Chapter 91: Is the Huhu delicious?
"Go to the radiation zone. A nuclear explosion just happened there. There are the least insects there, or maybe even no insects at all. It's the safest to go there!" said the bald Li Yue, pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose.
"No, ordinary people will get sick if they pass through the radiation zone, if they don't die!" Zhao Shanhe objected.
"They will die faster if they encounter a swarm of insects!" Li Yue retorted.
"Listen to me, my opinion is to go through the radiation edge zone and take both ends into consideration!" Huang Renkuan was a local official in the Sunshine Era, and his official rank was not low. Unfortunately, he got lost during the retreat. At this moment, he spoke calmly.
Li Yue curled his lips. If it were the Sunshine Era, he would have been eager to curry favor with an official of Huang Renkuan's level. But now there was no need to hide too much. However, he did not want to offend him too much. After all, if Huang Renkuan could reach Jinling City alive, coupled with his dual identity as an awakened warrior, he should have considerable power in the officialdom.
"Xiaotian, tell us your opinion too." Li Yue poked Tian Weida, who was still in military uniform and dozing off, and said.
Tian Weidai uttered an "ah" and was a little flustered. He looked at Li Yue first, then at Huang Renkuan, and finally managed to say, "I, I'll listen to Director Huang."
Huang Renkuan was very satisfied with Tian Weidai's answer, and a habitual smile appeared on his lips, just like his usual formulaic "amiable"
"That's settled then. Go to the edge of the radiation zone, keep your distance, and never go in. I'll lead the way!" Zhao Shanhe slapped his thigh, and the matter was settled.
Li Yue felt a little resentful, but there was nothing he could do. The cook basically kept silent and didn't express any opinions, and the "witch" was busy spreading her beliefs in the back. Chu Yunsheng was new here, so he didn't plan to ask any questions.
Even if he asked, it would be useless now that Zhao Shanhe, Huang Renkuan, and Tian Weida were standing in a line with their numbers advantage. Although Li Yue was unwilling, he could do nothing about it.
"Short-sighted! You will know how you die when you encounter the insect swarm!" Li Yue muttered softly, but it did not escape Chu Yunsheng's ears.
However, Chu Yunsheng did not interrupt or express any opinions from beginning to end.
He followed the team closer to the nuclear explosion area and found that, probably because of the existence of the vital energy of heaven and earth, the radiation and other pollution produced by the nuclear explosion did not spread. Instead, they were wrapped in the hemisphere area centered on the nuclear explosion by the vital energy or a kind of dark energy. The boundary was very clear, and the inside and outside were completely two colors, two worlds.
He went in to test it himself, and sure enough, as soon as he entered, the Liujia Talisman immediately deployed protection and shielded the damage of the radiation energy, but as soon as he came out, it disappeared without a trace!
Chu Yunsheng was not too surprised. The changes in the sky track, the changes caused by the vital energy, and so on, could even block the sunlight. In comparison, it was not surprising that these radiation pollutions were confined to the hemisphere area!
Li Yue’s suggestion was to pass through this spherical radiation zone and safely pass a certain distance.
In fact, this place is not far from Jinling City, only 150 kilometers at most. In the Sunshine Era, it takes less than two hours to drive there.
Most of everyone's time was wasted on avoiding insect swarms, taking detours, road blockages, etc. Take Chu Yunsheng himself for example, he spent several days just on detours!
Crossing the radiation zone is a straight-line journey, which is the shortest and fastest. If you take a detour, not to mention whether you will encounter a swarm of insects, you will be delayed for a long time on the road.
But to enter the radiation zone, these awakened warriors are fine, ordinary people definitely can't withstand it, so Zhao Shanhe refused outright.
Chu Yunsheng got out of the car holding the little tiger. It was already time for dinner. The food was a paste made of biscuits, snacks, and a very small amount of chopped meat such as ham, etc. mixed in water. It was not much different from the paste Chu Yunsheng had eaten at Dongshen University.
But even such pitiful food was regarded as precious as gold by the ordinary people who hired the seven of them. They sent three men to escort it, followed by five or six children, who looked at the food in the bowl with saliva.
"Why did you reduce the amount again? Yesterday there was half a slice of luncheon meat, but today it's just a few pieces of minced meat? Call your captain Lao Cui here, because that's not what you promised in the beginning!"
Huang Renkuan held the bowl of porridge with a dissatisfied look on his face, shouting angrily, as if he had been treated extremely unfairly. However, he did not hesitate. He tilted his head back and gulped it all down. He drank too quickly and choked, but he was reluctant to spit out the food in his mouth. He swallowed it down with a flushed face.
"Director Huang is right. When they hired us, they agreed that we would have meat for every meal. Now they are using this thing to deal with us. You are such an ungrateful bunch of dogs and bastards!" Li Yue rolled his eyes and agreed with Huang Renkuan in a bad mood.
Among the three men who delivered the meal, one of them blushed and seemed to want to say something, but was held back by his companion.
“Why are you glaring at me, kid? If you make me angry, watch out for your life!” Li Yue slammed the empty bowl into the young man’s arms and pushed it forward. The young man groaned and fell to the ground, with blood on the corner of his mouth.
"Yuquan, are you okay?" His companion quickly helped the young man up and asked anxiously.
