Zhang Heng changed clothes, got off work at the power plant, and returned to his residence.
After opening the door, he saw Hostess busy killing a fish, preparing to make squirrel-shaped mandarin fish. She had learned the dish from Zhang Heng. Of course, Ukraine had no mandarin fish, so she could only substitute it with other fish caught from the Pripyat River.
As she scraped the fish scales, Hostess asked Zhang Heng in Ukrainian, "How was work today?"
"Mm, same as usual." Zhang Heng set the paper bag in his hand on the table. "The pickles and jam you wanted—I picked them up for you on my way home from work."
"That's great, I can use them right away," Hostess said happily.
When Zhang Heng bought the pickles, he unexpectedly gained another 2 points. So far, he had earned 192 points in the Parallel Instance, and he had upgraded nearly all the skills that needed upgrading. As for the Chernobyl accident, although Zhang Heng had not been in the Control Room at the time, after combining his previous conversations with those involved, he had more or less reconstructed what happened that night. Yet strangely, the main quest still showed no sign of movement.
Among all the system notifications Zhang Heng had received during this time, not one was related to the main quest of finding the key person. It was as though the system had completely forgotten about it.
"Are you off tomorrow?" Hostess poked her head out from the kitchen again. "Could you drive me to my grandparents' house? They live in the countryside, some distance from here."
"Sure," Zhang Heng said.
He had investigated the reactor matter thoroughly enough, and there was nothing else for him to do in the short term. Zhang Heng did not mind playing