Creak, creak.
Thick insect legs stepped down from the Base Bug.
They plunged into the ground near the floating settlement's teleportation area. Thick yet nimble, the legs scooped up the entire foundation beneath it like excavator buckets.
At the same time, hollow insect legs ushered the survivors into the city.
Yang Fan and the other survivors felt like a bunch of country bumpkins.
Remembering the madmen those tin cans had casually crushed, and the sharks and crocodiles the insects had hunted, then looking at this magnificent, next-generation city, they cooperated readily with the full disinfection and change of clothing.
"Synthetic food is free within the city, and everyone receives a place to live and basic living supplies. But if you want a better life, to earn wish power, or to exchange it for cultivation resources, you'll need to explore or take a job in the city.
"Here's the city's rules and regulations handbook. Broadly speaking, it isn't much different from some of the old laws. I'm a newcomer myself, and I joined less than two months ago. Explaining all this to you is my current job. You can also contact me later if there's anything you don't understand-"
A female survivor guide brought over some synthetic food with a group of insect porters while helping them complete their residency paperwork.
Although the synthetic food tasted ordinary, the slight sweetness of synthetic starch and the Maillard reaction produced by heating amino acids and reducing sugars made it a rare delicacy to these mostly hungry survivors!
Until they had eaten their fill, all they could think about was eating their fill. Even lobster and abalone would not have tasted as good to them now as this nutritious meal formulated to meet the human body's needs.
They ate like piglets, their heads almost