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Chapter 45: The Latest Research

Xu Duoduo followed Qin Luo and sat on the carpet by the sofa, looking at the table full of food. She silently took out several more large boxes of food.

Sliced beef rolls, lamb rolls, a box of various meatballs, duck blood, wide noodles, spring rolls, fried tofu puffs, enoki mushrooms, and shrimp paste - everything was complete.

Qin Luo and Bai Shu stopped talking and turned to watch her take out the food. It was too amazing!

"Little Squad Leader, you're really like a treasure box. You have everything we need. These are all in fresh-keeping boxes, and the beef rolls look like they're from real meat, not synthetic!" Chen Xiaofei exclaimed happily as he brought out a small basin of vegetables.

The little zombie finally took out a large can of canned peaches. The three of them let out a "Wow!" and couldn't help but applaud. This was a real treat.

Bai Shu smiled and said, "Little Squad Leader, can you maybe bring out some alcohol? Old Wang likes white liquor, and we'd like a few bottles of beer. We promise not to drink too much."

Xu Duoduo nodded demurely and directly took out a case of beer, followed by a bottle of Maotai.

Ta-da! Wow! It felt like the table was suddenly shining with golden light!

Bai Shu laughed again, "Old Wang, come quick! Look, Little Squad Leader brought Maotai for you!"

"What?" Wang Weihu rushed out from the kitchen, hurrying to the living room to see. His face lit up with joy. "Little Squad Leader, you're truly a great person!!"

He really loved alcohol.

Chen Xiaofei was yelling from the kitchen, "Old Wang, the water's about to overflow!"

Wang Weihu then returned to wash vegetables, his mood visibly improved. He was even humming a tune, looking quite domestic washing vegetables while wearing an apron.

After all the bustle,

Everyone could finally start eating dinner. By now, it was already 8 PM.

Bai Shu played the latest research report on his tablet for everyone to hear.

Then they started eating and drinking.

"Little Squad Leader, do you have any sesame paste? Hot pot without sesame paste has no soul."

"Put some beef in for me."

"Little Squad Leader, I want clear oil dipping sauce."

"Damn, this meat is so fragrant! Good beef really tastes best in clear broth!"

"I, as a spicy food lover, absolutely disagree!"

"Xiaofei, what did you buy? Why are there these pink chunks of meat?"

"Well, I'm not brave enough to eat that."

"Tsk, this is shrimp!! Shrimp! Mutant shrimp! Other teams brought it back, and the research center checked it. It's edible and twice as delicious! Heavens, I only managed to get one piece. Do you know this stuff sells for 300 points a box?"

The little zombie stared at the basin of so-called shrimp meat. It was indeed shrimp meat, just a magnified version. Each piece of shrimp meat was as big as a fist.

This was the good stuff Chen Xiaofei was talking about, which he had fought with a bunch of people to get at the supermarket.

"Damn, it's really delicious!"

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"Eating shrimp like this is too satisfying!!"

"Little Squad Leader, do you want to try a bite? Can zombies eat mutant shrimp?"

Qin Luo had just given Xu Duoduo a piece of shrimp meat. "Do you want to eat it as sashimi?"

Xu Duoduo stared at it for a while, not taking the raw shrimp meat with chopsticks, but instead eyeing the cooked shrimp meat in his bowl. She actually seemed to be craving it, which was rare.

Qin Luo understood immediately. He put the shrimp meat from his chopsticks into the spicy pot to cook for a minute, then took it out to cool. While it was cooling, the little zombie's paw was resting on his arm, silently swallowing.

Chen Xiaofei and the other two started laughing. "So the Little Squad Leader can crave food too?"

Bai Shu took off his glasses and put them aside. "Why wouldn't she? It's just that we don't know if she likes cooked food. Doesn't the new research say that mutants prefer eating mutated animals?"

Wang Weihu took a sip of white liquor, his whole body relaxed, watching them eat and drink. This kind of life was simply too good to be true.

Hearing his friends' words and seeing the little zombie craving so much that her whole body was pressed against him, Qin Luo thought, how could she not crave? That night she even climbed into his lap and gnawed on his wrist. "Alright, it's cooled down. Eat up."

Seeing the shrimp meat fed to her mouth, Xu Duoduo opened her mouth with an "Awooo" and ate it. The large shrimp meat was sweet and juicy, and her eyes lit up!!

She could actually taste it!!

A taste other than mutation cores! The taste of shrimp!! Her face was full of surprise.

The little zombie was stunned.

Chen Xiaofei, biting his chopsticks, was also shocked: "What's wrong with the Little Squad Leader? She's like a frozen computer, stuck."

Bai Shu and Wang Weihu also looked at her nervously. It was the first time the little zombie had eaten anything other than mutation cores.

Qin Luo was very calm. Having watched her for a long time, he knew her little thoughts. "Probably stunned by how good it tastes. It's fine, she'll be back to normal in a moment."

Sure enough.

The little zombie started chewing again, her eyes bright and shining, her paw still gripping Qin Luo's forearm.

It wasn't that Xu Duoduo didn't want to eat by herself. She could grab things, but she couldn't use chopsticks for these delicate tasks. Her paws weren't adapted to it yet.

But it didn't matter.

She had an automatic feeder beside her.

Qin Luo ate a couple of bites himself, not forgetting to cook some mutant shrimp meat for her.

Chen Xiaofei and the others breathed a sigh of relief and resumed their smiles as they continued eating and drinking.

"So what does the latest report mean? I can't really understand it."

"Me neither."

Hearing Wang Weihu and Chen Xiaofei's words, Bai Shu said helplessly: "Did you two even listen carefully?"

The report had become background music.

Wang Weihu and Chen Xiaofei just chuckled. They indeed hadn't listened carefully.

Bai Shu looked at the two of them, then at their captain playing the feed-the-little-zombie game next door. None of them could be relied upon. So he simply cleared his throat, leaned back on the sofa, took another sip of beer, and started explaining to them.

"The gist is that one of the research center's latest discoveries is about the use of mutation cores. This thing is the key to the evolution of all living and non-living things globally."

The source of the global infection hasn't been identified yet.

But infected organisms or non-organisms all evolve through [Devouring], which is why zombies want to bite people, mutant animals want to eat people, and mutant monsters accept anything, eating whatever they can.

It's all to accumulate enough energy to evolve and become stronger.

The infected all contain this energy element. Lower-level ones have very little, while higher-level ones have more.

For example, ordinary zombies and ordinary mutant animals don't have mutation cores, but they keep [Devouring], gaining improvements through eating.

Eventually, mutation cores will grow in their bodies.

[Devouring] is also one of the main skills of all mutants currently, and it's quite common.

"The second latest research is that the diluted serum of mutation cores has been approved and is now in mass production. Ability users can enhance their abilities by injecting the diluted mutation core serum, but whether they can digest and use it depends on themselves. Breaking through oneself is also a way to accelerate improvement."

Using or not using the diluted mutation core serum is like using spirit stones in cultivation novels. Without the serum, you rely on absorbing the world's infection source normally. When your ability is exhausted, you can achieve a breakthrough. Using the serum allows you to level up faster, but it's just an empty shell built up.

Abilities are like knives; they need to be tempered a thousand times to be sharp enough.

Levels built up by drugs are very hollow.

They were all shocked by this information.