Chapter 495: Long-lost Daughter ( 1 )
When Jiao Lizhi left the area, the guard scanned her card. When he saw the number of her points, he was shocked and said, "Comrade Jiao, you have so many points. What do you plan to do with them?"
"I might buy some houses and rent them out," Jiao Lizhi joked as she put her card into her space.
Hearing this, the guard laughed and said, "It’s not a bad idea to become a landlord. When you retire as a mercenary, you can live comfortably at the base."
"That’s true," Jiao Lizhi chuckled.
After a brief conversation, she left the farmland area on her bicycle.
Not long after, Du Beiye walked into the reservoir area and looked around. After a while, she asked, "Krayan, are you sure the targets are still here?"
"Host, the targets should be here."
Du Beiye searched for fifteen minutes around the area. When she couldn’t find the target, she let out a sigh and said, "They might have left. We will come back tomorrow."
Since its host had said so, Krayan said nothing and continued mapping the area. When she left the farmland, a guard stopped her and said, "Comrade, you haven’t got your wage yet. Please hand your card over."
Hearing this, Du Beiye stopped in her tracks and took out a card from her pocket. After receiving her identification card, the guard transferred one hundred points to her.
As he handed the card back to her, the guard said, "Comrade, you did a good job today, so the Captain decided to increase your wage. Come back tomorrow and continue with your work."
"Thank you." Du Beiye accepted the card and left the area.
As she walked, she opened her inventory and checked the items inside. Seeing that her supplies were running low, she let out a sigh and said, "Krayan, how much energy do we currently have?"
"Energy level currently at seven percent."
Hearing this, Du Beiye let out a long sigh. To be able to access her warehouse, she needed at least fifty percent of the energy. To fully access her system’s functions, she needed at least ninety percent of the energy.
With how small the energy core of those low-level monsters provided, it would take her a long time to be able to access her supplies.
The nutrition solutions she had in her inventory were only forty-seven bags. If she continued consuming them, they would only last for forty-seven days.
Reaching this conclusion, she placed her hands on top of her rumbling stomach and walked toward the cafeteria. Even if the food in this place tasted weird and had low nutrition, she still had to eat to survive.
When she reached the cafeteria, the sky had darkened, and most people were already off work. Looking at the number of people lining up, Du Beiye pressed her lips together and joined the line.
As she waited, one of the cafeteria staff came out and said, "Everyone, we just received a batch of mutant meat. Tonight, a sweet and sour meat dish will be added to the menu."
The moment she said this, everyone cheered. No one cared about what kind of mutant meat it was. As long as they had meat to eat, everything was good.
Du Beiye was taken aback when she saw how everyone was so hyped up at the news of the meat. She scratched her head and asked, "Krayan, do the people on the Ancient Blue Planet like meat so much?"
"According to the historical record, the human race was omnivorous. Besides crops with high carbohydrates as their main staple food, they consumed a lot of animal meat and occasionally consumed plants."
Hearing this, she rubbed her chin and muttered, "I wonder how sweet and sour meat tastes."
As soon as she said this, the middle-aged man standing behind her said, "Little girl, where are you from? How come you don’t know how delicious sweet and sour meat is?"
"In my hometown, we didn’t have any meat. I never ate it," Du Beiye replied honestly.
After she said this, the survivors nearby looked at her with pity.
It was not uncommon for some poor villages to never taste meat. The children who grew up in that kind of place survived by consuming wild vegetables and rice soup. Judging from her petite body, she must be from one of those villages.
A woman suddenly handed her a milk candy and said, "Poor child, that’s all in the past. Now that you have become our base’s resident, as long as you work hard, you can eat meat as much as you want."
Du Beiye was confused by her words and their gazes, but she still accepted the candy and said, "Thank you."
No one disliked polite and quiet girls. Seeing her like this, their impression of her improved. A young man in his twenties even took out a piece of an energy bar from his pocket and gave it to her.
He patted her shoulder and said, "Little sister, this is for you. Brother lives at the third ring, the south district, area A. If you need help, just come find me. My name is Lin Fei, and I am a member of the Black Spider Team."
When the people nearby heard this, one of them asked with a hint of admiration in his voice, "Brother, is it the B-rank Black Spider Team?"
Lin Fei nodded and replied, "My Captain is Gu Shaoze. The mutant meat today was bought from my team."
The moment they heard this, everyone let out a sharp gasp. In the last two days, many mercenary teams went out to explore and tried to kill the mutant animals. But out of so many teams, only a few successfully hunted the mutant animals.
Not only were the mutant animals strong, but they were also smarter compared to the zombies, making them harder to kill.
So far, only the Phantom Team, the Eagle Team, the Black Spider Team, the Blood Shadow Team, and the team sent by the base have been able to constantly hunt the mutant animals.
Noticing their admiration, Lin Fei raised his chin higher, feeling proud.