Qu Weiwei opened her eyes.
What came into view was the roof of the tin house she rented. The small house, which was less than ten square meters, had an electric wire pulled in from outside and a light bulb turned on, and it was swaying on the roof.
The lights were off and the room was dark, with only a tiny ray of light coming through the cracks in the iron plate.
She...is not dead?
Ever since Qu Weiwei was hired at Farm No. 3, she has been working diligently to transfer superpowers to the plants on the farm: it is said that these are test materials for developing vaccines, and out of the desire to end the apocalypse, everyone takes good care of those plants.
But this morning, after researchers from the institute extracted some juice from a mutant willow tree, the mutant willow tree suddenly went crazy and indiscriminately attacked everyone on the farm. Qu Weiwei was not far away at the time and watched helplessly as a thick willow branch cut off half of her right arm and then pulled her whole body away.
Under the tremendous pain, Qu Weiwei fainted.
...right arm! Qu Weiwei was suddenly shocked. She couldn't imagine how she would survive in the future if she lost her arms! She quickly sat up, only to find that her right arm was still intact on her body.
Was it just an illusion before? Qu Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out her right hand in front of her eyes to look at it carefully.
No, her hands seemed to be very different from before... Compared with her left hand, the skin became white, tender and delicate, and the calluses left on her fingertips during the college entrance examination were gone!
"Are you awake?" A man's voice came from the door, and Qu Weiwei's scalp exploded in an instant. It is especially difficult for girls to survive in the apocalypse. Every time she came back, she would lock the door tightly and then block it with a table. Although the security in the base is relatively good, theft and harassment are still difficult to avoid in this apocalyptic environment. Although the patrol team will deal with it strictly and fairly after something happens, the damage suffered at the moment is real, isn't it?
She did this so that at least if someone tried to invade her house, the tin house would make a loud noise, attracting the attention of patrolmen and neighbors.
But why didn't she lock the door this time? Why is there someone else in her room? How...how did she get back to her room? !
Fortunately, the visitor quickly turned on the light, and the dim light barely illuminated the small room. It was Song Kaiji.
Qu Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief. If there was anyone she could trust in the base, it was probably Song Kaiji. The tin house they rented wasn't far from each other, and they often looked after each other: "Why are you here?"
She touched her right arm and asked, "How did I get back? I clearly remember that I was attacked by the mutant willow tree on the farm. My arm..."
"Your entire arm is broken," Song Kaiji added.
Qu Weiwei's face turned pale, and she recalled the severe pain before she fainted. It turned out that it was not a dream: "What about now...?"
"The institute sent you to the base hospital, but they were only willing to pay for your life. I borrowed a lot of supplies from others and performed a limb regeneration surgery on you. The arm you have now is a new one that grew today." Song Kaiji stepped forward and handed her a bun: "Eat it. The healing psychic said that you need to take more high-protein and high-nutrition supplements recently, and you can't use your psychic powers. Don't move your new arm too much. This is all I have."
This was the meat-filled bun that Shen Qing had given him before. Song Kaiji ate one and was reluctant to eat the remaining one so he put it in the space. Now it was a good thing for Qu Weiwei. However, he had other thoughts at the moment, and he didn't feel sorry for the bun anymore. He just stared at Qu Weiwei and observed her expression.
Fortunately, Qu Weiwei is not an ungrateful person. When she heard that the institute was only willing to pay for life-saving medical expenses, her heart sank. Knowing that in the last days human life is worthless and worthless. But only when it really happens to me do I realize how sad and desperate it is. Fortunately, Song Kaiji saved her and prevented her from becoming a disabled person with a broken arm, otherwise she really didn’t know how she would survive.
This kindness seemed particularly precious in comparison. Qu Weiwei asked, "You spent a lot of supplies, didn't you? Who did you borrow the money from, and how much did you borrow? I will definitely pay it back in the future."
Song Kaiji showed her the receipts from the hospital. "In addition to the money paid by the institute, another 400 kilograms of food were needed. I paid 150 kilograms and borrowed 250 kilograms from others." He had never mentioned Shen Qing to Qu Weiwei before. Now he only said, "He is a customer I met when I was setting up a stall."
Qu Weiwei's eyes widened. She knew that regenerating a broken limb would not be cheap, but she didn't expect it would cost so much as 400 kilograms of food. You mean it's not worth it? How is that possible? That's an arm. If it were before the end of the world, no matter how rich you were, you would not be able to grow another one no matter how much money you spent. But now it's just 400 kilograms of food.
But for her it is truly an astronomical figure! Qu Weiwei touched her new arm, not knowing whether to be thankful or worried: "This, this, when can I pay it back?" She calculated quickly in her mind.
She definitely couldn't stay on the farm in the current state. Even if she was willing to stay despite past grudges, the farm probably wouldn't let her stay. And during the past six months on the farm, she has not been completely without gain.
When she entered, she had just reached the second level of supernatural power. She received a steady supply of supernatural power every day on the farm, and occasionally received some crystal cores for supplementation. Gradually, she reached the middle stage of the third level and could release vines as a means of attack. If she went to interview at some small supernatural teams, she might be able to join them and take them on missions if she was lucky.
But how many zombies can she kill in a day? Ten? At most fifteen died? Four hundred kilograms of food! How long will it take her to save up enough money to pay it back?
