Chapter 5 Competing for Ingredients
Woolf dialed the phone number of Bao Jǐng, but the line was always busy, which added another layer of uneasiness to Bai Yi's heart. Because of the big dog bites, Woolf and the others inspected the small yard and blocked the gaps where some animals could easily squeeze in. And Bai Yi quietly went out to take a look at the situation in the food market.
It was almost 12 o'clock in the evening, but the food market was completely deserted, and the number of people who came to buy ingredients was several times higher than in the evening. Moreover, at this time, even these merchants who sell ingredients gradually feel that something is wrong, and some people are already planning not to sell them.
Businesses that have ingredients but don't plan to continue selling them, people who are driven crazy by hunger...... Now the situation is almost imminent.
Oh no!
Bai Yi saw that the food market was becoming more and more chaotic, and even a robbery occurred from time to time, but it was only because of the long-term moral quality as a norm that it did not become bigger. However, Bai Yi knew how unbearable that extremely hungry situation would be, and it was estimated that this fragile stability would be broken soon.
Sure enough, when Bai Yi was thinking like this, a sāo movement occurred in a store in front of him.
"There are things that don't sell, what the fuck do you mean, it's not that I don't give money, even if the price of ingredients is dozens of times higher than usual, Lao Tzu has endured it, what do you want." A two-meter-tall man with a fat body scolded. Intense hunger, frantically gnawing at this guy's heart, always feeling as if there was a devil in his body, after eating all the nutrients in his body, he began to eat his own body again.
Self-feeding - when the nutrients in the organism are insufficient, it will occur passively, and the living cells will automatically decompose the muscle, fat and ...... in their own body to absorb the nutrients.
"Get out of here, I'm going to eat!" The fat man couldn't stand the hunger, grabbed the front clerk in front of him on the chest, and pushed him hard.
With a loud bang, the clerk slammed the door hard, and then slowly slid down.
This sudden change even startled the fat man himself, he didn't use so much strength.
What the man didn't know was that while the living Xìng cells were frantically extracting nutrients, they also produced a large amount of xenogeneous energy, which was much more advanced than those biological thermal energy, so it brought him a powerful amount of power. A fat man who doesn't know what has happened to his body at all, uses his previous habits to exert force, of course this will happen.
Fuck, no matter what!
Since this is all the case, the man couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed something and smashed open the door of the store, and then frantically rushed into the food store, and then began to carry the ingredients inside. There is such a leader, where can the other people around still endure it, and they also join the ranks of crazy robbing. And this momentum seems to be not only that one, but also a tendency to spread around.
Bai Yi walked out of the crowd and returned to Woolf's shop, and at this time, the three of Woolf were still getting food, and as for the dead clerk, because he couldn't move the body at will, he was still in place.
"Bai Yi, you went outside, did something happen?" Woolf asked.
"Woolf, it's a big trouble, it's already chaotic outside, and many people have completely fought to grab the ingredients, and it is estimated that it will soon spread here."
"Aren't they afraid of breaking the law by robbing things?" Santos asked, confused.
"Breaking the law is indeed a crime, but do you think you will be sentenced for snatching a pig's leg?" Bai Yi said funny. In this way, Woolf and the others also understood that it was just a matter of stealing food, and if it was a crime, it was indeed a crime, but because of this, would they sentence people, it was impossible.
"Now they are just bound by rational common sense, but it is estimated that someone will soon think of this, even if they are sentenced, it is better than starving to death like this." Bai Yi explained.
"So how?"
"There is a basement in the store, so try to put the ingredients in the basement, the hidden kind. Santos, you go outside and watch, and if you see a crowd coming here, report it immediately. After a while, they will come to grab the food, and we will resist, but we should not make it so obvious, let them take it, as long as the people are not hurt. Bai Yi commanded in an orderly manner. The three of Woolf are all big men with five big and three thick, and their heads are not very bright, so they listen to Bai Yi. Anyway, Bai Yi is also from the University of Waikato, although he is just a chef.
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Sure enough, soon the chaos in the entire ingredient market spread completely, and even Woolf's store was not spared.
A large group of people slammed the door open, and then rushed indiscriminately, looking for the food warehouse.
