Liu Fangzhou stood in this survivor's base whose name was half-identified with his own, and felt like his grandmother Liu who walked into the Grand View Garden for the first time.
Clean and tidy streets, normal shops, brisk pedestrians, the green belts on both sides of the road are not only neatly manicured, but also the green grass is full of unknown wild flowers.
Look, a duck is playing in the shade with a group of baby ducks, a few chickens are scratching the grass not far away to find bugs, oops, two sheep came out from under the bushes—
Is this really the end of the world? ?
Compared with him, Chen Nan feels more like a world away: nearly three months have passed since the outbreak of the virus, and the whole country and even the whole world are going through the cruel test of the end times, but this small hot spring town and him came more than a year ago Compared with the time, it seems that nothing has changed.
No, something has changed: there were not as many types of green plants in the past, the streets were not as clean and beautiful as they are now, and the faces of the residents in the past were not as relaxed as they are now—it seems that there is nothing to worry about .
Shen Shi'an held the child in his arms and walked along the street first. As a well-known hot spring scenic spot, most of the buildings in the county are small two-story western-style buildings in a uniform style, with soft and quiet colors and an obvious pastoral style. It was dusk, and the survivors here seemed to have just finished their day's work. Many of them were sitting on the wicker chairs in the corridor to enjoy the shade. There was a small table in front of them with a pot of herbal tea, or some Small dishes and a bottle of beer, occasionally meeting the eyes of Shen Shi'an and others, they raised their cups and greeted with a smile: "Welcome to Ark!"
Tao Yuan walked to Shen Shi'an's side and said in a low voice, "They didn't check our backpacks, and they didn't ask us to quarantine."
"En." Shen Shi'an responded softly. Entering this base called "Noah's Ark" was much easier than expected. They only asked what they were doing here and opened the city gate to let them through. They also kindly reminded outsiders that they could go to the hot spring hotel located in the center of the county for accommodation. What this means is not difficult to guess: "Among the survivors in charge of defending the city, someone can detect whether outsiders carry the zombie virus."
There are a total of more than a thousand supernatural beings in the county, and it is not surprising that any supernatural powers have evolved.
Not only did the entry into the city go smoothly, but I also felt the hospitality of the residents in the city after entering: almost all passers-by who met head-on would greet them with a smile, and they were especially enthusiastic about Shen Xun in Shen Shi'an's arms. Touching the little face and pulling the little hand, Shen Shi'an stopped him in time and didn't mind, and handed various snacks to Shen Xun: "Children are the hope of the new era, welcome to the Ark!"
Liu Fangzhou heard this sentence awkwardly at first, and felt that people were calling his name from all directions, and he got used to it after hearing it many times. Supernatural beings, we have seen almost all of them."
"There are no ordinary survivors?"
"Anyway, there aren't many on this street." There were colorful light clusters everywhere within the sensing range, and Liu Fangzhou couldn't help sighing: "If Zhou Jianghai is destined to come to such a place, he will be so happy and crazy." Imagine the scene where all the abilities of more than a thousand supernatural beings were secretly copied by him, and immediately added: "Fortunately, he died early."
Shen Shi'an calmly slid his eyes over the smiling faces on both sides of the road, and said in a low voice, "How are these people's abilities?"
"Based on the brightness and size of the light cluster, some are strong and some are weak. The strongest is not as strong as you, and the weakest is not as weak as Brother Nan."
Chen Nan: "..." Knee hurts.
"Huh." Liu Fangzhou suddenly let out a low cry, and leaned closer to Shen Shi'an again, his voice lowered: "Brother Shen, if two light clusters appear on the same person, what does it mean? It's not the same as Brother Nan and his younger brother." Same, the two light clusters refer to living people."
Shen Shi'an thought for a while: "Male or female?"
"Female... ah," Liu Fangzhou reacted: "Does that mean she is pregnant?" It turns out that his ability can also be used as a B-ultrasound.
Pregnant? Chen Nan asked, "How many months?"
