Yongcheng Team members were cooking hotpot in the dining hall, and Chen Qiao and the others, who didn't recognize Zhou Fanghua, were quite curious to see her obviously made-up appearance and couldn't help but take a few more glances.
After the apocalypse, everyone's living standards had plummeted sharply. Most people were doing well if they could keep themselves clean, let alone dress up, given the scarcity of water resources. Unless one was a Water Element Superpower User, everyone else had to conserve water.
Washing clothes was both water-consuming and labor-intensive, so many people simply stopped washing their clothes. If they had extra clothes, they would throw the dirty ones away or wear them over the top while working. If they didn't have many clothes to begin with, they had to make do, and if the clothes got too dirty, they would wash them with accumulated waste water.
