2098, Jiangnan Base.
Under the scorching sun, an electric police car drove along the asphalt road and sped towards the only entrance of the base.
Five minutes ago, the police received a report that there was a drug dealer selling fake drugs here. Because he set up a stall on the roadside, he attracted many mercenaries. Cars kept parking in the middle of the road, disrupting traffic order.
It has been ten years since Officer Wang retired from the army and joined the police station to maintain law and order at the base. This is the first time he has encountered such an arrogant drug dealer.
Half an hour later, Officer Wang saw the accident site from afar.
Sure enough, there were several off-road vehicles parked in the middle of the main road, and a dozen mercenaries gathered under a large camphor tree on the side of the road, watching something.
The police car stopped, and the mercenaries did not disperse when they saw the three police comrades getting out of the car, but just made way for them.
Officer Wang, who was about to yell, was stunned.
According to experience, these drug dealers are basically some men with flat heads and vulgar temperaments. However, the stall owner sitting in the shade of the tree today is actually a girl who looks only seventeen or eighteen years old. She is wearing a set of men's armor that is obviously ill-fitting. It's not even a set, but a piece of armor that is pieced together.
The armor looked disheveled, but the girl was surprisingly beautiful. The exposed skin was as white as milk and as tender as newly opened petals. In this era, only the daughters of wealthy areas could have such good looks for a long time. Even her long hair, which was tied up casually, exuded a black and smooth luster.
From that one glance, Officer Wang concluded that this must be a wealthy young lady who had run away from the wealthy area. The people in the base, whether they were psychics or ordinary people, were almost all busy struggling to survive. Only these wealthy children, who had been pampered since childhood, would run away from home in anger because of a quarrel with their family.
"What are you looking at? Go back to the base quickly. Do you really want to buy medicine from her?"
Officer Wang first drove away these mercenaries who parked their cars illegally.
The mercenaries looked at his broken left arm, said nothing, and got into their cars and left.
The street returned to calm, and Officer Wang finally squatted down in front of the girl's stall. While looking through the porcelain bottles of various colors, he asked casually, "What's your name, little girl? Where do you live?"
It was obvious that the man was not a serious customer. Gu Fan was a little worried that he might drop the medicine bottle, so he stared at his hand and said, "My name is Gu Fan. I don't have a home. I just came to the Jiangnan base from outside today."
Officer Wang curled his lips and said, "Who are you trying to fool? If someone like her had really come from outside, she would have been eaten by those monsters long ago."
He patiently advised, "Don't try to be so eloquent with me. I've seen more monsters than you've eaten grains of rice. Listen to me. It's dangerous outside. Go home quickly."
She looked like this, she was still in the base. If she left the base, the monsters would eat her, and the male mercenaries would also scramble to eat her.
Women, especially beautiful women, are coveted in all ages.
Gu Fan glanced at the buildings in the distance and said, "I really don't have a home, so I want to sell some medicine for merit points and then buy a house there."
Officer Wang finally understood that the little girl was determined not to tell the truth. He smiled and pointed to a pile of porcelain bottles on the ground and asked, "Okay, then tell me about these medicines. What are they used for?"
Gu Fan really needed the merit points that were circulating in this world. Glancing at the man's sparsely haired head, he picked up a small black porcelain bottle and handed it to him, saying, "This is a hair growth pill. If you take it now, it will take effect in half an hour... an hour. There are two pills in it, worth a total of 200 merit points."
Officer Wang: ...
Behind him, two young policemen could be heard stifling laughter. Officer Wang, with a forced smile, pushed Gu Fan's hand away, stood up and said, "Alright, enough nonsense. Handcuff her and take her back to the police station."
Gu Fan was anxious. While collecting the porcelain bottle and putting it into the backpack he had picked up, he explained to Officer Wang, "Did you misunderstand? My medicine is very effective. I really don't sell fake medicine!"
Officer Wang had already walked to the side of the police car. Without even turning his head, he opened the door and got in.
