Lin Xue suddenly took out a lot of fancy snacks from the dimensional pocket, which made Glick and Waterdrop almost fall into a state of sluggishness in an instant. Those colorful packages were spread all over the table after Lin Xue moved them a few times. The quantity and variety were amazing.
Not only Glick and Water Drop were stunned, even the few of us were in a serious daze. What do you think this is? A bag of spicy gluten that cost fifty cents, a bag of sour plums that cost one dollar, a bag of popping candy that cost one dollar and fifty cents, rice crust that didn't have a label, strange flavored beans that didn't have a production date, puffed food that looked like it might have leaked oil, and even a chocolate bar with teeth marks …
Lin Xue shoved the chocolate bar into my mouth. Then, she looked at my subtle expression and pretended to be fierce. "What, you don't like me? It's just a bite, it's not like I haven't tasted it before! "
You see, this "it's not like I haven't tasted it before" simply has too many explanations in this context, I can't think of any way to not go astray in this situation, and in fact, in this situation, going astray is the only correct way. In any case, apart from the real children, everyone at the scene thought the same thing at the same time. Icetis looked at us as if she was looking at a pervert, Shallow Shallow touched her own teeth, Sandora handed over a CD box with teeth marks, Mercury Lamp started to bite my head, her mouth was like an angry kitten, and the main culprit Lin Xue actually started to take out snacks as if nothing happened.
I really wanted to be bold and ask: As a rich missy with a net worth of hundreds of millions, is it really necessary for you to immerse yourself in these snacks that were soaked in gutter oil and Sudan red?
If Lin Xue told everyone now that she brought these snacks with her in order to provide food aid to Zimbabwe after returning to Earth, I reckon everyone would immediately believe her …
But after knowing Lin Xue's nature, I still had to admit that this missy was indeed subconsciously good in certain aspects. She was a weirdo who dared to drink red wine mixed with soy milk at the family's internal banquet, if you tried to find the elegance of a missy from her, you would have to be retarded.
"Wow! This, this, and this … "Glick only reacted after almost two to three minutes. He pointed at a large pile of red and green flowers on the table and exclaimed. Even Dewdrop loli, who was always quiet, widened her eyes in surprise." What are these things? So beautiful! What are these used for? "
All of us instantly quietened down. We wore strange expressions on our faces, complicated and conflicted. The elder sister was the first to react. She smiled at Glick and Glick and explained, "These are food."
Water Drop blinked her eyes. She picked up a bag of sour plums and bit it hard. Then, she looked at the plastic packaging with a bite mark on it. She shook her head at us and said, "No."
"You should remove the packaging." I couldn't help but lightly press on Water Drop's hair and help her open the bag of sour plums. I took out a piece of fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. "It's very sour. You might not be used to it when you eat it for the first time. Be careful not to drool."
Water Drop foolishly chewed on the black fruit that definitely had a different texture than the 'gypsum'. Before the expression on her face could change, she suddenly covered her mouth with her hand and sucked in a breath of cold air. It took a long time for her to recover. Her face had a panicked and bewildered expression — — This expression was very puzzling. What kind of evaluation was she giving to the food?
The little girl pointed at the unwrapped sour plum in my hand and pointed at her mouth. She mumbled a lot of inarticulate words, as if she wanted to describe the taste of this thing, but she couldn't find the appropriate words. After a long time, she finally said, "I want more!"
Glick also imitated her and opened a bag of potato chips. This fluffy thing disappeared after a few chews. Glick felt that it was inconceivable to eat such a strange food. However, it was obvious that this didn't affect him from quickly pouring the entire bag of potato chips into his mouth.
Like a whirlwind sweeping away the clouds, Glick and his sister quickly swept away these wonderful foods that had never appeared in this world. As usual, they threw the discarded packaging bags they made to Sandora. When we were outside, Sandora always acted as our trash can. Basically, if there was anything that she didn't want, she would give it to her to eat. She was much more efficient at eliminating trash than the recycling furnace. Of course, apart from the trash that I thought wasn't hygienic, Sandora didn't care about anything else. However, the problem was that she had a habit of kissing me after she was full.
Glick and Water Drop's reaction to these snacks was a bit exaggerated. A handful of popping candies that had nothing but sweet saccharin made them cry out in surprise. However, Lin Xue touched my arm and whispered, "Actually, they don't know exactly what those things taste like. Water Drop doesn't even know that the sour plums taste 'sour'. She doesn't have this concept."
I glanced at Lin Xue in surprise. I knew that she had used her power to directly see something.
"The humans in this world have already undergone physiological degeneration. However, due to the harsh environment, a certain degree of physiological degeneration is accompanied by physical strengthening in other aspects. That's why we didn't notice it at first. However, there are some aspects of degeneration that can't be made up for. Their taste buds are ten times slower than ordinary people's, and their brains can't process complex tastes at all."
