51: Chapter 51: Overwhelming Resources!

The engine roar of the Lv.10 mobile heavy fortress sounded exceptionally jarring at the entrance of Gluttony Town.

The thirteen-and-a-half-ton steel behemoth slowly drove in, its B-grade all-terrain self-healing tires crushing the streets made of giant fungal stalks and dried flesh tissue, emitting a "creaking" sound similar to stepping on cork.

The interior of the town was not as chaotic and disorderly as Chen Chen had imagined.

On the contrary, there was a strange order here.

In a corner, a ragged survivor was using trembling hands to hand half a piece of bread covered in green mold to a short, chubby NPC whose head was covered in colorful mushrooms.

In exchange, he received a bottle filled with turbid, foul-looking yellow liquid.

The survivor treated it like a treasure, twisting off the cap and gulping it down.

The rule here—food is everything.

Inside the carriage, the atmosphere had also undergone a subtle change.

The addition of a new member was like a pebble thrown into a previously calm lake.

"Wow—"

Shen Wanxing squatted in front of Su Xiaoqi, extended her slender fingers, and curiously poked her chubby baby face.

It felt springy, like a high-quality pudding.

"You're so amazing! You blew up such a big pig head with just one punch!"

Stars twinkled in Shen Wanxing's eyes, and her gaze uncontrollably drifted toward Su Xiaoqi's chest, which was bulging against her tactical vest.

She looked down at her own, then at Su Xiaoqi's, and finally at her own sister's similarly astonishing silhouette in the passenger seat.

Her little mouth pouted slightly.

This world was just too unfriendly to her, a national goddess.

In the passenger seat, Shen Wanbing had already recovered the composure of a multi-billionaire CEO from the lingering romance of last night.

She closed her eyes, her fingers pressing on the concentration ice heart necklace, her god-level radar talent running at low power, and invisible tentacles of mental energy swept across the entire town like mercury spilling on the ground.

"The energy structure is stable, with no large-scale sources of mental pollution. There are three high-density energy gathering points in the town, one of which is directly below us. The building materials here... are mostly living tissue, possessing self-healing capabilities."

She opened her eyes, and her gaze toward Su Xiaoqi was like evaluating an investment with great potential.

In the corner of the back seat, Jiang Yanxue crossed her arms, placing the newly acquired Shadow Instant-Kill Blade across her lap.

She didn't speak, but her dark red eyes kept darting toward Su Xiaoqi.

She sensed an aura of her own kind on Su Xiaoqi.

"Gurgle—"

An earth-shattering rumble interrupted the undercurrents in the carriage.

The source of the sound was Su Xiaoqi's stomach.

She hugged her knees, curling up into a ball, her cute baby face scrunched up like a bitter melon, her large watery eyes full of the word "hunger."

Chen Chen looked at her without saying a word.

He raised his left hand, the [silver-grade storage ring] made entirely of unknown metal and engraved with ancient spatial runes on its surface glimmering under the cold lights of the carriage.

With a thought.

The next second, a scene occurred that made everyone in the vehicle turn their heads.

A grilled rhinoceros steak, the size of a basin and still sizzling with grease, appeared out of thin air on the folding table.

Immediately following was a whole bucket of nutrient solution, mixed from high-energy nutrient powder and exuding a rich, milky aroma.

Then, a dozen energy bars, a bag of dehydrated vegetables, and even...

There were also a few pieces of precious pre-apocalypse dark chocolate carefully wrapped in tin foil.

Food piled up into a small mountain.

The rich aroma of meat, milk, and the sweet scent of chocolate mixed together, turning the cramped carriage into a gourmet paradise in the apocalypse.

Su Xiaoqi's eyes went wide.

She stared foolishly at the small mountain of food in front of her, sniffing hard, her large watery eyes filled first with disbelief, and then with immense ecstasy.

Finally, two lines of shameful tears streamed down past the corners of her mouth.

In the Jiang Consortium guild, she was a human weapon.

Every meal she had was calculated to the milligram by nutritionists using precision instruments.

To maintain her body's "sensitivity" and ensure she kept the strongest absorption efficiency for high-energy food, she was forever kept in a state of "seventy percent full," a semi-starved condition.

She dreamed of gnawing on pig legs, but upon waking, she was always faced with bland, tasteless nutrient paste.

She had never imagined that one day someone would feed her in such a "luxurious" and "wasteful" way.

Chen Chen cut a piece of rhinoceros hind leg meat, grilled until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a tactical knife, stuck a metal fork into it, and handed it directly to Su Xiaoqi's mouth.

"On my vehicle, you only need to worry about one thing—don't eat yourself to death."

"I'll handle the rest."

These words struck Su Xiaoqi's heart like a small hammer.

All her strength and all her disguises were shattered in this moment.

She opened her mouth, not to bite the meat, but let out a "waa" and burst into tears.

She cried heart-wrenchingly, like a child who had suffered a great injustice.

Then, while crying, she grabbed the food on the table and stuffed it into her mouth chaotically.

She devoured it like a storm sweeping away clouds.

This was the first time in Su Xiaoqi's life that she had truly eaten a "full meal."

The system notification sound exploded frantically in Chen Chen's mind.

[Ding! Detected a drastic change in the causal relationship with a female companion!]

[Su Xiaoqi's favorability has skyrocketed! Bond progress: Lv.2 (35%)!]

[Gold-tier entry [Gluttonous Feast / Energy Feedback] has been activated!]

[Su Xiaoqi is devouring high-order aberrant flesh (rhinoceros steak), energy converting...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the LV2 gold-tier entry "Gluttonous Feast" feedback: Constitution +2, Perception +1!]

A warm current surged from deep within his body, and Chen Chen's muscle density and sensory acuity improved once again, albeit imperceptibly.

He looked at the ravenous Su Xiaoqi, a hint of a smile in his eyes.

He had picked up a mobile stat point ATM.

Just as a "feeding feast" was taking place inside the carriage.

"Thud!"

A heavy, muffled sound, and a violent tremor came from the front of the RV, as if it had hit a wall.

Everyone in the vehicle swayed.

Chen Chen frowned and looked outside the vehicle.

A figure, hulking to an unbelievable degree, blocked the front of the RV.

It was a giant over two and a half meters tall, wearing a rough apron stitched together from the leather of various aberrant creatures, stained with dark red blood.

Around his waist hung various types of butchering tools—boning knives, bone axes, skinning hooks... each one gleaming with a chilling, ominous light.

Most terrifying was the mask he wore on his face.

It was made from the entire skull of an adult gluttonous aberrant pig, with two balls of ghostly green fire burning in the two hollow eye sockets.

The pressure he exuded was heavy and bloody, not inferior to any monster Chen Chen had encountered before.

The town's order enforcer—the Pig-Faced Butcher.

The Butcher's eyes, burning with ghost fire, were first attracted by the top-tier meat aroma wafting from the RV, and then they landed on Su Xiaoqi, seemingly taking a keen interest in this little girl who could blow up an aberrant pig with one punch.