Chapter 370: Centipede Meat Canned Food |
Surrounded in the middle, Wu Shanqi looked around at his colleagues and superiors, then said with a complicated mood, "We probably really can't go back."
Vice Dean Qiu Gao immediately became anxious, "How can that be! Is it because the things we sent weren't enough? Little Wu, I remember you're married too, don't you miss your wife at home?"
Wu Shanqi shook his head, "Dean Qiu, if they could go back, they would have gone back long ago, not stayed here waiting for us."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Gao swallowed the rest of his words. His entire spirit and vitality seemed to collapse in an instant, as if he had aged several years.
"Then can we get a house to live in this residential complex?" Qiu Gao didn't want to live in the hospital. Although the hospital's offices were nicely decorated, they were too big and too empty.
Staying there at night felt unsafe.
If, like today, some strange bugs crawled over again, shouting for help might not even be heard by others.
"I'll ask about it later." Wu Shanqi didn't promise outright.
"Brother Wu, we also want to live in the residential complex."
Everyone knew Wu Shanqi had an old friend here who seemed to have some status, so they all started playing the emotional card.
Amidst the flattery from the crowd, although Wu Shanqi tried his best to remain calm, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch upward slightly in delight.
After returning to the Home, Qin Ziwen went directly to the Giant Beast Heavy Industry.
Because he had received news that the canned food hadn't been produced yet.
He was quite curious about that new canned food.
Li Yue was standing next to the exit of the feed processing plant, holding a torch, sticking his head into the hole. It was pitch black inside, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He was a bit curious about the layout inside and wanted to reach out to touch it, but his hand stretched out and then retracted, his face full of conflict.
Just as he was completely focused, footsteps suddenly appeared behind him, startling him so much he jolted.
He turned around and only relaxed after seeing it was Qin Ziwen. "Guild Leader, you're here."
"Just now, canned food automatically came out from inside here, filling several boxes. Take a look." Li Yue said, taking out a large five-pound can from the side.
Qin Ziwen took the heavy can. Under the torchlight, the can's surface was plain and unadorned, without many fancy patterns.
Only at the very bottom of the can was there a black giant dragon symbol.
"Can this be eaten?" Li Yue asked curiously.
"It should be edible." Qin Ziwen played with the can in his hand.
The building was called the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant, not the Human Feed Processing Plant.
But from another perspective, training people towards the direction of a giant beast didn't seem like a problem either.
A human-shaped giant beast, wouldn't that be a giant?
Qin Ziwen used Insight on the can in his hand.
[Giant Beast Heavy Industry · Meat Canned Food: White meat canned food rich in nutrients, helpful for physical development, also edible by humans]
Insight after leveling up was really useful.
Tearing open the can, a fragrant aroma rushed out. White meat covered with a layer of grease rested quietly inside the can.
Using his fingers to dig out the meat, he took the largest piece from the outside, bit into it with one mouthful, and the tender, white fresh meat burst in his mouth. That taste made his eyes instantly light up.
"If you didn't say this was meat, ninety-nine percent of people wouldn't be able to tell."
He looked at Li Yue and handed the can over. "You try some too."
Li Yue took the can and pulled a fork from his pocket.
"Where did you get that fork from?" Qin Ziwen stopped him.
"I got it from home." Li Yue was stunned. "I'm a blacksmith, isn't it normal to carry a fork with me?"
"Normal my ass. Why didn't you give it to me just now? Watch me eat with my hands." Qin Ziwen's face darkened.
"I thought you liked eating meat with your hands, boss." Li Yue chuckled.
"Chuckle my ass." Qin Ziwen forcibly stuffed the meat in his hand into Li Yue's hand, then took the fork from him. "This canned food will be emergency reserve rations from now on. When you're outside, you can't always have a fork or chopsticks readily available. You need to experience it, then invent a tool that's convenient to carry around."
Li Yue felt the greasy meat in his palm, the corner of his mouth twitched, then he forced down his discomfort and ate it.
"Boss, I'm planning to go back and invent a portable little fork. The volume doesn't need to be too big, just convenient to carry. That way, we won't have to eat meat with our hands."
"Alright, you figure it out. The canned food tastes okay, right?"
"Yeah, it's quite tasty." Li Yue nodded repeatedly.
"Aside from the taste, are there any other reactions?"
Li Yue said, "I feel warm inside, like I ate dozens of pounds of beef."
"Pretty much." Qin Ziwen felt the same way. After eating, he felt warm inside, and much of the surrounding chill was driven away.
The temperature down here was a bit low. He felt it was lower than the island map.
This canned food could provide a lot of calories, which was very helpful for maintaining physical strength and for physical training.
The underground cavern had no distinction between day and night, but as time passed, the surrounding temperature became lower and lower.
Qin Ziwen took out his phone. The current time was 10:40 PM, already nighttime.
It seemed that at night in the underground world, the temperature was also lower than outside.
He then called someone over to distribute the canned food to the Core Hunting Team and the fish-men hunting teams within the Home. These canned foods needed to be consumed over a long period to improve physical fitness and even break through to Superhuman, so the best time to start eating them was now.
Just as everyone was distributing the canned food, Little Black One, hiding in the shadows nearby, opened its pair of bright, piercing big eyes, staring intently at the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant.
Although it didn't know why, it always felt that these things smelled so good.
"Guild Leader, Guild Leader."
While everyone was busy, Wei Zhaohua found Qin Ziwen. "Guild Leader, will this map last for two months?"
"It should."
"Then that's troublesome. If crops can't undergo photosynthesis all the time, then the vast majority of crops in the fields will die." Wei Zhaohua said gravely.
Reminded by Wei Zhaohua, Qin Ziwen suddenly realized this problem. "What should we do then?"
If photosynthesis was impossible, plants couldn't survive. It might be okay for a few days in the short term, but over a long time, most crops would die. Maybe only a few tuberous plants could survive.
Wait, since this map is an underground cavern, there should be a solution.
Either trust in the magical power of the buildings. As an Advanced Building, the Rare Treasure Garden should be able to... keep the plants alive even without light, right?
Or there are other cards that can solve this problem.
Wei Zhaohua pondered, "Guild Leader, then I'll observe for a couple of days first, see the state of the plants. If it really doesn't work, we can only harvest them early. That's better than letting them rot in the ground."
"Then you'll have to put in more effort these next few days."
Night fell, and many residents of the residential complex returned to their homes.
After the residents of the complex briefly adapted to the environment, patrol teams were successfully formed, divided into four shifts, working around the clock in rotation, conducting patrols and vigilance on the outskirts of the residential complex.
At the same time, some people were assigned to conduct safe and orderly exploration around the perimeter of the residential complex.
One of the teams exploring towards the eastern cave brought back one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.