An Nuan hooked his collar and chuckled, "It's not worth much, but it's delicious. I'll pick out the ones that are about to go bad and roast them for you. Like it?"
"Whether I like it or not is secondary, but it's very economical."
Fu Yunting tasted a rich flavor for the first time. He called Sha Xing and Zhai Yan over and roasted a handful of cherries for them.
Various flavors exploded in their mouths, and Zhai Yan looked ecstatic.
Sha Xing, however, was shocked.
It was as if she had discovered a new continent, her worldview completely shattered!
"Wow, what is this taste? Why have I never tasted it before?"
Her tongue was even more numb than Fu Yunting's, almost devoid of nerves.
But she could still taste these flavors, especially the taste of sugarcane. It was so delicious!
An Nuan asked, "Do you like eating them?"
"Yes, I do!"
"Then I'll pick some out for you to roast and eat in the future."
Cherries spoiled easily, after all.
An Nuan was a little happy; there was no more waste!
Zhai Yan, on the other hand, quite liked the "mangosteen" and "cherry" flavored cherries. He roasted a boxful and fed a few to Zhai Yangyang.
The little guy puckered up, hugged his sheep's head, and pitifully snuggled into Zhai Yan's embrace.
Old Bird watched these people.
Ability users, ordinary people, mutated creatures, zombies, hybrids.
Elsewhere, who would have believed they could coexist peacefully?
Old Bird smiled. Perhaps this place could truly become a paradise.
In the evening, An Nuan settled them into the guest rooms of the office building to sleep.
Since the office building was constructed, An Nuan had only been there a few times. Fu Yunting went more often, frequently holding meetings there early in the morning.
An Nuan hadn't been there much either, so she decided to take this opportunity to have a look.
"Alright, it's fully equipped. They even have CS and LEGOs. We rough old men don't care about such things!"
"Then I'll be heading back. You can call if you need anything, and someone will deliver whatever you're missing."
"Got it. Hurry back, I'll be waiting for your breakfast tomorrow!"
Old Bird escorted An Nuan out of the building. As he watched her gradually disappear into the distance, Old Bird lifted his eyepatch.
A scarlet eyeball was revealed, exuding a terrifying killing intent.
"Damn it, a swarm of mosquitoes has been buzzing around me since earlier, so annoying."
Dark shadows dispersed around him, quickly capturing flies and annihilating them with black fire.
Old Wai also appeared below at some point, a pile of fly corpses in front of him.
Guo Yun reported, "Boss, in the underground sewers about twelve kilometers from here."
Guo Yun possessed the bat's sonar detection ability, as well as thermal vision.
Wherever sound waves could reach, he could then use infrared to see through obstructions.
Whether it was mutated creatures or zombies, he could see them clearly.
"Well done!"
Guo Yun asked, "What do we do now?"
Old Bird rubbed his fists. "Little Lei Lei is, after all, my nephew. As an elder, how can I stand by and watch my junior be harassed? Let's kill them!"
The three of them shot out of the community.
They were all people who lived on the edge of a knife, and they had lived in the mountains for two to three years.
Their toned bodies moved like the wind through the city, as if on flat ground.
When Shi Huai sent his message, they were already five to six kilometers away.
An Nuan replied, "Don't worry about them. They'll be back after they've handled things. Jin Can, please prepare some leisure supplies for them and try to satisfy our guests."
"Understood, President Nuan."
Jin Can, the logistics manager, immediately instructed his team to sweep through the rooms again.
They also prepared exquisite pastries and fruits, and put down two packs of cigarettes.
When An Nuan returned, she noticed that there were many "cool" flies in the community.
However, they didn't attack people or enter houses, observing from a distance of fifty meters.
Since they weren't causing any trouble for now, An Nuan didn't pay them any mind.
Since Old Bird wanted to deal with them, let him.
An Nuan didn't want to deal with flies either.
Old Bird reached the ten-kilometer mark, kicked open a well cover, and began to inject black fire into it.
Old Wai warned him, "There might be swamp gas down there. If you do that, it might cause an explosion."
"It's fine, I'm controlling it. Old Guo, remember to navigate."
Guo Yun transmitted the scanned map into Old Bird's mind.
Even though the target was still kilometers away, the black fire could accurately pinpoint their location and transmit it quickly.
Along the way, it also burned all the rats and flies below.
A distant explosion erupted from underground, sending a well cover flying into the sky.
"Found them! Brothers, let's get to work."
An Nuan slept soundly. When she woke up, the sun outside was warm, and the comfortable temperature made her feel refreshed.
Except for one person cowering in the yard, everything seemed perfect.
"What the heck is this?"
A man was curled up in the yard.
His clothes were tattered, and he exuded a strange odor.
If one didn't know better, they'd think a sewer had exploded somewhere.
The man shielded his eyes and moaned, "It's too bright! Turn off the sun quickly!"
"Heh, if I had that ability, why would I still be lingering in the mortal world? The sun is already up!"
An Nuan wanted him to look up.
The man frantically dug a hole in the ground and buried his head in it, finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"Okay, okay, the sun is gone."
"Brat, you have too many wild thoughts because you don't get enough sun. Get up quickly, I'll introduce you to my niece!"
Old Bird grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.
The man was on the verge of tears.
"Let go! You brute, I'm the Envoy of Darkness, you can't treat me like this! The great God of Darkness will punish you."
Great, another chuunibyo.
An Nuan said with disgust, "You stinky kid, how long has it been since you last bathed? With your condition, even the God of Darkness would be disgusted!~"
"How could that be? The God of Darkness is black!"
"But gods don't stink! Have you ever seen a god emitting a foul odor?"
The boy thought carefully. He realized he hadn't...
It was over. The God of Darkness would dislike him, and he wasn't worthy of being a follower of the God of Darkness!
An Nuan looked at his expression and thought this child was too easily deceived.
But he was so smelly that An Nuan didn't want him to enter the house.
She quickly called over a few water-element ability users. In a corner of the garden, they built a simple enclosure with wooden planks and continuously poured water into it.
They first used soap, then sulfur soap, and finally half a bottle of floral-scented body wash before they finally managed to scrub him clean.
However, his hair was an even bigger disaster.
His collarbone-length hair was matted together in clumps, and it was impossible to wash them apart.
In the end, they had to use clippers and shave his head into a buzz cut.
Even with clippers, Lan Mi went through two blades before she managed to clean his head.
Xiao Tong was speechless.
"Heavens, Xiao Tong has never seen a human like this. If I didn't consider human skin structure, I would scrub him with a steel wool!"