Binding System

On the outskirts of the city, in a dilapidated residential building, Jiang Lin was lying on the floor in a semi-comatose state.

She tried hard to open her eyes, but outside the window there was still a sky full of yellow dust. The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the window onto her face, and the scorching temperature of the light made her face red.

Jiang Lin smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly. Since the end of the world began, she has been struggling to survive every day, but now Jiang Lin can feel that her vitality is rapidly fading. Is she really going to die?

She struggled to sit up, her throat, long dehydrated, feeling like it was filled with rough sandpaper. The slightest movement sent a sharp pain and a whiff of blood. She no longer had the strength to go out and find the necessary water and food.

She closed her eyes as if resigned to her fate. At this moment, the damaged intelligent computer in the room suddenly made a "buzzing" sound. The dusty ball floated up silently from the ground, looked around the surrounding environment, and finally set its sights on Jiang Lin on the ground.

The small ball circled around Jiang Lin, and an ice-blue light floated out from its body, penetrated into Jiang Lin's mouth, and spread from her throat all the way to her limbs.

Jiang Lin felt a stream of cold liquid being poured into his mouth, filling his empty stomach.

She opened her eyes as if she sensed something, and the intelligent computer that had been damaged for half a year was floating in front of her.

"You saved me?" She stretched out her hand, wanting to touch her intelligent brain, but unexpectedly the ball nimbly dodged her movement.

[I am System 110. I have detected that you meet the binding criteria. Since you were already in a near-death state, the system has directly bound you. If you terminate, the host will return to a near-death state.]

Having finally survived, Jiang Lin didn't want to die anymore, so she sat up from the ground.

The intelligent computer in front of her was still in its previous gray form. After all, she was very poor before the end of the world and could only afford the lowest-end intelligent computer products. But now, this inconspicuous little ball was faintly glowing with blue light.

"My name is Jiang Lin." She said her name calmly, not at all surprised by the unreasonable phenomenon in front of her.

"What kind of system do you have?" Jiang Lin reached out again and pulled the ball toward him. He examined it carefully. It remained unchanged, its grayish appearance. Due to poor maintenance, the metal surrounding the ball had many noticeable scratches.

110 originally wanted to break free from Jiang Lin's hand, but after twisting for a long time, he finally succumbed to the powerful force of the person in front of him. A familiar blue virtual screen was projected, but it was not a regular intelligent computer interface. Inside was a series of small squares, each containing a different building material.

There are building fragments of various materials, including walls, fences, soil blocks, stones... and regular furniture. Is this an infrastructure system?

[It has been detected that the current Blue Planet contains a large amount of discarded batteries. The host can use the batteries to unlock and purchase all the building materials inside.]

Jiang Lin felt that this function was rather useless. After all, her most important thing at the moment was to survive, and the most important thing for survival was to have enough food. This was the third summer of the apocalypse, and Jiang Lin had searched all the food around her and could no longer find anything edible.

110 did not ignore the hint of disappointment in her eyes and closed the blue virtual interface.

[Host, the infrastructure system not only allows you to create buildings, but also has farming-related modules, so you can grow your own food.]

Jiang Lin raised his eyebrows and became interested.

Since global pollution has caused the land to lose its ability to grow crops, food has become scarce. In order to solve the problem of food and clothing for the entire population, experts have developed a nutrient solution that can solve the problem of food and clothing for the people to the greatest extent possible. Unexpectedly, it was this batch of nutrient solution that completely destroyed the entire planet.

After people took the nutrient solution, some lucky ones awakened their special powers, while others turned into man-eating zombies, and the entire planet ushered in a true end of the world.

"Can we plant it now?" Jiang Lin looked at the small ball in front of her with longing in her eyes. She had never planted plants before and had only seen them in textbooks. Sometimes Jiang Lin would doubt whether those tender green sprouts in the books really existed.

【No seeds at the moment.】

Jiang Lin: Why does this system seem so weird and unreliable?

[Plant seeds that can be planted have been detected in the First Base Free Market.]

[Trigger mission: Enter the first base and successfully purchase seeds. Success reward: 0.5m*1m planting trough]

Before Jiang Lin could carefully study the system that would issue tasks.

"Tap, tap..." Footsteps came from the corridor, like the sound of boots stepping on bricks.

Jiang Lin's eyes darkened, and he ignored the system. He tiptoed towards the door, with a faint blue light flashing in his palms, ready to attack any uninvited guest outside at any time.

Soon the footsteps stopped and the surroundings fell into silence again. Jiang Lin tried her best to breathe lightly. She keenly felt that the man had stopped at the door of her house.

At this time, outside the door was a man wearing a black combat uniform.

His face was completely covered by a sand mask, leaving only his eyes exposed.

He slowly squatted down and threw a letter through the gap in the door.

The letter slipped across the dusty floor, raising a cloud of dust. Jiang Lin looked at the specks of dust in the particularly long evening light, and the letter lying quietly on the ground.

After confirming that the letter had entered the room, the man outside the door turned around and went downstairs without stopping.

It was not until the footsteps became farther and farther away and could no longer be heard that Jiang Lin slowly relaxed his vigilance and looked at the letter on the ground with complicated eyes.

The eye-catching gold-plated logo on the envelope announced that it came from the First Foundation.

