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

The Cai family prepared some farm dishes, but because it was lunch, there were not many special dishes. However, even so, it was obvious that Cai's mother and Cai Min put a lot of effort into preparing them.

Corn, potato patties, scrambled eggs with green onions, fried egg pancakes, stir-fried shredded potatoes, pickles, millet porridge, and even a dozen steamed buns were prepared in case some people were not full.

"Let's just have a quick bite at noon, and then we'll cook some hearty dishes to treat everyone in the evening." Cai's mother said with a smile as she untied her scarf.

"The meal at noon was too delicious. Is this considered a simple meal?" Xiaoli opened her mouth wide and looked at the table full of dishes, then raised her head with a look of disbelief.

"These are just farm dishes. There's not much meat in them, so don't be disgusted. Let's save some space for a good meal in the evening." Cai Min served porridge to everyone skillfully.

"Sister Cai, if these are considered simple meals, then what we usually eat can't even be considered shabby. When I'm at home, I just have some noodles for lunch, or some compressed biscuits and milkshakes. I can eat the same dishes of yours for 365 days." Liao Yunyun couldn't help but smile.

"Me too." Xiaoli also raised her hand.

"I can do it too." Lan Cen also said with a smile as he followed the two of them.

Cai's mother and Cai Min exchanged glances, and were immediately amused by these girls. Cai's mother, in particular, put a large white steamed bun and a corn pancake on each girl's plate, and said, "Eat more. When you are full, you will have the energy to go out and play."

"Hey, Auntie, I will eat well." Xiaoli, the community leader, is sweet-talking and knows how to deal with things, so she made Cai's mother very happy.

The vegetables grown by the Cai family are actually similar to the high-quality vegetables grown at the base. Because fresh vegetables are difficult to grow in extremely cold weather, they found a way to dehydrate some of the vegetables when the weather was hot. For example, the shallots in the shallot omelette were dehydrated, so they did not taste as good as fresh ones, but the flavor of the shallots was well preserved.

It was around one o'clock in the afternoon after lunch, but no one seemed too sleepy. Instead, they seemed excited because they were about to go out.

Father Cai put a pot of tea in the charcoal stove. The tea leaves were the ones that Father Cai collected when he opened a tea garden. When they settled down in the base camp, there were only 20 kilograms of tea left in the family. Later, he took out 5 kilograms to give to the leaders above. After that, family members also drank some of it over the years. Now there are less than 10 kilograms of tea left in the family. Father Cai is reluctant to take it out unless it is necessary.

The tea is Jasmine Maojian. Although it is not new tea, Cai's father has kept it in an iron can, so the tea has not deteriorated. In the middle of winter, drinking some tea with some melon seeds makes life so comfortable.

"Children, everyone drink some hot tea. This green tea is comfortable and warms the stomach in winter, and can relieve heat in summer. It can refresh you after drinking it, and you won't feel sleepy when you go out in the afternoon." Father Cai poured half a cup of tea for each person, and immediately the fragrance of jasmine rose in the air with the white mist.

"This tea is grown by my family. Of course, it was grown in the past, but the taste has not changed. It is still very delicious. Usually my father is reluctant to drink it. If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have been able to have a sip. Everyone, hurry up and try it."

After eating and drinking, they warmed themselves by the fire in the house for a while. At about 1:30, Cai Min and Xu Xuesong took a group of people out.

I didn't have a very direct look at the entire camp when I was in the car just now, but now that I see the entire camp with my own eyes, I suddenly feel that this is indeed a world completely different from the base. The only thing that is the same is that everything is covered with white snow, the sky and the earth seem to be connected as one, and the houses in the camp look more like they are breaking out of the thick snow at first glance.

The nearby mountains are endless, and there seems to be clouds and mist in the distance. The air has the smell of soil and a little bit of vegetation.

"The scenery here is much better than at the base, probably because it's closer to nature. I really like this feeling of freedom and unrestrainedness." Liao Yunyun spread her arms as if she wanted to embrace everything here, with a look of enjoyment on her face.

