Chapter 49: Encounter with Pepper Grass
For a moment, Jin Lei was unable to control the huge greed that surged in his heart.
If...if all these were in my own hands.
But he soon calmed down.
From the time they met these two people until now, they have been refreshing their understanding of their strength.
He couldn't be sure of the two's strength, but this morning they went out for a walk and came back clean. This was the most intuitive manifestation of their strength.
Jin Lei suppressed his rapid breathing, and after a long while he looked deeply at Jiang Mi and Jiang Xun, "Okay, I understand."
After seeing Jin Lei off, Jiang Mi returned to the table and asked Jiang Xun while eating, "Brother, do you want to build your own power?"
Jiang Xun sat across from her, picked up a piece of cold greens with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. After swallowing it, he said calmly, "You told me so many things about the end of the world, but you didn't mention the future of mankind."
"For three years, the survivors have been acting on their own, struggling to survive in the apocalypse."
Jiang Mi listened silently. Indeed, in her previous life, she had survived in the apocalypse for three years, but she was never able to see the future of the human survivors because those deformed monsters were getting stronger and stronger, while the number of human survivors was getting fewer and fewer. In order to have manpower, those large bases even used female survivors as reproductive tools and as toys for those with super powers to vent.
The strong become stronger, while the weak try hard to survive but never see hope.
Even if some survivor bases can get a small piece of clean soil for planting, it is ultimately a drop in the bucket. Even these clean vegetables have become exclusive supplies for the so-called high-level officials.
The survivors at the bottom can only risk their lives to pick up supplies to fill their stomachs, and some even risk eating the corpses of those deformed monsters just to have a full meal before they die.
The tragedy of humanity at the end of the world was deeply engraved in her mind.
"I don't want to live my whole life in isolation." Jiang Xun took a sip of water, looked at the crystal clear water in the cup, stroked the wall of the cup with his fingertips, and said in a steady voice, "Mi Mi, what do you think?"
Jiang Mi could understand his brother's thoughts. If they just kept themselves out of trouble, their family could actually live a good life. But was it really necessary?
The human world before the end of the world emerged in my mind.
Neighbors who greet each other and ask if you have eaten, young lovers who are innocent and beautiful, night markets full of fireworks at night, grandpas and aunts strolling in the park, etc.
Maybe the world was not perfect before, but it is undeniable that they can never go back to it now.
"Let's do it together! Let's work hard for a new future!" Jiang Mi's eyes gradually became firm.
After her rebirth, she once thought that all she had to do in this life was take good care of her family, but who says that changing the world isn't about making her family live a better life?
"I don't know exactly how much soil there is in my space. I once walked in it for a very long time and couldn't see the end, but it can definitely support a survivor base of a thousand people." Jiang Mi wiped his mouth.
"Once the base is completed, as long as there is a sealed environment, the purifiers in my space will come in handy. Once the base can achieve self-circulation, the rest will be easy."
Jiang Xun nodded, and a relieved smile appeared in his usually calm eyes.
After lunch, the two rested for a while and then continued to go out to sweep in the afternoon.
It was still the same department store. The higher one went, the fewer mutants there were. Therefore, the speed in the afternoon was much faster than in the morning. It was not until dark that the two of them came out of the building. The department store had been swept clean. Except for the corpses of the mutants and things that could not be moved, everything that could be taken was put into Jiang Mi's space.
At this moment, the space was filled with supplies as far as the eye could see.
In the next few days, the two of them went out early and came back late. Every day, Jiang Xun tried again and again to break his limits, but after a week, he still felt that he was just a little short of it.
The two of them did not go out again that day. Instead, Jin Lei and others who went out in the morning did not come back until Wen Yu staggered and knocked on their door in the afternoon.
"Ms. Jiang! Please save us!" Wenyu shouted in panic.
Jiang Mi was stunned to find that she had many scars on her body. Even the headscarf that had been wrapped around her head had disappeared, revealing the horrible scar that occupied most of her face. But at this moment she obviously had no time to cover it up.
"What happened?"
Wenyu coughed up a mouthful of blood, covered her weak right arm, and said hurriedly: "We were collecting supplies in Dongyu Street, but we didn't expect that the most powerful mutant in P City would cross two districts to reach us. We were caught off guard and were beaten."
"Besides, that monster is much stronger than it was a week ago. Even if we have two evolvers in our team, it's useless. Brother Lei and the others desperately found an opportunity for me to ask for your help!"
Jiang Mi and Jiang Xun looked at each other and both realized the urgency of the situation.
Jin Lei is now considered their subordinate, and he is a pretty good person. Now that someone is in trouble, he must be rescued.
Without asking any more questions, he took out two painkillers from the space and handed them to Wenyu, asking her to take them and then lead the way.
Wenyu ignored the pain and rushed them to Dongyu Street.
Even though the three of them were moving very fast, the thick snow still greatly hampered their progress. Wen Yu was extremely anxious but there was nothing she could do. Jiang Mi was also a little worried, fearing that they would arrive there to collect the bodies of Jin Lei and his group.
Fortunately, Jin Lei and his companions didn't walk far, and after more than half an hour of rushing, they finally arrived.
At a glance, you can see a huge plant waving its slender leaves in the middle of a collapsed house not far away. Wherever the leaves go, rocks fly. The already shaky house suddenly collapsed, raising a cloud of dust.
Jiang Mi's heart skipped a beat, and when he saw the plant, he immediately knew that this was the deformed peperomia in P City that they had talked about in their previous life!
The entire plant is only as big as a bicycle, but its leaves stretch out to a distance of four or five meters. The edges of the leaves are serrated, and the surface is covered with a layer of fine and dense dark red lines. A dozen slender leaves are waving wildly, which looks really scary.
This deformed one doesn't even look like its original appearance.
Moreover, peperomia is an aquatic plant. There is no problem for it to live directly on land!
Seeing that a leaf was about to hit the defenseless Jin Lei, Jiang Xun suddenly leaped over, and two blue-purple electric lights shot out from his hands and hit the leaves of the peperomia that were sweeping across. In an instant, arcs of electricity shot out from the leaves, crackling and directly burnt the entire leaf.
The peperomia felt pain and retracted the leaf, as if it knew who hit it. It even ignored Jin Lei who had lost the ability to resist, and the rest of the leaves attacked Jiang Xun one after another.
(End of this chapter)
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