Chapter 221 Star House is open for business
Along with Youxi, "Bean Sprout" was also woken up.
She was too busy these two days and spent little time in the Star House during the day. Apart from transferring some plant powers to "Bean Sprout", she basically didn't pay much attention to it.
It was more obedient than she thought. It probably knew that it would be difficult for her to find Youxi and let her stay, so when she was not in the Star House, it basically planted itself in the soil.
Its pet area was at the edge of the terrace, so even if it stayed in the potted plant without moving, it could see the outside world.
Fan Qi told her that sometimes it would press itself tightly against the glass, as if it was really looking outside, and sometimes it would stand in the soil and twist its stems and leaves. Only very occasionally would it pull itself out of the soil and follow the steps she had taught it: first it would jump into the bucket to soak in water and wash itself clean, then it would jump onto a thick towel to soak up the water stains, and then it would run a few laps happily on the terrace.
Because when You Feng was on the terrace, he would mostly lie on a recliner, read books, listen to music, and drink tea, so when "Bean Sprout" was outside, it would deliberately run around the recliner a few times, and wait until You Feng noticed it and waved for it to jump on it, then it twisted its roots and ran towards Fan Qi, leaving You Feng standing there with his hand outstretched...
From Fan Qi's narration, it can be heard that both her parents seem to like this mutant little rose seedling very much. It feels like she has gained a new fighting partner, but her parents have gained a cute pet.
You Xi is not sure whether plants sleep at night, but "Bean Sprout" seems to do so, because as long as it is awake, it will twist from time to time even in the soil, and is quite active.
But at night, it will be quiet, standing on the ground like an ordinary plant before the plant or animal mutation, in a completely static state.
Youxi had seen it several times and understood that it was resting at this stage.
At this moment, when Shen Qiu repeated the "spell" of the "Star House" ten times in a row, the "bean sprout" that had been motionless suddenly fluttered and stuck itself to the glass.
Youxi stood up, walked to the side of the pet area, bent down, and nodded at its small flower bud: "It's okay, you continue to rest, I'll go out for a while."
The finger that wanted to leave was entangled by a thin root. Youxi nodded to the other party again: "Don't worry, I'm very strong."
**
Beside the shabby wall outside the Star House, Shen Qiu wrapped himself tightly in a thin down jacket, waiting anxiously.
She knew that the other party had been very busy rescuing people in the past two days, and it was a little late now. But during the day, in order to make distress signals, people kept coming in and out of the top floor, but she naturally couldn't rashly make a wish without confirming the other party's willingness.
What if the other party didn't want others to know about the Star House?
After all, compared to controlling vines to form a rope ladder, having a motorhome that can take out delicious hot food and disappear at any time is more crazy.
She helped her and helped many people. She didn't talk about giving back, but at least, she couldn't bring unnecessary trouble to the other party.
You Xi put on a mask, wrapped herself in a long sweater and cardigan, pushed the door and walked out of the Star House.
In Shen Qiu's eyes, the originally quiet and deserted abandoned rooftop suddenly heard the creaking sound of a rusty door panel being opened. Although she was prepared, she still shook subconsciously in such a dark night.
Until a familiar figure walked out of the darkness behind the door.
The other person wore a mask for the daytime, but his clothes were very homely. It was obvious that he had just come out of a safe and warm place, which made Shen Qiu feel very magical.
She didn't think it was weird. Once she accepted the setting of the other person's extraordinary origin, anything that happened to her was reasonable.
What's more, in the Internet age, everyone has read and heard a lot of various apocalyptic novels and interstellar novels. The other person probably came out of the legendary shelter space.
In such an apocalypse, it is extremely lucky to have such a person with extraordinary abilities. She will not be envious or jealous. She will only be glad that she appeared in such a life-and-death crisis.
"Fairy Godmother Sister!" Shen Qiu took a few steps forward and called sincerely and seriously.
You Xi stumbled: ...
This is the result of her slip of the tongue.
She stroked the goose bumps on her arms and corrected: "When you see me in the future, just call me sister, just like in the daytime. Are you here to redeem your wish?"
Shen Qiu nodded.
She came to redeem her wish, but the wish she wanted to fulfill was a little big, and she didn't know whether the other party would agree.
"A batch of food, water and appropriate amount of external injury medicine?" Although the supplies Shen Qiu requested were in large quantities, the types were very monotonous, almost just enough to maintain the most ordinary survival, and it can be seen that she was not asking for it for herself, "Are you asking for it for others?"
"Yeah." Shen Qiu was a little uneasy. She knew that the supplies she requested were a bit too much, and she didn't know whether the other party would be willing. "If one wish is not enough, can I exchange it with three wishes?" Shen Qiu
knew her weaknesses and was used to being soft-hearted. This time, the plants grew wildly and mutated, and many people were ambushed, and some were injured while escaping. If they were entangled by the roots, they would not be in danger as long as they were cut off immediately, but the small blood holes left behind were difficult to heal.
Moreover, everyone had survived many disasters, including plant and animal mutations, temperature drops, heavy rains, and secondary plant outbreaks. Many people lost their parents, children, and lovers. Although they were transferred to the building this time, hunger and pain still followed them.
