"In other words, if you don't want to spend twenty hours out of every twenty-four eating," Yang Qi continued, "then those nutrition bars that taste about as good as chewing soap... will become your main source of energy in the future."
"Fine... It's not like I can't eat nutrition bars, but could you ask them to make some other flavors?" Wang Xiyi said helplessly. "If it comes to it, I'll have to dip the damn things in hot pot seasoning."
"The nutrition bars we gave you today were still trial versions. There should be all kinds of flavors in the future," Yang Qi said. "If that still doesn't work, I can have a truckload of military-grade energy bars delivered for you. Those have been developed for many years, so the taste is more acceptable, but compared to specially made nutrition bars, they provide far too little energy per unit volume... I did a rough calculation. You'd need to eat about a hundred and twenty a day just to fill up."
"..." Wang Xiyi pursed her lips and said nothing.
"Come to think of it, aside from eating, is there no other way to replenish energy?" Sun Hang suddenly asked. "I forget whether I saw it in a novel or a movie, but the dragon in it could absorb energy by soaking in lava... So could Old Wang maybe...?"
"You said it yourself—that was a novel or a movie. In reality, energy conversion is an extremely complicated process. Night Fiend still retains most of a human body's structure, so she can only absorb energy the way humans do... Still, we can use this as a subject for further research. I'll write a report and submit it to my teacher later, regarding ways special infected individuals can draw energy..."
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