Ji Changze was packing his things in the car when Guo Junyuan came back. He could clearly feel that her attitude towards him was completely different from before. Although she had not yet reached 100% trust, she was more or less 80% trustworthy. .
He pretended not to notice anything, turned to Guo Junyuan and smiled: "It's almost done. I'll drive during the day, and you and the baby will be behind. We usually find a place to rest at night, or we really can't find it. If you don’t have a place, just rest in the car and see if there’s anything missing, we can still look for it on the way.”
Guo Junyuan's tone of voice was more than a little softer than before: "There is nothing missing at the moment, so that's good."
Indeed, Ji Changze is very considerate.
He even brought everything a woman needs during her menstrual period. Five big boxes were enough.
Xiaobao is sleeping. He is still too young and sleeps a lot, which gives adults enough time to do other things.
Guo Junyuan asked: "I remember there were a lot of books on this car. Are there any teaching skills?"
"have."
Ji Changze opened the cabinet under the bottom bed. It was filled with books. He went to open the cabinet next to him and asked, "What kind of books do you want?"
Guo Junyuan thought for a while: "It teaches practical skills. Those who can learn them now."
Ji Changze nodded and said while looking for the book she wanted:
"Previously, when Chuanchuan and I were exploring for food, we found that although many buildings did not collapse, there were too few surviving humans. The main reason was that even if some buildings were not hit, they would be hit by other falling buildings. In addition, it was during the day when the incident occurred, and there were many people outside. The dust falling from the building was enough to make them sick. We explored the surrounding area and could count the people we met on one hand. come over."
"According to normal circumstances, when such a major accident occurs, the army should come out to rescue, but it took so long that it didn't wait. Chuanchuan and I guessed that either the military was busy protecting itself, or there was no manpower at all. Now Cities have basically become forests, and the countryside is probably the same, but there is land in the countryside. Now the plants we encounter along the way are ten times or even bigger than before, but these plants can't eat much, so the countryside is different. , There is land in the countryside, and crops are grown on the ground. Although we may encounter wild animals and plants when we go to the countryside, at least we have something to eat."
He found a book about making a textile machine and handed it to Guo Junyuan.
"Just this one. I basically have all the tools and materials here. I'll find them for you later. Nowadays, people buy clothes directly. Even in rural areas, there probably won't be any fabric."
Guo Junyuan took the book and asked: "Are those crops still edible? I think the plants now are completely different from the plants in the past. Are they poisonous?"
"I have done experiments and found that most of the crops are edible. For example, green onions and leeks are just much larger in size than before. Their taste has not changed, and there is no attack."
As Ji Changze spoke, he took out a glass bottle from the cloth bag behind the driver's seat. There was a small branch of a vine inside, waving his body in the bottle.
Seeing that Guo Junyuan was startled and subconsciously leaned back to block Xiaobao, Ji Changze quickly comforted her: "Don't be afraid, this vine is different from the one that attacked you before. Even if it is released, it will only It immediately overgrows our car and does nothing else.”
That sounds scary, okay
Guo Junyuan's body became even stiffer, and she stared at the vine as if she were looking at some prehistoric beast.
Ji Changze put the bottle back helplessly. Seeing Guo Junyuan's expression relaxed a little, he said: "Its weakness is that it cannot climb the glass. Before the end of the world, this kind of vine was a very small variety and could only cover a car at most. The size of a window, they are actually very strange. They can grow with just a little water, but once there is no water, they will wither and die immediately. In the past, this kind of vine was used as an ornamental plant and was kept in fish tanks by fish farmers, because it cannot Because it can climb on glass, it can also climb on rockery rocks. I found that all its characteristics have not changed after the mutation. For example, it still relies on water and still cannot climb on glass."
Knowing that this vine had weaknesses, Guo Junyuan became visibly more relaxed.
She leaned forward slightly and found a shallow layer of water at the bottom of the glass bottle.
The roots of the vine are floating on the water, and the upper body is almost upright, with not even a small leaf leaning against the glass.
Ji Changze added: "Actually, most plants are not scary. As long as we master their characteristics, not only can they not harm us, but they can sometimes be used by us, for example."
