Chapter 53 Slack Off
After having breakfast and saying goodbye to Mu Mu, Bai Tang returned to the living room from the space with the canned food.
Bai Tang thought long and hard about what kind of job she should look for.
Whether it was opening a small restaurant or a small supermarket in the base, Bai Tang rejected both ideas.
The restaurants and supermarkets are controlled by the base, so there's no need for us to compete with them for them.
The source of goods for small restaurants and supermarkets is hard to explain, and it's easy to slip up unintentionally.
So after thinking it over, Bai Tang still felt that she was the most suitable person to just give up.
After all, there are hundreds of billions of supplies stored in the space, so there's no need for them to work.
Anyway, Bai Tang isn't going to be a savior, and these supplies are enough for the few of them to eat for several lifetimes.
Bai Tang is currently in a state of complete peace of mind, having plenty of food in her space, and is willing to let things stagnate.
Upon thinking about it, Bai Tang immediately dismissed the idea of going to work. Why should she go to work when she had food and drink at home?
Bai Tang: Nobody can stop me, I'm just going to stay home and do nothing.
The canned food is nearby: Meow~
Bai Tang patted it: "I know you agree with my decision to give up."
However, Bai Tang still planned to take the canned goods to the base for a stroll.
Staying at home all the time is very boring. There's no signal, so I can't use my phone, and there are no other forms of entertainment.
Bai Tang tidied up the house and then fed the wild rabbits in the yard.
She dressed warmly and put a leash on the canned food to prevent it from running around the base.
The canned food was reluctantly put on a leash.
It was meowing in protest, but the kitten's protest was ineffective.
A person and a cat, both dressed in full protective gear, went out.
Bai Tang chose to go out on foot, just to take a walk and stretch her muscles.
As soon as we stepped outside, Guantou wanted to run around freely. It has now grown to a meter tall, and when it starts running, Baitang really can't hold it back.
Pulling the can over, Bai Tang stood and reasoned with it: "Canned food, you're running too fast for me to keep up. Can you walk slowly?"
The canned food slowly followed Bai Tang.
A person and a cat were walking on the road at the base. The cat's fur was snow-white, attracting the attention of many people.
However, this is not surprising, as other people in the base also keep pets.
Those animals had already undergone some mutations when the extreme cold arrived.
Fortunately, the pets kept at home were fine and did not bite or tear at their owners.
Bai Tang walked and walked until she reached the base's restaurant.
From the outside, the restaurant looked quite large. Bai Tang carried the canned food inside, but there were hardly any people there.
Bai Tang thought to herself that it was normal for there to be fewer people now that it wasn't mealtime.
Fortunately, their restaurant had a sign that didn't say pets were prohibited.
However, Bai Tang still held onto the leash as much as possible to prevent the can from running around.
Bai Tang went into the restaurant simply to see what the food was like at the base restaurant.
If the food at the base is decent, then Gu Yanxu and the others won't go hungry if they eat lunch there.
Bai Tang walked towards the window where the restaurant served food.
The sign next to me read: Potato slices, shredded potatoes, steamed sweet potatoes, cabbage soup, and stir-fried rabbit with potato slices.
There were almost no meat dishes on it, only vegetarian dishes.
The elderly woman selling food at the window asked, "Young lady, are you here to buy food?"
Bai Tang shook her head and said, "I had breakfast at home, so I came to the restaurant to take a look."
Moreover, Bai Tang glanced at the food and noticed that most of the people eating at the restaurant were eating whole grains.
Ordinary people can only earn enough contribution points by finding work or exchanging supplies at the base to barely feed their families. If they want to eat well and be full, they have to put in even more labor.
Bai Tang didn't buy any food either, and since she had just finished breakfast, the food in the restaurant didn't look appetizing at all.
Most people who don't have food stored at home but can earn contribution points will come to the base's restaurant to eat.
Although the food at the base restaurant wasn't very good, it was still very cheap.
Vegetables are grown in the greenhouses at the base, but the air outside is too cold right now, so some vegetables can't survive.
Some biologists began to study cold-resistant varieties.
Although there has been considerable success, the potatoes and sweet potatoes grown do not taste very good and their nutritional value is not as high as that of the normal potatoes grown before.
Sweet potatoes usually have a slightly grainy texture and aren't very sweet, but their large size makes them filling.
The greenhouses at the base mainly grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are high-yield vegetables; otherwise, it would be impossible to maintain a restaurant in such a large base.
Although the base has the city's former grain warehouses, it certainly can't support the food and drink needs of so many people at the base, so the authorities at the base are now trying every means to increase crop yields.
The base also encourages those who are capable to hunt wild animals as a supplement to their meat supply.
Bai Tang thought that he had a lot of things in his space, but none of them were suitable to be taken out now.
Let's wait and see when they have time, then go out of the base again and try our luck to see if we can catch some more mutated edible animals.
Moreover, Bai Tang doesn't want to be a savior; she just wants to give up.
After taking a quick look around the base's canned food, Bai Tang left with the canned goods.
After leaving the base restaurant, Bai Tang, carrying canned goods, headed towards the base supermarket, following his previous memory.
I'm going to go to the supermarket pretending to buy some daily necessities. After all, with so many people in their family, it's impossible that everyone goes without washing their face and brushing their teeth; that would be too absurd.
Bai Tang walked for a while and realized she was going the wrong way. If she kept walking, she would reach the base gate.
Then Bai Tang turned back and continued walking towards the base supermarket. On the way, she encountered the patrolling guard team of the base.
After asking the guards, they pointed Bai Tang in the right direction.
Bai Tang finally made it to the supermarket at the base.
I thought to myself: Should I train the canned food's sense of direction? If I continue to be so bad at directions, I'll run into trouble sooner or later.
The canned food was unaware that Bai Tang had completely orchestrated its plans; all it could think about was running around and having fun.
Bai Tang wasn't simply directionally challenged; she got lost because everything looked the same after a snowfall.
Bringing canned food into the base's supermarket, it was quite considerate that pets weren't prohibited from entering.
Bai Tang walked to the counter and briefly told the sales clerk what toiletries she needed, then waited for the sales clerk to get the items for her from the back shelf.
The supermarket at the base isn't called a supermarket anymore. Instead, you tell the salesperson what you need, and they take it from the shelves.
This effectively prevents people from stealing things, and there are also military personnel on duty at the entrance of the base supermarket.
This is to prevent people from causing trouble and looting in the supermarket.
The sales clerk quickly retrieved the toiletries Bai Tang needed from the supermarket shelf.
Since very few people in the base would buy these toiletries, the sales clerks were able to quickly find what Bai Tang needed.