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

It was nearly three in the morning when they returned to Cai's house. Cai's mother had already fallen asleep, and Cai's father was a light sleeper. He was also worried about his daughter and son-in-law, so he simply squatted in the living room and smoked a pipe. Smoking could refresh him a little, and he had just made himself a large cup of strong tea, so he was determined to wait until they came back.

After hearing the sound of the car engine, Cai's father put on his coat and walked into the yard. Sure enough, he saw Cai Min opening the door and coming back.

Cai Min and his wife didn't expect that Cai's father would keep vigil until the early morning. Cai Min hurriedly took a few steps forward, with a tone that was a little guilty and a little worried: "Dad, didn't I tell you not to wait and rest early? Why aren't you asleep?"

Father Cai waved his hands and sighed, "I couldn't sleep. I happened to have nothing to do at night so I waited for you to come back. But it was really too late this time. Your mother also waited until it was almost time before going back to her room to sleep."

"Didn't I tell you that I would be back late today? Besides, Xuesong is with me, and there are so many of us. What do you have to worry about? You should pay more attention to your health as you get older. You just got out of bed in the morning, so don't stay up late at night." Cai Min still felt sorry for her father, and even her voice became much softer.

Father Cai waved his hand again and turned around to hide his worry for his daughter, saying, "Okay, now that you're back, go to bed. It's so late. Your mother and I won't wake you up too early tomorrow morning. Let you sleep until noon. You young people are used to staying up late, so you will definitely sleep until noon."

Liao Yunyun and Gu Tongwan didn't seem to feel anything, because they had been without parents since childhood. Even after being adopted, they had grown up and were sensible, with their own ideas about dealing with people, so they would not rely too much on their adoptive parents. On the contrary, Xiaoli at the back couldn't help biting her lip. She was already quite old when she was separated from her parents. She felt emotional and sad at the moment, but fortunately, she had Aunt Man's care and concern in the past few years, and to a certain extent, Aunt Man was making up for her lack of maternal love.

Probably because they hadn't had a good rest from the afternoon to the evening, and because of what happened in the morning, after the four girls returned to the room, only Gu Tongwan went to the space under the pretext of going to the bathroom and took a hot bath in less than fifteen minutes.

The reason why she was able to take a hot shower was that she suddenly realized something when she was taking a shower at home. That is, she didn't need to worry about taking a hot shower at home. After all, there was a water heater at home. Even if there was no electricity, she could use coal to boil water, or when she was lazy, she could take a cold shower in the space without shivering all over. But why not store some hot water directly in the space? In fact, it doesn't have to be too troublesome. Just put two large buckets. At most one bucket of water will be lost for a shower, and two buckets for washing your hair. This way, even if you really go outdoors, it is convenient to use it whenever you want. Although the space is at normal temperature, it still takes some time to adapt to taking a cold shower in the normal temperature area in extreme cold. But it would be much more convenient if there was hot water.

Since that time, Gu Tongwan specially prepared two buckets in the space, each with a capacity of 100L, and only one-third of the water was used for bathing and washing hair each time.

She brought the Cai family's wooden basin into the space. It took some time to change clothes, but it was much more convenient to take a shower. Besides herself, the other girls had no plans to take a shower, especially Liao Yunyun, who started snoring slightly not long after she climbed onto the upper bunk and lay down.

When Gu Tongwan came back from taking a shower, it was already 3:50 in the middle of the night. Everyone in the room was already asleep. Even Lan Cen, who was usually very sensitive to external sounds, was sleeping soundly. It seemed that these girls were really tired today.

Although Gu Tongwan was also very tired at this time, she did not rush to sleep. Instead, she sent a copy of the document about the [Against the Wind Guild] that Liao Yunyun had sent to her on her mobile phone to Chen Yanxi. Unexpectedly, the other party received it almost immediately and sent her a message back, "Don't stay up too late, go to bed early."

As expected, everyone slept until noon the next day. Even Gu Tongwan, who was used to getting up early, didn't get up until around eleven o'clock.

As soon as I woke up, I heard Cai Min's loud voice.

