kitchen to cut the pheasant into small pieces, put them in a soup pot with water, and started boiling them.
Yan Ling said, "It can't taste good if it's just boiled in plain water."
Qiao An'an told her to calm down.
When the pheasant meat in the pot was cooked to the point where it could be pierced with disposable chopsticks, Qiao An'an opened two packets of self-heating spicy hot pot and poured all the ingredients into the soup pot.
The pheasant soup was already very fragrant even without salt.
Now, with the addition of the seasonings from the spicy self-heating hot pot, it's so fragrant it's almost sinful.
After reducing the broth over high heat for five minutes, the vermicelli, lotus root, pork belly, pickled bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms in the self-heating hot pot were cooked through. Qiao An'an turned off the heat and placed the soup pot on the dining table in the RV.
Having not eaten fresh food for some time, everyone took a bowl of self-heating rice and began to eat heartily with disposable chopsticks.
Zhang Qiang ate two bowls of rice and finished off all the soup. He patted his round belly and squinted his eyes comfortably. He felt that he had really gotten his money's worth by relying on Sister Qiao: "Sister Qiao, your cooking is amazing!"
Qiao An'an and the others all got their diving suits according to their own size.
Zhang Qiang's method was something he just picked up on the spur of the moment.
The size isn't very large.
He was thinner before and could fit into them.
Qiao An'an was a little worried that if Zhang Qiang continued to eat like this, he wouldn't be able to wear a diving suit to teach them when they arrived at FX Lake. So she said to Zhang Qiang, "Do you know what a starving person is most afraid of?"
Zhang Qiang's narrowed eyes suddenly snapped open: "Rebound!!!"
Qiao An'an nodded: "The biggest problem with dieting is rebound weight gain. Gaining three or four pounds in one meal is not a problem. If you eat like this, it will only take ten or twenty days to regain the weight."
Zhang Qiang previously said that he was forced to change careers because the tourism industry was hit hard and no one was learning to scuba dive. This is not entirely true. In fact, he was forced to take a job as a salesperson at a diving equipment store because he couldn't control his eating and became too fat. His body could no longer allow him to teach diving, so he was forced to take a job as a salesperson at a diving equipment store.
Qiao An'an exaggerated a bit, but Zhang Qiang was genuinely afraid of gaining weight.
He had tried countless weight loss methods before, all of which ended in failure. Now, a year in the apocalypse had made him so thin that he didn't want to gain the weight back: "I swear, this is the last full meal I'll ever have!"
After finishing their meal, Qiao An'an and the others continued on their way.
According to the map, Fuxian Lake is located southeast of K City.
Everyone agreed that K City was the provincial capital, and it was too dangerous to travel from K City to Fuxian Lake.
Furthermore, since the area around K City is mostly mountainous and the routes throughout the province are all one-way, if they don't pass through K City, the only way for them to get to FX Lake is to go east to Shilin and then south to FX Lake.
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