138: Three and a half tons of supplies

The dust had not yet settled, and rubble was still clattering down.

In the center of the second-floor terrace.

An extremely ungraceful human mille-feuille was slowly squirming.

"Mm... this elasticity, this texture, it's absolutely divine..."

Xia Lai, who was on the top layer, narrowed her eyes.

That restless hand of hers seemed to have a navigation system installed, accurately squeezing Lin Keke's round and perky backside twice.

She even let out a perverted comment: "So soft... is it a C or a D?"

In the middle, Lin Keke was being crushed so hard her eyes were rolling back, her hands desperately propping herself up.

As luck would have it, a certain soft part of her was pressed even more tightly against Chen Du's chest.

Dizzy and disoriented, she mumbled incoherently, "Finishing move... Meatball Tank... Impact..."

At the very bottom, Chen Du's face was covered in black lines, and the veins on his temples were throbbing.

If it weren't to maintain his cool image as the Captain, he would have wanted to throw these two female hooligans into a pile of monsters to feed the pigs right now!

"Xia Lai, have you felt enough?"

Chen Du's voice came coldly from beneath them.

Xia Lai shuddered all over and retracted her hand as if she'd been electrocuted.

My acting was seen through?!

She just wanted to climb up, but was tripped by Lin Keke beneath her, causing her whole body to slip again—

Swoosh!

By some coincidence, her mature face buried itself directly into the crook of Chen Du's neck, her warm, moist breath blowing against his skin.

Mmm, the scent of hormones.

"You guys..."

A cold female voice drifted eerily from the top of the stairs.

Chen Du turned his head with difficulty.

He saw Xia Xin holding a bow, Ye Qiu carrying an axe, and Li Yaozhi clutching a crystal pendant.

The three women stood there, their expressions as colorful as a spilled palette.

Especially Xia Xin.

Her originally worried gaze instantly froze, then turned into the contempt one would have for a scumbag.

She spoke up sourly, "We were worried to death down there. Turns out you guys were having quite a wild time up here?"

"What kind of new position is this? A human pyramid? Do you need us to step away for a bit?"

"N-no, it's not like that!"

Lin Keke, like a cat with its fur standing on end, scrambled off Chen Du in a flurry.

Her face was as red as a ripe tomato. While tugging at her slightly revealing cosplay outfit, she defended herself:

"This was an accident!"

"We, we almost crashed during the landing... it's all Second Sister's fault!"

"Luckily the Captain was there! He used shadows to cushion us! Plus air resistance..."

Xia Lai also quickly stood up straight.

She switched back to her cool, mature persona in a second, even though the tips of her ears were red enough to bleed. "Ahem, Keke is right!"

"This is called a soft landing using gravitational potential energy. You nursing majors don't understand physics."

"Alright, stop the chatter."

Chen Du patted the dust off his clothes and stood up as if nothing had happened.

As long as he wasn't embarrassed, the embarrassment belonged to others.

His gaze swept over everyone.

Finally, it landed on Li Yaozhi.

Although this icy campus belle also had a sharp look in her eyes, her discipline was very high.

The cold beauty took a deep breath, suppressed that inexplicable sourness in her heart, and shook the notebook in her hand.

"Reporting on the supply collection status."

Her voice was cool. "We have moved out everything that could be moved."

"After an inventory, there are two tons of frozen pork, eight hundred catties of steak, and about seven hundred catties of various luncheon meats and canned fruits."

"Totaling... three and a half tons."

Three and a half tons!

As soon as this number came out, the sour atmosphere of the jealous scene immediately dissipated.

Everyone's breathing became heavy.

This was all hard currency! In the apocalypse, this was survival capital!

Chen Du's usually calm eyes began to burn with excitement.

He gave a grand wave of his hand:

"Get to work! Empty it out!"

The group rushed to the door of the cold storage.

The blast of cold air and the smell of raw meat smelled better than the finest perfume to them right now.

