Chapter 322 Evolver
The first floor of the B&B is mostly occupied by the lobby, kitchen, restaurant, and laundry room. There are not many rooms available for stay. Several rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows and glass sliding doors, so it is not safe to live there.
The survivors of the highlands have used door panels or bed boards to nail these large floor-to-ceiling windows from the inside to block them, leaving only a few narrow gaps to see the situation outside.
The room is dark whether it is day or night. With enough rooms for staying, the entire first floor is left vacant.
In order to save power, only a small light is on in the corridor on the second floor, and the room is slightly brighter. A group of people gathered at the entrance.
They were all the people who had just gathered on the first floor. Now that the conflict was over and the injured had finished treating their wounds, they thought of Mincheng, who was the most seriously injured, so they came to see what was going on. Mincheng
was leaning on the sofa in the living room with a pale face. The room was very hot and stuffy. Probably to save electricity, the air conditioner was not turned on, only the electric fan was on. The wind blew, dispersing the originally heavy smell of blood.
Next to the sofa, a woman in her thirties or forties was sitting on a chair, lowering her head to treat the wound on Mincheng's leg.
There was another young man in his twenties standing next to him. He was holding a lamp so that the woman could see the wound more clearly. According to Dafeng, this woman was Mincheng's agent before the end of the world. She happened to follow this trip and ended up being trapped on the high ground.
For variety shows like this that stay in the same place for a long time, agents usually don't follow the whole process. When they were trapped, they felt bad luck and bad luck, but now looking back, they are actually lucky that they were all in the mountains far away from the city when the city began to fall into chaos.
When Dafeng explained, Youxi raised her eyebrows: "Agent?"
Dafeng saw Youxi's expression and realized that she didn't recognize Mincheng at all before.
The agent is called Wang Yu, who is well-known in the circle and has a calm and cautious personality. She studied nursing in her early years and worked as a nurse for one or two years. After the animals and plants mutated, they all asked her to deal with any injuries.
Although Wang Yu had been upstairs, she had heard the follow-up of the incident from others. When she saw You Xi at this moment, she felt strange about her appearance in the high ground like everyone else, but she
still nodded to her and thanked her. Min Cheng's eyes have been on You Xi since she appeared: "Sorry... This is our internal problem. I didn't expect Da Feng to contact you, causing you to run in the middle of the night..."
To be honest, he didn't expect the other party to really come, after all, it was the middle of the night, but she not only came but also helped them calm down a melee.
She is really strong.
It's the end of the world now, and Mincheng doesn't think there's anything wrong with men relying on women. Regardless of whether they are men or women, as long as they are capable, they are desirable.
Moreover, he knew that Dafeng mentioned his name when he notified the other party.
This also means that a large part of the reason why she came here was for him...
He looked at Youxi, and a smile unconsciously appeared at the corners of his lips. This expression was too obvious, not to mention Dafeng and Wang Yu, even Youxi couldn't help feeling it.
Mincheng was injured on the thigh. After cutting open his pants, he found that the wound was quite deep, but fortunately, the artery was not injured. However, such a wound must be sutured.
Wang Yu was forced to take action. Having dealt with various injuries, suturing was no problem.
But the problem now is that after these few months, the anesthetics in the medicines they collected at the Highland Medical Station have long been used up, and drugs such as cephalosporin are also running out.
So at this moment, Wang Yu had a headache looking at the wound after cleaning. Mincheng knew what she was worried about, and asked her to start directly, saying that she could bear it.
"At least a dozen stitches, maybe more, because the wound is quite deep." Wang Yu reminded him.
"It's okay, start!" Mincheng frowned and motioned Wang Yu to start.
Wang Yu also knew that dragging it out was not a solution. The wound must be sutured. It would be better to get started early than to cut it out later. So she picked up the sterilized needle and thread and began to sew the wound.
One needle, two needles... When the fourth needle was inserted, the veins on Mincheng's fingers, which were pinching the sofa backrest, were exposed. The pain of the needle and thread piercing the flesh was much more painful and torturous than when his thigh was cut. If he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the other party, he would have cried out.
However, Youxi suddenly said "Oh" at this time. She put down the backpack on her shoulder and took out a small metal box from it: "I remembered, I have anesthetics here."
Wang Yu:...?
Dafeng:? ?
Mincheng: ... ...
Is this really not intentional?
**
Youxi was arranged to stay in a suite on the sixth floor. No one was living there for the time being, but the bedding and pillows were all complete. Before leaving, Dafeng was considerate enough to turn on the air conditioner in the suite bedroom for her.
