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

This time the opening of the dungeon is different from the last time. This time the scale is larger and it is officially open. The first batch of 50,000 people entering the dungeon will complete their identity registration within three days.

The guesthouse officially opens the day after registration into the city.

This time, Gu Tongwan and Liao Yunyun sat in a small car and moved slowly along with the crowd queuing in front.

Thinking back to the last time she entered the underground city eight months ago, Liao Yunyun sighed as she sat in the passenger seat. "Eight months have passed so quickly. The speed of construction of the underground city is amazing. This is the whole country's effort in the underground city. No wonder so many people are scrambling for the citizenship certificate of the underground city."

"How long will it take for your house to be delivered?" Gu Tongwan drove the car forward a little. The current speed could be said to be moving one meter every few minutes. Fortunately, they arrived early this morning. At this time, the line of people and cars behind them was almost endless.

Liao Yunyun readjusted her seat belt and prepared herself mentally to wait for a whole morning.

“It will take about half a month for all the houses to be delivered, and the new landlord will be moving in at this time. It can be said to be just a coincidence.” Liao Yunyun replied.

At the beginning of April, the temperature rose above zero just as Liao Yunyun had expected, and everything gradually developed towards normal.

As the temperature gradually rises, more and more people appear on the streets. All shops along the street are open for business as usual, and even a few new restaurants have opened near the street.

"Your apartment is a ready-made one, right? Have you started decorating it?" Liao Yun turned the topic to her.

"I asked Brother Huang to check it for me last time. The renovation has already started, and the houses will be delivered in the next two days." Gu Tongwan saw that the car in front finally showed a trend of moving forward slowly, so he hurried to catch up with the van in front.

More people were arriving at the front one after another. It turned out that the Self-Defense Forces had sent more personnel to maintain order at the scene. The 50,000 people entering the city at the same time was bound to cause traffic jams and some unavoidable accidents. At least 100 Self-Defense Force members had been dispatched to the scene to maintain order, and now it seemed that at least one more company of troops had been dispatched.

This time, entering the dungeon was much faster. People who had been queuing for 40 minutes were able to enter one after another. However, the area outside the cordon was still surrounded by people watching the fun.

In fact, after the opening of the underground city, outsiders are not prohibited from entering, but non-citizens of the underground city are only allowed to stay in the underground city for twelve hours. When entering the city, everyone will use a registration ID card and an electronic bracelet. The electronic bracelet cannot be removed and can locate personal location and information at any time. Once the bracelet is forcibly removed, it will trigger an alarm. At that time, the underground city's "robots" will be fully dispatched to capture them. Each time they are captured, they will be fined 500 points. Once they are captured more than three times, they will be permanently deprived of the opportunity to enter the underground city.

In the early days of the opening of the dungeon, the base spent a huge amount of money, directly investing in at least more than three thousand micro robots. These robots can be seen everywhere on the streets, and there are robots in every area. These robots are equipped with positioning systems and alarms, and even thermal weapons for counterattacks. There are countless folding muzzles in their bodies. Once the alarm mechanism of the robot is triggered, it will lock onto the target and launch a self-defense counterattack.

It is said that more than two thousand robots will be deployed in October, and there will even be hidden flying robots in the sky for monitoring.

The entire underground city is like a science fiction movie seen before the end of the world, but now it actually appears in reality and is closer to people's lives.

After Liao Yunyun and Gu Tongwan registered, they quickly drove down to the underground city and saw vehicles driving to different blocks along the way. Fortunately, the activity areas of second-class citizens and third-class citizens were interconnected, and they could only not enter the specific areas of first-class citizens.

Because Liao Yunyun's house had not yet been renovated after it was delivered, Gu Tongwan accompanied Liao Yunyun to see the house and then returned to the guesthouse.

Except for Yu Chang and his son who had applied for work permits a week in advance, everyone else in the guesthouse has to wait until the day after tomorrow to get a long-term work permit. So currently, apart from Xiaoyu, the only people in the guesthouse are Yu Chang and his son.

After receiving the news that Gu Tong would be attending the party today, Yu Chang started preparing food in the kitchen early in the morning and made some simple Western-style meals using the ingredients currently available in the kitchen.

