The Reborn Otaku's Code of Practice for the Apocalypse Chapter 121

*Swish* All of them, including the usually calm Zhang Yi all turned to Luo Xun. The latter’s expression was as tranquil as a cloud floating through the sky, "As long as the blood or at has not changed color, we can eat."

Yes the mutant animals would not turn into zombies, even if they were bitten they would not turn. However the wound might have traces of the zombie virus, but as long as that was dealt with and so parts cut off, the rest could be cooked and eaten!

After all, water has been contaminated by the virus, but water can be drunk after being filtered. Mutated plants also carried small traces of the virus but people who ate vegetables were okay.

So the virus seed harmless if it was below a certain level.

The team cheered and burst into tears. They could not be blad, from the start of the apocalypse until now, except for rare cases while working with the army, how long had it been since they had fresh at?! This bird was so big, they could not let it go to waste.

The zombies had been wiped out but the usually attractive zombie nuclei were nowhere near the appeal of the bird’s foot! at, this was at!

A group of wolves separated the poor duck into various parts...

In fact the duck’s volu had been exaggerated from spreading its wings, the body was small in comparison.

Wang Duo grabbed two feathers from the bird, he smiled flatteringly at His Highness, "These duck feathers, we can bring so back for winter blankets?"

Zhang Yi had a face of disgust, "Such a large duck also has hard feathers, what kind of quilt would you make?"

On the other hand, He Qiankun was clinging to the dead duck’s leg, "I want to eat thigh! I want to eat thigh!"

Wu Xin said, "Duck breast is good too, the leg you are holding has a burnt hole...It seed that Xu i and Zhang Yi’s attack hit there."

He Qiankun still clung to the leg, "That’s nothing, other than that wound, the rest is fine!"

Yan Fei and Luo Xun were studying the duck’s hear. Knocked here, looked around, finally Yan Fei ford a sharp knife and did cranial surgery on the duck’s skull.

Look, the crystal nucleus was huge! Luo Xun picked up the crystal with delight, it was the size of three fists.

"But none of us can use it, are there any such abilities on base?" The duck’s ability was unheard of and the color of nucleus was new too. If it was more common – such as fire or water and so on, if no team mbers could use it, they could sell it for a lot of money! But now...

It was obviously a treasure, but had no use in the slightest!

The corners of Luo Xun’s mouth twitched, he unwillingly put down the crystal, "Forget it, we’ll keep it as a souvenir, first let’s deal with the duck!"

The duck was not as large was initially imagined but there was still a lot of at. At the least they could not take the entire had – who told them to only drive three cars and have so crushed?

Luo Xun circled the duck and made a decision, "at, no guts or bones, bring as much at back as possible!"

"...Duck gizzard and heart are very delicious...also intestines have flavor..." He Qiankun was drooling while helplessly looking at Luo Xun.

Luo Xun took two steps backwards when faced with the watering eyes of a wounded animal. His face was tangled while saying cautiously, "We can co back tomorrow but we don’t know how the at...The main issue is we have no salt." There was no way to process the at on the spot, otherwise they could bring more back.

"...Luo Xun says its a waste of points." Li Tie was tangled but decided to support Luo Xun’s opinion.

Wu Xin also nodded, "Although a waste, so of it can be eaten right?"

Xu i and then added, "We can eat so tonight and tomorrow morning, the rest we do not need!"

Although everyone understood, but their eyes were filled with regret. Made sense, how long had they last seen fresh at?

Suddenly Yan Fei pointed to the side, "I can reform the cars except without the glass windows. At the sa ti I can transform the body, increase volu and height, so there’s more space to store at..."

He had not finished when the crowd turned with shining eyes, "Good idea!!"

The team had very uncomfortable leaving all the at, bones and guts behind.

Duck’s blood could be eaten, but during the battle a lot of blood had been split and they had no thod to solidify the liquid. One serious discovery was that mutated animal blood was like salted fish, zombies were not attracted in the slightest. Could not be compared to human blood.

In the past the base had tried to study the phenonon but could not figure out about human blood attracted zombies but not mutant animals.

Zhang Yi, Xu i and Song Lingling used their abilities to make boiling water and cover the duck’s feathers.