Liu Fangzhou turned to look at him with a sullen face: "..." You are making things difficult, brother.
According to Liu Fangzhou's guidance, Shen Shi'an quickly glanced at a female superhuman who was suspected to be pregnant: she wore few clothes in summer, and it was obvious that her lower abdomen was still flat. "Not more than four months."
Chen Nan calculated in his mind: It has been almost three months since the outbreak of the virus. If she was pregnant before the end of the world, it can only be said that she was unlucky. After the outbreak of the virus, the mortality rate of women, children, and the elderly is far from It is higher than that of adult men, and pregnant women are even more high-risk groups. Not to mention the nutritional problems of the fetus and the mobility of pregnant women during pregnancy, childbirth itself is a very dangerous thing. In the current situation where medical conditions have collapsed across the board Even more so. So if you are pregnant after the end of the world, don't you want to die? Even if the child is successfully born, is this a world suitable for babies to grow up
Shen Shi'an frowned, as if thinking of something, and asked Liu Fangzhou, "What color is the light cluster representing the fetus?"
"White, all white." Symbolizes the color of ordinary survivors.
Shen Shi'an stopped talking. Liu Fangzhou didn't understand what he meant by asking this, but it was hard to ask carefully because there were pedestrians around. As I walked around, I continued to expand the sensing range, but I didn't sense anything special, but I remembered something important. I slapped my head and quickly took out a bottle of toilet water spray from my backpack, sprayed myself from head to toe thoroughly, and then Started spraying on other people: "Hurry up, hurry up, the sun has already set, and it will be too late if you don't spray again."
Ever since encountering mutated mosquito swarms, this is the first thing to do after sunset every day. Although I am not sure how effective it will be, it is better than nothing. According to Liu Fangzhou's words: "I don't need toilet water to kill mosquitoes, I just need those mosquitoes to prefer those that are not sprayed with toilet water compared to us."
Shen Xun was choked and sneezed several times, but it was rare that he didn't get angry. He put his nose against Shen Shi'an's neck and took a few breaths, and said sullenly, "I won't let mosquitos bite An'an."
Shen Shi'an flicked his little grip: "I won't let mosquitoes bite you either."
After spraying toilet water, everyone has already walked to the corner of the street. After all, Chen Nan has been here once, and he is a little more familiar with this place than others, so he walked in the front and led the way: "I remember turning this corner and it is the largest hot spring hotel in the city. It's very distinctive, its name is Golden Phoenix... why did you stop?"
Chen Nan was puzzled, and turned his head following everyone's gaze: less than 200 meters away from them, a hotel that was exactly the same as in memory stood in the dusk.
The hotel is in the style of a western-style dome palace, with a total of five floors. Compared with the famous five-star hotels, it must be significantly different, but it is really magnificent in such a small county.
On the dome at the highest point stood a golden phoenix, its wings were about to fly, and its feathers and tail were covered with tiny colorful lights.
At this time, the phoenix, like the whole hotel, was brightly lit and radiant in the increasingly dim twilight.
"Damn it," Liu Fangzhou walked into the hotel lobby first, and was amazed at the marble floor and the bright and dazzling crystal chandeliers above his head: "There is still electricity here, and the air conditioner is turned on! How did they Did it?"
There is more than one entrance to the city wall, and Shen Shi'an and his party are not the only outsiders entering the hotel at this time. There were three people in front of them, obviously coming together, all men, one tall, one short and one fat, carrying bulging backpacks like them. As soon as they entered the gate, a waiter greeted the three of them: "Welcome to the Ark! Do you need anything, gentlemen?"
Another waiter was stopped when he was about to walk towards Shen Shi'an and the others: "Leave these guests to me."
The waiter immediately stopped at the spot, lowered his head and looked respectful: "It's the manager."
The visitor was slender, wearing a neat and dignified black suit, with an off-white bow tie in the middle of the neckline, and his hair was combed meticulously. His eyes paused for a moment on Shen Shi'an's face, he slid across the long sword behind him, and then stretched out his hand to Liu Fangzhou who was standing in the front: "Welcome to Fangzhou."
