Chapter 222 The Last Wave
You Xi was also worried about the problems that the survivors were worried about.
However, she was worried about different things from them. They were worried about whether someone would come to rescue them, while she was worried about whether she would have enough time to get the people out of the building before the Star House was reset.
It was already April 20th, and half of the time that the Star House had stayed here had already passed.
Zhuo Yun and several people in Lu Yichen's team kept debugging the radio every day, hoping to receive a little bit of signal. But there was nothing but rustling sounds inside.
Except for the first few days when fighter planes flew through the sky, there was no trace of the planes after that.
During this time, Zhuo Yun, Lu Yichen and Shen Qiu discussed the idea of scrapping a small drone and drove it all the way in a certain direction. The drone lasted for six kilometers and finally ran out of power and fell.
Before it fell, the pictures sent back were all endless green.
Pine, spruce, poplar, locust, linden, boxwood, yew, elm leaf plum, yellow locust, pearl flower, balance flower, small peach, snow willow... From evergreen trees to deciduous trees, from evergreen shrubs to deciduous shrubs, there are all kinds of plants, most of which are plants from the northern region.
They grow wildly, with straight and thick trunks and huge crowns. Their size and height are four or five times that of normal plants. At first glance, it looks like returning to the primitive era of this planet millions of years ago.
Youxi looked at these pictures and was glad that this was the extreme north of the country. Although it had rained for several days in a row, the temperature was always below ten degrees.
If it were the southwest, the crazy growth of plants, coupled with the hot and humid weather there, the spread of various fungi, and the rampant snakes, insects, rats and ants in the later stage would only make the situation worse.
Before the drone ran out of power and the screen went black automatically, Youxi saw several black smoke lines at the end of the horizon on the screen.
Before she could say anything, the picture disappeared.
She hurriedly asked the others, "Did you see it?"
"What?" Zhuo Yun and the others asked curiously, obviously they didn't see it.
That's right, the image appeared in less than ten milliseconds, and normal human eyes can't capture it at all. It just happened that she was here today, so she saw it.
You Xi then changed the question and asked the other party the direction from which the drone flew out.
"Due south."
Due south, there is smoke, which means there are people. Judging from the distance and size ratio of the smoke, the scale is not small, and it doesn't look like smoke caused by spontaneous forest fires. Therefore, it is very likely that it is a team of troops or private organizations who are clearing plants.
The plants are growing wildly again, and the degree is completely different from before. It is obvious that the authorities cannot adopt the same conservative strategy as last time. After all, the living space is compressed and the living space is completely encroached upon, and life is threatened at all times. These are two completely different things.
At this point, it is necessary for humans to take large-scale cleanup measures in order to compete for their own living space.
Moreover, compared with the previous situation where animals and plants mutated collectively and humans were unable to prevent it, the characteristics of many mutated animals have been recorded. In addition, the crazy growth of plants uses various creatures as nutrients, which is equivalent to the elimination of a large number of mutated animals for humans.
It is a wise decision for the authorities to take measures at this time.
She has to find a way to check the surroundings where the black smoke is rising, maybe she can find a large official refuge area.
**
In the past two days, Youxi can sense that the crazy growth speed of plants, which has been temporarily slowed down since the first day, has accelerated again, but this time is different from the first day. It feels like it is making the last wave of growth impact.
The growth of organisms will not always maintain the same high frequency, just like humans will not always be the masters of the planet. When a certain baseline is exceeded, everything changes and new rules will be generated.
At this stage, the plants in the outside world are still highly aggressive, even to her, they are extremely defensive and resistant.
There are many branches and vines from other places winding around the building. If it weren't for the plants at the bottom of the building, those vines would have climbed up along the outer wall of the building.
She now has to use three to four times more plant power every day than before, and she has to be alert to the outside world at all times even when she is resting.
After all, in the sea of green, this only remaining building is too eye-catching. Plants can sense that there are nutrients they need in the building, and they are eager to obtain these nutrients.
In addition to continuously controlling the plants at the bottom of the building to resist, she also has to use some of her special abilities to appease the plants outside that are ready to move.
Just like animals always have some crazy behaviors during estrus, even domestic pets will deliberately make trouble at some stage, not to mention the "green ocean" outside that can destroy all living things...
In this state of constant vigilance and busyness, the unclear behavior of some people is like a slap in the face by her.
Outside the RV window, a girl wearing a mask and a hat looked at the steamed bun in her hand and complained dissatisfiedly: "What? Isn't today's unified meal pork steamed dumplings and lettuce leaves? How come it became steamed buns in my place? I just gave you a hair dryer and a candy..."
You Xi raised her eyelids and looked at her: "Want to be on the blacklist?"
