Chapter 9

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The injection couldn’t be avoided; he could only accept it honestly. But to take the medicine, Shen Shanwu only needed to make a cover-up casually, so that he could hide all the pills in his palm, and then pretend to drink saliva and swallow the air with a well-behaved and obedient image.

Xiaowen handed over the toothbrush squeezed with toothpaste in satisfaction, showing the care of a big sister in all directions. When he packed up and walked to the hall, everyone else had already had breakfast and was beginning to organize and pack.

Shen Shanwu didn’t have the luggage he needed to carry, so he could sit at the table and pretend to eat a bowl of cornmeal porridge in front of him. He raised his head and happened to meet Yao Wuque returning from exercise, sweating profusely. The other party had a good appetite and drank the porridge in three seconds. Shen Shanwu hurriedly and secretly pushed his bowl over and said, in a low voice, “Drink it quickly.”

“?!” Yao Wuque’s eyes widened, and he asked in a low voice, like a thief, “There is no poison in it, is there?”

“So much nonsense.”

Yao Wuqu was about to take it, but halfway through, he suddenly inserted a hand horizontally and blocked him tightly. Yao Wuque immediately changed his gesture to stroking his hair and entered the kitchen with an empty bowl.

Shen Shanwu raised his head regretfully and saw the lieutenant’s very serious face. He heard that this person was only thirty-one or two years old, but his beard was unshaven, so he looked like he was in his forties. When Shen Shanwu saw him, he felt that he was back in high school and was looking at the head teacher.

“Why do you always skip meals? How much have you eaten since yesterday?”

“I can’t find anything to eat in the outer area. Over time, my stomach has become accustomed to being hungry. Now you let me eat, but I can’t eat it.” Shen Shanwu quickly made up a reason, and after speaking, he suddenly felt as if he had made up too badly.

Sure enough, the lieutenant glanced at him steadily and patted the table again, “Then you have to eat even more. Hurry up, take a big sip. I’m here to watch you finish eating.”

“…” Shen Shanwu curled his lips, so he had to raise the bowl under the watchful gaze of the headteacher and finish the corn porridge without mustard.

After finally dealing with this bowl of porridge, Xiaowen walked over with a suitably cut military combat uniform, explained the location of the pockets one by one, and the emergency accessories contained in them, and finally locked a metal chain buckle around his waist, and then hung a half-meter-long black umbrella on it.

“For heat insulation and radiation protection. There is a knife in the handle of the umbrella. You can pull out the blade by pressing the switch here, but don’t use it to play around.”

Shen Shanwu was not a real child. He really thought it was fun. The umbrella could easily fall off with the press of the ring buckle. When the umbrella was opened, it was an ordinary sunshade. It was very light, but underneath it was a hidden sharp saber. The blood trough on the blade was eagerly waiting for the nourishment of the fishy sweet blood.

“Do you really want to give Jiang Tong a knife?” Xiaowwen said worriedly, “Will he cut himself?”

The lieutenant couldn’t get used to Xiaowen spoiling the child so much, “Then when he meets a zombie, you just let him be scratched?”

“…like I said, let’s give him a knife.”

At seven o’clock sharp, all the team members gathered in front of the main entrance of the villa on time. Two dignified modified armored off-road vehicles stood proudly outside the garden. They were as tall as two Shen Shanwus. The appearance was fierce and wild, like two dark giant monsters, which made Shen Shanwu, a mutant with only two legs on his mount, covet it.

He stood in front of the car door and carefully observed the structure of the car. As a result, a member of the team behind him thought that he couldn’t get on the car door because of his short legs, so he enthusiastically put his hands under Shen Shanwu’s armpits and lifted the person up.

Shen Shanwu: “……”

Shen Shanwu, “Thank you.”

The Central Alliance was about 1,300 kilometers away from the Shanhai Base. It took four hours to board the flight during peace times. Even if you drive on the highway, it will take only 15 hours to reach it.

