Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao stood up and ran to the window to find out where the bell came from.

He was excited, with undisguised curiosity.

This made Jiang Baimian feel that this guy was only about ten years old.

She followed to the window, and judging from the reactions of the pedestrians on the road, the bell sound should be a common thing for the residents here, and it is not worth making a fuss about it.

However, she didn't turn her head around, and ordered Long Yuehong and Bai Chen to turn on the lights to dispel the darkness that the evening brought to the room.

She still stood there, following the bell to its source like Shang Jianyao.

This is the self-cultivation of a folklorist.

Soon, Jiang Baimian confirmed that the bell came from Gust Castle. As the tallest building here, there seems to be a large bell installed on its top floor.

Not long after the bell died down, one after another bicycles ran out of the factory area and entered the streets and alleys of this settlement.

They are like white doves that have only escaped their cages, but the colors are not so uniform.

On these bicycles with different styles, a worker is either happy, full of longing to go home, or cheerfully communicating with the surrounding riders.

Compared with their counterparts in the "First City", their skin is darker, and there are many traces of sun, rain and smoke, and it is difficult to hide their tiredness. ”, without numbness.

After the bicycles were almost out, a tidal wave of people left the factory area on foot.

Their clothes were either gray or bluish, and their texture was rather rough, full of smudges and sweat marks, and their expressions were different from those of those riding bicycles.

"It turned out to be the bell for getting off work..." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized.

Speaking of this, he, Long Yuehong, and Jiang Baimian, who were born in "Pangu Creatures", are no strangers at all.

At the same time, some elderly residents and obviously disabled people flocked to the gate of the old castle, where a soldier in thick linen clothes brought out black bread and other food, ready to distribute.

"There are fewer elderly people than I thought." Jiang Baimian muttered to himself thoughtfully.

She originally felt that with the "White Knights" style of often helping the poor and being good at biological and medical research, the old people over fifty in Gerstburg are at most less than the "Pangu creatures".

But now it seems that it is similar to the original city.

"The factory should be very hard." Long Yuehong has his own explanation for this.

The charged gnava chimes in at the right time:

"Before the old world was destroyed, the area occupied by the 'White Knights' was not suitable for planting and grazing."

"I also heard that the living conditions of the 'White Knights' are relatively poor when I was in the 'First City'." Bai Chen nodded and added two sentences, "It is all thanks to the rich mineral resources and the development of biotechnology that the satisfaction can be exchanged. basic needs.”

At this time, Shang Jianyao retracted his gaze, touched his stomach and said:

"The 'White Knights' are distributing food, and we should also consider what to eat at night."

He used body gestures to show that he was hungry.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said:

"Lao Ge continues to charge. Let's go downstairs and ask the front desk to see what food we can get in the hotel, and try not to go out."

The hotel, called Fire and Iron, doesn't have wired telephones in the rooms, or most parts of Gerstburg don't.

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao went out first.

He stepped from the third floor to the ground floor and asked the man at the front desk:

"Can I order food?"

"Order?" The man didn't seem to understand why he ordered at the hotel, "Isn't this supposed to be a restaurant?"

"You guys!" Shang Jianyao was heartbroken, "How can such a service develop and grow? In the old world, in other places..."

He talked a lot, and finally let the front desk understand what an ordering service is.

The blond man shook his head and said:

"None of our hotels here have that kind of service."

He did not mean to improve on this at all, but persuaded Shang Jianyao:

"Staying in the room all the time is boring and dull, it's better to go to restaurants and cafes.

"If it weren't for the cold weather now, I wouldn't be willing to do this job. Carrying a shotgun, hunting on the icefield, and looking for relics by the way, is what the descendants of knights should do."

Although I can't say all of them, this should represent a certain ethos of the "White Knights"... Jiang Baimian nodded quietly and asked before Shang Jianyao:

"What restaurants are there nearby, can I order by phone?"

"There is no phone." The front desk shook his head again.

There are only a handful of places where telephones are installed in Gerstburg.

The area where people live here is not too small, not too big, not too big. Twenty to thirty minutes is enough for a healthy person to go to any destination.

