Reborn Cave Queen of the End Times novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177 The toll of Charcoal

Chapter 177 The Toll of Charcoal

It really was awful to eat, but it did fill you up.

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“That’s exactly it,” Kayla said to David. “We’ve still got plenty of people at the base surviving on these two pieces of bread a day.”

David’s mouth worked, but in the end he said nothing more. He only threw himself harder into the work.

Autumn went along when the bread was handed out. When she saw a crowd in worn, ragged clothes come forward leaning on ear other to collect it, she seemed to grasp Scott’s worries.

She really did matter to Aurora Base. As long as she lived, the poor of the base wouldn’t starve to death.

Scott might not be a good man in the truest sense, but he did do what he was supposed to. Set against the parasites at the central

PROS shelter, he was a rare and decent soul.

Autumn turned and duplicated a heap of sweet potato leaves and dried sweet potatoes out of her space. The stuff was coarse but rich in nutrients and filling. A couple of bites were fine for the rich, but too much left them gassy and sour in the stomach.

It was also cheap, so duplicating it burned little gold.

When Autumn delivered that huge pile of sweet potato leaves and dried sweet potatoes to the mess hall, the whole base was in an uproar. This time she’d escorted it in personally, so all of Aurora Base learned that the food they ate came from her.

From that day on, whenever Autumn ate at the mess hall, they flat refused her credits, and her plate was always piled the highest. Even if she ate delicacies, nobody breathed a word.

Scott heard the news and gave a slight smile, Beckett paused, then smiled gently. Leonel’s eyes filled with warmth, and he smiled with open indulgence.

With this batch of coarse ingredients, the ordinary folk at the bottom could mostly eat their fill. It still wasn’t good food, but it beat roots and leaves by a mile.

Some tried to make a play for the bread. Beckett caught them one by one and dealt with each, never soft about it. The method was simple. No beating, no cursing. Just cast them straight out of Aurora Base.

At a time like this, leaving the base, being thrown out, meant death. After three people were handled that way, nobody counted death again. Trading your life for a batch of worthless bread wasn’t worth it.

Time flew, and when the fourth crew Leonel had sent out returned, they told him and the others that the moment to move on to the central shelter had come.

“The acid rain’s been two months now, and with temperatures staying low, the central shelter is terrified of sliding back into a deep freeze They’re frantically stockpiling firewood, charcoal, coal, anything for heat But with one upheaval after another, the outside world has had no time to recover, so where would all that firewood and charcoal come from the central shelters had to lower its proud head. Now anyone who supplies a hundred pounds of fuel can get in” The squad leader said

“A hundred pounds? Man, woman, old, young, no difference?” Autumn asked

“Right,” the squad leader answered “A hundred pounds is high and low at once Plenty of people risk it and dig through cohapsid Cities for old doors, windows, tables, and chairs, and they can scrape the amount together so the number heading to the centra shelter lately has shot up By my rough count when I left, it was around twenty million. You could say most of Draken have gone to the central shelter”

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Chapter 177 The toll of Charcoal

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“Huh, why is that?” Autumn couldn’t make sense of it. “The Jyncrest shelter isn’t far either. Wouldn’t going there be better? Why insist on the rentral shelter? Or go a bit farther and just head to the northwestern shelter, one and done. Wouldn’t that be better?”

“I just got word that the Jyncrest shelter had mutant animals and mutant plants appeak It took a huge hit, millions dead,” the squad leader said. “No telling if it’s true. It could just be a rumor the central shelter spread to poach people from Jyncrest”

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