"These primary crystal nuclei have no effect on us."
Hou Ying pointed to the iron boxes that store crystal nuclei in different categories according to the properties and grades of crystal nuclei, and pondered: "What we need are secondary and tertiary crystal nuclei. Instead of wasting time looking for high-level zombies that are already scarce in number, why don't we half artificial cultivation."
"Are you going to use zombies as a petri dish for our supernatural energy?!"
Liu Zhan exclaimed in surprise, he thought this idea was too crazy and too appealing to him! His face flushed slightly, and he was a little excited and couldn't wait to start this experiment.
Others were also surprised, but they were all eager to try when they thought of the foreseeable results of this approach.
In fact, Hou Ying is still a complete businessman, and it is not surprising that he would think of this.
Just like a fishmonger, he will definitely change from catching and selling fish to raising and selling fish. Even if the farmed fish is not as tasty and nutritious as the wild ones, it is superior in quantity and also has the protein that people get from fish for consumption. It is the same reason to replace it with crystal nucleus energy.
Only Gongsun Jing hesitated and said: "Brother Monkey, I think this method is destroying a certain balance of this ecology... I always feel a little uneasy."
Hou Ying nodded, "I understand your concerns, I have thought about this too. There must be a certain synchronization between the evolution of zombies outside and the evolution of human beings with supernatural powers. The end of the world divides human beings into two types of creatures, and Let the zombies become the natural enemies of our survival. This food chain relationship must be maintained at a delicate balance point. Of course, this method will not work if it is a large-scale experiment. We do not have so many people, and I am not so greedy. As long as we get enough The energy replenished by people is enough. If the energy field changes in a small range, I believe it will not cause any butterfly effect just right, as long as we are careful not to let advanced zombies run outside, there will be no major problems."
After a pause, he smiled and said, "Of course, we must be careful when we feed them. If we raise level four or five supernatural zombies, we will suffer the consequences."
After confirming the plan, Li Xuanyuan took a little time to draw the topographic map of Daocheng where the fifth stop was located. Several people discussed the pilot feeding of zombies together. After finalizing the scope and location of the initial pilot and further pilots, the meeting ended. . It was Ji Yaoshou's first half of the night, and he stopped Hou Ying, looked at him as if he didn't know him, and looked at Hou Ying a little strangely: "Why, suddenly found that I have become handsome? You can't be... suddenly figured out to agree Me?"
Hou Ying asked the last sentence in Ji Yao's ear.
"screw you!"
Ji Yao pushed him away angrily, thinking that when the two of them looked at each other and went to bed only to find out that they had the same attributes, the dark history that fell through because no one would compromise was the pain of his life, okay
He punched his fist and coughed, bringing the atmosphere disrupted by Hou Ying back on track, and then said to Hou Ying: "Monkey, have you noticed that you have become strong recently?... Unique leadership style!"
Hou Ying's rapid growth and dazzling excellence made Ji Yao proud, but he couldn't help feeling a little strange and flustered—this is because the world has changed too much. One day there will be a greater and greater distance from him and the possibility of even being left behind.
Hou Ying chuckled, as if she couldn't bear it anymore, she bent over with a straight smile, and after a long time he stood up and patted Ji Yao who was all over his face [what the baby saw before was really an illusion] and said: "You think it's so easy to pretend to be coercive?" Yes? Those big brothers," he pouted, "not only are they all uncles, but they are all problem children. How can I survive the scene if I am not good enough? Back then, I asked you to accompany me to a training class to minor in psychology. , you didn't even know whether the teacher was a man or a woman from the beginning to the end of your sleep, now you know you are at a disadvantage, right?"
Ji Yao: "..."
Hou Ying patted his thick chest, wrapped his arms around his shoulders, kissed him on the cheek and said, "My dear chicken, don't worry, we will be together forever."
Ji Yao: "..."
"Hey, let me tell you, what's your reaction?" Seeing his stiff face, Hou Ying became upset. With a sullen face, Ji Yao pointed behind Hou Ying, and Hou Ying turned her head - only to see Li Xuanyuan leaning on the heavy truck and staring at them intently.
Hou Ying: "!!"
He let go of Ji Yao's hand in an instant, raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, showed a flattering expression, and said with a dry smile, "We're just chatting...cough, Xuanyuan, why aren't you asleep?"
"I'm going to release the water, you continue."
After giving Hou Ying a meaningful look, he left gracefully. Hou Ying paused, then raised her foot to catch up and said: "Hey, Xuanyuan, wait for me, let's go together! Hey, don't go too fast, I'm afraid of the dark—"
In Hou Ying's shameless voice going away, it was Ji Yao who finally couldn't hold back, who burst into laughter, hahaha, you, Hou Ying, have today too!
When they finished harvesting the first zombie test field, Meng Hanghai finally woke up from his coma.
As if still trapped in the panic of being frightened by mutated zombies, Meng Hanghai's first reaction when he woke up was to hug his head and shrink back suddenly. At that time, Gongsun Jing was accompanying her, and when she saw this, she said distressedly: "My good boy is fine, don't be afraid, those zombies have been killed by us, you are fine, your second uncle is also fine, don't be afraid."
But no matter how much she tried to comfort her, it was useless, and Hou Ying and Qiao Daye, who heard about Meng Hanghai's waking up outside, rushed over.