Liu Fangzhou didn't dare to grasp it: Zhou Jianghai didn't die in vain.
The other party didn't mind. He retracted his hand calmly and introduced himself with a smile: "Your humble Yang Xueqiu is the lobby manager of Golden Phoenix Hotel and the first mate of Ark."
Liu Fangzhou: My what?
As if seeing everyone's doubts, Yang Xueqiu explained: "For the convenience of management, the division of personnel duties in the ark follows the settings on general ships."
Shen Shi'an: "Does that mean you still have a captain?"
"That's right." Yang Xueqiu nodded.
Several people pricked up their ears and waited for the next sentence, but found that the first mate didn't intend to continue talking at all, so he changed the topic back: "I don't know if there is any need for the gentlemen that I can help with?"
Shen Shi'an didn't plan to get any internal information from the other party, "We plan to rest here for one night. Can we open a room?"
"Of course, if you become a resident of the ark, the hotel fee will be free. Are there any intentions?"
Shen Shi'an shook his head: "We are just passing by, and we will leave early tomorrow morning."
"That's how it is." Yang Xueqiu made a "please" gesture, led the five people to the service desk, and took out a booklet from the counter: "Golden Phoenix Hotel provides customers with multi-level choices, and strives to satisfy all customers. According to the needs of customers, the rooms are divided into five grades, the prices of different grades are different, and the services provided are also different, the gentlemen can take a look and see which one you need."
Shen Shi'an took the booklet, and Chen Nan and others surrounded it. There were only five sheets of paper in the booklet, which represented different room levels: a five-person room without water and electricity, a triple room with water and no electricity, and a room with water and electricity. standard rooms, big bed rooms with water and electricity, and luxury suites with water and electricity. Each piece of paper is marked with a number after the specific introduction of the room, ranging from one to twenty.
The tall, short and fat trio was not far away, also holding a booklet in their hands, and they saw the same thing as Shen Shi'an and others.
Shen Shi'an asked: "These figures represent the room cost?"
"Yes," Yang Xueqiu said, "but it should be noted that the hotel charges according to the number of people, not the room. Cost for four—kids are free."
Shen Shi'an asked again: "How to pay?"
Yang Xueqiu said: "This hotel accepts zombie crystal cores for payment, and also accepts materials. For the convenience of calculation, the materials need to be converted into crystal cores before payment." It's much thicker: "This is the exchange ratio of various acceptable materials and crystal nuclei in the ark. The gentlemen can take a closer look."
Shen Shi'an opened the second booklet, which listed hundreds of materials from high to low according to the convertible crystal core. Most of the items at the front are medicines, gasoline, weapons, etc., all of which are of high value, none of which is less than 20. In addition, the value of seeds or plants of various vegetables and fruits is also high, and the latter is the end of the world. Other things needed for survival vary in value. To Shen Shi'an's surprise, the value of food in this booklet can only be ranked at the bottom. Only five packs of puffed food can be exchanged for one crystal nucleus. Bread, instant noodles, etc. are slightly higher, and meat products are higher. , but the unit price does not exceed five crystal nuclei. On the contrary, it is cigarettes, each pack can be exchanged for ten to fifteen crystal nuclei depending on the brand and storage state.
There is a lot of information that can be obtained from this booklet.
First, there is no shortage of food in "Noah's Ark". Second, there are many plant-type supernatural beings in the ark.
What concerned Shen Shi'an the most was that there were many types of medicines listed here, but none of them were used to prevent mosquito bites or reduce swelling and itching. There is no mosquito repellent such as toilet water.
The trio next to them had already started exchanging crystal cores, and their supplies seemed to be quite sufficient, and they were three boxes of the most in-demand anti-inflammatory drugs. Seeing that Shen Shi'an hadn't made a decision, Yang Xueqiu pointed to the prods that Chen Nan and Liu Fangzhou carried behind their backs and suggested, "If a few gentlemen are willing to exchange this kind of weapon, I can make the decision and give each stick 20 crystal nuclei. price."