He opened the car door and placed a small bowl on the shelf on the right side of the door. The bowl was filled with water. Then he opened the glass bottle in his hand and poured the vine that was dancing wildly into it. The roots were rooted in the bowl. The branch was pulled by Ji Changze so that it lay on the car body.
Without the shackles of glass and having a source of water, the vines suddenly grew wildly and began to climb towards the roof of the car at a speed visible to the naked eye, but they all avoided the place next to the glass strip.
Guo Junyuan's eyes widened in shock, and she stood up unconsciously. She walked to the car door and watched as the vine slowly crawled through various parts of the car body as if it was controlled, bypassing all the places it shouldn't climb, and finally Stop where you need to stop.
Now, if you look at this RV from a distance, it basically blends in with the surrounding grass.
"Oh my god..."
She covered her mouth with surprise on her face: "It actually got around those things that shouldn't be crawled."
It's almost as if it is alive and thinking.
Of course there is no such thing as thinking.
Ji Changze explained: "After I discovered the characteristics of this vine, I put glass strips on the car where I didn't want it to crawl. The place where it was given water was directly connected to the car body. If something unexpected happened and the glass strip fell, it would start to If you climb on other parts of the car, the rack will be knocked off, and it will die immediately if there is no water source, so it is very safe."
As he spoke, he took out his scissors, cut off a small branch of the vine, and threw it into a glass bottle.
“Cut branches from this vine will survive as long as they have water, so just have a backup ready and you can wilt it back at any time.”
He continued: "In the past, it could cut off branches and survive, but it needed to be carefully raised. Now it may have mutated, and it can survive easily. Even if it is kept in a glass bottle, it will not die."
Ji Changze shook the glass bottle in his hand and looked at Guo Junyuan: "How is it? Is it very convenient?"
Guo Junyuan looked at the green-looking RV in front of her and suddenly realized: "As long as we have this kind of vine in our hands, we can quickly hide wherever we are."
"Yes, some birds will look down from the sky and then fly down to catch food. They don't know solar panels and always fly down to peck at them. It's very annoying. But now there is this kind of vine. It's different. Although it's not lethal, , but it looks like another vine that feeds on birds, and those birds are very smart now and will never fly down."
"There are also the anesthetics I gave you before. These anesthetics are extracted from another plant. Their lifestyle is similar to the Venus flytrap. They will lure prey to come to them and then open their leaves to swallow them. In order to prevent the prey from To escape, they automatically secrete a liquid that anesthetizes their prey.”
"In the past, this kind of plant could only catch flies and mosquitoes. After the mutation, its appetite is much greater than before. Similarly, the effectiveness of their secretions is also many times more powerful than before. I extracted the secreted liquid and it can It needs to be diluted before it can be used, so I extracted its seeds and planted them when I have the opportunity to extract the anesthetic."
After Ji Changze finished speaking, he put down the glass bottle and took out another bottle. This time it contained some seeds instead of vines.
He handed the seeds to the curious Guo Junyuan and said: "This is also a plant like a flytrap. In order to catch prey, its leaves are full of sharp thorns, which are used to pierce the struggling prey. Now it can grow to almost half a person. It's tall and grows very fast. Just put it in the soil and water it, and it will grow in about three days. It is also aggressive to humans."
Guo Junyuan held the bottle and looked at the seeds inside in confusion: "The vine in the front can be used for concealment, and the one in the back can be used as an anesthetic. What about this one?"
Ji Changze: "Its spikes can grow back into shape. The size is almost the same as the arrows in my bow. And because the spikes are very sharp and have barbs on them, they can be used directly as arrows without polishing."
"The key is that it can grow again. If you cut one off, a new one will grow out in five days, so it can be recycled. When the time comes, we will raise a batch of them and cut off all the sharp thorns at a specific time. After five days, we can start cutting again, and we don’t have to make arrows by ourselves, and the arrows they make are not very lethal.”
After speaking, Ji Changze took the bottle in Guo Junyuan's hand again and touched it with some cherishment: "The only drawback is that it takes time to grow. I will dig some soil under it later and we will plant it today." , it was a waste of time when we used an arrow on the way here and had to stop to retrieve it, but having it here can save a lot of trouble."
Guo Junyuan: "..."
When she lived in that office building before, everyone would cheer each other up carefully every time they went out. They would hide eight hundred meters away when they saw some weird-looking plant. They talked about these plants with fear and horror.