Perhaps what Lin Xue said was right. Glick and Water Drop didn't know what the food they were eating tasted like, but it didn't affect their excitement. Even though they only had one-tenth of the taste buds compared to ordinary people, even though they couldn't accurately distinguish the taste of a lot of things, the two children were still in high spirits. The food in front of them was already the most delicious, even though they could only taste one-tenth of it.
The large amount of snacks that Lin Xue carried with her and the astonishing amount of food in Sandora's dimensional pocket became the biggest festival for Glick and his sister tonight. The two children, who had never seen this kind of food before, ate it all over their faces. It also saved our stomachs. Finally, we didn't have to sacrifice ourselves to eat the compressed organic matter that rustled like chalk.
"This is called bread. This is ham sausage. And this is not to be eaten directly. It's a kind of seasoning … Well, it's something that gives food more flavor. I'm afraid you haven't seen it before …"
The big sister patiently introduced the mountain of food in front of the Glick and his sister. She also taught them how to mix all these different kinds of food. Water Drop opened her eyes wide in curiosity as she watched us use "magical methods" to turn these already wonderful things into even more incredible delicacies. The way Dragon God Maiden Lin ate was especially amazing. She first stacked bread slices, all kinds of lettuce, meat slices, and egg salad sauce into a meter-tall super burger. Then, she pressed her hands up and down …
"Eat something a little harder. It's good for your teeth."
Lin carefully glanced at me and passed me a pancake as thin as a cicada's wing. In front of the pancake was a giant burger that was half a head taller than the Mercury Lamp. Due to the obvious problem of density, the pancake made a metallic sound when it was placed on the table. Liliana curiously scratched it on the table, and a series of sparks flew. My face turned pale on the spot.
This thing is really good for my teeth?
In the end, more than half of these super compressed hamburgers that Lin personally processed went into Sandora's stomach. The rest was eaten by Lin herself. The two of them ate while sparks flew from their mouths, as if they were eating a bunch of grenades.
To be honest, I was quite regretful. I originally planned to use the super compressed hamburgers that Lin made as bulletproof vests. To be fair, I felt that it would be no problem for that thing to withstand a submachine gun within a range of fifty meters. If she used a little more force just now, those hamburgers might have turned into neutron star material …
"We have never eaten such delicious food. Although it tasted weird," Glick happily held up a cheap ham sausage with oil stains at the corner of his mouth. "Is this food from the big city? It's incredible. That place really is the most magical place in the world … Wait a minute, I should bring these things to Grandpa Barnard. I heard that he stayed in the big city for a period of time when he was young. He must miss this taste … "
"You don't have to make a trip here." The elder sister quickly stopped Glick who was about to get up. "We have prepared a lot of food. We can bring some to him ourselves. You can take more of these candies and give them to the other children. "
This was a lively dinner, and it was probably the most sumptuous dinner that Glick and Waterdrop had ever eaten in their memory. In this world where all food only had the kind of compressed organic matter that tasted like chalk dust, and all beverages only had synthetic water with a fishy and salty taste, there hadn't been any so-called meals for a long time. Out of curiosity, I also asked Glick for some of the sugar cookies that he received from the party tonight. The child couldn't bear to finish it all at once and left half of the sugar cookie for tomorrow.
Just as I had guessed, these desserts that were said to be specially prepared for children were actually compressed organic substances that tasted like chalk. The only difference was that they had a strange sweetness to them. I dared to swear with all of my moral integrity that the taste was definitely directly mixed with chemicals.
The town had already entered deep into the night. In this world without any entertainment, these lowest level manual laborers lived like the ancient times, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Because they had to continue working at the metal station tomorrow, the residents of the town chose to go to bed at around eight o 'clock every day. Now it was already quiet outside. In order to save energy, even the town only had two or three street lights left on the square. Only the dark red residual heat from the fusion reactor 3,000 kilometers away in the sky provided the little bit of illumination at night in this world.
Glick's hut was probably the only place in the town that was still lit at this time, because there were no adults who needed to rest at night. Glick and Water Drop also didn't need to go to the metal station early in the morning to gather. They were like any undisciplined child who always liked to play until late at night without sleeping.
Well, maybe it needed to be modified a little. The only one who truly had unlimited energy was Glick. Water Drop had already gone to her hut to rest while yawning. An eight or nine year old girl, it was still very easy to get tired.
The five Protoss Cops were bored to death in this kind of environment, so they all used the excuse of going somewhere else to rest. When Glick wasn't paying attention, they tore open a spatial crack and returned to the spaceship to play games. They also took away a few little girls who had already been trained by their elder sister, including the most troublesome Liliana and the most pampered Mercury Lamp. Chestnut also went back. Her Battle Power was only 5. It was okay to bring her to play here during the day, but it was better to let her return to the spaceship at night.
