Doomsday Pavilion

In Mingguang Base City, among countless post-modern metal-style buildings, there stands an antique blue tiled building, octagonal eaves with flying phoenixes, wooden walls with gold painted phoenixes, a half-foot-high vermilion threshold, and a pearl and jade lion at the door. , A black gold plaque pen walks the dragon and snake, and the three golden characters of Jiuzhan Palace are written on it.

Strange fragrances drifted to the streets, and guests with sturdy and well-dressed guests came and went and talked loudly. The vendors and pedestrians in front of the Jiuzhan Palace watched them with admiration.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom,"

The plaque of the Jiuzhan Palace was trembling slightly, and a sound like the heartbeat of an ancient behemoth came from the inside of the Jiuzhan Palace, and the strange rhythm was hidden, deep and spread to extreme distances.

"Boom, boom."

Everyone who hears this kind of voice feels a rush of blood pouring down into his pupils, his mind is boiling, and he doesn't vomit.

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

At the same time, a shout came from the Jiuzhan Palace, resounding throughout the street.

"boom."

The crowd boiled, and people's envy, jealousy, and longing eyes drifted towards this ancient building, which is said to be left over from before the cataclysm, wishing to replace it.

Nine times of heavy drum music came from the drum in the Jiuzhan Palace.

After a while, a man in a school officer's uniform walked out of the gate of the Jiuzhan Palace with a beaming smile on his face.

He raised his head, clasped his fists, and bowed deeply at the black gold plaque of Jiuzhan Palace. It took half a minute to raise his body, get into a giant modified cross-country chariot, and drove away.

"Guardians..."

"Tier 3 mutant! Hiss..."

Another middle-aged man smiled mockingly, and when people were looking at him, he said triumphantly, "If you don’t understand, don’t talk nonsense. This is the military’s second hunting team, Lord Deng Yuan from the blood-striking team, no By the age of thirty, he will already be a third-order mutant, so young and promising!"

"Yeah yeah"

"I wonder if Lord Deng Yuan was ever married? Did you take a concubine?"

People talked a lot.

"I didn't break through to Tier 3 until I was twenty-nine. I am afraid that Tier 4 will be hopeless in this life."

A discordant voice came from the crowd.

"Oh, dare to ask this attendant, what level of mutant are you now?"

"That's right, who is this person? The clothes are sloppy, and the tone is not small."

It is a bit embarrassing if the words in my heart are heard by others.

Not to mention envy, jealousy, and hatred. After all, Lin Chou is not even a mutant. He only has to look up to him at a few levels and he just sighed casually.

Throwing two bags of garbage into the garbage dump, he ran back to the Mingguang Training Center.

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

"Sooner or later, I will hang this plaque on the beams of my cottage!"

feud! This is a feud!

The sturdy Xia Dasha carried two bags of trash, and smirked at Lin Chou and said, "Brother Chou, why are you still not leaving? I'm going to miss breakfast."

Lin Chou sighed, "The restaurant is about to close these days, not bad for a while."

From last night I have been busy until three poles in the sun, and I feel aching all over my body falling apart.

Xia Da silly whimpers, "Oh, it's closed."

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

...

Lin Chou, a little-known little man, hadn't been for the extinction of a humanoid species called "otaku" in the past two centuries, he must be one of them.

In the Pythagorean Alley, Lin Chou has a half-dead and tattered storefront, with the iron plaque of the Lin family restaurant hung obliquely, the only legacy left to him by his father.

Eight white iron tabletops but only three benches. The roof often leaks rain. The mouse holes in the corners are covered with spider webs and a lot of dust, which proves that even mice are reluctant to settle in the shop or run away from the famine. Up.

Pythagorean Alley is one of the many small alleys in the slums. It belongs to the first batch of buildings that were reassembled from the ruins of Dongsheng City after the doomsday of living corpses in 200 years.

According to reports, Guangji City started from this alley and proceeded step by step, killing and expelling the living corpses, then building the city and building the separation wall, which is of great commemorative significance.

However, this is of no use. Most people living in Pythagorean alleys are ants who dare not even go out of the three gates of the base city.

These people are like worker ants, using heavy manual labor every day in exchange for three meals a day to feed their families.

Three generations of Lin Chou's family have a single pass. This small restaurant has been opened since his father's generation, and it took several decades to pay off the mortgage.

It is often said that when the mortgage is paid off, Lin Chou's father, who never drank, gets drunk~~ You need to be happy in life, and you should celebrate when it is worth celebrating.

In the drunken dream, Lin Chou's father has actually begun to mutate. If Lin Chou's father mutates successfully, the fate of their father and son will change drastically, leaving the big quagmire of Pythagorean Alley and flying onto the branches to become phoenixes.

It's a pity that the unconscious father didn't pass that level.

In a flash, Lin Chou became an adult.

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

Lin Chou is also used to going to the No. 11 vegetable market in the base city every day. He buys some tattered vegetable leaves, rat meat, and occasionally a few sparrows or half a catty of wild pork, which is a rare delicacy. Compared to other people, at least Lin Chou can eat and wear warmth, not betraying his dignity for his livelihood.

Of course, they will not be looked down upon...

At six o'clock in the morning, Lin Chou will prepare the meal and open it on time. A tattered wooden board is written as neatly as possible on today's menu, and breakfast is provided for the alley residents who get up early to work, even if few people are willing to pay for the meal.

At noon, the main customers are children.

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

The importance of children in the base city is quite outrageous. In the last two centuries, contraceptives and condoms were the first things that disappeared from people's sight.

Abortion is absolutely forbidden. Even if a pregnant woman has a miscarriage, there is an extremely strict declaration process and layered review. Once it is discovered that this is not the case, the highest possible penalty may be imposed on the relevant personnel.

