Chapter 496 - 496: The Only Food Is Bugs

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“As long as he doesn’t use a weapon, I can beat him!”

He Xing chuckled. “You can also use a weapon.”

Xia Ju gritted her teeth. “Then don’t blame me.”

Xia Ju glared at him and turned away, not wanting to talk to him anymore.

Seeing that she was furious, Du Yue stepped out to be the peacemaker. “Alright, He Xing, stop teasing her. Let’s discuss whether to wait outside or go in with them.”

Xia Ju was a little confused. “Didn’t you say that you got along well with the people in the first base? Why don’t you want to go in now?”

Du Yue sighed softly. “You’ve been on this planet for a long time. You’ve watched a lot of TV shows. Haven’t you heard of the phrase ‘things remain the same, but people change?'”

People changed. They had been away from the first base for a long time. Who could be sure that the people in the first base were exactly the same as when they left?

Xia Ju nodded thoughtfully. “Then have you considered whether you want to go in or not?”

Du Yue did not answer her. Instead, she turned to He Xing and asked, “Do you have any ideas?” He Xing pondered for a moment and then said seriously, “How about this? I’ll go in and take a look at the situation first, then you guys…”

Before He Xing could finish, Du Yue interrupted him with a serious face. “I don’t agree. Didn’t we discuss it before? No matter what the situation is, we can’t act alone. It’s too dangerous.”

If He Xing went in by himself and something really happened, they would not be able to contact each other as there was no communication device.

No! Why did they not have any communication equipment? Du Yue suddenly remembered the cell phone she used in the first base. Xia Ju was listening to Du Yue’s words with a serious face, but as she listened, she suddenly saw two cell phones appear out of nowhere. Xia Ju was a little curious. “Why did you take out your phones?”

“These are the phones we used in the first base,” Du Yue explained briefly. “It can connect to the network in the first base.”

The convoy had arrived at the gate of the first base. The leader of the convoy was communicating with the guard at the gate. If there was nothing wrong with the network of the first base, they should be able to connect to the network. As she thought about it, Du Yue turned on her phone and handed He Xing’s phone to him. Xia Ju did not have her own phone, so she went to Du Yue’s side to take a look. “Are you going to check the situation of the first base online?” n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Du Yue nodded. “Nothing much has changed. We’ll follow the convoy in.”

While they were talking, Du Yue had already opened the official software of the first base. After a long time, the software needed updating and reminded Du Yue about it. Du Yue quickly updated the software. The updated software had an additional community for everyone to discuss, and there were all kinds of posts. The first thing that caught Du Yue’s eye’s eye was a post titled ‘Willing to exchange a hundred catties of bug powder for five catties of food.’

Xia Ju came over curiously. “Do you know what insect powder is?”

Du Yue did not know what it meant, but as she looked down, she gradually understood what bug powder was.

The poster wrote a long article, mostly about how he ate bug powder every day and now felt like vomiting at the sight of bugs. The last sentence of the post was probably to express his emotions. The poster deliberately used three exclamation marks. [I really can’t eat another mouthful of bug powder!!!]

After Du Yue finished reading this post, she scrolled down and found that most of the posts in this community were related to bugs. Some of the posts were simply complaining that the bug disaster was getting worse and worse, destroying all the crops and land. As a result, their only food was bugs, and they could not eat other food at all. Fruits and vegetables were just their wishful thinking.

Du Yue had a general idea of the situation in the first base just by reading those posts. It seemed that after she and He Xing left the first base, the bug disaster had not been solved. Instead, it was getting worse. All the crops were destroyed by the bugs, so everyone could only eat the bugs. Until now, they were already nauseated at the mention of bugs, but there was no other way to solve the problem. Seeing Xia Ju’s curious look, Du Yue directly handed the phone to her. “I’ll show you.”

“Have you contacted him yet?” Du Yue asked He Xing. Du Yue was obviously referring to Zuo Mingdong, whom she had not seen for a long time..