Chapter 45 What I Don't Lack Is Food!
Hua Meili looked bored while eating some snacks and a bucket of mocha-flavored ice cream together with Guo Zhongcheng and Zhongcheng Qingren.
The trio was having the best lazy time of their life!
"Why did you let your brother look for supplies? You already collected enough food supply that could last us for at least 5 years. Besides, almost all the store and markets were already emptied by 'someone' so it will be a miracle that they do find some food."
Guo Zhongcheng munched his chips as leaned lazily in Zhongcheng Qingren's arms.
"Why didn't you tell, Jin?"
Zhongcheng Qingren also could not help but wonder why she went to such great lengths to hide their stockpile of food.
Thinking about the food that she had accumulated, he really does not understand why she let Jin Hua think that there is a shortage of food.
While feeding some ice cream to Guo Zhongcheng, he could not help but pity Jin Hua as he looked at his lover that he was spoiling so much!
"They said they wanted to look for some supplies so they won't be a burden to us and they also wanted to search for some surviving humans so, why not? If their luck is bad, they might find some surviving humans."
Hua Meili shrugged, not even bothered a bit.
"Why bad luck?" Guo Zhongcheng naively asked.
His IQ had now officially dropped to the negatives since his back to his childish behavior. He could hardly think using his brain faced with difficult questions.
Looking at him, Hua Meili concluded that when Guo Zhongcheng is only with them his IQ and EQ drop to the negative -0.
"Well, if they do find some survivors not to be rude or somehow coldhearted..."
Hua Meili stop speaking and conveniently eat a scoop of ice cream, she swallowed first before speaking.
"Go on."
"Well, survivors are divided into 2 kinds with a subclass. Useful and not useful. Useful but too arrogant and too bitchy, too slutty, pig teammate, and all I hate. Not useful but sometimes arrogant, bitchy, slutty, baggage, garbage. That's what I hate most about other people since they think too highly of themselves which makes me want to strangle them to death. If they do find people like this, watch me I will be the very first person to bring them to hell if they act out of line."
Hua Meili finished speaking and then ate another serving of ice cream.
"Too scary, yet cool!" Guo Zhongcheng gave her a thumbs up.
"You're finally showing your true colors but I like it! Since not every person is a good guy/girl it is indeed great that you could differentiate between people who you can befriend and who you should make an enemy of."
Zhongcheng Qingren could not agree more with her words while he fed Guo Zhongcheng ice cream and said sweet nothings to his ears.
Her lips twitch seeing the pink bubbly atmosphere between the two.
She really hates herself for being a single dog.
"I told you before, I'm no Saint. In this world that is already in chaos, the law is no longer useful and killing is nothing important now. You can kill anyone as long as you are powerful and could fight against others. As you said, not all people are good. They could backstab you whenever they want when they deem you no longer useful. You cannot depend on others if you want to survive."
"Well, your right." Both of them agreed.
Time passed quickly, it was already evening when Jin Hua and the others arrive.
The group came back gloomy and unenergetic. She could really not help to compare their current appearance to their previous appearance before they head out.
"What's wrong?"
Hua Meili tap the shoulder of Jin Hua who was sitting beside her.
She pat his shoulders to comfort him, she was puzzled why this brother of hers was so gloomy...
"We didn't find some supplies." Jin Hua said helplessly and then sighed.
"Huhu... all the stores and markets we went to were empty!!" Yu Diqiu whined flailing his hand in the air.
"Meimei, it looks like we would need to impose on you for food for now since we can't still find any! Please be magnanimous and fed us for a while." Yu Feng pleaded giving a puppy eye.
"Well.. I never said that I won't give you food so why do you still ask." Hua Meili faintly smiled seeing this gloom of doom people.
"Meimei, you are a fairy, no, a Goddess!"
Yu Diqiu and Yu Feng tearfully flattered and rained praises at her.
"We sincerely thank you for sharing your supplies with us. We know that your supplies were scarce but you still shared some with us. I sincerely thank you, Meili."
Mingque Shui respectfully and humbly bows.
"No, it's okay. It's really okay. You're my brother's subordinates and friends so you are my friends as well. It's only right for me to help when you're in crisis. It's only food, we still have more left."
The last thing she'll worry about in this world is food!
She has so many foods in store that she does not even know what to do about it and it's already the third harvest inside her dimensional space!
She is overflowing with food, food, and food!
"Thank you very much Mei!" Gao Hou pitifully said as he wipes his manly crocodile tears away.
"Thank you, Mei'er. Don't worry, we will find some supplies tomorrow too so we won't burden you anymore. I brought them here so I should be the one responsible for them." Jin Hua said not looking her in the eyes.
"What are you saying? You and the others are not a burden. I am helping them because they are your friends and your friends are no burden. And besides, they were the people who were with you in life and death, right? How could I bear to let them die of hunger? It's better to die while fighting than to die of hunger. That would be very embarrassing."
Hua Meili jokes to lighten up the mood which successfully made them laugh.
Though she was joking she really said all those words with the utmost sincerity. Well, she really never thought that they were a burden.
It's just food, she has many of it.
Also, why would Jin Hua say that this is all too much?
Before the Apocalypse strikes, he had always taken care of the original Hua Meili so doing the same to him now is really not a bother but an act of paying kindness with kindness.
Also, did everyone forget that the money she used to buy all of that food is his?!
"Right, right, right!"
"Your very right, Meimei!"
"It would be really embarrassing if others know that I died of hunger!"
"Haha... Well everyone, why don't we eat? I'm sure, Hexin has already prepared the food."
And right on time after she finished saying her words, Mu Hexin appeared and told them that dinner is served.
