Chapter 298 Return with a Full Load
By the ti they arrived at the Shelter, it was already past their usual dinner ti.
Fortunately, with Sophia here, they wouldn’t have to worry about having dinner today.
It’s worth ntioning that Vikram and his three companions usually didn’t eat with the others.
In territory 2 was equipped with a kitchen, toilet, and bathroom; his mbers’ daily lives were separate.
Vikram was only responsible for providing ingredients.
However, he wasn’t stingy because of this; except for at, which wasn’t as plentiful as what he and his two companions ate, everything else was provided according to the exact sa standard.
But since today he got the harvest, to celebrate it he had dinner with the other mbers.
After having dinner with them on territory 2, he returned to his territory.
Vikram began to count the supplies he had obtained today one by one.
"Huh? Didn’t you say it was a factory? Why did you bring back all these cardboard boxes and foam boxes?"
Looking at the boxes covering the floor, Sophia and Divya stood by, helping to organize, and asked in confusion.
Vikram didn’t rush to explain, but instead, he busied himself opening the boxes one by one, which were too nurous to be placed on the floor.
As the food cans inside appeared in Sophia’s line of sight, her eyes imdiately lit up.
"Cans?"
"Mm." His hands didn’t stop, Vikram slowly recounted the day’s events to her.
Upon hearing this, Sophia and Divya instantly understood the reason and put on an expression of sudden realization.
Then they hesitated for a mont, their gaze fixed intently on Vikram’s face, trying to discern sothing from it.
"What do you an?"
"Your husband worked very hard outside to get so food; what do you an by looking at with that kind of gaze?"
Vikram, who was counting the supplies, didn’t tolerate it and imdiately glared back.
"I’m checking if you’re lying."
"Is it true that you’re not interested in that woman nad Lara, or is it just that there were too many people around to make a move?"
Divya’s tone was a bit teasing, and she scanned Vikram’s face suspiciously.
"Don’t talk nonsense; I didn’t even look at her cleavage directly."
As he spoke, he added internally, ’I only glanced at it with my peripheral vision.’
Vikram felt a bit unnerved by being stared at by those big eyes, "Why are you won’s points of focus so strange? There were so many exciting things on the way, yet after hearing it all, you only care about this?"
Vikram pursed his lips.
"That woman was cleaved by my blade; if I really liked her, would it have co to that?"
Who knew, as soon as he finished explaining, the delicate yet serious face in front of him couldn’t hold back.
Seeing Vikram’s embarrassnt, both Sophia and Divya imdiately revealed a mouthful of white teeth.
"Hahaha, I was just teasing you! So even your thick skin can get embarrassed, huh?"
"Look how red your face is, like a monkey’s butt; it’s killing ."
Divya clutched her stomach, completely disregarding Vikram’s speechless expression, and collapsed on the sofa, laughing heartily.
She wasn’t that neurotic.
Divya had seen Vikram expressionlessly kill so female Survivors before, so of course, she wouldn’t get angry over sothing like this.
It was just that Vikram usually teased her from ti to ti, and she also wanted to tease Vikram in return.
Vikram, feeling his intelligence insulted, his expression hardened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "Alright, alright, I’m working myself to death outside, and when I co back, not only do I get no reward, but you also want to play with like this, huh?"
"Then this official can only administer family punishnt today on you all."
Divya seed certain that Vikram wouldn’t do anything out of line, and the smile on her face grew wider.
"Co on, I’d like to see how you administer family punishnt."
She provocatively stuck out her tongue, Divya said proudly.
"Oh ho, you said it; don’t bla later."
With that, Vikram, whose competitive spirit had been ignited, didn’t care about anything else and, mimicking how Divya had disciplined Anjali earlier, extended his palm...
"Slap!"
A clear sound echoed through the living room.
At the sa ti, Divya had a bewildered expression, and Anjali’s face puffed up.
"Didn’t you say you were going to punish slly Divya? Why did you reward her?"
"Then I want so too!"
Upon hearing this, not only was Divya, who was hit, stunned, but even Vikram, who was still feeling the lingering warmth on his hand, showed a dazed expression.
The four of them just looked at each other like that, and the atmosphere was silent for several minutes before they ca back to their senses.
Divya, whose round bottom had been struck by Vikram’s evil palm, naturally had an expression of sha and indignation; her eyes first glared fiercely at Vikram,
Then she shifted her gaze to Anjali, who had just uttered that outrageous remark.
Seeing Divya’s eyes, which held a hint of anger, Anjali, realizing she had said the wrong thing, imdiately hid behind Vikram.
"Slly Vikram, save !"
However, this ti Vikram did not choose to cover for this little dummy again.
Instead, he pretended to cough.
"Cough cough!"
"Be good, go play by yourself first; I still have things to do here and can’t play with you anymore."
Seeing that things seed to be getting a bit out of hand and the situation was not right, he expertly used the tactic of diverting trouble to another.
After speaking, he imdiately abandoned Anjali behind him and, carrying the supplies sorted from the warehouse, fled this troubleso place as if escaping.
As he ran into the depths of the Shelter, intending to take the elevator down, Vikram vaguely heard Anjali’s moans behind him.
"Didn’t you want a reward? I’m giving you a reward, why are you running?"
"Slap!"
"Wuwu, slly Divya only knows how to bully ."
