Apocalypse: The Supporting Actress Made a Comeback novel Chapter 940

Chapter 940: The Unfilial Son

Lin City Base, in the slums, a woman with messy hair and a filthy body squats in a low shack, meticulously cleaning a Mutated Rat’s corpse. The Mutated Rat is over 30 centimeters long. Although it has quite a bit of meat, the woman is reluctant to peel off the skin or even discard the innards. She carefully cleans each piece, even the slender intestines.

The clean water used in the Base is all provided by Water Element Superpower Users, and it’s expensive. People in the slums cannot afford it and can only buy water that’s been filtered after others have used it. This water has disinfectant added to it, so it always carries a disinfectant smell. However, those living in the slums don’t dare complain, and even such water is not something they can buy daily.

To save resources, everyone recycles used water. Initially, they disliked it and found it uncomfortable, but over time, they gradually grew accustomed to it. These people toil from dawn to dusk every day, yet earn very few credit points. To survive, they must desperately economize!

A small basin holds half a basin of filthy water. After washing the cleaned Mutated Rat and its innards in it, the woman skewers the rat with a thin iron rod, singes the fur off over a fire, and then places it in a pot to cook with the innards. Gradually, a nauseating stench begins to waft from the pot.

Such a smell would have been distasteful to anyone except the street beggars before the apocalypse. However, the slum dwellers have long since gotten used to it. As soon as the smell emerges, some can’t help but wrinkle their noses, take a deep breath, and then greedily gaze at the small shack, continuously swallowing their saliva.

Scenes like this play out almost every day in the slums. Here, the tiny shacks are cramped together with a pathetic narrow pathway between them. The once-clean pathway has long become greasy and black, and various foul odors permeate the air, gradually merging into an indescribably strange smell that could knock out a normal person! Such a filthy place; outsiders are reluctant to come in, and only the residents, who have long been exposed to these odors, have grown accustomed and are unfazed.

The woman seems to hear the sound of saliva being swallowed outside and, with alert eyes, peers through the shack’s many gaps. As she looks, she greedily sniffs the pot’s aroma, stirs the pot with a ladle, realizes the meat has turned pale and is ready, and quickly turns off the fire.

Without taking a bowl, she lifts a spoonful to her mouth, not minding the heat, and swallows it directly. At that moment, a feeble and urgent voice suddenly sounds behind her, "Hurry... give it to me!" Seeing that the woman doesn’t listen, he shouts louder, "I caught this! Give it to me! Give it to me!"

The woman pretends not to hear, picking up the meat from the pot with chopsticks and stuffing it into her mouth. Watching this scene, his urgency grows and he curses, "You... damn woman! I got injured catching this Mutated Rat, how can you eat it all yourself?"

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