End of the World Cycle
Chapter 5: Surviving the Dry Season.
The moment the door opened, the idiot lost his balance and fell headfirst in. Zhang Mingfang reacted quickly and used her hand to support him, and the two children almost fell to the ground.
The two children were put on the ground. Before the mother and daughter could react, they were dragged out by the idiot. The two refused to leave. The idiot knelt on the ground and kowtowed frantically. He could not speak, but kowtowed. His forehead hit the cement floor several times and there was a blood mark.
The mother and daughter planned to settle the children before going with the fool. But when they squatted down and touched the bodies of the two children, their eyes widened. It was over 30 degrees at night, but the bodies of the two children were cold, their eyes were closed, and there was no sign of breathing. The places they touched were still soft. The two children were dead.
Xie Qin then noticed that the two children were covered in mud, including on their mouths and noses. The idiot's hands were black, mixed with mud and flesh.
The mother and daughter looked at each other, put the two children behind the wall, went back to the house to get a few shovels left by the construction team, locked the doors and windows, told Xie Ran to have a good rest, and followed the fool.
By the time they got there, it was already the next morning. The mother and daughter were so tired that their feet were numb, but the fool kept running forward like a robot.
Xie Qin had been observing along the way and found that they had almost cleared the way down the mountain. When they arrived, they saw that the tricycle was buried in the soil. It was obvious that the mountain had collapsed when they were digging, and the tricycle was not buried, but only some scattered soil was on it.
The two children should have been in the back car and not buried. The big fool should have been running behind and not reaching the place. By the time they arrived, the wife and father were probably already buried.
How could he dig them out with his own hands? He couldn't drive, so he finally ran back to look for them with the two children in his arms. The two children must have died of illness on the road.
The three men dug until the night before they dug out the fool's wife and father. They found a place to temporarily hide the pickled chicken. They cleaned the back of the tricycle and put the two people in it. Fortunately, the tricycle could still start. Zhang Mingfang drove the tricycle, and Xie Qin sat in the front.
The fool was holding down the bodies of his wife and father from behind, staring at the moon in the sky with empty eyes.
Sitting in the front of the tricycle, with the wind blowing in his face, Xie Qin still felt a wave of heat. If it was already like this in the mountains, he didn't know what other places would be like.
It didn't take long to get back to the yard. Looking at the four bodies of different sizes in the yard, Xie Qin couldn't help but frown. The fool squatted beside his two children and shook them. The two children shook stiffly.
For a day and a night, the three of them had nothing to eat, and the youngest son only ate some bread at home. Zhang Mingfang cooked some rice, fried a large dish of dried wild vegetables and bacon, and warmed up a small pot of chicken soup for the siblings.
I found a relatively large bowl, put a big bowl of rice in it, covered it with a lot of bacon, and brought it out.
The idiot squatted beside the corpse, his blank eyes were empty. Zhang Mingfang stuffed the food into the idiot's hands and the idiot took it and ate it.
"Do you want to eat inside?" Zhang Mingfang asked
The fool hid and didn't say anything, just ate with big mouthfuls. As he was eating, he seemed to remember something and picked up a large piece of bacon with his chopsticks and put it into his father's mouth. Seeing that his father didn't open his mouth, he thought of stuffing it in.
Zhang Mingfang tried to stop him, but the fool was so strong that he accidentally pushed her to the ground. Xie Qin, who had just finished taking a shower, saw this and quickly ran over to help her mother up.
"Mom, don't stop him. Just let him go."
Xie Qin didn't know how to deal with this idiot. Just as Xie Qin was helping her mother into the house, the idiot ran over again and pulled Zhang Mingfang's clothes.
"Bury. Bury. Bury."
"Bury them?"
The fool's eyes evaded but his hands did not let go. Even if the fool didn't say anything, these people would have to be buried at dawn tomorrow. It had been a week since the dry season began, and the highest daytime temperature had reached 40 degrees Celsius, rising by one or two degrees almost every day. Under such circumstances, the bodies would stink within two days.
The fool had been guarding the yard all night. Zhang Mingfang was not a cold-faced person. Besides, she had some connections with Liu Chuanyou. She prepared a large basin of water early to wipe the faces of the four people in the family clean. She also helped change the women and children into clean clothes.
The four men dug a grave in the back hill of their chicken farm house. It was surrounded by big trees and facing the sun, which was a good location. After the four men were buried, they saw the fool kowtowed to his father's grave. Xie Qin felt miserable when she saw this man, but she had no choice. She didn't have the ability to take care of one more person in this end times. She was not a normal person.
