Chapter 198 Farewell Dinner
Chapter 198 Farewell Dinner
Lu Yuan, Yang Xiao, and Zhong Qiang returned to the room where Lan Yichen and the others were. Lan Yichen felt like he was about to cry from the cold. After all, he had never awakened any superpowers and was still an ordinary person. Although he was wearing the protective suit that Lu Yuan had given him, his basic physical condition was too poor, so the protective suit was not very effective. He even felt that in a few more minutes, he would be frozen into an ice cube.
"Damn, I almost forgot your friend is even worse than you." Seeing Lan Yichen shivering and walking around the room, Yang Xiao grinned mischievously, then immediately called Zhong Qiang to help Lu Yuan get a heater.
Wen Zhou's three henchmen were stunned as they watched the heaters appearing one after another in front of Lu Yuan and his group. Although they all knew that there was a Lu Yuan with spatial abilities at the South China Base, none of them had actually seen these so-called spatial abilities. In fact, there were all sorts of speculations in the base, but no one dared to test them themselves, after all, Lu Yuan didn't know how many people were monitoring and protecting him at the South China Base.
"This...this is...your...spatial...ability?" As the heaters were added, Lan Yichen, who was surrounded by them, finally felt his body temperature recover a little and he wasn't so cold anymore.
"Impressive, right?" Zhong Qiang put down the last heater, puffed out his chest proudly, as if he were the one with spatial abilities.
"It's really... really impressive." Lan Yichen finally stopped trembling and was able to speak fluently. Then he saw Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao had set up a round table in the middle of the heater, the kind of large round table commonly found in hotel restaurants. So he asked in confusion, "What are you doing here?"
"Let's have a farewell dinner. We're going to part ways with those guys soon," Yang Xiao said, setting out bowls and chopsticks on the table.
"Well, you can take this opportunity to think about where you want to go next." As he spoke, Lu Yuan started taking out some dishes that weren't afraid of the cold from his space. He planned to wait until Ji Lang and the others finished packing and came over before taking out the hot dishes, since even though there were so many heaters, the temperature of tens of degrees below zero was no joke.
"Aren't you taking me with you?" Lan Yichen was a little confused. Didn't Lu Yuan and the others go to the South China Base? Those who hadn't returned yet were also from the South China Base, so why were they separated? Were the three of them not planning to go back to the base? But why weren't they going to the government base when they clearly had one?
“We have other things to do. Taking you along isn’t impossible, but it will definitely be tough for you.” Lu Yuan didn’t say it explicitly, but Lan Yichen knew it was because he didn’t have any special abilities and his physique couldn’t keep up. He had almost frozen to death just now, and if he insisted on following Lu Yuan and the others, he would only be asking for trouble.
"I understand." Lan Yichen is no longer the high-spirited top star in the entertainment industry. He knows he is not capable now, and rather than causing trouble for Lu Yuan, he would rather go back to the government base with the others.
“It’s so easy to communicate with smart people.” Yang Xiao gave Lan Yichen an appreciative smile.
"What? Did you two talk about something?" Zhong Qiang, who had helped set out the chairs, looked at Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan with a blank expression. It was as if they had made some kind of decision, so he immediately asked worriedly, "Are you planning to abandon me and leave?"
"I am thinking about it, after all, it's quite dangerous to have a useless teammate." Yang Xiao pursed his lips, wondering when Zhong Qiang's thought process would finally connect with everyone else's.
"Haha, don't worry, we need a shield, after all." Lu Yuan couldn't hold back his laughter.
Just as the group finished setting the table, Ji Lang, Lin Yun, and Liu Jia returned to the room. However, they returned somewhat disheveled, and a strange smell wafted through the air as soon as they entered.
"Holy crap, what have you guys done? You've all turned into biological bombs! How are we supposed to eat now?!" Yang Xiao immediately protested, pushing the group out the door again.
"The culture medium in one of the cabinets was completely rotten. When we opened the cabinet door, we almost fainted," Ji Lang explained helplessly. They really hadn't expected Lu Yuan and the others to be preparing food here, and they were indeed a little embarrassed.
"What do we do now?" Yang Xiao was a little frustrated. The building they had chosen was an office building, and neither of the two rooms had a bathroom.
"Damn, this smell is pretty strong." Zhong Qiang, who had come out to watch, was driven back inside as soon as he opened the door.
"Lu Yuan, do any of the three people inside have fire-type abilities?" Yang Xiao called out from outside the door, pinching his nose.
"Me! I'm a fire elementalist!" The three unlucky guys were now quite proactive in trying to get leniency.
"Report! I'm from the water element!" another unlucky guy shouted at the top of his lungs.
Before Lu Yuan could respond, Yang Xiao rushed into the house and pulled the two of them out.
"You two, take turns and boil some hot water for them to take a bath!" After saying that, Yang Xiao remembered that there was no shower gel or anything, so he ran back to the room to ask Lu Yuan for some.
Finally, thanks to Yang Xiao's efforts, the group of 11 managed to set up a makeshift washroom in the next office and take a hot shower together.
In the dead of winter, nothing beats a warm hot shower followed by a delicious hot pot meal. The three brothers, having just finished their showers, never imagined they'd be included in this farewell dinner.
"Come and eat with us, we don't know where our next meal will come from anyway." Yang Xiao saw that the three of them obediently returned to the office where they were supposed to eat after taking a shower, so he gave up his initial idea of not letting them sit at the table to eat. After all, everyone's extreme behavior in the apocalypse was for survival, and all their actions were only influenced by Wen Zhou.
"Thank you!" Although the three of them were embarrassed, they couldn't resist the delicious food and the bubbling hot pot on the table, so they obediently went over and sat down.
"Don't thank me, you should thank your Captain Ji and Captain Lin." Yang Xiao could have easily not said these words, but this was a way to win people's hearts in the apocalypse, so he couldn't help but help Ji Lang win people's hearts.
"Wishing everyone well and a safe journey!" Yang Xiao picked up the small wine glass in front of him. The wine in this glass was something that even Ji Lang and Lin Yun rarely got to drink, let alone Yang Xiao. After all, it was an old national liquor from half a century ago, and ordinary people couldn't afford a bottle of it now.
"You guys..." Ji Lang had just started to speak when Yang Xiao interrupted him.
"Stop talking nonsense, we already agreed on this."
"Captain Ji, Captain Lin, don't worry, we'll take good care of ourselves." Lu Yuan doesn't actually like drinking baijiu (Chinese liquor), it's spicy, but they kept asking him for it along the way, saying it was to warm him up, so he took it out today, along with the national liquor that had caused him to be hunted down by "Weiguo".
"Hehe, it feels like a child has grown up and is about to leave home." Lin Yun rubbed the wine glass in his hand, then drank it all in one gulp and said, "This is good wine, don't waste it."
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