Encounter the Ice Age

Zhaoqing: "You are not afraid of wasting time, we will have no problem. Speaking of strangling vines... Sister Shui, you and Master should also know about animals appearing on the island of consciousness. Do you have any opinions?"

"That's what you're asking..." Li Shui glanced at Baili Xi as he spoke.

Bai Lixi: "After the third shock wave, there should be no pure animals in this world. As for plants...because their lifespan is too long, the speed of specialization will not be so fast."

Yu Sheng: "Is this information on the dimension?"

Baili Xi: "No, everything has animism, this is the trend."

Yu Sheng pursed his lips, giving a mysterious and metaphysical answer.

Zhaoqing asked again: "We have discovered along the way that animals with conscious islands must be accompanied by plants with conscious islands within three kilometers around them."

Bailixi: "Is there such a thing?"

Zhaoqing: "Yes. We have asked many wise people, but there is no deduction for this."

Baili Xi shook his head: "There is no answer yet."

Li Shui had already taken out the rice paper booklet and wrote something on it with a soft pen.Zhaoqing looked sideways and saw the material exchange list, on which the product names such as cloth and silk thread had been written.

Zhaoqing: "Sister, don't forget to write down the ratio, we can't let us set the price."

"Okay." Li Shui.

Zhaoqing: "If you need, we can... prepare some clean meat from specialized animals for you, you should also find that eating specialized plant fruits will give you a feeling of fullness and faster recovery of physical strength. The same goes for specialized meat, and we can even give you some specialized seafood."

Li Shui looked surprised and said, "Really? That's great. I don't have discipline, but I really dare not kill small animals."

Bailixi listened to these words with a natural expression, and of course he would stick to some things if there were conditions, but since he had already worried about many things, he had to compromise.Who made him and this woman in front of him entangled for more than 40 years and still stumbled together, not to mention that there are two children who are afraid that they will never be separated no matter how long this life is.

Yi Baixue: "Pfft!"

"Xuexue! Don't bite your sister!" Chen Li said, stretching out his hand to hug back the toothless and eager Baixue who was already in his swaddling baby.

"It's okay, let them play. This is the first time I've seen a child who is about the same age as Ah Yan after the end of the world." Li Shui said and saw that his eldest daughter and Zhi Ni had already whispered about the little girl.

"When was your baby born? It seems to be much younger than Bai Xuezhihuan." Chen Li looked at the baby's delicate features and said, "Both of our family were born in February after the end of the world."

Li Shui: "Why? We Ayan were born in April after the end of the world. Your baby looks at least one year older than Ayan."

At this moment, Baili Xi also looked at Bai Xue and Zhihuan. It was related to the children and he said: "Although Ah Yan's body and bones are slow in development, she is not sick...Why? Could it be..."

Zhaoqing: "Don't be nervous, Ah Jing."

Valentin glanced up and down and said, "Normal." The only thing that wasn't normal was why the couple called a boy a girl, but that wasn't his business.

Zhaoqing: "Ah Jing is a doctor of Western medicine. He said that the baby's brain activity, internal organs, blood vessels and nerves are all normal."

Bailixi: "Yes. Ayan's island of consciousness is also normal."

Zhaoqing: "Speaking of which, it is really difficult to calculate the growth process of children nowadays. The two little ones in our family also grew very slowly last year, and their size and learning to speak were much slower than the babies before the end of the world. Now they are They are almost two and three months old, and their appearance is only one and a half years old. Isn't that right, Ah Jing?"

Li Shui: "Yes, our Ayan is still half a year old now. I thought it was because of specialization, but I saw your children again."

"Specialization will definitely affect the growth rate of children, but we haven't mastered this law." Valentin: "The growth rate of babies has been fast and slow since our journey, and the growth speed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Qiongzhou Faster, now slower."

Yu Sheng: "Maybe this is also the difference between special people and human beings. It's a pity that we don't have many children, so we can't record more data. Is your eldest daughter not growing fast?"