Taking advantage of the cool night, Xie Qin and her mother drove the tricycle to bring back the pickled chickens, returning all of them to the fool. Xie Qin didn't count them carefully. There should be about 700 or 800 of them. There were also two baskets of eggs.
They had no shortage of supplies, and these were all they could give the fool. Although the fool was stupid, Liu Chuanyou had taught him well, and he knew how to light a fire, boil food in water, and eat the food after a bucket of water had boiled dry.
I know how to clean and I like to be clean. Although I can't take care of myself, at least I won't starve to death.
After returning home, Zhang Mingfang carefully counted their stored food and divided it according to expiration dates, finding a lot of extra rice and flour.
From then on, every morning Zhang Mingfang would cook more rice and fill a bottle of water for the fool. The fool didn't know how to thank him, and he would just pick up the bowl and eat. When Zhang Mingfang came the next day, she would wash the bowl cleanly and put it on the table.
Xie Qin counted the time carefully. On the day when the temperature reaches fifty degrees, there will be a solar eclipse. At that time, those who will awaken their superpowers will fall into a coma because of the coming of the solar eclipse. These superpowers are all based on the five elements and natural illusions.
Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, electricity, speed, strength and agility are relatively common superpowers. Some people can even awaken two superpowers at a time. The rarest ones include psychic powers, healing powers and space powers.
These are all the superpowers recorded in the book. When the tide recedes, mutated zombies will appear, and gradually plants and animals will also mutate. Perhaps in order to allow humans to adapt to this world, the survivors will awaken their superpowers.
Xie Qin looked at her brother who was sitting quietly in a wheelchair reading a book. She thought that if she could awaken her superpowers, she would definitely take him to find the heroine of this world, the only woman with a level 5 healing superpower, the woman who could heal everything. If she found her, maybe one day her brother would be able to stand up.
The temperature in the third week of the dry season reached a rare 50 degrees, and the sun did not rise on this day. Seeing that the clock had already reached seven o'clock and the sun still hadn't come out, Xie Qin knew that day had come.
The bed in Xie Qin's bedroom on the third floor was very big. Zhang Mingfang checked again that all the doors and windows were closed, picked up her son, and the three of them lay down together.
At about eight o'clock, Xie Qin felt dizzy and light-headed, and then he lost consciousness.
After losing consciousness, people will feel their own special abilities, but Xie Qin's mind was blank, nothing. She was a little anxious, and she didn't figure out what special ability she had awakened until she woke up.
After waking up, Xie Qin realized that she had slept for two days and two nights. If it weren't for her even breathing and what He's mother had told her before, her mother would probably have taken her to see a doctor like Liu Chuanyu did.
Although he didn't figure out what superpowers were, fortunately there was good news: his younger brother had also awakened superpowers, and they were rare psychic superpowers. It was just that he was young, and his current superpowers were only at the first level, and the detection range was only about a hundred meters around him.
"Qinqin, have you awakened your superpowers?"
Xie Qin looked at her mother's expectant eyes and nodded first, then shook her head.
"I don't know. I don't know what superpower I have awakened. My body hasn't changed at all, and my mind is blank."
After awakening their powers, a crystal nucleus will begin to grow in their brains. This crystal nucleus will gradually grow larger as the powers of the psychic increase. The crystal nucleus of zombies can help upgrade the crystal nucleus of powers. Therefore, after the country has researched this feature, many psychics have begun to form teams to hunt zombies. It is also at this time that the law of the jungle begins in this world.
Bang! There was a loud noise, and everyone in the room was startled. The mother and daughter were about to go out to see what was going on, when Xie Ran, who was standing by, spoke softly.
"It was that uncle. He was just knocking on the door, but he knocked it down accidentally with too much force."
This is the ability of a psychic. Although Xie Ran is still young, he can still clearly know everything happening around him at such a close distance.
"The idiot has also awakened his superpowers. He fainted on the ground when I went to deliver food yesterday. I was afraid that something happened to him, so I went to check on him. He woke up yesterday and his strength has become very great. He must have awakened a power-type superpower."
The idiot outside was also shocked when he saw that he had knocked the door down, and stood outside the yard, at a loss.
Xie Qin came down with her mother. The moment she saw the fool, she could clearly feel that he was different. His eyes seemed to have become normal, and he was standing outside the yard with a bunch of pickled chicken and freshly picked wild vegetables in his hands.
The fool's next action further confirmed Xie Qin's guess. When the fool saw them, he raised the pickled chicken and wild vegetables in his hands and pointed them towards Zhang Mingfang, and actually squeezed out two words.
