Zhong Nan looked at Chun Yunsheng in surprise. He had never seen a person that had this kind of request before. The people in the escort team would often find all kinds of excuses just to avoid going to the battle, but he was different.
He didn’t know why Chu Yunsheng wanted to do it, but as the Captain of the escort team, he did what he could, which was to advise him to keep his energy for a long battle and not to be carried away by anger.
But Chu Yunsheng still insisted, so Zhong Nan stopped persuading him. After all, other teams would love to have more people like him.
When it was time for the meal, Chu Yunsheng got the food from the university and decided to deactivate the armor. Because there were too many people, so he was not worried that insects would rush directly towards him. It would only give him more trouble if he kept wearing it.
The food was horrible, it was like sticky batter, but he couldn’t see what the ingredients were. Luckily, the teams that joined the combat would receive a half of a sausage as a bonus, but even with that, it was considered to be a luxury reward by most of the people.
With this simple, or could even be described as rubbish-like food, everyone was very enjoying the meal, and the people who were standing outside the truck were swallowing constantly while watching them eating it.
Chu Yunsheng did not like to waste food, especially at this time period. Food was getting lesser and lesser, as long as he was still alive, he would have to face the long dark age that lacked the food supply. So he was not fussy about the food.
But he was quite happy today because he got two complete absorption talisman. Based on this rate, he could get even more in the future! So he only consumed half of that sticky batter, then gave it to Yu Xiaohai. Instead of eating the batter, he took out one tin of beer that he kept for a long time, lit a cigarette and started to slowly consume the sausage.
Apart from food, he also stored a lot of tobacco. But then again, the priority must be food first. After all, tobacco wasn’t food, he could not survive just purely by tobacco.
Most of the cigarettes he had were from supermarkets and tobacco shops. When he took the cigarette he didn’t mind what brand he was getting, as long as it was tobacco he would take it. Who knows to what extent Jin ling city would be lacking in tobacco.
Beer, tobacco, sausage, any one of them would cause a commotion in the crowd, not to mention Chu Yunsheng had all of them!
But no one dared to interrupt him. He was fighting with three red-shelled insects alone earlier on, and he had killed all three insects. This information had already been spread by Qian Deduo. The man was even stronger than the Captain. So as long as a person wasn’t retarded, no one would dare to give him troubles.
No one dared to drink Chu Yunsheng’s beer except Yu Xiaohai, most of the people just stared at him and some of them envied what Yu Xiaohai could do.
“Brother Chu!” Qian Deduo didn’t dare to treat him as a normal team member, he got closer and whispered to him, “I have one thing that i need to discuss with you.”
Chu Yunsheng nodded his head signaling him to carry on.
Qian Deduo quickly glanced around, lowered his voice even more, “brother Chu, there is a food factory near here, I used to work there, I’ve talked to the Big Head Jiang, we are going to check it.”
Chu Yunsheng was dazed for a second, “check it?”
Qian Deduo nodded, “the university’s supply is not enough for us, so we often do this kind of thing secretly. Moreover, we just fought with red-shelled insects, so it won’t be our turn anytime soon. Those top brass won’t say anything as long as we come back quickly. If we get supplies, we don’t need to worry about food for a while!”
Chu Yunsheng was dubious, “why don’t those people from the top organize any searches?”
Qian Deduo’s face was filled with helplessness, “they do organize it. Before you joined us, they have already organized many times. Otherwise, where do you think they get food from? But because it is an organized search, so most of the stuff we found, we need to hand them in.”
It turns out that the man wanted to get some food just for himself. But Chu Yunsheng didn’t really mind, as long as he could get something as well. “How do you split it?” he asked.
Qian Deduo had a shallow smile on his face, “of course there are rules, if we didn’t encounter any insects, we’ll split it evenly, if we did, whoever contributed the most to the fight, would get more. It’s fair and square!”
Chu Yunsheng nodded his head, “Okay, but if it’s too dangerous or too far, I suggest that we should not go there!”
Qian Deduo clapped his chest and promised that it wouldn’t be very far, but he didn’t know how dangerous it would be. He told Chu Yunsheng that if they encountered many insects, they would just retreat. No one wanted to die for some food…
The food factory was still quite far from here, so they had to wait until the crowd moved close enough. But not close enough to be noticed by everyone.
Qian Deduo sat next to Chu Yunsheng and carried on talking, “brother Chu, maybe you don’t know, not only the bread or sausages, even if it was just for one cookie, those girls outside the truck would be willing to have sex with you… Why are you looking at me like that… You don’t believe me?”
“Do you know what it’s like to be starving? Being killed by insects wasn’t that bad actually, it would give you a quick one. But the scariest thing is to starve to death, fuck that feeling, I would never ever want to experience it again!”
“Brother Chu, do you know how I was awakened? That day, I lost my consciousness because of starvation. It felt like hell, but God finally blessed me, I was inexplicably awakened when I was on the verge of dying!”
The more he talked the more agitated he was as if he had returned to that day. His voice also became slightly hoarse.
Chu Yunsheng gave him the beer he was drinking, signalling him not to get too agitated. He noticed that the more people he talked to, the more he discovered that almost everyone had an unforgettable past.
Qian Deduo gratefully took the beer. Before he drank the beer, his eyes suddenly moved and he smiled strangely, “brother Chu, you still don’t believe me, do you?”
Chu Yunsheng shook his head. It was not that he didn’t believe him. Since the dark age began, more people have died of hunger than being killed by the insect.
But apparently, Qian Deduo misunderstood him, he thought that Chu Yunsheng still didn’t believe him.
Chu Yunsheng didn’t know why he had a sly smile on his face until he suddenly grabbed the half sausage that Yu Xiaohai wanted to keep for the last. He apologized to Yu Xiaohai, “I’m sorry, let me borrow this for a minute! I’ll show you.”
He then stood up and pointed at the crowd outside the truck. “I know those people. They are the students who used to study English in our university. Let me show you the power of a sausage!”
Then he held the sausage over his head, drew out his voice and shouted loudly, “foo—d! Foo—d!”(he shouted in English)
When he shouted, everyone including the people on the truck was looking at him. No one knew what he was saying, but the temptation of that sausage still caused everyone to push forward as if they knew something about to happen.
Qian Deduo was waving the sausage and smiling at Chu Yunsheng, then he turned around and shouted one sentence that almost made Chu Yunsheng throw up blood due to emotional trauma, “half sausage for one pretty girl, if you want, say it now!”
It was just like throwing a bucket of water into a pot of hot oil, the crowd instantly exploded. Those who still had a sense of dignity, restrained their own behaviors and looked at the truck and other people contemptuously; others, who couldn’t bear the hunger any longer, all pushed forward. They had already forgotten about what Qian Deduo was asking for. Males, females, beautiful or not, they all shamelessly shouted, “Me, Me. Me!…”