Mingguang Base City, among the countless post-modern metal style buildings in the last days, stands an antique green tile building, the eaves of the octagonal flying phoenix, the wooden wall of the gold painting phoenix, the half-foot-high vermilion threshold, the entrance sits on the pearl jade lion, a black gold plaque pen walks the dragon and snake, and the book is written with three golden characters of the Jiushan Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Bursts of strange aromas wafted into the streets, and well-dressed guests came and went, chatting, and the vendors and pedestrians in front of the Jiushan Palace looked at them with admiration.

"Knock, knock, knock,"

The plaque of the Nine Diets Palace trembled slightly, and a sound like the beating heart of an ancient giant beast came from inside the Nine Diets Palace, hiding a strange rhythm, low and spreading far away.

"Knock, knock."

Anyone who hears this voice will feel a wave of blood pouring into their pupils, their minds boiling, and they will not vomit or be unhappy.

"Congratulations to Lord Deng Yuan, the third order of mutation!!"

At the same time, a shout came from the Jiushan Palace, which resounded throughout the street.

"Boom."

The crowd boiled, and people looked at this ancient building that was said to be left over from before the cataclysm, and they hated to replace it.

Nine times the drum music came from the drums in the Jiushan Palace.

After a while, a man wearing a military uniform with a happy face strode out of the gate of Jiushan Palace.

Raising his head, clenching his fists, he bowed deeply to the black gold plaque of Jiushan Palace, and only after half a minute did he raise his body, get on a modified off-road chariot like a giant, and walk away.

"The people of the garrison..."

"O third-order mutants! Hiss..."

Another middle-aged man smiled mockingly, and when he saw that people were looking at him, he said triumphantly, "Don't talk nonsense, this is the second hunting team of the military, Lord Deng Yuan of the Blood-Piercing Special Combat Team, who is less than thirty years old, is already a third-order mutant, what a young man!" ”

"yes, yes"

"I wonder if Lord Deng Yuan has ever been married? Do you have a concubine? ”

There was a lot of talk.

"I only broke through the third order at the age of twenty-nine, and I'm afraid that the fourth order is hopeless in this life."

A discordant voice was heard from the crowd.

"Yo, dare to ask this orderly, what level of mutant are you now?"

"That's it, who is this person? Dressed sloppily, the tone is not small. ”

When someone else hears what is in my heart, this TM is a little embarrassing.

It's not envy, jealousy and hatred, after all, Lin Chou is not even a mutant, and he only has the share of looking up to others, just sighing casually.

Throw the two bags of garbage in his hand into the garbage heap, and run back to the Mingguang Training Hall with a cigarette.

After returning to the training hall, Lin Chou gritted his teeth and looked at the plaque of Jiushan Palace opposite, his eyes blood-red.

"Sooner or later, one day, I will hang this plaque on the beam of my house's thatched pit!"

Feud! It's a feud!

The black and strong Xia Dasha carried two bags of garbage, and said while smirking at Lin Chou, "Brother Chou, why don't you leave?" I'm going to miss breakfast. ”

Lin Chou sighed, "The restaurant is going to close in the next few days, so it's not bad for this meeting." ”

I have been busy from last night to three poles in the morning, and my body is as sore as falling apart.

Xia Dasha chirped, "Oh, it's closed." ”

Xia Dasha watched Lin Chou leave the Mingguang Tactical Training Hall a little dejected, scratching his head, "Brother Chou didn't eat?" Well, it must be..."

...

Lin Chou, a little-known little person, would have been one of them if it weren't for the fact that a humanoid species called "otaku" had been extinct for two centuries.

In the Pythagorean alley, Lin Chou has a half-dead and dilapidated storefront, with the iron plaque of the Lin family's restaurant hanging crookedly, the only legacy left to him by his father.

Eight white tin tabletops, but only three benches, the roof often leaking rain, and the rat holes in the corners with cobwebs and a lot of dust prove that even rats are not willing to settle down in the shop or have long since rolled up their roofs to escape the famine.

Pythagorean Alley is one of the many alleys of the slums, one of the first buildings to be reassembled from the ruins of Dongsheng City in the past two hundred years.

It is said that Guangji City started from this alley, and advanced step by step, killing and expelling living corpses, and then building a city and building a separation wall, which is very commemorative.

However, this is of no use, and most of the people who live in the Pythagorean alley are ant people who don't even dare to go out of the three gates of the base city.

