Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster! Chapter 186 - 68 Second-level Monster

At this mont, Chen Jian didn’t know that the chanical God Sect within Jinling City had already begun mobilizing, but from Huadu’s actions, he could roughly guess that the chanical God Sect and the Holy Blood Temple would probably have so counterasures.

The situation beca even more chaotic, but from another perspective, the more chaotic it got, the more advantageous it was for his team.

No matter what their purpose was, if these two factions could bash each other’s brains out, his ability to reap the spoils in confusion would increase substantially.

How did that saying go?

The rougher the waves, the pricier the fish.

So, Chen Jian didn’t spend much effort tracking the movents in Jinling City, and instead focused on heading straight towards the Jinling Ruins.

After traveling for 16 hours and taking two breaks, the 8-mber team finally reached the outskirts of the Jinling Ruins.

According to the plan, they would make their final rest here, then enter the ruins for a close reconnaissance to gather intelligence on that Second-level Monster.

The ti was midnight, Chen Jian dug out a smokeless stove to light up a pot, putting all the ingredients they had traded and collected along the way into it, making a big pot of mishmash stew.

The warmth of the fire on his chest, the chill of the wind on his back.

After a mouthful of hot soup, Chen Jian sighed with satisfaction.

Watching his actions, Ji Xing hesitated to speak.

Wanting to speak but not daring, wanting to laugh but holding back.

Seeing her expression, Chen Jian curiously asked:

"What’s up? Sothing wrong?"

Ji Xing waved her hand, coughed, and said:

"Nothing... just your definition of food... surprised a bit."

"What do you an? Not tasty enough?"

"You call this tasty??"

Ji Xing said speechlessly:

"The ingredients were okay, dried at, rice, flour, vegetables, and even so spices."

"But can you tell how you ca up with the idea to stew all these into one pot?"

"Your skills in every other aspect are so advanced, the knowledge you have is beyond my imagination, but are you really this crude when it cos to food?"

"Limited conditions..."

Chen Jian responded awkwardly, while Shen Yue mocked rcilessly:

"Give a break, just admit it."

"Our old cook used to make caral sauce with a beaten soldier’s shovel, you’re just lazy."

"During our field training with the 195th Special Forces, they even knew how to cook the bird eggs they found, but you fooled into eating them raw, calling them sterile. Did you forget?"

Chen Jian retorted defiantly:

"Bird eggs are naturally sterile, didn’t you know that, being a dical student?"

"...Whatever you say."

Shen Yue couldn’t be bothered to argue with Chen Jian, focusing instead on the sticky stuff in his bowl.

Chen Jian rolled his eyes, and He Shuo, amused, spoke up:

"Our current mission isn’t that urgent, so why don’t I handle the cooking from now on?"

"I’m sick of having mush all day long."

"...True."

Zeng Yi and Xie Liu both nodded in agreent, while Li Shi just kept eating silently.

Realizing there was no other food, Ji Xing forced herself to down two bowls of mush before speaking again:

"Your team is actually quite unique."

"In what way?"

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Chen Jian asked.

"...Hard to say."

"But sotis I feel like you don’t have any goals."

"On this wasteland, so struggle to survive, so aim to beco regional rulers, and so want to spread their doctrines."

"Though I’m not like them,"

"But you guys... are hard to figure out."

"Your desires are very low."

"You don’t seek enjoynt, you even consider sleeping in the wilderness as normal."

"You see, although your team mbers aren’t satisfied with the ’food’ you’ve made, they eat it without any disdain..."

"That’s because you haven’t tasted softened buns from a slop bucket."

Lei Jie quipped as he finished the last of his noodle soup.

"...You have?"

Chen Jian asked, bewildered:

"What generation of soldier were you that you encountered such things? Wasn’t new recruit hazing banned long before our ti?"

"...It happened during military training in school when my instructor forced to eat it."

"...Makes sense."

Chen Jian gave Lei Jie a thumbs up, who waved it off, indicating the matter was best left in the past.

But recalling Ji Xing’s earlier words, he suddenly spoke up:

"Actually, it’s not that our desires are too low, nor that we don’t seek enjoynt."

"It’s just that, having been through the vast ocean, lesser waters seem insignificant."

"It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury to frugality."

"If you had really experienced what we’ve been through, you’d likely be in the sa state as us."

"Having seen too many good things, the so-called good things here don’t stand out."

"Unless one day, we can fully restore the glory of that era, otherwise... the so-called pleasures here are just fleeting clouds."

"We can’t stop, because there’s a huge carrot dangling in front of us."

"...Got it."

Ji Xing nodded thoughtfully, then asked:

"So you guys really ca from before the cataclysm?"

"You... ti-traveled?"

"Interpret it however you like."

Chen Jian didn’t plan to hide much, as it wasn’t really a big secret.

He casually replied:

"You can think of it like this ---- we once witnessed the era before the cataclysm, and after a night’s sleep, found ourselves in the present."

"...Truly fortunate."

Ji Xing sighed deeply, expressing her feelings.

"How is that fortunate?"

Chen Jian was perplexed, while Ji Xing gestured to explain: