Chapter 635: Life in the Last Days
When the two arrived, Zhou He was already ready to go hunting with Fang Tang.
After telling Fang Tang that he wanted to hunt, he told him that the psychics in the base had special hunting channels, but now the animals had mutated and ordinary people could not eat them, so they did not tell them.
Although Mo Tiantian is a person with special powers, her special powers have no combat power, so she is naturally not aware of these things.
Zhou He arranged Qu Zhu and Sun Cheng to guard the team members, while he and Yun Bai went there.
As soon as I walked out of the hospital, I bumped into Tan Yun and Qi Le who came over.
"Master" Fangtang came up to him eagerly, and that respectful look in his eyes was nothing like his usual silence.
Zhou He and Yun Bai looked at each other and decided to put the hunting aside for the time being as the person in front of them was more important.
"Our mountain god is in seclusion and is not convenient to see guests. This is our Master Qi Le. How about he talk to you in detail about what Captain Zhou said?" Tan Yun took the initiative to introduce.
"Of course," Zhou He extended his hand towards Qi Le, "Mr. Qi, I've long heard of your name."
"It's all just empty reputation." Qi Le looked young, but his aura was as gentle as an elder. He didn't feel uncomfortable at all when standing in front of Zhou He, a tall and strong man with a murderous aura.
Zhou He couldn't help but wonder... Would an ordinary person who had been tortured so much at the base behave like this?
After a very close handshake, Zhou He immediately smelled a faint smell of blood. He looked around the other person and found no wounds.
Thinking that the healing department of their base was right under their noses and there was no chance for them to heal the other party, Zhou He asked bluntly, "Is Mr. Qi injured? I seem to smell blood."
Qi Le's heart tightened, but he showed no expression on his face, "I was taking care of the Mountain God just now, so I might have been contaminated by the smell of its blood."
"Lord Mountain God... is sick?" Zhou He was also quite interested in a talking white deer.
"It's not that I'm sick. It's just that I couldn't bear to see ordinary people suffer, so I enlightened too many people with special abilities. There was a backlash, and I occasionally vomited blood."
After Qi Le finished speaking, Tan Yun immediately looked worried, "Do you need me to make some nutritious food? Or... what kind of grass is more suitable, I will induce labor immediately."
"I'll notify you when I need you," Qi Le said, and followed Zhou He back to where Mo Tiantian lived. After seeing a few wounded people, he patted Mo Tiantian's shoulder with satisfaction and praised her a few words.
Mo Tiantian, whose superpowers were overdrawn due to treating Zhao Gang, blushed when she heard the compliment and said shyly but seriously that she would continue to work hard.
Zhou He followed him all the time, fearing that he would arouse some suspicion about Zhao Gang's appearance. After all, they had contact with more people in the Panshui base, and it was difficult to ensure that they would not know the situation.
But Qi Le seemed not to notice that he was different from ordinary people from beginning to end, and did not show any abnormality at all, which made people feel that it was abnormal.
After seeing the patients, Qi Le invited Zhou He to take a walk around the base together, "There is a group of people with special abilities who have recently awakened, and they can't control their abilities very well yet. I have to go over and take a look. If Captain Zhou doesn't mind, we can go together."
"Of course I don't mind. Your knowledge of the development of superpowers really opened my eyes. I would like to ask you for advice." Zhou He said, pointing at Yun Bai who was secretly poking him, "Mr. Qi, do you mind if I bring a teammate?"
Qi Le made a gesture of invitation, told Mr. Mo to take good care of the wounded, and left the yard.
"Captain Zhou hasn't visited our base yet, right?" Qi Le led them in one direction, and seeing the two of them looking around from time to time, he pointed to the towering cliffs on both sides that could be seen clearly at a glance and introduced them.
"We are located at the junction of two mountains. The high mountains block the storms, forming a narrow strip of land suitable for living. The temperature at the bottom of the mountain is constant, and both ordinary people and people with special powers can adapt to it."
