Xu Duoduo's paws could hold a pen but couldn't write well, so Qin Luo helped her fill out the form later.
When the service desk girl saw her pull out a chainsaw and place it on the edge of the table, she couldn't help but secretly gasp. She had thought she was just a cute little girl, but indeed, anyone who could enter the 3A Special Operations Team was extraordinary.
"Alright, I've collected all your information. You can pick up your items in three days."
The service desk girl put away the forms and told them they could look around inside, but it was best not to stay too long.
Qin Luo and his team said they were leaving, satisfied with just seeing what was inside. They couldn't buy anything else anyway, so they might as well just wait for their own weapons.
Seeing this, the service desk girl personally escorted their squad out. Her attitude was quite good, it was just that the Craftsman Department had strict rules.
After coming out, they decided to go shopping.
Since they were already here.
The four people and one zombie started browsing from nearby. The city center was quite different from before, with all sorts of strange shops.
There were even bubble tea shops, though the prices were much higher than before. 180 points for a cup. Keep in mind that here, 3 points could get you a "Don't Starve Meal Set". For ordinary people, this was ridiculously expensive.
Qin Luo turned and stopped at the bubble tea shop's entrance, looking at the menu board. "180 points for a cup? I want to see what this is all about."
When the girl inside saw their group, she almost screamed out loud. Their looks were off the charts! Each guy was handsome and tall, and the girl was pretty too!
She said with a blushing face: "Welcome to Buji Buji, what would you like to drink?"
Qin Luo glanced at the menu board. There were Classic Series and Innovative Series. The Classic Series had things like pearl milk tea and matcha latte from before. The Innovative Series was a bit peculiar, with items like Durian Boba Milk Tea, Red Banana Milkshake, Diluted Mutation Core Fruit Tea, and Extra Large Camel Milk.
"Hmm, ten cups from the Classic Series, ten cups from the Innovative Series. What's this Red Banana thing?"
They could store extras in their space.
This world never failed to surprise them every now and then.
The shop girl explained shyly: "Red Banana is a newly discovered mutant banana. It's ten times more fragrant and sweet than regular bananas, with a great texture. You can try it if you'd like. Alright, please scan the code here."
After taking their order, she directed them to scan a barcode on the machine at the side.
It used to be QR codes.
Now it's all barcodes.
Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu were still examining these new things. "So mutant plants are being used for food now?"
They had clearly noticed this point as well.
The shop girl, who wasn't an ability user but just an ordinary person working in the city center, explained: "Because food is scarce now, and we'll run out sooner or later, the base has started issuing missions to collect mutant plants. After people bring them back, they're checked at the research center. As long as the pollution level isn't too high, they can be eaten."
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Of course.
She added: "Currently, ordinary people still can't eat mutant plants and meats."
Because of the pollution.
But mutants and altered humans could eat them, and it was even beneficial for them.
The pollution source itself was the energy for their upgrades, also a kind of body supplement.
Wang Weihu expressed that this was eye-opening. "If we don't come to the city center once in a while, it feels like we'll be out of touch with the world."
Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei both said: "Exactly, it's not a joke that things change every day." "Tsk tsk, scary."
After explaining, the shop girl went to prepare their order with a smile. They saw that the two series of drinks were prepared separately. The girl outside was making the Classic Series that ordinary people could drink, while inside they were making the Innovative Series.
Bai Shu looked and said: "I was wondering how ordinary people could handle mutant plants. Indeed, they're prepared separately. The people inside should be altered humans."
Compared to ability users, altered humans were actually more unstable. Most of them did other jobs in the base.
Altered humans like Xu Duoduo who could go out on missions with them were really rare.
Not all altered humans could control their emotions 100%, and they easily lost control.
Those altered in the direction of herbivores were too timid and easily startled, afraid to participate in combat.
Those altered in the direction of carnivores easily became bloodthirsty after seeing blood and gore, losing their reason, so they generally weren't allowed on missions either.
Altered humans as emotionally stable as Xu Duoduo were extremely rare.
While they were waiting for their bubble tea, they suddenly saw a familiar figure. A bright red cockscomb was very eye-catching as it poked its head out wearing an apron and called: "Cluck cluck cluck, Xiao Zhang! Xiao Zhang! We're out of boba pearls! Where's the stock cluck cluck!"
The girl who took their order was startled and quickly stuffed him back into the kitchen. "Chicken Bro, don't come out! You'll scare the customers! The boba pearls are in the small ingredient box, I just restocked them recently."
Qin Luo and the others: ......
Xu Duoduo poked her head out to look again and again. The mystery she wanted to solve this morning was answered at this moment, and this feeling was truly quite peculiar.
Finally, when they got their bubble tea, Qin Luo couldn't help but ask: "Are bubble tea shops all run by the government now?"
The shop girl was stunned for a moment, not daring to look at him, and nodded with a red face. "Now the materials for making bubble tea are very scarce. Basically all restaurants are directly operated by the government because only they have so many materials."
How could ordinary people possibly have the resources to open shops now? Unless they were extremely, extremely rich, but even then they'd have to buy ingredients from the government.
So it really was eating government food, an iron rice bowl. "Please don't mind, Chicken Bro is very nice. Although altered humans look a bit scary, they're not much different from ordinary people. He works super hard, and even has a part-time job crowing in the civilian area, just to make life a little easier for elderly people who've lived in the countryside most of their lives and help them transition and adapt to life in the base."
The shop girl was really gentle. She was afraid they were among those who discriminated against altered humans.
Qin Luo smiled and said: "We won't. Altered humans are all quite cute."
Bai Shu and the others also made an "Eee~~" sound.
Chen Xiaofei, carrying the remaining ten cups, said with a grin: "Are all altered humans cute, or just the little squad leader?"
Qin Luo had just taken out a cup of bubble tea to hand to the little zombie, even poking the straw for her. "Tsk, don't talk so much! If you don't want the bubble tea, give it back to me."
Chen Xiaofei immediately protected it, saying he wouldn't give it back, with a mischievous smile.
Bai Shu and Wang Weihu also laughed.
The little zombie held the extra-large cup of bubble tea with her paws, tilting her head to look at them, and finally stared at the bubble tea. It had been a long time since she'd had freshly made bubble tea!
There were bubble tea shop supplies in her space, but it definitely wasn't the same as freshly made. The little zombie slurped a big mouthful, her eyes getting brighter as she drank! She could taste the flavor of bubble tea made with mutant plants!!
Happy~
The little zombie hugged the bubble tea and swayed back and forth. At this moment, she couldn't be happier!
The shop girl watched enviously as they left, joking and laughing. It was only then that she realized the girl hiding behind the super handsome guy was also an altered human??
Because she just noticed the collar on her neck... No wonder they didn't discriminate against altered humans.
How nice.