The generator needs fuel to generate electricity, and after a few months of consumption, the fuel has long been used up.
Their current electricity consumption mainly relies on the solar panels laid on the roof of the small building of the B&B and the windmill on the opposite grassland. However, it has been raining these days, and the solar power supply cannot keep up. Therefore, in order to save electricity within their own team, after the temperature soars, men and women are squeezed into one room to sleep together, so that only a few rooms need to be air-conditioned.
They save electricity in this way, not for others, because the solar panels and batteries of each building are separated, and the electricity saved is the electricity inside the small building itself.
But Youxi is different. To those who went out today, she is a lifesaver, and to others, she is the boss who chased Chonglin away.
The eldest brother was willing to stay overnight, so of course they would not let her get too hot to save electricity.
After Dafeng left, Youxi closed the door and locked it in the bedroom. The windows here were also nailed with wooden strips inside, leaving narrow gaps.
The room faces south, and from this direction you can just see the scenery outside the cliff on the south side of the highland. The valley on this side is not that deep, and there are bamboo forests, but unlike the isolated peaks and bamboo seas on the north, there are more continuous hills and forests.
There is also a sofa in the room. She was not used to sleeping in a bed in a strange place, so she put down her backpack, took out a thin blanket from the Xingwu warehouse, spread it on the sofa, took off her shoes, and lay down on it with her clothes on.
When she closed her eyes to rest, Xingmin's voice rang in her mind.
[Are you really not going back? It only takes a second, you can come back tomorrow morning. 】
You Xi: Forget it, it’s already 2:30 now, it’s quick to go back, but I still have to rely on my legs to come here in the morning, which is inconvenient.
【…According to network data, the person just now seems to be a very famous artist and entertainer on your planet in the past, with many admirers. 】
Youxi curled the corners of his lips: Really? Probably, I don't chase stars so I'm not sure. Good night, Xingmin.
[...Good night.]
At the other end of time and space, in the stagnant void of the universe, in the elliptical control room inside the huge spaceship, countless bytes flashed on the wall composed of liquid display screens.
The system of the spaceship is still in the long process of upgrading.
In the vast and silent space, a voice sighed slightly, and the mental power existing in the hull of the spaceship began to gather little by little, and then injected into the central processor of the control room.
All the bytes on the liquid display screen wall stagnated for a moment, and then flowed at a faster speed than before.
**
It didn't rain the next day, but the clouds were dense, the air pressure was very low, and the air humidity was still very high.
The air conditioner was scheduled to shut off automatically at six in the morning. At about seven, the coolness in the room gradually dissipated. Many people were awakened by the heat and could no longer sleep.
Some of them went back to their rooms to wash up, while others stood in front of the window to check the weather for the day, hoping that the clouds would disperse and the sun would come out. Even if it was hot, at least the sun could recharge the battery.
However, when the people standing in front of the window looked down, they saw a car in the courtyard between the small buildings, which was originally empty.
What is this - an RV?
Of course there are cars on the high ground, go-karts, three-wheeled delivery trucks, garbage trucks... and even a pickup truck.
According to the staff, this pickup truck has been there since the day Highland Park opened. It belongs to the owner of the park, and no one knows how it got to Highland in the first place.
But other than that, they haven't seen any other cars on Highland in the past few months.
But now, next to the courtyard pavilion between Buildings 1, 2, and 3, there is indeed a silver C-type RV parked. Could it be that they had overlooked it before and didn't check all the areas?
But on Highland, fuel is much more valuable than cars, so neither a pickup truck nor an RV is practical for them.
The point now is, how did this RV appear in the courtyard of their small building?
Who drove it here?
Where did the fuel come from?
And why do the two people who got off the RV at this moment look so familiar?
Aren't they Dafeng and Wang Yu?
**
More than half an hour ago, Dafeng closed the door of his homemade fence. While he was glad that he had made the door wider to allow the three-wheeled delivery truck to pass through, he glued his eyes to the silver RV in front of him.
When he got up early and knocked on the door to ask her what she wanted for breakfast, he was planning to make it according to her taste.
But the result was——
"It's too hot, let's just make some cold noodles?"
"Ah? But we don't have noodles, is instant noodles okay?"
"Or sandwiches are OK." "
... We have eggs and lettuce, but no bread."
"Actually, I'm not that hungry, just a cup of coffee will do."
