The people in Sky City ate two meals a day.
Once in the morning and once in the evening. There was no lunch.
He did not know what the food in the city was like, but the food of the scavenger teams was not good.
Chung Shen-soo pried open the can with a dagger and saw beans that looked like peas mixed with some salt and spices.
The other was a meat that looked like luncheon meat.
Judging from Zola's tone, this should be good food. Is it because she's out in the field?
Looking at the pale meat and the mysterious patterns on it, Chung Shen-soo did not want to eat it. Clang!
Clang!
Just then, someone knocked on the fence. A girl with short red hair and blue eyes opened the door and asked, "Li Wei … Together?"
She was Chung Shen-soo's neighbor.
Well, although they were neighbors, the living conditions here were very poor. Both men and women lived in compartments that looked like capsules. When they were stacked together, it was like a beehive.
In a single room, one could not stand up at all. They could only lie down or sit.
"Of course, Rachel. Please come in!"
Chung Shen-soo asked Rachel to sit down. She took up almost half of his bed.
The girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old. She wore a short-sleeved shirt, revealing the smooth muscles on her arms. A pair of goggles hung around her neck.
She sat down casually and quickly stuffed the luncheon meat into her mouth while using a spoon. "Oh … It's nothing. Captain Zola just asked me to take care of you."
She probably wants to keep an eye on me?
Chung Shen-soo thought to himself. He watched Rachel enjoy the canned meat with relish. She did not even want to let go of a single bit of minced meat.
When the other party finished eating, he stared at his can with eager eyes.
He did not want to eat it anyway, so he handed the can to Rachel. "Here you go."
"Okay!"
Rachel skillfully took it and continued to wolf down the food, as if she didn't know the meaning of courtesy. When she finished, she touched her belly in satisfaction and sighed, "You're not trying to pick me up, are you?"
"No!"
Chung Shen-soo shook his head calmly.
The men and women here did not care too much about this kind of thing. If they liked each other, they might sleep together that night.
If he revealed his intention, Rachel would probably come over at night.
Moreover, with the soundproofing effect of this place, it was simply the rhythm of a large-scale racing scene.
"That's a pity …"
Rachel looked up and down at Chung Shen-soo. She nodded and then shook her head, "You're very good-looking, but you're too weak. I can play with you, but it's too heavy a burden for me to have a family …"
"Cough, cough …"
Chung Shen-soo coughed and said, "Hehe … You girls from Sky City really mature early …"
'That's not right …' He thought about it and felt that humans who developed during the apocalypse were very concerned about the population. It was normal for them to encourage early marriage and early childbirth.
"Just say it if you like it. Isn't that normal?"
Rachel slowly began to eat the tasteless canned peas.
Chung Shen-soo also picked one up and put it into his mouth. Although it had been steamed for a while, it was still hard. He had to work hard to grind it down and swallow it.
"Tell me about your wandering experience. It's not easy to wander in the black mushroom wasteland. How did you survive like this? I see that your skin is whiter than those magistrates … "
Rachel asked curiously.
"In fact, I haven't been wandering for long."
Chung Shen-soo sighed and asked, "What meat is that?"
He was referring to the meat in the canned luncheon meat.
"Those … They come from Sky City's Gessla Meat Processing Factory. It seems to be synthetic meat, or like they're raising a group of meat animals that can continuously cut and regenerate. Every day, they can produce enough meat to meet the needs of the whole city, although it's a little expensive …"
Rachel sucked on her fingers.
"This kind of meat can be eaten?" Chung Shen-soo was a little glad that he didn't eat the canned meat.
"Compared to the meat directly hunted in the wilderness, the taste and nutrition are a little worse. But fortunately, it's safe to obtain and can be produced continuously, just like those mushroom and pea bases …"
Rachel seemed to have understood the wrong direction and said carelessly.
"The technology tree of this world is a little crooked …"
Chung Shen-soo secretly criticized.
He used a canned meat to get a lot of information from Rachel. He also learned the general situation of Sky City, the settlement of apocalyptic humans.
It seemed to have achieved self-sufficiency. It could produce meat and food, and there was no shortage of energy supply.
The reason why there was a scavenger team was to obtain a resource called 'Source Stone', which was said to be able to operate some real high-precision machinery.
Other than that, it was to collect intelligence and explore various cities in search of the 'Original Opus'.
As for gathering people, it was really just a side task. It didn't matter if they didn't complete it.
So Rachel had always felt that Chung Shen-soo was very lucky.
But what Chung Shen-soo cared more about were the two terms: "Source Stone and the 'Original Opus'?"
"It's a kind of stone that glows. It's said to be very useful. But there must be a lot of monsters around. Every time they want to get a little bit of it, many people will die …"
"As for the 'Original Opus', you haven't even heard of it?"
Rachel's expression suddenly became a little suspicious.
"I've heard a little about it, but I'm not very clear …" Chung Shen-soo answered frankly.
"Indeed, because you're just an ordinary person, and the survivors in the wilderness outside have been away from civilization for so long that they've lost their inheritance?"
After all, Rachel hadn't read too many novels. She couldn't think of the matter of time travel, so she could only think of other directions.
She thought for a while and said with her head tilted, "It's said that before the apocalypse came, there were already some signs … And a group of saviors and prophets united and came up with all kinds of methods to teach us to fight against monsters, develop technology, and heal ourselves. When all these contents were put together, it became the 'Original Opus'! It's divided into two parts. The first part talks about the structure of various steam machines, the mysteries of mecha, as well as how to use blood serums to heal ourselves, how to avoid pollution … "
"The second part describes a large number of mutant types. For example, they are divided into different levels, such as servant level, dependent level, and the most terrifying God's Abomination level. Within each big level, there are three different levels: low, medium, and high … How to seize their power, digest it, and use it for us …"
"So, it's also called the 'Original Opus of Salvation'. But for some reason, it's scattered into many chapters … It's said that the first city lord of our Sky City obtained part of the contents of the 'Original Opus', which was how he successfully built Sky City."
Rachel finished eating the last pea and carefully put the can away.
This was also a resource that needed to be recycled.
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