Ye Jieye left his children in the care of the two systems at early morning and went to the wilderness outside the boundaries. His modest eatery is located in a small village near the border. It's much more barren than the town where the two main characters first met. In sum, it's in risky territory near a human-inhabited location. He left the home to go to the forest and pick some food. When he checked his house fridge, he discovered there was nothing in it and his children would have nothing to eat when they woke up.