Everyone in the convoy was awakened by the sudden drop in temperature.
When I woke up and saw the ground was covered with a palm-thick layer of ice, I was stunned.
"What's going on?"
"There is ice nearby, but there is no ice a hundred meters away."
"Shit, the tires are frozen!"
The young man sitting in the passenger seat reached out and grabbed the ice crystal that had appeared in the car at some point, then turned around to look at the person in the back seat.
"team leader… "
The man in the back seat looked at the ice crystal and said with a sullen face:
"I'm afraid something came last night. Go wake up everyone and ask if anyone is missing."
"Yes! Captain!"
The young man ran out of the car holding a gun, his boots slipped on the ice and he almost fell.
He quickly steadied his steps, and seeing that most of his teammates were awake, he walked over to the black SUV next to him and knocked on the window.
"Hey, you two, are you still busy?"
He also remembered that there was a gay couple in the car. As a straight man who could not understand how a man could like another man, the young man had the urge to escape just by standing outside the car.
The car windows were gradually lowered.
The young man looked through the gradually falling car window and saw the blanket covering the two people's heads, and said quickly:
"Just leave if you're okay, I'm going to go see the others."
After saying this, the young man turned around and ran away as if he was afraid of seeing something offensive.
Chi Ruanfan closed the car window lightly, then raised his hand to remove the blanket from the two of them.
He would be exposed if he ran away. He and Jinzhu were both wearing loose clothes, and he was afraid that he would be exposed if the other party looked closely.
"Bamboo, are you hungry?"
Chi Ruanfan touched Jinzhu's eyelids, indicating that he could open his eyes. Then he reached into the box on the back seat and took out a can of meat, saying:
"Come, eat something first."
He also froze some mutant rabbit meat in a foam box in the back seat.
However, they were in a convoy and there might be other people with superpowers nearby. Chi Ruanfan didn't want to expose his superpowers, so he could only let Jinzhu eat canned meat for the time being.
In Jinzhu, he is not picky about food and eats all kinds of meat.
Chi Ruanfan put down the empty can, wiped Jinzhu's mouth, and then heard someone outside saying "rest for an hour, and leave in an hour."
As the sound came, Chi Ruanfan felt a clear fluctuation of supernatural powers.
He looked out through the rearview mirror and saw a man in combat uniform squatting on the ground.
The man pressed his fingers against the ice, and flames spread from his fingertips. Under the burning of the flames, the ice gradually melted.
There is actually a person with superpowers, and he is a fire-type person known for his strong lethality.
Jinzhu, who was originally leaning lazily on him, suddenly stood up, turned around and looked back.
Chi Ruanfan hurriedly held Jinzhu's head, pressed him back into his arms, shook his head gently at him, and made a disapproving gesture.
The fire-type mutant squatting on the ground vaguely sensed something and looked back with a little confusion.
Nothing.
… Is he overthinking
Inside the car, Jinzhu didn't make a fuss even though she was stopped. She just hugged Chi Ruanfan a little tighter.
During this time together, the two of them were getting along with each other.
Chi Ruanfan understood Jinzhu's personality and habits after she turned into a zombie, and Jinzhu also knew Chi Ruanfan's bottom line.
Chi Ruanfan’s bottom line is that no one can bite or scratch his skin, nor can one target humans with special abilities as hunters.
Jinzhu would be careful not to touch upon these two points.
Chi Ruanfan found that Jinzhu was very smart and he seemed to know that the people with special abilities were of the same kind as him.
Also, Jinzhu doesn't hunt people with special abilities, but he also dislikes them.
When a person with special abilities appears nearby, Jinzhu's possessiveness towards him will reach its peak. She will not take her eyes off him for even a moment, as if she feels that he will leave like the other person with special abilities.
"I will never leave you." Chi Ruanfan said.
Jinzhu certainly didn't understand what he meant.
He lowered his head and rubbed it against various parts of Chi Ruanfan, as if he wanted to fill his body with his scent.
Chi Ruanfan let him rub against him.
He took out the gum tin from his Jinzhu pocket and slowly poured the crystal core into his palm.
Among the crystal cores poured out, Chi Ruanfan quickly found the two crystal cores from last night.
One is a blue crystal core the size of a red bean, a C-level water crystal core.
The other one is... a peanut-sized green crystal core, a B-grade wood crystal core!
Chi Ruanfan's breathing was slightly choked.
He didn't look closely last night, and only now discovered that there was actually a B-level crystal core.
That psychedelic grass had actually reached level B. No wonder he was bewitched.
Through the rearview mirror, Chi Ruanfan saw that the fire-type mutant went to a farther place to melt the ice.
He handed the B-level crystal core to Jinzhu and said:
"Have a candy."
Jinzhu has experienced a lot of battles and eaten a lot of crystal cores during this period. Now with the B-level crystal core as a guide, it is not a problem for him to advance to B-level in one fell swoop.