Jiang Lin bent down, picked up the envelope on the ground, and quickly opened the letter to reveal a hard invitation card:

[The First Base Patrol is short on personnel. Report to the base's east gate at 5:30 PM.]

The font on top looked like handwriting, with a strong and vigorous brushstroke, and below it was the seal of the First Base. This letter could not be faked. Jiang Lin glanced at the mechanical watch on her wrist. It was now 4:30 in the afternoon, and she didn't have much time left.

Jiang Lin waved the invitation in his hand and glanced at the small ball still floating in the air: "Let's go to the first base."

The small ball in the air turned a circle, shrank to the size of a thumb, and landed on Jiang Lin's shoulder.

The dusty mirror at the door reflected her current appearance. Her clothes had long been dyed yellow by the yellow sand, and they covered every inch of her skin to protect it from the summer sun. Her eyes were exposed without any obstruction, and her amber pupils flashed a cold light.

Jiang Lin withdrew his gaze, opened the door a crack to observe the situation outside, and only after realizing that there was no danger did he open the door and walk out.

Without the shelter of buildings, a heat wave swept over, and the sky was filled with a dim yellow color. Jiang Lin had no filter and could only cover his mouth and nose with gauze.

There are almost no people living in this area, but there are quite a few zombies. Slow-moving zombies can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road.

The location of the first base is also in the suburbs, not far from where Jiang Lin lives. She can't find any well-maintained means of transportation at the moment, so she can only walk there.

Not knowing what the cold liquid that System 110 fed her was, Jiang Lin felt that her water-based supernatural energy was abundant, no longer in its previous dry state.

Although water-based abilities are relatively weak for most people, Jiang Lin has mastered this ability to perfection, making it not only powerful in attack but also able to change the temperature at will.

Although the mutated zombies can survive for a long time without eating, they have an instinctive desire for food. As soon as Jiang Lin appeared, he instantly attracted the hungry zombies on the roadside.

She had seen a lot of weird and disgusting things in the past three years of the apocalypse, but she still felt physically uncomfortable.

Two or three zombies approached her first, their mouths slightly open, mucus and blood flowing from the corners of their mouths, which was particularly smelly in the hot summer.

Jiang Lin waited for her chance, and the water vapor in the air quickly condensed into ice spikes, which she stabbed at the zombies closest to her. Each ice spike pierced directly into the zombie's head, killing it instantly.

Jiang Lin moved aside in disgust. These were the few clean clothes she had left, and she couldn't let them be affected by the brain matter splattered out by these zombies.

As she walked along, she vaguely felt that there seemed to be fewer zombies on the road than usual. Jiang Lin frowned, but this was not a bad thing for her at the moment.

"Ho ho ho ho"

The zombie-like sound came from behind him again. Jiang Lin turned around immediately. Sure enough, there was a zombie following behind him. Its body was covered with rotten flesh, but its expression was rarely filled with the desire for human flesh.

It seemed as if there was something more tempting drawing them forward.

Jiang Lin originally wanted to deal with the zombie directly, but unexpectedly, it seemed to have intelligence and flew past her and walked forward. Its originally lifeless gray-white eyes turned slightly red.

It's a bit like a human being who has gone astray.

Jiang Lin frowned and looked at the direction the zombies were moving. Like her, they were heading to the first base.

She felt a chill on her back and looked back. The zombies that were originally in groups of three or two were slowly gathering together and walking in one direction.

Those zombies seemed to have been summoned by something and looked very strange. Jiang Lin suppressed her inner doubts and quickened her pace towards the first base. Fortunately, the zombies moved relatively slowly, and she slowly distanced herself from the zombie army.

When she was about five meters away from the base, there were almost no zombies around, and the psychics on the city wall quickly locked onto her as an outlier.

Jiang Lin picked up the letter in his hand, and the gold-plated mark sparkled in the sun. The psychic on the city wall withdrew his gaze and continued to pay attention to the surrounding situation.

She looked towards the east gate of the base, and the person who greeted her was not the wretched middle-aged man, but an older man who looked very unfamiliar.

Jiang Lin walked forward and handed over the letter.

Lin Dehou looked at the handwriting on the letter, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, then he looked up at Jiang Lin in front of him, his eyes flashing slightly. It was just that Jiang Lin was a little too thin.

He is only about 165cm tall and very thin, looking like he would fall apart in the wind.

Seeing the suspicion in Lin Dehou's eyes, Jiang Lin said nothing. With a flash of blue light in his hand, an ice spike pierced through the dead tree next to him with a gust of wind.

Lin Dehou's eyes showed a hint of interest. "Ice-type abilities? They're quite rare. No wonder he wanted to recruit you."

Jiang Lin didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

Lin Dehou didn't care much for her cold attitude. He was a rather friendly older man and took her into the base without hesitation. "My name is Lin Dehou, and I'm the new patrol team leader."

Newly appointed? However, she was still unfamiliar with the base and didn't bother asking why. As long as it wasn't the same sleazy fat guy from before, it would be fine.

After entering the base, Jiang Lin's eyes finally showed a trace of fluctuation. She did not wear protective glasses. It gets dark late in the summer. Although it was evening now, it was still a little dazzling to see things. Jiang Lin endured the discomfort and looked at the base in front of her.