When Ye Xuan opened his eyes in a daze again, he found himself lying in the cave where Fan Jiangcai and the others had stayed before, and the mountain road he had walked into earlier had disappeared completely. There is no trace of it at all.
He stood up and murmured to himself in a trance, "Is this true or not?"
Before he finished speaking, he found a piece of evidence that proved that he hadn't dreamed—his ability had reached the eighth level, which was the level when he died at the hands of zombies in his previous life.
For supernatural beings, it is always easier to level up at the beginning than later.
In his previous life, his abilities had not been upgraded so fast. It took half a year longer than in this life to reach the fifth level in the middle of the third year of the end of the world. After passing the watershed of the fifth level, it becomes more and more difficult for the supernatural being to upgrade. Even if he has a good talent, he still has a steady stream of crystal nuclei to help him enhance his abilities, but he cannot escape the difficulty of leveling up. It took four years to reach the threshold of the eighth step, and it almost failed when it was promoted, and it took more than half a month of careful raising to stabilize the situation.
Now he has reached the eighth level of coma only once, except that the energy that claims to be born in the earth consciousness and sent him back to before the end of the world can do this, he really can't think of another possibility.
He looked down at the small leaf-shaped mark on his palm, and released the vine.
The color of the vine has recovered, but there are still some faint patterns on it, which is probably a manifestation of the energy parasitic on it.
I simply checked the vine, and found that not only was the connection between myself and it not cut off, but it became closer, and it became a complete pet relationship. Now it is still the same as before, it will follow me for the rest of my life, and it will die with me when I die, but if something happens to it, although I will lose part of my strength, it will not suffer any major damage.
After confirming this point, Ye Xuan looked at the watch in his hand, and found that the watch showed that it was past five o'clock, but as far as he saw the sun shining in the sky, no matter whether it was five o'clock in the morning or five o'clock in the evening, it was unrealistic. , and the date that stayed on the day of entering the mountain, compared with this obviously unreliable moment, is no longer credible.
In desperation, Ye Xuan could only try to ask Vine: "I have fainted several times in a row, do you know that this is the first day I leave the base?"
The vine swayed a few times in the air, and then, as if realizing that such communication was too troublesome, it simply twisted its body and placed itself into a big Arabic numeral "six".
"It's the sixth day!"
The deadline for him and Ling Jiaze to return to the base was seven days. Once the seven days came, he would bring someone to find him, and now it was the last day.
Looking at the sky outside, he was sure that it should be around one o'clock in the afternoon. Ye Xuan calmed down, quickly tidied up his clothes, and stepped out of the cave.
No matter what he saves the world, no matter what his sudden recovery of strength, he should hurry back to the base and think about these before the day is over!
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After walking for nearly three hours from the mountain, and then driving for another two hours, Ye Xuan finally arrived at the south entrance of the Northwest Base just after dark.
According to the past situation, the base will close the gate after dark, leaving only a small entrance and exit for emergency use. He was carrying an identity card and had the authority to use special passages. He originally wanted to use his connections to enter the base, but after a closer look, he found out that the base didn't close the gates even after dark today. There is a sense of day and night resting in it.
When swiping the card to avoid queuing, Ye Xuan happened to see a somewhat familiar person, and after a closer look, he found that the person was Shen Minglang's adjutant.
The two met face to face, and the other party obviously recognized him. After being taken aback for a moment, he walked quickly to his car and turned around, and said excitedly, "Mr. Ye, you are back! Our boss was still talking about you to us yesterday." Well, I didn’t expect that I saw you come back today! By the way, boss, do they know you’re back?”
"I just entered the city, and I haven't had time to go home yet. What's going on today, the gate of the base hasn't been closed so late, what happened?"
"A few days ago, a group of people from the base in city C came to the base. After that, a lot of people came here one after another. I heard that they all came here after the accident at the base. As the number of outsiders increased, a few people near the base The place to stay overnight couldn’t be opened, so some people quarreled and refused to leave the base after dark. The boss was annoyed by their quarrel, so he postponed the time of gate control for a few hours, so we can spend these days at least.”
"So..." Ye Xuan thought of Min Shanshan and the others, and nodded clearly.
Although the base in City C is not as large as the Northwest Base, it can barely be considered a large base because of the large population before the end of the world. If something happened to such a base, even if the Northwest Base was not the first choice of many people, many people would go to live in the Northwest Base for various reasons, so many people from outside would come over.
