Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Gu Tongwan and his group finally returned to the ground. This time it was extremely dangerous. If they had not killed the mother body and the spores that were about to mature in advance, more spores would have been born to the mother body, and a large-scale beast tide would have erupted in the underground city sooner or later.

"No, it's really no good. Is there any safe place in this base? My experience in the past three months has been like a roller coaster. I entered the base just to find a safe place to stay, and now, after only a few months, I am only half a step away from death."

"Sister Yunyun, it's much worse outside than here. At least here there are people who can save you. Outside, you will definitely be helpless. Moreover, ordinary people like you may become food for high-level mutant beasts, even if you face a D-level mutant wild dog." Perhaps because he had just escaped from the crisis, Yan Fan was not as tense as before and talked more.

Liao Yunyun shook her head when she heard that. "Alright, alright, stop talking. I know I'm already happy at the base." Liao Yunyun slumped down on the ground, then glanced at the sky again and suddenly murmured, "It seems like the snow has stopped?"

"It has indeed stopped snowing. Let's leave now." Gu Tongwan brushed off the mud on his body. Everyone looked disheveled and as miserable as they could be.

Others also understood that it would be best to leave when the snow stopped, otherwise if the snow got heavy it would delay their return journey.

"You go first. I need to contact someone here to discuss what happened tonight." Chen Yanxi showed no signs of leaving because what happened tonight had reached a security crisis at the highest level of the base. The Hunter team had already contacted the guard center before entering the dungeon, and they had already sent people on the way to the cave entrance.

"Okay, then you just have to be careful." Gu Tongwan looked at the other person, with a tenderness in his eyes that was not usually there.

Liu Hun came close to Ye Ziqiu and whispered, "Looking at the situation, are these two really together?"

"Shut up, or you'll get scolded by the captain." Ye Ziqiu rolled his eyes at the other person.

Liu Hun touched his nose and thought to himself that even the captain's iron tree could bloom, so when would he be able to find a gentle and lovely wife?

But when he glanced at Ye Ziqiu beside him inadvertently, he shuddered suddenly. Forget it, if he found a woman who could make him angry, wouldn't that be just asking for trouble? It would be better for him to be free and easy alone.

Fearing that Fan Yong's disappearance would trigger a series of chain reactions in the community, Gu Tongwan suggested that Liao Yunyun stay at her house for the next two days and return after the turmoil in the community had calmed down.

"Okay, then I'll go to your place for some free food and drinks for the time being." Liao Yunyun didn't refuse politely, and left with him half-jokingly.

Fang Tang and Xu Qingzhi were left on the road to accompany Gu Tongwan and the others for protection. The other members of the Hunter Team went to the Guardian Center to report today's situation. What happened tonight involved confidential information. If nothing unexpected happens, the base's notification tomorrow will probably distort some facts. After all, the most important thing at this stage is to stabilize the people's hearts.

It had been a week since he last returned to his home and Gu Tongwan missed it very much, so as soon as he entered the house, he immediately added charcoal to the fireplace frantically.

"Yunyun, go turn on the air conditioner. Yanfan, go upstairs and turn on the air conditioner and heater first."

The first thing I did when I got home was to turn on the heating. Although the snowstorm had stopped, the temperature outside was still around minus 50 degrees Celsius. During the past few days when I was out, even though the indoor temperature was higher than the outdoor temperature, the perceived temperature could still be felt to be dozens of degrees below zero.

Whether it is to re-ignite the fireplace or turn on the air conditioning and heating, it takes a certain amount of time, so Gu Tongwan directly took down the two small solar heaters on the second floor. Yan Fan is a superpower, so his resistance to cold is better than that of ordinary people. At this time, he naturally took on the task of adding carbon to the fireplace.

"What time is it now?" Liao Yunyun asked while shivering.

"Sister Yunyun, it's almost dawn now, it's 5:30 in the morning." Yan Fan added a handful of charcoal to the fireplace. Perhaps because he finally came out of the cave, Yan Fan's tone became much softer.

"So more than three hours have passed? Oh my god, I feel like we just went down not long ago. I didn't expect time to pass so quickly." Liao Yunyun couldn't help but murmur.

Gu Tongwan turned the heater to the highest wattage. Perhaps because he had just come back from outside, he still couldn't feel the heat from the heater for a while. After hearing his friend's sigh, he smiled and said, "That's not what you said when you were underground. You said that every day was like a year. Now that you're up here, you realize that time flies by so fast?"

