Chapter 8: Kachuba

Before Feng Chen woke up the next day, Liu Jing came to the door.

After leaving Liu Jing's office yesterday, Feng Chen and Lin Weiwei went straight back to the residential area, Lin Weiwei went to the floor administrator to ask for the key to the room, and took Feng Chen to the room assigned to him. The room is very similar to the dormitory in college, boxy, but the area is much larger, there is a window next to the passage, maybe because no one lived in it before, except for the necessary things, there is nothing in the room, it seems to be empty.

After the little girl left, Feng Chen lay down on the bed, ready to think about what was going on in the shelter, but he fell asleep in less than three seconds, and when he slept until there was a knock at the door.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Feng Chen got up with sleepy eyes, opened the door in a daze, and saw Liu Jing in a red dress at a glance.

"Haven't you gotten up yet?" Liu Jing raised her eyebrows and said.

"No, what time is it?" Feng Chen said, and couldn't help but yawn.

"It's more than nine o'clock," Seeing that Feng Chen didn't wake up, Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't I come back in the afternoon?" ”

Feng Chen was much more sober, and the leader of the shelter came to the door in person, there must be something important, and it was inappropriate for the family to run again. He rubbed his eyes and said, "Wait for me...... Five minutes, right away. ”

There was actually running water in the room, Feng Chen turned on the faucet, and a pitifully thin stream of water flowed out, Feng Chen held his hand to receive the water, and thought: Such a thin stream of water must have been set up on purpose, sure enough, wasteland is wasteland, even if it is a shelter, the living conditions are far less than before.

Why did you end up in the wasteland city for no apparent reason?

I washed my face indiscriminately, and I almost cleaned it up. Feng Chen and Liu Jing left the room and walked in the passage that could accommodate three cars in parallel, this area was a residential area on both sides, some residents pushed open the door and saw Liu Jing, and greeted Liu Jing in surprise, and Liu Jing also responded in a friendly manner. After walking out like this for a while, Feng Chen couldn't help but ask, "Where are we going?" ”

"Go to the mother machine," Liu Jing said succinctly, "I have already asked someone to send the operation manual." I hope you can get acquainted with the mother machine today, this is too important. ”

Feng Chen nodded, no objection. Anyway, you have to live, and you still have to work. Oh yes, it seems that the shelter is distributing basic supplies according to quotas? Then you have to find something to do, you can't be idle all day. Most of the professions of surface walkers that I said yesterday are out of play, and I will be mainly responsible for the operation of the mother machine in the future.

Of course, Feng Neumann machine, or mother machine, Feng Chen also wants to see it.

Walking out of the residential area, there was a small square, the scale was similar to the one Feng Chen saw when he entered the shelter, and Feng Chen felt that this small square was directly above the small square. Maybe there's a little plaza in the middle of each floor of the shelter. The key to Feng Chen's room was obtained here. At this moment, there was a queue of about a dozen people outside a room with a yellowish exterior painting on the side of the square. Feng Chen couldn't help but take a few more looks.

"What's that?"

"It's a food pantry. You don't have to bother. Liu Jing said, her footsteps did not stop.

Feng Chen pulled the leader and said, "Uh...... I really need to go over and see, I haven't eaten since yesterday. ”

Liu Jing stopped, glanced at Feng Chen fixedly, and sighed: "Okay." ”

I didn't notice it yesterday, but after getting along for a while today, Feng Chen finally knew why Liu Jing became the leader of the shelter, she always wanted to do this and that, and she couldn't wait to spend all her time at work, it was strange that this style of acting was not a good leader.

Seeing Liu Jing queuing up with him according to the impatience in his heart, Feng Chen said, "You are so busy, why are you still coming to pick me up?" Just send someone. ”

Liu Jing looked at Feng Chen and said, "This is not a conflict. You are the most important thing at the moment, so it's okay for me to call you. ”

Feng Chen's reaction was: Ah, hey, he is so important!

Despite being anxious, Liu Jing didn't let the person in front of him give up his position, and put a queue for Feng Chen or something, and after a while, it was Feng Chen's turn, and the master who was thinner than Feng Chen at the counter handed over a burnt yellow "brick", Feng Chen walked out of the team with the "brick" and took a bite. The "bricks" were almost the same as biscuits when they were bitten, the taste was like eating soil, and there was almost no taste, Feng Chen couldn't eat it after chewing it twice.

Noticing Feng Chen's face, Liu Jing asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing."

"Then let's go." Liu Jing said and left.

Feng Chen followed behind and took another bite of the "brick", this time Feng Chen chewed for a while more, savoring it, but he didn't taste anything, what taste, texture, all of them didn't exist. It is not so much that he is eating, but rather that he is injecting substances into his body, and only this kind of dry statement can vividly describe how dry this "brick" is.

"Uh- Liu Jing, what's this thing called?" Feng Chen caught up with Liu Jing and asked.

Liu Jing glanced at Feng Chen in surprise, Feng Chen realized that he called her by her name, Feng Chen hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"It's okay, you can call me by my name. Originally, everyone called it casually. Liu Jing didn't seem to care, she said, "As for what you are holding in your hand, we call it Kachuba." ”

"You eat this a lot?" Feng Chen asked.

"It's not." Liu Jing shook her head: "It's to eat Kachuba for every meal." Except for the occasional food found from outside, all we had was kachuba. ”

Feng Chen imagined the future of eating kachuba every meal, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

For the first time, Kachuba gave him an intuitive understanding of the real living conditions in the shelter. The old man who sold the runes, the blind date corner, or something, also made Feng Chen think that life in the shelter was very easy, but he didn't expect the truth to be so heavy: the staple food of the entire shelter turned out to be Kachuba, which was no different from sand. This can't even catch up with the primitives! People still have wild beasts and wild fruits to eat!

Liu Jing said: "Kachuba is the basic food I told you. In fact, there are two kinds of food that the mother can provide, but those two are more unpalatable than kachuba and harmful to the body, so we hardly produce them. And Kachuba has almost no shortcomings except that it is unpalatable. I guess the mother machine should be able to produce more kinds of food, more delicious, healthier, which we can't do, and it's up to you now. ”

Feng Chen was embarrassed by Liu Jing's serious attitude, the last time he had such a serious conversation with him was the junior high school homeroom teacher, he educated him solemnly after he was naughty, he didn't think so, but later he became a social animal He realized that he could pull you to talk seriously, this is already worthy of you!

Feng Chen scratched his head and said, "Speaking of which, this is the second day that I have come to the shelter, okay with me?" Wouldn't you be too gullible to me? ”

Feng Chen thought that Liu Jing would say something like "You are worthy of our trust", but Liu Jing said: "We really don't trust you yet, but survival is difficult, we have to use all necessary means to survive, and trusting you is also one of these means." ”

Feng Chen was both a little surprised and a little touched by this answer.

Do you use all the necessary means to survive...... Who isn't?