Li Shui: "Yes, I haven't grown much in the past two years. If it weren't for this, we wouldn't talk about feeding meat to the children. I always thought it was because of insufficient nutrition."

Chen Li: "I don't mean to be disrespectful, I just think that at this time, having enough energy intake to ensure faster specialization is the most important thing."

Li Shui: "That's right, the Taoists on my side don't eat vegans either, they're just used to it. The three clean meats I saved earlier have to be eaten sooner or later, and I don't even care about practicing Kung Fu. I can't defeat those specialized animals." .This kid is different from us. It is not easy to pull it off once he has had sex. I don’t care if the kid calls me to see what he will do.”

Bailixi smiled slightly, but did not reply.What can be done, what should be done, what should be done, change first if you can, the opposite of letting nature take its course is to procrastinate one day at a time.

Li Shui didn't expose this person, and asked Chen Li, "Sister Li Li, tell me about the full-dimensional atom owners you've met. I'm very curious about them."

"Okay," Chen Li said softly and slowly, infected by Li Shui's speed of speech.

Seeing that there was nothing else to talk about, Zhaoqing went to work on their lunch again.

They passed Wudang Mountain, and Li Shui took a look at it and said that the shape of the mountain hadn't changed much, but the red top, which was once full of incense, had been submerged in the forest of different shades of black and gray.

Zhaoqing and the others got out of the car and dug a lot of plants and mineral deposits. Li Shui and Baili Xi sat beside them and watched the children practice swords, drinking tea and eating cakes without urging them.

Occasionally, Li Shui didn't talk too much when she found several kinds of plants bearing fruit, so she came over and dug one up and threw it into her own full-dimensional atom.

They got a lot of specialized original plants that were suspected to be protected before the end of the world. Li Shui pointed to a flower with a ring-shaped leaf center, dark green calyx, and thin ribbon-shaped petals, and said: It is a specialized Aescin flower. The toxins of snakes, insects, rats and ants in the post-apocalyptic world have miraculous effects. They have personally experienced it, so let Zhaoqing and the others prepare more.

Zhaoqing and the others hurriedly dug a few more plants, only to find that the flourishing state of the aesculus under the shrub is very similar to the aloe in Qiongzhou. If you don’t look carefully, you will see them in the deep and light black and ignore them. All are.

While digging, Zhaoqing and the others asked Li Shui which ones were traditional Chinese medicines. Later, Li Shui told Zhaoqing and the others how to identify which ones were specialized Chinese medicinal materials before they asked.

When they got back in the car at night, Li Shui reciprocated the favor and showed Zhaoqing and the others the picture album compiled by Bailixi, to thank Zhaoqing's family for being willing to take them for a ride.

Yu Sheng saw that the rice paper bound into a book was neatly lined with soft pens, and the appearance of Chinese medicine before and after specialization was drawn on it, which was simple but vivid.

Yu Sheng would not let it go, and asked Chen Jie to scan page by page.

During the observation, Li Shui found that Zhaoqing and the others did not spare even ordinary trees, which were basically the same as what they had seen; Zhaoqing would also treat injured small animals and bring them into the small world.

Li Shui believed that these people needed to complete part of the functions of the flying pigeon team to collect natural materials for later use.As for whether there were other purposes, Li Shui and the others did not ask.

The friends who passed by to help each other don't need to talk too much. Besides, Li Shui only needs to make sure that these people are not in danger, and the rest of his family are not interested.

Baili Xi Chengming's eyes seemed to see through everything. Yu Sheng didn't say much and didn't pretend to hide it. People who were also able to get on the dimension naturally knew about the earth samples.It doesn't matter if they know that they are collecting samples of the earth, after all, Feizi all over the country are doing this.

Pregnant and lactating herbivores on the grasslands of the small world have never been cut off. They don’t have to worry about getting herbivores that need milk. Bambi and Filin will naturally arrange for lactating sheep and cows to take care of the new lambs and ponies. weak life.

