The steaming longan red date porridge came out of the pot. Yue Xingwen walked over and filled two bottles, turned sound and came to Professor Tang, handed him the receiving flask full of porridge and said, “Professor Tang is hungry, right? Eat something first.”
Professor Tang reached out to take to ‘bowl and chopsticks’ with a complicated face. Seeing that everyone around him was burying their heads in eating, he had to lower his head and eat silently.
Not to mention, the taste of this porridge was really good. Both red dates and longan were cooked, served with black rice, and some rock sugar was added, which made it soft and fragrant in the mouth. It was not convenient to drink porridge without a spoon, but chopsticks made of vine could barely pull porridge into the mouth.
Professor Tang picked up the chopsticks, took a huge longan and chewed it in his mouth. Drinking a hot porridge after hiding in the box for three days in a row, he felt that all the cells in his body were instantly revitalized at this moment.
Professor Tang quickened his speed, gobbled up, and drank a bottle of porridge in a blink of an eye. He licked his lips in disbelief, looked at Yue Xingwen, and asked in a low voice, “Is-is there more?”
Yue Xingwen replied, “Rest assured, there’s enough to eat more.”
He took the receiving bottle from Professor Tang’s hand and handed over another full bowl. Professor Tang took it and quickly finished it, and continued to look at Yue Xingwen.
Yue Xingwen smiled and said, “You want a third bowl?”
Professor Tang adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, a little aggrieved and said, “I haven’t eaten for three days…”
Xin Yan did cook enough porridge for everyone to have at least two bowls. Seeing the pitiful Professor Tang, Yue Xingwen served him a third bowl, so that he could rest assured to eat.
Professor Tang finally ate his fill, burped, looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, we took enough mixed grains, and we can have a different porridge every day.” Yue Xingwen said with a smile, “I won’t let you starve.”
Professor Tang looked complicated and did not speak.
Yue Xingwen turned back to Xin Yan and asked, “What are we going to do with these dishes?”
“Everyone can wash the dishes with the distilled water I made and put them away individually, so you don’t have to make it again next time you eat, it saves a lot of time.” Xin Yan said.
Everyone went to the side to line up to wash the dishes.
Xin Yan opened the outlet of another distillation equipment’s condensation tube, and everyone quickly collected the water to wash the dishes, while the rest of the water was collected in empty mineral water bottles. Zhuo Feng and Xu Yishen also brought a few empty barrels collected previously for the gasoline, and filled five buckets full of river water in the car. In the future, when the mineral water was not enough, they would ask Xin Yan to temporarily make distilled water to quench their thirst.
Distilled water should not be drunk for a long time, but they were running for their lies, and conditions were limited. There was no need to be so prescriptive.
The time pointed to 00:30 am, and this ‘supper’ took half an hour back and forth.
Professor Tang said, “I want to go to the toilet.”
Yue Xingwen said with a smile, “I’ll accompany you.”
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Xu Yishen drove for 6 hours continuously. His spirit was tense along the way, and his palms were full of cold sweat. He was indeed very tired. Upon hearing this, he smiled and brushed his messy curls in front of his forehead slightly and said, “Okay, I’ll sleep for a while. You can call me in the middle of the night.”
Zhuo Feng asked, “Can junior brother do it alone? Do you want me to help you see the way?”
Jiang Pingce started the bus calmly, put on the gear, and said, “No need, you all can rest. There are no other cars on this road, so I can turn on the long beams and let Xiao Tu help to scout.”
Ke Shaobin hurriedly summoned the robot and said, “I just put Xiao Tu back to charge, and it can work continuously for 10 hours.”
Yue Xingwen walked over, sat in the position closest to the driver’s seat, turned around and said, “Everyone sleep for a while, I will accompany Pingce.”
Yue Xingwen accompanied Jiang Pingce, so of course everyone felt very relieved.
