Chapter 269 The Original Heroine of the Apocalypse Who Became Cannon Fodder (Fifteen) Liu Yi...
The five mutated potted plants that are currently alive in Liu Yiyi's shop were all delivered by Long Yu for sale.
Other superhumans have also encountered mutated plants, but all they've received are branches, leaves, or fruits.
Capturing live mutated plants is a skill in itself, especially since these things are not only powerful attackers, but they can also uproot themselves and run away, their speed being no slower than that of a superhuman.
Not everyone has lightning-type superpowers like Long Yu, which have a paralyzing effect and can paralyze mutated plants with just the right amount of force without damaging their roots.
Without control skills, when dealing with mutated plants, superhumans either go too lightly, only managing to drop a few materials before letting the plants escape.
Either he went too far and got completely destroyed, especially with fire-based abilities. While others might be able to salvage a few leaves or branches, he could burn everything to ashes in the blink of an eye.
The purchase price Liu Yiyi offered for these scraps of material was very low; a large handful of leaves would only fetch ten contribution points, since they couldn't be reused.
However, all those with superpowers know that she relies on mutated plants to cook special meals. Even if the price is low, they will still send them over if they come across mutated plants.
After all, if the supply of raw materials is insufficient, at best the supply will fall short of demand, and the queues for these superpowered individuals will be stretched indefinitely. At worst, the business owner may not be able to make money and may have to switch to another business and run out of stock, which would be a loss for all superpowered individuals.
Others have also tried cooking the mutated plants, but eating them did not enhance their abilities; they were no different from ordinary plants.
This has led to Liu Yiyi frequently releasing special blind box-like meals, with unpredictable update times, depending on who can grab them first. As a result, the entrance to the "Since We're Here" shop has become even more lively.
After Liu's parents' company got on track, they no longer needed someone to keep an eye on it every day. The two of them were very resourceful and bought two nearby shops and three shops across the street.
The five shops are connected together, completely surrounding Liu Yiyi's small shop, and they even have a name that matches her style: "What Do You Want to Eat?"
Among the five stalls were barbecue stalls, braised meat stalls, fried rice noodles, oden, skewers, and pot-boiled chicken, each with an enticing aroma, which perfectly encircled Liu Yiyi in the middle.
Every time the superhuman went to drink the porridge, the aroma of various delicacies filled her nostrils, making her culinary disasters seem even more unpalatable.
As the menu expanded, the small blackboard that used to be handwritten with chalk, which used to hang at the entrance, was replaced with a more high-tech electronic menu, making things much easier for Liu Yiyi.
As time went by, many people in the city returned to their normal lives. Those who went to work continued to go to work, those who went to school continued to go to school, and even shopping apps started to resume, although delivery fees were a little more expensive.
But if the currency hadn't been converted into contribution points, and if there weren't so many fewer people and so many empty houses, it would be easy to forget that this is the apocalypse.
The only people with special abilities who had a strong connection to the apocalypse mostly lived in the sixty-story building that Lin You had initially chosen.
The snack stall run by Liu's parents was much more lively than Liu Yiyi's small shop. They even had some tables and chairs placed at the entrance for people to rest, which were not only free of charge, but also provided free tea.
The superhumans gradually got used to sitting nearby chatting and eating, discussing recent gossip or interesting things they encountered on missions, and also keeping an eye on Liu Yiyi's menu updates.
Lin You originally thought she would be very busy in this world, but she was only busy at the beginning, and then she didn't need to get involved anymore.
The zombie situation has been brought under control by the authorities. Regular troops have protective suits and firearms, which greatly reduces the difficulty of dealing with zombies.
Long Yu has almost monopolized all the mutated plants. With a hardworking and capable male protagonist who is in it for the bounty, many mutated plants that would dominate the area in the future have been sent to Liu Yiyi's shop to be used as small potted plants.
Now that Lin You is completely free, she has time to urge Liu Yiyi to practice two sets of sword techniques every day. Even if she can't master the essence, at least it will help her improve her health.
The rest of the time is spent listening to the gossip of the superpowered people outside the door, cultivating one's own spiritual power, and occasionally restocking one's own little shop.
