"Rebirth After the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Sixteen)...

Since it was her own territory, Ye Xiqing pulled up a chair for herself and sat down.

Ye Xiqing was genuinely curious about Luan Anchun.

In a world view that is so unfavorable to women, she became the only female high-ranking member of the base, ensuring that the ratio of women to men in the base's high-ranking positions was not zero.

But she doesn't have the typical "strong woman" traits, and people's habits towards her are as natural as fish living in water.

No one vehemently supported her, nor did anyone oppose her; her existence seemed perfectly natural.

Considering that this is a fictional world, every character has a role to play, and Ye Xiqing had some guesses about her role.

He lowered his eyes and asked with great interest, "What is Dean Luan's special ability?"

Luan Anchun smiled and closed his eyes.

She hadn't opened her eyes, yet she seemed to know everything about her surroundings, even extending her awareness to far beyond.

"The security guard downstairs is too sleepy and keeps yawning. It seems we can't talk for too long."

"The last streetlight on the side of the road has gone out; I'll have to make my way back in the dark."

"The ice field outside is very quiet, there's nothing there."

"Winter is great. If it were summer, there might be some zombies wandering around."

Upon hearing Luan Anchun's account, Ye Xiqing raised her eyelashes slightly: "Then, Dean Luan, could you please take a look and see if the water on the lake has frozen over?"

Luan Anchun answered without hesitation: "They're all ripe, but there's a big hole in the center of the lake for some reason. Is it because spring is coming and the ice is about to thaw?"

Ye Xiqing slowly sat up straight.

People in this world seem to enjoy getting close to others and using their full power; she's gotten somewhat used to it.

Smiling, she looked at Luan Anchun and said, "It's hard to say. It might be a special natural phenomenon. There are always things in nature that we can't explain."

"I wonder why Dean Luan called me here so late at night. Is it just to show me your special abilities?"

Looking at Ye Xiqing's expression, Luan Anchun had a feeling that if this topic continued, he would be in danger.

She's an old woman; she can't possibly beat a violent thug.

She pulled out a test tube; the bright color inside represented her purpose.

Before the apocalypse, blood had very special preservation methods; after the apocalypse, it relies solely on low-temperature storage.

The habitually low temperatures in the post-apocalyptic world have rendered refrigerators useless energy-consuming devices. Even the canteen doesn't use refrigerators; people can simply dig an ice hole outside to hide. Only Ye Xiqing is wasting time by keeping her refrigerator running.

He handed the test tube to Ye Xiqing and smiled gently, "It's nothing special, I just suddenly realized that the deal you proposed to me before was indeed quite reasonable, and I have no reason not to agree."

“But asking for a whole bag of blood would be too much of a burden for the elderly. You probably don’t need that much anyway. Consider this tube of blood as a token of our sincerity.”

Looking at the vial of blood, Ye Xiqing finally smiled again.

I reached out and took the test tube; the freshly drawn blood was still warm.

Ye Xiqing glanced at it and realized it was indeed sincere enough.

Since others had offered her such strong support, Ye Xiqing naturally couldn't remain silent and looked up at Luan Anchun.

"What does Dean Luan want? I'm touched by how kind you've been to me. If you say you want to compete for the position of base leader, I will support you."

"Hahaha!" Luan Anchun laughed heartily. Although she always said she was an old lady, her laughter was always full of energy.

"What's the point of fighting for the leadership position in such a small, run-down base? It just means eating a little more meat than others, but I don't even eat meat."

"With the world in this state, who has the heart to think about power struggles and gains? I only hope that humanity can see tomorrow smoothly."

"It's so hard being human in this world. It's hard to live a good life. Not only do the dead harm people, but the living do too."

"You ask me what I want? Of course, I want to live a good life."

"I'm an old woman, so old, what else can I think about but to survive?"

"If I can retire peacefully, then I will retire peacefully. If not, then I hope that all the people who make me uneasy will die before me."

Luan Anchun spoke casually; if this were a novel, she would definitely be the villain revealed at the end, seemingly nonchalant and unassuming.

But since it is indeed a novel, Ye Xiqing felt that it should be true.

Sometimes, cooperating with the villain is more reassuring than cooperating with the protagonist. The protagonist can sometimes rely on love and justice, while the villain has to rely entirely on hard power.

Accepting the olive branch from the suspected villain, Ye Xiqing smiled and said, "I will definitely not let Dean Luan down."

...

Superpowers are a romantic thing for young people. When ranking the strength of superpowers, an old lady wouldn't be included. Luan Anchun's "exploration" superpower is more of a support role.

No one bothered to find out when she awakened her superpower, nor how strong she was; all they knew was that she was a superpowered individual.

As she stepped out of the building, the gatekeeper immediately greeted her warmly, "Dean Luan is leaving?"

Luan Anchun turned around and smiled, "I didn't come. Are you sure you didn't see wrong?"

Gatekeeper: ...

Luan Anchun's words were calm, yet carried an undeniable air of authority.

"Dr. Luo came back very early tonight, and no one else came in. You were all alone here, which must have been quite boring. I thought it wouldn't hurt to sneak a nap, so I did."

"But it was very short, I woke up in just five minutes. No one will come in or out in such a short time. Now, go to sleep."

The gatekeeper stared wide-eyed at Luan Anchun, as if trying to grab something, but couldn't resist the drowsiness and gradually slumped onto the table.

When he woke up with a start, he looked up at the clock and realized that he had only slept for five minutes.

However, it's understandable to feel tired on the night shift, and five minutes is not a big deal.

I don't know how I could have had a dream when I only had five minutes.

That dream seemed very special, but when he tried to recall it, he couldn't remember anything about it...