Lan Yarong said with a smile, “Thanks for your hard work. Let’s sleep for a while first and recuperate.”
The interior of the bus was spacious and there were plenty of seats. For the convenience of sleeping, each person occupied two seats side by side. Some people leaned their heads against the window to sleep, others laid on the backrests in front of them, and senior brother Xu Yishen simply took the last row of seats and slept cross-legged. Professor Tang was surrounded by everyone in the second half of the bus, and began to close his eyes as well.
After a tiring day, coupled with the slight bumps of the bus like a rocking boat, the hypnotic effect was first-rate, and soon, everyone fell asleep, with only the sound of light breathing gradually remaining in the bus.
Yue Xingwen looked back at his teammates, and his mood gradually calmed down—— No matter what happened, having so many partners around was much better than going it alone at the beginning.
Their skills as a group were a bit odd, but what was comforting to Yue Xingwen was everyone’s optimism.
They could not find biscuits or milk, but they could cook porridge on the spot. They did not have enough mineral water, they made distilled water directly from the river. When things got tough, the first reaction was to work together to work together to figure out how to solve the problem, and no one complained or hung their heads and said things that made people feel bad. The atmosphere of the team was very good, and it was easier for Yue Xingwen to be the captain.
The road ahead was winding, and the vehicle kept driving through the hills.
Jiang Pingce found that Yue Xingwen was sitting quietly next to him without speaking, so he lowered his voice and said in a volume that only both of them could hear, “You can sleep. With Xiao Tu, I can drive alone.”
Yue Xingwen whispered, “It’s okay, I used to stay up late when I was competing. Besides, in the middle of the night, if you drive alone and encounter something, there is no one to discuss. I’ll be next to you in case you’re tired of driving and I can remind you.”
The corner of Jiang Pingce’s lips raised slightly, “Okay.”
Jiang Pingce was actually very happy that Yue Xingwen was willing to accompany him. He had never driven a bus before, and his experience in driving on such a winding mountain road was even fewer, and with Xingwen by his side, his mood quickly calmed down, and the hands holding the steering wheel were not so stiff. His state was much more relaxed.
Jiang Pingce asked in a low voice, “This mission is much more difficult than before.”
“Yeah.” Yue Xingwen nodded, “The additional questions were fixed before, but this time, Professor Tang is a big living person with his own mind, which is not easy to control. He deliberately gave me a fake chip before and almost pitted us. It can be seen that he is very guarded, and may not fully believe us until now.”
Jiang Pingce said, “He was obviously surprised when looking at the process of cooking just now, but he didn’t say anything. This person is smarter and cautious than we think, and we have to keep an eye on him to prevent him from suddenly escaping.”
Both of them chatted softly, but did not notice that Professor Tang’s eyelashes, who was sitting in the back row of the bus, trembled slightly.
Today, this young man named Yue Xingwen made him drink three bowls of porridge, and as he drank the fragrant longan red dates porridge and looked at Yue Xingwen’s smiling face, there was always sense of sadness when the prisoner was fed by the guards before his execution and the guards said to the prisoner, “Eat up so that you can go on journey.”
He was full.
So this group just took him on his journey, right?
Where exactly were they going to take him? Could the mutants evolve and have superpowers that couldn’t be explained in science?
The boy named Xin Yan, pale with a hint of sickness, looked like he had been genetically modified. His eyes were as cold as vipers, sending chills down his spine when he looked into them. He could also conjure a bunch of distillation flasks, spirit lamps out of thin air…
Lin Manluo, a girl with long straight black hair, actually had a long green vine growing out of her hand. Could it be that those people had also incorporated the genes of plants when they did the human transformation experiments?
The one named Jiang Pingce could even fly with people straight off the roof of a building. He wondered what sequence added to his genes, the only species that could fly were birds, was Jiang Pingce an eagle? Or a hawk?
Professor Tang was distraught.
He always felt like he had just escaped a tiger’s den and entered another wolf’s den!