Mountains of frozen meat blocks shimmered with an enticing dark red luster.

Crab Claw Man, who had been following at the back of the team, was now drooling so much it was almost hitting the floor.

If only all of this belonged to them! His legs felt a bit weak from the sight.

"This is too much..." Xia Xin was a bit worried. "Can Xia Lai fit it all?"

"Not only can she fit it, she'll fit it beautifully."

Chen Du stepped aside.

He gave the center stage to Xia Lai.

Xia Lai walked up to the mountain of meat, a money-grubbing smile curling at the corner of her mouth.

"As long as it's supplies, there's nothing this lady can't stuff inside!"

She quickly ran the calculations.

"...Tsk, it's a bit of a stretch."

She flexed her mechanical arm and gritted her teeth at the pile of supplies. "Get... in there!"

Hum—!

The air distorted!

Like forcefully stuffing a suitcase, she controlled the supplies to slot into a Dimensional Rift.

The floor that had been packed full became empty at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just two short minutes.

Except for some residual ice shards on the ground, it was as clean as if it had been licked by a dog!

"Holy... crap..."

Crab Claw Man's eyes were bulging. This display of divine power completely shattered his worldview.

Following such a god-like team, would he ever have to worry about going hungry again?

He had to cling to this thigh for dear life!

That crab claw of his trembled violently, and finally, he gave himself a slap.

After confirming he wasn't dreaming, his voice trembled and cracked: "God... this is a miracle!"

"Following the Captain and Sister-in-law... we'll have meat to eat for the rest of our lives! Meat!"

Thump!

A foot kicked him hard in the butt.

Xia Lai withdrew her powers and patted her pant leg in disgust. "What are you shouting about? Who's your sister-in-law? Call me Second Sister!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Second Sister is mighty!"

"Alright! Don't just stand there, let's go." Chen Du looked at the empty warehouse, his heart finally at ease.

Even if they drifted at sea for several months, they wouldn't starve.

However.

Just as the last crate of canned goods disappeared.

Crack!

A sharp cracking sound suddenly rang out.

Everyone was startled and looked toward Li Yaozhi together.

They saw the crystal pendant on her chest, which had been emitting a faint light, was now spinning counter-clockwise!

It was so fast it left an afterimage!

Followed by—

Snap!

The pendant exploded directly into powder.

Li Yaozhi's face turned deathly pale, and her pupils constricted violently.

Before she could even speak, a nauseating, hot, and fishy wind drifted in through the crack in the door.

The ground that had been frosted over instantly melted into a puddle of black water.

"Don't make a sound..."

Li Yaozhi's voice was trembling.

She stared fixedly at the distant explosion-proof iron door that was slowly deforming and letting out a groan of metal fatigue.

"It... is breathing."

Boom!!

It was forced in by some terrifying, monstrous strength!

That twenty-centimeter-thick explosion-proof door flew out like a piece of crumpled tin foil!

Then it slammed heavily into the opposite wall!

Immediately after, a stench of corpses fermented for ten days mixed with the smell of sulfur exploded throughout the area!

Dust billowed up!

A pitch-black giant claw, covered in barnacles and black scales, brutally gripped the door frame.

That was no ordinary mutated beast's claw.

In the gaps of those sharp claws, half of a human torso wearing a uniform was still hanging.

As it gripped forcefully.

That half-corpse was squeezed like toothpaste, spraying black blood everywhere.

What reached in was not just a hand, it was more like a moving mountain of rotting flesh.

"This size... it's at least Lord-level!"

Chen Du's golden eyes constricted.

When he saw the style of the tattered uniform hanging on the claw, a chill ran straight to his head.

That was... "Someone from the Heavenly Dao Logistics Department?!"

How could a monster of this level eat an NPC?

There was no time to think; survival instinct instantly flared.

Chen Du whipped his head around and roared:

"Don't look back! Jump out the window! Fast!!"