Chapter 79 Prelude to the Disaster
At midnight, looking out of the window of the Star House, the city below the building suddenly made her feel a little strange.
It took her a long time to remember the situation of her native world at this moment.
It has been raining intermittently for more than ten days. It is December, but the climate is as hot as early summer.
The bridges on the same river have suffered varying degrees of damage due to the influence of plants.
Animals all over the planet have undergone various strange changes, big and small. Just this morning, the city was invaded by migratory birds in the opposite direction...
Youxi gradually figured out the current situation. Anyway, she couldn't sleep for a while, so she started to organize her supplies. She moved the perishable items that were previously stored in the Star House back into the Star House warehouse, and then took out other items that would not perish, and stored similar items together.
After finishing the sorting, she looked at the Star House warehouse that was almost full and the Star House, half of which was occupied by various items, and felt that she probably didn't need to stock up on anything for the time being...
Well, there was still a lot of space on the aluminum alloy shelves, so she could add some miscellaneous items. Everything was purchased based on things that would not appear in the short term after the apocalypse but that the three of them liked very much.
For example: milk tea, halogenated vegetables, health products...
Because of her experience in joining the army this time, she found that she could also stock up on cigarettes in moderation, which could be used to get information in some cases.
She had thought about fruit and vegetable seeds, but these needed cultivation conditions, and her family had no idea about this. Moreover, seeds were not rare items, and they were light and easy to carry. Those who really knew how to grow them would not be out of stock.
Moreover, for things related to people's livelihood, the state would only store them more vigorously than individuals, so she didn't need to worry about it. Just like her father said, don't underestimate the state machinery. The state knew about all the abnormal changes in recent times, but she didn't necessarily know what the state knew.
Her personal power was much smaller than she imagined. The only thing she could do was to take care of her own little family when the end of the world came. For the rest, she would do what she could.
Afterwards, Youxi opened the Star House Mall with a balance of 436 star coins.
The star coins after this mission would allow her to upgrade the Star House directly for the second time.
But if that were the case, the remaining star coins would not be enough to buy her two [Strong Anti-Sugar Pills] for her parents, and their physical fitness would not be improved before the next apocalyptic mission.
She was not at ease waiting for another month.
After weighing the pros and cons, she finally decided to save her parents first.
She bought three [Strong Anti-Sugar Pills], and took one herself immediately, which increased her physical fitness by another 50%.
After the experience of the meteorite apocalypse, she estimated that her physical fitness was about 250 units, and taking another [Strong Anti-Sugar Pill] would increase it to about 375 units.
This is already quite an astonishing data, that is to say, her speed and strength are now almost four times that of an ordinary person, and she feels that her hearing, vision, jumping ability and even physical toughness have made a qualitative breakthrough.
In order to verify her guess, she took out a dagger, controlled the strength, and slashed it down on the back of her hand with the strength of a normal person.
The blade pressed a white mark, but did not cut a wound.
Youxi: ... ! !
Her feeling is right! Using an ordinary sharp blade with the strength of a normal person can no longer hurt her!
Youxi, who has always relied on the increase in speed and strength to walk in the end times with high-damage star tools such as [High Temperature Perfume] and [Air Hair Dryer], knows very well in her heart that her biggest weakness is that her defense is too poor.
But the Star House Mall has not refreshed any defensive star tools, so she can only do physical training every day, constantly learning and practicing different martial arts skills to improve her physical strength.
But now, this situation has finally changed.
You Xi was a little excited, and she increased her strength and tried to slash the back of her hand with the dagger again. Finally, when she let go of all her strength and slashed at the back of her hand, she felt pain, and her skin was cut by the blade. A very shallow cut.
She put away the dagger and wiped off the wound with [Repair Foundation].
She reopened the Star House Mall and planned to buy four [Strong Anti-Sugar Pills] again to increase her parents' physical strength to more than three times.
But the system spoke at the right time.
[It is not recommended that the host increase the physical fitness of ordinary people by more than three times at one time. If the strength and speed increase too fast, ordinary people will feel uncomfortable and it is easy to hurt others. It is recommended to increase gradually. 】
"I understand, then take one pill for now."
Youxi checked the balance before closing the Star House Mall. There were 376 star coins left.
Her eyes passed over the prices of ice control skills, werewolf blood, and plant affinity. If her guess is correct, these three skills are just right for water, animals, and plants, and they seem to be useful in the coming doomsday.
But this is just a guess, and it is still unknown which side the doomsday will lean towards.
So she decided not to buy any for the time being, and wait until the actual situation happens before choosing the most advantageous one.
This is probably the sorrow of the poor...
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The next day, You Feng and Fan Qi got up and went downstairs, and found that their daughter had gotten up early and prepared breakfast.
Fan Qi didn't know that in just one night, a long year and a half had passed for You Xi.