The rest of the people used modified tal cutters after removing the feathers and descended on the dead duck – dice into pieces!

Fortunately, the weather had cooled, especially on early morning. The duck at would still be fine after a day, so long as they left early tomorrow, their harvest would be huge.

A large chunk of at was cut and Luo Xun saw everyone was in high spirits. The ever calm Yan Fei did not understand the other’s excitent and went to check their fortifications. After all, how many zombies had died in the battle with the duck?

The silly duck had drawn the attention of almost all the zombies in range. The loud cries and clamor of battle had been distant from the team. The duck had such powerful strength, now all the zombies laying around were waiting for everyone to collect!

"Yu Xinran, put all the corpses and pieces of zombie in this position and create a bunker." She had levelled up to three and now could deal with a larger range and scope.

Any sandy gravel was under her control. If she was not too young, with undeveloped fighting instincts, she could silently use this skill pull a dead body into a sand pit. As long as no one dug them out, the victim would slowly die without movent.

Little Ran nodded her head and created a sand layer with shining eyes and dragged so bodies into the pit.

Yan Fei was acting as a bodyguard – after all, so many zombies had died in the area, who knew which ones were not actually dead?

It did turn out that so zombies were alive and were dragged into the pits from Yan Fei’s tal.

After all the zombies were dragged out of sight, Luo Xun brought out petrol and called for Xu i for ignition. They left the burning pit and went back to the makeshift shelter for the night.

"There were also zombie animal corpses when I cleaned the area. I guess the duck probably brought all the zombies in the area." Luo Xun and Yan Fei sat in the corner whispering, "I am afraid if our luck is bad tonight zombie rats might co. Be careful."

Yan Fei nodded, "We will take watch in turns, as usual." Even if it might be relatively safe tonight, they had to be vigilant and not get in trouble due to carelessness.

"Well, they are almost done, we’ll dry the duck and load up when we leave tomorrow." Seeing a few people laughing with joy, Luo Xun patted Yan Fei’s thigh and walked over.

Xu i and Song Lingling had deliberately left a chunk of duck at for everyone’s dinner.

With the help of Yan Fei, the team hung the rest of the at from the ceiling. Lest it stink up overnight, Xu i boiled the internal organs so they not worry about odor.

For the sake of eating at, Zhang Yi helped ventilate the area to help keep the at. They would carefully stay here tonight and not let anything happen.

For the sake of eating at and enjoying future dishes, they would put in a lot of effort.

Xu i and Song Lingling took their ti with seasonings and began to cook the duck at.

Because everyone only needed enough for one or two days, there was not much to prepare. They had so salt in their car but not other seasonings. Who would bring out good food for an expedition? Bringing so salt and long lasting food was enough.

Good food could be prepared even with only salt!

After discussion, everyone decided – grilling!

To make a roast, they only needed so salt in order to enhance the original taste.

At the first scent of at, all the people in tal building turned to look at Xu i. Soon Li Tie and the others gathered around and helplessly watched as the at turned from red to gold.

The aroma beca richer and richer, the calr team mbers also walked over, ready at any mont to grab the at...

Barbecuing duck at had a subtle taste, there was not much oil compared to pork or chicken. A variety of spices needed to added for flavor. But now, after a year during the apocalypse, the usually tasteless duck at had beco a delicacy.

"This is at!"

"Yeah."

"Why didn’t I think duck was tasty? The last 20 years were a waste."

"Mmm, yummy, it slls good."

"It even tastes better without cumin or chili powder."

"Right, having at to eat is great!"

The duck turning golden and crispy with delicious sounds from the iron plate. The sliced at was on a plate to the side. They decided to cook their own to eat sooner! They could not wait, and the pressure was big on the two won around the barbecue. As for the food they brought from base...who knew where it went?

When Zhang Yi snatched a piece of roast at from Luo Xun, he felt unbearable, "Choke and die! Stealing from every ti! Didn’t you get enough from the last base celebration?"

Zhang Yi raised an eyebrow, leisurely blew on a piece of at, "Haven’t you heard of the expression, rob before being robbed?"

Luo Xun almost choked on his saliva, he covered his mouth and turned to cough, before pointing at Zhang Yi, "That was at base?! Why do this now we are outside?"