Shen Shi'an glanced at him, thinking of the hundreds of aloe vera thorns that had been pulled out in the space but had not been found useful, and the thousands of aloe vera thorns that had not been pulled out from the mutated aloe, he shook his head with some regret.
He has enough materials to exchange crystal nuclei, but what to exchange is a question that requires careful consideration.
"Give us a suite." Shen Shi'an said.
"One room?" Yang Xueqiu confirmed: "A suite has two independent bedrooms, and it may be a bit crowded for several gentlemen to live together. Because this hotel charges according to the number of people, you open a suite and two suites at the price They are actually the same, do I need to replace them with two?"
"No, just one room."
"Okay, five customers, free for children, twenty crystal nuclei per person, a total of eighty crystal nuclei."
Shen Shi'an took out a cigarette from his backpack: "How many crystal nuclei can this be exchanged for?"
The cigarettes were taken from the base of the tobacco factory, and the packaging was tight and unopened. Yang Xueqiu took it over and checked it carefully, and seemed a little pleasantly surprised: "It is well preserved and of high quality, and each pack can be exchanged for fifteen crystal nuclei. There are ten packs in total here, sir. Do you want to exchange all of them?"
Before Shen Shi'an could speak, the slightly fat one in the trio next to him suddenly leaned over and laughed twice: "That little brother, is it okay for me to discuss it with you? Check your room fee at 80 crystals." Well, it is enough to exchange six packs of cigarettes, can you give me the remaining four packs, I will exchange supplies with you, and you can just tell me what you want, and I guarantee that you will not suffer." After speaking, he rubbed his hands: "I'm an old smoker. I haven't smoked a cigarette for more than a month. The smoke bugs are about to kill me. Brother, you can save someone's life. Help?"
The tall man snorted: "It's good to just quit smoking."
The fat uncle waved his hand: "What do you know, how many hobbies can you have in this world, what's the matter if you don't let me live comfortably in the end of the world, besides, this is just a coincidence."
Turning his head, he continued to blink his eyes and looked at Shen Shi'an full of longing.
Shen Shi'an thought for a while, then nodded: "It can be changed. Do you have toilet water or ointment for reducing swelling and itching?"
"Color water? Antipruritic ointment?" The fat uncle was stunned for a moment, then took off his backpack and searched for it: "Wait a minute, I'm not sure if there is any, I haven't seen a few mosquitoes this year, so I forgot to collect them." , I remember that last time I seemed to put away a bottle or two... "
Liu Fangzhou opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he swallowed it back immediately after receiving Shen Shi'an's gaze. The fat man turned his back to them, and he couldn't see what was in the other party's backpack from their angle, but a few minutes later, the fat man suddenly stood up excitedly with the bag in his hand: "I found it, I found it," turned around and put two bottles of Six God handed it to Shen Shi'an: "I said I have two bottles. This brand is good. I used this in previous years, but I don't know why this year and I haven't seen it yet... Mosquitoes!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The fat uncle jumped up and slapped his face: "Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, just now I wanted to say that I haven't seen any mosquitoes this year, so I will kill one..." Looking up, he saw Liu Fangzhou hiding firmly behind Shen Shi'an , Rulin faced the enemy with a pale face and was very puzzled: "What's wrong with this child, isn't he just a mosquito? As for being afraid of becoming like this."
Shen Shi'an opened his eyes and said nonsense: "It's okay, he is allergic to mosquitoes." His eyes swept over the slapped normal mosquito corpse in the palm of the fat uncle, and he and Chen Nantaoyuan exchanged glances.
"That's what I said, it turned out to be like this." The fat uncle looked at the two bottles of six god in Shen Shi'an's hand, "This alone is definitely not enough to exchange with you, little brother, what else do you want? Food and clothing Yes, I have most of them."