When rescuing and transferring, everyone was indeed very united, hoping that there would be as many survivors as possible. However, after settling down, everyone would have their own selfish desires, especially in a closed island space, where more than one person could easily cause conflicts.
In the final analysis, it was because there was too little food and even less medicine.
Two children were attacked by plants while sleeping at night. Their parents died and one was injured in order to protect them. The children themselves were too frightened by the tragic death of their family members and started to have a fever after being moved to the building.
The mother was clearly injured, but she let the wounds become dirty and rotten, and she also saved water to cool down and drink for the children...
When Shen Qiu helped to settle these people, she realized that she was not the worst in the end of the world. She admitted that she was not tolerant, soft-hearted, and a saint... She said that she could do anything, but if there was no one to ask for help, she could do nothing.
But now, she wants to try.
"If it's in exchange for three wishes, I think it's okay."
You Xi looked at the light in the other person's eyes and continued slowly, "But you have to think about it. These three wishes were originally given to you by me. You know, you can wish for all kinds of things from me, such as delicious hot meals like that day, weapons that can save your life at critical moments, and you can even have a stronger physical fitness than you have now.
Also, once the wishes are redeemed, I will provide food, water, and medicine to the survivors, but I won’t do it your way. That is to say, even if those people get supplies, they won’t know that you sacrificed your own wish, understand?”
“It doesn’t matter, any way is fine. I didn’t come up with this on impulse, I thought about it for a long time. I understand that those three wishes may - no, they will definitely make me and my current small team live well.
But because of your help before, we don’t lack anything now, we have food and drink, and we can hold on for at least half a month, but other people, they need these wishes more than I do... Sister, thank you for being willing to redeem the wishes, I have made up my mind, and I won’t regret it! "
The RV with beautiful lights, the bowl of hot curry chicken rice, and the starry sky lollipops handed out by the other party, each one was like warm light falling from the sky, and she saw the hope of life from those lights.
And now, she also hopes that these warm lights will fall on other survivors, so that they can see the hope of life.
You Xi looked at the girl in front of her quietly. She was very ordinary. In this doomsday, if it weren't for her teammates, she would probably have been swallowed by mutated animals and plants.
She is still very young and has a soft side to her character. Some people think she is cowardly, easy to bully, and has excessive sympathy...
However, for those who really need help, such sympathy and softness are the hope that can keep them alive.
"Go back, tomorrow morning, your wish will come true. "After Youxi finished speaking, she took out a bottle of children's antipyretic and anti-inflammatory medicine from her pocket (Xingwu Warehouse), "The child's fever cannot be delayed, you send this first, no need to mention me, the anti-inflammatory medicine is for the child's mother."
"Thank you, sister!" Shen Qiu held the medicine tightly and watched Youxi's figure disappear behind the door.
**
The next day, at dawn, someone woke up from an uneasy dream and heard faint music.
It was a very monotonous music, always repeating the same melody, like the music of a sprinkler truck or a garbage truck driving on the road in peacetime in the past.
Some people had a sensitive nose, and the door of the place where they slept was broken, so they immediately smelled the aroma floating in the air.
That was - the smell of meat!
Ten minutes later, someone followed the sound of the music and found the location of the aroma - twenty This floor is also an office building.
The hall outside the abandoned elevator is very large, which makes the RV that appears here by chance not look so cramped.
The sliding window of the compartment on the left side of the RV is open. A large electric steamer is placed on the small table inside the car, which is now emitting steam and the aroma of food. A simple paper board is pasted next to the car window, with five large characters written on it: Limited Time Star House.
There are three lines of small characters below the title, and the middle line is specially marked with a red pen, which is particularly eye-catching.
① Barter, exchange things you don’t need for things you do need, and the exchange value is determined by the store owner.
② We promote civilized transactions and prohibit snatching. Anyone who snatches items obtained by customers after normal transactions will be put on the blacklist of this store!
③ Each person is limited to one exchange per day, and the business hours are irregular.
In the Youxi Star House warehouse, there are plenty of convenient foods such as instant noodles and compressed biscuits, not to mention water. In the Star House simulated apartment, one star coin can be exchanged for ten tons of clean water. In addition,
now there is a terrace planting area, which is not only fully automatic, but also has the effect of accelerating growth. Fan Qi has already harvested some vegetables with short growth cycles. After taking some of each variety and putting them in the refrigerator, she put the rest in the Star House warehouse.
Even if it is now let The vegetables and food she provided for these two hundred people were definitely enough. But as she said before, giving without reason would only make the other party take it for granted, so she would rather go through the motions.
Anyway, there were only two hundred survivors in this building, so it was enough to open for business for a few hours when she wanted.
Compared to the temptations, suspicions and nitpicking she encountered during the previous business operation in the South China Sea Island, the survivors this time were not only more receptive, but also very spontaneously started to line up.
Because everyone Everyone saw clearly that the shopkeeper standing in the RV was wearing a cloak and a mask. She was the mysterious woman in black who had helped them move by giving birth to plant vines.