Before Gu Fan could say anything else, a policeman took out handcuffs and motioned for her to stretch out her hands.
Gu Fan paused and finally chose to cooperate.
She wasn't confident enough to escape by force, and besides, Officer Wang looked like a good man.
In the car, Officer Wang sat in the front passenger seat. The sunlight shone in from the window, and his scalp was shiny white.
Gu Fan continued to persuade him, "Uncle, how about this? You take a hair growth pill first. If the hair on your head really grows after an hour, you can give me merit points. Is that okay? I really need the merit points. Otherwise, I'll give you one for free."
Officer Wang's mouth twitched.
The young policeman driving the car had a hard time holding back his laughter, but the one sitting next to Gu Fan could at least cover his mouth with his hands and laugh.
"Uncle, can you try it?"
"Shut up! If you don't talk, I'll only lock you up for three days to criticize and educate you. If you keep talking, I'll lock you up for three years!"
Gu Fan: ...
But she was also relieved because the police only detained her for three days.
It seems that this world is still reasonable. Selling medicine on the street is a common thing. Although it is illegal here, it is not a serious crime.
The police car was getting closer and closer to the main urban area of the base.
The pills couldn't be sold, so Gu Fan leaned back in his chair, tilted his head, and quietly looked at everything outside the window.
She is not from this world.
She comes from a continent of cultivation.
In the land of cultivation, where sects abound and powerful cultivators abound, Gu Fan is merely a mediocre outer disciple of a minor sect, possessing only five spiritual roots. Knowing her foundation was too weak, she devoted her time, aside from completing the sect's tedious tasks, to diligent cultivation. Finally, at the age of eighty, she reached the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage, capable of releasing her spiritual energy, and her lifespan reached two hundred years.
With his useless talent and old age, even if Gu Fan continued to practice, it would be difficult for him to make any progress.
So, for the next twenty years, Gu Fan began to specialize in the art of alchemy.
Her cultivation was low, so she could only refine inferior elixirs for mortals and low-level cultivators. But elixirs were elixirs, high-quality, low-priced, and sold at a low profit margin. Thanks to this, Gu Fan lived a relatively comfortable and affluent life. Because of her good looks, she had taken anti-aging pills to maintain her physique at the age of eighteen, and even some worthless cultivators wanted to marry her.
Gu Fan refused them all.
In a world where the strong prey on the weak, no feelings can be relied upon. If you have that much time, you might as well refine more pills and rely on your sect to save your life.
Unfortunately, the sect she belonged to was too weak. Not only was it weak, but it also liked to show off. One of the elders caused trouble outside and offended a strong man. The strong man came with a sword and killed half of the sect, and half of the sect was razed to the ground.
Gu Fan survived by chance, but on the way to find a new sect to settle down, he encountered a powerful monster. With no way to escape, Gu Fan jumped off the cliff, then passed through a fog and came to this strange continent.
She wore it half a month ago.
For the past two weeks, Gu Fan had been wandering around the base. Luckily, she hadn't encountered any powerful monsters, but instead encountered a three-man mercenary team. All three had ill intentions towards her, but fortunately, they were not as strong as hers. Gu Fan took advantage of their unpreparedness and killed two of them, leaving one alive to learn about the world through him.
The mercenary told her that the Earth was once a peaceful and prosperous planet. Fifty years ago, a massive radiation suddenly occurred, leading to the end of the world. After the radiation, species around the world mutated to varying degrees. The vast majority of animals mutated into monsters, but only a small number of humans gained superpowers.
Monsters attacked and humans suffered heavy casualties. Finally, under the leadership of several S-level powerhouses, the surviving humans in China were transferred to three city bases, and Jiangnan Base was one of them.
Fifty years have passed, and the construction of the three major bases has become increasingly complete. The residents inside each have their own duties, and as long as they do not leave the base, they basically have peace and tranquility.
