"What are you whispering about?" Dong Junwei's voice ca through.
It was the afternoon break, and everyone had returned to the living area. They saw Chen Mu squatting next to Gu Yinglong, engaged in a conversation.
"These tea leaves..."
"Oh, a few days ago, I saw Yinglong with nothing to do, so I casually gave her a few stems of these tea leaves."
Since the last grain of original rice was eaten, there was nothing left to divide among Gu Yinglong. So, Dong Junwei thought of this solution when they acquired the tea leaves.
"But is it necessary to divide tea leaves?"
Chen Mu was a bit puzzled. Unlike other food items, tea leaves were ant to be steeped in water. There was no issue with taste; just pull so down, and the resulting tea would be the sa. Splitting them seed like an unnecessary extra step.
Dong Junwei laughed, "I know it's not necessary, but it's just to give Yinglong sothing to do."
Chen Mu smiled, no wonder Gu Yinglong had referred to it as a form of entertainnt earlier.
Tang Jing added, "Besides, it can also be used to practice our abilities. Sooner or later, we'll need to grow other plants, and Yinglong will have to contribute her abilities then."
Gu Yinglong heard everyone's conversation while attentively tending to the tea leaves. Upon hearing Tang Jing's words, she nodded in agreent.
Chen Mu comnted, "However, it seems that tea leaves are much more challenging than rice."
"I've noticed that too. Perhaps it's because their structure is more complex?" Dong Junwei suggested.
Tang Jing nodded, "That's likely the case. Look, the previous six types of food - rice, potatoes, carrots, green peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes - all shared a common characteristic."
"A simple structure?"
"Exactly. They all had simple, roundish shapes. But in comparison, tea leaves are much more intricate. Not only are they irregular in shape, but they also have many fine hairs on the surface."
"This point seems to apply to all telekinesis-related abilities."
As they continued their research on telekinesis, the group at Qi Ming was gradually moving towards summarizing and generalizing their findings, hoping to discover its rules and principles.
The afternoon break lasted only half an hour, and afterward, they would be back to work until dinner ti.
After organizing the shelves up to the second floor, there was even more work to be done.
Chen Mu, Wei Dalei, and other main laborers were fully occupied with the high-level turret project, unable to assist Dong Junwei on her end.
...
Afternoon work was finished.
Before dinner.
Chen Mu and Tang Jing went to visit Yu Yuan.
Yu Yuan had been relocated to a spot 40 centiters away from the others, and Chen Mu even had a single room built specifically for him.
Originally, they thought he might feel lonely, and Chen Mu was worried that he might feel isolated.
But when they saw him, he was holding a pile of tomatoes, completely engrossed in eating.
Friendship was more important than food.
He had already finished the first box of tomatoes and was now working on the second one, not even noticing Chen Mu and Tang Jing's arrival.
"Don't just focus on eating. Rember what I told you, practice controlling your abilities," Tang Jing reminded him.
"Yeah, yeah." Yu Yuan perked up when he saw Tang Jing. "Senior Tang, I know."
"You haven't talked to that person, have you?" Tang Jing asked again.
"No, not at all, we haven't even made eye contact."
Near Yu Yuan's room was one of the two captives from Zhongyi High, Kong Qi.
Tang Jing needed Yu Yuan to restrain the energy emission as much as possible, which ant cutting off their supply to the people around them.
Naturally, they still needed soone to be the subject of the experint.
It was evident.
This person was now being treated as a test subject.
Kong Qi was still unaware of this, but he couldn't help but feel strange that Tang Jing, who brought him food every day, didn't co today.
Not only that, she didn't even bring food at all.
For Kong Qi, who had grown accustod to living here, he could go without food, but not seeing Tang Jing made him feel empty inside.
No food was being delivered.
Were they planning to starve him to death?
Were they finally going to kill him?
However, an entire day passed, and even with two missed als, he surprisingly didn't feel hungry.
To save food, Tang Jing had been feeding them both with tomatoes and occasionally supplented with so salt.
Kong Qi now felt nauseous at the sll of tomatoes, but even so, he didn't feel hungry at all today.
Tomatoes didn't have much caloric value; they just filled their stomachs with water, but after a while, they would get hungry again. However, today, he didn't feel hungry at all.
Kong Qi was unaware of Yu Yuan, who had recently moved nearby to accompany him. At first, he thought Yu Yuan was also captured like him, just with slightly better conditions, having a room of his own.
But later, he discovered that Yu Yuan could freely leave his room.
After a whole day without eating, yet not feeling hungry, Kong Qi started to worry about his body.
So, when Tang Jing approached, he spoke up for the first ti:
"What did you do to ?"
"Nothing," Tang Jing looked puzzled.
"Then why don't I feel hungry? I haven't eaten anything all day."
Kong Qi had beco increasingly accustod to life here, and he had developed so reliance on Tang Jing. So, although his words sounded like an accusation, his tone was more of questioning and confusion.
"Is that a bad thing?" Tang Jing chuckled. "You must be tired of tomatoes too."
"I've been tired of them long ago."
Perhaps unconsciously, over these days, his wariness towards Tang Jing had gradually faded.
"Our food is limited, so we can only make do with what we have."
"I rember there were dozens of boxes of stuff on that truck," Kong Qi bluntly pointed it out.
Tang Jing smiled, "You must have heard about the attack Zhongyi High made at night. Now we can't even dare to go outside. We don't know how long we'll need to make those supplies last."
"You're quite generous to provide food for a captive like ."
"That's not going to happen again."
"Hmm?"
Kong Qi was taken aback. Although he had long prepared for death, hearing Tang Jing say this suddenly made it hard for him to accept.
But Tang Jing no longer paid him any attention and left.
When she returned to Yu Yuan and Chen Mu, she said to the forr, "When can you make that guy feel hungry? Even if it's just a little progress."
"I'll do my best," Yu Yuan replied, standing up straight.
As Chen Mu and Tang Jing returned to the living area, dinner was already prepared.
As the most important al of the day, Du Jiajia usually put in the most effort for dinner.
However, when the food was served today, everyone was startled.
It looked like rice molded into a ball, but the color was wrong—it was green.
At this mont, Du Jiajia announced excitedly:
"Today is the Dragon Boat Festival! I invited everyone to eat zongzi."
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