Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Xu Hang has been feeling particularly hopeless lately, mainly because he can only rely on boring TV for entertainment. As for computers? Sorry, there are only three computers in the "Yuanhang Guild". Apart from the one owned by the Guild Master, the remaining two computers can only be used for office work. Therefore, Xu Hang and his friends have become tired of playing games such as Minesweeper and Spider Solitaire, especially on weekends or when there are no tasks. They can't just play Spider Solitaire all day, right?

During the acid rain period, everyone couldn't go back to the dormitory and had to live in the guild office. Gradually, everyone seemed to get used to living in the office. Even though the weather is gradually returning to normal now, a group of people go to the company early except for going back to sleep. Anyway, the dormitory is only 500 meters away from the guild company in a straight line.

But it's true, there are computers and televisions in the office, and even air conditioning when it's extremely hot. Naturally, everyone prefers the guild office to the cramped and narrow dormitory. And the most important thing is that there are clerks or female hunters from other guilds in the building where the guild is located. They can occasionally admire all kinds of beautiful girls in the lobby downstairs, and it makes their boring life more interesting.

Xu Hang was sitting in the office, eating melon seeds out of boredom. His colleague who was in charge of buying lunch outside had just returned, carrying a dozen disposable lunch boxes of various sizes.

"Hey, lunch boxes are getting more and more expensive nowadays. Let's cook for ourselves next time."

The "Far-Flying Guild" just accepted a mission three days ago. The guild is currently making decent profits, and the guild leader gave each person an additional bonus of 500 points.

In fact, the treatment of hunters in medium-sized guilds like the "Far-reaching Guild" is quite good. The lowest-level clerk in the guild, who is responsible for internal work, also has a salary of nearly 600 points per month and a fixed day and a half off per week. As for the D-level hunters in charge of logistics, each of them has the same salary as the clerk, plus additional meal allowances and bonuses. According to three to four support tasks a month, the D-level hunters will get about 800 points. Hunters like Xu Hang who have just been promoted to C-level also have a basic salary of 800 and additional income every month. This salary level is basically on par with middle-level managers of some small companies in the inner circle.

The colleague who was buying food was sweating from the heat and turned on the air conditioner. The guy next to him immediately shouted, "What an idiot! Why are you turning on the air conditioner when it's so cold today?"

"You ran several kilometers to buy food, and then carried it all the way back. Can you see if you can sweat?" The colleague who bought the food glared at the other person.

At this time, another buddy next to him asked, "Isn't there fast food in the snack street next door? Where did you buy it?"

There is a large snack street near the guild, about 700 to 800 meters away, and it usually takes ten minutes to walk there. When they don't want to cook, they will go there to eat. There are all kinds of food shops selling fast food such as dumplings, wontons, steamed buns, and millet porridge. In the past, when it was extremely hot and the shops were closed during the acid rain period, the whole snack street seemed extremely deserted. There was no one on the usually bustling streets. Only recently, when the weather has improved, the streets have gradually regained their vitality and usual bustling scenes.

However, the prices there have always been criticized by everyone, but when you think about it, any place in the base is worth a lot of money, especially the environment in the inner circle is much more stable than the outer circle, and this is considered the second small "municipal center", so the housing prices here are ridiculously expensive. Even their chairman can only pay in full for a two-story self-built house with a total area of ​​about 80 square meters.

"Don't mention it. The prices in the snack street are really outrageous now. Everything has gone up in price." The colleague who was in charge of running errands to buy a house today shook his head and sighed. He seemed to feel that it was not cool enough, so he simply took off his coat and stood directly under the air conditioner.

"Price increase? It's already not cheap, why is it going to increase again?"

"Well, they said that the store suffered heavy losses due to the acid rain some time ago, and the prices of vegetables and meat at the supply and marketing cooperative have not yet completely dropped, so the owners of the snack street probably agreed that they can only raise prices before prices return to normal."

At the same time, he was afraid that everyone would not believe him, so he even took out his mobile phone to show everyone the menu prices that he had taken in the store.