Zhang Yi looked with a seductive expression, "Are you close? What about those people who think our little captain is cute?"

Luo Xun flushed at being called ’cute’, he silently jabbed his chopsticks at Zhang Yi. They were clearly disputing about at, how did it turn to this strange topic? Cute? What cute?!

"n are handso, you are cute, your whole family is cute!!"

Zhang Yi’s mouth curled into a sickly sweet smile, "Thank you for the praise." He did not care what Luo Xun said about him, it would not affect his at intake.

Yan Fei rescued the at and put it into Luo Xun’s bow while patting his shoulder, "Eat, don’t talk to him." His lover was lovely, especially when flustered, otherwise he could have retaliated against Zhang Yi earlier.

Luo Xun turned away from Zhang Yi and ate at, there was no need to argue any further. Now was the ti to stuff their faces with at.

As usual, everyone had a laugh at the pair bickering...now everyone enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Jokes could wait until everyone had eaten and drunk their fill.

Everyone ate until their stomachs would burst, but there was still a lot of duck at left over.

In addition to getting so crystal nuclei from the zombies, getting the rare chance to eat their fill of at was a really happy occasion.

Everyone woke up at six o’clock the next morning. The three females picked up the last of the crystal nuclei from the burned zombie bodies. The rest of group helped load the at with Yan Fei.

It seems that the zombies attracted last night had not attacked at all.

Yan Fei had expanded the capacity of each car, the duck at was placed in clean tal boxes. Even the roof had a storage space for the resources.

All the at were put into inconspicuous boxes, no one would know what was inside. It would reduce so trouble when returning to base – after all, the base did not check the car, only scanned for zombie virus with their equipnt.

Outside, the three ladies quickly gathered the crystals into a pile.

Everyone unanimously decided to return to base in order to preserve the at. They had enough nuclei for the mission, the remaining would be distributed back at ho.

Their spoils hidden in the tal, the group accelerated back towards base with so misgivings.

Luo Xun was relatively disturbed, he knew that mutant animal could be eaten, but did not know if there were people on base now eating the at...After all the large-scale ergence of mutant animals would start next spring, although there were many traces of animals. But he was not sure, had the base encountered mutant animals? Had their at been eaten?

In fact he was not nervous about base, because they would not strictly check car contents. But if they cooked at ho, the fragrance would certainly attract others attentions.

Even if others did not realize their food had at, the greedy would likely beco tempted. Although they were not afraid, but watching out for thieves everyday was not a way to live.

Entering the base, they did not encounter any unexpected situations. The soldiers responsible for checking for virus roughly scanned and then let water ability users wash the car. After the inspection, Luo Xun and company drove back to their neighborhood.

Because the at was all packed into tal boxes, Yan Fei could cause the boxes to ’float’ beside them as they climbed up the stairs. All the duck at had been brought back!

"The fridge, refrigerator...Luo Xun is there enough space?" After climbing up, so people nervously looked at Luo Xun.

Luo Xun’s expression was very calm, "Put the boxes in an empty, bring the pickling salt from before." Why fear not enough fridge space? He could handle all the at even without a fridge!

A portion of the duck at was placed in each ho’s fridge. In addition to the special freezers specially for the frozen poisonous mushrooms, all the fridges were loaded with masses of duck at.

As for the rest of the at...with Luo Xun, everyone understood that the at could be kept...

Well, they had heard of ’dried duck’ from stories, but who notice such things while reading? Now that Luo Xun knew the drying process, things like bacon were not difficult, everyone could help out.

The at was cut into long strips, salt was evenly applied to the skin and stored in a cool, ventilated place. One could save dried duck at for a long period of ti.

Bacon was a bit more troubleso, stir fry with hot pepper, salt before drying and cooling. The duck at seasoned with pepper, salt and sugar was put into jars to marinate for a few days. Then it would hung from a rope, dried to a golden color and then hung in the shade for storage.

This way the taste would be better, but was more troubleso to produce. Plus dried, processed at already accounted for most of the fridge usage. Luo Xun only took a small portion to make bacon. Xu i and Song Lingling could handle the rest during their free ti.