Vikram, who had already made a clean getaway, whistled contentedly as he arrived at the third floor of his Shelter. (Previously he also transford his shelter into a building shape.)
All the supplies sorted from the warehouse were piled up here by him.
Because these food cans had expiration dates, Vikram didn’t even think about it; he could only put them into the warehouse that ca with the cornerstone.
The rest of the items naturally could only be placed here.
After piling a bunch of durable supplies in the storage area, Vikram returned upstairs and ca to the warehouse again.
The supplies brought back this ti were truly abundant.
Canned fruit and canned at were naturally a given.
During the inventory process, Vikram even found canned vegetables among them.
However, Vikram’s warehouse had fresh ones, so he wasn’t particularly concerned about these.
Out of a total of one hundred and three tons of canned goods, what pleased Vikram the most was the quantity of canned at.
Canned at accounted for half of it.
Things like braised pork, Dongpo pork hock, crispy fried pork, salted fish, luncheon at, and ham.
Although these canned goods couldn’t compare to fresh at, for preservation purposes, they were usually packed with plenty of spices.
So, the taste was likely quite good.
The at supply in Vikram’s Territory was already running low, and now with this wave of canned goods filling the warehouse, his lips curved into an involuntary smile.
At least until he found live livestock, these canned goods would ensure he wouldn’t have to worry about not having at on the table.
After three months in the Wasteland, the food problem was finally completely resolved.
From now on, when he went out to explore for resources, he would only need to focus on improving his quality of life.
Putting away his thoughts, the remaining fifty tons of canned goods were split equally between vegetables and fruits.
"I can keep the canned fruit, but these vegetables..."
Looking at the bottles and cans covering the ground, Vikram couldn’t help but frown.
Now, the slots in the Territory Core only had room for food and dicine.
But even so, there was still a lot of food on the ground that couldn’t be stored in it.
This gave Vikram a real headache.
After all, a small portion of these canned foods was already nearing its expiration date.
If he didn’t find a way to store these foods in a place like his backpack space, which could perfectly preserve food, spoilage would be inevitable.
"Tsk, the storage slots that co with this Territory Core are still not enough."
Vikram sighed, his first thought was to upgrade the Treehouse Core.
But due to Territory Core requirents, he was unable to do it.
He shrugged, "Anyway, I’m going for the Hospital Ruin, I will think about these all later."
He temporarily piled the unplaceable supplies here, then went to the bathroom for a quick wash, and Vikram fell into a deep sleep...
In the morning Vikram called out the two won, who had been busy with chores since early morning. Sophia also arrived behind them, after playing with Stormy.
Vikram pulled out two weird looking fruits and handed them to the two won.
"Stinky Vikram, what is this now? Devil Fruit?" Since Anjali has seen One Piece ani on Earth, only devil fruits have weird shapes.
Compared to Anjali’s wild guess, Divya was more direct. She without hesitation, without questioning anything, chose to trust Vikram unconditionally.
She started eating it.
While Divya was still feeling the effects of the fruit, Anjali had a look of suspicion.
"Stinky Vikram, what trick are you playing now? This isn’t so naughty devil fruit that makes obedient and at your rcy after eating it, is it?"
It was clear that Vikram, who usually liked to be teased her, especially in food matters, suddenly giving her such a fruit imdiately made her think of such things.
Although Anjali said this, there was not a trace of unwillingness on her face.
"Honestly, if you want to play a little ga, you could just tell directly, why go through all this trouble?"
After eating the fruit, Anjali licked the remaining portion from the corner of her mouth, her face flushed with undisguised shyness.
She closed her eyes, spread her arms, and said, "Co on, you scoundrel, who told to eat your aphrodisiac? Now I can’t resist, can I?"
"Aphrodisiac your head." Sophia was fed up with Anjali’s weird thinking.
She gave Anjali a direct flick on the forehead and said with a speechless expression, "Don’t you feel any changes in your body? This is good stuff."
"Now that you ntion it, it does feel like sothing."
Although the data reflected by the Survival Platform was not as detailed as the Plant Life System’s, basic physique values could still be seen.
"Eh? No way?"
"It increased by ten points at once, what’s going on?"
Watching their physique values skyrocket like a rocket, a hint of surprise flashed in both won’s eyes.
"Vikram, this fruit of yours... it shouldn’t be a product dropped in the Wasteland World, right?"
Divya imdiately noticed the difference in this item.
"Hmm, it’s sothing from my Pay-to-win version of Survival Platform’s shop."
"No wonder." Divya nodded, an expression of ’I knew it’ on her face.
Logically speaking, any item that involves physique enhancent, even if not placed in a bag, would have a very conspicuous appearance.
The most common crystals were white-glowing crystals.
Although this item rapidly increased physique, it didn’t look like a high-level item at all.
Anyone who didn’t know would truly think it was so kind of high-end fruit.
"It’s better not to let too many people know about this. Currently, Survivors on the Wasteland are scrambling to improve their physique, and one fruit can increase it by ten points."
"If other Survivors found out, our territory would definitely be trampled."
Feeling the gradually surging physique within her, Divya said.
"Don’t worry, for now, only you three and I have used it. As for Ron and the others, I’ll have to see the situation later to decide whether to give it to them."
"So Sophia has also eaten it," Divya asked.
"Yes, in short, when it cos to physique, our territory will not lose to people from other shelters."
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