Lord Shenxiu-Chapter 540 Original Text (Extra Update, Requesting Monthly Votes)

Chapter 540: Chapter 540 Original Text (Extra Update, Requesting Monthly Votes)

People in Sky City had two meals each day.

One in the morning and one in the evening, with no lunch.

Inside the city, the quality of the meals wasn’t known. Anyway, the food for the scavenging teams that went out wasn’t anything special.

Zhong Shenxiu used a dagger to pry open a tin can and saw one that contained peas mixed with a bit of salt and spices.

Another can contained meat that resembled luncheon meat.

’From Zola’s tone, this should be considered decent food, it seems there’s extra care because of outdoor duties?’ he thought.

Looking at the pale slices of meat, which had mysterious-looking lines on them, Zhong Shenxiu hesitated to take a bite.

At that moment, the gate made of wire fencing was knocked twice. A red-haired girl with blue eyes opened the door and asked, "Li Wei... joining us?"

She was Zhong Shenxiu’s neighbor.

Well, calling her a neighbor was a bit of an overstretch; the living conditions here were poor, with men and women packed into capsule-like compartments stacked together, resembling a beehive.

In these single-person pods, one could hardly stand, only lie down or sit.

"Of course, Rachel, please come in!"

Zhong Shenxiu invited Rachel to sit down, who then took up almost half of his small bed.

The girl, only sixteen or seventeen, wore a short-sleeved shirt, revealing smooth muscles on her arms, and had a pair of goggles hanging around her neck.

She sat down carelessly, spooning luncheon meat out of her can rapidly and stuffing it into her mouth, "Uh... nothing, just that Captain Zola asked me to look after you a bit."

’Probably means to keep an eye on me more like,’ Zhong Shenxiu muttered to himself, watching Rachel enjoying her can of meat, not willing to miss even a bit of it.

When she finished, she eagerly eyed his can.

He didn’t really feel like eating anyway, so he casually handed his can to Rachel, "Here you go."

"Thanks!"

Rachel deftly caught it and continued devouring the contents, seemingly unaware of what courtesy meant. After finishing, she patted her stomach contentedly and sighed, "You aren’t trying to hit on me, are you?"

"Not at all!"

Zhong Shenxiu shook his head calmly.

Here, men and women didn’t take such matters seriously; if they liked each other, they might end up sleeping together the same night.

If he showed any such intentions, Rachel might actually come over tonight.

And with the soundproofing here, it would be like a noisy racing event.

"That’s a shame..."

Rachel sized up Zhong Shenxiu, nodding and then shaking her head, "You’re quite my type, but too weak for my taste. Fun for a fling, but too much of a burden to start a family with..."

"Ahem..."

Zhong Shenxiu coughed twice, "Heh... you girls from Sky City mature early, don’t you..."

’Wait a minute...’ he thought, realizing that humanity, having developed amid an apocalypse, valued population growth, and encouraging early marriage and childbirth was probably normal.

"It’s normal to speak up if you like someone, right?"

Rachel slowly ate the tasteless canned peas.

Zhong Shenxiu also picked up one, put it into his mouth, and felt that even though it had been steamed for a while, it was still quite hard, requiring an effort to chew and swallow.

"Tell me about your wandering," Rachel asked curiously, "Wandering in the Black Mushroom Wilderness is not an easy feat, how did you survive? I see your skin is even whiter than those of the officials..."

"Actually, I have not been wandering for long."

Zhong Shenxiu sighed and asked, "What meat is that?"

He was referring to the meat in the canned luncheon meat.

"That? It comes from the Gesler Meat Processing Factory in Sky City, it seems like synthetic meat, or perhaps from a herd that can continuously regenerate flesh to be harvested, satisfying the meat needs of the entire city every day, though it’s still a bit expensive..."

Rachel sucked her finger.

"That kind of meat can also be eaten?" Zhong Shenxiu felt a bit relieved he had not eaten the canned meat.

"Compared to the meat directly hunted in the wilderness, its taste and nutrition are a bit lacking, but at least it’s safe to acquire and can be continuously produced, just like those mushroom and pea farms..."

Rachel seemed to have misunderstood the direction of the conversation and casually remarked.

’The technology tree of this world is a bit crooked...’

Zhong Shenxiu muttered to himself.

He had gotten quite a bit of information from Rachel using a can of meat, and also learned about the general state of the post-apocalyptic civilization in Sky City.

It seemed they had achieved self-sufficiency, able to produce meat and food, without a lack of energy supplies.

The reason they still organized scavenging teams was to obtain a resource called ’Source Stone,’ said to power some real high-precision machinery.

Other than that, it involved collecting intelligence, exploring various cities, and searching for "The Original Scriptures."

As for gathering the population, that was actually a secondary task that did not matter if left uncompleted.

So Rachel always felt Zhong Shenxiu was very lucky.

What concerned Zhong Shenxiu more were the two terms: "Source Stone and ’The Original Scriptures’?"

"It’s a kind of glowing stone, said to be very useful, but definitely surrounded by many monsters. Every time people die just to get a little..."

"And as for ’The Original Scriptures,’ have you never heard of ’The Original Scriptures’?" ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

Rachel’s expression became somewhat suspicious.

"I’ve heard a bit about it, but I’m not very clear..." Zhong Shenxiu answered frankly.

"Indeed, because you’re just an ordinary person, and survivors from the outer wilderness have been disconnected from civilization for too long, too long to maintain any heritage?"

Rachel hadn’t read too many novels and couldn’t think of time travel, so she had to think in other directions.

She thought for a moment and tilted her head, "It is said that before the apocalypse came, there were already some signs... A band of saviors and Prophets came together, devising various ways to teach us to fight monsters, develop technology, heal ourselves; all these contents came together to form ’The Original Scriptures’! It is divided into two parts; the first half describes various steam machinery, the mysteries of Mecha, how to use blood remedies to heal ourselves, how to evade pollution..."

"The second half describes a variety of mutants, such as categorizing them into servant, companion, and the most dreadful, the impiety level. Within each major level, there are three different ranks of low, mid, and high... how to seize their power, for us to digest, utilize..."

"Therefore, it is also known as ’The Savior’s Scriptures,’ but for some reason, it became scattered into many Chapters... It is said that the first City Lord of Sky City established Sky City successfully by obtaining parts of ’The Original Scriptures’."

Rachel finished the last pea and carefully collected the can.

This is also a form of resource, needing recovery.

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