But now that the magnetic field has been disordered. Don’t even think about the plane; even the highway was destroyed. It was full of moss-covered abandoned vehicles. Maybe there were still a few zombies stuffed inside.

There was a severe radiation zone covering an area of 100,000 square kilometers within a straight distance between the two places. They must detour northward. It was dangerous at night. They must stop to allow rectification. The combination of various reasons had stretched the return time to a full week.

Fortunately, the interior of the off-road vehicle was very comfortable. The Shanhai team deserved to be the top team in the base. The car was equipped with leather executive chairs. There was no Doomsday hard-working style. It was full of arrogance and extravagance, causing Shen Shanwu to want to sleep as soon as he sat down.

He woke up in a daze, just in time for lunch. The two off-road vehicles stopped one after the other in an area with a wide field of vision. If they encountered zombies, they would be a very conspicuous live target.

In the case of radiation all around, there was no such thing as ventilation. Even if Shen Shanwu really wanted to go out for a stroll, he looked at the breathing mask, helmet, and protective jacket that he must wear when he gets out of the car. He sat silently on the ground and sighed.

It was only then that he discovered that Jiang Huan’s position had been opposite to his. There was a table and a board separated between the two. Beside him sat Sister Xiaowen, beside Jiang Huan’s side… No one, no one dared to sit.

Sister Xiaowen went to the back of the car to prepare lunch, while Jiang Huan quietly looked out the window with one hand, holding his chin in a daze. From the moment Shen Shanwu woke up until the lunch plate was served to the table, he had maintained this posture, and he didn’t know what he was thinking about.

Shen Shanwu was ready to see a plate of green vegetables again, but he didn’t expect that this time Xiaowen would serve a stack of lumpy white pastries and a milky drink. The one in the cup was similar to milk, and the one in the bowl was like coconut milk cubes.

He took the chopsticks strangely. The white cake didn’t smell like a dessert. He picked up a piece and looked up to see Jiang Huan lowering his eyes to deliver the contents of the bowl into his mouth, chewing slowly and rationally. Judging from the almost absent expression on his face, he couldn’t tell if it was delicious or not. Shen Shanwu had to take a bite tentatively by himself……

“Blurgh.” He suddenly covered his mouth and almost vomited directly on the table. Xiaowen was distributing food to the team members in the passenger seat in front of him. SheSh walked back quickly and asked, “What’s the matter?”

Shen Shanwu hurriedly picked up the drink and wanted to wash down the salty, bitter, and very dry powder in his mouth, but as soon as the “milk” was in his mouth… he trembled in his seat in pain.

If reason hadn’t told him that he would never waste food in front of humans, he would definitely be vomiting frantically in front of the trash can now.

“What kind of thing is this?” Shen Shanwu was forced out of tears, and Xiaowen said with a sigh, “Compressed grain.”

“Compressed grain—” Shen Shanwu was about to say, “Don’t blame me. It’s not that I hadn’t eaten compressed biscuits before the end of the world.” Before he blurted out, he thought that at the age of ‘Jiang Tong’, it was really impossible to have eaten compressed grain, and this compressed grain was obviously not the kind of compressed grain he had eaten before, so his voice suddenly turned, “—That’s the taste?”

Sister Xiaowen picked up a piece and ate it, nodded, “It’s no problem… It’s not very delicious, but it’s easy to store and makes you full. It is currently the most popular marching food for the major armies. This is a functional drink that also has more than a dozen vitamins, amino acids, proteins, minerals, etc. needed by the human body. It has no disadvantages except that it is not easy to drink and expensive.”

To be honest, if Shen Shanwu was an ordinary person, without food, he could eat whatever he wanted, worms included, not to mention the compressed grain and functional drinks in front of him, but he was clearly a mutant who did not need to eat, but he still has to suffer from this crime…

On what grounds?!

