"Didi."
After two crisp electronic beeps, the door in front of Bai Donggu opened smoothly.
Light that is brighter than the outer channel shines through and shines on the faces of the three people.
As the door opened, its interior scene gradually unfolded in front of the three people.
A large number of diamond-shaped light bulbs are embedded in the earth-colored walls, emitting bright and soft white light under the power supply.
The ground is paved with silver-white metal tiles, which further scatters the light emitted by the bulbs in the room, completely disappearing the already invisible shadows.
If 659 hadn't spent some time in Xu Xiafeng's room before, he might have thought that this was the true appearance of the dungeon.
"Hey, who did I think is here? It turns out to be General Bai. What do you think, come and have a drink?"
A large round table is placed in the center of the spotless hall. The simple wooden patterns and exquisite workmanship on it all highlight the sophistication of the table.
But such an exquisite table was filled with empty and full foreign wine bottles, as well as several plates of fried golden things, which seemed to be the side dishes these people used to drink.
The speaker was a man with his shirt open. He looked to be in his early fifties, and his face was already flushed with alcohol. He kept shaking the goblet in his hand as he spoke, as if he was ready to drink it at any time. Drink all the liquid in one gulp.
Others sitting at the table also stopped drinking and looked at Bai Donggu and his group.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Bai Donggu's expression changed slightly. He obviously knew the person in the center of the hall, but he did not rush to reply. Instead, he moved his right hand and put the black gloves back on.
"Duan Knight, why are you drinking here? This is the general control center of the NB area and an important place for storing weapons and equipment..."
While speaking, Bai Donggu glanced at his clothes.
With the bright light in the hall, he easily found a black and yellow muddy handprint on his waist, like a piece of mouse droppings dropped in white porridge, disgusting and eye-catching.
"Hey, why don't you drink a little? People should enjoy life, otherwise you think I have worked hard to get to where I am now, what is it for? Brothers, don't you think so? Hahahaha..."
Before Bai Donggu could finish speaking, a burst of loud laughter rang out in the hall.
The man sitting on the chair seemed to have won a battle. He raised his wine glass high, tilted his neck, and drank the liquid in the glass.
"This foreign wine is really good. I really don't understand why Xia Feng likes to drink that spicy throat-burning knife... That's right, he is a bumpkin, don't you think? General Bai? Hahahahaha..."
Faced with the man's naked provocation, the expression on Bai Donggu's face relaxed. He didn't show any sign of anger and just spoke calmly.
"I need a 'Night Stalker' protective suit, plus a map of the eastern hunting area."
"Huh? 'Night Devil' protective suit, did I hear you correctly?"
The man on the chair seemed to have heard some explosive news. He stood up from the chair with his eyes widened. Although the 659 trio were still far away from him, they could still smell the strong smell of alcohol on each other.
"You heard that right, I need a set of 'Night Devil' protective clothing, a complete and fully functional 'Night Devil' protective clothing, and a map of the eastern hunting area, preferably electronic."
The hands covered with black and white gloves went behind the back and clasped each other tightly.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this action might be thought to be Bai Donggu's most common subconscious action.
But 659 standing behind him could vaguely feel something was wrong in the atmosphere.
Bai Donggu's action seemed to be trying his best to suppress the emotions in his heart.
An emotion called anger.
"It's really strange. General Bai, a fourth-level brain-enhancement system user, actually came to ask for the 'Night Demon' protective suit today? Hey, General Bai, it's not convenient for you to tell me what you're doing next."
What? Is the Terran going to counterattack? Hahahahaha..."
The man's body was like a rag bag. He hadn't stood for long before he fell down on the chair again, seemingly because his legs had lost strength.
While laughing wildly, he reached out and grabbed the wine bottle on the table and drank directly into his mouth.
The amber liquid overflowed from the corner of the man's mouth, slid down his bulging neck, and soon disappeared between the open clothes.
"You are drunk. I think I have fulfilled my obligation to inform you. I won't let Knight Duan worry about the next thing."
A cold look flashed in Bai Donggu's eyes, and he ignored the people sitting at the table, turned around neatly, and walked towards the side of the hall.
"Don't worry about him, we brothers will continue drinking..."
The man slumped in the chair seemed to be very satisfied with Bai Donggu's reaction. He shouted exaggeratedly and asked everyone at the table to continue drinking.
The fried golden snacks were like peanuts before the disaster. They were thrown into the mouth one by one. Under the combined action of the teeth and tongue, they made bursts of crispy sounds.
659 then noticed that in addition to the strong smell of alcohol, there was also a faint aroma floating in the air in the hall.
"This is fried rice worm eggs? You really know how to eat them..."
His eyes stayed on the dishes on the table for a moment, and then 659 confirmed his guess.
Due to the environmental turmoil and situation changes after the disaster, food production fell off a cliff. In order to survive in this messy homeland, humans had to give up their original self-sufficient food production methods such as farming and animal husbandry. Choose to hunt other creatures to obtain food supplies.
But the mutated beasts are not the chickens, ducks, pigs, and dogs they were before the disaster, and can be kept in captivity and slaughtered at will.
Delta-level creatures at the fourth level alone are very difficult to deal with and require a certain price to be hunted.
Not to mention those alien species with high life energy levels.
In such an environment, many humans' needs for food have changed, and they no longer pursue texture and taste, or even their origin.