"Come on, stop talking. Your mentioning of that reminds me of the things underground again. Before, I was thinking that after the underground city is opened, I would save up some money and rent a house underground, because our company might move down there to work. After this incident, I'm skeptical about the safety level underground. I'll consider this again when the base makes all the information about the underground city public and transparent."

This incident did leave her with a great psychological trauma, especially as she didn't know whether those mutant creatures that looked like aliens had been completely eliminated. If a bunch of mutant creatures emerged from underground from time to time, the residents living in the underground city would be the first to suffer direct harm.

"I'll heat up a bowl of ginger soup for you later. After you drink it, take a hot bath and have a good rest."

Gu Tongwan took off his coat and went upstairs while speaking. He turned back and said, "I'm going to take a shower first. I really can't stand being covered in mud and blood."

"The heating isn't on yet, won't you catch a cold if you take a shower now?"

"It's okay. I'll go upstairs and see if the water heater can be used. If not, I'll boil the water and keep it warm. It will be more convenient for you to take a shower later."

In fact, after Gu Tongwan went upstairs to boil some hot water, he moved the whole bucket of water into the room. After closing the door, he put both the person and the bucket into the room.

Not only is the time stagnant in the space, but the temperature is also relatively constant. However, things unrelated to the system tasks are not allowed in the space, so except for farming in the space, there is only a twenty-minute stay period, and Gu Tongwan uses these twenty minutes to take a shower.

After quickly cleaning the body and changing clothes in the space, he came out of the space feeling relaxed.

While Liao Yunyun was washing herself, she simply took out the meal packs she had prepared in advance and heated them up. She made one portion of curry chicken, one portion of shredded pork with Beijing sauce, and an additional portion of the simplest seaweed egg drop soup. The meal packs only needed to be briefly reheated. She had made a lot of meal packs in advance when she was making fast food and placed them in a foam box on the balcony. It was not a problem to store the meal packs for a month or so in extremely cold weather. After all, before the end of the world, there were many restaurants that used meal packs to make up for the shortage of fast food. It was much more hygienic to make it at home.

Although there was rice available, it was hard to explain how it could be cooked in just over ten minutes, so I simply took out the big white steamed buns from the refrigerator and steamed them.

When Liao Yunyun came out of the shower, she smelled the aroma of dishes. She immediately felt that people who can cook are different. Unlike her, her cooking skills have only improved from half-cooked to barely edible over the years in the apocalypse. In addition, she had no time to eat when she was busy with work in the past few years. She basically soaked compressed biscuits in hot water or went to the nearby bun shop to buy two buns for a meal. Even on her days off, she just wanted to lie in bed. Therefore, there is a reason why her cooking skills have not improved.

After half an hour, the temperature in the room gradually rose. Liao Yunyun was still wearing the cotton coat given by Gu Tongwan. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva and could hardly take her eyes off the dishes on the table.

"Wanwan, to be honest, if I were a man, I would definitely pursue you. You are simply the best example of someone who can handle both housework and work."

Gu Tongwan raised his eyebrows and said, "I wouldn't be happy if you were a man. Are women born to be cooks?"

"Hey, that's not what I meant. I was just using a metaphor to praise you for being beautiful, kind, and skillful."

Perhaps everyone was tired, so they all wanted to rest after dinner. Even Yan Fan, who was usually energetic, was dazed for a moment.

The two dogs were put in the space to fend for themselves when she was taking a bath in it. There was a dark corner in the space filled with various mutant animals, all of which were hunted by the two dogs in the big forest in the north. Apart from that, the two dogs occasionally ate some beef and pork, and they basically did not need to eat again for two or three days after eating once.

Gu Tongwan once observed the two dogs eating, and that scene fully demonstrated the most instinctive side of the wild beasts.

After eating and drinking, people tend to fall asleep when they are full. Seeing that the two of them could hardly open their eyes, Gu Tongwan said to Yan Fan, "Rest first. If there is anything, we can talk about it after you have rested."

Having just escaped death, her spirit went from tense to relaxed, and her body also relaxed, which was when she felt the most tired and sleepy. Liao Yunyun almost walked to the guest room with her eyes squinted.