In fact, everyone has this feeling at the same time. Although there is unlimited freedom and space outside the base, the environment is harsh and there are attacks from foreign forces and mutant creatures. Not everyone can endure the days of sleeping in the open air. Although you may be full one meal and hungry the next in the base, there is still room to breathe and sleep. If you close your eyes outside, you never know if your throat will be bitten by a monster the next moment.

The area of ​​the camp was much larger than everyone had imagined. Although Cai Min had said at the beginning of her introduction that it was equivalent to the size of a university town, it felt much larger than that. At least after walking for ten minutes or so, it seemed as if they had not seen the end of the village yet.

"There is an ice lake in front of us. There used to be fish in it in the summer. Although they are mutant fish, they are just mutated silver carp. They are not aggressive to humans. We can often catch them and eat them in the summer. You may not believe it, but the meat tastes like chicken and has no fishy smell. However, after the extreme cold, this layer of ice is so thick that it is very difficult to fish by breaking ice."

Cai Min introduced the situation of the camp as she walked, with a hint of pride in her tone. After all, this place could be considered her second hometown and she had lived here for many years and had some feelings for it.

"Oh, I know. I've seen something similar on TV's lifestyle channel before. Chagan Lake in the northeast is very famous for winter fishing." Xiaoli, who had been walking in front, couldn't help but turn around and interjected with a smile.

"That's right. During the first extreme cold, the camp sent out nearly a hundred young men to break ice and fish. It was a lively scene. However, this year's extreme cold came too suddenly, and the ice is thicker than in previous years. The thickest part is about ten meters, and the thinnest part is three or four meters. So it is too difficult to break ice and fish. There are not many psychics in the camp. Most of the guild hunters went out to perform missions some time ago. Currently, there are not many hunters left in the camp, and most of them need to carry out security control work in some areas of the camp, so the ice-breaking activity that has been proposed could not be held normally." Xu Xuesong stopped after saying the last sentence, and then smiled and said to everyone: "This is the ice lake. The lake surface is solid enough. You don't have to worry about ice cracking or ice breaking."

Gu Tongwan was just about to take a step forward when she found that Chen Yanxi had already extended a hand towards her.

Gu Tongwan looked at him with amusement: "Are you worried that I might fall?"

"It's better to be careful, and..." There was a smile in his eyes, and the curve of his beautiful lips was very beautiful. Although he only said half of the words, Gu Tongwan found that the ice under his feet seemed to become transparent in an instant, and he could even vaguely see a big black fish swimming underneath.

"What is this?" Gu Tongwan looked at him in surprise, but immediately realized the next moment that he should be using his special ability to melt the ice underneath instantly, and then let the big fish nearby come to it because of the breath produced by the special ability, which is similar to a kind of mental control over any living creature.

Fortunately, the others were busy playing on the lake at this time, so they didn't notice what was happening here.

However, what made Gu Tongwan curious was that in such a short time, Chen Yanxi was able to melt the ice under his feet effortlessly and keep the upper layer of ice without any signs of cracks. This level of proficiency in controlling supernatural powers was extremely terrifying.

"Are you controlling these fish with your mental power?" Gu Tongwan took a step closer to him so that he could see more clearly the school of fish surrounding him under the ice.

"It should be said that it is similar to hypnosis, but it is also a method used by the psychiatric system." When Chen Yanxi smiled, his eyebrows softened, and the cold aura on his body seemed to retreat in an instant. He would only be unguarded in front of important people.

Gu Tongwan's hand was still held by him. This was the first time they held hands so closely. Her fingers were tightly clenched by him, and the heat from her fingertips transmitted through the gloves made her heart ache a little.

"You used your frost ability and psychic ability at the same time just now?"