Mu Kelian was stuck with a lot of prepared remarks at this sentence. She knew that this weird RV owner's exchange depends on his mood, but usually, as long as the visitor takes out clean items, at least he can exchange them for food in the electric steamer on the window sill.
She knew Yan Ya was looking for her. That day, she left Yan Ya's group room with her backpack. She originally wanted to find a place to light the stove, but she had a stomachache not long after she left. She was going to go back to the room to get the public tissues and then go to the room on this floor that served as the toilet. But she heard the quarrel between Yan Ya and the others.
The content of the quarrel was still the same. They wanted Yan Ya to share the things in her backpack. It seemed that they had reached the limit of their patience with her eating alone. There
was still more than half of the things left in Mu Kelian's bag, which contained canned meat, biscuits, chocolate and water. It was impossible for her to share them with others.
She had mentioned it to Yan Ya several times in private that she was willing and only willing to share the food in her backpack with him, but he was unwilling to do so in order to protect the team, so what else could she do?
Mu Kelian knew that if the others ran out of food and she ate every meal, it would definitely lead to a fight in the end. So she thought about it, and from that night on, she went to other floors and mixed in with the new survivors. She planned to find a secret place to hide her backpack in the next two days and then go back empty-handed.
She even thought of an excuse. When the time comes, she will say that she was spotted when she went out, and the food in her backpack was stolen, and she was also knocked unconscious. She was afraid that Yan Ya would blame her afterwards, so she hid in other places for two days, without food or water, how miserable it was...
With her miserable and pitiful look and tears, even if Yan Ya was angry, he couldn't do anything about it as the food was gone.
The sudden appearance of a motorhome in the past two days that could be used to exchange for food, water, medicine and other supplies made her feel relieved in a way. At least Yan Ya and the others had food and would no longer be entangled with her things .
She secretly observed and found that in addition to the steamed pork dumplings, everyone was also given two tender and crispy lettuce leaves today.
Although there was a lot of food in her bag, fresh vegetables were really rare. It was a bit embarrassing to say, but since fleeing, constipation when going to the toilet was really a big problem for them girls.
Finally, she put on a mask and a hat, wrapped her face tightly, and joined the queue.
But she didn't expect that the other people in the queue got steamed dumplings and lettuce smoothly, but she only got a dry and cold steamed bun.
Mu Kelian looked at Youxi's indifferent eyes behind the mask, and remembered his preference for Shen Qiu in the past two days and the bowl of curry chicken rice before. She was not stupid. When she saw the RV and the people in the RV, she understood at first glance that the woman in black and the person who gave Shen Qiu chicken rice were the same person.
She really didn't understand. It was obviously she and Shen Qiu who discovered the RV together. Just because she was afraid to leave and Shen Qiu's legs were weak and couldn't run, she became the lucky one who made the other party look at her differently?
Or, because Shen Qiu was better at showing weakness than her?
Since Shen Qiu got the curry rice from the other party that day, she must have talked to the other party, so she must have recognized the other party from the beginning and knew that the other party had great magical powers. After that, she always pretended to be a good person in front of the other party.
When they were in the shopping mall, they obviously had a disagreement, but she pretended to be a saint and left a backpack for her before leaving...
No wonder, such a big bag of supplies was given to her without hesitation. It turned out that she wanted to win the favor of the other party and deliberately pretend to be kind and generous in order to get benefits!
Mu Kelian looked at the dry and cold steamed bun in her hand, and all kinds of evil thoughts were growing and spreading, but she couldn't just throw the steamed bun back to the other party and run away like she did before.
She could be like this in front of Yan Ya and Shen Qiu at that time because she knew that they would catch up to her and coax her, and she would get what she wanted in the end.
Mu Kelian held the steamed bun tightly, thinking about the look on Shen Qiu's face when she called the woman in black "sister", and gently pulled down the mask, her eyes instantly moistened: "Sister, I know it was my fault before, I shouldn't have not believed you, and I got angry... But, but now I really know I'm wrong, I will go to Qiu Qiu to apologize, please don't be angry, okay?"
You Xi leaned against the car window, supporting her chin and glancing at the other party: "You are really a weirdo... I'm not a man, who are you acting for?"
"..." Mu Kelian was stunned after shedding two lines of tears, and she didn't even bother to wipe her nose.
"Hurry up, it's disgusting." You Xi waved her hands. While opening the Star House, she also had to continue to send supernatural powers to the plants outside that wanted to invade to soothe them. She was almost dead tired, so how could she have the mood to complain to her.
It was the first time that Mu Kelian was described as "disgusting". She stood there in a daze, her head buzzing, and was pushed aside by the people in the queue behind her.
