Chapter 190 Porridge Shed
Zhou Chen gave Leng Yiyao a look, and Leng Yiyao immediately understood and went to the kitchen to bring out a pot of meat. This was cooked while they were cleaning the house. Although there was no seasoning, they couldn't help but drool after smelling the aroma of the meat.

"You've worked hard, you can take this little bit of food away." They didn't expect Zhou Chen to give them meat. They originally thought that Zhou Chen just wanted to use it to humiliate them.

Although they were starving, they did not dare to take it and just refused, "No need, sir. We are not hungry."

Leng Yiyao walked up and stuffed the things directly into their hands, "Okay, stop being pretentious, take it."

After taking the full pot of meat, they looked at each other, then knelt down in front of Zhou Chen and the others, and said, "Thank you, young master, for the reward."

Zhou Chen nodded slightly and said, "Let's eat in the yard and go out when we're full." Then he took Leng Yiyao back to rest.

On the second day, Zhou Chen also brought Leng Yiyao to the Demon Suppression Division, and Yue followed behind him. For Zhen Nantian, as long as Yue was still in the city, he would not be afraid even if a strong enemy attacked.

Afterwards, he asked a few people to patrol the streets to prevent any riots. Zhou Chen then took a few people out of the Demon Suppression Bureau. Feeding so many people was also a problem, as most of them came from nearby villages and towns.

Even if they were prepared when they came, they wouldn't be able to last long. It was okay in the beginning because they had their own dry food prepared, but they had almost eaten up all the dry food in the past few days.

The restaurants and inns in the city also took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune. They didn't care about the lives of these ordinary people. Today, the city lord also ordered the opening of porridge stalls.

There are a total of twenty porridge stalls in Wu'an County, and Zhou Chen and his team are responsible for the security of one of the porridge stalls. Before the rice porridge is ready, a large number of people have already surrounded the porridge stall.

They kept pushing forward, afraid that there would be no porridge left when it was their turn. The person in charge of the porridge stand tried to persuade them, "Don't push, there's room for everyone."

However, those people would never listen to him and kept pushing forward. Seeing this, he looked at Zhou Chen helplessly, and Zhou Chen felt a chill.

Instantly, the people present were trembling all over, "Alright, I told you not to push, why are you pushing? If you push again, get out of the city."

These words, coupled with the shock of the icy true qi, finally calmed the people. However, what was speechless was that due to the icy true qi, the water in the pot that had been boiling had now become icy cold, and even a thin layer of ice had formed on it.

In response to this, Zhou Chen smiled awkwardly and turned his head to look away, pretending he didn't see it. The officers and soldiers in charge of cooking the porridge didn't dare to say anything. They had to increase the fire and continue cooking. After more than an hour of cooking, the rice porridge was finally cooked.

With Zhou Chen standing next to them, the people did not dare to act unruly and had to line up obediently to receive their own bowls of rice porridge.

Those people may have been hungry for several meals, and when they received their rice porridge, they just picked it up and drank it without caring whether it was hot or not.

Some people who brought their children with them were reluctant to finish the drink, so they let the children drink first. After the children finished drinking, they poured half of the rice porridge in their own bowls into the children's bowls.

Seeing this, Zhou Chen allowed those people with children to receive an extra bowl of rice porridge. Some brave people felt that this was unfair and also wanted to get an extra bowl.

As a result, Zhou Chen glared at him and he was so scared that he immediately shut up. The morning distribution was quickly over, and before he started to cook porridge in the afternoon, he heard someone shouting in the crowd.

The general meaning was that his child was lost and he wanted people around to help find him. There were too many people here and he was squeezed in one place and couldn't move. The people around him either watched the excitement or pretended not to hear. Zhou Chen quietly opened the Extreme Eye and saw a man in the crowd holding a child in his arms.

The child was crying loudly, and the man quickly covered his mouth with his hands and glared at him fiercely.

Zhou Chen understood instantly that this guy must want to use this child to cheat an extra bowl of porridge. Then Zhou Chen stepped into the void and appeared above the man's head.

Zhou Chen just looked at him coldly without saying a word. The people around him were all shocked to see that Zhou Chen could actually stand in the air. The man holding the child was so frightened when he saw Zhou Chen that he dared not speak.

Looking at his horrified expression, Zhou Chen continued to look at him coldly. After about a minute, the man finally couldn't help it and knelt down and put the child aside, "Sir, please spare me, I know I was wrong."

Zhou Chen curled up the corner of his mouth in a cold smile, and a chill rushed into the other person's body. The other person's originally trembling body suddenly stiffened, and the begging for mercy in his mouth suddenly stopped.

Zhou Chen ignored him and grabbed the child and handed him directly to his mother. Only then did the people around him realize that the man was dead, and the crowd suddenly became panicked.

Zhou Chen stood in the air and said angrily, "Don't panic, that guy deserves it. If I find that there are still people among you who dare to be so presumptuous, he will be the same as your fate."

After hearing this, those guys who had ulterior motives completely gave up the idea. The distribution in the afternoon went smoothly without any scrambles or theft of children.

The official food only ensured that they would not starve to death, but naturally would not ensure that they were well fed. They only had two meals a day. After distributing the rice porridge, the officers and soldiers who were responsible for cooking the porridge packed up and returned to the county government office. Zhou Chen and other warriors from the Demon Suppression Division were responsible for keeping watch at night to prevent riots.

Of course, this kind of thing would not happen under normal circumstances, and their purpose here is just to serve as a deterrent.

Two days later, a large number of monsters began to gather outside the city. At first, there were only some monsters that had not even reached the ninth level. Until today, ninth-level monsters began to appear outside the city. Standing on the city wall and looking out, it was a densely packed group, with no end in sight.

It is obvious that the Demon King Zhentian has begun to prepare for action. If so many monsters are captured and eaten, they will be enough to feed the people in the city for a long time. However, ordinary people are no match for the monsters. Even powerful warriors cannot withstand the attacks of so many monsters, and they will be able to exhaust him to death.

However, truly powerful warriors will not go out easily. First, they have no shortage of meat, and second, they are afraid of encountering powerful monsters after going out.

In the past few days, Zhou Chen and his fellow Demon-Suppressing Guards were also arranged to impose martial law on the city walls, while only the officers and soldiers responsible for cooking porridge were left in the city. Some daring citizens started to make trouble again, but the officers and soldiers in charge of cooking porridge turned a deaf ear to it.

Three days later, powerful monsters began to appear outside the city. There were countless seventh-grade monsters, dozens of sixth-grade monsters, and two or three fifth-grade monsters.

The sixth- and fifth-grade monsters among them transformed into human forms, glaring at the city walls of Wu'an County, but they had no intention of taking action for the time being, so they just watched.

At this time, Yue had already left Zhou Chen and went to Zhen Nantian. At this time, Zhen Nantian was sitting cross-legged in the secret room to practice. He was only one step away from the third level, but this step held him back for eighty years.

(End of this chapter)