She never expected that one day she would be sitting here, listening to Ji Changze's talk about "Eight Hundred Ways to Use Mutated Plants."
Ji Changze: "Don't worry, most of those mutated plants have such a foundation before, but they are just magnified many times now. For example, the food we usually eat does not have such bad problems at all. Although there may be many animals in our hometown, but At least there won’t be large beasts like lions and tigers for the time being.”
Nowadays, apart from that kind of special boundary, which rural area can have lions and tigers in the mountains next to it
After all, humans in the village have long since designated the mountains as their own property, and wild animals avoid people. At most, we see a rabbit, pheasant, hedgehog, and so on, but not even deer and wild boars.
The reason why the city suddenly turned into a paradise for animals was not because of the zoo.
There are all kinds of animals in the zoo, there are many lions, tigers and so on, even elephants. Anyway, it is something that no one can imagine but no one can see. On the second day of the apocalypse, Ji Changze also saw a group of peacocks, but later on Never seen it again, but I did see a lot of peacock feathers.
He guessed that all the peacocks were dead.
After all, although the peacock has a long neck, its body is still quite plump. It may have wings, but it can't fly. Even if it can fly, it can only fly a small distance. If it doesn't eat such a delicious and fast prey, who will eat it
It's different in rural areas.
Although there is a lot of vegetation, there are still very few exotic plants.
For example, most of the strange plants that Ji Changze and the others see now are not native to China, or not from this area at all, but some people keep them for fun. The result may be that the building collapsed or something, seeds or plants. It landed on the ground, and took advantage of this momentum to grow and multiply.
There are not many young people in rural areas. Everyone is busy farming, watching TV and playing mahjong. Who has time to play with this thing
Even if the vegetation is growing suddenly and has become a hotbed for large animals, it will not be long before they appear in the mountains.
After Ji Changze and Guo Junyuan analyzed this, Guo Junyuan understood.
That's true.
When she was a child, she could occasionally see wild rabbits in the mountains. Later, when she returned home from high school, she could no longer see them. Rabbits are highly prolific and small in size. There must still be some, but they are slightly larger beasts. It's really impossible.
She and Ji Changze both made a tacit agreement not to mention whether the village where their elders lived might have been hit by a meteorite.
Chinese people value their family very much. When something happens, their first reaction is to go home and return to their parents, especially in this situation where they cannot contact their family members, even if they know that the elders in the family may die from a meteorite. If it rains, even if there is only a 0.00001% chance, most people will still choose to go home.
Guo Junyuan had a child with her and didn't have enough supplies, otherwise she would have found a car and gone home directly.
Among the people following behind, Li Hechuan was with his parents, while Fu Hao and Zhang Shengsheng's parents had died and there was no longer any ties.
Therefore, the group of them was considered a successful team and drove together to the hometown of Ji Changze and Guo Junyuan.
Several families are considered to have some special abilities.
Let alone Ji Changze, he knows a little bit about everything and is basically equivalent to a Baidu encyclopedia.
Li Hechuan is good at playing with computers and has strong hands-on skills. He was the one who put up those shelves before. In addition, he is also very good at being a bait and knows how to run to show off his body to a greater extent. The meat is delicious.
Zhang Shengsheng is a medical student. Although she has not graduated yet, her grades are good and she can still feel headaches and fevers, even though she is not very confident.
As for why her child has not graduated yet when she is five years old...
After five years of bachelor's degree, three years of master's degree and three years of doctorate, I was ready to go to the hospital, but this happened.
The three families all have their own abilities, and they all know what they are doing when they travel together.
Oh no, there is another one who is incompetent.
Ji Changze stood half out of the car door and looked at the small shabby car behind him: "Is that Chen's Lu?"
Guo Junyuan also got out of the car door and looked back a little doubtfully. She happened to see Chen Lu chewing a pack of instant noodles. While eating, he looked towards them and immediately looked away with disgust on her face. Kai, with a very strange look on his face.
It was like seeing something weird.
Guo Junyuan: "..."
Forget it, don't argue with him, after all, his brain circuit doesn't seem to be normal.
She guessed: "Maybe he also wants to go home. Isn't he from the same village as you?"
