Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 182: Pickled Vegetables and Tofu

After the car drove out of Yao County, Lu Xian looked back.

The sun had just risen to the zenith in the sky, and the ruined city was illuminated by the sunlight. In Lu Xian's vision, only shadows and outlines remained.

Lu Xian turned around and looked at the road ahead.

The east side of the county town is still a wilderness, and the long-abandoned wastelands and the ruins of greenhouses make people feel endless sighs when looking at them.

Yao County must have been a major farming county in the past. When Lao Shu passed by here before, he wondered if he would feel sad when he saw the deserted fields.

Lu Xian thought so in his heart, asked Yao Wei to stop for a moment, and returned to the car.

"Shall I drive?"

He asked Yao Wei.

Yao Wei shook her head and said, "Let me fire. You're better at using hidden weapons than I am with my pistol."

Lu Xian said: "Then you drive first, and we can take turns driving, so we can take turns to relax."

Yao Wei didn't refuse and nodded, "Yes."

In fact, as a Type A new human now, I don’t feel tired after driving for a whole day, unlike in my previous life, when I had to sit in the car with my knees bent for a whole day, and after getting out, I was afraid that I couldn’t even stand up straight.

Lu Xian felt that as long as he sat in the car, moved forward with Yao Wei, occasionally talked, and looked at the scenery, it was enough. Whether driving or not, he would not feel bored.

It’s not like what happened on the roof just now. I was annoyed to death after just spending a while with those people who kept calling me “Master”.

The same is true for Yao Wei.

She glanced back in the rearview mirror. The abandoned city in the rearview mirror was getting farther and farther away, gradually getting smaller. She couldn't help but let out a breath and said, "Finally, I got out."

Lu Xian laughed: "As you said, this Yao County is like a cage."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and said, "Cities are like cages."

"Ok."

Lu Xian thought that he had not yet gotten rid of the fascination with the cities in his previous life, but Yao Wei was different. She had been living in this world. These deserted cities not only had no conveniences, but were mostly more dangerous than the wilderness.

There’s nothing wrong with what Yao Wei said.

"After we leave, do you think those people in the city can use our influence to accomplish anything?"

Lu Xian asked.

Yao Wei said, "I don't know."

Lu Xian retracted his gaze and sighed, "Yeah, what can they do, who knows?

"Alas... I originally thought that many ordinary people in this city are quite pitiful, and we might be able to see one or two and bring them to Luo Ping.

"Or maybe after understanding the situation here, we could let Luo Ping come here himself to take over, but now it seems that this is a bit unrealistic.

"Come to think of it, this place is in Pingchuan City, just like Shanyang County. Luo Ping should have been here a long time ago. If he thought the people here were good, he would have brought them back to his secret base long ago.

"He usually walks around and looks at people everywhere, so he should be quite cautious, right?
"It's hard to say whether the people in this world are human or ghost when faced with different conditions. We are truly lucky to have met people like Chai Xin and Lao Shu."

Yao Wei said, "I didn't think he was cautious."

Lu Xian laughed again: "Yeah, it's so easy to say that we are good people. I haven't seen him be very cautious."

As he spoke, he thought of a question and turned to ask Yao Wei, "Yao Wei, do you think we are good people?"

"do not know."

Yao Wei's answer was still what Lu Xian expected.

Lu Xian didn't care at all and said with a smile: "Anyway, you are a good person in my eyes, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten in your car in the first place."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Wei immediately changed her tone.

"You too."

Yao Wei said, "Otherwise I wouldn't have let you get in the car."

Neither of them looked at each other, just staring at the world outside the windshield.

After walking a distance, trees stood on both sides of the road, separating the road from the fields.

The trunks of the two rows of trees are straight, and branches only grow at a high altitude, and leaves are sprouting. It seems that the leaves fell off due to the severe cold, and now that the weather is warming up, new leaves are growing on the branches.

After the apocalypse, plants and trees that have adapted to the new environment have two forms:

Some of them are always dying. No matter whether it is hot or cold, they always grow wildly, but they look almost withered and dead.

Some of them always wither and die quickly, but they can also sprout and grow quickly.

These trees in front of us are obviously the second form of plant survival in a doomsday environment.

Lu Xian suddenly thought of the cornfield of Lao Shu in Xiaogang Village.

The corn in the field seemed to have both the first characteristic, which was that it always looked half-dead and kept growing, and the second characteristic, which was that the corn could always sprout and grow quickly after one crop.

For crops in today's world to grow well, do they also need the coexistence of these two characteristics?
If we go further south on this trip, I wonder if we will have the chance to see other crops and see what they look like?
The car drove forward for more than two hours, and the plain wasteland gradually began to rise and fall, with some hills and depressions appearing.

The tall trees on both sides of the road were sometimes more and sometimes less. When there were more, Lu Xian even felt like he had come to a forest.

