#458 - Chapter 458 How will he deal with it?

Inside one of the small buildings in the Red Cloud Base.

The Green Origin Combat Team was cooking two large pots of dinner.

Today was an away mission, so the food was excellent. The base cafeteria had specially approved two dishes for Captain Zhong.

The kind with meat.

Chicken and mushroom stew and scrambled eggs with green peppers.

The chicken was naturally frozen chicken that the base had searched for and stored in the underground cold storage a long time ago. The green peppers were fresh vegetables recently harvested by the base's planting department, and the eggs were laid by the hens raised at the base.

Qin Jin had always been very generous to the base's combat troops.

Especially for foods that couldn't be kept for long, he was willing to occasionally have the cafeteria add extra meals for them at the main base.

"Sluurp—!"

Sounds of gulping saliva echoed in the room.

Mostly from the auxiliary team members.

Most of them were only Level 3 personnel. They could get two meals a day for participating in the base's training, which wasn't too good. Basically, every meal was the standard of one dish and one bowl of rice.

It was more filling than what ordinary Level 3 personnel in other professions ate.

Enough to be about 50-70% full.

Even so, it made the other Level 3 personnel in the sub-base extremely envious.

You have to know that even being half-full was a luxury for others!

It was still Qin Jin who felt that as combat personnel, being hungry for a long time would affect their combat effectiveness, so he specially increased the food standard for these auxiliary combat personnel.

"Old Liang! How long has it been since we've eaten such good food!? I've almost completely forgotten what this kind of dish tastes like!"

An auxiliary combat team member said to another companion.

He was none other than Li Shenglin from the sub-base!

"Hey! Probably the first week after the apocalypse. I remember that after the power went out in our neighborhood, I quickly cooked all the refrigerated food that was inconvenient to store in the refrigerator in advance,"

Liang Defa said with a sigh.

The two of them had previously decided to join the auxiliary force, and now they happened to be on Zhong Yu's mission this time!

The two leaned against a corner of the room, quietly enjoying the air conditioning while waiting for dinner to be cooked.

People in the auxiliary force liked to go on business trips, because everyone had heard that Chief Qin was particularly generous to his subordinates. Almost every auxiliary member who returned from a business trip would praise it.

Seeing it today, it really lived up to its reputation!

This kind of food, in the apocalypse, probably even the leaders of many large forces might not be able to enjoy it!?

And they, who were previously struggling for death and hunger, would be able to enjoy it soon!

"It's cooked! Everyone, line up to get your food!"

The cook in charge of cooking shouted, and then the team members obediently lined up to receive dinner.

Everyone had almost the same portion, and there were no special treatments, even for core personnel, including Zhong Yu, the leader of this mission.

Before long.

The sound of gobbling food echoed in the room.

No survivor in the apocalypse could resist this kind of delicacy!

"It's so delicious! I feel like the best decision I made this year was to go to Mentang Town and join Green Origin! Wuwuwu!"

An auxiliary team member said emotionally while eating.

Who said it wasn't?

If they, the original survivors outside, hadn't picked up leaflets or heard about the place called Green Origin, they might still be playing in the mud outside now?

At least they certainly wouldn't have a safe place, nor would they have delicious food.

At this time, even going out on missions, they could enjoy air conditioning, an appliance that other places wouldn't dare to imagine.

"Old Liang! I told you to join the auxiliary force! Only here can we quickly accumulate points and advance! And we can usually enjoy many benefits that we couldn't access before!"

Brother Li said optimistically to Old Liang, stuffing a piece of chicken breast into his mouth, as if taking credit.

Both of them were veterans. Normally, joining Green Origin during that time would have given them the status of auxiliary team members, but they delayed it until now for the sake of their companions.

Old Liang ate a mouthful of scrambled eggs with green peppers, carefully savoring the feeling of the chili stimulating his taste buds. He was from Hunan Province and originally loved spicy food, but the apocalypse had cut off this hobby.

Usually, it was good enough to eat a few more mouthfuls of thin porridge, where would he get chili to eat?

He didn't answer Brother Li's words, just nodded silently in agreement.

Many auxiliary team members had chatted during training and missions, saying that only when they were doing some ordinary daily routines that were extremely common in the peaceful era did they feel like modern people.

When they were surviving outside before, they were simply walking corpses.

"Captain! There are people peeking outside! Do we need to tell them to leave?"

Just as Brother Li and others were savoring the delicious food and recalling the good old days, a team member guarding the door suddenly said to Zhong Yu.

Huh?

The others looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a little boy standing outside the window of their hall, constantly looking in.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! This is my son. He said he smelled some fragrance and couldn't help but run over to take a look. I didn't expect to disturb everyone's meal. We'll leave now, not disturbing everyone!"

Xiong Sen came to the little boy's side under the gaze of several Green Origin guards outside. When he saw what these Green Origin people were eating inside, his pupils shrank slightly. After suppressing his surprise, he quickly grabbed his son and planned to go back.

Several team members guarding the corridor saw that this was the Red Cloud Base's deputy leader and that he was with his son, so they didn't stop him. Otherwise, ordinary people wouldn't be able to come over at all.

Zhong Yu walked to the door, looking at the boy outside whose height only reached his stomach, with a look of longing and envy, still staring at the team members eating in the room.

He smiled, reached out and touched the boy's hair, and asked:

"What's your name? How old are you?"

Hearing the voice in front of him, the little boy finally struggled to turn his attention away from the Green Origin team members who were eating over there.

He stared at the man in front of him who seemed to be smiling a little brightly, looked back at his father Xiong Sen, saw him gesturing for him to answer, and then turned back and said weakly:

"Uncle, my name is Xiong Lin, and I'm 7 years old this year."

Cough cough!

Hearing the little boy's words, Zhong Yu coughed violently.

Damn it!

Am I that old!?

I haven't even been overdoing it that much!

I'm still a handsome young man, okay!

Where's your eyesight!?

Zhong Yu coughed a few times and finally managed to recover, trying his best to say in a "kind" tone:

"Hehe, you're quite young, little handsome guy."

As expected of a child surnamed Xiong!

I definitely wouldn't accept this surname if someone else used it!

Zhong Yu complained slightly in his heart, then stopped dwelling on it, after all, the other party was just a child.

Then he chatted briefly with Deputy Leader Xiong Sen.

Before long, this Deputy Leader Xiong knew that it wasn't good to keep disturbing people's meal, and prepared to drag his son away forcefully.

"Can I eat some of your dinner? I really want to eat! It seems like there's still some in your pot, can you give me a little bit!? Just a little bit!"

The little boy Xiong Lin seemed to have thought for a long time, and couldn't help but shout out when he was about to leave under his father's pull!

As a child, he simply couldn't resist the temptation of this kind of food!

Zhong Yu was stunned on the spot.

Even many Green Origin team members inside looked over when they heard the words.

"I'm sorry, Captain Zhong! The child is talking nonsense! He's eaten! He's not hungry! We'll leave right away and won't disturb you!"

Xiong Sen was extremely anxious. He didn't expect his son to shout it out so directly, which made him, the old man, a little embarrassed!

But it was a fact that other people's food was too good. He had also seen it just now. Even he was drooling like crazy, and the gluttons in his body were crawling around.

But being a leader of a force didn't allow him to ask for it!

"Wuwuwu!"

The little boy Xiong Lin cried.

Children don't hide their emotions and express them very directly.

This time, many people's eyes turned to Zhong Yu, wanting to see how this Green Origin combat team leader would handle it.

(End of this chapter)