These people are like worker ants, exchanging heavy physical labor for three meals a day to feed their families.

Lin Chou's family has been passed down for three generations, and he has opened this small restaurant since his father's generation, and it took decades to pay off the mortgage.

People often say that when the mortgage is paid off, Lin Chou's father, who never drinks, gets drunk~~ Life must be happy, and it should be celebrated when it is worth celebrating.

In the drunken dream, Lin Chou's father actually began to mutate, if Lin Chou's father mutated successfully, the fate of the two fathers and sons will be turned upside down, out of the big quagmire of Pythagorean Alley, flying on the branches and becoming phoenixes.

Unfortunately, my unconscious father didn't make it through that.

In a flash, Lin Chou became an adult.

After the age of twenty, there is basically no hope of becoming a mutant in this life, and Lin Chou's father's example is almost rare, and the golden age of mutation is generally between 15 and 20 years old.

Lin Chou is also accustomed to going to the No. 11 vegetable market in the base city every day, buying some tattered vegetable leaves, rat meat, and occasionally a few sparrows or half a catty of wild boar meat that people with a little money can't look down on, even if it is a rare delicacy, compared to others, at least Lin Chou can eat and dress warmly, and not sell his dignity for his livelihood.

Of course, it won't be looked at differently...

At six o'clock in the morning, Lin Chou would prepare a meal and open on time, and a tattered wooden board should be written as neatly as possible on today's menu, providing breakfast for the residents of the alley who got up early to work, even if few people were willing to pay for this meal.

At noon, the main customers are children.

Mingguang Base City bears the lunch of every child, and the principle of proximity applies to dining, so noon is also the best time for Lin Chou's business.

The importance of children in the base city is quite outrageous, and in the last two hundred years, contraceptives and condoms are the first place for things that have artificially disappeared from people's sight.

Abortion is absolutely prohibited, and even if a pregnant woman has a miscarriage, there is an extremely strict reporting process and layers of scrutiny, and if it is found that this is not the case, the person concerned may be hanged at the most.

The reason is very simple, the base city needs force, needs mutants and awakened people to provide strong defense forces, and every child has the possibility of becoming an evolutionary.

On Cataclysm Day, when the surviving humans discover that living corpses are capable of mating and giving birth to offspring, there are no words to describe the despair.

On December 31, 2019, 73.1% of the world's population became walking dead, with severely degraded eyesight, extremely sensitive sense of smell and hearing, bloodthirsty, hateful and extremely aggressive.

On January 1, 2020, before dawn, dark red clouds were piling up in the sky, and the cataclysm day of animals, plants, and the whole world had just opened a new label.

Under such a catastrophe, less than 110 million humans survived in the world, accounting for 0.83 percent.

At the same time, the ability of human reproduction has declined significantly, and the birth rate of newborns in the last 30 years has approached zero indefinitely.

Another ten years later, the first generation of living corpse larvae was discovered, and at the same time, talented awakened and mutants began to appear among the human race, whose combat power was vastly different from ordinary people, and extremely powerful.

The extreme evolution of human beings has avoided the catastrophe of extinction, and the talent awakened and mutated are both known as the "children of the new era of humanity".

So far, for more than 190 years, the talent awakeners and mutants are still the backbone of the fight against the living corpses.

"Project New Era Dawn! Every child will be the future mainstay of the base city, so that the children can eat well, play well, and live well! Grow in happiness, mutate in happiness, and awaken in happiness! ”

Lin Chou withdrew his gaze from the large-character advertisement posted on the wall of the Base City Development and Survival Committee.

This small pictorial represents that Lin Chou's small restaurant is officially recognized by the implementation unit of the New Dawn Plan, and can receive a certain percentage of food subsidies at the Coordination Department of the Occurrence Committee every month with receipts - roughly half of the children's families and half of the funding of the Occurrence Committee.

Today, it is rare to get it, Lin Chou bought a grass flower snake at the price of fifteen circulation points, which weighs ten catties and is more than five meters long.

The point of circulation is the emerging currency of the city of Myeongko after the reorganization of the order, and the purchasing power is quite pragmatic.

Snake meat is a rare thing, a big supplement, just to improve the food for a group of little children, even Lin Chou himself, and he hasn't tasted meat for a week.

However, the thickness of two thumbs has a snake body more than five meters long, and this black and white cauliflower snake looks particularly magical.

