diskusbooks Chapter 153 Heading Towards the Center
Chapter 153 Heading Towards the Center
After collecting the gold coins, Lu Youyou started cooking.
Both Da Rui and Xiao Hei have automatic pet feeders, so she doesn't need to worry about them and can just cook her own meals.
I looked through the refrigerator but didn't find anything I particularly wanted to eat, but I still needed to eat to maintain my vital signs.
Lu Youyou decided to cook herself a bowl of noodles, and added a handful of pea shoots and two sausages.
She ate her noodles while looking at the chat.
The current situation is quite serious; missing even a single piece of information could leave you far behind.
[Liu Ming, always arguing: Damn it, nobody told me that killing a monster together would automatically form a team? I'm on a team with my nemesis.]
[Tongtong who loves to eat: Upstairs, stop talking. You love it, otherwise why would you be killing monsters with your nemesis?]
[Auntie who loves gardening: I killed the monsters myself, so I'm in my own team. Therefore, the minimum team size is 1, and there's no upper limit?]
[A studious student who loves inventing: Go check the map, the treasure chest icons are gone, they've all turned into little red dots.]
【…】
Lu Youyou didn't even have time to eat her noodles; she quickly opened the map to look at the map.
Sure enough, the treasure chest icon was gone, and the map was dotted with scattered small red dots, including my current location.
At first, Lu Youyou thought that a small red dot represented a person, but she couldn't see Wang Qiao's and the others' small red dots, and then she realized that they represented a team.
As for how many people are in the squad, it cannot be seen from the map.
Just as Lu Youyou was looking at the map and thinking, the edge of the map suddenly disappeared, along with the red dots on it.
No matter how she moved her fingers to the side, she couldn't see the edge.
All she can do is zoom in and out within the original map area.
What about the squads on the fringes?
died?
Lu Youyou brought up the public chat, attempting to find the truth in the chat content.
[A user who loves green tea: Holy crap! Is this some kind of real-life PUBG? What the hell?! They shrank the map edges, fine, but why are they making us poisoned? And the antidote only lasts an hour!]
[PUBG Elite: Try the Advanced All-Purpose Pill upstairs, it lasts 24 hours, and my countdown is 24 hours.]
[The sarcastic gossip: The map area will probably get smaller and smaller, and then everyone will run into each other, resulting in more casualties. Will the adults at the crossroads only be the first-place winner?]
[The Angry Butterfly: That's not necessarily true. As long as we don't kill each other, living together on a stretch of highway isn't impossible.]
[A sarcastic, gossipy person: If you don't kill others, they'll kill you. How do you know you can coexist peacefully?]
【…】
The people in the public chat started arguing again, so Lu Youyou closed the public chat and brought up the map page.
Their squad was in a bad position; it was very likely to be the next area to be abandoned, where they would be poisoned.
No, we need to get to the middle quickly.
She opened the group chat and was about to send a message when Zhang Yuning spoke to her first.
[Zhang Yuning: Everyone, check the chat! We need to run from the poison gas! @All Members]
[Lu Youyou: Give everyone 20 minutes to cook and eat, then I'll lead the team towards the center of the map.]
[Wang Qiao: If you're going to lead the team, I'll just wrap things up at the end.]
[Zhang Weimin: How about I finish this up?]
[Wang Qiao: My car has several layers of sturdy protective cover; ordinary weapons can't penetrate it at all. Do you have one?]
[Zhang Weimin: No, then you can finish up.]
[Lu Youyou: Wang Qiao and I are in the front and back, our positions are fixed. You can discuss the middle positions yourselves, or improvise as needed, as long as things are orderly.]
After saying that, Lu Youyou sped up her eating of noodles.
She finished eating in five minutes and then went to wash the dishes.
The others ate much faster than she expected; it didn't even take 20 minutes, less than 10 minutes, before they were tagging her in the group chat.
"Navigation, proceed at a constant speed."
【OK. 】
Lu Youyou saw through the car window that Xiao Liu was following closely behind her car, followed by Zhang Weimin, Zhang Yuning, Yang Yan, and finally Wang Qiao.
The convoy started moving at a steady speed, and Lu Youyou watched as the red dot representing her team gradually moved forward, her sense of security slowly increasing.
The morning passed without incident.
In order to keep up with the schedule, the convoy did not stop during lunchtime so that it could stop and rest at night.
Lu Youyou and Wang Qiao both drive large cars with exhaust fans, so they can cook whatever they want to eat.
Although Zhang Weimin's vehicle is also a motorhome, it doesn't have a range hood installed, so he can only cook simple meals.
Everyone else was in a car, which had limited interior space, so they couldn't cook and could only eat ready-to-eat food.
This made Xiao Liu, who was used to eating hot meals, unable to hold back any longer, so he messaged Lu Youyou privately.
[Xiao Liu: Sister You, have you had lunch yet?]
[Workaholics: ?]
[Xiao Liu: If you haven't had lunch, I'll give you three gold coins. Can you cook a proper meal? I'm not picky, I'll eat anything. Just share some of what you like with me.]
[Workaholic Ox and Horse: I'm getting ready to cook. Oyster sauce lettuce with noodles, do you want some? If so, I'll make an extra portion.]
[Xiao Liu: Eat, eat, eat! As long as I can eat hot food, I'm fine. I can't stand yogurt and bread anymore; that stuff is just a snack, how can it be a proper meal?]
Having received three gold coins from Xiao Liu, Lu Youyou was full of motivation to work.
This wasn't because she was a shrewd businesswoman; she didn't place a bid at all. It was Xiao Liu who quoted the price himself.
Lu Youyou first went to the small kitchen to get two pots of water to boil, then went to the roof to pick lettuce leaves.
I slurped up a whole basin of vegetables before going downstairs to the folding bathroom to wash them.
When we came out, the water in the large iron pot hadn't boiled yet, but the water in the small stainless steel pot had already boiled.
Lu Youyou hurriedly cut the large lettuce leaves into small pieces, about the same length as the diameter of the small stainless steel pot, and then put them into the pot in batches to blanch.
Lettuce leaves are tender, so blanching them for about 15 seconds is enough. They're practically done as soon as they're put in the water, and you can take them out after a few stirs.
After blanching the lettuce, the water in the large pot boiled, and Lu Youyou immediately added a pound of noodles.
It doesn't look like much now, not enough for two people.
But noodles absorb water, so a pound of noodles will make a whole pot after boiling.
While the noodles were cooking, Lu Youyou started preparing the sauce for the oyster sauce lettuce.
After she finished cooking, she asked Xiao Liu for a bowl and a plate.
She first served herself the noodles, then gave most of the rest to Xiao Liu.
As for the oyster sauce lettuce, we'll share it half and half.
[Xiao Liu: Wow! So many noodles! Much more substantial than what I got from the public chat before! Sister You, you're so kind!]
[Xiao Liu: Oyster sauce lettuce is delicious too! Hehehe, it's so good, can you make me another serving for dinner? I still have some gold coins.]
[Workaholic Ox and Horse: Where did you get so many gold coins?]
[Xiao Liu: Have you forgotten what I used to do? I was Shen Taiyang's fake account outside. All the payments people made were handled by me. I embezzled quite a bit (doge)]