What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

In Chang Jiamu's opinion, this expense was a bit too much, after all, he had only joined the Nanling Base for a short time, and his ability ring only had the fifty universal coins given to him when he first joined the base to guarantee his basic living.

He was locked in his room upgrading his abilities before he even had a chance to do any missions, so he had no opportunity to go out and earn universal currency.

However, Captain Chen Ping told him he could join his team, but he had only just completed his ability upgrade and hadn't even met Captain Chen Ping yet, so naturally he hadn't received any salary.

The cost of this one small cake was more than all the universal currency in his ability ring. Chang Jiamu watched helplessly as Zheng Lin generously paid the bill and divided the three small cakes among himself.

Seeing that Chang Jiamu didn't move, Zheng Lin stuffed the cake into his hand, "Eat up, what are you standing there for? Hey, I have to say, this tastes pretty good. I never used to like sweet things, but I guess it's been too long since I've had any, so it's not bad to have it once in a while."

"This is cake!" Chen Si felt like he had opened the door to a whole new world. "It tastes so good!"

"Is that all? Then you really haven't eaten anything good. Before the apocalypse, if you had taken a walk around a food street, you would probably have gained three to five pounds. Have you ever eaten spicy crayfish? Have you ever eaten cold noodles, grilled cold noodles, or Northeastern-style barbecue skewers?"

As someone who had just finished the college entrance examination and hadn't yet experienced university life, Chang Jiamu actually felt a bit nostalgic. He had originally thought that he would be in university, eating at roadside stalls with his roommates and reminiscing about his youth.

Unexpectedly, he was unlucky; his life started with disaster. Now, listening to Zheng Lin talk about these things, he also reminisced about the delicious food he used to eat.

"I think braised food with sparkling water would be pretty good, preferably with a bit of spice, and then a chilled drink, wow~ just thinking about it is so refreshing."

"Barbecue is delicious too. Before the apocalypse, I even made a special trip to the West to eat a whole roasted lamb. The taste was absolutely amazing!"

"Fried chicken and roasted wings are also delicious, and chicken wing rice is quite to my liking."

Listening to the two of them talking about things she had never eaten before, Chen Si listened without any regard for her image, sticking her head out and drooling. She was a pretty girl, but she was just too unrefined.

There's nothing she can do; she's just a strange plant. What does a strange plant care about saving face? When she was in her original form, she still drooled just the same way. There's no reason for her to act like a human just because she has a human form now.

They are all flawed, limiting themselves with rules and regulations. However, humans also have some advantages, such as being very good at cooking. Just hearing them talk about it makes her want to eat.

"I wish they could open more of these stores someday."

Chen Si casually remarked something that happened to be overheard by others. Seeing how well Cassie and her team were doing, they were already itching to try it out themselves. Now, hearing these potential customers say this, some of the skilled people decided to take the plunge and give it a shot.

Chen Si was unaware that her unintentional remark had inexplicably satisfied her craving for delicious food, and now she could only pitifully and cautiously eat the small cake.

She's made up her mind! She's going to earn lots of Universal Coins and use them to buy delicious food. Chang Jiamu can already see the beginnings of her spending all her money on food.

Before the apocalypse, people might say her Engel coefficient was too high, but now it's the apocalypse, what else is she going to buy if not food?!

So when Chen Ping suddenly received a lot of shop qualification assessments, he was a little surprised.

Although they intended to guide people in the base to open shops and form a small-scale market, according to their plan to proceed steadily, it would probably take more than ten days. They did not expect to receive so many in just one day.

Chen Ping thought about it and assumed that it was because Casey's little cake was so delicious that it created this effect.

Morse, who happened to be discussing their discovery at the bottom of the sea with Chen Ping, picked up one of the applications after seeing the pile of applications, raised an eyebrow, and said, "A crayfish barbecue restaurant? What's that?"

Hearing this, Chen Ping looked up and suddenly noticed that Morse, a potential customer in the base, was looking at him awkwardly. "What's with that expression?"

Chen Ping looked away and shook his head. "No, I just suddenly remembered that you people in Beisha... don't seem to be that enthusiastic about food."

Morse nodded after listening. "Indeed, we Beisha people don't like to waste energy on food. But after coming to your Nanling, we found that some things taste pretty good. Oh, by the way, we're on the same side now, we're all from Nanling."

Chen Ping was still considering whether to approve these applications, but now it seems that there are still many customers to be developed in their base. After verifying that the store's qualifications were in order, Chen Ping stamped the approval stamp.

“You’re right, we’re all from the same base. When this crayfish and barbecue restaurant opens, I’ll invite you to try it.”

"Sure, but I'm not really interested in bugs. I'll see if there's anything else I can eat later."

Morse shrugged. Crayfish were an infestation in their area, and he didn't know why the people of Nanling would open a shop specifically for them. It was really strange.

Chen Pingxi calmly sipped his tea, hoping that Morse would still have the same persistence by then.

Because crayfish are very easy to raise, there is a special area in the base for raising crayfish, along with other common aquatic products such as shrimp, crabs and fish.

There are also some frogs and frogs in the field. A giant mutated mosquito suddenly appeared in the base before, and it was dealt with by several superhumans working together. We don't know where it came from.

Upon learning of this, Chen Mingzhang specially led everyone in the base to conduct a cleanup and search, and then discovered that a bunch of mosquito larvae were being raised at the base's ventilation opening.

In the end, they were all collected and fried and eaten as food similar to cicada pupae, since in the apocalypse, you can't just let any food go to waste.

However, in the apocalypse, there are some foods that are impossible to eat even with willpower, such as mutated plants.

Before the apocalypse, the unmutated vegetables and fruits tasted quite good, but after the mutation, they became basically inedible, or at least not to the liking of ordinary creatures.

Some are poisonous, some have evolved to be extremely astringent, and some have even evolved to the point that the smell alone is nauseating. This makes people in the post-apocalyptic world feel sorry for these plump fruits.

To this end, Zheng Mu also led a team to conduct research on how to remove the strange taste of these exotic plants and make them more delicious, since many plants in the past became delicious only after cultivation.

The reason they've become so unpalatable is very likely because... they've regressed to their ancestral ways.