Chapter 211 230. Bottom

Zhuang Xu's attitude clearly showed that he didn't want to say more, so Xu Zhi didn't ask any further questions.

He could say all this and even gave her an "experimental product". It seemed that this thing did not need to be kept secret. Perhaps this doctor had some good fortune in his early years.

Qi Yanxin came back not long after. She didn't have much money left, but she still chose to buy Xu Zhi a new set of clothes and a hat.

The hat was a rather wide baseball cap, and after putting it on, it was pressed down a little. Xu Zhi only needed to lower his head a little more, and his eyes would basically be barely visible.

"Okay, these medicines and precautions are all here. If there's nothing else, you can go home first. Come back for a checkup next week."

A follow-up visit once a week is considered relatively frequent, but Xu Zhi's condition is serious after all. If they did not provide hospitalization services, Xu Zhi would even be admitted directly to the ICU. As for coming for a follow-up visit every day, that would be too much of a burden for Xu Zhi. On balance, once a week is the most appropriate.

Putting the black baseball cap on her head and being pushed out of the clinic in a wheelchair by Qi Yanxin, Xu Zhi could sense that people's eyes were constantly on her, no, to be more precise, on the wheelchair.

When he got back to "home," Xu Zhi couldn't help but ask, "Are wheelchairs rare? Why do I feel like everyone is looking at me?"

Qi Yanxin replied while sorting his things, "It's rare. Most people will choose to get prosthetics after being diagnosed with limb damage. Ordinary prosthetics on the black market are not expensive and can increase strength and functionality. Even many people with healthy limbs will take the initiative to get prosthetics. Almost no one uses a wheelchair."

Prosthetic body?

Another thing the Federation doesn't have.

"Okay, take the medicine you need to take today first, then I'll go make some food. After eating, rest for half an hour before taking the rest of the medicine."

Qi Yanxin had planned well, having already placed the medicines needed at different times in the cabinet. Xu Zhi's mouth twitched as he listened to this string of words. How long had it been? How long had she not eaten properly and taken medicine as food?

It’s really the law of karma!

But the most tragic thing is that Xu Zhi can no longer hold anything in his left hand, and even holding a glass of water with his right hand trembles slightly. Eating and taking medicine seem a bit difficult. But even so, Xu Zhi still stubbornly chooses to do it himself most of the time. What a joke! He even needs someone to feed him medicine. How embarrassing!

"By the way, I'm going to work during the day starting tomorrow. I've asked Ranran to help me take care of you during the day. You've seen her before, she lives next door."

Xu Zhi nodded gently, and after taking the medicine Qi Yanxin handed her, she asked the question that had puzzled her for a long time: "What is Guangmingyuan?"

Qi Yanxin looked at her in surprise, as if she didn't expect Xu Zhi to ask this out of the blue. However, there was nothing wrong with answering it. After thinking for a moment, she replied, "Is it considered a school for extraordinary people?"

"But it can't be said so simply. There are many extraordinary academies, but the Bright Academy is special."

"If I had to say, it's probably the best and most special academy for extraordinary people?"

"I heard that many important figures graduated from Guangming Academy. Guangming Academy not only trains extraordinary people, but also has many powerful extraordinary people. The academy also has the most comprehensive extraordinary information. Many people yearn to enter Guangming Academy."

"After all, getting in means a bright future."

It does sound impressive, a bit like a talent monopoly.

"What does it mean that Guangmingyuan evacuated the bottom floor?" Xu Zhi asked again.

Speaking of this, Qi Yanxin's expression seemed to dim a little: "It's that Guangming Academy announced that it will no longer recruit students from places like ours."

Good guy, abandoned.

"Why is this happening?"

"I don't really understand the details, but it's probably because places like the bottom can't produce many talented transcendents."

Qi Yanxin was just an ordinary scavenger. She certainly knew the well-known things, but she was powerless to do anything about the deeper issues.

"Then why was the weather forecast inaccurate on the day Guangmingyuan announced its evacuation?"

"Is it always accurate?"

The questions asked by Xu Zhi are almost "common sense" and are not difficult to answer.

"There was a riot on the ground floor the day Guangmingyuan announced its evacuation, and the Meteorological Bureau was also implicated, which led to the inaccurate weather forecast. Normally, it would have been accurate, after all, because we need to observe the seasonal fog."

"Seasonal fog? What is that?" Xu Zhi grasped the key point. She didn't expect that even after leaving Yuncheng, she could still hear the word fog.

"I don't know what the fog is exactly. I only know that there is an irregular fog every time the season changes, and everyone has to stay at home during that time. I heard that because of the fog, there are so few extraordinary people on the bottom level."

There was a thoughtful tone in Qi Yanxin's voice, as if he was trying his best to empty the little knowledge in his head.

"Is that so? How long until the next season change?"

Xu Zhi was obviously quite curious about the "fog". She wanted to know whether this fog was similar to that in Yuncheng.

"It's only been less than two months since the season changed. The next one will probably be at least a month away, right? But you never know. Sometimes the season changes every one or two months. We have to look at the weather forecast."

Qi Yanxin couldn't say for sure about this kind of thing, so Xu Zhi could only nod to show that he understood.

"Tomorrow after I go to work, try to stay with Ranran. Although everyone here is familiar, there might be scavengers from other places coming in to steal. Don't look at Ranran's young age, but she is a reformer. She is more than enough to protect you if you encounter ordinary thieves."

The woman seemed a little worried and kept reminding him.

"I understand." Xu Zhi agreed repeatedly helplessly. She knew her body well. She would probably fall to the ground if the wind blew, let alone fight with others. She would never seek death.

After all, it was a completely unfamiliar place and among completely unfamiliar people, and no one would protect her.

"Okay, do you have any other questions? If not, I'm going to go cook." The woman looked at Xu Zhi patiently and with tolerance. Even though she asked some common sense questions that everyone should know, she did not show any impatience.

"The last one." Xu Zhi actually had a lot of questions, but she also realized from the conversation that the woman in front of her didn't know much, so she restrained her curiosity and came up with the last question that Qi Yanxin might know the answer to.

"Why are we called the lower class? Is it because of poverty?"

She had heard the word "bottom" many times.

"No." Qi Yanxin shook his head: "Because we are at the bottom."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xu Zhi's still confused eyes, and thought about the girl in front of her who had forgotten many things. So she thought for a moment and replied, "Because of the foggy period during the change of seasons, wealthy people built a sky city above. The sky we usually see is not the real sky, but the foundation of the city above."

"The reason why it rains so often is because the domestic wastewater from the upper layers is simply filtered and discharged directly as rain."

Xu Zhi frowned when she heard this. They were truly "the bottom of the society" in the true sense of the word, and their status and environment were even worse than she had imagined.

"Why not just call them the upper and lower levels? Why call them the bottom level?"

Perhaps because she found Xu Zhi's question cute, the woman smiled and said, "Because there are six floors up there, and we're on the seventh, which is also the bottom."

(End of this chapter)