Xia Huoqu and his friends followed Xiong Antian to the courtyard.

The truck was parked on the road outside the courtyard, and each of them went to the back of the truck to grab two bamboo tubes.

Xiong Antian was a little surprised when he saw the bamboo tubes in their hands, but he didn't dare to ask too much.

Xia Lunong and his friends naturally didn't want to explain too much.

Xiong Antian's courtyard was quite spacious, with an aisle in the yard. Both sides of the aisle were planted with dense radishes. The radish leaves looked even greener and thicker against the backdrop of snow.

After Xia Lunong saw the radishes, she kept staring at them.

Xiong Antian looked at him and said, "If you like to eat radishes, I'll make you some radish cakes later."

Yan Xinian laughed and said, "He is the only one that has it?"

Xiong Antian hurriedly said, "If you like it, you all can have it. I just saw that he is the youngest."

Yan Xinian said, "You guessed wrong. This guy's boyfriend is the youngest."

Xiong Antian said, "Oh," and embarrassedly withdrew his gaze. He no longer tried to talk to Xia Lunong, and took them upstairs.

He stopped talking, and Xia Lunong asked, "I feel that the variety of your radish is unusual?"

"Brother, did you notice it?" Xiong Antian raised his voice slightly, and when his eyes swept across Kong Zhi, he quickly suppressed his excitement, "Yes, this is a radish specially cultivated by the Black Gold Base, and each one can weigh seven or eight pounds."

Xia Lunong asked, "Can you pull it up and show it to me?"

Radishes are not expensive.

Xiong Antian didn't say anything, and pulled a big radish from the radish field for him.

The radish was indeed thick. In terms of length alone, it was more than 30 centimeters, and the cross-section was very thick, as thick as an average person's thigh.

This radish didn't look like a radish, but rather a white winter melon.

Not only Xia Lunong, but Yan Xinian and the others also realized what this giant radish meant.

Yan Xinian looked at the radish and asked, "Does your base produce many kinds of giant vegetables and food?"

"Not many kinds, just a few in total - radish, winter melon, pumpkin." Xiong Antian smiled and told them, "Anyway, we only know these few kinds. As for whether there are any other varieties, it is not for us to know."

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi looked at each other.

Their base has only cultivated giant wheat and peanuts, and the results are average. It is not known whether the characteristics of the seeds can be stabilized. This will have to wait until the next crop is planted before research.

Unexpectedly, the Black Gold Base has already gone ahead.

Yan Xinian asked, "It seems that the Black Gold Base has done very well in this regard."

Xiong Antian said, "There are actually many interesting things in the Black Gold Base. If you are interested, I can talk to you about it, but, hehe."

Yan Xinian patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we know the rules, and everything is paid. Two kilograms of rice, don't lie and chat with us for an hour. If you encounter a question that is difficult to answer, you can remain silent, how about it?"

Xiong Antian touched his stomach and said honestly, "Then I guess we will talk after dinner."

Yan Xinian said, "No problem, we are not in a hurry."

After Xia Lunong and the others carried the bamboo tube back to the temporary house, they also moved all the movable things in the car, locked the car door, and asked Xiong Antian to take care of it.

Xiong Antian agreed readily.

Xia Lunong and his friends were on the road and had not eaten for several days. Now that they finally had a place to stay, they borrowed the kitchen and cooked a pot of rice.

They did not ask Xiong Antian to pack the rice, but only asked him to provide two large radishes.

The radishes grown by Xiong Antian and his friends tasted very good.

Xia Lunong tasted a small piece and felt sweet and spicy, very juicy.

Xia Lunong shredded a radish, mixed it with flour, beat two eggs, added some chili powder, put them in the pot and made radish cakes.

The other radish was used to cook radish fish soup with fish.

As for the radish strips, he chose to stir-fry them with chili peppers and vinegar, pursuing a crisp, sour and spicy taste.

As a single man, Xiong Antian didn't eat properly all day long. When he smelled this fragrance, he couldn't help but stay on the first floor to smell it.

He walked around in the yard, looking up at the kitchen from time to time.

Yan Xinian asked Xia Lunong for her opinion in a low voice, and then asked Xiong Antian through the window, "Do you want to come and eat together?"

Xiong Antian was overjoyed, "Okay, then I won't be polite."

"No problem." Yan Xinian said with a smile, "But after eating our meal and chatting with you in the evening, you can't ask us to provide supplies again, right?"

Xiong Antian ran over to help like a flexible bear, "No need, just let me have a meal, I will definitely tell you everything I know."

Xia Lunong and the others quickly prepared the meal.

Because Xiong Antian joined them, they had dinner in the living room downstairs.

Xiong Antian specially contributed a pot so that the carrot and fish soup could keep boiling, so that the soup would not have a fishy smell when it got cold.

The food was served, and several people sat down to eat.

Xiong Antian almost cried when he took his first bite of rice.

Xia Huoqu saw that he was a grown man with red eyes and silently handed him a roll of paper.

Xiong Antian was reluctant to use tissues, so he just wiped his eyes with his sleeve, sniffed and said, "Damn asteroid, the disaster is over, I haven't eaten such authentic home-cooked meals in more than a year."