No, absolutely not. If he enters the coastal base to play, the price he has to pay is to eat this thing for seven consecutive days. And since he is likely to have such a meal at every turn, picky eater Shen Shanwu would rather jump out of the car and run away now.

Shen Shanwu taught Jiang Huan tricks like stealing and hiding things. Now Jiang Huan was sitting directly opposite, and Shen Shanwu couldn’t guarantee that he could hide it from him.

“I’m full.” He simply put his chopsticks away, jumped out of his seat, and got into the back row to escape the nutritious meal. Anyway, with his appearance in his teens, it was reasonable to have temper tantrums.

If others disliked him and planned to starve him for a long time, then Shen Shanwu would just escape the meal; if others kindly came to persuade him to eat a little, Shen Shanwu would let them put it aside and hide it later, pretending to eat it if he got hungry in the afternoon.

Jiang Huan used up his lunch and put down his chopsticks. He saw Xiaowen looking at him helplessly, while her left hand pointed to Shen Shanwu, who had only chewed a small bit of compressed grain and basically untouched functional water.

“Go to Car 2 and get him a can.” Jiang Huan said calmly, “Pour a glass of warm water, and then take a vitamin from my box.”

Hearing the words, the man in the co-pilot’s seat almost dropped his plate, but he was a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and he endured it without saying a word.

But Xiaowen took the canned food from the car in the back and came back, and Yao Wuque, who was following her, was gone. Although he was wearing a mask, he was surprisingly recognizable with his personality and voice.

“Holy shit captain! I heard you are going to open canned food for Jiang Tong?!”

Jiang Huan had a book spread on his lap, and he didn’t raise his head when he heard Yao Wuque come in. Obviously, he didn’t want to answer him. Yao Wuque didn’t dare challenge Jiang Huan, so he turned around and glanced angrily, just in time to see Xiaowen open the canned food, pour out the large pink pieces of ham inside, and slice them neatly.

Lemon balloon, which probably describes Yao Wuque at this time, really angry and sour.

“You’d better go back to Car 2.” Xiaowen sincerely advised. Yao Wuque couldn’t walk when he smelled the scent of canned food, and he stared at her and said, “Why? Is it not allowed to come here and visit?”

Xiaowen glanced at him with the eyes of a silly child, bent over and rummaged in the cupboard below for a while, found a bottle of orange-flavored effervescent tablets, put a piece in warm water, put it on the dinner plate with the canned food, and put it in front of Shen Shanwu’s seat.

“Jiang Tong, let’s eat.”

“Fuck! Captain, you’re even giving him your vitamins?!” Yao Wuque was really sour. He was the youngest member of the team. Everyone remembered to leave him a copy of any good things. He had always felt that he was favored enough, but it wasn’t until today that he saw Jiang Tong’s treatment that he knew what it meant to be small and what it meant to be different. Jiang Huan almost spoiled Jiang Tong to the sky.

Open canned food for him if he refuses to eat? There were only a few cans in the whole team, and they were all left on special days to open one. No matter how many people share it… Jiang Tong could actually eat a whole one by himself!

Jiang Huan had done his part, and Shen Shanwu was embarrassed not to give face anymore. He got up from the back row and sat back down in his seat. Under the sound of Yao Wuque grinding his teeth and blood-shot eyes, he slowly took a bite of the ham. The meat smell was just a little, most of it was the smell of flour, and there was a bit of a sticky feeling in his teeth. He didn’t know what was in it. It’s worse than the inferior ham sausage at the entrance of the elementary school, not to mention the brand of meat sausage that Shen Shanwu has eaten since he was a child.

But at this time, Shen Shanwu didn’t dare be a picky eater. He swallowed all the ham in three halves, and then drank all the vitamin water in one breath. To be honest, the taste of orange juice was okay. He licked his lips, packed up the plate, and handed it to Sister Xiaowen.

The author has something to say:

Yao Wuque: His treatment is so good.

Shen Shanwu: What kind of broken treatment is this?