Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 386

Chapter 386 -386: Qiqi’s Dream

After listening to Xing Taian’s words, everyone felt a great admiration in their hearts.

Moreover, Xing Taian did not describe their experiences as being extremely arduous, nor did he exaggerate his own contributions. It seemed as though he was just recounting a very normal event.

“So, how do you solve the food issue here?” Ren Yingjie couldn’t help but ask.

He specialized in agriculture and after looking around the place, he realized that they hadn’t planted any crops or foodstuffs. He was curious as to what these people relied on for food.

“Ah, that’s the most difficult problem we’re facing now. We do go out and kill zombies and hunt for Crystal Cores with some of the people here who have special abilities. We have enough Crystal Cores now, it’s just that there’s nowhere to buy food. So every once in a while, we send a few brothers to the nearby bases to exchange Crystal Cores for some food, but they have inflated their prices several times over,” Xing Taian said with a frown. Having a grain of food could stump a group of people, and even though they knew they were being ripped off, having more Crystal Cores was useless if they couldn’t get food in exchange.

Moreover, the demand for Crystal Cores among the people in the shelter was almost zero because they had no trade to conduct.

“That’s outrageous! It’s bad enough not allowing the elderly and children in, but to overcharge you for food?” Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but slam the table.

“In the apocalypse… there are no human sentiments,” Xing Taian said with a wry smile, as if he didn’t think that what they were doing was particularly humane. It was more about responsibility and the influence of many years in the army.

If one were to rely merely on sentiments to help others, there would be few who could keep it up.

Pei Yuan and his companions were quite moved. They knew very little about the apocalypse and had not expected that the elderly and children would be so blatantly considered useless.

Xing Taian’s living quarters were right next door to this courtyard. Since he had to meet the brothers who had gone to exchange for food today, he settled everyone in and then left.

The group found that the inside of the two-story building was also very clean.

According to Xing Taian, the elderly people here would spontaneously clean every corner of the shelter when they were free. They knew they couldn’t kill zombies, but probably just wanted to do what they could to protect this place.

There were many rooms in the small building. Considering that Pei Yuan and Tan Yiran might have trouble moving up and down the stairs, Su Jin let them stay on the first floor, while she and Lu Hao and the others took the second floor.

Seeing Lian Jiyue still asleep in the car, Su Jin used vines to bind him and brought him to a small room on the second floor.

“Sister Xiao Jin, when will he wake up?” Mao Qiqi murmured next to Lian Jiyue.

“His fever has completely subsided, so he should wake up soon,” Su Jin said uncertainly. In her view, the fact that Lian Jiyue had not turned into a zombie and had successfully recovered from the fever was already a very good outcome.

“Where are Lin Xiuyuan and Uncle Nie?” Looking at the empty rooms, Su Jin asked Lu Hao.

“They said they were hungry and went in to eat,” Lu Hao whispered to Su Jin.

Upon hearing this, Su Jin also realized that they had been out all day, and seemed to have not eaten anything. Dr. Pei and the others were probably hungry too.

She only dared to take out some of the dry food and ready-made meals from her Space, but even so, Pei Yuan and the others were quite surprised.

“We… we brought some dry cakes, so let’s just make do with those. Keep what you have for yourselves,” Pei Yuan said.

Pei Yuan knew how scarce food was nowadays, yet Su Jin had actually brought them white flour pancakes, marinated eggs, and a packet of sauce-colored marinated meat… How could they accept this with a clear conscience?

Smiling as if joking, Su Jin said, “In the future, S City Base will rely on the few of you with the strongest brains. We can’t afford to let you starve to death. Besides, this marinated meat comes from mutant animals we previously hunted, so it’s not anything rare.”