Those who are timid like pangolins or carnivores and omnivores are not so lucky. There are occasionally pregnant cats in several mountains.But there are not many large civets that have raised golden cat cubs, and these cubs basically need Zhaoqing and the others to feed them with goat milk.

The pangolin that drank milk earlier had grown up and was thrown into the corresponding mountain to make a living by itself. Now there is another litter of yellow-throated minks, which are basically fed by Zhi Ni.

Chen Yang's words became a prophecy, the little guy in their car hadn't been weaned since then, and it was even more impossible to wean him now.

Zhaoqing really likes raising these little creatures, he especially likes to see his little ones observe these little creatures who are younger than them with wide and curious eyes.

Fortunately, the physical fitness and resistance of specialized babies are far superior to those of babies before the end of the world, which is why they let their children come into contact with all kinds of wild specialized small animals without any taboos.

Li Shui put bedding at the rear of the car, and the family slept here at night.

Seeing this, Zhaoqing took out a mattress, and Li Shui naturally accepted it.This family is very conscious that they do not occupy other space in the car from washing to self-cleaning, and they all enter the full-dimensional atoms of Lishui.

If there is no need to chat, the sense of existence of this family is very low, at most it is just the children playing together.This made Chen Mo and Chen Yang less repulsive towards them, leaving the little bee to do the recording, and no longer wandering around the rear of the car every day trying to stare at them.

At first, Chen Li always thought that Bailixi was a scumbag, because every time Li Shui used a sword to dig the soil and transplant plants, while Bailixi sat beside him and watched quietly.

Until they encountered a few ancestral jackals that were eager to attack them, because Li Shui walked far away, before Chen Yang and the others took out their weapons, Bailixi had already rushed over and handed down the ancestral jackals that were close to Li Shui with his bare hands. Killed.

Chen Li froze and said that it is necessary to return to vulgarity to kill, which is obviously cruel and quick.

Yu Sheng felt that the inheritor of ancient martial arts was really extraordinary. He was clearly a wise prophet. Although his speed was still a long way from Chen Mo, he could still catch up with ordinary tough people.

But maybe Bailixi and the others still haven't shown their true strength to the Chen's team, and now only their imagination can take the first step to explore the boundaries of this world for them.

Chen Jie was speechless about this ever-expanding worldview. Various pre-apocalyptic novels and offshoots of legends gradually surfaced, which made him feel absurd, but the reality made him believe it.If this goes on like this, suddenly there is an X-Men or Superman standing up, he will not feel abnormal.

The only interesting thing is that they traveled to so many places before the end of the world, but they didn't find any information that the legends came true.It's only been more than a year since I entered Huaxia, and my horizons have been opened.

Zhaoqing said with a smile: How many people used to exist in the world, and all kinds of celestial eyes and mobile recording equipment allowed talented people to hide themselves, including the full-dimensional atom owner himself, and no one wanted to become a living target for scientific research institutions.

Maybe the so-called folk special effects they have seen on the Internet are some people's special abilities, but no one cares about mass entertainment.

It is far more difficult to find a few hundred aliens among more than a billion people than to meet a few aliens among more than 2000 million survivors, not to mention that it is easier for strangers to survive the end of the world than ordinary people.It is conceivable that based on the ratio, they may be more likely to meet these people in the future.

Suspected and full of doubts they entered the fertile land between the two rivers.

The area between the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River happens to be the true birthplace of Chinese civilization. It is the place with the most dynasties with various sites and the most unpredictable changes.

Every time Yu Sheng and Zhao Qing chat, they will inevitably find a reasonable explanation for the currently difficult things, just like human beings must stipulate that one plus one equals two to extend the whole world, but perhaps the last thing the real world needs is explain.

Everything they do is just proof of their own reassurance, but deep down they know that the world has other plans.

Special human beings are no longer the masters of the world, or in other words, human beings before the end of the world have never dominated the world, they just think arrogantly that they can control everything.