I originally thought it was just simple French fries and hamburgers, but I didn't expect Yu Chang to make black pepper steak, creamy mushroom pasta, meat sauce pizza, chicken rolls, and even squeezed a glass of fresh orange juice with a limited amount of fruit.

Liao Yunyun looked at the table full of delicious dishes and couldn't help but smile, "Wanwan, it's great. Where did you find this chef? It's not an exaggeration to say that this chef is from a five-star hotel."

Gu Tongwan could only laugh and said, "You really guessed it right. Chef Yu really did come from a five-star hotel, and he even founded his own catering company before the end of the world."

"Really? I was saying he looked familiar. Did he appear on the show Restaurant X?"

Liao Yunyun used to love watching variety shows. When she first saw Yu Chang coming in, she felt that he looked familiar, but she was too embarrassed to ask. As a result, she didn't expect that Yu Chang was actually the chef she had seen on variety shows before.

Yu Chang did not get cocky or elated after being recognized. Instead, he smiled shyly and said, "I did participate in the recording of the third season, but it was many years ago. It's not worth talking about."

Liao Yunyun turned to Gu Tongwan and said, "Wanwan, you really found a treasure this time. Chef Yu is really talented. I went to his offline restaurant at that time. The price was not very expensive, and the dishes were quite special. I still have those videos of you teaching people how to cook online, especially the Kung Pao Chicken and Curry Prawns you taught me. I occasionally follow them to make them. They are really practical for a kitchen novice."

Yu Chang felt a little embarrassed by the compliments. He didn't expect that after so many years, someone would still remember what he looked like in the past.

In fact, it is not surprising that Liao Yunyun remembered Yu Chang. Yu Chang was 1.8 meters tall and handsome. Although he was already 35 or 36 years old, the man who had experienced the vicissitudes of life and setbacks had more mature charm and stability. In addition, he was wearing the uniform provided by the guesthouse, and the kitchen work clothes made his figure more prominent. No wonder Liao Yunyun noticed him as soon as she entered.

The ingredients used by Yu Chang are currently delivered from the farmers' market in the outer circle. Because the restaurant needs to purchase a lot of ingredients, Gu Tongwan got to know several vegetable and meat distributors in the farmers' market through Aunt Man's introduction. Purchasing in small quantities directly from the farmers' market is much more cost-effective than buying from the supply and marketing cooperative or butcher shop.

Of course, Gu Tongwan also has more vegetables than she can eat in her own space, but she currently only plans to supply some vegetables that have a short maturity period and are relatively easy to grow for a long time, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, coriander, cabbage, and bok choy, a total of seven or eight kinds. Vegetables that have a long maturity period and are difficult to buy on the market are not suitable for supplying to restaurants. Not only is it a waste of time but also land. It would be better to use them to grow other fruits that can be used for trading and have higher value.

"Is this beef bought from the market?" Gu Tongwan cut a small piece of steak and before putting it in his mouth, it did not smell like the muttony smell of the beef bought from the market.

Yu Chang smiled and said, "I bought it from the market. I marinated it with rice wine and other spices, and added some special seasonings, so it shouldn't have that strong smell. You can try it first."

Gu Tongwan and Liao Yunyun looked at each other, because they had tried the mutated beef on the market, and the taste was similar to that of mutated pork.

Basically, all mutated meats in the apocalypse don't taste very good. Either the meat is too hard or the original mutton smell or fishy smell will be magnified to the maximum. The texture and taste are not satisfactory, which reduces people's appetite for meat to a certain extent.

Although the vegetables did not taste very good, at least there was no strange meaty smell. Liao Yunyun, who used to love meat, would only eat it to her heart's content when she ate at her good friend's house. At other times, she basically did not eat much meat in the restaurant, and even when eating buns or dumplings, she would try to order those with vegetarian fillings.

The moment the beef enters your mouth, you first taste the salty fragrance of the sauce. Although it is a black pepper steak, the black pepper flavor is not actually strong, and it can restore to about 60% of the original taste. It is followed by a strong smell of wine, and then the beef with a slight smell of mutton. The beef is said to be seven-tenths rare, because fully cooked beef is almost like eating chewing gum if it is not handled properly. The beef in the apocalypse is very resistant to cooking. If you want to get completely soft beef, you have to put it in a pressure cooker for at least 40 minutes. If it is just an ordinary electric cooker, it will take more than two hours. Stir-fried beef and boiled beef are basically stewed before they can be stir-fried properly.