Gu Tongwan thought that the moment the ice became transparent, he had already seen the school of black fish underneath, so it was very likely that he used his mental power on the fish while using his ice power. In the world of superpowers, there are people who possess two superpowers at the same time, but she has never heard of anyone who can mobilize two superpowers in the body at the same time. After all, the use of superpowers is related to their superpower energy and mental power. The higher the level of the superpower user, the more mental power they consume each time they use their superpowers. If the levels of both superpowers have reached a high level, then manipulating the two superpowers at the same time is likely to rapidly consume mental power, causing the superpower user to faint, become physically exhausted, and even have mental power run away.

Therefore, according to the current understanding of the supernatural world, no one can control two supernatural powers at the same time. This is an unprecedented situation.

But now not only is there someone who can do it, but this person is right in front of him.

"It took me a while to research this method." Chen Yanxi pulled her to a place where he could see the location of the fish below more directly. From an outsider's perspective, the two of them looked more like they were hugging each other, so the others wisely didn't approach them to talk to them. Instead, they gave the newly-connected couple some space to be alone.

"It took a while? How long?" Gu Tongwan narrowed his eyes and looked at him leisurely.

"About half a month." Chen Yanxi saw that she liked to squint at people when she was a little angry or raised questions, just like when she was a child, with so many little expressions on her face, so he couldn't help but raise his hand and rub her head.

She had not expected this intimate gesture. She had thought that after having experienced the experience of dating the scumbag Zhang Heng in her previous life, she would not get too deeply involved in this relationship. However, she did not expect that Chen Yanxi knew her so well that he could even accurately grasp her based on her personality and every little habit in her life. When a man is really willing to understand and even tolerate a woman in all aspects, it means that he cherishes this relationship very much.

"Half a month... I found that you really have the ability to make people angry to death. You must not mention this matter to anyone else." Gu Tongwan sighed, but did not let go of the hand he was holding.

Chen Yanxi did not answer immediately, because the members of the hunter team basically knew about his special abilities. After all, they had been together for many years and now lived under the same roof. Moreover, when performing tasks, they needed to entrust their backs and even their lives to each other's teammates. There was no secret between them at all.

"I will be careful in front of outsiders." Chen Yanxi thought about it and changed his words.

Fortunately, Gu Tongwan understood what he meant and had no intention of continuing to argue with him. Instead, he refocused his gaze on his feet. At this time, the school of fish had not yet dispersed, and the ice under his feet became more and more transparent, and he could even see ripples and waves on the ice water.

"Would you like to try catching fish later?" Chen Yanxi suddenly asked.

Gu Tongwan turned his head and glanced at the people skating on the ice lake. Thinking that the Cai family would continue to bother the Cai family for several days, he smiled and said, "Will you let me try?"

The moment Chen Yanxi let go of her hand, Gu Tongwan discovered that some faint white mist was emanating from the side of his toes. At the same time, the transparent ice layer that had just expanded to one meter wide shrank to about half a meter, forming a circle.

Gu Tongwan knew that he was controlling the thickness of the ice layer. Since he could make a four or five meter thick ice layer instantly become only a few dozen centimeters thick, and could also make the ice layer return to its original appearance the next moment, this way of using the supernatural power freely made Gu Tongwan amazed.

"Click"

A slight sound came from under the ice, and they saw that the ice where they had just stood was cracking. In an instant, the ice in that place collapsed, and the school of fish also emerged from the water at this time.

Gu Tongwan quickly took out his triangular military bayonet from his waist, but he hesitated when he really wanted to catch fish. At this moment, a huge black shadow jumped in from more than ten meters in front of him. After Ao Ao growled excitedly, he lay on the ice, scooping the water with his front paws. A layer of blue ripples could be vaguely seen on the water.

The next moment, the black fish that were struck by lightning were seen being slammed onto the ice next to them by Aoao. In less than a minute, several black fish were lying there, still twitching and wriggling.

These black fish are plump and thick, and each one is at least as long as a human's forearm. It is roughly estimated that each one weighs an average of more than ten kilograms.

The noise happening here immediately attracted the attention of others who were playing. After all, right at Gu Tongwan's feet were so many big fish lying, still swinging their tails and trying to struggle back into the lake.