Chen Yuanzheng looked at Song Yuanqing beside him and sincerely praised, "Your Yuanqing is so amazing."
"They launched a satellite without any of our knowledge."
Their internet connection was lost because the satellite had broken down due to lack of maintenance for a long time.
Song Yuanqing: "Ha...haha."
She smiled and said nothing, taking the blame for Ye Zhi.
Chen Yuanzheng was very interested and wanted to ask Song Yuanqing if he could help their base get one too.
But he knew that building a satellite was a huge undertaking that required enormous human, material, and financial resources. He feared that they had probably exhausted all the materials just by building that one satellite.
So Chen Yuanzheng held back his questions and continued his tour of the Ye family villa, still in shock.
He saw that the flowers in the garden were still blooming as brightly as before the apocalypse, and there were even a few butterflies.
Holy crap.
Fearing he might be too shocked and drop Ye Zhi on the ground, Chen Yuanzheng carefully returned Ye Zhi to Old Master Song.
As we walked further in, the shock continued.
There is a lake, and there are edible fish in the lake. He hasn't eaten fish for months.
"Are the fish in your lake still edible?"
Ye Jingyu shook his head, "Those are ornamental fish, you can't eat them."
A crack appeared on Chen Yuanzheng's stern face. Ornamental fish? They were still raising ornamental fish. Ever since they learned that the zombie virus was hidden in seafood, their base hadn't had a single fish!
He approached the lake, squatted down, and took a deep breath of the fresh air. It smelled so familiar, so tempting, and he really wanted to catch it and eat it.
Ye Jingyu saw this and said, "Uncle Chen, if you want some, you can buy fish from us."
He was constantly promoting the supplies in his home and collecting crystal cores.
During lunch, Ye Zhi mentioned to them that they should collect as many crystal cores as possible, as they might be very useful in the future.
Chen Yuanzheng stood up and asked curiously, "Do you have edible fish? How much do you pay for them?"
"Fish is a bit more expensive, twenty crystal cores per pound."
"Do you have a lot of inventory?"
"enough."
Chen Yuanzheng tentatively gave a quantity, "How about 10,000 jin for our base?"
Ye Jingyu readily agreed, "Okay!"
Looking at Ye Jingyu's completely relaxed demeanor, Chen Yuanzheng suddenly realized that he had underestimated the situation and should have reported more.
Continuing along the main road towards the villa, Chen Yuanzheng saw the cabbages that Lu Ke had planted in his spare time on the side path.
The cabbages were enormous, and their emerald-like color captivated Chen Yuanzheng. He walked into the field and couldn't resist reaching out to stroke the cabbage leaves.
"You still have fresh vegetables."
Lu Ke said, "Yes, should we buy some? I grew them."
"Buy! Let's start with the cabbages in this row." Chen Yuanzheng waved his hand and placed his order for the cabbages.
Lu Ke exclaimed incredulously, "That's all? It's not even enough to fill the teeth of the people at your base."
Chen Yuanzheng reluctantly removed his hand from the cabbage leaves, saying, "If I buy too much, you won't have any to eat."
"We'll make sure you have enough."
"Then, how about 100,000 jin?"
As soon as Chen Yuanzheng finished his tentative question, Lu Ke agreed without the slightest hesitation.
The group continued walking and saw apple trees again. Based on their previous experience, Chen Yuanzheng ordered apples again.
On the way to the villa alone, Chen Yuanzheng made three big purchases.
Chen Yuanzheng felt a little dazed; he suddenly couldn't tell what year, month, or day it was.
It's the apocalypse now, isn't it? A terrifying apocalypse where people freeze to death, zombies roam the land, corpses litter the fields, water, electricity, and internet are cut off, and there are no fresh supplies.
Why is the supermarket that Ye Zhi and her group brought filled with supplies?
Even inside the villa, there's electricity, internet, and running water; it's warm like spring, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, and even has ornamental fish, fresh cabbage, apple trees, and other supplies rarely seen in the apocalypse.
Chen Yuanzheng, with unsteady steps, was led through the door by Old Master Song.
He had barely taken a few steps after changing into his slippers when his legs gave way.
What did he see on their dining table? What was that?
Pig's trotters, chicken legs, sea cucumber, eel, bullfrog, green vegetables, and even strawberries.
Holy crap, they're eating so well!
He ate steamed buns with a side dish and soup every day.
The vegetables were wilted, and the soup was a low-salt pork rib soup. Although it was pork rib soup, there was only a tiny bit of meat on the ribs that could get stuck between your teeth.
This was pork rib soup made from ribs he had previously gnawed on, now cooked back into the broth.
Even so, he was still considered to have one of the best meals in the base.
Compared to them, everyone in their base must be eating coarse food.
Chen Yuanzheng looked at Ye Jingyu, the model young man who had helped him up, and asked, "Xiao Yu, have you eaten?"
Ye Jingyu, puzzled, said, "I'm full."
"Wow, you still have so much food on your table, lots of meat!"
"Oh, those are for our little squid to eat."
Chen Yuanzheng's legs went even weaker. Damn it, even the squid ate better than him. He was so envious of him.
"What about the vegetables?"
Ye Zhi understood Chen Yuanzheng's meaning and smiled, "It's for pigs. If Grandpa Chen wants to eat it, just give him the crystal cores and we'll make it for you, or you can take it back to the base to make it. We'll also charge you for labor."
At that moment, inside the supermarket, a man wearing a thin down jacket secretly took sausages, chicken legs, duck legs, braised eggs, and other items from the shelves and stuffed them into his trouser pockets and coat pockets.
This man was clearly a repeat offender; none of his pockets showed any signs of him hiding anything.
Lu Chong kept a close eye on the people around him. When he realized that no one had noticed his actions, he breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a bucket of instant noodles from the shelf, and strode toward the cashier.
He was completely unaware that ever since his hand reached for the shelf, a small robot holding a bow and arrow had appeared above his head and had been following him closely.
"Brother Lu, the bill is due."
Lu Chong placed the instant noodles on the cashier's counter, then said to Lu Xingxiao, "Brother Lu, you'd better keep a close eye on things. This is the apocalypse, and there are a lot of petty thieves around." He looked very righteous.
"Hmm, five attribute-less crystal cores," Lu Xingxiao said after glancing at the price list on the table.
Lu Chong had been clutching the five crystal cores tightly in his hand ever since he got his instant noodles. Upon hearing the price, he placed the crystal cores directly on the table.
"Goodbye, Brother Lu." He turned around with a victorious smile on his face.
He obtained supplies worth several hundred crystal cores with just five crystal cores, so it seems his skills haven't declined.
Ha, those people before were obviously careless, because not a single one of them was watching them, it was all the people from their base who were watching them.
These people have never learned the lessons society teaches them. Now, it's time for them to experience the harsh realities of society.
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