As long as it can bring nutrients to itself and is enough to support the survival and continuation of the human race, it can be defined as food.
Many mutated creatures that are relatively weak but not very tasty have been put on the menu by humans.
And this rice insect is one of them.
The life energy level of rice insects is [Ypsilon level], and the life energy level of a single individual is almost negligible. It is an invertebrate parasite with no attack ability.
The whole body of the rice worm is milky white, and its appearance is somewhat similar to the maggots before the disaster. However, unlike maggots, the mature rice worm can grow to the thickness of an adult's finger, with a length of about three to four centimeters.
It can be said that it is much larger than maggots.
Moreover, this bug is a parasitic organism, and its parasitic range is also very wide. From zombies to alien beasts, and even careless humans, they will be parasitized by the eggs of this bug.
Successfully parasitized eggs will hatch quickly in the body and release toxins into the host's body. This toxin can paralyze the host's nerves and allow the host to turn a blind eye to abnormalities in the body.
As time goes by, after the eggs hatch in the host's body, they will eat the surrounding flesh and blood, grow rapidly, and slowly move towards the host's brain.
Once it reaches the host's brain, the rice worm mutates and becomes the mother worm.
The body structure of the mutated rice worm will undergo huge changes in a short period of time. A large number of nerve cells will extend from its body, connect and control the host's brain, and completely take over the host's body.
The remaining rice bugs that have not reached the brain will also receive the signal at this moment and stay where they are, changing from one to two, and from two to four, multiplying in large numbers until they form a large scale.
A large swarm of rice worms will gradually fill the host's body. In addition to retaining some necessary organs, the rice worms will eat up all the nutrients they can swallow, convert the nutrients into protein, fat and sugar, and store them in In his own plump body.
When there are not many nutrients left in the host's body, the rice insect swarm will look for a new host under the leadership of the mother insect, using the current dilapidated body as a springboard for the next parasitism.
If the parasitism is successful, the next cycle of growth will begin.
Although the life process of this bug looks disgusting, because its body is rich in protein, fat and sugar, and has no aggressive characteristics, it can easily become the main ration of humans.
Furthermore, this mutant insect that relies on parasitism has another characteristic.
If the rice worms cannot find a new host in a short period of time, the rice worms will fall into a dormant state in the host's body. In this state, the rice worms will minimize the consumption of the body. At the same time, the host will remain in the mother's body. Under the control of the insect, it will become like a corpse. Until there is new flesh and blood around it, or an environment suitable for rice bugs to breed appears, these bugs will wake up again and re-enter the cycle of devouring and reproducing.
This feature just solves the dilemma of human beings storing food in the end of the world.
There is no need to consume electricity or invest energy, just find a place to lock up the zombies infected with rice bugs.
A group of rice worms that cannot find a fresh host will soon enter a state of suspended animation. Although a small amount of fat stored in the body will be consumed in the process, it is generally much better than rotting.
Moreover, this kind of parasite can also deal with the remains of zombies in disguise, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.
In this way, humans have overcome psychological and physical discomfort and survived by relying on 'captive' rice worms.
Not only on the timeline of the Red Moon World that deviates from the center line, but also on the timeline of No. 659.
After winning the war on Earth, humans regained their dominance, but mutated creatures such as rice bugs were retained, probably as a commemoration of the war, and became one of the main rations for humans.
The rice insect wine that 659 mentioned earlier when joking with 173 was made by the fermentation of such mutated organisms.
Although the taste is not as good as the alcohol before the disaster, its unique taste has indeed gained a large number of loyal fans and has become a historical marker in the development of human civilization.
From a nutritional perspective, mature rice worms contain more protein and fat, while rice worm eggs are richer in sugar.
In particular, the insect eggs are cooked and fried until golden and crispy. When chewed and swallowed in the mouth, it still has the taste of peanuts before the disaster.
That's why when Zhang Heng-659 saw the fried rice worm eggs placed on the table, he silently sighed that he really knew how to eat them.
After all, in timeline 659, rice worms were almost eaten and turned into endangered creatures, let alone rice worm eggs which were difficult to obtain.
While his thoughts were wandering, 659 had followed Bai Donggu to one side of the hall. Since General Bai had shown a disregard for it, he, the 'guest' brought by Bai Donggu, would naturally follow in the footsteps of the 'master' , it is impossible to leave the team and talk to a few people at the wine table.
The three of them walked to a corner of the hall and stood there. On the khaki metal wall was a human-height electronic screen. Bai Donggu stretched out his hands and slid gently on the screen. The entire screen seemed to be activated. , and began to flash strange words.
It doesn't look like Chinese characters, let alone English letters. The zigzag outline is somewhat similar to oracle bone inscriptions, but if you look closely, you feel that it is very different from oracle bone inscriptions.
While the screen was flashing, except for Bai Donggu who stood calmly on the spot, 659 and the girl Xiaoyi both had their eyes widened.
Xiaoyi's surprise was obvious. As a child who was born and raised in an underground city, she had not seen the technological products before the disaster. To her, electronic products were just glass and plastic products that could not be turned on.
So when she saw the electronic screen in front of her, the girl's face was full of curiosity.
659 was surprised because of the text that flashed on the screen.
This text is not unfamiliar to him, it is even somewhat familiar!
"This is the text of the Yu clan..."
