Sizzle.
Gollum, gollum, gollum.
The sound of the Abyss Furnace generating energy echoed throughout the area, but if you listened to it too much, you would get used to the reverberating noise.
Not long after, the sound of knocking came from the outside. Someone was knocking on the rusty iron railing with a metal rod. Many emaciated workers looked expectantly.
This is the most anticipated moment of the day, meal time! !
"Come on, I'll take you to dinner."
The female leader glanced at her head and asked Gu Fan to follow her out of the room.
She was not treated specially because of her status. Instead, she received the same treatment as other workers and soldiers.
"leader!!"
"Hello, boss!!"
Along the way, the female leader accepted those respectful looks.
Gu Fan could clearly feel that the workers and soldiers around her were not hypocritical, but regarded her as a light, a light that illuminated the road to despair.
canteen.
This place is not much different from the canteen in people's minds, but the environment is much worse.
Mosquitoes were flying around, and the dinner plates in many people's hands were stained with various stains. A black unknown substance was scooped out, and the foul-smelling liquid was covered on the dinner plates.
That is people's food.
What?
What is this thing?
The female leader didn't do anything special. She also received the dinner plate with the people around her. After taking the food, she found a place to sit down.
"how?"
"Don't you want to eat?"
The female leader sat opposite Gu Fan, picked up the spoon, took a bite, put it in her mouth and chewed it, making a "crunching" sound. The extremely bad taste did not make her frown.
I have become accustomed to everything.
"That's right, you are a noble and superior person."
The female leader sneered, with a hint of joking on her face, and continued: "This senior official, do you know what materials the food we eat is made of?"
Gu Fan raised his head and glanced at her, then at his dinner plate.
Somewhat nostalgic.
I haven’t eaten this kind of garbage for a long, long time.
In the last life, when he was just a scumbag, he, like other low-class people, could only eat this kind of shit-like food to satisfy his hunger. How could he not know this
Crunch.
Gu Fan scooped up a large spoonful and stuffed it into his mouth. He made a similar sound when chewing, but it seemed that he had eaten something hard and spit it out on the table.
That... is actually an insect leg with stings?
"Mutant cockroach."
"Cockroach mutants reproduce and grow faster and can survive by eating garbage."
As Gu Fan spoke, he took another bite and ate it, as if it was a delicacy in the world, he swallowed it without any care.
Disgusting.
Is this the food of the evil underground people, who live by eating bugs?
"Cockroaches have the ability to break down harmful substances."
"The mutated cockroaches are more capable and can reproduce in large areas while decomposing the garbage produced in the city... However, eating too much of these cockroaches will lead to malnutrition, and toxic substances will remain in the body."
It turned out that Gu Fan knew this thing very well, which surprised the female leader.
But the most surprising thing was the way he ate all the food on the plate in twos and twos.
If it had been any other superior person, they would have pinched their noses and looked disgusted. And knowing that the ingredients were made from mutated cockroaches, they would have screamed and thrown the dinner plate away.
But Gu Fan ate it with gusto.
Sense of identity.
A rare sense of identity appeared in Gu Fan.
The hostility in the eyes of many skinny workers around them is no longer so serious. It seems that after eating these "garbage", they are just like them, they are all a family, and they are all pitiful people.
While I was eating, a group of people came from Yingmian not far away.
"Chief, give it!!"
"Brothers who participated in the battle today have been rewarded with supplies, and so have you."
It was the soldiers who participated in the war today, holding some golden soft and crispy toasted bread in their hands. The sweet smell of wheat made other refugees drool.
Look carefully.
This group of soldiers was not as strong as imagined, and was covered in muscles.
On the contrary, they were all like ordinary refugees, skinny and skinny, with patches of black and purple bruises on their bodies. Some had several broken bones and their arms were wearing splints.
After taking off their combat uniforms, they are no better than ordinary people! !
"Don't be surprised."
"We are all the same without our uniforms."
The female leader noticed Gu Fan's gaze and looked at the bruises on her comrades, and said: "My physique is not as good as that of normal people. It seems like an absolute advantage, but it actually makes me covered in bruises."
"High-strength protective clothing, even with the protection of an exoskeleton, can't bear the pressure caused by bullets. The bruises and edema are minor, and a few broken bones are normal."
This is the true level of the underground resistance.
Although they have extremely sophisticated weapons and equipment, their physical condition is too poor to sustain high-intensity combat.
The female leader took the toast from her companion, placed it in front of Gu Fan, and said, "Eat it."
To please
Are you trying to please me
Gu Fan's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness: "You don't have to pretend to be pitiful with me, let me see how dirty your food is, how difficult your living conditions are, and how painful the battle is."
"I have no sympathy and will not cooperate with you out of pity."
Although the female leader was the Queen of Arms in her previous life, she could be considered an "old acquaintance", but in Gu Fan's world view, any person or thing that has no value of its own is just discarded garbage.
It is impossible to win sympathy.
If the female leader wanted to make Gu Fan feel pity, it would be even more impossible for her to go to Liu Xinxian and say a few nice words.
"If you want to cooperate, let me see the benefits I can get."
Gu Fan is like a villain that everyone hates. He only talks about interests and is not moved by emotions. Sometimes everyone hates this kind of person.
The female leader stared at Gu Fan's eyes for a few seconds, and her expression became a little more serious: "Of course I don't need sympathy, I just want you to see our determination."
"Even in such a desperate situation, we still have the heart to regard death as home."
"Come on, let me show you the benefits you can get!!"
The female leader had already made her decision, got up and left, heading deeper into the D17 area.
Are you going to come up with something substantial
The Queen of Arms…
In her last life, I really didn't know what her abilities were and how she could organize a powerful army.
Maybe next, he will be able to witness the real secret of the Queen of Arms.
Gu Fan followed the female leader and soon arrived at the most important place in area D17.
arsenal.
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(End of chapter)