A strange dish with skulls (Chapter 75)
Before Ye Sheng could ask who it was, a voice came from outside: "Ye Sheng, it's me! Open up!"
It was Ah mu's voice.
Hearing this, Ye Sheng felt like her lucky star had arrived. She eagerly opened the door, rubbing her hands together in excitement... but she quickly shut the door to prevent anyone from seeing the Xiaodongxi.
This time, the only person who came was Ah mu.
Seeing this, Ye Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. She really didn't enjoy dealing with the shrewd Lan Zhang!
She much preferred the straightforward Ah mu.
At least with him, she could get along without constantly worrying about being suspected.
"Ah mu, how come you're here so soon? Shouldn't you be resting to heal your injuries?"
"No worries, no worries, these minor injuries heal quickly with some medicine... I'm here on orders this time, to invite you to visit our Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group headquarters."
Ah mu grinned, showing his bright white teeth.
However, his words were even more surprising.
The Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group invited her?
Ye Sheng couldn't help but show her confusion. She was just a small fry, hardly someone the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group would invite as a guest!
After all, the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group was a mid-sized organization with some reputation in the base.
And she was just a small orphan in the mitigation zone.
"Ah mu, are you sure you're inviting me to the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group?"
"Yes, Ye Sheng, thanks to your help, you saved me and Lan Zhang, and in turn, saved the others in the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group. After hearing this, the vice leader insisted I bring you over to properly thank you."
Ah mu's expression was sincere as he spoke, looking like he wouldn't take no for an answer, making Ye Sheng feel both amused and exasperated.
If she didn't know she had a life-saving grace towards Ah mu, she might have thought she was being forcibly taken away!
However, since Ah mu said so, there was no harm in going.
Last time, the generous vice leader gave her a hand crossbow. She wondered what he might give this time.
A bit excited!
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"Alright, wait a moment, I'll go get some things."
"No problem."
After making her decision, Ye Sheng immediately went back inside the shack, gave the Xiaodongxi a few instructions, grabbed her satchel, locked the door, and then hopped into the open-top four-wheel vehicle Ah mu drove, heading towards the safe zone!
This was Ye Sheng's first time entering the safe zone, as she had always wandered around the mitigation zone and the wilderness before.
It wasn't that Ye Sheng didn't want to "enter the city" and take a look.
However, to enter the safe zone's city walls, one needed to register at the gate. Residents of the safe zone could enter and exit freely with their identification. If you were an "unregistered" person, you had to pay a hefty fee of 1,000 base points to be allowed in.
Such an expensive price deterred people from the mitigation zone, making them give up on the idea of "entering the city."
Previously, Zhou Lin said she was going to work in the safe zone, which wasn't an easy task.
After all, her workplace didn't provide residential proof, so Zhou Lin had to enter the safe zone at her own expense. Even though the Zhou family was relatively wealthy in the mitigation zone, they probably wouldn't let Zhou Lin make the trip back and forth often.
At that point, it would be hard to see Zhou Lin again.
Sigh!
Life is tough!
However, Ye Sheng was also working hard to save up points. When she could buy a house in the safe zone, she'd be able to visit Zhou Lin from time to time.
While Ye Sheng was sighing, Ah mu had already paid the entry fee for her, getting her a temporary resident card. With this card, she could stroll around the safe zone as she pleased.
If the temporary resident card was lost, she would be considered an illegal intruder.
After that, she'd be thrown into the mines to do hard labor...
"Hehe, Ye Sheng, you don't know how excited the vice leader was when he heard about your bravery. He kept slapping his thigh and said he knew it—you are definitely a great prospect for becoming a mercenary!"
"The vice leader sure likes to joke..."
"No joke, he said you hadn't even undergone systematic training yet and were already able to fearlessly kill multiple Black Spring Freemasonry members. Imagine how much stronger you'd be with proper training!"
"..."
Unexpectedly, the vice leader still had his sights set on her becoming a mercenary, making Ye Sheng's lips twitch.
She suddenly regretted coming along with Ah mu!
After saying this, Ah mu quickly added, "I think the vice leader is right!"
Ah Mu truly believed that he and Ye Sheng were destined to meet.
He was already contemplating whether to recognize Ye Sheng as his sister... However, considering that Ye Sheng was his savior, treating her as a sister didn't seem appropriate. Yet, given their age difference, it didn't make sense to consider her as an elder sister either...