Gu Tongwan returned to his bedroom only after making sure that both of them had returned to their rooms. Fortunately, the electric blanket on the bed had already warmed up the quilt. After putting on his autumn clothes and covering himself with a thin but warm goose down quilt, his eyelids gradually became heavy.

Gu Tongwan slept for a full twelve hours. It was rare for her to sleep for so long at one time. In the past, she had the habit of sleeping eight hours at night and two hours at noon. Even if she did not set the alarm clock, her fixed biological clock would not allow her to sleep so long. But this time she was too tired and too cold, and curling up in the warm quilt was simply the most natural tranquilizer.

However, when she got up, Yan Fan and Liao Yunyun were not awake yet. She glanced at the time and found that the three of them had slept from 6:30 last night to 6:30 in the morning.

There was still no snow outside at this time, and I didn't know whether the cessation of snow this time really meant the end of the extreme cold, but the outdoor temperature displayed on the second-floor balcony was still minus 53 degrees Celsius.

Perhaps the gradual cessation of snow finally gave people the courage to go out. Gu Tongwan vaguely saw some black spots moving in the distance. If he looked carefully, he knew that they were the residents of the base who went out.

Gu Tongwan guessed that Liao Yunyun and Yan Fan would continue to rest, so he filled the pot with water in advance. A bowl of heart-warming and stomach-warming shredded pork noodles was perfect on a cold winter morning.

There is also a box of frozen meat on the balcony. Half a piece of pork is taken out in advance. After cutting the pork into strips, it is marinated with onion, ginger, garlic, a little oyster sauce and cooking wine. This way, the marinated pork can reduce the odor of the mutant pork as much as possible. After all, many restaurants in the base do not marinate meat in order to save seasonings. This way, there is no way to reduce the smell of the mutant pork, and the taste is also hard. This is why most people don’t like to order meat dishes when they go to a restaurant. Not only is the price expensive, but the taste is even worse than a plate of fried shredded potatoes.

Gu Tongwan took out the pickled mustard tuber that she had bought from the market before from the refrigerator. She had bought some pickled vegetables when she was stockpiling at the beginning of the apocalypse. Besides that, she would look for recipes on her phone when she had nothing to do. She learned to pickle a lot of pickled vegetables to go with rice, including pickled radish, sauerkraut, kimchi and pickled mustard tuber.

However, the pickled mustard this time was all bought. The ones I pickled myself were not tasty enough, so I cut the mustard in half and took out half of it. After cutting the mustard into shreds and setting aside, I took out some of the only ripe chili peppers in the yard.

Pour some cold oil into the pot, add minced garlic and chili peppers when the oil is hot, and finally add the shredded pork and stir-fry. The shredded pork bought from the vegetable market is salty enough, and stir-frying will make the pickled mustard tuber taste more fragrant.

After the pickled mustard tuber is served, pour oil into the pot again and stir-fry the shredded pork directly this time. Since the seasoning has been prepared from the previous marinating, you only need to add some appropriate soy sauce and chicken essence. When the shredded pork is 70% cooked, add the scallion and pickled mustard tuber and stir-fry for a while. Finally, add the noodle soup in the pot next to it. After cooking for about three minutes, take out the noodles next to it and put them into the soup with pickled mustard tuber and shredded pork, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and a bowl of fragrant pickled mustard tuber and shredded pork noodles is ready.

Perhaps I felt that this bowl of noodles was missing something, so I fried three soft-fried eggs in the end.

She wanted to scoop out one portion of noodles in advance. After all, if she put all the noodles in at once, they would definitely clump together.

Yan Fan had just returned from his morning run. As soon as he entered the house, he smelled a fragrance and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had just run nearly ten kilometers on the snow with a 20-kilogram weight. No matter how cold the weather was, he would still sweat. Recently, in order to improve his supernatural power level as quickly as possible, Yan Fan had been working hard to strengthen his training. He had always been worried about his passive situation in the civil servant community. He felt that he could not take the initiative or even protect the people around him, so he was eager to improve his supernatural power through training.

I don’t know if it’s because of her zodiac sign of cat, but soon after Yan Fan came back, Liao Yunyun rushed to the living room and yelled, “What’s that smell? It smells so good. I’m almost dying of greed.”

Gu Tongwan didn't mind at all and cooked a new portion of noodles for the two of them, and poured the pickled mustard and shredded pork noodle soup on it. The three of them had a very comfortable breakfast that day.