"Mom, where did you put the wild rabbit you bought last night? We can make braised wild rabbit tonight. We haven't tasted wild game in a long time. Oh, and we also have wild boar pork. Don't we have homemade pickled sauerkraut at home? When we had the pig-killing dinner yesterday, the sauerkraut stewed with big bones tasted so good. We can try using pork belly tonight. I think it should taste good too."

After seeing Gu Tongwan walk out of the room, Cai Min asked in surprise: "Xiao Wan, you got up so early?"

"Early? It's almost eleven now, and the sun is about to burn down my butt." Gu Tongwan stretched and asked, "You are the one who got up early. You came back so late last night, why didn't you sleep a little longer?"

Cai Min sat on the table and peeled peanuts for Cai's mother. She shook her head and said, "I can't sleep. When I was running a farm stay and an orchard, I often had to get up early to fertilize and take care of the fields. I basically got up at six o'clock. After coming here, I have to take care of several plots of land. My biological clock is basically fixed. But I was too tired last night. I slept until ten o'clock today. But your boyfriend is really early. My mom said that he went out to train with another boy at around seven this morning. By the way, does he really only have D-level abilities? I saw him playing dodgeball last night and his movements were very agile. He doesn't look like an ordinary person."

"Maybe it's because of the constant training. Plus, he's been on a few expeditions before, but they weren't too big." Gu Tongwan thought about it and could only find out Chen Yanxi's identity from the side.

Cai Min understood it immediately and realized that Chen Yanxi might be working in a government department of the base, most likely a special department there.

After Gu Tongwan washed up, he had a quick breakfast. Cai's mother was very considerate and thought of ways to arrange different breakfasts for them every day. This morning, there was red date millet porridge and pumpkin steamed buns, and next to them were a few braised tea eggs from last night.

The weather outside seemed even gloomier than yesterday. Cai's father was not at home. I heard that he had gone to the Self-Defense Force to explain yesterday's situation. The matter of the two-headed cat monster was widely spread in the camp. For a while, no one dared to go out to work easily, and they were even worried that the two-headed cat monster would attack their homes.

"That kind of two-headed cat monster has never appeared in the camp. I suspect it ran down from the back mountain this time. But my brother has been to the back mountain several times before and he also said he had never seen this kind of two-headed cat monster. I wonder if there is something wrong with the back mountain?"

"I heard that your brother works in the security team here?" Gu Tongwan asked curiously.

"He used to be a hunter in a guild, but the guild he belonged to was just a small guild, and the salary and benefits were unstable. Later, when the security team was recruiting, he applied for the job. But now he is still a member of the guild. He just supports when there are special missions, or earns extra money occasionally."

"I think the appearance of the two-headed cat monster should be investigated. If mutant animals that have never appeared before suddenly appear in the camp, then it is very likely that there is a problem with the magnetic field in the area. This situation usually occurs under the influence of abnormal energy. I used to stay in Xiaoxi Village for a period of time, but there were similar situations in the back mountain. Of course, this is just my personal speculation. After all, it is too dangerous to go into the mountains rashly, unless you are a high-level hunter team or security team. If ordinary people go into the mountains directly, I am afraid it will be dangerous."

"Xiao Wan, sometimes I feel like your way of thinking is really not like that of a girl. It's really a waste for you to just open a store and run a small business. You should be a senior leader. The way you think carefully and analyze things is exactly the same as my brother's leader."

"I just like to analyze things, and they are all my own speculations that cannot withstand careful scrutiny. Just take it as a casual listen." Gu Tongwan almost finished peeling the peanuts in his hand before deciding to confirm something with Cai Min, so he asked: "By the way, Sister Cai, is the guild that held the pig-killing banquet last night very famous in your camp? Tell me about it."

Although Liao Yunyun had sent her some basic information about the [Against the Wind Guild], if she wanted to know more about the guild more intuitively, she still had to listen to Cai Min, a local.

Cai Min didn't think much about it. It was better to say that there was no need to be shy about the affairs of the [Against the Wind Guild]. After all, there was no one in the camp who didn't know about this guild.