"Thank you-thank you-" Although the words were spoken one by one, it was clear that he was thanking them. Just when Xie Qin was confused, Xie Ran pushed his wheelchair to the door by himself.
"His crystal core is yellow, and his intelligence is about that of a three-year-old."
"How do you know?"
"I don't know. I can see it if I think about it."
"What about me? Can you see my sister's?"
Xie Ran shook his head. "I can't see it. There is no crystal core in my sister's brain."
If he hadn't been in a coma and his five senses hadn't become more sensitive, Xie Qin would have doubted whether he had any special abilities.
Zhang Mingfang accepted the things that the idiot brought, and the idiot left without even looking back. Although their place was remote, there was no guarantee that zombies would not come.
Given their current situation, not to mention going out to hunt zombies to level up, even protecting themselves would probably be a problem. She thought that if her brother could control the idiot, perhaps there would be more hope in the future.
She was eager to find out what kind of superpower she had, and she also wanted to try to see if the zombie's crystal core could help her. She also wanted to do everything she could to help her brother upgrade his rare superpower.
Although she knew that her idea was selfish, she had to make use of everything around her if she wanted to live a better life. Besides, her family had done their best for the fool. There was nothing to do with him. They helped him dig out the remains of his relatives and sent him rice every day. If he could become their family's protective umbrella in the future, they would take good care of him as a reward.
The next day, when her mother went to deliver the meal, Xie Qin specifically asked her mother to serve more rice and vegetables, and also to bring an extra bottle of water. The fool was stunned for a moment, and then he started to eat happily. I thought the fool was the same as before, but I didn't expect that the fool would come that afternoon.
Without the door that was knocked down by the fool, the fool did not come in directly, but stood where the door originally was and made knocking sounds with his mouth.
“Dong dong dong~~”
Zhang Mingfang smiled at first, then went out.
The fool was seen holding a pickled chicken in his hand and timidly handing it to Zhang Mingfang.
"Thank you."
He just said thank you and ran away.
Looking at the idiot's actions, Xie Qin felt that the idiot should be able to understand some words and things. Seeing that the temperature was getting higher day by day, there were not many days left for him to go out.
Before going out, I have to spend some time cultivating the relationship between my brother and the fool. Thinking of this, Xie Qin did not hesitate to deliver the meal the next day. This time, not only did he take more water, but he also took two more frozen pears, which were considered the few fruits in the house.
Xie Qin sent the things over and did not leave immediately like her mother. After carefully looking at the place where the idiot lived, she found that the idiot still had basic survival ability. The current temperature was over 30 degrees even at night and in the early morning. The idiot was afraid of heat and slept in a shed with ventilation on all sides. There was a simple wooden bed in the shed, and several large vats were placed on both sides. The vats were full of water, but it was already turbid.
It can be seen that the fool must have soaked in it when it was hot during the day. The fool sat on the small stool on the ground with his back to Xie Qin. Xie Qin walked in front of the fool and squatted down. He looked at the fool and smiled. The fool was stunned at first, and then he stammered.
"Thank you~ Thank you~"
"You're welcome. My name is Xie Qin. What's yours?"
The fool didn't answer, he just lowered his head and ate with big mouthfuls. He ate too fast and choked. Xie Qin's actions were faster than the fool's. He quickly unscrewed the bottle of water he brought and handed it to the fool.
The fool drank the water in big gulps, and when he had swallowed the food, he looked up at Xie Qin with a look of gratitude in his eyes. As expected, he said those two words again.
"Thank you~"
Xie Qin sighed helplessly, took out the frozen pear and a knife to peel it, and handed the cold frozen pear to the fool. The fool hesitated for a moment and took it with both hands. He took a small bite at first, and then his eyes lit up. He finished the frozen pear in two or three bites. As soon as he opened his mouth, he said those two words again.
"Thank you."
Xie Qin shook her head helplessly and prepared to leave. It seemed that his brain was still unable to communicate with her.
The fool saw Xie Qin was about to leave, so he suddenly stood up and walked forward to catch up with Xie Qin. Even though Xie Qin was taller than the fool's chest, the fool still carefully grabbed the corner of Xie Qin's clothes.
"Liu Bo."
Xie Qin turned around, she was happy. If this fool could understand what she was saying, then the idea of taking him hunting would be completely possible.
Looking at this man who was about the same age as her mother, Xie Qin raised her head and called out sweetly to the fool.
"Uncle Liu Bo."
The fool also laughed and called out Xie Qin's name.
"Xie Qin."
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