After seeing the other party's special abilities, who would be stupid enough to deliberately go against the other party?
Although some people were confused and thought that she was just a body mutation after the end of the world and had wood-related abilities, it did not mean that she could take out all the materials that all of them wanted to exchange.
But the aroma of the food in the steamer was real, and as for the other things needed, Items, just give it a try and you will know, anyway, they won't lose anything.
Some people even gave popular science to other survivors who came after hearing the news, saying that they could exchange unnecessary items for needed ones. Everyone was short of food, water and medicine, but when it came to other things, there were always all kinds of items in this building with more than 20 floors.
File bags, clothes hangers, staplers, pens, office chairs, hair dryers... Those items they didn't need were everywhere, and there were no other shortcomings except that they were a little dirty.
As the first few people in the queue left the RV holding hot meat buns cushioned by napkins, the people in the queue behind became excited. Such precious hot food, which can fill your stomach and give you meat, is so easy to exchange? !
Of course, there are also smart people who don't blindly care about happiness, but discuss with their families and friends, saying that they should cherish this opportunity and not exchange for the same thing.
Some of them are injured and need anti-inflammatory drugs. Now it doesn't rain every day, and everyone lacks clean water, so water is also needed. They can exchange different things and then put them together. There are
also people who are careful and find a notebook that has never been written on. Before exchanging, they use their clothes to carefully wipe off the dust on it, and then find a signature pen to draw a simple sketch on the lower right corner of each page, and then hold the notebook and whisper that they also want to exchange for food.
Youxi had noticed that the other person was drawing on a notebook while waiting in line. She took it and flipped through it. On the lower right corner of the notebook, there was a girl's expression from sadness to happiness, and at the end, she wrote the word "thank you ".
Youxi looked at the girl in front of her, who was about 14 or 15 years old, and gently put the notebook on the other side, and then asked her if she wanted to eat rice. The
other person was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Eat."
Youxi took out a square kraft paper lunch box from under the small table (Xingwu Warehouse). The lid of the kraft paper lunch box was transparent, and you could clearly see the rice, braised pork, shrimp scrambled eggs and broccoli in the square.
She put it in a black plastic bag, put in disposable tableware, and a cucumber that she had just harvested, and then handed it to the other person.
"Eat it with confidence. If someone tries to snatch it away, just come to me. I'll take care of the after-sales." As she said this, she glanced at the other survivors who were envious. Even if some people were about to act out of envy, they quickly suppressed the thought.
Everyone was trapped in this building. Even if they managed to grab food, where could they escape to? Moreover, a little girl could exchange for better food with her own ability. Could it be that the adults were worse than a child?
After that, some survivors stopped exchanging and observed carefully, and then started to roll inwards with their own skills. However, this mysterious boss and the owner of the Star House had no rules for exchanging.
A child in thin clothes followed his elderly grandmother and handed over a paper star in exchange for a box of milk, a chicken and lettuce burger, a fruit cucumber and a lollipop.
Someone immediately imitated, took off their child's thick clothes, helped him fold a string of star bracelets with colored paper, and taught him to say cute words, but the result was the same as everyone else, and he only got a meat bun in exchange...
Others didn't understand and couldn't help but whispered.
You Xi listened calmly and curled her lips quietly.
With her current hearing, within the range of all the survivors in this building, as long as she wanted to hear, nothing could escape her ears.
As for the people who had gone out with her before, Zhuo Yun and the others had no shortage of food, they just wanted water, but in addition to water, they also got milk coffee and other drinks, and Shen Qiu was even stuffed with a cup of brown sugar pearl milk tea.
The few people in Yan Ya's team, whether they had left the team or not, got things that were standard, neither good nor too bad.
There was only Yan Ya, and there was no meat buns, only dry instant noodles (plain noodles without seasoning)...
He was furious and wanted to question, but he didn't have the courage in the face of the opponent's absolute strength. He didn't leave the 20th floor, but squatted in a corner, eating noodles while waiting for Mu Kelian to appear.
He had been hungry for a few days, his hands and feet were weak, and he didn't even have the strength to look for someone, so he decided to wait and see.
But on this day, until the exchange was completed and the RV disappeared out of thin air, he didn't see Mu Kelian.
**
On this day, because of the appearance of the Star House, the survivors in the building were as happy as if it were New Year's Day. This situation lasted until the afternoon, when a building closer to this building was shredded by the plants that had grown wildly to the top floor...
The ten-story building first made a teeth-grinding creaking sound, and with the fall of the first piece of cement, soon the entire staircase collapsed like a fragile cookie, entangled in green plants, stirring up a cloud of gravel.
In the next two hours, several other taller buildings near them collapsed one by one. As for the houses below five stories, they had already been submerged by the branches and leaves of plants, and only the tops of the buildings could be vaguely seen.
Many survivors climbed to higher floors and looked out of the windows carefully. Everywhere they looked, there was a green ocean. This ocean was alive. From time to time, thick vines could be seen tumbling in the middle, occasionally hitting the remaining buildings and smashing them.
Except for the building they were in, the whole world seemed to be completely non-existent.
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