They don't know the usual rules of the Northwest Base, or they feel that they are newcomers and don't need to accept the jurisdiction of the rules and regulations here. They are indeed able to do this kind of thing when it's time to close the gate of the base and still want to enter the base.
After thinking about the things inside, Ye Xuan didn't delay his time anymore, and said goodbye: "Then you are busy, I will go home first, and I will look for you tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, see you Mr. Ye!"
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After driving for a while, Ye Xuan finally saw his own yard after swiping his card several times.
There is no time-limited supply of water and electricity in Dongcheng District, but the water and electricity charges are divided into several levels. As long as the consumption exceeds one degree, the unit price will increase accordingly. So even if there is no power limit here, except for those with deep pockets, many people will still subconsciously It saves daily electricity consumption, and at night, the whole building cannot turn on a few lights.
But the villa that Ye Xuan and Ling Jiaze live in is different. Not to mention that they are famously rich in the base, and the contribution points in their identity cards are almost astronomical. The solar power generation equipment recovered from the outside, as well as some plant power generation devices modified by myself, are enough to support the daily electricity consumption of the two of them.
Therefore, they have been habitually turning on the guide lights at the courtyard door and house door at night, and turning on the lights of the house wherever they go when they are at home. They have never wronged themselves in order to save that little electricity bill.
Ye Xuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this habit before, but when he left home for a week, heard a lot of unimaginable things, and saw the only villa in the darkness with warm lights at the door, he suddenly knew Why did I and Ling Jiaze decide to install so many light sources in the yard like before the end of the world without knowing the reason
People who have been wandering outside for a long time, even if they don't realize it, always hope to have a warm home. And there is nothing more than a light in the dark, which can relieve people's tiredness.
He stopped the car, put the car into the space, and then walked quickly across the path at the gate of the courtyard, and arrived at the gate of his own courtyard in just a few seconds. Regardless of the mutated plants in the yard that he hadn't seen for a week, he walked quickly to the door, and was about to take the key to open the door from the space, but when he looked up, he found that the door was already opened, and Ling Jiaze, who was wearing white home clothes, was standing inside the door , looking at him with surprise and joy.
Ye Xuan's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and subconsciously asked: "You... how do you know I'm back?"
Ling Jiaze said incoherently, "I heard movement in the yard, and thought it might be you coming back, so I came out to take a look. I didn't expect it was really you. After all, this is the sixth day, and you should be back. "
Ye Xuan suddenly realized that it was definitely not the first time that something like this happened when he heard movement in the yard and came out to check it out.
He is the owner of the mutated plants outside, and he can enter the yard without Ling Jiaze's permission. And when he walked through the mutated flora in the yard, those plants would always make some small movements to greet him, so there was no bell at the gate of the yard, but the plants in the yard moved, it could indeed be used as a judgment that he came back in accordance with.
But those mutated plants are not dead, even if there is nothing to do, those few lively plants will move their bodies and make a little movement, and there is no one to disturb the courtyard, but a little movement in the yard is almost a daily occurrence when they move in, Ling Jiaze And why do you think that as long as there is movement, it means that he has returned home
Or, how many times did he do this before he finally waited for his own return in a commotion in the yard
Thinking of this, Ye Xuan's heart that was warmed by seeing the light in the darkness just now felt a little sour, and he hugged Ling Jiaze almost without thinking.
The two of them stood outside the snowy door and the other stood inside the warm and comfortable door, but at this moment they stuck together, becoming a small world that no one else could blend into.
Ye Xuan buried his face in Ling Jiaze's shoulder, smelling the smell of this man, it took him a long time to calm down.
He nudged Ling Jiaze as if he had just noticed the cold outside, and said, "It's cold outside, let's go inside first."
"Well", Ling Jiaze also woke up from the joy of the long-lost reunion, and his mind returned to the daily things. He looked at Ye Xuan's self-portrait that he hadn't taken care of for a long time, and said with some distress: "You You must not have a good rest for a few days, right? You go upstairs to take a shower, I will cook for you, and then we can talk about other things after you have a good rest. "
"You cook?"
"There are wontons wrapped before you left in the refrigerator."
"Tsk, I just packed a little bit, and you haven't finished eating for a week? No wonder I thought you were thinner when I hugged you just now!" Ye Xuan rubbed his hair, and said affectionately: "It's not counted now. Tonight, I'll take a shower first, and then come down to cook, you wait here obediently."
"Well, I listen to you."