Chapter 734 - A new quest (1/2)

Along the way, Cheng Yu would eye Ren Xiaosu suspiciously every now and then.

This morning, he suddenly remembered that Ren Xiaosu had stopped singing nursery rhymes for several days. Now that the entertainer stopped singing and dancing all of a sudden, Cheng Yu felt somewhat unused to it.

To be honest, at least when the entertainer was singing and dancing, the atmosphere during the evening bonfire parties was quite good.

But now, they only felt stressed.

No one spoke as they kept moving forward in silence. None of them knew where they would end up or what they would be facing.

Cheng Yu suddenly said, “Hey you, why don’t you put on a performance….”

Cheng Yu’s assistant was shocked right then and there. He wondered if his boss had been brainwashed by the entertainer. Why would he even ask for a performance?

However, Ren Xiaosu only gave him a look. “Lunatic!” He continued moving forward.

Cheng Yu instantly felt like he had been insulted. Why did he get called a lunatic? ‘Aren’t you the one that kept asking to give a performance to everyone? Now that you’ve been asked to give a performance, you’re actually refusing to do it?!’

Next to him, Cheng Yu’s assistant said, “Let’s forget about the performance for now. Boss, we’ve got a more serious matter to discuss first.”

“What is it?” Cheng Yu wondered.

“We’re running out of food.” Cheng Yu’s assistant replied, “After we entered the Sacred Mountains, our journey was much slower than expected, and the consumption of rations was greater than we had planned. I think it’s not only us who are facing this, the others have the same problem as well.”

Actually, before everyone set off for the expedition, they had prepared additional supplies that would last them for at least 15 days. Although only 11 days had passed now, everyone was starting to run short of food. This was all within Ren Xiaosu’s expectations. After all, these people had not ventured into the wilderness often and were inexperienced in many areas related to wilderness survival, so they were very susceptible to exceeding their ration portions. Take, for example, when they were sitting by their campfire after dinner. Without any activities to keep them entertained throughout the long night, wouldn’t it feel better if they had something to snack on to keep their hands and mouths busy?

It might be enjoyable to kill time by having a snack, but it would become tormenting once all the food was finished.

For example, when Ren Xiaosu was still going out into the wilderness to hunt sparrows, he would calculate the rations he brought along very accurately. Unless he was extremely hungry, he would never snack on the supplies he brought.

But as these people did not have much experience in enduring starvation in the wilderness, they had unknowingly wasted their supplies as a result.

This was not to say that Cheng Yu and the others did not have any self-control or planning. If one had indeed not suffered from starvation in the wilderness before, it would be difficult for them to have the same conscientiousness as Ren Xiaosu.

Of course, this was just Ren Xiaosu ridiculing them in his mind.

More importantly, everyone had envisioned a good scenario before setting out for the expedition. It looked as though they could find an abundance of food out in the wilderness of the Sacred Mountains and thought there would be plenty of wild animals they could catch and eat.

However, no one expected the Pyro Company to be so ruthless that they would allow their genetically modified tarantulas to roam free and snap up all the smaller animals in the mountains ahead of this operation.

If this were the past, they probably wouldn’t have to starve to death since they could dig up wild vegetables to eat. But now that the plants in the Sacred Mountains had mutated, who would dare to eat them?

When Ren Xiaosu saw some coriander earlier on, he said it had turned poisonous.

Even coriander had become poisonous, so how could they be alright if they ate any other plants? No one would gamble their lives.