When passing a small hill ahead, Lu Xian looked at the map and confirmed that there was a bridge over the hill and a river under the bridge. He thought for a moment and said to Yao Wei:

"Why don't we just stay here tonight? It'll be dark soon, and if we leave now, we won't have time to cook.

"This place is suitable for hiding. There is a river in front where we can get water. It's a good place to stop and rest and cook."

"Okay." Yao Wei agreed, drove the car off the road and found a place to stop.

After parking the car, Lu Xian took out the resonance gene scanner and took a look. Seeing that there were still only three red dots within the range of the scanner, he felt relieved.

"It seems that Chai Xin and Lao Shu are not around here either. Have they already gone to Shanyang County?"

Lu Xian said.

"Maybe. It's been over a month."

Yao Wei replied.

"That's right. It's been over a month. They reached Yao County a month ago. If nothing happened along the way, they should have reached Luoping at the earliest."

Lu Xian nodded and said, "I don't know if everything went smoothly after they arrived in Shanyang County, and whether they contacted Luo Ping?

"Did they become more careful as they moved forward? There shouldn't be any more legends about them in the county villages ahead, right?"

"should……"

Yao Wei murmured, not daring to be sure.

There was no point in thinking too much, so the two of them exchanged a few words and started preparing dinner.

——Although it was not dark yet, this meal was still considered dinner for Lu Xian and Yao Wei.

"Shall we make a hearty meal? At this rate, if everything goes well tomorrow, we'll be able to reach Shanyang County in another day. By then, we don't know how many people will be in Luoping, and it will be difficult to use up our stored food."

While cooking, Lu Xian said this to Yao Wei.

Things are different now than in his previous life. In his previous life, when Lu Xian met friends, he could treat them to meal after meal, and have a big meal every day for a month without repeating himself, and it would be no problem if he just gritted his teeth.

But in this world, food is more precious than gold. All the food in the car are Lu Xian and Yao Wei's treasures. How can they give it to others easily?

Back in Fengcheng County, cooking rice for Luo Ping to take to revive him was already an exception.

Moreover, they had given Luo Ping a bag of rice on impulse back then, which was already very kind. Now that the food on the truck was running low, how could they give it to others?

Lu Xian guessed that Yao Wei would definitely feel bad if he gave it to someone else, so he made this suggestion.

When Yao Wei heard Lu Xian's words, she nodded very vigorously and said, "Yeah."

Lu Xian laughed and said, "Then let's try something different for this meal."

He asked Yao Wei to light the fire, and he put some white rice into the pot. He also peeled a corn, put all the corn kernels into the pot, added water, and cooked it.

At this time, take a slice of sausage, put it on the rice with a bag of dehydrated vegetables, simmer for a while, and a delicious meal is ready.

When they lifted the wok that served as the lid of the cooking pot, smelled the fragrant aroma, and looked into the pot, Lu Xian and Yao Wei couldn't help swallowing.

This meal is truly the most delicious in the world today!
"Come on, eat!"

Lu Xian served Yao Wei a bowl of rice, and then ate it with Yao Wei.

The hot white rice, corn kernels, stewed dehydrated vegetables, and sausage slices were eaten together. They were soft, easy to chew, and full of fragrance. Lu Xian was extremely satisfied and asked Yao Wei:

"How about it?"

"Uh-huh!"

Yao Wei no longer had time to talk and just focused on eating.

So Lu Xian stopped talking and ate with Yao Wei.

After finishing the meal, although I wasn’t as full as I was after eating pork, my stomach felt extremely comfortable.

Lu Xian sighed softly, and suddenly inexplicably recalled a scene from a TV series in his previous life. He felt that the delicious taste in that plot clip was particularly in line with his current mood.

He couldn't help singing: "Eating pickles and rolling tofu, the emperor is not as good as me."

After he finished singing, he realized that Yao Wei was staring at him.

"How's it going? Does it sound good?"

Lu Xian asked with a smile.

Yao Wei shook her head, indicating that the songs were far worse than those in the computer.

But she didn't care about this question and asked Lu Xian: "What is pickled vegetables and tofu?"

"Something to eat."

Lu Xian explained, "Pickles are vegetables that we eat that are pickled with salt. They taste very salty, so they are called pickles.

"Tofu is made from beans. The process is complicated and I don't understand it. But I guess you won't see it anymore."

"That's it..."

When Yao Wei heard that it was food that she would never see again, she stopped paying attention and asked, "What is the Emperor?"

Lu Xian said: "Even if he is the boss now."

Yao Wei nodded and said, "Yeah, it sounds better than the boss."

But she still didn't care. After all, she could beat all the bosses she had met so far, and meeting them was just a matter of killing or not.

Ok……

I’ve seen bosses that I couldn’t beat before, and at that time it was just a matter of whether to escape or not.

Nothing unusual.

(End of this chapter)