Dafeng wanted to cry: "The bagged instant coffee was finished in four months..."
Youxi wanted to comfort her and say that it was okay and she didn't drink instant coffee, but seeing her look depressed, she didn't say anything to attack her.
Sure enough, after getting used to the days of having no worries about food and drink, it was still inconvenient to carry only a backpack with you. In the end, Youxi decided to let the "Star House" come out early, but its current identity is just an RV.
A perfect RV with a refrigerator, a coffee machine, an oven, a microwave and an air conditioner.
She left the small building alone, went to the woods nearby to take out the RV, and then drove it into the courtyard in the middle of the small building.
She had heard Dafeng explain that now there are five small buildings here, three of which are relatively close, forming a circle with a courtyard in the middle.
The other two buildings are a little distance away from these three buildings, because there is a building in the middle blocking the view, so the scene in the courtyard cannot be fully seen.
Therefore, the filming team and the county team occupied three and two buildings respectively, in order to give each other a little space.
A moment later, the air-conditioned RV was filled with the aroma of freshly ground coffee.
Wang Yu was originally talking to Dafeng with the list that Youxi asked her to sort out. The weather was too hot and she really had no appetite. She ate two biscuits and drank some water for breakfast.
But now, she found that her logical thinking was completely broken.
She looked over uncontrollably. Youxi was taking the coffee cup from the coffee machine, and then opened the refrigerator to take out the ice cube grid, milk and spray cream cans, and then took out the sugar bowl and chocolate powder cans from the hanging cabinet.
Youxi turned her head to look at Dafeng and Wang Yu: "Americano or latte? With sugar? Hot coffee or iced coffee? If there is no whipped cream, use whipped cream to mix it up?"
At a certain moment, Wang Yu felt that she had fallen into a dream of her previous life.
It was a very busy day. She got up very early. After leaving the apartment, she always ordered a cup of coffee and a sandwich for breakfast at the coffee shop on the corner.
A cup of fragrant and pleasant coffee is the beginning of a busy life.
For a coffee addict, three or four cups of coffee a day is just a normal amount. She doesn't drink instant coffee, and even thinks that drip coffee tastes bad. She only drinks freshly ground coffee. She also bought special coffee beans at the coffee shop and only drinks the beans she bought every time she goes there.
But since she finished the last bag of coffee on the high ground four months ago, she can't even drink instant coffee.
She never thought that she would be asked these questions in her lifetime.
"Americano with ice, no sugar." Wang Yu tried her best to keep a calm expression, "Thank you!"
Dafeng said that he had no requirements, as long as it was iced, she could do whatever she wanted.
In the end, Youxi made him a cup of snow-topped ice latte with milk, sugar, spray cream and chocolate powder.
Wang Yu showed a surprised expression after just two sips. The taste of these coffee beans was better than the beans she bought in the coffee shop before. She looked up at Youxi: "Red Label Geisha?"
"Yeah." Youxi was also a little surprised that the other party could taste it. Although she loves coffee and can taste which beans taste better, she can't tell the origin and beans.
While the two were drinking coffee, Youxi opened the refrigerator and took out a piece of marble cheese, a piece of matcha mousse and a portion of coconut milk jelly, and placed them on the dining table for them to eat.
She did not deliberately hide her specialness. In her opinion, as long as she did not take objects out of thin air or use ice or plant abilities in front of outsiders, there was no need to hide other special features.
Since Lingchen had already said that she would take over Gaodi and become their boss, these special features were part of her display of strength.
As for explanations, there was no explanation even if asked.
But Dafeng and Wang Yu were both smart people and would not ask why - especially Dafeng.
When others were worried about the mutated mosquito swarm, grieving for the dead, and wondering about Youxi's appearance during the accident yesterday, he noticed the weapon Youxi used to destroy the mosquito swarm.
The weapon was held in her hand, a small pink one, and it didn't look like a flamethrower at all.
But he didn't ask any more questions, he just subconsciously felt that he could ask for help when the chaos and conflict happened last night.
In the early morning, when You Xi talked to him and Wang Yu privately before going to bed, she also gave them a special task, which was to let them compile a list for her.
This list not only counts the age, name and specialties of the survivors of the highlands, but most importantly, it asks them to compile a list of physical evolvers among the survivors of the highlands.
When she said the three words "evolver", neither Da Feng nor Wang Yu's expressions changed much, which shows that they already knew about some things, or in other words, they had personal experience.
Youxi had noticed yesterday that when four or five people in the produce hut were pushing hard to close the door, Dafeng held the door by herself.