In the end, Shen Shi'an exchanged four packs of cigarettes from the fat man for two bottles of toilet water and two boxes of anti-inflammatory drugs. According to the exchange ratio given by the hotel, Shen Shi'an took advantage of it slightly, but the fat man obviously didn't think so, so he solemnly gave Lighting the cigarette, he took a deep breath, and after brewing for a while, he spit it out with a face full of intoxication, with an expression as if he would ascend to heaven immediately. Seeing where Shen Shi'an and his party found it pleasing to the eye: "Thank you brother!"
After paying for the crystal core, lobby manager Yang Xueqiu handed a room card to Shen Shi'an: "Room number 8001, take the elevator to the fourth floor, the first room at the end on the left."
The three-person group that the fat uncle was in also wanted a suite, room number 8005, which happened to be diagonally opposite to Shen Shi'an and the others.
"Check out at 12:00 noon every day, and you need to pay an extra day's accommodation fee after 12:00; the outdoor and indoor hot springs can be soaked normally, but because the temperature is too high, it is recommended to control the hot spring time properly to prevent heat stroke; the phone in the room You can’t use it, but there is a bell next to the bed in the suite, and you can just ring the bell if you have any needs. I hope you all have a pleasant stay. The hotel is committed to providing the best service and meeting all the needs of customers.”
Yang Xueqiu kept sending Shen Shi'an and others to the elevator: "The suite includes dinner service. The restaurant is on the second floor. Dinner time starts at six o'clock. There will be a special show tonight, and unexpected surprises have been prepared for the gentlemen. , everyone is welcome to join.”
After entering the elevator, Chen Nan suddenly remembered something: "By the way, is the wishing pool behind the rockery still usable?"
A hint of confusion flashed across the face of Yang Xueqiu, who had always been gentle and polite: "What?"
"It's the heart-shaped wishing pool behind the rockery..." Before Chen Nan finished speaking, the elevator door was already closed. He frowned and felt a little strange: "Why doesn't this lobby manager know about the wishing pool? The hotel staff told me that it was very effective when I came last time. Many people in the county like to make wishes. I told the provincial The team-mates of the team also went, wishing to get good results in another game, and they won the championship as expected.”
Tao Yuan said: "It's normal that he doesn't know. It's been three months since the virus broke out. He might not have been the lobby manager here before the end of the world, and maybe he wasn't a local resident."
Chen Nan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled: "That's right. This hotel is so well maintained that I almost forget that this is the end of the world."
After returning to the room to put down the things—in fact, Shen Shi’an took back the space, the five of them came to the dining room at dinner time. One is to see if more information can be obtained, and the other is that it is always easy to arouse suspicion if there is a free dinner when there is a shortage of food in the last days.
The restaurant is very large, with a large stage at the front and dozens of tables facing the stage. There were more people coming to the restaurant than Shen Shi'an expected. Judging by their attire and mental outlook, they should all be outsiders who have just arrived here or have lived here for several days.
Shen Shi'an and others sat at a table alone, and the tall, short and fat trio also came. The fat uncle greeted Shen Shi'an and the others without any surprise, and then sat down on their right. Dinner was brought by the waiter's dining car, one serving per person, including a large bowl of rice, a roasted pork with potatoes with little meat, a vegetarian stir-fried beans, and a vegetable soup. Before the apocalypse, it was regarded as a minimalist meal, but after the apocalypse, it was extremely rare to be able to eat such a decent meal, and it almost brought tears to my eyes.
Of course, Shen Shian and others were not included.
The emotions in Tao Yuan and Chen Nan's eyes were a little more reserved, Liu Fangzhou was obviously disappointed, and Shen Xun was completely disgusted.
what.
After confirming with Gou Zijing that there was no problem with the food, Shen Shi'an tapped the table lightly with his knuckles: "Eat. Don't leave anything behind."
The second half of the sentence is for Shen Xun.
The child reluctantly picked up the bowl.
Shen Shi'an glanced around secretly, and found that apart from the few in front of him, the tall, short and fat trio seemed not to be very satisfied with their meals.
While everyone was eating, the lights gradually dimmed, the curtain on the stage opened, and the performance that Yang Xueqiu said began.
