Zhao Xiaoxiu only peeked her head out of the basket, and instantly attracted countless surprised glances.
But those tentacles on her father's body always tried to squeeze in through the cracks in the basket, baring their big teeth to scare her.
Zhao Xiaoxiu wasn't scared at all, after all, she was already tired of seeing it.
Her only worry was that they would be noticed by humans.
If anyone sees these tentacles, they will discover that her living father is a monster.
The monsters were sent to a high-temperature incinerator.
Without her father, she would become an orphan without a guardian.
Orphans in the apocalypse?
Just thinking about it made Zhao Xiaoxiu shudder.
It's better to stay with my biological father; at least we get to eat meat!
Another tentacle was about to slip through the gap in the basket.
The pointed fleshy bud twisted and turned, deformed, yet still managed to squeeze through the tiny gap, no bigger than a soybean.
Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out a finger and pressed it to close the gap: "Go back, go back."
The fleshy bud outside the basket, which was trying to push its way in, paused for a moment.
Zhao Xiaoxiu said anxiously, "Quickly hide yourself."
Those tentacles really did go back.
Zhao Gang glanced back at the basket in his arms, looking around in confusion.
Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled and said, "Dad's awesome!"
Zhao Gang paused for a moment, then laughed, looking a bit simple-minded.
The father and daughter continued on their way, passing through a cluster of collapsed high-rise buildings, and arrived at a track overgrown with weeds.
There's plenty of grass and few people here.
Of course, there's not much to pick up.
The man seemed indifferent. Following the memories extracted from 'Zhao Gang', he took out a wood-chopping knife and a homemade long-handled iron hook from his basket.
He used a knife in one hand to sweep away the seemingly harmless but actually extremely sharp-edged weeds.
Holding a long-handled iron hook in one hand, he rummaged through various crevices.
As the sun began to set, the living father still hadn't managed to sift out anything useful.
Zhao Xiaoxiu touched her flattened belly and thought that she needed to talk to her father.
Otherwise, the father and daughter might starve to death because they couldn't earn enough points.
Zhao Xiaoxiu, clinging to the basket on her back, asked, "Dad, what's your name?"
The man answered, "Zhao Gang."
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "......" Okay, fine.
"Can I call you Gangzi?"
Zhao Gang: "No, you have to call him Dad."
Zhao Xiaoxiu readily agreed, "Dad, do you eat children?"
"I won't eat."
Upon receiving this answer, Zhao Xiaoxiu visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
She asked curiously, "Dad, you haven't eaten anything. Aren't you hungry?"
Zhao Gang: "I'll eat if I'm hungry."
Zhao Xiaoxiu said "Oh", and then said, "I need to drink the antiviral immune medicine, or the children's nutritional supplement. I need to drink it until I'm six years old, otherwise I will become unhealthy."
"I also want to eat fruits and vegetables. I heard they're sold in the core area of the base, but it requires a lot of points. For poor families like ours, it's highly likely we'll never be able to afford them in our lifetime..."
Her little mouth kept chattering away.
The implication is: I'm a troublesome little brat, you'd better take good care of me, or I'll report you!
Zhao Gang rubbed his ears, but didn't understand the implied meaning. He thought to himself, "So this is how noisy human babies are."
"besides......"
Zhao Xiaoxiu stood up from the basket, stretched out her hand, and poked Zhao Gang on the back of the neck with her index finger, reminding him:
"If we don't earn enough points to redeem nutrient solution today, we'll go hungry."
Her biological father took all the nutritional supplements from the family's relief program, leaving her with zero balance on her points card.
There are 25 days left until the first of next month when we can receive the nutritional supplements again.
If it were just the two of them, the father and the daughter, they would need at least fifty vials of nutrient solution to avoid going hungry.
One bottle of regular nutrient solution costs five points, which adds up to two hundred and fifty points.
Zhao Gang stopped his tedious rummaging; it was absolutely unacceptable to let the cubs go hungry!
How can I earn points?
His current actions are all imitating a human named Zhao Gang.
But in reality, he doesn't quite understand human affairs.
For example, the complex emotions of human beings and those cumbersome rules.
Zhao Xiaoxiu thought about what the people in the building had said, her eyes lit up, and she confidently clenched her fist and said, "I know what can be exchanged for points!"
Uncle Meng said he hopes the base's factories will focus on heavy industry, primarily on repair and processing of new and old raw materials.
The repair work mainly focuses on large, abandoned tools and machinery. We repair what can be repaired, and disassemble what cannot be repaired to make spare parts.
Zhao Xiaoxiu said, "We can go find abandoned cars and machines."
Zhao Gang discovered that his cubs seemed to be smarter than the other cubs.
Moreover, humans certainly understand humans better than he does.
So the father decided to follow his daughter's lead.
The father and daughter left the fruitless track and came to the streets of the city they once knew.
However, the streets are now littered with collapsed building stones and vehicles smashed to pieces.
The father and daughter were initially pleased to see these old-fashioned modes of transportation.
Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be nothing but empty shells and scrap metal, things that recycling stations wouldn't want at all.
Seeing her father's eyes filled with disappointment, Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled and said, "We can go to the residential area to find raw materials that can be processed and manufactured, such as plastic, cardboard, cloth, glass, steel bars from abandoned buildings, and so on."
The father and daughter immediately moved to an abandoned residential area.
On the collapsed ruins, countless scavengers, holding weapons for self-defense in one hand and iron hooks in the other, were anxiously digging through the rubble.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com