Lin Chou pinched the snake's jaw, and gave the account with a knife when it kept squirming and struggling.

In the end of the world, even the most picky children will not have any resistance to such things as meat, and even some children's dream is to be able to eat rat meat at once.

Yes, rat meat.

The most common and cheapest meat in the slums, rats are easy to raise, mature quickly, have strong fertility, low probability of mutation, suitable for ordinary people to raise and eat, and rat meat is delicate, in addition to the earthy smell is heavier, it is an ideal source of protein.

"Brother Chou, I heard my father say that there is snake meat to eat today?"

"Great! I've never eaten snake meat before! ”

A little girl looked at Lin Chou with blank eyes, her dark eyes were shining brightly, and she said longingly, "Brother Chou, listen to Dad, eating snake meat can make children mutate!" I want an extra piece of meat! ”

"I want it too!"

"I..."

Lin Chou threw the snake's head into the soup pot, broke open the snake's belly and took out the internal organs, and tore off the snake's skin completely with three or two strokes, smiling.

"It's all, it's all there!"

The snake head is cooked in a pot of soup with cabbage, and the snake skin is stir-fried on a hot fire, which is extremely crispy and suitable as a breakfast menu.

There was still an hour before the meal, and I think the children learned the news of eating snake meat today from their parents in the morning, so they were a little impatient.

For this last meal, Lin Chou deliberately took out the chili peppers that he was usually reluctant to use from the depths of the cabinet and chopped them into minced pieces.

"Ah, Brother Chou, this... This is chili?? A child's eyes widened.

Lin Chou nodded, "Make a spicy snake meat today, it's delicious!" ”

The sound of swallowing saliva.

There are basically only two kinds of seasonings used in the store, salt and kelp.

It is said that the thing called monosodium glutamate is extracted from kelp, which makes the dishes delicious, and Lin Chou can only use some dried kelp residues to season it, and this is because of the proximity of Mingguang Base City to the East China Sea, and the waves roll some marine vegetables to the shore and feed a large number of people.

I heard that the rich people in the base city still have rare and valuable seasonings such as pepper, pepper, green onions, ginger, garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, etc., and Lin Chou is very coveted.

Making cheap ingredients as delicious as possible is one of the few pleasures of Lin Chou.

To be precise, snake meat is not a cheap food, and the residents in the Pythagorean alley sell coolies in the base city for a day, and the wages are only 3-5 circulation points, and a pound of rice that has not become moldy and spoiled already needs 2 circulation points.

In the last days, food is a very precious thing.

There are 27 children, 9 boys, and 18 girls who eat lunch at the Lin family restaurant all year round, and this lunch is much higher than the nutrients they can get at home.

Every week for a child, a lunch is raided by inspectors from the committee to see if the food meets the minimum food standards of the committee.

Even the most demanding restaurant will not manipulate the child's food, and once it is discovered, the crime on the door of the head is no less than "treason" before the cataclysm.

Of course, there is still a profit in it.

Lin Chou has his own set of practices for snake meat.

First, wash the snake meat three times with warm water of about 50 degrees Celsius, remove the blood foam, and cut it into small pieces of 3 centimeters long.

The meat of the snake is snow-white and tough, and it tastes similar to chicken, and has the flavor of fish.

To make snake meat, either simmer for a few hours on low heat to bring out the gelatin, or stir-fry it with heavy oil and garnish with a small amount of vegetables to taste.

The oil is clear oil, wild grass seed extraction, cheap, bland and tasteless.

After the snake meat was put into the pot, a puff of green smoke jumped up, and the bright yellow flames surged in the pot and on the snake meat, and it took a long time to disappear.

Stir-fry quickly for a while, add the dried chili flakes, fine salt, stir-fry to change color, remove from the pan, and put on a plate.

Since there are only two seasonings, and in order to ensure the taste of the snake meat, Lin Chou did not choose to add vegetables to it, but fried some green vegetables separately in the big pot of fried snake meat.

Each child gets a bowl of rice, five pieces of snake meat, a stir-fried leafy green, a cabbage soup with snake head, and fried snake skin.

Three dishes and one soup, a luxury that has never been seen before.

The children eat very deliciously, spicy and spicy, and the rice that falls on the table must be picked up and eaten, and in the last days, even the youngest children know how to respect every little bit of food.