As for people, although they may seem very rational in normal times, once they are excited, their heads will become very simple. These guys are not only robbing in the food warehouse, but some people are running towards the back room, which is almost like robbing a house. However, when the group rushed into the courtyard, they suddenly found an Asian man standing in the middle. And next to this Asian man, there was also a figure lying down, stained with blood, apparently dead.
Bai Yi held a bone chopping knife in both hands, lowered his eyelids slightly, and the whole person seemed to be shrouded in a shadow. Next to Bai Yi, there was a sand skin with a tense body, and Mo Mo was hiding in the back room, quietly looking outside.
"I won't say anything about grabbing ingredients, because I'm hungry too, so it's understandable. But if any of you are hot-headed and take breaking into a house for granted, then I will defend myself as a matter of course, and as a result, you may not be able to bear it. Bai Yi's voice was not high, but the two bloody bone chopping knives were slowly raised, which immediately frightened the few guys who rushed in front of him half to death.
I'm grass, that guy on the ground can't be hacked to death by this man, right?
Fortunately, this group of people has not completely lost their minds, and after Bai Yi's reminder, they immediately slowly retreated backwards, for fear that Bai Yi's two bone chopping knives would cut into their bodies like this. In less than a moment, the people who rushed to this small courtyard ran clean. After that, a few people ran in, but when they saw the corpse on the ground and Bai Yi there, they suddenly felt a thrill in their hearts, and cautiously retreated.
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After a burst of looting and blocking, the entire warehouse was moved to the emptiest. After the crowd looted the store, the whole store looked like a mess. Santos came over with his chin clutched, intending to clean up, but was stopped by Bai Yi. On the contrary, Bai Yi also took a few stools and smashed them against the doors and windows that were still intact.
"Bai, Bai Yi, what are you doing?" Woolf was dumbfounded.
"Destroy this place even more, so that people will see what happened to your shop as soon as they come here, and they must have been robbed. Only then will they not continue to come to the store, and we will be able to last for a few days with the ingredients in the basement. Bai Yi explained to Woolf. Just then, a window staggered down and fell to the ground with a clatter.
Looking at it, the whole store looks like a little girl who has been wheeled many times.
Woolf and the other two clerks couldn't help but shed a drop of cold sweat, it turned out that this was Bai Yi's plan. Indeed, even if they saw the current appearance of the storefront, they probably had only one thought, that is, this place had been looted a long time ago. And after such a scramble, a few people found that their stomachs became hungry again, and they knew that they had just eaten a lot of things.
When a few people returned to the back, they found Mo Mo standing quietly at the door, waiting for Bai Yi, while Sha Pei was squatting next to Mo Mo, protecting Mo Mo like the most loyal bodyguard.
"Daddy!" When Mo Mo saw Bai Yi, she immediately pounced and hugged Bai Yi's thigh.
"There's nothing to do, there's nothing to do!" Bai Yi comforted Mo Mo.
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Although the ingredients in the warehouse were looted, there were still a lot of things left in the basement and the innermost room. There was no food at home, and Bai Yi didn't bother to go back, so he took Mo Mo to live here temporarily. Although it is a shop, the place is still not small, at most it is a little simple.
Bai Yi is here, and of course the matter of cooking food is handed over to Bai Yi. At first, Bai Yi was still making food according to normal methods, that is, how to make it delicious and full of fragrance, but soon Woolf rushed in.
"White, white easy!"
"What's wrong, Woolf?"
"Don't make it so fragrant, it's better to have no taste, hurry, hurry."
"What the hell is going on?"
"The smell is so fragrant, I can smell it outside, and others will definitely be able to smell it, and we won't be able to hide it when the time comes." Woolf explained nervously.
Bai Yi was dumbfounded when he heard this, and then he laughed dumbly, he was actually afraid that he would be smelled by others if he made it too fragrant, Woolf, is it considered thick and fine? However, since Bai Yi started learning cooking, he has been learning how to make food full of flavor, and it is really difficult for Bai Yi to make food without fragrance.
"I try." Bai Yi replied.
"That's good." Woolf replied, looking at what Bai Yi was getting in the pot, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Bai Yi's food was originally more delicious, and at this time, due to the intense hunger, it was even more unbearable. Didn't you see Shar Pei squatting on the side with his tongue sticking out, and his saliva was already flowing out.