Ankang, once known as one of the top ten livable towns, has become a fertile land again, but it is no longer human beings who live in peace.After they collected and sampled the animal and plant samples, Li Shui's family sat in the moving car and watched Zhaoqing's family continue to work.

Because of Yu Sheng's words, Chen Jie has recently been obsessed with finding out whether he has the possibility of becoming a craftsman. He sits in the car every day when everyone is not using the dining table, making and improving various instruments for use on it. arms.

The little bees have been updated several times, and small signal towers have also appeared on the second generation of saber-toothed tigers. As long as the distance is not too far, their bracelets can already achieve the call function.

When Chen Jie is free, he will re-watch sci-fi movies from the perspective of research. It seems that all kinds of far-flung fantasies have the possibility of becoming reality.

As a mineral detector, Chen Jie's detection range and accuracy are getting better and better. Zhao Qing and others are directed by the wristband to collect back and forth.

In addition to the increase of existing materials, witherite, barite, antimony ore and pyrite and their associated cobalt have been added.The more they probed, the more rare metals they found. They stopped for a day and a night and still couldn't finish picking up the titanium magnetite, molybdenum ore and selenium on the ground.

These minerals are very important industrial raw materials before the end of the world. Yu Sheng couldn't help thinking about his past work.

Interstellar is spread out to become their common future, but at this stage there is no other time to explore all of this except survival.The special man is like a machine that has been bound by the law, walking on a tightrope with every step but can't stop at one step.

Li Shui's family had no need for external objects to replenish energy, keep warm and windproof, but they were also influenced by the proactive Zhaoqing family to join the ranks of collectors.

Chen Jie marked this place, and Zhaoqing told Li Shui: If you see people from Chongqing, ask them to send someone to pick up all these things.

During the conversation, Li Shui learned about the role of jade gems in prophets, and took the initiative to pick up some rough turquoise and rutile with a very high content of titanium for Bailixi's spare.

They didn't ask each other what kind of dark matter armaments Bailixi and Chen Mo had. They held a very distant intimacy, but they didn't talk much when they met each other every day.

They also discovered a spring bubbling with water, and the spring water has formed a small stream on the surrounding ice cap, with a shallow layer of ice balls floating on it.

After the end of the world, the living water is buried deep under the ice cap, and the springs that are not frozen at an average temperature of minus 49 degrees are eye-opening for Li Shui and Bailixi.

Li Shui and Zhaoqing introduced a lot of mineral springs into their full-dimensional atoms, but the water in the mineral springs was still plentiful and gushing out.

Zhaoqing felt the cool touch on his hands, and felt much more refreshed in his heart.Valentin looked at the state of Zhaoqing and Lishui, filled a few bottles and put them on the stable island to analyze the composition when he had time.

The journey will eventually come to an end, and the second generation of saber-toothed tigers walks slowly into the city boundary of Chongqing. Li Shui's family gets off the car near Jianshan Mountain.

They had finished exchanging supplies, and the Li Shui family finally changed out of the eye-catching monk robes, and the baby's swaddling clothes were replaced with soft and warm materials.

Li Shui: "Thank you for taking a family portrait for us."

Zhaoqing: "You're welcome. I'd like to say one more thing. If the temperature changes significantly, I suggest you join the people from the Chongqing base as soon as possible."

Bailixi nodded slightly

Li Shui: "Are you going back to the imperial capital too?"

Zhaoqing: "We have the responsibility to carry the consciousness down the cone. After completing the mission of flying pigeons, we must return to the imperial capital to help achieve the role of super-world props. Don't forget that the relocation route of Chongqing is Luoyang and Shijiazhuang. In the future, the whole country The bases will be gathered around the imperial capital, and if you miss Chongqing, you will definitely find a survivor base along this grand route.”

Li Shui: "Don't worry, although we don't want to participate in too many things, since we have been selected, we naturally know the price we should pay for carrying the treasure. Let's rest here at Jianshan for a while, and sooner or later we will definitely go on the road."

