NOVEL NEXT Chapter 12 - Eating
After driving the car into the garage, Bai Qi took Tang Ru back to his home after three years away. Bai Qi was a little dazed about this strange yet familiar home.
It is only now that he truly feels that he has lived again.
After putting down their backpacks, both of them were a little tired and had no intention of visiting (revisiting) the house. They just sat on the sofa, turned on the TV series, and took out their mobile phones.
Bai Qi had to record some nearby gas stations and some material collection places and plan the entire route to the imperial capital. Everything else was fine for the time being, but gasoline was a big problem now.
Tang Ruo was not very proficient in the use of space, so it was quite difficult for her to take out a bottle of yogurt from among thousands of items. After trying several times, many snacks and items fell to the ground.
Tang Ruo felt helpless about the yogurt that she didn’t get to eat, so she had to put the things back into the space.
Various entertainment programs on TV are still suspended. Every channel is broadcasting the same news, saying that airports and train stations have suspended operations, rescue teams from various places have arrived, supermarkets and gas stations in certain places have been controlled by government regulatory departments, and criminals should not try to take advantage of the chaos to raise prices, etc.
Tang Ruo watched the news and sorted out her space. She saw Bai Qi sitting on the sofa checking the map, and then she looked at her expensive watch, which showed 2:30 in the afternoon. She remembered that they didn’t seem to have eaten lunch.
“What would you like for lunch?”
Bai Qi raised his head, somewhat surprised: “Can you cook?”
Tang Ruo thought for a moment and asked, “Can you cook?”
Of course, Bai Qi didn’t know how to cook before the apocalypse, and he had even less access to cooking after the apocalypse. It was a luxury to have biscuits every day, and the nutritious meals provided by the base later tasted like snot. So he said decisively, “No.”
Tang Ruo opened her mouth and pursed it.
After a while, under Bai Qi’s sharp gaze, he asked again in a low voice: “Was I able to cook before then?”
Bai Qi: “I didn’t know about you before, but can you cook now?”
Tang Ruo thought about it and realized that Bai Qi didn’t know how to cook. If she said she couldn’t cook anymore, she would just have to eat instant noodles every day from now on.
Before in the hospital, Tang Ruo had been eating white porridge for every meal. If she continues to eat instant noodles every meal now, it would be better if she did not come here for this reincarnation.
So he gave up and said, “Now I can cook!”
Bai Qi: “…”
This kind of righteous and awe-inspiring middle school student’s momentum shocked Bai Qi, who said, “In this case, while there is still electricity, let’s make more and store them. Maybe there will be no electricity tomorrow.”
Tang Ruo is a good cook. She has lived with her grandmother since she was a child. When she was twelve years old, her grandmother could no longer do any housework, so Tang Ruo did almost all the housework for her, and she also tried her best to make all kinds of nutritious and delicious food for her grandmother.
Except for wasting some time looking for ingredients at the beginning, Tang Ruo then quickly prepared three simple dishes and a soup.
The cooking tools in this world were similar to those in Tang Ruo’s previous life, so Tang Ruo was able to use them very easily. She made a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, a plate of pork belly, stir-fried shrimp with broccoli, and corn and pork rib soup.
When the food was served to Bai Qi, he was already staring at it. He had not eaten pork for three years in the apocalypse.
After the end of the world, radiation began to leak, and almost all animals became extinct. Humans who had developed superpowers were not afraid of ultraviolet rays and radiation when they went out, but ordinary people who had not awakened superpowers could no longer leave the base because they would be killed by radiation and ultraviolet rays as soon as they left the base.
Anyway, when Bai Qi died, the best creatures alive in the world were not zombies or humans, but those pitiful little insects that humans always looked down upon. At that time, ants had grown from two millimeters to half a meter in length, and there was a trend toward continuing to grow.
Moreover, they also eat humans.
After a tiring day, being able to eat such delicious food to replenish one’s energy was something Bai Qi, who had returned from the apocalypse, had never dared to imagine before.
“How long will we stay here?” Tang Ruo picked up a piece of pork ribs, which were so fragrant with the smell of corn attached to the whole bone. This was food that Tang Ruo had not been able to eat since he was in the hospital. The whole piece of pork ribs, the whole piece of meat, could be swallowed directly into her stomach.
“About three days.” Bai Qi spoke briefly, eating with big mouthfuls. If he hadn’t had self-control, he would have stopped using chopsticks and eaten with his hands. He really hadn’t eaten meat for three years.
“You will have a fever. Do I need to prepare anything? Anti-inflammatory medicine?”
Bai Qi shook his head, indicating that it was not necessary.
He had tried several fever-reducing pills on the ship before, but they were useless. The next day, he became drowsy at the same time as usual. Three days later, he awakened his supernatural powers.
“We will set off for City A in three days.” In the previous life, the imperial capital, City A, quickly established a security base. Although it was not the fastest one in the country, it was the safest one. Because it had sufficient troops, a complete system, and a quick response, it was much safer than other small bases.
In his previous life, Bai Qi naturally did not go there from the beginning, but when he was away, he always heard people mention the advantages of the place. Later, when he arrived, he found that the base in City A had developed like a city.
At least before Bai Qi died, the base in City A was still there. Not only did they develop radiation-proof clothing that ordinary people could wear, but they also developed many high-tech things.
Tang Ruo nodded and saw Bai Qi’s love for food. So she consciously gave him the remaining ribs. Anyway, the habit of eating small meals frequently that she had developed in the hospital could not be changed all at once, so she might as well let him eat more.
Next time when she cooks, just add another dish.
Bai Qi devoured three bowls of rice before he stopped. Tang Ruo cleared the dishes and went to wash them. While washing, she suddenly found a problem. She turned around and looked at Bai Qi and asked, “Don’t we need to look for our family or something?”
Bai Qi thought she was asking him to wash the dishes or help out, but she didn’t, so he continued to sit calmly at the dining table and record the route map: “I have no family; they are all dead, and the rest are unimportant.”
His parents died in a plane crash when he was eight years old. His grandfather also left him when he was nineteen. Bai Qi had no sympathy or desire to help other relatives around him because, at the end of the world, even his second uncle looked at him and kept him at a distance.
Indifference, selfishness of human nature…
All those relatives learned the most of them in the end times.