"I guess so. Isn't Li Hechuan's car a little crowded? Let's see if Chen's Lu can ride with us. Then Fu Hao and his wife can go to Chen's Lu's car, so that it won't be crowded."
Guo Junyuan was a little surprised that Ji Changze actually offered to let Chen Lu go with them.
Didn’t he and Chen’s Lu never deal with each other
"What are you doing looking at me like that? Although he and I are mortal enemies, we are from the same village anyway. We will come along if we can. Moreover, Zhang Shengsheng also said that he gave you gauze before you were injured. We can't let him think that we are I owe him a favor, and taking him with me this time can be regarded as repaying the favor."
Ji Changze spoke forcefully, but in Guo Junyuan's eyes, he was trying his best to hide his good intentions.
Her eyes softened, and she felt like she was seeing Nagasawa in college again.
At that time, she agreed to Nagasawa's pursuit, not only because he was handsome and gentle, but also because he once found a litter of abandoned kittens on a rainy day. He wanted to take them into the school dormitory but no pets were allowed, so he had no choice but to do so. Asking her if there was anything she could do, they finally gave the litter of kittens away for adoption.
Guo Junyuan likes small animals very much and has rescued milk cats in the past. Therefore, she has a good impression of Ji Changze who can also rescue such small animals that will die if not rescued. After that, she naturally agreed to Ji Changze's pursuit.
When they first fell in love, they had agreed to raise a cat together after they got married. However, after they got married, Ji Changze said that he had to work hard and had no time to take care of the cat, so they never kept it. Later, their careers finally stabilized and they had money, but Guo Junyuan did not. Just happened to be pregnant.
Later, she and Ji Changze had an emotional crisis, and she began to suspect that Ji Changze was cheating. Chen Lu persisted in telling him that Ji Changze was disguising, and she gradually became really suspicious.
But sometimes, doubts are defeated by the memories of the past.
How could Ji Changze be that kind of person who would hold an umbrella for a milk cat and get wet all over, just waiting for the mother cat who would never appear again.
Now, this idea has been reinforced again.
Ji Changze stood up to go out: "I'll go talk to him."
"No, if you two don't deal with it, don't start arguing again. I'll go."
Guo Junyuan knew how much Ji Changze disliked Chen Lu, and almost everyone also knew how unhappy Chen Lu was with Ji Changze.
It would be strange if these two people didn't have an earth-shaking quarrel when they collided.
Ji Changze sat down happily: "That's fine, you go ahead. Tell this boy that we are just returning a favor. If he doesn't want to go with us, forget it. It's not a surprise."
Guo Junyuan glanced at him helplessly, feeling that the two of them were the same.
Normally everything they do is normal, but when they meet each other they immediately become elementary school students.
When she was in college, every time she watched the two of them arguing with each other, she could imagine how they got along when they were in elementary school.
"Don't worry, I'm going. If you're worried, just stand at the car door and watch."
Ji Changze waved his hand: "Why am I worried about you? Chen Lu is trying to pry me into a corner, but your vision is not that bad."
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"Your taste is so bad, so bad. Weren't you very normal when we were freshmen? How could you look at someone like Ji Changze who is so duplicitous on the outside and looks like a dog on the outside, but is petty on the inside and carefree on the inside and can only show off? ?”
Chen Lu felt like he was suffocating.
"And look at what you said to Zhang Shengsheng before. He did all those things because he loves Xiaobao so much. Oh my god, I love Xiaobao even more than he does. Don't you remember? I remember, when Xiaobao was one month old, I found out that Ji Changze did not buy the longevity lock. I bought the longevity lock. I specially asked someone to consecrate it to the master at Chang'an Temple, and I paid a full 20 yuan for Shunfeng. It was sent by express express, where is Ji Changze? Not to mention the longevity lock, he didn't even buy an ordinary lock. Is this his biological father?"
Guo Junyuan looked at Chen Lu, who was getting angry again after talking, and was a little bit dumbfounded: "The longevity lock is Changze. He doesn't believe in this kind of thing. He is his own son. How can he not feel pain?"
"Listen to his nonsense. Before the college entrance examination, I didn't know who went all the way to Mount Tai to pray for Buddha in order to get good grades. Moreover, it is the rule of our village that children must wear longevity locks when they are full moon. He and I both had it when we were young. , saying that a child can only be safe if he has a longevity lock, but he didn’t even buy it for Xiaobao, how could he love Xiaobao.”