"You're so fucking brave! How dare you glare at me! I'll cripple you!" Li Yue was already unhappy with the decision of Zhao Shanhe and the others, and he was immediately mad at this stupid young man. With a bang, his fist was filled with fire energy and he raised it to smash down.
"Wuzi, get out of the way!" The guy named Yuquan pushed his companions around him away with all his strength!
Li Yue's fist did not hit the young man, but was blocked by Zhao Shanhe with one hand. Both of them were fire energy, and as soon as they collided, flames instantly covered their bodies.
"Zhao Shanhe, this is none of your business, you'd better mind your own business!" Li Yue said angrily, but did not attack again. He knew how powerful Zhao Shanhe was.
"Boss Li, if you punch him like this, can Yuquan still survive?!" Zhao Shanhe refused to give in.
"This kind of fool who has no memory and is ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth deserves to die!" Li Yue spat and said hatefully.
At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties came running over. He was Lao Cui, the captain of the young man Yuquan. He stretched out his hand and slapped Yuquan's face hard one after another, trembling and scolding: "You restless bastard, I told you not to be obedient! I told you not to be peaceful!"
He was slapped seven or eight times in a row, so hard that the boy's hair was disheveled and his cheeks were swollen.
The companion named Wu Zi hurriedly hugged Lao Cui's hands and said, "Uncle, please stop hitting me, please!"
Lao Cui panted and said, "Get out of the way, don't stop me."
Yuquan stood up, hugged Wuzi away, and cried, "Uncle, beat me, just beat me to death! We haven't eaten for two days and two nights. We drank all the water on an empty stomach to save food for them. Let alone others, Sister Qin, yes, Sister Qin is pregnant, and they are still not satisfied? Huh?"
Lao Cui raised his hand but it stopped in the air. He couldn't move it any further. In the end, it hit himself on the mouth with a loud and hard sound.
"Boss Li, you are a magnanimous person. Yuquan is still a child and doesn't know much. Please don't bother with him. I will apologize to you!" Lao Cui pleaded humbly.
"I think, Boss Li, let's just forget about this matter. We are all family!" Huang Renkuan said sarcastically.
Li Yue was slightly relieved by Lao Cui's cowardly attitude, but when he heard Huang Renkuan talking as if nothing had happened, he was furious. It was Huang Renkuan who was the first to come out and yell, but now he was pretending to be a good guy! He became the evil one who was making trouble!
"Oh, since Director Huang has said so, we have to give him face and let's just leave it at that! But, Lao Cui, Director Huang just said that the portions of food you provide are getting smaller and smaller. You can't go on like this! I'm a rough person, and it was only after I heard what Director Huang said that I realized that the portions have indeed become a lot smaller!" Li Yue had a sinister smile on his face and changed the subject to Huang Renkuan. What he said was also true. These were all things Huang Renkuan had said, and Huang Renkuan had no choice but to admit it.
“This, this, Director Huang, Boss Li, food…” Lao Cui was a little vague.
"I'm fine. I'm thin and don't eat much. But Director Huang has never suffered any hardship. You guys continue chatting. I'll need to rest after dinner. Bye." Li Yue waved his hand to interrupt Lao Cui and walked calmly into the car.
Huang Renkuan was outmaneuvered by Li Yue. He had just put on a high profile, saying that they were all family members. Now Li Yue deliberately said that it didn't matter if there was less food. If he raised the food demand again, wouldn't he be inferior to Li Yue? Wouldn't that be slapping himself in the face?
"Old Cui, if there is not enough food, why don't you tell us earlier? We are all family, we can work together to find a solution. When everyone adds fuel, the fire burns higher!" Huang Renkuan criticized "seriously".
He was originally a timid person, his legs would go weak when he saw insects, which is why he got separated from the evacuation troops who were trying desperately to break out of the siege. After waking up, he felt that if he could reach Jinling City alive, he would definitely be valued by his superiors again because of his dual identity.
But there must be countless officials from all over the country who fled to Jinling City . If he wants to rise among them, he still needs an opportunity, so he is willing to be hired by Lao Cui, just to rack his brains to make a big bet. As long as he can escape to Shencheng alive and with a group of ordinary people, his reputation will surely soar, which can be used to build momentum for himself and create an image of a hero!
"Director Huang, you really, really...thank you!" Old Cui was so worried about the food issue that his hair turned white.
Zhao Shanhe seized the opportunity and immediately pulled the boastful Huang Renkuan to discuss the food issue with Lao Cui. Zhao Shanhe only drank half a bowl of the porridge and shared it with the children.
A storm comes quickly and goes away quickly.
When Li Yue's punch was about to hit him, Chu Yunsheng had already activated his own energy, intending to save the young man's life. It was really not worth it to die for such a small thing, but he didn't expect Zhao Shanhe to jump out before him, and he just listened casually afterwards.
At this moment, most of the crowd had dispersed, and only the children were snatching the empty bowls of the other awakened warriors, licking the remaining residue in the bowls with their little tongues.
Chu Yunsheng had not touched the bowl yet. His current cultivation in the Second Yuan Heaven stage had progressed less than one-fifth in transforming his Rong Yuan body. In addition to consuming his Yuan Qi, he also needed a large amount of biological energy. The calories provided by these porridges were far from enough, and he also had to rely on the high-energy foods stored in the Wu Na Fu.
He picked up the porridge, but heard a thin little girl of five or six years old, timid but hopeful: "Uncle, is the porridge delicious?"