She was still immersed in the incident of migratory birds migrating in the opposite direction yesterday. She watched videos and news all night, and saw that many people on the Internet began to summarize some abnormal events in recent times.
The apocalypse theory mentioned before was brought up again, starting with the island country's major earthquake in October that affected their country, and counting various disasters and abnormal events.
There was a summary video that lasted more than an hour, which edited many photos and several videos, and was accompanied by narration. Tornadoes, winter heat, bridge collapse, and migratory birds migrating in the opposite direction were all on the list.
Fan Qi was getting more and more addicted to the video, but at the end, the owner of the summary video said in a relaxed tone that everything was just his own nonsense, and that there were all kinds of natural disasters and man-made disasters in any era, but the end of the world was never reliable, and hoped that everyone would not believe in rumors or spread them, and work hard and live well.
Fan Qi: ...
Fan Qi was speechless after watching it until the early morning, and complained to her husband and daughter when she sat at the dining table. You Feng laughed at her and said that if it was really a serious doomsday video, it would have been blocked long ago, and that only videos with titled party slogans like this could exist.
You Xi listened without saying anything, placed two glasses of water in front of the two, and handed over a few health supplements, including the calcium tablets You Feng had bought before, the deep-sea fish oil brought back from Peninsula A during the meteorite world, and a [Strong Anti-sugar Pill].
She said that the health supplements at home would expire if not taken, and from today on she would supervise the two to take them on time every day.
Fan Qi and You Feng also took calcium tablets, fish oil, vitamins, etc. before, but they tended to forget after a long time. Today, they were reminded by their daughter, so they took them naturally.
You Xi watched the two swallow the [Strong Anti-sugar Pill], and felt a little relieved.
The effect of [Strong Anti-sugar Pills] was soon apparent. When the bottled water in the water dispenser at home ran out, Fan Qi prepared to go to the storage room to drag a new bucket out and put it next to the water dispenser, waiting for You Feng to come back and let him change it.
As a result, she just exerted force, but found that the bottled water that used to take a lot of effort to drag moved without any effort.
Afterwards, Fan Qi dragged water, lifted water, and changed water in one go. She stood there and waved her arms twice, feeling like a new life. You Xi, who originally wanted to help, watched the whole process quietly, and in the afternoon, she took Fan Qi to do some simple physical training.
You Feng discovered his changes a few days later.
That day, several glass installers came to their house with custom-made glass and spent a whole day adding a layer of glass to all the glass in their house.
The other party worked efficiently and cleaned up the area around the windows before leaving, and packed all the garbage for them to take away.
Fan Qi thanked him and ordered takeout from a nearby Sichuan restaurant. He ordered a lot of dishes. He was embarrassed to eat at their house, so Fan Qi let him take away the packed dishes and rice.
Because they ordered a lot of dishes, there were still a lot of dishes after the master took them away, so Fan Qi didn't cook that night. After You Feng came back, the family of three started eating directly.
As a result, halfway through the meal, an "uninvited guest" came to the door.
The visitor was Zhao Hua, the husband of You Li, the third child of the You family. He had taken his mistress to a hotel and was caught by You Li. It was also reported on the local social news, causing a lot of trouble.
You Feng was very angry at You Li's reckless behavior of blaming everyone with one stick, but he was even angrier at Zhao Hua, who didn't even let him in through the door and asked him to speak directly if he had anything to say.
It turned out that Zhao Hua came to look for You Li, saying that she also had someone else outside, and took away several passbooks and cards from the house. She had not been seen for several days, and even Zhao Xuefei didn't go home.
He had already looked for Old Man You, and now this was the only place left. At this moment, Zhao Hua saw that he would not let him in, and believed that someone was here, so he asked him not to cover up for his sister and quickly let him in to find someone. He
said that the passbook was the common property of the couple, and even if he was the wrong party and divorced, it was impossible to give all the savings to her, not to mention that the two of them had not divorced yet!
As he spoke, the other party wanted to rush in, but was grabbed by You Feng. He thought he didn't use much force, just a slight swing, but the other party was pushed out of the door and thrown against the wall across the corridor.
You Feng was stunned, and Zhao Hua was stunned. Although he knew that You Feng was not an honest man who was easy to talk to, because he was thin and had a gentle appearance, he didn't look like a strong man with full of momentum. Therefore, the strong Zhao Hua never took You Feng seriously, always thinking that he would win even if he fought.
But this time when they had a conflict, they found out that the other party was so strong.
"Ask yourself what you have done. Why did your wife and children disappear? You broke up our happy family, and now you are acting wild here! So what if she took the passbook? Since you haven't divorced yet, she can take it if she wants, and she can use it all! She is not here, get out of here!" You Feng was disgusted with him and didn't want to pay any attention to him.
The elevator on the side opened, and the security guard who was notified by Fan Qi came up and asked the person to leave directly.
