Initially, it wasn't smooth, but as they practiced more, their skills improved, and they hit their targets with every shot.
After the zombies' heads exploded, scattering brains everywhere, the crystal cores within remained unaffected and rolled onto the ground.
Jiang Jiang was beside Su Ling when she was practicing her psychic abilities.
At first, Jiang Jiang didn't notice Su Ling's actions. It wasn't until he saw zombies' heads "bang," "bang," "bang" explode that he clearly froze. Instinctively, he looked at the person beside him and saw Su Ling intensely focused on the zombies ahead.
As someone who had also awakened psychic abilities, Jiang Jiang quickly understood what Su Ling was doing.
Subsequently, Gu Shang Se and the others witnessed a continuous series of zombie heads exploding amidst the zombie horde opposite them.
The instigators were none other than Su Ling and Jiang Jiang.
The two of them seemed to be in a competition, chasing each other, neither willing to give way, pushing each other to excel.
Su Ling and the others had a fruitful morning. As they erected the isolation walls to collect crystal cores, they had taken another significant step towards their plan of clearing the night city's zombies and opening up the roads.
When they returned to the mobile castle, laden with their spoils, Wen Jie and Jia Jia, with the help of Grandpa Xu and the four elders, were already preparing lunch. Lunch was nearing its end, and the aroma of food filled the air.
Su Ling and the others put down their bulging backpacks, then washed their hands and faces.
By the time they had washed their faces and sat at the dining table, the dishes had already been served.
Everyone gathered around, eating the lunch prepared by Wen Jie and Jia Jia.
Wen Jie and Jia Jia, likely due to their northern origins, had prepared a very northern-style meal.
For example, Dongbei Fánbāo, Jing Jiang Rou Si, Zhàn Jiàng Cài, and Da La Pi.
For everyone's convenience, Wen Jie and Jia Jia had already mixed the ingredients for the Fánbāo—such as peanut paste, mashed potatoes, egg sauce, cilantro, and chopped scallions—with rice in a large basin. Beside the large basin were fresh green cabbage leaves.
As for the ingredients for Zhàn Jiàng Cài, they owed a great debt to Bai He Qing.
Her morning's harvest was now all on the table.
Lettuce, asparagus lettuce, baby bok choy, dandelion greens, large scallions, small scallions, garlic, garlic sprouts, onions, green eggplant, radishes, celery, spinach, cucumber strips, potatoes, chili peppers, and tofu skin were neatly arranged in serving containers.
There were three kinds of dipping sauces for the Zhàn Jiàng Cài: egg sauce, eggplant sauce, and chili sauce, totaling three large bowls.
The Jing Jiang Rou Si also had a large plate full of meat, piled high with thin crepes.
Even the plate of Da La Pi was a large sea bowl full.
All in all, there were only four dishes on the table, one of which was essentially the rice base.
For Su Ling and others, who were from the south, this was the first time they had seen such a meal.
They had seen it online before, but this was their first time experiencing it up close and preparing to eat it.
Meanwhile, Wen Jie and Jia Jia were already busy wrapping Fánbāo for Grandpa Xu and Grandma Zhang. Su Ling and the others' eyes were fixed on the two of them. Then, the proactive Jiang Jiang picked up a cabbage leaf and, imitating Wen Jie and Jia Jia, expertly wrapped a Fánbāo.
As for Su Ling, she picked up some cold-mixed Da La Pi to taste.
Su Ling wasn't picky about food; as long as it filled her stomach, it was fine. Therefore, she found the Da La Pi to be quite tasty.
She took a crepe and made herself a Jing Jiang Rou Si wrap.
Meanwhile, Gu Shang Se had already finished wrapping a Fánbāo and handed it to Su Ling.
Su Ling, holding the Jing Jiang Rou Si wrap she had just made and about to eat it, saw the Fánbāo and turned to look at Gu Shang Se.
Finally, Su Ling and Gu Shang Se exchanged wraps. She gave her Jing Jiang Rou Si wrap to Gu Shang Se and took the Fánbāo he had wrapped from his hand.
The Fánbāo was delicious. Su Ling felt like she had opened a new door to a new world, finding that eating this mixed rice in a wrap had a unique flavor.