Zhaoqing: "Okay, then you all pay attention to safety."

Li Shui: "You must be careful of the aggressive ticks we found in Hanyin City. They were not easy to get along with before the end of the world. Now the specialized ticks have grown to the length of the forearm. It can devour the flesh and blood of a living being in a short time. We have never seen the half-human-tall insects you mentioned, but they are definitely not specialized from the normal path, so we must be careful."

Yu Sheng: "According to the instructions of the imperial capital, ticks should be active in the city of Xi'an. Unexpectedly, tick corpses also appeared in Hanyin."

Chen Jie: "Perhaps it was left behind by the special people who fled here."

Yu Sheng: "Let's analyze it later. Its corpse looks too different from a tick. If it weren't for the presence of nymph corpses around it, we wouldn't even be able to analyze it."

Chen Li: "It's simply disgusting. Fortunately, this kind of insect still has mutation restrictions. The faster the reproduction speed, the greater the size change, the faster the death. I don't know if the Zerg is the same..."

Chen Jie: "I'm afraid that the so-called Zerg is a collection of all kinds of bugs. Ticks that are half the length of an arm are so difficult to deal with, let alone a Zerg with a large body and toxins."

Chen Li: "I'm dizzy, I'm worried that the adaptive characteristics of these bugs will be further absorbed by the Zerg when you say that."

Yu Sheng didn't say anything but felt that what Chen Li said was quite reasonable.Zhao Qing pursed his lips and took pictures of the imagination in his head, which made him unacceptable, and he would shudder just thinking about it.

Chen Jie: "Yes, whether it's the ticks or the Zerg, if they continue to specialize and even combine with each other to become stronger, we special people don't have to find a way to escape the tide, just enter the era of fighting the Zerg directly."

Li Shui smiled: "There is no need to be so pessimistic. Species will always encounter the era of mass extinction, but life itself continues, and there will always be a way out. I wish you all the best."

Zhao Qing: "You are too, that's not too much to say, I hope we can meet again in the future"

Li Shui: "Don't worry, I think we will serve the same slate in the end, and we will meet again."

Chen Li: "Okay, see you Sister Shui. Let's go on the road first. When we special people get through everything, there should be a new home for us children to grow up together."

Li Shui: "I'm looking forward to this day too, goodbye."

Zhaoqing touched Bailiyan's little face affectionately, these days Baixue had a good time with this little girl, knowing that her little friend was leaving, Baixue was getting angry in the car, so he didn't say anything to see it off.

But Zhihuan sat on Chen Yang's shoulder and waved at Baili's family.

Close the car door and the saber-toothed tiger continued to drive. The pirates roared and circled in mid-air. They scraped the edge of Chongqing city boundary and prepared to enter Sichuan province.

No matter what they said, when they were collecting strontium ore, manganese ore and powder quartz ore, one or two adult ticks with the length of half an arm suddenly appeared around them.

It is still effective against a small number of ticks, and it can be smashed in mid-air before the ticks get close.After a few died, Chen Jie found that there were more and more small heat sources coming towards them from the outer circle through the detection aircraft above their heads and the imaging of the wrist display screen, and a large number of ticks were approaching.

Chen Jie warned, and Chen Li immediately gathered an air diaphragm around them like a bowl and lifted them all about [-] centimeters off the ground.

The children have long been transferred to the small world by Zhaoqing, and the second generation of saber-toothed tigers has also been put away.The pirate grabbed a few ticks in mid-air and smashed them with their claws, but the number of ticks increased and almost formed a small swarm.

The ticks kept hitting the air film that Chen Lite could form, and Yu Sheng was startled when he took a closer look, but it was only a few days before the May shock wave was formed, but the ticks had elytra.

It turned out that the tick didn't jump up just now, but flew over.Although it doesn't fly very high, it is currently climbing up the air diaphragm, trying to enter from the upper edge.

Chen Li's brow was sweating anxiously, and she had reached the limit of her special ability to make an air bowl that could accommodate everyone in their family.