Song Kaiji looked at her expression and spoke at this time: "The boss who lent me the supplies said that he wanted to form a team of superpowers. Are you willing to join? For my sake, he doesn't need you to pay back the supplies if you are willing to join. He will also provide you with good food and drink during your recovery, but you have to work for him in the future." Song Kaiji paused and added: "It shouldn't be a very dangerous mission, but the boss said that the most important thing about his affairs is to keep it confidential."
Qu Weiwei was stunned and it took her a long time to digest the news. For her, this is like pie in the sky! Not only does she not have to return the 400 kilograms of food, but she will also be taken in by a team of superpowers, and will have good food and drink while she recuperates - just this alone makes her drool. How long has it been since she last had good food?
As for the boss's secret, she knows! What rich person doesn’t have some secrets?
"I do! Of course I do. My God, where can I find such a good thing? Where is the boss? Take me there quickly. I'm going to thank him for saving my life!"
Song Kaiji breathed a sigh of relief: "You should have a good rest today, and I will take you to see the boss tomorrow." Although he didn't understand why Shen Qing suddenly wanted to form a team of superpowers and asked him to accept Qu Weiwei to join, since it was Shen Qing's instruction, Song Kaiji certainly wanted to do it well.
Shen Qing suddenly planned to form a team of superpowers, and naturally he had his own plans: what happened in the past few days, whether it was being thrown dirty water on by Wang Liuzi, being stared at as fat meat by the people who set up stalls with Song Kaiji, or being forced to borrow money by the old couple, all made Shen Qing feel deeply powerless.
He had originally decided to establish his authority in the village by hunting wild boars in his own world, but Shen Qing now feels that this is not enough! He had no money before, so there were people like Wang Liuzi who wanted to bully him. Now that he has hunted wild boars and become rich, will there be people like that old couple who, relying on their weakness and pitifulness, still bully him?
I have no relatives or friends with that old couple, I can just shake them off and run away. The base is so big, there is no guarantee that we will see each other again. But what if it’s someone from the village? If someone is related to him and just goes to his house and refuses to leave, how should he respond?
At this moment, Shen Qing suddenly understood why the villagers liked to have children continuously, liked to have a large family, and liked to have many male children in the family. It was passed down from generation to generation and under certain conditions, it did make sense.
Because whether in a village far away from the jurisdiction of the government or in the world at the end of the world where laws and systems are almost lost, "force" is the foundation of survival.
People in the end times pursue high superpowers, and want to have more people with high-level superpowers in their team, so that no one dares to mess with them, and they won’t be bullied by zombies or other people at the same time. Similarly, the same reason applies to the villagers’ desire to have more boys - if anyone dares to bully their family, seven or eight strong young men will come to their door and beat them up, just like the last time Miao Xing and Miao Wang brought people to beat Shen Zhigao. What can the village chief do? What can the Shen family do by reporting to the police?
Including during the drought season, when villages compete for water, it all depends on which village has more men and which village's men are the most fierce in fighting! If they lose the fight, they can only get less water, and the harvest of the whole village will be half less than that of others!
When Shen Qing was young, he thought about this: the aunts and grandmothers in the village, including Miao when she was young and in good health, went to the fields during the busy farming season and harvest just like the men, and when they returned home they had to cook and do housework. They obviously created as much wealth as the men, so why were they inferior to the men?
At that time, the adults would laugh and say to him, "How much work can women and boys do? Even though they all work in the fields, men can harvest several acres a day if they work hard. Can women and boys harvest two acres a day?"
Shen Qing was ignorant when he was a child. But he has always been a person who is unwilling to admit defeat. Not long after Shen Zhang died, after Shen Qing noticed the change in his family's attitude towards them, he was eager to prove to his family that although he was a boy, he was also very useful.
The men would go home after plowing two acres of land in three hours, but he could always finish the same work in four or five hours. Moreover, the boy has greater endurance and is more careful, and Shen Qing always does a better and more meticulous job than the man. Slowly, he caught up with the others and was even more capable than his uncle and his father.
He could create more wealth than any other man, but he still didn't get the attention he wanted at home. Instead, he was treated like an ox and was ordered around without any mercy.
A brother is a brother, and a boy is a boy. Old Lady Shen and Shen Zhigao pointed at his nose and scolded him for being wishful thinking countless times. On the contrary, it was only after he had beaten up all the boys in the village and gained a reputation for his bravery that Shen Zhigao did not dare to fight the Miao family anymore, and he felt a little weak when facing them.
Shen Qing gradually understood. They say that men are the backbone of the family, and that women and boys are unproductive and cannot support themselves, so they have to rely on men, thus men are superior to women. This logic is totally wrong. It is a huge lie that the world has told to women and men!
It is obviously because men control force - or violence, which is the basis of power in the lower classes of society and in the village!
No matter how much money a woman or a boy can earn through weaving and embroidery, even several times more than a man, her father, brothers or husband can beat her and take away her property if they want. This kind of intra-family plunder is extremely common in the village!
Shen Qing's own example just shows that although generally speaking women and boys cannot beat men, nothing is absolute. As long as he has mastered the power itself, does gender matter? Wang Liuzi disliked him so much, but he still pinned him to the ground and rubbed him. What else could he do except bark at him?
Shen Qing looked at the gate of the base, watching teams of powerful psychics entering. Now that he has figured out the truth that power comes from force and violence, why doesn't he take the initiative to take power into his own hands?
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