Chapter 47 Mushrooms in the Cafeteria
The electronic version of the property certificate can be viewed on the bracelet. The paper document was stored in Yu Miaomiao's space. She was still a little shaken by the theft of the bracelet. She was busy buying a house at the time and didn't think much about it. Now that she thinks about it, it is really unreasonable. The bracelet is worn on the wrist like a watch. Theoretically, it shouldn't be so easy to steal, but it happened anyway.
Never mind, I'll just reinforce my and Lu An's bracelets later, it shouldn't be a big problem.
Such a big heart.
Both of them were quite tired from traveling all day, and since they happened to see the base canteen right across the street, they decided to grab something to eat before heading back to the villa.
Since the apocalypse, I've been cooking for myself or eating takeout every day. Seeing the cafeteria reminds me a bit of my college days.
The cafeteria's decor is reminiscent of the Shaxian Grand Hotel, with rows of transparent windows displaying several stir-fried dishes served in iron basins. They are all vegetarian, with no meat, but they look quite fresh. Handwritten menus also hang on the wall.
Today's Menu
Stir-fried shredded potatoes - Today's recommendation
Stir-fried winter melon
Stir-fried mushrooms
Mushroom soup
Staple food: Rice, limited supply, one bowl per person.
The cafeteria serves two dishes and a soup for 0.25 yuan each, and three dishes and a soup for 0.4 yuan each. Rice is free, but each person is limited to one serving of 3 liang (150 grams) of rice.
The food at the base was neither enough to fill you up nor enough to starve you; it was designed to keep ordinary survivors alive as much as possible.
I feel like this menu is weird. Could it be because I exchanged potatoes for sub-crystals today, causing the base to have a potato surplus?
Since they really didn't want to eat potatoes, they both opted for two dishes and a soup: stir-fried winter melon and stir-fried mushrooms.
The taste was pretty good, especially the stir-fried mushrooms, which were tender and flavorful, and just as good as meat dishes.
"These mushrooms are so fresh! After such a long period of extreme cold, I wonder where they came from."
It looked like an ordinary mushroom, not a mutated mushroom. In her previous life, she had seen mutated mushrooms, with thick stems that were more than 3 meters tall and more than 2 meters in diameter. When the umbrella-shaped part was spread out, it gave the feeling of blocking out the sky.
What's most terrifying is the domineering way this mutated mushroom survives: it constantly shakes its cap to scatter spores into the air. In addition to taking root in ice, its spores can also parasitize the bodies of living organisms.
If you encounter this type of mushroom, you must get away from it as soon as possible.
Although it does not attack actively, once a person is parasitized, it is tantamount to a death sentence. After parasitizing, mushrooms grow on the surface of the skin, and the body's energy is drained, and soon the person becomes an empty shell.
Lu An also thought the mushrooms tasted good. "Xu Tai just highly recommended the mushrooms in the base canteen to me, saying that they were independently researched and cultivated by the base's agricultural research institute. When you went to exchange for the Asian crystals, you were bored and studied the base map and saw the mark. It's in the cultivation area on the 75th underground floor."
Yu Miaomiao tasted the mushroom soup again, and it was so delicious it made her teeth ache. Going to the military base shelter in the capital was a very correct decision made in the post-apocalyptic world.
The tranquility she felt at this moment was something she had never experienced in her previous life.
After dinner, it's a good time to stroll around the base's online store to digest.
In addition to selling daily necessities, they also saw counters selling weapons and equipment in the base's shopping mall.
The sales clerks behind the counter were two young soldiers.
With strict regulations governing the sale of weapons, the military is responsible for managing and selling them, thus reducing unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, soldiers from the military are assigned to supervise the weapons counter in shifts.
The base has a dedicated training ground to help ordinary people quickly adapt to post-apocalyptic life and respond to emergencies. Before purchasing weapons, you need to go to the training ground to pass training and assessments, and after obtaining the qualification, the corresponding license will appear on your base wristband.
Weapons and equipment can be purchased in the store with a permit.
Most of the weapons displayed in the counter were conventional weapons, but only one caught Yu Miaomiao's attention.
It was a weapon that differed from ordinary pistols in both size and appearance.
The suppressor is located in front of the barrel, and the suppressor chamber extends to the bottom of the gun body. Unlike the circular shape of ordinary suppressors, it has a rectangular design.
It's a futuristic-looking handgun with a body made of tungsten-titanium-tantalum hard alloy, coated with a matte black paint, like a weapon straight out of a science fiction novel.
In her previous life, she had never seen it.
What kind of gun is this?
"Hello! This is the Mega X9 silenced gun, the latest development from our research institute. The silencer is only half the length of a conventional weapon, but its sound-absorbing effect is excellent, allowing you to kill enemies without alerting them or revealing your position."
Due to its unique gun structure, it can better transfer weight and center of gravity to the shooter, and its weight is only one-third that of a regular silenced gun.
The soldier recited the product introduction like he was reciting a memorized text, occasionally forgetting his lines.
"Uh...uh...oh right, there are three fishbone rail insertion points below the silencer, which can be used to install laser guns and tactical flashlights."
"It's a good gun." After hearing the introduction, Lu An wanted to try it out.
However, they hadn't gone to the training ground to complete the training and exams yet, so they couldn't just casually handle the gun. They glanced at the price of the gun.
999999 Ya Jing, goodbye. A gun is worth ten houses, who would believe that?
The soldier was used to people asking questions but not buying. This gun was made by the base's research institute, but the materials were rare and the production was extremely low, so the price was astonishing. No big shot would be willing to spend so many sub-crystals to exchange for it.
Moreover, there are many arms dealers outside the underground city recently. They don't care whether you pass the training or the test. As long as you use food or other supplies, you can exchange them for weapons.
Therefore, weapon sales in the dungeon base have always been very low. Apart from this new weapon which has received a lot of attention, other weapons are almost ignored.
After wandering around the rest of the mall without finding anything particularly interesting, the two returned home.
The new house still needs some tidying up and renovation before it's ready to move in.
As Yu Miaomiao entered the villa area using facial recognition, a strange yet familiar feeling welled up inside her the moment the door opened. It was as if she had experienced this momentary pause somewhere not long ago.
However, the feeling disappeared in less than ten seconds.
A man wearing a baseball cap and a mask quickly walked past them from behind, hurrying into the villa area.
Once the man was out of sight, Yu Miaomiao's strange feeling disappeared.
"An'an, have you had any strange sensations, like your heart stopping and missing a beat?"
"No, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yu Miaomiao shook her head. It wasn't that she felt uncomfortable, but rather that something was off. She had a feeling of being briefly controlled, but it quickly dissipated, as if she had fought against some kind of power and then emerged victorious.
But she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.
Back at the villa, the password door was still the default password, but she didn't plan to change it.
Because she remembered the heavy bulletproof door that had been removed from her home, she took it out of her spatial storage, found some tools, and the two of them replaced the bulletproof door together, and a strong sense of security returned.