Normally, no matter how strong Dafeng was, she would have no problem fighting two adults, but five people pushing the door together could not push her.
It was obvious that Dafeng's body had already evolved in part.
This was not the first time she had heard about the evolution of the human body, but it was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes.
In Youxi's view, it was inevitable for humans to embark on the path of evolution. She was more concerned about the direction and degree of evolution.
The ecology of the planet had undergone major changes. A few months ago, plants, animals, and all creatures except humans had undergone huge and obvious evolution. In contrast, humans, who had not changed at all, seemed fragile and helpless.
But from a certain perspective, the evolution of nature should be equal, fair and just.
From the earliest plant changes, to the mutations of insects and cold-blooded animals, to the changes of mammals and large organisms, this should only be a matter of time.
It is not that humans will not evolve, but they are left behind, but the process of evolution is longer and more difficult.
Nature has eliminated some humans, but it will not kill them all.
Humans today are at the starting point of change. Perhaps decades or hundreds of years later, when humans at that time look back at the beginning, they will find that the hardships of this period are just an inevitable part of the long river of history.
**
In front of "Ya Tong", who has extraordinary abilities, Da Feng did not hide and readily admitted the changes in his body.
About a month ago, he found that his strength had increased significantly. He did not feel tired when he was running and exercising. Even the hot weather these days was not unbearable for him like most people.
He was half happy and half worried when his body began to change. He did not tell anyone and tried to be careful not to show any abnormality.
He was afraid of being treated as an alien and rejected by others. At the same time, he quietly observed other survivors on the high ground for more than a month, and he saw some clues.
Not only him, but also Zhong Lin in the county team was obviously not right. He usually didn't wear protective clothing when he went out. Several times when catching mutant poultry, others were injured, and he was probably caught by the beak of a mutant chicken. His clothes were obviously torn, but there were no wounds at the holes.
And among the people who had encountered the fluorescent butterfly scale powder before, one day he discovered the property of a plant to repel insects. Later, everyone transplanted this plant around the outer wall of the B&B building to repel insects.
But at the same time, that plant also has a characteristic, that is, it will itch and swell when the skin comes into direct contact with it.
But Dafeng remembered that when the man brought this plant back, he did not have any allergic symptoms. At that time, others thought he was careful and did not come into direct contact with it, but Dafeng did not think so...
And Wang Yu, she also realized her own problem. Her sense of smell and taste became more and more sensitive. Several times, she could even identify what was upwind from the wind.
Odorless and safe, or dangerous with a fishy smell... Because the changes were very small and hidden, she subconsciously did not think in the direction of evolution.
But now after such a detailed statistics, among these survivors, there are more than one or two people in this evolutionary state.
Maybe there are actually more people who have evolved in both teams, but some of them are relatively low-key and live in a small environment isolated from the outside world, so they have never shown it.
After all, from the perspective of normal human mentality, when they find that their bodies have changed, their first reaction is not to mindlessly think about conquering the world, but to be vigilant and conceal it, because they are afraid of being regarded as aliens and destroyed.
And now, Youxi asked them to count this, not to reveal it and make it public immediately, but just to keep some bottom line in her heart.
In a small group of less than a hundred people, there have been a series of evolvers. Is it a kind of inevitability that the time has come, or is it related to the environment on the high ground here?
The answer may be clear to her when Star House resets a few more places and encounters more survivors.
**
Evolver Statistical Table Youxi left it, and she also asked Dafeng and Wangyu not to make this matter public for the time being. Not
long after Dafeng and Wangyu got off the car, the early risers in the three small buildings walked out of the building one after another, and curiously surrounded the RV parked in the courtyard.
Youxi opened the car window next to the booth, put a small long table on the window, and then put out the small blackboard with "Star House" and the new business rules written on it - due to different situations, the business rules of Star House always have to be changed, so she now replaced the paper board with a blackboard, which is easy to wipe and use.
① Barter, use things you don't need to exchange for things you need, and the exchange value is determined by the store owner.
② Promote civilized transactions, prohibit snatching behavior, and anyone who snatches items obtained by customers after normal transactions will be put on the store's blacklist!
③Highland Recruitment Giveaway! Congratulations, the owner of Star House is your big sister! Submit a rainbow fart letter of no less than 500 words to "Sister Yatong" within two hours, and you will receive a surprise gift! PS: Limited to one per person.
Everyone was stunned: ...
What, what are these?
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