Moreover, these ‘high-level transformation people’ in front of him were much more terrifying than the mutants he knew.
Mutants were just physically modified and strengthened. What made them great was the huge amount of guns and ammunition they got from somewhere, but these people in front of him had a lot of strange abilities that could not be explained by science!
Professor Tang clenched his fists tightly, always feeling that everything points to disaster.
Could he still escape?
Jiang Pingce cautiously drove the car through this winding mountain road.
The road ahead was obviously much wider than just now, and there was a fork in the road. The lights illuminated the road sign on the right side of the road, and they saw that the road sign on the blue background was marked with white font ‘← Heihe Town’ and ‘→ Qingshui Town’.
The high beam could illuminate a distance of several dozen meters ahead, and through the window glass of the bus, Yue Xingwen could vaguely see a small town to his left and right, with low buildings very neatly lined up on the side of the road.
It was 3:30 in the morning and not a soul could be seen around the town, with the occasional sound of barking dogs. There were no traces of corpses and blood on the road. At present, it seemed that both towns were safe, and the power of the mutants had not yet expanded here.
Jiang Pingce stopped the car at the fork in the road and asked, “Which way to go?”
Yue Xingwen frowned and said, “I’m not familiar with this road, do you want to find a local to ask?”
Unfortunately, there was no one around in the middle of the night, unless they went straight to the door and knocked, waking up the villagers.
At this moment, Professor Tang suddenly opened his eyes in confusion and asked, “Why did you stop?”
Seeing this scene from the rearview mirror inside the bus, Yue Xingwen immediately said, “Professor Tang, do you know the route to City F? The left side is Heihe Town and the right side is Qingshui Town, which route should we take?”
Professor Tang thought carefully and said, “It should be to the right, City F is due north of City C. The direction we are currently on is east, it will be north if we turn right.”
Yue Xingwen looked up at the bright North Star in the sky.
Professor Tang was right, to the right was indeed due north, and City F was located to the north.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and said, “Turn right and take this road to Qingshui Town.”
Jiang Pingce started the vehicle again and turned right at the fork in the road.
Professor Tang closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep.
Yue Xingwen looked back at his peaceful sleep, and always felt that Professor Tang was a little strange—— He saw with his own eyes that everyone used all kinds of supernatural abilities to make porridge. Didn’t he doubt everyone’s identity?
According to the thinking of normal people, they would feel that they were mutants in disguise to take him captive after seeing so many strange powers suddenly, and they would dissect him to take out the chip in his body.
Professor Tang could not be so simple and directly believe that their group came to ‘escort him’.
Yue Xingwen rubbed his chin in thought, looking down at the path presented in the Xiao Tu’s radar monitoring, and then found that the next road was circular. Although the curvature was relatively small, it could be seen that the path was not directly north.
He glanced at Jiang Pingce and typed on the chat channel: “The direction Professor Tang told us was wrong. He deliberately misled us with the north.”
Their bus was coming from the east and encountered two forks of the road going south and north. It was known that City F was north of City C, and Professor Tang’s statement that the road to Qingshui Town to the north sounds right. However, because the next road was a curved circular section, going north, and after the curved road, it was not due to north.
Heading south, the road curves around before going in the right direction!
Jiang Pingce gave Yue Xingwen a clear look, and quietly turned around in the road ahead.
Professor Tang, who pretended to sleep, noticed this, and his face changed slightly.
After all, the group of people he met were not only very powerful, but also very smart. He really could not escape the clutches this time!
Were they going to dissect him?
Oooh, professor Tang is really smart guy. But eating good food before you die it’s not the worst way
Thank you for your translation 💙🤍💙
I know he’s cautious because of what he experienced so far and he just wanted to be reassured that he wouldn’t get killed
However, it still frustrates me that he’s deliberately making things difficult
haha, on the contrary I find it very exciting! I’m sure he definitely gives other research groups a run for their money!