Fan Qi was also rude, and told the security guard to look at the other person's face carefully, and said that next time he saw him, he should not let him enter the elevator to go upstairs, and he should not even let him enter the lobby.
After Zhao Hua left, You Feng closed the door and hesitated to say: "Did you two see it just now?"
"What did you see?" You Xi pretended to be puzzled.
You Feng frowned and looked at his hands: "Forget it, it's nothing..."
After dinner, You Feng called Yu Li, and as expected, the call was hung up.
You Feng had nothing to say to this willful little sister, so he sent her a WeChat message and told her about Zhao Hua coming to see her today.
Half an hour later, Yu Li replied. There was no text or voice, only a photo. It was a photo of her wearing a beach skirt and sitting on the beach with Zhao Xuefei watching the sunset. There was also a strange middle-aged man's face in the photo.
Because the middle-aged man and Yu Li were sitting on the same beach chair with a close posture, even if You Feng wanted to explain for her that he was a passerby, he couldn't open his mouth.
This photo was simply deliberately confirming what Zhao Hua said about her having someone outside, and You Feng laughed angrily. He could understand that a person was a little willful when he was young, but he was still so outrageous when he was middle-aged and his daughter was already so old.
Even if he really wanted to find the next one, it shouldn't be this time. He actually brought his daughter with him. What was he thinking?
The more You Feng looked at it, the more speechless he became, and finally he just dropped his phone. Anyway, he didn't want to care about this matter anymore.
After You Xi knew about it, he thought about it and sent a WeChat message to Zhao Xuefei.
You Xiaoxi: Are you in Nanhai Island?
Daxue Fenfei: Yes.
You Xiaoxi: When will you be back?
Daxue Fenfei: I don't know, my mother asked me to take annual leave, at least one week.
You Xiaoxi: Is there a supermarket near where you live?
Daxue Fenfei:? Of course there is, it's a five-star hotel, and there are two supermarkets in the hotel.
You Xiaoxi: When you go out, bring more water with you. Don't buy more when you find that you are out of water. Supermarkets may not be open all the time,
so it is better to keep more things with you. In addition, tsunamis are prone to occur at the seaside, so be vigilant at all times and read more news . Heavy snow : Haha
...
Several security guards were running around, one calling an ambulance, one calling the residents upstairs, and two blocking the tree-lined path to the right of the building's open space, asking residents who needed to go out to take a detour.
"What's going on?" You Feng and the other two walked to the lobby door, where many residents from the building were standing, all craning their necks to watch.
"Just now, someone passed by the small garden in front and found people lying on the ground. I don't know what happened, it's very scary. The person has called the police, and now the security guard is calling an ambulance..."
You Xi frowned: "People lying on the ground?"
Another person said: "Yes, it's really all over the ground. Now the property management staff are blocking us from looking. I just went forward to take a look. There are about ten people. They should be dancing square dance there after dinner. I don't know what happened. They all seem to be unconscious..."
Several ambulances came quickly. The paramedics first checked on the spot, and then with the help of the property management, they carried the people into the car one by one.
The relatives of the unconscious people also followed the ambulance to the hospital anxiously.
The community was noisy for a long time and finally quieted down.
Youxi's parents didn't let them go out for a walk, and the two of them had no intention of going out for a walk. They went to the garbage room next to the battery garage to throw away the garbage and then went home.
The TV news reported this incident in the evening. It turned out that the collective coma incidents at about the same time were not only in their community. Many people fell into shock, but fortunately they were sent to the hospital in time, and now they are basically out of danger.
The specific situation is still under investigation. Experts estimate that it should be related to the recent abnormal climate. At the same time, they also remind the general public to pay attention to safety when traveling recently.
"It doesn't say what aspects of safety to pay attention to, how should we pay attention to this?" Fan Qi sighed.
You Xi checked the news online. She noticed that several places where mass coma incidents occurred were all densely populated with plants...
Hearing Fan Qi say this, she immediately spoke up: "Since you didn't say where, let's just stay at home for the time being. Dad doesn't have much to do at work, so why not take a leave for a while. There are a lot of food and drinks at home, so mom, don't go out to buy groceries these few days. As for what to do in the future, let's see what the news and the Internet say before deciding, okay?" "Okay
." You Feng frowned and nodded. In fact, he was a little uneasy in his heart, mainly because the mass coma incident just now was a bit creepy.
It wasn't a physical problem. Suddenly a group of people fainted and went into shock and were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Could it be that some illegal group organization was taking action? It was not very safe to think about it.
Her parents cooperated very well, and You Xi was relieved.
That night, she was awakened by a strange noise again.
She got out of bed alertly, walked to the window and opened the curtains. With the moonlight outside, she saw a scene she had never seen before.
A huge gray moth was lying on the glass window of her room, flapping its wings slowly.
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