The reason is simple. The base city needs military force, and the mutants and awakeners need to provide a strong defense force. Every child has the possibility of becoming an evolutionary.

On the day of the cataclysm, when the surviving humans discovered that the living corpses could mate and give birth to offspring, there was no way to describe this despair in words.

The end of the living corpse, on December 31, 2019, 73.1% of the world’s population became walking corpses, severely degraded vision, extremely sensitive sense of smell and hearing, bloodthirsty, hatred of humans, and extremely aggressive. At the very beginning, Human beings were once powerless to resist living corpses, and reduced to food is no different.

Before dawn on January 1, 2020, the dark red clouds accumulate in the entire sky, and the catastrophe day of animals, plants, and the entire world has just opened a new label.

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

At the same time, the ability of human beings to reproduce has dropped sharply, and the birth rate of newborns in the last thirty years after the end of the world is infinitely close to zero.

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 humans. Their fighting power was extremely different from ordinary people, and they were extremely powerful.

The extreme evolution of mankind has avoided the disaster of extinction, and the talented awakeners and mutants are both referred to as "children of the new era of humanity."

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

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

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

This small pictorial represents that Lin Chou’s small restaurant is officially recognized as the implementation unit of the New Dawn Project. It can receive a certain percentage of food subsidies from the Planning Department of the Development Committee on the basis of receipts-roughly half of the children’s homes. Funded half.

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

The circulation point is the emerging currency of Mingguang Base City after the reorganization of order, and the purchasing power is quite pragmatic.

Snake meat is a rare thing, a great supplement, and it happened to improve and improve the food for a bunch of little **** kids. Even Lin Chou himself hadn't tasted meat for a week.

However, the thickness of the two thumbs is more than five meters long. This black-and-white cauliflower snake looks amazing.

Lin Chou squeezed the snake's jaw and slapped the snake when it was constantly wriggling and struggling.

In the doomsday, even 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 all at once.

Yes, rat meat.

The most common and cheapest meat in slums, rats are easy to raise, mature quickly, have strong fertility, and have a low mutation rate. They are suitable for ordinary people to raise and eat. The meat of rats is tender and has a heavier smell. It is an ideal source of protein.

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

"Great! I have never eaten snake meat yet!"

A little girl stared at Lin Chou eagerly, her black eyes gleaming, and she said in anticipation, "Brother Chou, I heard from my father that eating snake meat can make children mutate! I want an extra piece of meat!"

"I also want!"

"I…"

Lin Chou threw the snake's head into the soup pot, broke the snake's belly and took out the internal organs, tearing off the snake skin in a neat and intact, smiling.

"Both, both!"

Snake head and cabbage are boiled in a pot of soup. After the snake skin is stir-fried fiercely, it is crispy and refreshing. It is perfect as a breakfast menu.

There is still an hour to leave the meal. I think the children learned from their parents in the morning about eating snake meat today, so I can’t wait.

For this last meal, Lin Chou deliberately found the pepper that he usually reluctant to use from the depths of the cabinet and chopped it into fine pieces.

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

Lin Chou nodded, "To make a spicy snake meat, it's delicious!"

The sound of drooling.

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

It is said that the thing called monosodium glutamate is extracted from kelp, which can make the dishes delicious, but Lin Chou can only use some dried kelp residue to season it. That’s because the Mingguang base city is close to the East China Sea. Sea vegetables rolled to the shore, feeding a large number of people.

I heard that the wealthy people in the base city also have rare and precious seasonings such as pepper, pepper, green onion, ginger, garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, cooking wine, MSG, etc. Lin Chou is very coveted.

Making cheap materials as delicious as possible is one of Lin Chou's few pleasures.

To be precise, snake meat is not a cheap food. The residents in Pythagorean Alleys sell their coolies for a day in the base city, and their wages are only 3-5 circulation points, and a pound of rice that is not moldy or spoiled is just fine. 2 circulation points are already needed.

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

There are 27 children, 9 boys, and 18 girls who eat lunch at Lin’s Xiaoguan all the year round. This lunch is too much higher than the nutrients they can take at home. No matter what the children’s home situation is, the base It is mandatory in the city that parents of children must set aside 1.5 circulation points every day to pay for their children’s lunch.

A child, a lunch, every week, an inspector from the Department of Health comes to the small shop to make surprise inspections to see if the food meets the minimum food standards of the Department of Health.

No matter how harsh the restaurant is, it won’t make tricks on children’s meals. Once discovered, the charge on the forehead is no less than “treason” before the cataclysm.

Of course, it is still profitable.

Lin Chou has his own approach to snake meat.

First wash the snake meat three times with warm water of about 50 degrees to remove the blood foam, and chop it into three centimeters in length.

Snake meat is snow-white in texture and strong in toughness. It tastes like chicken and has the deliciousness of fish.

To make snake meat, either simmer for a few hours on low heat to get the gelatinous quality, or stir-fry it in heavy oil and add a small amount of vegetables to season it.

The oil is clean oil, extracted from wild grass seeds, cheap and tasteless.

After the snake meat entered the pot, a burst of blue smoke violently jumped up, and 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 dried chili, fine salt, stir fry to change color, take out the pan, and serve.

Because there are only two seasonings and to ensure the taste of snake meat, Lin Chou did not choose to add vegetables to it, but instead fry some green vegetables in a large pot of fried snake meat.

Each child has a bowl of rice, five pieces of snake meat, a portion of fried green leafy vegetables, snake head cabbage soup, and fried snake skin.

Three dishes and one soup, an unprecedented luxury.

The children eat very fragrant, spicy whistle and whistle, and the rice that falls on the table has to be picked up and eaten. In the end times, even the youngest child knows how to respect every bit of food.