"Xing Chen, the expiration date on this can says only three years, so why are some of the production dates five or six years ago?"
Theresa did a rough spot-check of the cans and easily found many discrepancies.
"If you look carefully, you might even find cans produced next year?"
Due to the extremely cheap price, Xing Chen never had high expectations for the quality of the canned goods.
Theresa made a quick estimate: at least half of the cans in the pile were expired, and the remaining ones all had incomplete information.
"It's fine. Canned food, with its good seal and high salt content, won't completely spoil even if it's past its expiration date."
Xing Chen was confident in the Terra people's resistance to expired Earth food.
However, he also worried about what would happen if they couldn't handle Earth's microorganisms.
"We can only boil them. If we boil them long enough, most of the harmful organisms will die," Theresa offered her solution.
Once the cans were ready, Theresa called Alina, Talulah, and Patriot to help transport them to the Reunion Movement's outpost.
Afterward, Xing Chen and Theresa did not return to Terra with them; they still had some matters to attend to on Earth.
Regarding the attack on the Ursus weapon transport ship, they needed to prepare some weapons to deal with the Ursus regular army.
Common Sarkaz mercenaries or Victoria soldiers do not have high physical defense, and human weapons, if powerful enough, can still meet the armor-piercing requirements.
But the Ursus army, which advocates heavy armor and powerful artillery, is different.
Even Ursus casters, who have lower defense, wear armor. Ursus people are already physically strong, and with armor, they are difficult for the local Terra people to deal with even with crossbows.
Generally speaking, to deal with such heavily armored units, Terra people have casters to counter them.
But currently, the Reunion Movement clearly cannot quickly increase the number of casters; they still have to rely on physical weapons.
This means that the requirements for armor penetration (armor-piercing threshold) are further increased.
"Are boltguns not enough?" Theresa asked, leaning next to Xing Chen.
"If you're talking about genuine boltguns improved by Thor Industries, then yes, they would work, but we can't get those right now."
Xing Chen scrolled through online information. To deal with the Ursus army, heavy machine guns might not be enough; they might need anti-aircraft machine guns or even anti-aircraft artillery.
"With our current capabilities, we can only produce boltguns of the Tara level. Do you think those extremely low-spec knock-off weapons, mixed with sand, can harm the Ursus army?"
Theresa shook her head. For her, Sarkaz, who excel in magic, had a significant advantage against the physically strong Ursus army.
Even in a physical confrontation, with the Sarkaz's strength amplification, their armor-piercing threshold was more than sufficient.
Currently, the Reunion Movement's main fighting force is Patriot's Guerrillas. There aren't many Sarkaz among them; the true main force is the shieldguards in heavy armor.
However, these heavily armored units are slow-moving and can only engage in close-quarters combat.
He should find a way to make more improvements to the shieldguards, such as increasing their attack range and improving their armor-piercing threshold...
On a winter night in Ursus, a cold wind blew over the Reunion Movement members.
However, they were completely unaffected by the bitter cold and were excitedly discussing activities for the New Year.
Theresa followed Alina and Talulah to distribute the canned goods, along with some grain alcohol, telling them to mix it with water themselves.
Xing Chen, on the other hand, sought out Patriot to introduce his achievements.
"Are you sure this weapon will work?"
"At least it's very effective at penetrating the side and rear armor of those anomaly tanks, and it doesn't require any casting units."
"Alright, I'll have the weapon maintenance personnel try to produce some."
As the time gradually approached midnight, the atmosphere on site became increasingly lively.
The Ursus infected were performing traditional dances, which, whether spinning around or squatting on the ground and constantly lifting their legs left and right, were not much different from those of the Northern Country.
Theresa stayed with the Sarkaz members of the Reunion Movement, listening to their experiences living in the Reunion Movement and contemplating the future direction.
Alina and Talulah approached Yelena, seemingly discussing something with Cattus, but Yelena immediately blushed and refused after hearing both their requests.
Xing Chen finished his discussion with Patriot and, after reuniting with Theresa, came over to Talulah.
At this moment, they were gathered around a bonfire, savoring the canned food Xing Chen had brought.
"How do you all like the taste?" Xing Chen couldn't help but ask.
"It's very good," Alina handed the heated can to Xing Chen, seemingly hoping he would also take a bite.
Xing Chen couldn't refuse either and took a bite of the steaming can of soup. Aside from being a bit salty, the taste was quite good.
However, he found the taste very unfamiliar; he didn't seem to recognize this flavor among the meats he usually ate.
So, he turned the can around—it was braised venison.
Theresa saw Xing Chen suddenly freeze, so she curiously walked over, and then she also saw the name on the can.
"Don't you feel like something is off?" Theresa couldn't help but ask.
"Aside from not being able to tell what kind of meat it is, everything else is pretty good," Alina said happily. "I asked little Tara to take a look, and she said she also didn't recognize the first Yan Country character—but I looked at the picture on the can's packaging, and it looks very similar to the horns of Aelafia, so it must be specially supplied to our race."
"Ah ha ha ha," Theresa and Xing Chen exchanged glances and laughed awkwardly.
Then, they turned their gaze to Yelena, and sure enough, she was eating rabbit meat.
"This is truly hell," Theresa whispered to Xing Chen.
"It's alright, we don't sell bear meat where I'm from."
"What are you two whispering about? Aren't you going to sit down and eat with us?" Alina took out two more heated cans and handed them to Xing Chen and Theresa.
The freshly heated cans must have been very hot; in any case, Xing Chen saw Theresa juggling them between her left and right hands a few times.
"By the way, Xing Chen, what exactly are these Yan Country characters? I've never seen them in the Yan Country," Talulah asked Xing Chen, holding the leftover can.
"Don't worry about it, they're typos. If you don't believe me, look at the date on it; it's even more ridiculous."
"Oh, it seems so." Talulah chose to believe Xing Chen; if these cans were fine, she would have started to doubt Xing Chen instead. "By the way, what's the name of that animal with big ears, a long nose, and pink skin? I've never seen a similar race or livestock?"