"Fish-flavored eggplant is 28 points per serving, Dongpo pork is 40, scrambled eggs with tomatoes is 32, sweet and sour spare ribs is 45, chicken soup is 58, stir-fried vegetables is 20... and white rice is 5 points?! Shit, why don't you just go and grab these? The prices are too outrageous." One of the guys leaned over to take a look at the prices on the menu and instantly exclaimed.

After all, compared with the scrambled eggs with tomatoes that cost 25 points per portion before the acid rain period, the 31-portion Dongpo pork is now at least 20 to 30 percent more expensive.

"It's ridiculous that a steamed bun costs four points. In the past, it seemed like a steamed bun cost one point for every two points, right?"

"Not only that, if you pack it, you will be charged two extra points per box."

"Damn, lunch boxes used to be free." A colleague couldn't help but complain.

The colleague who was buying food finally felt that it was not so hot anymore, so he turned around and turned off the air conditioner. "The fast food meal of two meats and one vegetable has gone from 18 points to 25 points. I can't afford it at this price. It will cost me a day's basic salary."

"So that's why you ran so far to buy it?" Xu Hang pursed his lips, feeling a little embarrassed towards his buddy.

The colleague didn't mind the hard work, instead he nodded and said, "On the way there, I took a ride from the neighboring guild, but it was a bit more troublesome on the way back. I walked about two or three kilometers before I got a ride."

"Hey, starting tomorrow let's take turns going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy vegetables. We won't starve to death if we cook for ourselves." Someone couldn't help but shout.

"But there aren't many of us who can cook. Is this meal edible?"

"It's edible, as long as it's cooked. We can't really count on the taste anyway." Another buddy was more optimistic.

At this time, everyone gathered around the table and started to open their lunch boxes. There were twelve lunch boxes in total, half of which were stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat, chopped winter melon and meat, and a green vegetable, and the other half were scrambled eggs with tomatoes, three fresh vegetables, and stir-fried seasonal vegetables.

They all sounded delicious, but after opening the dishes, everyone lost their appetite. Apart from the shredded winter melon with meat and three fresh vegetables, the rest of the dishes were terrible, especially the stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat, which looked black for some reason. I don't know if there was too much soy sauce or the bamboo shoots were oxidized. In short, it was a bit like dark cuisine. The same was true for the scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The eggs and tomatoes had no broth and were dry and lumpy, and they didn't smell good.

"Fuck, the food in this restaurant is terrible. They don't even bother to marinate the pork. It smells like pork, even stronger than the meat we usually eat. This must be a mutant pig. Who the hell uses a pig to cook?"

Generally, the pork from meat processing plants is from castrated pigs, and this situation rarely occurs. Even if the mutated pork tastes fishy, ​​the smell can be reduced by at least half if it is marinated well. But in fact, in addition to the meat processing plants, there are some private pork processing points in the base. The pork at these processing points may be purchased from outside the base. The price of non-castrated breeding pigs is much cheaper than that of castrated ones. Some small restaurants sometimes buy such breeding pigs to control costs. Some people may not care if they are used to the taste. After all, in the end times, even rat meat can be eaten, so there seems to be nothing wrong with breeding pigs.

But it just happened that Xu Hang and his friends usually ate pork from regular restaurants. Plus, they could afford it, so they would not treat themselves badly. When they ate such meat, they immediately showed a look of disgust, especially those friends who were disgusted by the taste, they put down their chopsticks and stopped eating.

"No, no, I really can't eat this meat. I'm going to eat the compressed biscuits instead. Whoever wants to eat this lunch can eat it." One of them had already run to the coffee table and was chewing on the compressed biscuits.

Another asked: "How much is this lunch? It tastes terrible."

The colleague who bought the meal himself didn't expect that he would fail the first time he bought from this restaurant. He could only smile bitterly and said, "Eighteen."

"The price isn't too expensive, but if I compare the 25-point fast food to this, I'd still choose the 25-point one."

Xu Hang also had no appetite at this time. During the acid rain period, they were trapped in the office, and they only had rice, noodles and some meat to eat, which they exchanged with the other party using regular crystal cores. However, it was also because of the dozens of kilograms of rice that they were able to survive those two weeks.

Although there is no shortage of food now, Xu Hang's taste has become picky for some reason. He later investigated the reason and found that the biggest problem was that the rice he had exchanged with the beautiful girl was very different from the rice bought from the supply and marketing cooperative. The taste and color of the steamed rice were not like the same variety.