Lin You was once again grateful that she had drawn the "Energy Converter" item. The item sounded insignificant, but it could really save money.
No matter what kind of energy it is, it can be converted into the spiritual energy she needs for cultivation. Even solar energy can be converted in a certain proportion. For Lin You, this is simply an essential cultivation artifact for quick transmigration!
The gossip outside is constantly being updated, from the earliest news that Long Yu, the number one superhuman, was fined and reprimanded for breaking through in the street and damaging public facilities, to the current news that the government has dispatched unmanned harvesters to harvest thousands of acres of grain.
"It's not just harvesters; even plowing, sowing, watering, spraying pesticides, and harvesting, threshing, and storing can all be done using driverless technology."
A group of people chatting outside mentioned these things, their tone full of pride.
No matter when or how old the Chinese people are, they have always cared most about food. Now that they know that crops across the country have not suffered too much loss due to the end of the world, most people are relieved.
"It's not just crops; I've heard that many livestock farms are also using machines, as are vegetable and fruit growers. They've started using robots for everything. I even saw strawberries at the supermarket today, so I bought two boxes. My wife loves them."
Nowadays, new fruit stalls have appeared in stores, and the variety of meats and vegetables has also increased, making people's lives closer and closer to the pre-apocalyptic world.
"Now most of the rescue work is done by robots. I heard they're even researching zombie early warning systems. We're handling this apocalypse so efficiently, it's like we've got a cheat code."
Liu Yiyi, who happened to be squatting in the doorway sunbathing, looked up at Lin You, who was lounging inside the shop, after hearing this, and thought to herself:
That's right, it's like having a cheat code, a huge cheat code that combines a cultivation version and a portable system version.
Because of Lin You's initial rescue, the city's army was able to escape ahead of schedule. The army, armed with weapons, helped rescue the army in the neighboring city. After escaping, the neighboring city also took weapons to support the next city.
Now, the zombies in major cities across the country have been mostly cleared out, and residents of small towns or rural areas have been moved to the city.
The outside is now managed and planned by machinery, which is actually much more convenient than before.
When everything was in ruins and needed rebuilding, everyone in the city could find a suitable job. Once productivity was put into operation, the national economy began to recover little by little, no longer relying solely on past achievements.
The most obvious example is that supermarket items are getting cheaper and cheaper. What used to cost two contribution points for one sausage has now become ten sausages for two contribution points, thanks to the reopening of the sausage factory.
Long Yu was quite satisfied with this. Back then, the Longyuan team had even fought with Xiao Saying over two sausages, and now they could be considered to have achieved sausage freedom.
Although they had been officially incorporated, Long Yu did not abandon his teammates. Whether they were superhumans or ordinary people, after consulting with everyone, they all moved to the vicinity of the high-rise building where superhumans were concentrated.
The team members who have stayed with Long Yu until now are not simply recruited into the team when they are encountered on the road to the apocalypse.
Among them are his childhood friends, his roommates with whom he lived for four years in college and still often dined together after starting work, and his neighbors with whom he has had a good relationship for over twenty years. Each of them has a close relationship with Long Yu.
Now that everyone can support themselves, living closer together isn't so much for safety, but more for mutual support.
Lin You watched helplessly as the male and female protagonists of this world became strangers.
You could say they weren't meant to be, since Long Yu frequents the shop every few days, but his interactions with Liu Yiyi have so far been limited to haggling and making payments during transactions.
In the small shop, besides buying special meals exclusively for the Thunder element and complaining about how increasingly strange the taste was, the thing Long Yu did most was argue with the cactus.
I don't know how he managed to communicate with a plant that can't speak without any problems, and even argue with it, and he probably didn't win the argument most of the time.
As for Liu Yiyi, to Long Yu, she was just a tool for the shop, similar to an NPC in a game who could collect goods. He wasn't as familiar with her as he was with the cactus.
Lin You secretly tapped the Heavenly Dao to confirm that even if the male and female protagonists didn't end up together, it wouldn't have any impact on the world. After that, she stopped paying attention to their affairs.
When she had nothing to do, she would diligently cultivate. Lin You had gone through the process of breaking through to the late Foundation Establishment stage and becoming a Golden Core cultivator several times. Now she was so skilled that she broke through again in no time.
