The villas here are actually quite far apart. Although the two areas where Lin Tantan and the old lady are located happen to be the closest places between the villas, the distance is still more than six meters, and ordinary people can only sigh in despair.
Lin Tantan's eyes lit up. She took a close look at the old lady and the room through the window. There were definitely no zombies, so could there be bad guys? She looked at the seven or eight zombies with their hands stretched out at her feet, looking like starving ghosts. She then looked at the zombies in the window behind her that had already knocked the window into a spider web, and made a decision.
She waved at the old lady: "Get out of the way!"
Then two green ribbons came out, hooked on the window sill, and smashed over like a cannonball.
He threw himself into the window in one fell swoop. The two green ribbons had exhausted their energy and this time did not return to Lin Tan's body, but dissipated.
It's quite frustrating that she uses her wood-related abilities as a retractable rope.
Lin Tantan got up and shook her head, and saw the old lady by the window looking at her in astonishment. There were several people standing at the door of the room, all looking at her with their mouths wide open, as if they were deeply amazed at the way she appeared.
Lin Tantan stood up and went to the window first. Sure enough, the zombies turned around and reached out to this side, but unfortunately there were two layers of walls and fences in between, so they couldn't get through.
Lin Tantan closed the window and drew the curtains. The light in the room was on and it was quite bright. She looked at the old lady and said, "Thank you."
"Hey, girl, I saw you rushing in alone. It's not easy." The old lady also reacted now and looked her up and down: "You must have been injured a lot. I have medicine at home. I'll go get it for you."
As she spoke, she walked out of the house, and Lin Tantan followed. The people at the door spontaneously separated, still looking at Lin Tantan in surprise and vigilance, and followed them downstairs.
Lin Tantan was also looking at them. Most of the people upstairs and downstairs were old men and women, about seven or eight of them. There were also two middle-aged women, one of whom was well-dressed and good-looking, and the other seemed to be a nanny. Then there were four children ranging from four to five years old to seven to eight years old.
There wasn't even a young man here. Lin Tan was worried about the safety of these people, but he did feel relieved in his heart, and his tense nerves relaxed a little.
Facing such a group of people with little fighting ability, she seemed to have nothing to worry about. Instead, she, a dirty weirdo holding a big axe, looked more like a bad guy.
When they arrived at the living room on the first floor, the group of old men and women surrounded her and started asking questions, asking what was going on outside and where she came from.
Lin Tan Tan told everything he knew. They heard people eating each other outside and there was chaos. The faces of these people, old and young, were filled with sorrow. Some were worried about their children outside, and some were worried about what they should do.
Lin Tantan also understood their situation. The owners of the villa were an elderly couple named Xu. Their son died a few years ago and their daughter-in-law remarried. Only a seven-year-old granddaughter was left living with them. Together with a nanny, there were only four people in the family.
Today is New Year's Day, and many families in the villa area have relatives and children visiting. The remaining few families have no one to visit, which seems particularly lonely, so they gather at Xu's house to play. It is a coincidence that after the end of the world, no one here is fine, and the villa area is completely crazy and chaotic. The people in Xu's villa quickly closed the inner and outer gates and hid away from going out.
At this time, the old man of the Xu family comforted everyone and said, "Don't worry, the rescue team will arrive tomorrow. There will always be a way."
Lin Tantan was surprised to hear this: "Are there rescuers coming?"
Yang City was a third-tier city that was neither good nor bad. It was not taken seriously and was one of the first cities to be abandoned. She remembered that it was more than ten days after the end of the world that the army came in to pick up the survivors for evacuation. At that time, in a city with a population of two million, less than 300,000 people left alive.
"It's a special forces team." Old Mrs. Xu, who had just called Lin Tantan over, said. When she learned that Lin Tantan was a female college student and had come here alone, she was very impressed by her bravery and ability. She said, "My husband made some contributions to the country before he retired, and my son also sacrificed for the country. Now the higher-ups still want to get us and have sent people over. When the time comes, why don't you come with us, girl? It's too dangerous to go alone."
Lin Tan Tan shook his head: "I'm going to the university town of Peking University."
"Oh, that's far away."
“It takes more than an hour to drive.”
"How can you drive now? Didn't I hear this girl say the roads are blocked by cars?"
The old people started talking at once and asked Lin Tantan why she wanted to go there. Lin Tantan said she was going there to look for someone. The old people sighed again, saying that they also had children and relatives living outside, and they didn't know how they were doing and whether they could see them again.
After they met and got to know each other, Old Lady Xu gave Lin a medicine box to talk to, arranged a room for her on the first floor, and found her some clean clothes.
Faced with such enthusiasm, Lin Tantan felt quite embarrassed. It was not easy for someone to take him in as they were not even related to him.
The old lady sighed, "It's not easy for everyone at this time. How can we not help each other? For a group of us, young and old, we are just sitting here waiting for someone to come and rescue us. Otherwise, we will just wait to die."
After the old lady left, Lin Tantan came to the window and slightly opened the curtains. It was already dark outside. She had checked when she came in just now. There were no zombies inside the wall of the villa, but perhaps there were too many people here and the atmosphere was too crowded. There were more and more zombies outside the wall. Lin Tantan was sweating in her heart. Fortunately, these zombies could not climb walls, otherwise it would be dangerous.
