"Pollution-free bottled water! It's truly pollution-free bottled water! Twenty-two years have passed since I was born... and I've never drunk pollution-free water..."
The beautiful girl burst into tears as she looked at the bottle of ice dew that Chen Yan had bought for one dollar and fifty cents, as if she was looking at the most precious treasure in the world.
Even the hand holding the bottle was shaking slightly, and Chen Yan was completely unable to empathize with her because of her obvious uncontrollable excitement.
"Can I...can I have a sip? Just one! I'm really curious what zero-pollution water tastes like..."
After wiping the tears from her face, the beautiful girl looked at Chen Yan again and asked in a rather awkward and nervous tone.
Facing the beautiful girl's eyes full of expectation, Chen Yan was somewhat speechless.
It’s just a bottle of water, is that a big deal?
After all, it's one hundred and fifty years later. Even if some changes happen, even a bottle of water can't become a luxury, right?
"Drink if you want. It's just a bottle of water. What's the big deal? If you like it, I'll give it to you."
Chen Yan said indifferently.
The beautiful girl's breathing suddenly became rapid.
He stared at Chen Yan with his big eyes blinking for a long time, until Chen Yan began to feel a little uncomfortable. Then he said solemnly: "If you really come from another parallel time and space, then this bottle of zero-pollution water may not be a big deal to you. As long as there is no catastrophe in the parallel time and space you are in!
However, the value of an item often doesn't depend on the item itself, but rather on the price someone is willing to pay for it! This bottle of water might seem ordinary to you, but to me, it's incredibly precious! Even though you're willing to give it to me, I absolutely can't accept it for nothing!
In the fifty years since the Cataclysm, the world has lost all order. Many of those who survived, and those born after the Cataclysm, have abandoned their humanity. I don't want to be like them. I still want to be a real person, so I have my own bottom line!
After saying that, the pretty girl easily unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle with one hand, then put the bottle mouth to her mouth, slightly opened her thin lips, and took a careful sip.
The next second, the beautiful girl squinted her eyes comfortably like a kitten.
"Refreshing and sweet, is this what zero-pollution water tastes like? This is the first time in twenty-two years that I've drunk odorless water. This feeling... such happiness..."
The pretty girl murmured to herself.
The tears that had just stopped with great difficulty appeared in her eyes again, and her eyes were so watery that it made people feel pity for her.
Noticing that the beautiful girl was once again in a state of agitation, Chen Yan couldn't help but cough dryly.
After drawing the beautiful girl's attention back to himself, Chen Yan said, "Beautiful lady, could you please tell me your name? Otherwise, I don't know what to call you. Also... this bottle of water should prove that I'm from a parallel universe, right? I'm new here, and I have no idea what happened here, or why it looks like it does outside. Please enlighten me."
The pretty girl frowned.
He held the bottle of mineral water in front of his eyes, carefully examined the information displayed on the self-adhesive label on the bottle, and said, "My name is Qin Yourong. As for the parallel universe... although it's a bit unbelievable, this theory has a scientific basis.
Furthermore, you haven't experienced any pollution at all. Even the bottle of water you're holding is pollution-free, something I've never seen before. This is beyond my comprehension, so I'm willing to believe your explanation for now, but I still have some basic doubts."
Although he said this, Qin Yourong had actually lowered the gun that was aimed at Chen Yan while speaking.
The hostility in his body also dissipated a lot, and there was a bit of curiosity in his eyes when he looked at Chen Yan.
"Before I explain this to you, could you please tell me which parallel universe you came from?"
Qin Yourong continued to ask, and at the same time gestured for Chen Yan to sit with her on the sofa in the living room to chat in detail.
Chen Yan sat down across from Qin Yourong and pondered, "If my location is correct, then I should be from a world one hundred and fifty years ago. However, I originally thought that after one hundred and fifty years of development, the level of technology must have improved by leaps and bounds, and humans might have even begun space colonization. But I didn't expect... the scene I just saw outside really scared me."
Qin Yourong carefully looked at Chen Yan and nodded slowly, "I understand. Let me use the timeline of technological development as a node to roughly explain to you what is going on..."
Chen Yan immediately straightened his back and put on a serious attitude as if listening.
He didn't expect that Qin Yourong's so-called rough explanation would actually last for more than half an hour...
The content was quite complicated, and basically covered the entire 150-year history that Chen Yan did not know about.
In short, the reason why it has become what it is now is entirely due to the rapid development of biotechnology!
The more advanced technology becomes, the more direct the pursuit of immortality will be for the very few powerful people at the top of the world.
As biotechnology continues to break through bottlenecks, research on the unlimited proliferation and division of cancer cells has finally made key progress. As a result, a very small number of people have seen the possibility of achieving immortality by leveraging the unlimited proliferation and division of cancer cells.
However, the problem of how to ensure that cells maintain 100% accuracy in gene replication during infinite division has never been perfectly solved.
Logically speaking, since it is an immature technology, it certainly cannot be used in practical applications.
But...some people can't wait!
There are always powerful people who are about to die and want to take a chance. Even if it is an immature technology, it is better than facing death.
And then of course something went wrong.
Although the powerful people who were injected with the drug did indeed have their lives extended, with an average of 330 billion cells dividing every day, gene replication errors began to occur more and more frequently.
These mistakes have caused serious consequences, leading to frequent outbreaks of various bizarre genetic defects and causing many viruses that parasitize the human body to undergo horrific mutations.
Perpetual motion machine-like zombies were born like the fission of cancer cells. The mutated virus was able to spread rapidly through the air. In a very short period of time, the whole world fell into great chaos and panic.
Afterwards, the edge systems of several major countries were accidentally activated. An hour later, the world turned into a completely different appearance. This was known in history as the Day of the Great Cataclysm!
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