Sandora and I planned to spend the night here. Now, we were watching Glick excitedly show everyone his collection.
"These are all left by my father. I don't even know what to do with some of them." Glick pulled out a few metal boxes from under the large iron box used to store clothes. Some of the metal boxes were mechanical parts, and some were vaguely colorful 'gadgets'. These things aroused our interest: no matter how we looked at them, they didn't look like parts used on the spaceship, right?
Elder sister randomly picked up a rectangular frame from the pile of strange-looking things. She fiddled with it a few times, but to no avail. Sandora seemed to have discovered the secret of this little thing. She took the frame and stroked the edge with her fingers. Suddenly, a light blue picture jumped out from the center of the frame.
It was vaguely a person's image. This thing turned out to be a picture frame?
"How did you do it? I used it for a long time, but I couldn't fix it! "
Glick shouted in surprise.
"It just ran out of energy. I activated its backup battery." Sandora said with a smile. But I felt that she was bluffing. Have you ever seen an electronic picture frame equipped with a battery? She probably used her own energy to charge the picture frame. But this was too unbelievable, so she changed it to a 'backup battery' to trick children.
Glick nodded happily. He fiddled with the metal picture frame that was probably 720,000 years old. After confirming that there was only a half-body of an unknown person stored in it, he threw it back into the box disappointedly. "Dad said that this world wasn't like this a long time ago."
I turned to look at Sandora. Her eyes didn't change, but her eyebrows moved slightly.
"I heard that he was a person who liked to let his imagination run wild. That's what Old Barnard said."
"They all say that," Glick shook his head indifferently. "But Dad was a great man. Of course, he was different from ordinary workers. Even though he was just a plumber, he knew that this world shouldn't be like this. Look at these, the picture frame, the MDT, the projector, and this … "
Glick pulled out a piece of flexible 'paper' from the bottom of the box. After wiping away the stains with a wet cloth, what appeared in front of us was a picture!
"There were no painters in the Old Empire, and we didn't use this medium to store long-term information," Sandora whispered in disbelief. Of course, she didn't let Glick hear her. "This should be left behind by the indigenous people before the destruction of the universe. The material is very special. Even after 720,000 years, you can still distinguish the color of the drawing paper. It means that their civilization had reached a very high level in the field of material science before the destruction."
Sandora roughly judged the level of civilization of the indigenous people in the ruins before the end of the world from a technical point of view. My sister and I were attracted by the content of the 'paper'.
Although the color was dim and there was a large part of the picture missing, we could still distinguish the clouds, trees, a small pool, and even a small animal resting under a tree.
"The things on this picture are very puzzling," Glick muttered. "This picture may be describing a region, but I think these strange colors may add up to an 'object', like a machine part, but the color and shape are a little strange."
For Glick, none of the things on this picture appeared in his worldview. So, in the face of the completely inexplicable 'color accumulation', he regarded it as normal.
"But I think it's very comfortable. I like this … Dad, too," Glick muttered in a low voice. "Although I don't understand what this picture is trying to say, Dad felt that this kind of thing must have existed in the world a long, long time ago. Now, these things are gone, but Dad felt that in a very distant place, he must be able to find something similar."
"So, he wanted to go to the other side of the stormy ocean to find the new world of his dreams."
My sister said with a sigh.
"There are very few people who have this kind of idea. Everyone is used to everything in this world. Everything is logical." Glick shook his head. "The food synthesizer can always produce food, the material generator can always produce twelve basic materials, and there are endless factories deep under the planet that can provide endless air and energy … But Dad always told me and my sister that something is wrong."
Glick's face was filled with worry that did not match his age. "Dad said that this world is too small, and it is very different from the ancient records. Many nouns left from that era seem so strange now. Planets, stars, matter clouds, closed layers of the universe … He always said these strange words in front of me and my sister. I have never seen these words anywhere else, but Dad said they are all things that existed in the ancient records, and they are part of this world. Dad also said that a long, long time ago, people's food did not actually come out of machines but grew directly on the ground. Water should not only flow in pipes, but should also flow in large tanks on the ground. There is only a glowing fusion reactor in the sky, and every day this fusion reactor will rise from one side of the earth and fall from the other side. There should be countless resources in the world, not only metals and various synthesis factories … But those words sound silly to me. How can food grow from the ground? The earth is a layer of metal! "
Speaking of this, Glick couldn't help but think of something. He shuddered and said, "But if it was the food that the strong sister pinched, it might be able to grow from the ground."
Shadora and I looked at each other. My elder sister sighed, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and said,
"No matter how much I like to indulge in flights of fancy, these things … are too exaggerated for a plumber's knowledge."
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