She took a hot bath, changed into clothes that didn't fit her well but were clean, sat on the bed, took out the second wood crystal core she had obtained, and started practicing again.
The energy of the previous wood crystal core has been used up, and her body is now empty.
The crystal core was completely absorbed in just over half an hour. Lin Tantan let go of her hand and let the fragments fall into the trash can. Her body had been hit many times and was bruised and swollen with many broken skin spots, but it was much better now.
Then she took out the golden gold crystal core.
I wasn't sure whether I should absorb it.
The supernatural power strictly follows the principle of the five elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint, at least this is the case after more than three hundred years. So if she cultivates the gold element, it will suppress the wood element. This is why she didn't touch the crystal core before.
However, judging from the dangers she had just experienced along the way, she would not be able to reach Peking University City tomorrow relying solely on the Wood Element. She was not good at using the Wood Element to fight, and it was already very good that she could invent a retractable belt function in addition to treatment.
The gold element is her strongest ability besides the wood element.
In her previous life, as a therapist, she had to use the wood element ability every day. So even though she tried her best to maintain a balance among the five elements, the wood element ability was still getting stronger and stronger. It was very dangerous for one element to dominate, so she could only strengthen the gold element to a certain extent to restrain the wood element.
Therefore, she spent a lot of time practicing the gold system. As for the other three systems, she did not have the time and energy to practice them specifically, nor was there any need to do so.
After hesitating for a moment, she placed the gold crystal core in her palm and began to practice.
A weak golden light emanated from the crystal core and was absorbed into the body through the palm of the hand, following a completely different trajectory from the wood element. In the end, it still formed a perfect cycle.
And the misty energy source in Lin Tantan's mind, the one representing the gold element, also began to rotate slowly. It was originally white, but gradually turned golden.
The green wood element was still rotating slowly and spontaneously, and the only ones that were still motionless were the red fire element, the yellow earth element, and the black water element. Lin Tan Tan estimated that by then, except for the fire element which would remain unchanged, the earth element and the water element would also change color, the earth element would turn brown, and the water element would turn blue.
This is the difference between three hundred years ago and now. At this time, supernatural powers are in their infancy, and the types and forms of energy are numerous and complex. Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are only part of the many supernatural powers and do not have an absolute authoritative status.
Lin Tantan was absorbing energy while thinking and experiencing it, doing two things at once, and suddenly—
"Hmm?" Lin Tan Tan discovered something. The mist-like substance was very different from the energy core. In later generations, multi-system superpowers had to balance each system because if one system was too prominent, the corresponding part of the energy core would expand, causing the energy core to be unstable. However, the mist-like energy source did not have this hidden danger. After all, it was just a mist. No matter how much it expanded, it would not crack.
In other words, she doesn't have to strictly follow the principle of five-element balance in the future
This is definitely good news. She can focus on one or two types of abilities and become specialized and proficient in them, and put the others aside for the time being.
"Knock knock." There was a knock on the door. Lin Tantan opened his eyes, put away the crystal core, got out of bed and opened the door.
It was still Mrs. Xu: "My daughter, do you want to eat together?"
After hearing this, Lin Tan Tan realized that he was extremely hungry and immediately agreed.
When I went out of the house, there was no light in the living room, only a small light in the dining room. The curtains were drawn tightly so that not a single light could leak out.
The meal was indeed ready, but not many people in the room were in the mood to eat. Who would be in the mood to eat when they heard the zombies roaring and scratching and hitting the fence outside? So there were only Mr. Xu, Mrs. Xu, their seven-year-old granddaughter, and two other old men at the table.
Lin Tan Tan went to get some rice from the rice cooker. She was also very discerning. As an outsider, it would be uncomfortable for her to eat from the same bowl as others, so she used clean chopsticks to pick up a few pieces of vegetables, a few pieces of cold tofu, and a spoonful of stewed egg custard, and then started to eat with a huff, without touching the dishes.
This was the first meal that Lin Tantan had eaten since he came to this world. The taste was just average, but he was so hungry that everything tasted delicious.
The old man and the old woman next to her also smiled a little when they saw her eating happily. Old Man Xu whispered, "Eat more if you like it." As he said that, he coughed softly, then quickly covered his mouth with his hands, not daring to cough out.
Mrs. Xu immediately put down her chopsticks and patted her husband on the back. An old man next to her asked in a low voice, "Is Old Xu's old illness coming back again?"
"That's right." Old Mrs. Xu said with concern, "I'll get you a towel. Cover your mouth with it and cough twice. No one outside can hear it." The little granddaughter of the Xu family also looked at her grandfather worriedly.
Old Master Xu waved his hands, but he couldn't suppress his cough.
Lin Tantan also stopped eating and looked at him for a while: "Grandpa Xu, is this chronic bronchitis?"
"Yes, it gets worse every year, and medicine doesn't help." said Mrs. Xu
Lin Tantan thought for a moment, raised her hand and smoothed Mr. Xu's back. A visible green light passed from her hand into Mr. Xu's body.
Several people's eyes widened immediately, while Mr. Xu stopped coughing all of a sudden, his breathing became smoother, and he felt better, with a strange look on his face.