...

Ye Xiqing has obtained a new injection.

Before, when I wasn't used to it, I would waste a lot of blood, but now that I'm used to it, one tube of blood is enough.

Looking at the injection, Ye Xiqing's eyes lit up. "A psychic ability!"

When Ye Xiqing was collecting information on superpowers, she wondered why there were no mental superpowers among so many types.

Could it be that the male protagonist has a hidden superpower, or is this a low-magic world without psychic abilities, and it turns out that the superpower was equipped on the villain?

Giving the villain such powerful abilities piqued Ye Xiqing's curiosity: "What's the plot about Luan Anchun?"

The system suppressed all emotions and spoke expressionlessly: "The side world plots will not be revealed."

"Oh."

I really don't know what difference it makes whether the male lead is revealed or not since he's already dead.

Even without a plot, it doesn't stop her from acquiring new superpowers.

This time, Ye Xiqing slowly injected the injection into the blood vessel, choosing the carotid artery instead of the subclavian vein.

One should be more flexible in thinking. It is obvious that mental abilities modify the brain, not the body. One should choose a place close to the brain.

The moment the needle went in, the skin on her neck quickly ulcerated. She wasn't joking when she told the system to weaken her immune system to adapt to the medication.

The medication began to take effect, and Ye Xiqing held her head, experiencing such a strong impact for the first time.

My head felt like a pressure cooker with its vent blocked, about to explode at any moment.

Ye Xiqing clutched her head, using all her strength to suppress this overwhelming feeling of pent-up emotions. At that moment, the world in her mind and the real world suddenly connected.

The world was extremely quiet; every speck of dust was clearly visible.

The biting wind blew the flag, and you could almost hear the wind.

On the vast snowfield, a snowdrift quietly collapsed.

Ye Xiqing abruptly looked away and realized that she was indeed still in the laboratory, but something was completely different.

The moment I lifted my foot, the world spun around me.

She's like a gamer with the camera sensitivity set to the highest level; every very, very tiny swipe will send the camera off-screen.

The camera is too sensitive; it can see clearly from thousands of miles away, but it can't see clearly in the present moment.

Ye Xiqing then focused her thoughts into her consciousness, and her body became exceptionally clear.

Countless "water streams" flowed and converged within his body, eventually condensing into a gray crystal resembling a diamond. Ye Xiqing suddenly realized: the crystal core.

She re-condensed a crystal core.

As the water gathered, her vision changed once again when she opened her eyes again.

Previously, she was like a novice player who had just learned how to adjust sensitivity and whose operation couldn't match the system. This time, however, she found the sensitivity value that suited her best, and her vision was clearer than ever before, without causing any negative impact on her.

The re-aggregation of the crystal core also updated her supernatural ability information.

It turns out that having a crystal core doesn't give you superpowers; rather, when a superpower becomes so powerful that it becomes uncontrollable, it will condense into a crystal core.

So, did she not lose her wood-type ability at all?

Ye Xiqing slowly got up from the ground and re-examined herself.

The ulcers on my neck spread deeper and deeper. Removing the bandage from my left shoulder revealed an even larger area of ​​ulceration. This is the price of letting my body drop its defenses.

After completely eliminating her immune system, her body can accept the replication and transcription of any foreign genes. In contrast, she has no resistance to the invasion of any foreign bacteria or viruses.

Viruses that attack the immune system are like that; they don't kill people directly, but they can kill people from any disease.

If an ordinary person contracted this disease in the apocalypse, they would absolutely not survive, as radiation and viruses in the apocalypse are as common as eating and drinking.

But Ye Xiqing is different; she has a bug-level healing item, the Space Spirit Spring.

Ye Xiqing had been greedy during her previous fight with Lin Yao, and had held back her efforts. Now it was the perfect time to use them.

The spatial spring has limitations at times, such as the inability to regenerate severed limbs.

But more often than not, it's as powerful as a conceptual tool; as long as it's not interrupted, it can continue anything and eliminate any negative effects.

After drinking the spiritual spring, the ulcerated skin quickly scabbed over and fell off, and the hidden injuries from the previous battle with Lin Yao also began to heal at lightning speed. Soon, Ye Xiqing returned to the appearance of a healthy person.

Without immune protection, her life became extremely fragile, requiring monthly renewals, otherwise she didn't know when she would die from various diseases.

But what's amazing is that humans can have so many months, one after another, effectively blocking this bug.

Rejuvenated, Ye Xiqing began to study her new superpower with great interest.

Any superpower must be able to affect both the macrocosm and the microcosm. Spiritual projection can be used for distant observation, while spiritual concentration should also be able to be used for deep measurement.

Since arriving in the apocalypse, Ye Xiqing has been troubled because without high-precision instruments to observe gene changes more closely, she can only conduct experiments in the dark, relying entirely on theoretical practice, which is very inconvenient, like a blind person. Now, a magical artifact has suddenly appeared.

Ye Xiqing continuously focused her mental energy, attempting to narrow her vision down to the microscopic level.

Try it, try it, and suddenly it dawned on me that something was wrong.

Her psychic abilities come from Luan Anchun, meaning that Luan Anchun possesses the exact same skills as her.

Luan Anchun isn't Mao Hong. With her intelligence, she couldn't possibly not understand how to use her own special abilities.

Given her exceptional observational abilities, what exactly was the difficulty in giving her the task in the first place?

Luan Anchun turned his gaze away from his residence.

Ye Xiqing's mental power erupted, something that ordinary ability users wouldn't be able to sense, but she could clearly feel it.

She calmly made herself a cup of tea: That's why she said sorry right from the start.