"I see." Liu Chang nodded, "Then I'll go first, the longer the matter drags on, the bigger the trouble will be."
"Well, you go."
After Li Qingshui nodded, Liu Chang left the laboratory with the little girl.
Back in the dormitory, equipped with bows and crossbows, checked the crossbows and arrows and the sabers that the army will bring in the past two days, Liu Chang explained to the little girl: "You just wait here, I will come back at night, I will go around the city of Zhengzhou Turn around, you don’t have to accompany me. If I go out and lead you all the time, people will inevitably be suspicious. There was nothing before, but now there are many eyes and ears in this laboratory, and there are more abnormal analysis capabilities like Zhao Zhuo I guess if he knows the news, he will inevitably infer something. He is like Teacher Li, who knows a little bit of details, and can guess the whole thing."
"But there are still dangers outside, even in Zhengzhou, it may not be 100% safe..." The little girl still had some reluctance in her eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll be back before night, I promise you." Patting the little girl's head, Liu Chang said: "Be obedient, if your news is exposed, we will be a hundred times more dangerous than going out to inquire about plants, so Said, even for the sake of brother's safety, you should stay here honestly, don't you understand?"
"En." Although the little girl nodded, her eyes were still a little worried: "You have to promise me that you will come back before dark."
"Okay." Liu Chang stretched out his little finger of his right hand, "Come to pull the hook."
"En!" The little girl nodded vigorously after hearing this, and then hooked her slender fingers with Liu Chang's little finger.
After comforting the little girl, Liu Chang also left the room with a bow and a dagger on his back.
Walking out of the door, Liu Chang merged into the thick fog and slowly left the courtyard of the Science Park. The soldiers guarding the gate didn't make things difficult for him when he went out. The familiar faces of the research institute are generally familiar to these soldiers, so he came to the streets of Zhengzhou outside without any hindrance.
Into the world of ordinary people.
Inside the research institute is the superstructure of human beings, inside which are the top talents in genetic science, the army, weapons, and leaders. In the outside world, there is nothing, only ordinary people and the way of survival struggling between life and death.
This is also the taste that Liu Chang is familiar with.
In fact, in the past few days, although he has been living in the research institute, as an ordinary citizen, he is out of tune with the atmosphere inside. He can't understand Li Qingshui's open and secret struggles with high-level officials, and he can't participate in various scientific experiments. Apart from "politics" and "science", he is just a common man, and he belongs to the outside world. , so although the outside world is dangerous, it is also very kind to him.
When he came to the street outside, Liu Chang walked all the way, and what he saw were small groups of human beings organized spontaneously—the wisdom of the common people, which made these ordinary people form a unit with the family as the core and the circle of friends as the core. Various small groups of outreach units. People who have experienced the end of the world seem to understand that, compared to surviving alone, the strength of a group is always stronger than that of an individual.
Small groups of one kind or another were walking on the street, and Liu Chang was also wandering aimlessly on the street.
Although he vowed to tell Li Qingshui to go out to find food to grow, but in fact, he had no idea at all. Even the poor biological knowledge in Liu Chang's mind made it impossible for him to even distinguish the types of plants and whether they were edible.
So naturally he got nothing from wandering around all morning, apart from allowing him to see the ecology and various chaos of the bottom human beings, he didn't even find a single food.
Until he met a person - a person carrying an iron cage.
This person looked to be in his fifties, with his wife and two children, wandering the streets with a kitchen knife and iron bars—like other small groups of human beings, looking for edible food on the ground.
Liu Chang saw this small group from a long distance, and did not attract his attention at first. After all, such small groups are everywhere in Zhengzhou City. What really caught his attention was the scene where he accidentally saw the man feeding the worm in the cage—the man was holding a small cage in his hand, and every time he walked a certain distance, he collected plants from the ground to feed the little worm Feeding, with a focused expression, his family did not stop him from this strange behavior.
And his behavior also reminded Liu Chang of the term "bugs that can find food on their own". When this word appeared in his mind, he was refreshed and followed the small team all the way.
After following for thousands of meters, Liu Chang didn't think of a good way to ask. He thought of several ways to talk to the other party, but he rejected them one by one in the end, and then chose the most straightforward and common way.
Slowly walking within three meters of that family, Liu Chang's appearance caught their attention.
"Who!" Seeing someone coming into sight, the man and his child raised their weapons at the same time, and after the person who came into sight was no longer an acquaintance, the man shouted loudly: "This brother, I hope you don't go any further. Everyone knows the rules since the end of the day. It's best not to walk within three meters of strangers outside. And we don't have food in our hands. If you have the idea of grabbing something, I think it's okay gone."
"Don't be nervous." Seeing that the family was fully armed, Liu Chang slightly raised his hand to show that he had no malice. He could understand the family's nervousness. He had seen many tragic scenes of fighting between human groups throughout the morning. Without the constraints of the law and the police, the strength of the army can only "maintain stability", but it is far from "law and order". They can only maintain the normal operation of the social framework, but they can no longer control the struggle between the bottom human beings.