They immediately went to the dining hall and took their seat and ate happily filling their stomach with good food and warmth.
After eating, they immediately retired for the night.
Everyone was tired and decided to go to sleep after finishing their early adventure.
Hua Meili also took a rest after practicing her skills.
The night was peaceful and she slept comfortably and contentedly the entire night.
Waking up the next morning, Hua Meili did her daily routine before going downstairs.
Hua Meili was surprised to see that everyone was already seated in their seats and she was the only one missing.
She immediately took her seat and greeted them with a bright morning smile.
"Good morning!"
"Good morning, Mei!"
"Good morning!"
"Good morning, Meimei!"
"Good morning, Xiao Mei!"
"Morning, Mei!"
"Good morning, Mei'er."
"Morning everyone! Let's eat!" Hua Meili said.
Everyone started eating and were talking silly and foolish things as they eat, the mood was simply joyous.
The harmonious atmosphere among them made it look like the world has still not changed seeing how happy and carefree their expression was.
The world had already changed, and humanity changed but the people inside the Mansion seemed to not be affected by these changes.
It was as if, time stood still for them as an illusion of the days before the Apocalypse pass by their eyes.
Never had they thought that they would find a place that could remind them of the days before the Apocalypse struck and even had a carefree life.
Experiencing this life that seemed to be a dream, they wish that this dream would never end.
If this is just a dream, they wish to never wake up from it.
"Jin ge, are you going to look for supplies today also?"
Putting a strip of bacon inside her mouth, she looked at Jin Hua.
Jin Hua also looked at her.
"En. We're also going to look for some supplies today since the supplies you have here may not last us. We are too many in this Mansion and the supply might run out too fast." Jin Hua replied.
"Hmm... Did you find some survivors when you were out there?"
Putting her chin on top of her hands, she lazily stabs the yolk of the egg as she asked Jin Hua.
Thinking about the survivors that she had met during one of her trips outside the Mansion, she grimaced.
She really hopes that Jin Hua's group would not be able to meet people those kinds of people and even bring back some of them.
Just thinking about it already gave her goosebumps.
Fortunately, when she heard his reply it was to her satisfaction.
"No, I did not. The city was like a ghost city, there were no survivors and the city look empty, even the Mutants are also scarce. The Mutants were too few that you would wonder where the residents here that turned into Mutants have gone to. Did they survive and move somewhere or they turned into Mutants and then got killed."
Jin Hua laughed like he just heard the funniest joke ever.
"But, that was impossible. There were so many of them that a single person could not handle all of them since getting surrounded by five Mutants is already difficult enough for us to handle if we challenged them in hand-to-hand combat." Jin Hua wryly smiled.
The single person that killed thousands of Mutants without breaking a sweat and emptied all markets and stores raised her eyebrow.
"Difficult? Why would it be so difficult?" Hua Meili furrowed her eyebrow.
She did not understand or she did understand what he was saying.
As an ordinary human who just awakened and was still not used to their mutated ability, it will really be difficult to handle the Mutants without their cheat.
But knowing that he was the villain himself, how could it possibly be hard for him?
During their conversation, they also attracted the attention of others as they also started listening to them.
When they heard her words, the others turned green and the others turned red.
"Meili, it is really difficult to deal with those Mutants! You have to believe us!" Yu Diqiu defended.
"They were so powerful. When I faced one myself, I was overpowered!"
Yu Feng wildly did some exaggerated hand gestures.
"You were?"
Guo Zhongcheng tried his best not to laugh when they remembered that it was so easy for them to deal with those Mutants.
He laughed seeming to forget how he ended up in a sorry state because of being chased by a Mutant while he was still training.
Thinking about his days, he remembered that if he were to get surrounded by thirty Mutants it would be difficult to fight them off.
Twenty-five Mutants is his limit.
"....." Zhongcheng Qingren remembered his first time dealing with a Phase 1 mutant in hand-to-hand combat.
Since he was new to his ability and still did not have full control of it, he accidentally smashed a mutant's head with a fire fist.
He secretly smiled proudly with himself.
"Well, we can't blame Meimei since she never got out of this mansion so she doesn't know how powerful the Mutants are. She was cope all her life in this big mansion being protected by Jin all her life, so she is so fragile that we must protect her. She doesn't know the difference in strength between us and the Mutants." Lian Pian said with overflowing righteousness.
She looked at Hua Meili like she understands her very well and gave her an understanding smile.
Hua Meili look at her with a deadpanned expression that made her turn red in embarrassment.
Hua Meili sighed in her heart in disdain as she looks at the Lian Pian girl.
'Why is this thing always looking for a fight? Does she no longer like her life and want me to personally bring her to hell?'
"Meimei, Dajie doesn't want to wrong you. Dajie just wants you to know how powerful those Mutants were, it's just that because of what Meimei said before we were kind of embarrassed since you were like looking down on our abilities."
Lian Pian quickly explained but then covered her mouth because of what she said in the end. She looked at her with wide eyes.
"I.. I mean..."
Hua Meili raised her hand to shut her up and look at her with frosty eyes. The temperature quickly drops making everyone shiver.
She has already stepped on a landmine, it's time to plan how to send her to hell.
Hua Meili knew she was trouble from the start that's why she doesn't want to see her nor have anything to do with her but since she kept on testing her patience she will be kind this time and personally get rid of her!
Hua Meili looked at everyone and gave a smile making her previous expression seem nothing but an illusion making everyone release the breath that they were unconsciously holding.
"I did not intentionally want to be rude but I was only asking because I was curious why it was so difficult for you all since you already have awakened your powers."
Everyone looked at her in surprise.
They could not believe that an ordinary person like her would know about their abilities.
"You... you knew?"