Guo Junyuan and others didn't have this rule, so she didn't quite understand Chen Lu's words.
She could only skip this topic for the time being: "Stop talking about this. You haven't replied to me yet. Let's team up and go home, okay?"
"If we don't form a team, no one in this life can put me and Ji Changze into the same team. I, Chen Lu, will not go with Ji Changze no matter how difficult the journey home is."
"I didn't say we'd leave together. We're in the RV in front. The main thing is that you and Fu Hao make a statement together, and then the three cars leave together."
Chen Lu refused: "Then I don't dare to do it. I will never team up with Ji Changze. This guy is very smart. Who knows if he will sell me out? Let me tell you, when we were in college, I saw him squatting on the ground with an umbrella, and there was a litter of kittens in front of him. He just watched them get wet in the rain, and did not hold an umbrella for the kittens. I wanted to go up and take the kittens away, and he said I was too much. Who are you meddling in other people's business? This kind of person is so cold-blooded and ruthless, I don't believe him."
Just as he finished speaking angrily, he saw Guo Junyuan in front of him looking even more helpless.
"Where did you hear that Nagasawa saved a litter of cats and would rather get wet than hold an umbrella for them?"
Chen Dilu: "?? No, I mean I saw him holding an umbrella there by himself instead of holding an umbrella for the cat."
"I know, I know, no, Chen Lu, please stop being like this. You are not a bad person, and you are very nice to others. Why do you insist on doing this to Nagasawa... and distorting the facts like this? Nagasawa, he It’s because he has a bad relationship with you, but his character cannot be changed by just twisting the facts and making up some nonsense.”
Chen Delu: "..."
He almost poked his finger into his nostril: "I distorted the facts?? Me??"
"OK OK."
Guo Junyuan also knew how dark Chen Lu was about Ji Changze. She waved her hand: "Stop talking about this, are you really not going to come with us?"
"Not leaving."
Chen Lu firmly refused.
He has a lot of backbone. If he doesn't want to work with Ji Changze, he won't work with Ji Changze.
Seeing his firm attitude, Guo Junyuan had no choice but to turn around and leave when she saw Ji Changze coming.
"Junyuan, you go back first and I'll talk to him."
Guo Junyuan was a little worried that the two of them would fight, but she still chose to believe her husband, nodded and went back to the car.
Ji Changze who stayed behind looked at Chen Lu who looked wary, and without saying much, went straight to the topic: "You really don't want to go together? Chuanchuan, that fat young man, he is very capable and did it himself. A simple monitoring alarm, even if we sleep at night, if something steps into the range, the alarm will sound immediately."
Chen Delu: "..."
"Zhang Shengsheng is a medical student and a doctor. She can cure any headache or fever."
Chen Dilu: "This..."
"We also have a plant in the car that can be used as an arrow. Bows and arrows can be used to shoot prey. You don't have to worry about running out of food along the way."
Chen Dilu: "Well..."
Seeing that he was still hesitant, looking like he wanted to agree but felt embarrassed, Ji Changze said: "We still have gasoline reserves in the car."
Chen's Lu Miao smiled.
"Okay, okay, when will we set off, I'll be on call at any time."
backbone
You can't eat it, so why do you want it
Ji Changze glanced at him condescendingly: "Hey, I knew you would agree."
Chen Delu: "..."
Bah, a fool would not agree.
Ji Changze went back and told Guo Junyuan the news that Chen's Lu had agreed. Guo Junyuan was very happy. After all, Chen's Lu had helped her and they were still classmates. It would be best if they could go home safely together.
While I was happy, I was also somewhat understanding.
Chen and Lu, who were so repulsive to Nagasawa, agreed, which meant that he didn't know what kind of person Nagasawa was, otherwise how could he agree.
Hey, Chen Lubi is good at everything, but in Kuronagaze, he makes up lies for Kuronagaze, and is too persistent in making up lies and all kinds of brainwashing.
Sure enough, jealousy and the desire to cuckold Nagasawa blinded his small green eyes, otherwise there is no way to explain it.
See, he clearly knows Nagasawa is a good person.