The rice bought by the young lady here is very fragrant and has a certain chewy texture, while the rice purchased from the supply and marketing cooperative is light yellow in color after steaming, and tastes soft and has a moldy smell. If this kind of rice is not refrigerated overnight, it is generally okay in winter, but in summer the sour smell is almost suffocating.

When Xu Hang thought about it, he felt sad that the rice he exchanged was eaten so quickly. At that time, no one was too lazy to cook, so they could just make several bowls of rice with pickles. Especially the freshly steamed rice had distinct grains and tasted so delicious.

Xu Hang took two mouthfuls of rice and forced himself to finish the vegetables. He really couldn't eat the remaining pork, so he thought of just eating some biscuits to fill his stomach.

At this time, another colleague who had been out came back with a lunch box in his hand.

"Wow, such a strong smell of pork?" He smelled the smell as soon as he stepped into the office door, so he immediately walked to the table. After seeing the dishes everyone was eating, he immediately frowned and said, "Why do I feel like you are eating pig food?"

"Go away and eat your meal." Someone yelled unhappily.

The person chewing a cookie on the sofa asked, "Weren't you on a mission with Team 2 today? Why are you back so soon?"

"Don't mention it. The mutant golden python that was originally chasing us was killed by the 'Hive Guild' one step ahead of time."

"Beehive Guild? Isn't that the guild that Jiang Chi belongs to? It is said that he has the potential to become an S-level genius psychic before he turns 25." Someone exclaimed.

To them, Jiang Chi can be said to be a legend in the world of superpowers. It has only been about three years since the emergence of superpowers in the end of the world, and Jiang Chi has upgraded from a C-level superpower to an A-level superpower. This is simply a heaven-defying practice.

The man took a sip of water and nodded, "That's not the case. Our guild had been eyeing that B-rank golden python for a long time. We were confident that we could take it down with all the members of the team going out. But who knew that he could kill the beast by himself?"

"Will the president be so angry? Didn't he prepare for this golden python for a month?"

"There's nothing I can do even if I'm angry to death. They have an S-level psychic in charge. If we have to blame someone, it's our guild's lack of strength." The end of the world is a world where the strong prey on the weak. Even if the prey you've killed is killed right in front of you, you can only blame it on your strength and bad luck.

"No wonder the president sounded so angry when he called me just now. It turned out to be because of this reason. But it's understandable. Although the crystal core in the golden python is worthless, its skin is top-quality. It can be made into top-grade protective clothing that is cold-resistant and fire-resistant. The last time the trading center put it up for sale, it cost 50,000 points. This amount is estimated to be enough to cover the guild's half-month turnover."

"That's right. But it's too late to say anything now. Anyway, we didn't get the golden python. In the end, we just killed a few mutant herons and came back. That thing can at least be worth 4,000 to 5,000 points, so it's not like we came back completely empty-handed."

The man who came back spoke self-deprecatingly while opening his lunch box. He bought the lunch box at a newly opened vegetable store near the guild. He was hungry and tired when he came back, so he thought of going to the snack street. As a result, he found that there was a vegetable store nearby. He also saw a sign saying "Today's special lunch box". The price was acceptable, 20 points for two meat and one vegetable. It was a little more expensive than the ones in the snack street, but he was so hungry at that time that he just wanted to fill his empty stomach quickly.

As soon as I opened the lunch box, a scent of vegetables hit me. It was the aroma of rice mixed with the aroma of meat and vegetables that I hadn't smelled for a long time.

The greasy minced meat eggplant, the large slices of egg covered with tomato soup, and the refreshing and fragrant fried sweet potato leaves, these three dishes are generous with oil and seasonings, and just the smell will make your mouth salivate.

The others who were eating were suddenly overwhelmed by the aroma. At first they thought someone was cooking somewhere else. Some people couldn't help but mutter, "Oh my god, where does the aroma of food come from?"

As a result, the person with a sensitive nose immediately smelled the fragrance coming from his own office, squinted at his colleague who was busy eating, and said, "Wait, there's something fishy about your lunch box!"