Chapter 140: Grilled Snail
The trouble started because of a Monkey’s pee.
Leaving home, for matters like peeing and pooping, you had to find a spot and just go.
And this nonchalant act led to trouble.
Monkey’s pee stained the entrance of an ant’s burrow.
The burrow entrance was tiny, so small that you wouldn’t even notice it was there.
Unbeknownst to anyone, inside were mutant ants, and not just a few.
What’s key was that Monkey, after peeing, ran towards where Cheetah Team was heading.
Initially, only he was supposed to be sacrificed, but as he ran in the direction of the team, the entire team started running with him.
There was no choice, Monkey was the most agile and could run the fastest.
The ones behind could only follow him.
They couldn’t just run blindly.
It was too dangerous outside, and if you got lost, who knows how long you could survive alone.
Surprisingly, Su Yinhe could run quite fast too, almost matching Monkey and even surpassing him.
Monkey was initially in the lead, but as they ran, he ended up behind Su Yinhe.
Monkey himself was shocked and pushed a bit harder, speeding up to run alongside Su Yinhe, “Holy crap! Boss Su, you’re good. Running so fast.”
Su Yinhe kept quiet and continued running with gritted teeth.
Oh god, seeing the ants grown so big was disgusting, she was terrified.
Su Yinhe could fight, but seeing those swarms of dense ants made her a bit queasy.
She didn’t have severe trypophobia, but she was a bit unable to accept how small ants had grown so large and were now in swarms.
At the end of the day, she was still not used to it.
Cheetah Team sprinted and finally managed to outrun the swarm of ants.
But a few very fast ones couldn’t be shaken off, just a few, but they didn’t mind the trouble and simply killed them.
What happened next was horrifying, they started roasting ants.
Monkey, one of those roasting ants, saw Su Yinhe’s gaze and sheepishly smiled, “It’s really tasty. Ants have very little pollution inside them, and it won’t affect Superpower Users if they eat it, it tastes quite good too. Boss Su, I’ll share some with you once I’m done.”
Su Yinhe shook her head frantically, joking, she did not want to eat roasted ants.
“It’s really tasty and very juicy. The juice might be more polluted, but it’s fine for Superpower Users,” Monkey tried his best to promote.
“No, no, no, you eat it. Have more. I don’t need it…” Su Yinhe moved away quickly.
Hugging her pitiful self and shivering.
Su Yinhe finally realized how vicious this world was.
In this world, zombies weren’t the scariest.
Neither were the Mutated Plants, they were just a bit mischievous, at least they looked fine.
The scariest were the mutant animals that had grown large or strangely.
The ants had become so big.
“Actually, roasted ants aren’t the tastiest, roasted snails are the best, they have very low pollution values, low aggression, and are tender after being roasted…”
With that said by Monkey, Su Yinhe lost her appetite for food.
Then Cheetah Team realized, Boss Su, who had always been eating a lot, wasn’t eating much anymore.
Could it be that the snacks and fruits Boss Su brought were finished?
The instigator, Monkey, still didn’t know the truth.
After the encounter with the swarm of mutant ants, perhaps it was just Su Yinhe’s bad luck, but it started raining.
The rainwater also contained pollutants, so they found an abandoned building to shelter from the rain.
The building was indeed very dilapidated, with many parts collapsed, and entering it made Su Yinhe feel like it was going to fall apart at any moment.
Inside was empty and dusty.
They barely managed to shelter from the rain.
There was also a strange smell, Su Yinhe was even having difficulty breathing.
The others were accustomed to it and after entering, they cooked a pot of vegetable soup, holding bowls and drinking some warm soup.
The vegetables weren’t bought from Su Yinhe’s supermarket, they were picked from outside earlier, mutated but not poisonous.
However, they were very strong fighters; their leaves were large and liked to wrap around people.
Because of this, Su Yinhe didn’t dare to eat them.
She was afraid the vegetables had wrapped around someone before.
She wasn’t from this world, she was particular and cared about this.
As for the pot they had cooked the vegetables in…
Oh well, she’d just stick to her own food from now on.
After all, her storage space had plenty of instant food, rice balls, and various pre-cooked dishes.
Before she left with Cheetah Team, Chi Yan knew and stuffed her with a bunch of prepared meals.
Originally, they were his reserves, but he gave them to her, fearing she’d end up eating in the wind and sleeping in the dew.
This rain came suddenly and ended just as suddenly.
After the rain stopped, they went out on the road again.
Su Yinhe, unfortunately, encountered those snails previously mentioned. Ah no, uncooked snails.
Big, slimy, quite disgusting…
God forbid they run into worms.
Cheetah Team actually got excited at the sight of the snails, each rushing forward more eagerly than the last.
Su Yinhe trailed behind, vomiting.
She saw the snail’s tentacle stretch out and felt utterly terrible.
There weren’t many snails, just two.
After the snails retracted their bodies when being attacked, they began to cook them. Well, not really cook, they had a Fire Element Superpower User shoot fire at the snail shells.
As the snail in the middle was being cooked, its tentacles reached out again, then got scorched by the fire, and retracted again.
It was heated up, stretched out again, got burned again, and retracted again.
As they continued cooking, the snails began to release liquid. But the Fire Element Superpower User’s flames did not wane.
The cooking continued, and a delicious aroma reached Su Yinhe’s nose.
She silently pulled out a mask.
The two snails didn’t take long to cook.
Monkey got very excited, was the first one to dash into the snail shells, and pulled the meat out.
The cooked snail meat had shrunk, become smaller, and was easily pulled out.
Several people took knives to slice and eat it.
While eating, Monkey thought of sharing, “Boss Su, have a bite, it’s really tender.”
Su Yinhe, wearing a mask: “…”
She just found it horrifying.
After eating the snails, it was almost dark, and that’s when Su Yinhe found out why they were so excited before.
It wasn’t just for the food, but also for shelter.
Monkey shamelessly rushed to live inside a snail shell.
The snail shell was quite big, more than enough room for one person.
It wasn’t really living, more like lying down.
The space inside wasn’t very big, not very comfortable to lie in, but better than lying directly outside.
There were two snail shells, Monkey lived in one, and Xu Jiaoqin specifically asked Su Yinhe if she wanted to try the other.
But Su Yinhe was still fearful without the snail inside, shaking her head to refuse.
She loved her tent; she loved her tent too much.
Monkey also loved the snail shells; when they left the second day, he couldn’t take the snail shells with him and felt very regretful.
“If only we could encounter another snail today.” That way, he could have another meal of roasted snail, and sleep in a snail shell tonight.
Heaven help us, today besides the mutated sheep, let’s not encounter anything else.