After some internal conflict, Ah Mu decided to seek Lan Zhang's opinion, only to be mercilessly mocked by him.
This finally made Ah Mu suppress his thoughts.
Later, upon hearing the deputy leader's plan, Ah Mu's mind became active again.
If Ye Sheng were to join the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group as a mercenary, he would definitely take good care of her, making sure she felt the warmth of home in the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group!
However, while the deputy leader and Ah Mu had good intentions, Ye Sheng was far from pleased.
Upon suddenly hearing this news, Ye Sheng couldn't even bother to check out the safe zone. Instead, she was racking her brain trying to figure out how to refuse later. She definitely did not want to be a mercenary racing with death every day!
"Ye Sheng, we're here. Welcome to the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group Headquarters!"
Despite thinking for a long time, Ye Sheng couldn't come up with a tactful way to refuse. Meanwhile, Ah Mu had already driven to the headquarters of the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group.
When the car stopped, Ye Sheng looked up at the five-story building in front of her, with a plaque hanging at the entrance.
It read "Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group."
The headquarters of the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group was established in the outer city of the base's safe zone. Purchasing land and constructing buildings there was within acceptable limits... As for the inner city of the safe zone, property prices had been inflated to astronomical levels, and even if you had money, it wasn't something you could easily buy.
Only the powerful and influential lived there.
And just as Ah Mu was about to take Ye Sheng to meet the deputy leader, Ye Sheng, thinking it was best to delay as much as possible, quickly grabbed Ah Mu and said somewhat shyly, "Ah Mu, do you have a cafeteria here? I'm a bit hungry."
"Of course there is! Look at me, I even forgot we should eat! Come, I'll take you to the cafeteria for dinner."
Ah Mu naturally wouldn't refuse Ye Sheng's request to eat. Excitedly, he led Ye Sheng around a corner towards the public cafeteria on the second floor, ready to treat her to a feast.
As for the deputy leader waiting in the office...
Well, the deputy leader had plenty of jerky snacks, so waiting a bit longer wouldn't hurt.
Ah Mu thought about it briefly, then quickly pushed the deputy leader out of his mind and brought Ye Sheng to the cafeteria to start choosing dishes.
They casually picked out the food they wanted to eat, then paid using their meal cards.
Settlement was done on the last day of each month.
Very convenient.
Compared to people in the mitigation zone drinking nutrient solutions, the cafeteria at the Azure Phoenix Mercenary Group headquarters offered a mix of meat and vegetarian dishes, looking very abundant!
It's just that Ye Sheng couldn't recognize what some of the food was...
Ye Sheng stood in front of the table full of food, silently contemplating the strange-looking dishes.
She began to doubt whether her decision to come to the cafeteria was right.
"Ye Sheng, would you like to try Cuppy rat head?"
"No no no, I'll just have something simple."
Facing Ah Mu's enthusiasm, Ye Sheng quickly waved her hands and then chose a plate of vegetable salad, egg pancakes, and some small cakes.
Just aiming for something safe.
She really didn't have the courage to touch the other strange foods!
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After the two found an empty table and sat down, Ye Sheng picked up a small cake and took a bite. It looked good on the outside, and she expected it to taste delicious, but it turned out to be ground-up radioactive contaminated plants.
The texture was somewhat disappointing, but at least she could taste some sweetness.
That was quite good.
Meanwhile, Ah Mu chose a plate of strange stir-fried dishes, colorful enough to almost form a rainbow.
He also had a bowl of black soup bubbling with skulls floating on its surface.
The dishes in the wasteland world were really strange!!!
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Ye Sheng dared not look too closely. She just lowered her head and nibbled on the small cake in her hand. Just as she finished eating one, the two people sitting behind her suddenly started discussing a topic that interested Ye Sheng.
"The Black Spring Freemasonry is making a comeback. I haven't dared to take on any missions recently. Those lunatics, if they catch you, the death is horrible. Why doesn't the base authorities do anything about them?"
"Do something? How can they? Previously, there was the suppression by Lady Erensu, so the Black Spring Freemasonry didn't dare to act rashly. Now that Erensu hasn't appeared for a long time, it's probably true as rumored that she's been killed by the Gu family."
Ye Sheng picked up her egg pancake and silently nibbled on it, too preoccupied to even savor the taste, while eavesdropping with her ears perked.
She heard about Erensu, the killer with pink hair!
"However, didn't the Gu family already issue a statement that Erensu isn't dead? They even said she'll appear soon!"