I don’t know how Yu Chang prepared the steak in front of me. It was clearly medium-rare, but the texture was not too hard. Instead, it was just slightly chewy, which is just what people who like steak or beef like.

Liao Yunyun looked up with some surprise, "Chef Yu, how did you process this beef? It's not hard at all, and the smell of beef is much less. It's one of the best beef I've eaten in the base." In the past two years, she has been to many dinners with the leaders of the unit, including some high-end restaurants, where she has tasted extremely well-processed beef. However, these are trade secrets for the hotel's kitchen, and no matter how curious they are, they would never reveal them to diners. Moreover, the price of a dish is not low, often equivalent to an ordinary person's half a month or even a month's income.

Gu Tongwan was also surprised that Yu Chang could handle the beef to perfection, so he moved quickly and took a bite of the chicken roll. The juicy chicken was just right with the wrapper, and there was also a layer of cheese inside.

The texture and taste can be said to have restored the chicken roll of a certain K chicken to 70% of its taste, which is enough to instantly kill most of the fried chicken fast food on the market. It seems that Yu Chang is really good at it. Has she found a treasure this time?

Yu Chang stood aside, waiting nervously for Gu Tongwan's evaluation. Although he was confident that he could prepare the ingredients well, he didn't know whether they would suit the new boss's taste.

Gu Tongwan didn't comment right away, but slowly finished the steak on the plate before saying with a smile, "It's delicious."

Liao Yunyun had a rare appetite, and after finishing her meal, she gave Yu Chang a thumbs up, "Chef Yu, your cooking skills are amazing. I am confident that our restaurant will have 100% repeat customers."

Gu Tongwan was quite curious about how Yu Chang did it. After all, it was not easy to process the meat of mutant animals, and any chef who had some tricks would not reveal them easily. This resulted in various ways to remove fishy smells on forums, but it was still difficult to do it at home.

“Marinate the chicken with ginger water overnight, then refrigerate it for half a day. The flavor of the ginger water will completely permeate the chicken. Add some chopped lemon leaves to the frying powder before frying. This will remove 70% of the odor of the fried chicken, and the chicken will also retain its original juice.” Yu Chang is not at all stingy in sharing his tips for removing fishy smell with others. He can do this entirely based on a chef’s confidence in his cooking skills.

“What about steak? Steak usually has a strong mutton smell, and no matter how much spices you use, it is impossible to completely get rid of this smell. Also, how can medium-rare beef be so tender? If it is put into the pressure cooker in advance, it cannot be considered medium-rare.” This is also what Liao Yunyun can’t figure out. She has eaten similar steaks in high-end restaurants before, but she didn’t have the opportunity to meet the chef at that time. Now that the chef is right in front of her, Liao Yunyun is naturally unwilling to miss this rare opportunity to “learn from the master.”

Yu Chang was generous enough to teach some daily cooking skills at home. At the end, he smiled and said, "But the quality of vegetables and meat in the apocalypse is not comparable to that of the past. There is still a gap between what you cook at home and what you cook in restaurants. After all, people make money from this. But if you process the meat a little bit as I said just now, the smell of mutton and fishy smell can be reduced by 30% and it will taste better."

"Brother Yu, you saved me. I really needed this. I'll show off my skills to my uncle's family when I get back." Xiao Yu picked up a chicken roll that Yu Chang had prepared for everyone and started to eat it.

Yu Chang is not arrogant at all. He feels really satisfied when he sees that everyone truly likes what he cooks.

Just when a few people were chatting, there was suddenly a noisy sound outside. It turned out that two groups of people on the opposite side had an argument, and one group of about five or six people were trying to break into one of the stores.

In another place, a woman was squatting at the door with her child and crying loudly. Anyone who saw it would think that this was a group of grown men bullying an orphan and a widow.

It is human nature to watch the fun, and eating spectators is a common phenomenon in modern society. So when Gu Tongwan and Liao Yunyun and their group came out, a circle of people watching the fun had already gathered around the store.