Gu Fan likes peace. She can't find a way to return to the cultivation continent. If she can settle down in the base and continue to sell medicine to make money, then it doesn't matter if she doesn't go back. Anyway, she is alone, without relatives or close friends, and even the sect she lives in is destroyed. She has no ties to anything in the cultivation continent.
The police station arrived.
Because Gu Fan repeatedly mentioned his hair loss, Officer Wang had a very bad face and was very rude to Gu Fan. He confiscated Gu Fan's backpack and arranged for a female police officer to interrogate Gu Fan. After not getting any useful information, Officer Wang had Gu Fan locked up in a cell.
Gu Fan refused to give up. As he was pushed forward, he turned back to reason with Officer Wang: "You have to find someone to try my medicine, right? How can you say it's fake if you haven't even tried it? When you've tried it and found it's real, please remember to let me out and return the medicine to me!"
Officer Wang's face almost turned black. How arrogant! This little girl is too arrogant!
"Old Wang, what they say makes sense. Have someone test the ingredients of these pills. Maybe they really work."
"It's useless. This is it. She said my hair will grow in an hour after I eat it. Do you believe it?"
“…Experimentation is the only way to test truth.”
"Then eat. I see you don't have much hair left."
"More than you..."
Gu Fan could no longer hear the policemen's banter.
She was locked up in a cell with walls on three sides and an iron fence in the front. Gu Fan grabbed one of the bars and tried it secretly. With her strength at the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage, she only left a shallow dent on her finger. With such hardness, even if she used the Golden Sword Technique, it would be difficult to cut it off in a moment.
Gu Fan was cautious and did not take any action.
According to what she had learned, her level was only considered a C-class psychic here. Above C-class, there were B-class, A-class, and S-class. Jiangnan Base had a total of five S-class experts, a thousand A-class experts, ten thousand B-class experts, and a million C-class troops. No one was as reckless as Gu Fan.
There was a single bed in the cell. Gu Fan was just about to lie down on it for a while when a low gasp suddenly came from the cell opposite, as if someone had sustained a serious wound.
Gu Fan looked across and discovered that on the wooden bed in the cell opposite was lying a very young man, no more than twenty years old.
The man slowly supported himself on the bed and sat up, his eyes meeting Gu Fan's. He was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Gu Fan's gaze move to his legs, the man pursed his lips and glared at her.
Gu Fan noticed that the man was very handsome and the mercenary armor he was wearing was obviously high-end, which showed that he was rich.
On his wrist, he was actually wearing a watch that could be used for communication within the base.
Other prisoners in custody do not receive such treatment. What does this mean? It means that he is not only rich, but also has some power behind him.
Gu Fan quietly took out a red pill from his storage bracelet, then pretended to rummage through the pockets of his armor. He looked at the man opposite him and said, "Your leg is injured. If the bones are not broken, take my medicine and I guarantee that the bleeding will stop immediately. The wound will heal in half an hour without even a scar."
Young man: ...
Gu Fan saw the same expression on his face as Officer Wang's.
She didn't care. With a flick of her finger, the round red pill passed through the metal bars between the two cells and fell into the young man's arms.
Gu Fan: "Half an hour. If it doesn't work, I'll give you my life. If it works, you give me a thousand merit points."
The young man sneered at this and swept the pill to the ground in disgust.
At this moment, his watch suddenly flashed a red light, and the next moment, a cold and stern voice came from inside: "I said, you are not allowed to leave the city without permission."
The young man's face turned pale.
"I'll pick you up at six in the evening."
With a beep, the communication ended.
Gu Fan was still speculating about the relationship between the two men when the young man suddenly glared at him and threatened, "If your medicine doesn't work, or even has other side effects, I have a hundred ways to kill you."
Gu Fan: ...
The next moment, she was happy and watched the other person limping out of bed, picked up her medicine, closed his eyes and put it into his mouth.
The author has something to say:
Hey, this is a lighthearted apocalyptic novel. The setting is similar to the apocalyptic chapter in "The Delicate Beauty in the Hegemony Story." I hope you like it.
PS: The male lead has appeared, guess who it is?
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