"Just change and leave. It's good to have steamed buns. Why are you crying..."
"That's right, you are covered in dust and act like a spoiled child. At least make it clear what your gender is..."
"Someone only gets instant noodles without seasoning every time he comes. After all, he is a man, looks good, and I never saw him cry..."
...
The people behind him muttered, pointed, and commented on Mu Kelian from head to toe.
Mu Kelian was so angry that she wanted to cry and scream, but she knew that if she did that, these people would only watch the show with more joy, and they would hope that she would become more and more vicious.
She swallowed her resentment and grievance, put on a mask, turned around and left the 20th floor, but as soon as she walked into the stairwell, someone blocked her way.
Mu Kelian looked up and saw that it was Yan Ya.
He had been waiting for two days, and when he thought of his disbanded team, all the anger in his heart was now reflected on his face.
Mu Kelian was glad that she had found an excellent secret place in the past two days to hide her backpack, otherwise she would either have a quarrel with the other party or have to contribute food.
She hugged Yan Ya tightly and started crying before he could say anything. She made the excuses she had prepared come to life and sounded extremely pitiful.
Half an hour later, Mu Kelian watched Yan Ya's back and cursed him in her heart.
Men are easy to deal with. No matter if it was that her backpack was stolen or that she was going to look for Shen Qiu and would not go back with him for the time being, as long as she cried and acted coquettishly, he would believe everything.
Mu Kelian certainly didn't want to look for Shen Qiu. She still had a lot of food in her backpack. Even if she didn't get the steamed dumplings and lettuce she wanted today, steamed buns with canned meat and a vacuum-salted egg would be a good meal. At least it would save her a staple food.
However, when Mu Kelian returned carefully to the secret place where she hid her backpack, she found that her well-hidden backpack was missing!
The food that could last for a week if she saved, as well as important necessities such as tissues, underwear, masks, lighters, candles, and blankets, were all gone with the backpack...
Mu Kelian's hands and feet suddenly became cold, and she knelt down on the ground.
**
Later that day, You Xi, who was standing on the edge of the rooftop transmitting supernatural power to the plants below, heard a conversation in the stairwell. One of the voices was very familiar, and was crying in grievance.
This scene was very similar to the movement in the stairwell when she first heard it many days ago. The difference was that the one who had comforted her softly had completely sobered up.
"…So, in order to prevent Yan Ya and the others from sharing the bag of food, you deliberately hid the backpack somewhere else, but in the end, the fake became real and the backpack was really stolen, right?" "
What? That's not the point. The point is…Qiu Qiu, I miss you. Let's not quarrel anymore, okay?"
"…"
"I know it's all my fault. I apologize to you. Please forgive me, okay?"
"…"
"Also, I also want to apologize to your 'sister'. When…are you going to see her again? Can you take me with you? There seems to be some misunderstanding between her and me. If you are here, maybe we can explain the misunderstanding. Qiu Qiu, I really miss the days when we ate and slept together…"
"I won't take you to see her. If you need food or other things, you can go and exchange them yourself."
"…What do you mean?"
"Mu Kelian, even if you are lying, you should at least lie for a while and make it more genuine, right?"
"What are you talking about? How could I lie to you? Oh, I see. Now that you have found a backer and have become rich, you don't want to care about me anymore, right? Woohoo... Shen Qiu, how come even you have changed? You were so nice to me in the Yan Ya team before, but now that you have joined another team, you don't want to care about me anymore, right... Woohoo..."
After Mu Kelian said these words, You Xi didn't hear Shen Qiu's voice for a long time. She didn't know if she would be soft-hearted this time. Moral kidnapping is a kind of PUA. Outsiders can't help. Only the person involved can help himself.
After a moment, Shen Qiu's voice sounded, still soft: "So, because I'm good to you, I should be good to you all my life? But Kelian, I'm not good to you because I owe you anything, nor do I have to accommodate you every time.
I gave you half of all my food supplies. You should have shared those things with your boyfriend and teammates, just like they risked their lives to find food and shared it with you in the past... I know you can't understand what I said, forget it, so be it.
Star House is open every day, you won't starve to death, you just can't eat that well. If you really want to be friends with me again, you are welcome to come to me, but if you just want to get preferential treatment from your sister through me, I'm sorry, that's impossible."
She said the last sentence with particular decisiveness.
Shen Qiu is not afraid of trouble, but she doesn't want to cause trouble to anyone, especially her sister who has helped them so much.
In her opinion, if Mu Kelian was crying today just to get supplies from her, she might be willing to let her deceive her.
But now it involves someone else - a very important person, and the whole thing is not negotiable.
She is just soft-hearted, she is not stupid.