"【Against the Wind Guild】 is actually not a guild composed of professional hunters. It was only established two years ago. The current guild leader was originally a veteran who had retired for more than ten years. After the end of the world, he came to Jiangcheng from the north with his daughter. During the first flood, he was quickly elected as a public representative because of his outstanding command ability. Later, after the emergence of superpowers in the third year, the guild leader also mutated C-level plant-based superpowers. Since the emergence of superpowers, in just three years, he has become an A-level superpower user. Later, he joined our wanderer base. In fact, there is no problem with the character of the guild leader. His ability and character are good, but... He is just not good at employing people and lacks some decisive determination, otherwise the vice president would not have the majority of decision-making power in the guild now." Speaking of this, Cai Min couldn't help but sigh, and then sighed: "Now the outside world has a mixed impression of [Against the Wind Guild]. After all, the guild does have some powerful high-level hunters, but the problem is that the guild's ambition to expand in the past six months is too radical, so it has also recruited a group of hunters with poor strength and lazy work. This has led to the guild clearly reaching the level of a medium-sized guild and even having the hope of impacting promotion to a large guild, but the uneven quality of the guild's hunters has held back its promotion.

"Is the vice president also a psychic?" Gu Tongwan asked.

"He is a psychic, and his psychic level is A like the president. My brother once saw the vice president use his psychic power, and I don't know if it's accurate or not, but it seems to be a space-related psychic power. It is said that he has at least a hundred square meters of psychic space, and any non-living objects can be transported in the space. Currently, in the world of psychic powers, space-related psychics are still new psychics, and there are very few space-related psychics. It seems that in our camp, only the vice president of the [Against the Wind Guild] has space-related psychics. Not only that, in addition to being able to consume space-related psychics, he is also a C-level metal-related psychic, with space-related and dual-related psychics. The guild president spent a lot of money to recruit this person, but who knew he was such an ungrateful person?"

"Xiao Min, walls have ears, you know that you just talk too much and make people hate you." Cai's mother had just come out of the kitchen with a plate of freshly steamed red date rice cake in her hand. When she heard that Cai Min was talking too much, she immediately gave her a killing look.

"Xiao Wan, try the red date rice cake I made. It's a pity that the red dates grown nowadays are not of very good quality and not fragrant enough. Otherwise, they would taste better."

The red date rice cake was still steaming because it had just come out of the pot. Cai Min often ate various snacks made by her mother at home. Normally, she had no interest in the red date rice cake, but after looking at the soft rice cake, she couldn't help but pick up a piece and put it in her mouth.

The soft and delicious rice cake had a hint of red dates flavor. Just as Cai's mother said, it would be more delicious if the red dates flavor was stronger, but it was enough to amaze Cai Min. She even stared at Cai's mother with wide eyes: "Mom, why is the rice cake so soft this time? It used to be like rice cake."

"You have to thank Xiaowan for this. She brought this rice two days ago. When I was washing the rice just now, I found that this rice is different from the one grown in our camp, and it has a stronger rice aroma." As Cai's mother spoke, she couldn't help but pinched a piece of steamed rice cake and started eating.

Cai Min glanced at Gu Tongwan and saw that Gu Tongwan did not continue the topic of rice, so she knew that this should be her business secret. After all, she had done business with Gu Tongwan for a while before and knew that she seemed to have a friend who had channels in this regard. She guessed that these things were also obtained from that "friend".

Fortunately, although Cai's mother liked what Gu Tongwan brought, she did not continue to explore the matter. Instead, she took the initiative to talk about what Cai Min had just been interrupted about.

"In fact, the president of the Against the Wind Guild is not in a very optimistic situation right now. It seems that his daughter was already engaged, but the future son-in-law suddenly disappeared some time ago. The vice president also put pressure on the two families to become in-laws. Because of this matter, the atmosphere in the entire guild has become extremely tense." Mother Cai sighed with some emotion.

Cai's mother became curious: "Mom, who told you about this? How come I don't know about it?"

"Have you forgotten that your Aunt Fang is the family doctor of the president's family? She mentioned this matter when they were playing cards. But I think it is very likely to spread. After all, the current vice president Quan Shengming is trying to squeeze the president out."

As soon as Cai's mother finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, which startled the mother and daughter sitting at the table.