"Oh, my good ancestor, you finally woke up! If you don't wake up again, I'm going to hit the wall!" Qiao Daye said with great surprise, relieved. He wanted to hug this child who saved his life and the mistake he made that almost deserved Gongsun Jing's life, but Meng Hanghai dodged it with a scream and looked at him in horror, as if he didn't know him. He did the same.
"No way... amnesia?"
Qiao Dayo froze.
Hou Ying pushed him away, stepped forward and stopped at a safe distance and said, "Xiao Hai, do you still remember us?... You still remember me, right? Don't cry, I won't hurt you, you forgot Did I promise to accompany you and take care of you when you grow up?"
Meng Hanghai shook his head.
"Is that frightened? Don't cry, those zombies are dead, we are all alive, and no one was injured."
While he was speaking, he once tried to cross the safe distance revealed to him by Meng Hanghai's panicked gaze, but he only took a step forward, and Meng Hanghai immediately took a step back, so Hou Ying had to stop again, and comforted him softly.
"… Really?"
Meng Hanghai wiped his tears and confirmed.
Hou Ying was startled, and said softly, "Of course we are still alive, otherwise where do you think we are now?"
Meng Hanghai took a quick look at the situation, only to realize that he was in their "room". As soon as he relaxed his guard, he threw himself into Hou Ying's arms and cried loudly: "I, I thought I killed you all. Oh, woo woo woo, I thought you all hated me to death..."
He was crying so badly that the people walking back with the crystal nucleus heard it. Wang Hehe was ecstatic in his heart. He liked and cared about the children who lived and died with him, so he completely left the work of carrying crystal nuclei that did not require his strength to Su Fenghe, and ran back happily. As a result, when he rushed up the stairs, he saw the picture of the little boy Meng Hanghai crouching in his uncle's arms, and the old uncle coaxing him, so he couldn't help but feel a little bit smug.
However, thinking that Meng Hanghai had saved his life and had been in a coma for so long because of it, the discomfort was quickly put aside. Wang Hehe lay on the doorway where the rain cloth was rolled up and asked him, "Xiaohai, are you awake, are you hungry?" Hungry? Do you want to eat?"
Meng Hanghai had recovered from his emotional collapse, and now he glanced at him cautiously, making sure that Wang Hehe's non-gloomy smiling face was full of joy at the fact that he had woken up, so he also laughed, squinting his swollen face from crying. The eyes said: "I'm a little hungry, but I don't want to eat."
The two "children" got together and talked together, and Hou Ying really didn't know whether to be happy or not to be happy with her 21-year-old nephew who was staying with Meng Hanghai in an unusually harmonious manner.
After Meng Hanghai had eaten, Hou Ying asked him what was going on with his power.
Meng Hanghai grimaced and was unwilling to say anything. After Hou Ying comforted him for a long time, he whispered, "It's not a supernatural power, it's something that hurts people..."
"What's the matter with the harmful thing? You see you saved all of us with it." Hou Ying said with a smile: "Besides, look at your Uncle Xuanyuan, or the fire-breathing Uncle Jiang Tao. Everyone will feel very strange. But it is different now. It is good to have abilities. These supernatural abilities are gifts given to us by God, and they are a guarantee for us to survive. So we don’t need to be afraid of them, we have to be grateful for them. right."
Although he has always been in the protection circle of adults, the changes in the last days are subtle.
Eleven-year-old Meng Hanghai's way of thinking is already different from that of elementary school students more than a month ago. Hearing this, he thought about it carefully before saying to Hou Ying: "My ability appeared when I was very young. There were no zombies, so it was a bad thing, but now it's not, is it?"
"Yes, so to speak."
"What if... Uncle Hou, I mean, what if... my mother was killed the first time I showed my supernatural ability?" Although what he said was if, Meng Hanghai's eyes quickly turned red. Hou Ying was stunned. She didn't expect such a cruel past to be hidden behind this. He hugged the child who was silently begging for help, and said in a low voice: "It's the end of the world, and the things in the past are no longer important. Only by surviving. It's the right thing. If you want to say something, you can tell me, so that you don't have to be so sad and afraid."
Meng Hanghai looked up at him, wiped away his tears, and began to tell Hou Ying the truth he had learned from his father.
That year, Meng Hanghai was only three years old. He had just had a fever and was playing with his mother in the living room. It was at that time that his ability... let's call it a supernatural ability, it erupted for the first time. When his grandma was in the kitchen and saw his mother being cut up in front of him...his mother didn't even scream as she fell and fell apart into...uneven pieces.
Since then, his grandma has gone crazy, and the grandparents who learned the truth from his grandma wanted to throw him away. It was his father who persisted, protected him, and guided him to control the ability. After he was five years old, this ability never appeared again. He originally thought that the evil power had disappeared from his body, until that day, when he saw Qiao Daye was about to be eaten by a monster, he suddenly returned to his body.
Faced with such a truth, Hou Ying didn't know how to comfort him.
However, Meng Hanghai, whose growth experience is very different from that of ordinary people, quickly adjusted his mentality. He pulled out the necklace he had been wearing around his neck, touched the cross on it, and said to Hou Ying: "This is what Dad left when he went out of the car to beat zombies that day. For me, he said... If he dies, find a way to open it."