It was a stage play, and Liu Fangzhou quickly recognized it: "Ah! The story of Noah's Ark!"
Anyone who has received nine years of compulsory education, even if they don't know the allusion of "Noah's Ark" in detail, most of them have heard it a little bit.
Gou Zijing was the only one present who didn't know what it was.
Under the cover of the dimmed light, he quietly poured a plate of vegetarian fried beans into Liu Fangzhou's bowl, and at the same time approached Shen Shi'an and asked softly, "An'an, what is Noah's Ark?"
"A story recorded in the Bible. God felt that human beings were too corrupt and sinful. He regretted creating human beings and decided to use floods to destroy all creatures in the world. Among the sinful people, only Noah was a perfect good man who never did evil. , so God chose Noah and his family as the seeds of new humans, and asked Noah to build a boat and take his family and some birds and beasts on board to escape the flood. After the flood, only the creatures on the boat survived. This ship is called Noah's Ark."
After Shen Shi'an finished speaking, he put his share of beans in front of the children: "Eat it all, if you eat one less, I will make you an extra vegetarian meal."
Gou Zijing pursed his mouth and ate with a ferocious face.
The content of the stage play is easy to understand, and the theme it wants to express is even more obvious: only those who ride on the ark can survive and continue in the post-apocalyptic new world.
In this way, it is easy to understand why this base is named after "Noah's Ark".
"This is too high school two." A complaint from Liu Fangzhou, a two year old boy.
Huaguo is a country dominated by atheism. The vast majority of citizens thrive under the guidance of Marxist dialectical materialism, and the religious atmosphere is extremely weak. For ninety-nine out of ten people, gods, gods, and buddhas from all walks of life are only real when something happens and they are asked for. And the survivors in the last days have too many things to ask the gods.
In panic and despair, people always look for something to put their faith in, or try to rationalize what happened to them: Okay, why did the zombie virus break out? Who can be sure that this is not a "flood" catastrophe imposed by God because he was too disappointed in mankind
There are too many people wandering around, and the atmosphere of the stage play is just right, so people will believe it.
But there are also many people who don't believe.
The voice of the fat uncle can be heard throughout the restaurant: "I have a question. In myths and legends, God chose Noah and his family as the seeds of the new human beings. His family includes his wife, his son, and I remember Is it his daughter-in-law? How can such a few people be the seeds of new human beings? Inbreeding? Can the child be born?"
The atmosphere created by the stage play suddenly changed, and the topics quickly turned to "the dangers of inbreeding", "those old and unscrupulous gods in Western European mythology", "Noah's Ark or Zheng He's treasure ship" and other landslides. Go out of hand.
Liu Fangzhou went over to discuss lively and enthusiastically for a while, then felt dull: "The show is over, what about the surprise that Manager Yang said?"
As soon as the words were finished, the waiter came in again pushing the dining cart. This time, the dining cart was loaded with not food, but plump and juicy watermelons each weighing more than ten catties. Chen Nan got close, and touched the skin of the melon with his hand: "It's iced."
Oh wow, the atmosphere became hot in an instant.
As soon as the crisp sound of the melon rind cracking was heard, the sweet melon fragrance immediately wafted to the entire restaurant. There are two watermelons in total, because there are too many people, each person is only given a small piece, but the waiter said that they can buy another watermelon with crystal cores, two crystal cores per catty.
Those who can enter the restaurant are those who have booked double-bed rooms and above. In other words, they are not bad for crystal cores or supplies. Therefore, people immediately signed up to order melons, and the fat man ordered three in one go.
Shen Shi'an didn't make an order. He remembered that there were several bags of watermelon seeds in the space that he had forgotten to plant.
When everyone was intoxicated by the sweet taste of iced watermelon, the lights dimmed again. Liu Fangzhou snorted, "There's still a show?"
A dozen graceful figures came in from the entrances on both sides of the stage.
At the same time, with the fragrant wind coming from behind, a hand painted with red nail polish rested on Shen Shi'an's shoulder, with a seductive tone:
"Sir, do you want someone to accompany you?"
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