Jinzhu obediently swallowed the crystal core and continued to rub it.
Chi Ruanfan waited quietly for a while, but Jinzhu still had no reaction, just like the first time he ate the C-level crystal core.
He felt relieved and envious at the same time.
Zombies, they won’t feel any pain no matter what crystal core they eat, and they don’t have to worry about failing to advance and turning into a zombie.
Chi Ruanfan collected the remaining crystal cores, leaving only one in his palm.
That is the C-level water crystal core of the mutant dragonfly.
He remembered that taking the same type of crystal core would not be that painful.
The main thing is that Jinzhu easily ate a B-level crystal core, and Chi Ruanfan felt that he was happy again.
Yes, Chi Ruanfan swallowed the crystal core in one gulp.
Ten minutes later, Chi Ruanfan hugged Jinzhu tightly, and a low hum escaped from his lips.
"It hurts..."
If you take crystal cores from other systems, your bones and flesh will be crushed and reshaped.
Taking the crystal core of the same series means slowly crushing the bones and flesh into pieces and reshaping them.
It still hurts, a long-lasting pain.
Jinzhu still couldn't understand human words, but he remembered Chi Ruanfan's reaction after he cried out in pain last time.
That time, the other party kissed him.
Jinzhu lowered her head, found Chi Ruanfan's lips, and covered them.
Outside, a fire-type mutant in combat uniform came back and took out a few pancakes from a green SUV.
He leaned against the cart and roasted bread over the fire.
Suddenly, he raised his eyes and looked at the car next door.
The psychic's keen senses allowed him to detect some movements.
Someone was crying out in pain, with a muffled groaning tone.
The privacy film blocked most of the light, and he could only vaguely see two figures entangled in the driver's seat.
The fire-type mutant silently looked away.
I thought to myself, I wonder if these two people are too careless or just frightened by this sudden change and just want to have fun while they can.
He delivered the hot pancakes to his teammates, and when he came back, the noise in the car next door had just stopped.
He ate the bread and looked at his watch.
I thought, ten minutes, doesn’t seem too bad. The average time for Chinese people is about six minutes.
As he was thinking about it, he choked on the bread.
His face flushed red for a moment, and he almost rolled his eyes because of choking.
A bottle of water was handed to him. He quickly took the water and took a sip, then he came to his senses.
"Thank you very much."
The fire-type mutant who was nearly dead looked up, thanked sincerely, and handed back the bottle with most of the water still in it.
"No need. I'll take you there." Chi Ruanfan turned around and prepared to return to the car.
If Chi Ruanfan knew what this psychic was thinking before, he probably wouldn't have gotten out of the car so quickly to deliver the water.
At least wait until the other party is choked to death.
"Hey, wait a minute!" The supernatural person returned to the car, took out a bag of bread, handed it to Chi Ruanfan and said:
"Let me trade this with you."
Chi Ruanfan waved his hand, "No need, it's just a bottle of water."
There are at least four or five bread buns in this bag. If you save them, they will be enough for one person to eat for three days. How can there be such an exchange
The psychic looked at Chi Ruanfan in surprise, stuffed the bread into Chi Ruanfan's arms, and said:
"Take it. In the end times, clean water is more precious than food."
Chi Ruanfan was slightly stunned.
Is water precious
Perhaps because he is a water-related mutant, Chi Ruanfan has never had the concept of how precious water is.
Looking back on his past life, Chi Ruanfan had indeed experienced a period when water was precious.
But that preciousness is only for others, not for him.
That was when he had just entered the Haicheng base.
He discovered that a barrel of top-grade drinking water, which was ordinary mineral water before the end of the world, actually required two D-level crystal cores to exchange.
He was so shocked that he almost opened the water plant on the spot.
Later, he was recruited by various forces, only to learn that river water and rainwater contained special pollution, which was difficult to purify with existing technology. Only the water condensed by water-based mutants was pollution-free.
Chi Ruanfan did not join any forces, but he also took the initiative to provide water to the base.
There was a time when he provided 90 percent of the base's drinking water.
It was then that ordinary people in the base began to have clean drinking water.
It is said that many people joined the Haicheng base because of the water, and Haicheng has thus become the largest water base in the apocalypse.
But as time went by, the people at the base gradually forgot about it.
Even Chi Ruanfan himself had forgotten how severe the water shortage was in Haicheng before he joined the Haicheng base.
Thinking about it now, Chi Ruanfan suddenly felt a little surprised.
He wanted to know what had become of those people and the Haicheng base after he died in his previous life.
It is known that water-based mutants are too weak in the early stages, making it difficult for them to survive in the apocalypse, let alone grow up.
Before his death, he was the only top-level water-based mutant in Haicheng Base and in the entire China.