Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 123: Chapter 123 Diesel Generator

Around 2 a.m., Long Yongjun was roused from his sleep by the delicious scent of barbecued meat. Opening his eyes, he saw Yang Xiao and Qin Yu enjoying roasted rat meat together.

”Boss, how come you didn’t wake me up for the barbecue?”

”Heh, you woke up on your own, didn’t you?”

Without any hesitation, Long Yongjun grabbed a sword, cut off a big chunk of meat, and started wolfing it down.

As a girl, Qin Yu only ate a few pieces before she stopped and yawned.

”You go to sleep. Long Yongjun and I will keep watch.”

Qin Yu nodded, lay down on the grass bed by the campfire, closed her eyes, and slowly drifted off to sleep.

Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun ate hungrily, and after consuming two or three pounds of meat, Long Yongjun also felt full, but Yang Xiao continued to gorge himself.

”Boss, I really envy your stomach, how can you never get full?”

Yang Xiao just smiled and didn’t bother responding, continuing to eat alone.

A mutated rat had at least a hundred pounds of meat, and Yang Xiao finished it all, feeling electricity coursing through his body in waves.

Getting caught up in the enjoyment of eating, Yang Xiao hadn’t had a meal like this in a long time. Normally, at university, in front of everyone, it would be embarrassing to eat hundreds of pounds of meat in one sitting, wouldn’t it?

Besides, he had an abundance of Genetic Fragments to enhance his genetic potential, so there was no need to eat such a large quantity of meat every time.

”Long Yongjun, go skin the other rat but be careful not to tear the skin. It can be made into a coat.”

”Right away, boss. You can count on me.”

Long Yongjun took up his sword and quickly skinned the mutated rat.

”Boss, do you want me to bring it over to roast?”

Long Yongjun, somewhat familiar with Yang Xiao’s habits, asked.

”No need, just drag it over here.”

Long Yongjun dragged the rat meat over with the skin and placed it in front of Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao cut big chunks of meat with his sword and started to devour them, the current in his body growing stronger with each bite.

Watching Yang Xiao eat, Long Yongjun found it somewhat terrifying.

”Boss, what kind of Monster is your Beast Soul?”

”I don’t know myself, as long as the Beast Soul doesn’t manifest, I’m puzzled too.”

”Boss, could your Beast Soul definitely be related to fierce beasts?”

”Why do you think that?”

”Look at how much you eat; only those great beasts have such a huge appetite!”

Yang Xiao just laughed and kept eating vigorously. Over an hour later, he had devoured more than a hundred pounds of mutated rat, leaving nothing behind.

Initially, eating raw meat seemed a bit disgusting with its fishy taste, but from the time he started eating raw mutated dogs in the valley, Yang Xiao had tried it several times and found himself increasingly accustomed to raw food, even enjoying the taste of blood, with an indescribable sensation.

Yang Xiao looked over at Qin Yu by the campfire, her body curved gently, her features delicate and serene, looking so peaceful and content as if she was blessed.

He even saw her smile in her sleep, perhaps she was having a sweet dream.

In this post-apocalyptic world, the girl evoked a feeling of tenderness.

Yang Xiao stood up, walked around the campfire a couple of times, and stretched.

”Long Yongjun, I’m going to sleep. Keep watch.”

”Don’t worry, boss. I won’t let any Mutated Creatures disturb you.”

Yang Xiao leaned against a tree trunk beside the fire and slowly fell asleep.

When the sky turned grey, Huang Wen and Deng Xiao, leading a team of more than ten fliers, arrived at the valley searching for Yang Xiao and the others. Soon, they spotted a faint light from a fire deep in the woods.

Long Yongjun also sensed the movement in the sky and rushed out of the woods just in time to see Huang Wen and the others circling above.

Long Yongjun shouted and waved.

Huang Wen and her group hurriedly descended.

”Where’s Yang Xiao? How’s Qin Yu?”

”Don’t worry, everything is fine. Qin Yu’s injury is completely healed now, and he is sleeping.”

Huang Wen had the other girls wait in the valley while she and Deng Xiao followed Long Yongjun into the woods.

Yang Xiao was already awoken by the noise and sat up, smiling at Huang Wen:

”Sorry to have worried you.”

Huang Wen glanced at Qin Yu who was soundly sleeping by the campfire and laughed:

”I wasn’t worried about you. You had a beautiful girl by your side, what’s there for me to worry about?”

Yang Xiao could only offer a wry smile.

Seeing that Yang Xiao and the two others were safe, Huang Wen didn’t plan to stay long.

”You all haven’t had a good rest all night, right? You can rest a bit more now. I’m leaving Deng Xiao and five other girls nearby, and I’ll head back first.”

”Eh?”

Yang Xiao looked at Huang Wen, feeling that her tone was a bit odd, but couldn’t pinpoint why.

After walking a few steps, Huang Wen suddenly turned around and said:

”Yang Xiao, people from Star City came to our university yesterday afternoon wanting to meet you, requesting to establish a transport portal with each other.”

”Oh?”

Yang Xiao was taken aback,

”Are they still at the university?”

”No, they used the transport portal to return to Xianan University yesterday and then went back to Star City from there. They said they will come to meet you again today.”

”Besides that, there’s another piece of news. Xia Luo sent someone yesterday to report that people from the opposite urban area attacked the Giant Snake at Kongming Bridge but seem to have failed.”

”How did they know?”

Yang Xiao was shocked.

”Xia Luo always had people stationed not far from Nine-tails City, keeping an eye on that Giant Snake. Yesterday afternoon, there were sounds of intense fighting coming from the other side of the bridge. It lasted for about half an hour and then stopped.”

Yang Xiao had a vague sense of unease upon hearing this.

Qin Yu also woke up and after exchanging greetings with Huang Wen and Deng Xiao, they all headed back together.

Upon their return to the sports field, the rumbling sound of excavators could be heard from a distance. The sports ground was a hive of activity, with various steel materials and cement being transported there, and under Ma Junhui’s guidance, they began to be shaped into various steel products, ready to be embedded into the cement of the caves.

What surprised Yang Xiao even more was that Xu Nanqiang and others had found several diesel generators at the building materials market. Now with generators, they could operate some simple machinery.

”Holy shit, are we going back to the civilized era?”

Long Yongjun exclaimed in astonishment.

Deng Xiao murmured:

”I wonder if we can charge our phones? My iPhone N is still intact.”

Everyone looked at Deng Xiao in stunned silence.

Qin Yu laughed:

”Even if you charge your phone, it’s useless now anyway. The entire world’s telecommunications system has collapsed, with no network, no WeChat, no calls, no games, what’s the point?”

”It can still be used as a flashlight!”

Long Yongjun responded innocently:

”I still have a few movies on my phone.”

Everyone turned their heads to Long Yongjun in unison, and Long Yongjun realized he had said something inappropriate, looking embarrassed.

Yang Xiao said with a smile,

”It’s not a bad idea to have some entertainment. There’s plenty of diesel in the oil depot, and now that we have diesel generators, we might as well charge our phones for some self-entertainment.”

Hearing Yang Xiao say this, Huang Wen and the others thought it was a good idea too, and moreover, many people had photos and videos of their family and friends on their phones, as well as various movies, music.

In this post-apocalyptic world, practically all technology advancements have ceased, and everyone could only utilize the remnants of old technological tools and products to delay the fading memory of civilized society.