Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 290 - 172 refactor

Chapter 290: 172 refactor

The next job was to find a Solar Demon on the farm. With Lin Wu’s drone cheat device, Shana easily located the Solar Demon and beat it to death with a stick. Then it was time to rummage through the warehouse, where they found only two eggs, so they had to take a risk and make a trip to Left County. It wasn’t quite right to call it a risk, since currently Highway 2 posed little threat to the two of them. This was because, while the snow impeded players’ movements, it also hindered the zombies’. As long as the density of zombies in an area was low, the threat was low.

However, the search for eggs did not go smoothly. The two followed Highway 2 and Riverside Park, but they never found a place selling eggs and had no choice but to return to the base and call for support from headquarters.

Shana, holding a walkie-talkie, said, "Yes, eggs, the kind you can see a black spot in when you shine a light on them." Eggs were a curious thing, hens could lay them without a rooster, but they wouldn’t hatch chicks.

Facing the headquarters’ confusion, Lin Wu explained from the side, "We want to raise chickens."

Stone quipped, "Raise your thigh."

Lin Wu responded, "Shana wants to raise chickens."

Stone replied, "I think there are still some eggs in the warehouse. Wait, I’ll go check."

Lin Wu exploded on the spot, wishing he could grab the Silencer from a thousand miles away and take Stone’s head off.

In the afternoon, Maya and Peanut personally escorted 13 eggs to the supermarket base. They had slept through the day and came to the supermarket base to read books all night. When they arrived, Lin Wu was sitting at the edge of the Blood Mist playing with zombies, and Maya, tempted, also played for a while.

After receiving the eggs, Shana checked them and then packed them in a cardboard box with cotton. She picked up a thermometer and a wooden stump and searched for spots with temperatures between 37 and 39 degrees Celsius. She spent half an hour observing the temperature changes of the campfire. Once everything was ready, she officially began to incubate the eggs.

But there was a small problem. The fire couldn’t go out, and there couldn’t be more than 1.5 pieces of charcoal in it. In other words, someone needed to keep an eye on the fire. Could they just incubate the eggs a bit each day? The answer was no, but it was alright if the incubation was interrupted for a few hours occasionally.

Maya found the egg incubation strange and asked Lin Wu about it privately. Lin Wu talked about some changes in Shana’s mood, "If she wants to incubate the eggs, she can’t leave. She has to control the amount of charcoal precisely and maintain a constant temperature. I’m also worried about her having negative emotions if she’s alone at the base."

Hearing this, Maya could understand, "Near the church, there was a player who had to be ejected from the game and sent to a virtual island sanatorium due to mental health issues. During the last blizzard event, he held out alone for 8 days and committed suicide with a gun even though there was still food. Dawn informed the leader of the base and his wife, stating that for the player’s protection, he was temporarily unsuited for the game. I heard at the last market that something similar happened in Southward Town as well."

"Never mind the blizzard challenge; even winter nights alone are tough to endure. We have many people and plentiful supplies, so we’ve not encountered such situations," Maya said thoughtfully. "Let’s send Shana back to the main base and take the eggs and charcoal there for a month of recuperation."

Lin Wu nodded, "Okay. But why aren’t you worried about my mental health?"

Maya replied, "Your kind of person is particularly resilient; you’ll be fine."

"Hm?"

Maya explained, "My resilience comes from training, a very strong psychological endurance. Your resistance is more about avoiding stress. No, that’s not right. You see stress coming and sidestep it; it can’t find you. Shana is emotional and has a lot of thoughts; her resilience is relatively weak." Most artists have sensitive spirits.

Lin Wu asked, "By myself?"

Maya hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Shall I stay? Would that be appropriate?"

Lin Wu answered, "Appropriate."

Maya queried, "What about Waste City?"

Lin Wu replied, "I’ll just ignore you, and it’ll be fine."

Maya nodded, returned the Silencer to Lin Wu, and stood up, "I’ll talk to Shana."

Maya was not inept at conversation; after all, the guards weren’t just simple soldiers. But after talking with Shana for a while, Maya also had a bit of a headache. Shana was in a good state, but she had developed a weary attitude towards the supermarket base due to the long time spent in a dark, cramped, and dull place.

Shana agreed to return to the main base, but her desire seemed to be to go back with Lin Wu. However, she also knew Lin Wu was happy at the supermarket base.

"Psst." Lin Wu gestured mysteriously to Peanut, who was reading in the library.

Peanut stepped out of the library, ready to ask, but Lin Wu gestured, glanced at the two women, and they entered the supermarket one after the other. Seating themselves behind a shelf, Lin Wu peeked into the aisle and sneakily took out several adult magazines from his backpack.

"Wow," Peanut, a likeminded fellow, was immediately attracted to the magazines, flipping through them before quietly asking, "Why is there a mosaic?"

"I complained about that. Dawn said it’s for the mental and physical health of players."

Peanut slipped the magazines into his backpack, also sneakily peeking down the aisle, and whispered, "Do you have more?"

"Yes, twelve in total."

"Good, I’ll come back to exchange them after I’ve read these," Peanut said. "On behalf of the male comrades at the base, I thank you for your contributions."

Maya approached the entrance of the aisle and saw the two of them. Walking over, she said, "Let’s talk privately."

Understanding, Peanut stood up, patted Lin Wu on the shoulder, and left.

Maya asked, "Do you want to go back too?"

Lin Wu replied, "Me go back? Who would stay here?"

"I and..." No one else seemed quite appropriate. Except for Lin Wu and Stone, everyone was a bit apprehensive around Maya, and being around her for an extended period would make them uncomfortable. Maya said, "If necessary, we’ll abandon the building materials and close down the supermarket base."

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