"Then you can only go out to eat." Jiang Baimian frowned, "Or go to the car to carry some canned food and deal with it as many times as you like?"

Thinking of eating canned food again, Long Yuehong instinctively showed an embarrassed expression.

Shang Jianyao said righteously and sternly:

"There's something wrong with the latter plan."

"What's the problem?" Jiang Baimian asked funny.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the front desk and took a few steps to the hotel door.

When Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen came over, he pressed his voice and said:

"There is not much food left, and if you consume a few more meals, it will definitely bottom out.

"At that time, we will have to go out to purchase supplies. With Xiaohong's fate, it is also easy to cause accidents and cause chain reactions, and if this forces us to leave Gustburg, not only will our batteries not be fully charged, but also No food, even worse!

"So, we must ensure that the food reserves are above the safety line."

"It's obviously your destiny..." Long Yuehong retorted in a grunt way.

Apart from this, he actually felt that what Shang Jianyao said was quite reasonable.

Jiang Baimian, who was attacked by Shang Jianyao with his spear, was speechless for a while.

Although the food left in the "Old Tune Group" is not as small as Shang Jianyao said, after so many days of consumption, it is indeed not much.

After deliberating for a while, Jiang Baimian sighed and said:

"Hey, go upstairs and tell Lao Ge to let him recharge with peace of mind. Let's find something to eat nearby."

"Yeah!" Shang Jian Yao was overjoyed.

Based on caution and fear of causing accidents, the "Old Tune Group" found a restaurant nearby on the street of the "Fire and Iron" hotel.

It's called "Old Henry", and there are only two lights in the store, and the light is very dim.

Shang Jianyao and others were looking for seats when they suddenly saw the waiter serving four dishes to a table of guests.

One of the guests with pale yellow hair and a hook nose pointed to the strangely shaped flesh in front of him:

"Is this a steak?"

"Sir, it is indeed a steak, but you should be very clear that most of the steaks you can eat in Gustburg belong to aberrations, and the price also explains the problem." The waiter replied quite calmly.

"Aberration?" The hooked-nosed guest was startled.

Is this thing edible?

The waiter suddenly showed a vigilant look:

"Aren't you from our 'White Knights'?"

The hooked-nosed guest said in a daze for a few seconds:

"We are from a ranch in the south. We just joined your 'White Knights' recently. We heard that there are many job opportunities in Gustburg and that we can earn a lot of supplies, so we came here."

Like other major forces, the "White Knights" can only rule those towns on the main traffic lines. There are still large and small human or subhuman settlements in the mountains, wilderness, and Gobi in this area~www .readwn.com~ The waiter's expression softened:

"No wonder you don't know about aberrations.

"A long time ago, there was a kind of cattle that was distorted and became suitable for the environment here and could reproduce well. Our 'White Knights' took this as a blueprint and used genetic technology to cultivate this kind of cattle. It has a lot of meat, Cheap, is the first choice for most people.”

"Why is it cheap?" the hook-nosed guest demanded.

The waiter smiled and said:

"Eating too much can easily lead to distortions and various malignant diseases.

"Don't worry, it won't be a problem if you only eat it a few times. When you find a job, save enough money, and buy genetic modification medicine, you won't be afraid. The cheapest type X-3 medicine will allow you to fight against each other. The ability for this kind of distortion..."

This not only made the guests look at each other, but even Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen all looked at me, I looked at you, there was a wonderful sense of magic.

In terms of biotechnology, the "White Knights" and "Pangu creatures" seem to be going in different directions because of their different environments.

The four of them hesitated for a while, but still found a table to sit down and waited for another waiter.

——There are many people from other parts of the "White Knights", and the restaurant business is not bad, and they can afford three or four people.

Jiang Baimian suppressed Shang Jianyao's idea of ​​trying out mutants, and ordered a bunch of food with normal meat quality, and the price was not low.

After she was done, Shang Jianyao, who finally found an opportunity, looked at the waiter, suppressed his voice, and asked mysteriously:

"You guys, do you have that?"

The waiter's expression changed, he glanced left and right, bent his back, and asked in a low voice:

"That's what you said?"