"Sister, I'm hungry. Can we eat now?"

.....

"Here, take it."

Mina handed the basket in her hand to her taller younger brother. The basket was filled with fruits that weren't in very good condition.

"Yay, it's lunchtime!"

The children swarmed over, happily running back with the basket.

Mina suddenly seemed to remember something, her expression changed, and she quickly turned to look at Su Mo and Winluosi.

"Oh no, I forgot to ask you. Mr. Su Mo, and Miss Winluosi, have you eaten yet?"

"Uh, I guess we haven't, but we're not very hungry."

Su Mo didn't know whether to say they had eaten or hadn't.

"I'll go get you some fruit. I'm sorry, because we're too poor, we can't afford insects, so we can't properly entertain you."

Mina lowered her head as she said this. In her eyes, not using highly nutritious insects to entertain important guests was very impolite.

Normal families, even if they couldn't prepare fresh insects, would at least have some dried ones stored.

But her family's situation was a bit special.

"No need, no need, eating fruit is great. Why eat insects?"

Su Mo explained with a very awkward expression, afraid that Mina would get the wrong idea and really get some insects from somewhere.

He actually didn't have much of an appetite today, mostly thanks to those insects.

Besides, Su Mo was also muttering in his heart that having so many children, it would be a miracle not to be poor.

Of course, he would only complain in his heart and wouldn't be stupid enough to say it out loud.

"Really? Then I'll go get you some fruit?"

"No need, we have some here."

Su Mo quickly handed the paper bag in his hand to Mina to show her.

"Okay."

Mina stretched her head over to look at the fruit in the paper bag and quickly nodded.

Cough cough~

At this moment, a burst of coughing came.

Then an old man, very old, with white hair, and walking weakly, came out of the house.

"Mina, you're back?"

"I'm back, Grandpa."

"Oh, we have guests."

The old man noticed Su Mo and Winluosi.

Mina quickly introduced them, "Grandpa, these two are friends I met in the Federation. They're called Su Mo and Winluosi. I was saved thanks to them."

"So you're my granddaughter's saviors, I'm really grateful. But I'm ashamed to say, our family is really too poor, we don't have anything to entertain you with."

Mina's grandfather said apologetically.

"No need, we don't need anything, we'll just rest here for a while."

Su Mo replied politely.

Just then, the deep voice of the Fabricator·Devourer suddenly rang in Su Mo's mind.

"Who said you don't need anything?"

"I....."

Su Mo's expression froze, almost stunned by the Devourer.

After he came back to his senses, he said to the Fabricator·Devourer in his mind, "Don't mess around, we're so poor here, what could we possibly need?"

"There's something inside the house that is very useful to me. Go get it."

The Fabricator·Devourer said without the slightest bit of politeness.

Su Mo frowned slightly, and communicated with the Fabricator·Devourer, "Are you sure? Don't make a mistake."

"I'm never wrong. That damaged high-level crystal energy power core device removed from a V-generation machine contains a V-level energy crystal, which can be used to charge me. Such a high-level thing must have come from some advanced civilization. They wouldn't have it with their wealth. It's only possible they picked it up. They probably don't recognize it yet. If they picked it up near here, then the Titan ruins might really exist. Moreover, energy crystals are divided into I to VI large grades, corresponding to the energy needs of different civilizations. The energy crystals we found in the crater and on the Zhi Gu fortress were all I to III grade. We didn't even see a shadow of a IV grade, so this one is a must-have."

The Fabricator·Devourer replied very definitely, and his attitude was very firm.

"I'm a little curious, how much did you charge after absorbing the energy from the Zhi Gu planet fortress last time?"

"Eight percent."

"How is it so little? If you absorb this IV grade one, can you charge a lot?"

Su Mo also had a bit of a headache, it absorbed too much. It was impossible to support it.

"Dream on, at most it'll add five percent."

"How much energy do you need?"

"Never you mind, just help me collect it, and I won't skimp on your benefits."

Su Mo was also a little speechless, but he didn't complain. After all, charging this guy was the top priority, because the higher its charge level, the safer he would be.

"I know, be patient, I'll find a way."

"Su Mo?"

At this time, Winluosi's call woke him up.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about something."

Su Mo apologized to Winluosi quickly after he came back to his senses.

"It's okay, Mina and her grandfather invited us in to sit for a while."

Winluosi said to Su Mo.

"Okay."

Su Mo immediately agreed after hearing this, just what he wanted.

"Great, let's go in."

Mina excitedly led Su Mo and Winluosi towards the big wooden house in front.

Mina's house was a wooden structure. Although it wasn't very sturdy, it was big enough.

After entering the wooden house, they first came to the crowded living room. The reason it was crowded wasn't because the living room was small in the conventional sense, but because there were too many people.

They saw children holding and gnawing on fruits.

Also, the living room was piled with a bunch of messy mechanical wreckage.

Su Mo immediately found the thing that the Fabricator·Devourer had specifically named, it was a dark and dirty mess, the surface was covered with spider web cracks, and there was a large crack on the left side. Looking inside, it was empty, and the inner walls were all decayed. It felt like a completely rotten lump, only good for recycling. You couldn't tell it was anything good at all.

Su Mo didn't mention it right away, but chose to ignore it, preparing to bring it up at a suitable opportunity.

Lest it seem suspicious.

At this time, Su Mo's attention fell on the children, and he also revealed a wry smile.

He counted slightly, not including Mina, there were a full thirteen children here.

"Mina, are these all your younger siblings? Your family has quite a few siblings!"

Winluosi asked very surprised. She knew that in her impression, a family usually only had one or two children, and three was the most.

"That's right, but this isn't all of them. Our family has a total of sixteen. I have an older sister above me, but she's married, and my older brother works on another mothership, he's not here."

Mina nodded and said.

Su Mo's eyelids couldn't help but twitch when he heard this. He felt that he had underestimated them.

He thought fourteen was the limit, but it turned out to be sixteen.

At this time, several children ran over, looking at Mina expectantly and said.

"Sister, I'm done eating, but I'm still hungry."