Therefore, Liu Chang raised his hand to see that the opponent still had no intention of putting down his weapon, so he simply raised his hands high, making a gesture that had no intention of attacking at all.
"I really mean no harm, I'm just here to ask you a question."
"It's fine to ask questions, just stand there and ask, don't come over." Seeing Liu Chang's posture, the family didn't press too hard.
"Well, I want to ask what is the bug in your hand?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen it before. It's just an ordinary bug after evolution."
"Then what do you keep feeding it?" Liu Chang's second question elicited a strong reaction from the family.
"Are you following us?" Their expressions became tense again.
"No, I just saw it by chance, so let's do it... I won't ask in vain." Liu Chang pulled out the saber that brought him out of the experimental park from his waist, and said, "Your weapons are all homemade. Yes, or it was modified with household tools, there must be a lot of inconvenience in use."
"The saber in my hand is produced by a genuine arsenal. It is made of alloy steel and has a sharp edge. It is much stronger than your self-made weapons." Liu Chang raised the saber while pointing to the small cage in the man's hand, "If you tell What does my bug do, I will give you this knife, what do you think?"
"Success!" The man saw the saber, his eyes lit up, and he agreed without thinking. "I'll give you the bugs, but you throw the saber over here first."
"Yeah." Liu Chang didn't talk nonsense, he would always control the initiative if he controlled absolute force, if he didn't want to use shameless means, he could definitely grab it. Therefore, after he threw the saber and its sheath together, he was not at all worried that the other party would deny it.
"What a happy person." Seeing Liu Chang throwing the saber at his feet, the man relaxed, "There is nothing special about this bug, it was just discovered by our family by accident. The staple food is vegetarian, and meat is of course also Eat. The sense of smell is very good, and we can tell whether plants can be eaten, so we caught one and let it help us test the toxins in food. It doesn’t eat things that can’t be eaten, and the taste is very bad and has a slight toxin. , it doesn’t eat much. And it can swallow all the plants that humans can eat.”
"So when I discovered the characteristics of this bug, I didn't think too much about it, so I grabbed it and transplanted it here. After all, the plants outside have changed now. Those that could be eaten in the past may not be edible, and those that cannot be eaten may not be eaten again. become edible, and apart from the ones I have seen before, there are so many strange tree species. So, I thought that there is no shortage of food in this world, but most human beings dare not eat it, so I caught it. This bug."
As the man spoke, he threw the iron cage against the ground to Liu Chang.
"I'll give it to you if you want it. There are a lot of growths next to the water pipe in my house, so it's not troublesome to catch."
"Then thank you very much." Picking up the bug from the ground, Liu Chang looked at the alien in the iron cage.
An ordinary bug that looks a bit like a longhorn. There is nothing very strange about it, but the two antennae on the front of its head are extra long, and it looks like it has sensitive senses.
Liu Chang got the worm, and the family got the saber. The two groups were happy, but each was wary. When they were about to part ways, a group of patrolling soldiers came into Liu Chang's sight.
The soldiers are a small team, about one platoon in number. While all kinds of guns are loaded with live ammunition, there is a person in the front row holding an electronic loudspeaker and howling loudly.
"Citizens, please pay attention, citizens, please pay attention. The government has announced good news to everyone. The research institute has developed a new type of food, and the food seeds will be released to the public in three days. This new type of food can solve the problem. Food and clothing is a problem for all of us, so please stabilize your emotions and wait with peace of mind."
The leader of the group of soldiers shouted with a loudspeaker while handing out leaflets to everyone he passed and saw.
And this pair of soldiers also happened to pass by Liu Chang and the family, so both groups received the poor-quality propaganda paper.
After receiving the flyer, Liu Chang only glanced at it briefly, and then he knew most of the content of the flyer—the promotion of "Liang Dou" synthesized by "Zhao Zhuo". The fliers praised Liang Dou as extravagant, all kinds of harmonious winds were like the news broadcasts in the 1970s, making people feel like a spring breeze at a glance, and the happiness index rose by dozens of percentage points in an instant.
"Can this kind of crop really be grown? Then our good days will come. We don't have to worry about food, and we can save a lot of trouble." After the man's wife took the leaflet, her face showed an excited expression.
"Bah, you know what a fart! You can't eat this, I won't eat it, and neither can you and your children." After seeing the flyer, the man snatched it from his wife and tore it into pieces, "Fuck, take this Who are you fooling with something that is more genetically modified than genetically modified! This thing can't be eaten!"
"It's clearly said to be edible, I really don't know what you are afraid of!" The man's wife expressed dissatisfaction loudly.
"What are you afraid of? We all survived poisonous milk powder, gutter oil, melamine, Sudanese red duck eggs, waxed rice, poisonous capsules, dead baby capsules, leather shoe protein, and Hainan mineral water. What are we afraid of with this genetically modified food? " The man also yelled at his wife loudly, "At most, our son will be like a mouse in the Northeast and be unable to give birth to children. What can we be afraid of!"