Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 386 - : Qiqi’s Dream
Chapter 386 -386: Qiqi’s Dream
After listening to Xing Taian’s words, everyone felt a great admiration in their hearts.
Moreover, Xing Taian did not describe their experiences as being extremely arduous, nor did he exaggerate his own contributions. It seemed as though he was just recounting a very normal event.
“So, how do you solve the food issue here?” Ren Yingjie couldn’t help but ask.
He specialized in agriculture and after looking around the place, he realized that they hadn’t planted any crops or foodstuffs. He was curious as to what these people relied on for food.
“Ah, that’s the most difficult problem we’re facing now. We do go out and kill zombies and hunt for Crystal Cores with some of the people here who have special abilities. We have enough Crystal Cores now, it’s just that there’s nowhere to buy food. So every once in a while, we send a few brothers to the nearby bases to exchange Crystal Cores for some food, but they have inflated their prices several times over,” Xing Taian said with a frown. Having a grain of food could stump a group of people, and even though they knew they were being ripped off, having more Crystal Cores was useless if they couldn’t get food in exchange.
Moreover, the demand for Crystal Cores among the people in the shelter was almost zero because they had no trade to conduct.
“That’s outrageous! It’s bad enough not allowing the elderly and children in, but to overcharge you for food?” Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but slam the table.
“In the apocalypse… there are no human sentiments,” Xing Taian said with a wry smile, as if he didn’t think that what they were doing was particularly humane. It was more about responsibility and the influence of many years in the army.
If one were to rely merely on sentiments to help others, there would be few who could keep it up.
Pei Yuan and his companions were quite moved. They knew very little about the apocalypse and had not expected that the elderly and children would be so blatantly considered useless.
Xing Taian’s living quarters were right next door to this courtyard. Since he had to meet the brothers who had gone to exchange for food today, he settled everyone in and then left.
The group found that the inside of the two-story building was also very clean.
According to Xing Taian, the elderly people here would spontaneously clean every corner of the shelter when they were free. They knew they couldn’t kill zombies, but probably just wanted to do what they could to protect this place.
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There were many rooms in the small building. Considering that Pei Yuan and Tan Yiran might have trouble moving up and down the stairs, Su Jin let them stay on the first floor, while she and Lu Hao and the others took the second floor.
Seeing Lian Jiyue still asleep in the car, Su Jin used vines to bind him and brought him to a small room on the second floor.
“Sister Xiao Jin, when will he wake up?” Mao Qiqi murmured next to Lian Jiyue.
“His fever has completely subsided, so he should wake up soon,” Su Jin said uncertainly. In her view, the fact that Lian Jiyue had not turned into a zombie and had successfully recovered from the fever was already a very good outcome.
“Where are Lin Xiuyuan and Uncle Nie?” Looking at the empty rooms, Su Jin asked Lu Hao.
“They said they were hungry and went in to eat,” Lu Hao whispered to Su Jin.
Upon hearing this, Su Jin also realized that they had been out all day, and seemed to have not eaten anything. Dr. Pei and the others were probably hungry too.
She only dared to take out some of the dry food and ready-made meals from her Space, but even so, Pei Yuan and the others were quite surprised.
“We… we brought some dry cakes, so let’s just make do with those. Keep what you have for yourselves,” Pei Yuan said.
Pei Yuan knew how scarce food was nowadays, yet Su Jin had actually brought them white flour pancakes, marinated eggs, and a packet of sauce-colored marinated meat… How could they accept this with a clear conscience?
Smiling as if joking, Su Jin said, “In the future, S City Base will rely on the few of you with the strongest brains. We can’t afford to let you starve to death. Besides, this marinated meat comes from mutant animals we previously hunted, so it’s not anything rare.”
“Su Jin, thank you. You all are like second parents to us, your great kindness, we will never forget!”
While saying this, Ren Yingjie gave Su Jin a deep bow.
“Alright, eat up quickly. It’s not too late yet, later on, we can still take a stroll around here and see.”
After saying this, Su Jin left. She was hungry too and planned to take turns with Lu Hao and the others to eat dinner in the Space.
Mao Qiqi had already fallen asleep next to Lian Jiyue, and Su Jin and Lu Hao didn’t have the heart to wake her. She hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for the whole day and night; let her rest well.
Mao Qiqi felt she had a bizarre and fantastic dream.
In the dream, she was lying on an animal covered with white fur, running across a vast and boundless grassland, with warm sunlight shining on her, and from between the animal’s ears, she could see the snow-capped peaks in the distance…
It wasn’t until the animal seemed to tire, its limbs surrendering to the ground, and then slowly let her down.
She lay on the damp grassland, finally getting a clear view of the animal’s appearance, it was pure white with silver-grey pupils… a dog?
Suddenly, the animal stood up, its ears perking up alertly, and then it ran quickly in one direction.
Its body was agile and fast, disappearing from view in no time.
Mao Qiqi panicked, now on this tender green grassland, she was the only one here, where was her family? Why was she alone?
It wasn’t until she felt very hungry that the white animal came back into her line of sight, its mouth carrying a bloody animal, then it placed the bloodied animal in front of Mao Qiqi, seemingly indicating that she could eat it now.
Mao Qiqi wanted to say she wouldn’t eat that, but she suddenly realized she couldn’t speak. Then, she saw the dog standing on a large rock in the grassland howling towards the sky, the sound was distinctly that of a wolf’s howl…
“Qiqi? Qiqi?”
Was someone calling her?
Mao Qiqi rubbed her eyes and sat up, seeing Su Jin beside her.
“Sister Xiao Jin?”
“You fell asleep and I heard you saying you were so hungry, so I called you. Do you want to go in and eat something?”
Su Jin asked with concern; she clearly heard Qiqi saying she was so hungry.
Touching her flat stomach, Mao Qiqi nodded and then disappeared from the seat.
In the E City Base, Moli had hardly closed her eyes all night as she accompanied Lian Ze in sifting through a pile of jumbled files to find a piece of data.
“Z3157! I found it, Director!”
Moli excitedly held a crumpled document, handing it to Lian Ze.
Without saying another word, Lian Ze took the document and began reading after flipping the cover page:
Sample Z3157, extraction subject: Mutated wolf’s Beast Core, quantity extracted: one…