If it were someone else who repeatedly cultivated and broke through, only to fall back to a lower realm after the mission ended, they probably wouldn't be able to bear it. But for Lin You, who doesn't care about such things, it didn't have much of an impact. On the contrary, his foundation became more and more solid with each cultivation.
Cultivation knows no time. When Lin You finally broke through and came to his senses, he realized that a whole year had passed since the apocalypse began.
As more and more people with superpowers lined up, Liu Yiyi had already maxed out the tasks for her cheat code. Gathering 10,000 ingredients without considering their taste was not a difficult task.
However, she may have developed muscle memory, because even without adding random ingredients, and only using the right ingredients, the porridge still doesn't taste very good.
Fortunately, everyone has gotten used to it. Every time it's their turn, they bring enough supplies, some bring water, some bring candy, and some bring snacks. Even watching others drink the porridge with a mix of pain and pleasure has become a kind of fun.
The most common accompaniment is surprisingly the skewers from the barbecue stalls at the entrance. If you add more Sichuan peppercorns and chili powder, and then drink the porridge after a couple of bites, you can basically not taste the porridge at all.
This method was unanimously praised by everyone, but Liu Yiyi just watched calmly, not knowing what these people were messing around with. Drinking porridge and being forced to drink three bottles of mineral water because it was bitter was not much different from being forced to drink three bottles of mineral water because it was spicy.
The internet has now been restored, transportation has resumed in various places, and the whole country is back to its vibrant state.
The areas outside the city are no longer off-limits to ordinary people, and many people can now go out of the city to travel and enjoy the spring scenery.
Sometimes you can even encounter registered, relatively mild mutant plants. Visitors can not only greet them, but also feed them as requested.
As for where the unkind mutated plants go, they are naturally slaughtered by the superhumans, broken into various pieces, and sent to Liu Yiyi in exchange for contribution points.
With the internet, information spread much faster, and soon people with supernatural abilities from other cities learned of Liu Yiyi's shop and began bringing various mutated plant materials to seek medicine.
Occasionally, they would encounter troublesome superhumans, but before Lin You could even make a move, these people were already driven away by the cactus and little peach tree guarding the shop.
Perhaps because Lin You had put a talisman on them and threatened them, these two were quite obedient when facing Lin You, but they liked to act cute and charming towards Liu Yiyi, who watered them with spiritual spring water.
Liu Yiyi had initially strictly adhered to the standard that the spiritual spring water could only be exchanged for branches and leaves, but after seeing the little peach tree using its tender branches to wrap a spoon and help stir the paste, she completely lost her principles.
The peach tree leaves, which were boiled until they were charred dry, have been roasted by the fire. Feed them two drops of the spiritual spring water.
The cactus that was queuing up customers got pushed and lost a thorn? Give it two drops of spiritual spring water.
The two little cuties are cleaning with brooms and rags, and they even know how to take care of the other potted plants! They're feeding them two drops of spiritual spring water.
As they continued to be fed, the two of them grew better and better, and their levels also increased. Based on the existing data, Lin You estimated that the little peach tree was at level six, while the cactus was close to the peak of level six.
Occasionally, when a superhuman tries to tease them with zombie fragments, they are dismissed as trash and cleaned up, with the superhuman spraying them with air freshener twice.
Originally a mutated plant that ate zombies to level up, it was forced by Liu Yiyi to learn to be a picky eater.
In Liu Yiyi's eyes, the cactus and the little peach tree, which could carry pots to water her and bask in the sun, were two sweet little cuties. But for most level-five ability users, they were beings that could not be provoked at all.
Even Long Yu, the most powerful among the superhumans, could only manage a 50/50 fight against the cactus.
Otherwise, why would he always argue with that thing without actually fighting? It's because he knows he can't achieve an overwhelming victory.
Of course, he didn't win many arguments either.
After watching the two potted plants swat away the troublesome superhuman again, Lin You suddenly remembered the Beast Taming Technique she had learned from Shen Zechen.
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Author's Note: This world is relatively simple, and it's almost over! [Cat emoji]
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