Yan Xinian asked, "Not even once? How have you been spending the past two years?"

"Nothing special, wasn't there a chaotic period of several months after the disaster?" Xiong Antian said, "I didn't know anything at the time, and after unsuccessful search and rescue of my family, I followed a group of people and drifted, and slowly came here."

Yan Xinian asked, "Did those people settle down nearby?"

"No. Those who can transform into beastmen and have the ability to pay for supplies have all entered the Black Gold Base. The rest of us, simple humans with decent skills, are staying outside the Black Gold Base."

Xia Lunong showed a hint of sympathy when she heard this.

Xiong Antian noticed his expression and said in a somewhat wolfish tone: "The Black Gold Base doesn't support idle people. It's good enough for a young man like me to be able to make a living here. If I can't make a living on my own, I either have to rely on a big shot who can support servants, or I would have left long ago."

While they were talking, several dark shadows approached the doors and windows.

There were no street lights outside and it was dark.

Xia Huoqu and the others immediately spotted the people outside and became alert.

Xiong Antian hurriedly explained, "This is my partner."

Xia Huoqu and the others were slightly relieved.

When the dark shadows approached the door, everyone looked up at the same time. At

first glance, those people didn't seem to be anything special, but when you look closely, you find that they are different from ordinary people.

They have the characteristics of beasts!

The young man in the lead had a protruding mouth and nose, exactly like a cat's mouth and nose.

His ears were not in their original place, but turned into cat ears on top of his head.

Xia Lunong stared at his face.

Among this man's facial features, three are completely unlike those of a human!

The only normal ones are his eyebrows and eyes.

Xia Lunong's eyes were the most obvious. The man exchanged glances with Xia Lunong and smiled, "Old Xiong, where did you find such a beautiful friend?"

When he said the last two words, he noticed that the two people beside Xia Lunong looked at him unkindly, so he changed his words abruptly. The turn of events sounded very strange.

Xiong Antian hurriedly said, "These are our guests. They will stay here tonight. I have cleaned up the empty house for them. Xiaomai, don't go near them tonight."

There were six people in "Xiaomai" group, four men and two women, all of whom had more or less non-human characteristics.

They looked quite friendly and should not have any bad intentions.

Xia Lunong nodded at them.

Xiao Mai asked with a smile: "Meeting is fate, would you mind getting to know each other?"

Yan Xinian stood up and introduced himself first, "My name is Yan Xinian, I'm from a base in the southeast, and the three people around me are my companions."

Xiao Mai moved his eyes to him, scanned him up and down, and said: "I know you. Captain Yan, I've heard of you for a long time."

Yan Xinian showed a little surprise, half real and half fake, "You know me?"

"Your reputation is very popular. I mentioned it when I met another collection team. Everyone says that your base is very loose, everyone is equal, everyone can eat well, and if they are willing to work, they can live a good life, and they don't have to pay for supplies."

When Xiao Mai said this, there was a trace of respect in his eyes, "I guess the person next to you is Deputy Captain Xia?"

"Hello." Xia Huoqu nodded at him, "What's your name?"

Xiao Mai said, "My name is Mai Dong, and the people next to me are Yan Shijiu, Wu Xinghang, Zhao Mengjian, Yuan Jianing, and Shu Meng."

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi also greeted him.

Yan Xinian looked at his expression and said, "May I ask you a question?"

Mai Dong quickly realized what he wanted to ask and said with a smile, "This has been the trend in the Black Gold Base for the past six months. Everyone tries their best to maintain their bestial features. First, it can warn others, and second, the five senses of animals are much stronger than humans, so it is easier to survive in this form."

Yan Xinian said, "I don't know how to maintain this form?"

"This is very simple. As long as you can be bestial, you can maintain this state with a little training. If you are interested, I can teach you later."

Yan Xinian saw that they had just come back and asked, "Have you had dinner? If you don't mind, you can sit down and have a meal together."

"Of course I don't mind. Wait a minute, I'll go upstairs and get my treasured dried meat."

Xia Lunong didn't expect him to be so open and honest. She looked at him for a second and went upstairs with Kong Zhi to get the hot pot base.

The fish sauce and radish soup cooked today was just the right base for the hot pot.

They cut the vegetables again and moved to a bigger table. The eleven people sat around and had dinner together.

They were all very interested in each other's lives and didn't worry about having nothing to talk about while eating hot pot.

While eating hot pot, Mai Dong said, "I used to fantasize that after the disaster, we could go back to the old days. Now looking at the situation of the Black Gold Base, I understand that we can never go back."

Yuan Jianing said on the side, "Not only can we not go back, but the entire human race can't go back either."

Even when eating meat, Yuan Jianing still had a pair of yellow beast eyes on her face, adding a bit of horror to her thin face.

Xia Lunong asked, "What's the situation of the Black Gold Base now? Can you tell us briefly about the situation inside?"

"Why not?" Mai Dong said, pinching the meat in his hand, "The various forces are fighting openly and secretly, and the various beastmen are ruling in different places. As for ordinary people, they either rely on the major forces and are inferior to others, or they can't even enter the Black Gold Base. Anyway, it's a bit like a jungle society now."