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Chapter 663: Chapter 663: Meeting
The two could only obediently return to the main hall, but they were immediately drawn into the conversation between Lu Hao and another person.
"Xiao Tian and Shitou are also with you at the S City base?!"
Xiang Sanjin asked excitedly. That’s great! The two of them are also doing well.
Lu Hao nodded. "At that time, I contacted each of you, and they were trapped and couldn’t get out of their house, so I took my family to rescue them. Later, they simply stayed with us, including Liao Yifan."
"My god, those two boys are too lucky, we had a much harder time,"
Tian Yongyi couldn’t help but feel envious. Being with Captain Lu was blissful, but he was more happy for the two, as long as they were alright.
But when they talked about Maizi, the three of them had tears in their eyes.
"Maizi was a Speed element ability user. Originally that day he had gone to save people, but after leading the zombies back, he was locked out of the car..."
Guan Shouzhong couldn’t bear to continue. He had heard from others later that after those people took the supplies, they didn’t care about the life and death of Maizi who had saved them. There were even people who said that having one more person meant one less share of supplies they could take.
"So, what happened to those people?"
Lu Hao’s eyes reddened. Maizi’s voice and smile were still clear in his memory, and he couldn’t believe he would never see him again.
"I drove them out of the base. I didn’t even have the courage to avenge Maizi personally,"
Guan Shouzhong said, still filled with regret. He wanted to personally exact revenge for Maizi, but he didn’t, and every time he thought about it afterwards, he felt he had let Maizi down.
"You did fine. Don’t be too hard on yourself,"
Lu Hao sighed. In this chaotic world, what is right and what is wrong have no boundaries anymore. Those who are alive should just keep living.
He remembered another person from the team and asked, "What about Peng Dong? Do you have any news of him, I remember he was last with his fiancee and her family."
None of them shook their heads. They had no news of Peng Dong either, knowing only what Lu Hao did.
"Hmm, you three really surprised me, each becoming quite something,"
Lu Hao said, trying to change the subject in a joking manner.
"Captain, you have no idea. Being a base leader is really not a good position. I’ve wanted to quit for a long time. If it weren’t for a merchant group that brought some supplies to the base a while back, I would have already given up,"
Guan Shouzhong said, a base without supplies was practically done for, even if there were people managing it. People would gradually forget about them.
"Keep at it. We are quite free these days, we can stay and help you for a while. But if you truly don’t want to continue, just come to S City Base to join us. No one is forcing you to stay here,"
Lu Hao expressed his thoughts. Continuing was good, but if it was a burden or even painful for the trio, he did not recommend that they keep going.
"You see, I knew Captain would say that, only Captain wouldn’t spout big promises to trap us. Hahaha,"
Xiang Sanjin seemed very happy, partly because they had imagined such a scenario when they talked about Captain Lu previously.
They had considered what Captain Lu would do if they really couldn’t stay here any longer, and Xiang Sanjin had insisted Captain Lu would let them decide for themselves, not forcing them, and it turned out exactly as he had predicted today.
"Anyway, if you’re going to be a base leader, do it well, make a good example, I told you I would help you,"
Lu Hao said. They had been struggling due to a lack of supplies, but now that they had supplies, that actually solved a big part of the problem.
"Captain, aren’t you curious about the ’Dragon Ruler’ team we mentioned just now? They were actually wandering around selling supplies,"
Xiang Sanjin felt that everyone would be curious about that team, but Lu Hao acted as if he hadn’t heard, seemingly not concerned at all.
"I’ve heard of them, even seen them. They’re good, but we’re also roaming around collecting supplies,"
Lu Hao told the three about the shop they had set up in City S and how they collected supplies and improved their strength along the way.
The conversation flowed, and before they knew it, it was already evening, only noticing the time when the scent of the food drifted over from the kitchen.
The dishes the Captain’s Wife and her group brought out literally dazzled the trio.
They smelled great and looked delicious!
There was both meat and vegetables, just like the meals from a grand pre-apocalypse restaurant! How did they manage that?
"Don’t be curious, Xiao Jin has a wood element ability. Growing vegetables is a matter of minutes for her, as long as she has seeds,"
Lu Hao said.
"But, but what about these braised pork, soy sauce duck, mushroom chicken, slippery eggs with wood ear mushrooms, and smoked fish?"
Tian Yongyi asked while drooling—this feast was beyond lavish, he thought the steamed buns and watery porridge with pickled meat he had been eating at the base’s cafeteria were already a treat.
"The meat comes from wild boar, and that, too, from mutant animals. We often go to the mountains, find them, and then store them in the Space,"
Su Jin explained with a smile, noting they had been careful to only present explainable dishes.
"Right, right, right, this soy sauce duck is also one of the prepared dishes we collected from a supermarket, we heated it up after seeing it hadn’t expired,"
Huang Yunxiang added.
Guan Shouzhong was particularly unable to take his eyes off the alcohol Su Jin brought out; it was a famous local brand from City H, the flavor he missed the most!
"Okay, let’s all sit down and eat. If we wait longer, the food that was so difficult to heat up will get cold,"
Su Xiangzhe quickly called out, as the others were just staring at the food, their eyes glued to it, and he was starting to feel sorry for them.
The staple was rice that Su Jin had cooked using a rice cooker from the Space. Although Guan Shouzhong and the others intended to drink alcohol, the aroma of the rice was too tempting, and they couldn’t resist having a bowl first. Captain Lu had assured them there would be enough food.
"It really seems that wandering around brings great harvest,"
Xiang Sanjin said enviously. Having such delicious meals, the daily fatigue seemed worth it.
"Sure, I heard that your City Z is a Dead City; next time you can join us and try,"
After serving Su Jin a piece of beef, Lu Hao said to the three.
"Cough, cough, cough, that’s a bit tough, Captain Lu. Nobody has ever come out of City Z alive,"
Xiang Sanjin nearly choked on a sip of his drink; all he wanted was to accompany them on a mutant animal hunt.
Lin Xiuyuan ate and laughed, thinking they had just managed to come out of there alive.
"Dead City might not sound like much, but if you ignore it, it will eventually become the biggest threat to your base,"
Lu Hao said seriously, noting their recent trip to City Z, where they had encountered Level Eight mutated zombies and only managed to defeat them by working together as a family.