She pulled Mu Kelian's hand away, and in the other's incredulous eyes, she stood up and left.
Listening to the sound of Shen Qiu's leaving footsteps, You Xi raised the corner of her lip and continued to concentrate on dealing with the plants outside the building.
The "bean sprout" wrapped around her wrist has been in a restless state since it followed her out of the Star House. You Xi received various messages from it and reached out to rub it.
"I understand. I won't sleep tonight and will be alert." Youxi said, letting "Bean Sprout" hide in her tent, and then went downstairs to find Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen's team, telling them that the plants might have a final riot tonight.
"Send people to patrol and guard the night. There are two restaurants on the 21st floor. The refrigerator and freezer inside are very large, and the walls are not easy to be destroyed in a short time. If the situation is not right, I will issue an evasion order, and you will notify others to hide inside. It should be enough to accommodate everyone." As she spoke, she handed out two walkie-talkies and taught them how to use them.
Zhuo Yun and Shen Qiu were both very smart and heard the hidden meaning in her words: "So, as long as tonight is over, the crazy growth of plants this time will be completely alleviated? This also means that as long as we can survive tonight, we will have a chance to escape from this city."
"Yes."
You Xi's affirmative answer made both teams excited, and they all said that they would be fully alert and obey all her instructions.
**
That night, You Xi, fully armed, stood in front of the window sill on the tenth floor of the building.
Outside the window, the moonlight was bright and the shadows of the trees were dancing.
[Be careful. ]
Xing Min, who had always been silent, finally spoke.
"Yeah." You Xi tightly grasped the [High Temperature Perfume] in her hand. This is her native world. She has a Star House that can protect her. It is because of the existence of the Star House and Xing Min that she can do what she wants with confidence and boldness.
Near dawn, the plants inside and outside the building that she tamed simultaneously sent out battle signals. This battle signal was extremely strong, far beyond expectations. You Xi immediately notified Zhuo Yun and the others.
Both Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen's teams did not sleep. Before this, they had issued a round of notifications to let all survivors rest directly on the 21st floor.
However, there are several restaurants on the 21st floor, which are full of all kinds of rotten and smelly food waste. Later, they were used as garbage disposal points, and the stench became unbearable over time.
Therefore, the survivors who received the notification gathered on the 20th floor to rest. At this moment, Zhuo Yun and his team received the news and immediately sent out the agreed signal, woke up the survivors, and led them to evacuate to the 21st floor.
Outside the building, under the bright moon, huge mutant plants were like hunters, surging in the green sea. The carnivorous plants with huge flowers rushed straight to the only building in the green sea, but were whipped out by the vines crawling on the walls of the building.
The thick vines that were originally quietly lurking on the wall spread out like octopus tentacles, crisscrossing vertically and horizontally to form a huge protective net.
Whether it was the saw teeth of the carnivorous plants, the sharp thorns of the mutant roots, or other vines with huge strangling power, they were all objects that the protective net had to resist.
It looked like a fight between two groups of mutant plants, but in fact it was a struggle between Youxi and all mutant plants.
The energy consumed in the fight was enormous, but in such a fight, her plant energy could also be greatly enhanced.
Inside the building, the survivors who had already hidden in the cold storage room trembled at the roar coming from the building, and the survivors who were still running on the stairs screamed and quickened their pace. The ceiling, walls, and ground were all shaking, and plaster and cement kept falling from their heads.
Even if they didn't look out the window, they could feel the riot of the plants outside.
Someone looked out when passing by the window of the stairwell and saw a scene that they had only seen in movie special effects before. Compared with such huge plants, humans were simply too fragile to withstand a single blow.
Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen's teams were guarding the doors of the cold storage rooms of the two restaurants, counting the number of people entering to hide.
You Xi sent another message at this time, asking them to manually close the door of the cold storage room.
"What's the situation?"
You Xi answered concisely: "Toxin attack."
Zhuo Yun did not ask any more questions, and immediately called Lu Yichen on the opposite side. After confirming the number of people, he called several people to help close the heavy cold storage door.
"What's wrong?" In the dark room, the survivors were all panicked.
"Don't talk, it will waste oxygen, breathe slowly, we will definitely survive." Zhuo Yun took the lead and sat down by the door, Shen Qiu sat near her, she turned on the flashlight and put it on the ground, stretched out her hand, and shook hands with Zhuo Yun.
The other survivors looked at the two young girls and their tough expressions, and gradually calmed down. Some of them leaned against the wall or sat cross-legged. Some followed their example, reaching out their hands to shake hands with those around them, drawing strength from each other.
Soon, everyone shook hands, whether they were close family members and friends, or those who had conflicts before.
At this moment, they were a community, for the same hope of life.
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