456: Food in the End of Time

Two hours later.

The chicken leg under him had been gnawed down to just a few hard bones by Nie Fangping.

And on his red panel, it displayed—Energy: 1 point.

"System, create Swarm Larva."

Standing next to the packaging bag, Nie Fangping said to the System.

Swarm Larva, the only ability of this bug is to devour biological energy, which simply means to eat.

Compared to him gnawing to collect energy himself, Swarm Larva obviously collects it faster.

Of course.

More importantly, Nie Fangping had already finished the chicken leg, and there was nothing else around to obtain energy from.

Those corpses in the distance also represented energy.

But he couldn't possibly eat the corpses, right?

Therefore, Nie Fangping chose Swarm Larva first.

After his words fell, in the pitch-black space beside him, there was a faint sound of wings vibrating.

Then, a bug as thick as a finger, completely black, was bred out with the infusion of one unit of energy.

At this moment, Nie Fangping felt an indescribable connection born between him and this bug.

Relying on this connection, he could even directly order the other party to die!

"Go, eat that corpse."

Nie Fangping gestured towards the corpse next to his younger sister's corpse.

"Buzz buzz buzz~" The Swarm Larva, having received the order, vibrated its wings and landed on the corpse.

Subsequently, a mouthpart slightly larger than Nie Fangping's began to tear and bite at the corpse beneath it!

Faint sounds of skin and flesh being torn and chewed could be heard.

At the same time, Nie Fangping could see his energy points, which had just been depleted, starting to rise.

0.15... 0.31... 0.44...

Although it was just one bug, because it was specialized, in just twenty minutes, the Swarm Larva brought Nie Fangping one unit of energy.

And the abdomen of that corpse already had a bowl-sized opening!

The stuffy, foul-smelling internal organs were visible.

"System, continue to create Swarm Larva!"

Seeing that he had another point of energy, Nie Fangping continued.

He needed more energy, and he needed more Swarm Larva to speed this up.

In the damp shadow, the second black Swarm Larva flew out, landed next to the first Swarm Larva, and began working together.

In the early hours of the morning.

People in the subway station gradually fell asleep.

Looking at the sleeping people before him, Nie Fangping's emotions were exceptionally calm.

Killing someone who was deeply asleep was not difficult for him.

But letting these people die in their sleep... that would be too easy for them.

Standing on a dusty station sign.

Beside Nie Fangping, five gray bugs slightly larger than bees appeared. These bugs had two exceptionally thick forelegs, occupying one-third of their entire body.

They were like building machines.

These were Nest Builders.

Five of them, costing five energy points.

Originally, Nie Fangping wanted to create attack bugs like Blade Worms.

However, the System informed him that this type of bug, which cost two energy points, needed to be bred in the fungal mats of a nest.

In other words, they could only be born and bred in the bug nest built by Nest Builders.

Thinking about it, it seemed reasonable.

Without this requirement, according to Nie Fangping's idea, Nest Builders would have no reason to exist.

"Go build a nest."

Nie Fangping gave the order to the five Nest Builders.

In the subsequent two breaths, the five bugs slowly flew to the corner of the pitch-black shadow that was as dark as ever, day or night.

They burrowed into the ground.

Withdrawing his gaze, Nie Fangping looked ahead.

He saw that the initial corpse had already had more than half of its body disappear!

The five Swarm Larva were working diligently, only the hard bones remained, which the Swarm Larva planned to deal with after finishing the remaining flesh and fat.

Looking at the 7 energy points remaining on his panel, Nie Fangping could roughly estimate that an adult corpse could provide about fifty points of energy.

And here, besides the corpse being eaten by the Swarm Larva.

Not including the corpse of his younger sister, Nie Xiaoqiao.

There were three other adult corpses.

Of course, besides human corpses, Zombie corpses could also be converted into energy!

And around this survivor camp, there was no shortage of dead Zombie corpses!

While calculating, Nie Fangping's gaze shifted due to some slight movement, moving to the survivor hall.

Due to the power outage and the fact that it wasn't yet dawn, the survivor hall was completely dark.

But Nie Fangping could see through his bug's vision that there was A Man inside, sneaking out towards the subway station exit.

It was Lu Chao.

One of the murderers who had called him brother in the search team and had harmed his younger sister less than a day after his death!

Quietly watching the other person's actions, Nie Fangping could roughly guess what he was going to do.

His gaze shifted, among the survivors, A Man cautiously got up and followed Lu Chao.

Nie Fangping paused, then followed as well.

As expected, Lu Chao was running towards the place where he had hidden the rice.

Earlier, the System had shown him the scene after Zhao Ling had given Lu Chao the rice.

In such a doomsday environment, besides food, what else could make A Man get up at two or three in the morning?

In an empty room not far from the subway station, Lu Chao quickly walked to the four bags of rice he had covered with a black cloth.

Being extremely hungry, he reached into a rice bag, grabbed a handful of raw rice, and directly stuffed it into his mouth.

Swallowing the raw rice, Lu Chao's face was full of happiness.

It was a good thing that girl was dead.

No need to waste rice to feed her, and no one knew he had four bags of rice!

In this era, with so much food, wouldn't the other women in the subway station be his for the taking?

While he was having such pleasant fantasies, a muffled, heavy sound of breaking wind suddenly exploded from behind!

"Bang!"

The iron rod fiercely smashed onto Lu Chao's head.

Hit by this sudden blow, like a stiffened toad, he fell straight to the side.

Warm blood flowed madly from his shattered back of the head!

In just a moment, a pool of blood had formed beneath Lu Chao.

Struggling weakly on the ground, Lu Chao's blood-red eyes looked behind him in disbelief.

It was A Man holding an iron rod.

"Wu... Wu Ge?!"

Lu Chao's legs thrashed wildly with muscle spasms, but his cerebellum couldn't give him balance. At this moment, he could only wait on the ground for death to arrive!

"I knew Zhao Ling left you and that little girl a lot to eat, but I didn't expect there to be so much, ah."

The man called Wu Ge revealed a mouth full of yellow teeth, his eyes full of sharp light.

"Wu Ge... spare, spare me!"

Even now, Lu Chao still hoped to live.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of saving him, Lu Chao said hoarsely: "Zhao Ling, Zhao Ling will come back! If he finds out that I and that girl are dead, he definitely won't let you off!"

"Zhao Ling will come back?"

Hearing this, the man called Wu Ge finally showed some seriousness and unease in his expression.

He looked at Lu Chao.

But found that this guy had already started rolling his White Eyes.

A few seconds later, he stopped breathing.

Turning his head to look at the few bags of rice beside him, his face was full of uncertainty.

A few minutes later, Wu Gen seemed to figure something out and carried two of the four bags of rice.

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

After the man left, Nie Fangping looked at Lu Chao's corpse in the room and muttered that it was too easy for him.

The next day.

The rain stopped.

In the subway station, people were waking up in twos and threes, hungry.

Although porridge was cooked yesterday, except for a few members of the search team, no one was full.

Listening to the Zombies roaring outside, most people held their stomachs, and in the new day, they aimlessly searched among the crowd for possible food.

But at this moment, in the crowd, Wu Gen stood holding an iron basin at the usual place for distributing food.

From the iron basin, wafted waves of tempting porridge aroma.