"It's a rare environment," Zhou He commented. He remembered that Song Huai said they had mutant animals here at the beginning, but he didn't see many this time. He asked directly, "Are there no mutant animals here? I heard from Fang Tang that we need to go to special places to hunt them."
"There were some at the beginning, but there are more ordinary people in the base, so we started hunting and advancing from the entrance, expelling all the mutant animals on every inch of land, which eventually led to the current situation." Qi Le led them to continue walking into the depths of the long and narrow area. When passing by an ancient Taoist temple, he took the initiative to say, "That is the Taoist temple of Lord Mountain God. It practices here. It has been in poor health these days. I'll have the chance to introduce it to you later. Lord Mountain God is very friendly to humans."
"Thank you." Zhou He took another look. The wall, which was much higher than other places, blocked the curious sight of the surrounding people. For a moment, he had no way of knowing the situation inside. Even though they had always said that Qi Le was an ordinary person, Zhou He would not rashly use his supernatural powers to investigate at this time.
There are several small courtyards scattered around the Taoist temple, surrounding the entire Taoist temple in the middle in a protective posture. When Zhou He passed by one of the courtyards, he saw Sun Tao, a small earth-type mutant whom he had seen before.
Next to him was a sickly woman, who was as thin as a skeleton. She was sitting in the yard with her back to them, washing clothes. Sun Tao said something to her, and the two of them pushed each other a few times. Sun Tao snatched the clothes from the woman's hands and threw them back into the basin.
As he helped the woman up, Zhou He saw that the woman was missing one leg and could only move with the help of crutches.
When they turned around and saw the woman's face clearly, Zhou He and Yun Bai were both shocked - the woman's cheeks seemed to have been dug out by a sharp weapon, forming two holes, like an artificial fistula, and their teeth could be seen directly from both sides of her mouth.
Fortunately, they were both still rational and did not show any emotion.
"Master" Sun Tao saw Qi Le greet him. The woman bowed to several people as if to greet them, and then stood aside with her head down, looking like she didn't want to see anyone.
"Xiao Tao, didn't you go on duty today?" Qi Le was like a kind teacher.
"Today is Tiantian's team. I have nothing to do in the morning. I will go to the training ground in the afternoon," Sun Tao answered seriously.
"Okay, when you have nothing to do, just stay at home and spend more time with your mother. If you need anything, tell the master anytime."
"I understand. Thank you, Master."
After walking quite a distance, Qi Le saw Yun Bai inadvertently looking back at Sun Tao helping the woman back to the room. He sighed and took the initiative to introduce, "That's Sun Tao's mother, she..."
"She's also a pitiful woman." Qi Le also looked at the two figures with compassion in his eyes, "You know that the superpowers in the Panshui base used to oppress ordinary people, right?"
"Know something."
"In the beginning, the people with special powers were indeed physically and mentally oppressed. Later, as the number of mutant animals increased, food gradually became scarce, and ordinary people with lower value became like stored grain."
Zhou He frowned, "They eat human flesh?"
"Not everyone eats it. After all, some people really can't accept it. But there are also people who eat it secretly. Xiao Tao's mother is the victim. She was deceived by Xiao Tao's father, locked up and raised, and then she cut her meat for Xiao Tao to eat. In fact, he ate it himself."
"After there was no more room to cut the flesh on her body, she was about to die. Xiao Tao's father set his sights on Xiao Tao, wanting to use him as a second reserve food. When his mother accidentally found out about this, she tried her best to kill him to protect Xiao Tao."
"The mountain god found out about it by accident, and he inspired the first healing psychic to appear. He repaired the injuries on Xiao Tao's mother, and she survived. But she was afraid of losing Xiao Tao, so she refused to see anyone."
After several years of suffering in the last days, even when hearing such things, Zhou He did not have any strong emotional ups and downs. He just said calmly, "It's not easy."
After they walked a few steps, a little girl of about five or six years old came out of a yard. The two crooked pigtails on her head made her look even younger.
"Brother!" A crisp voice rang out, and the little girl ran towards the group of people. Fang Tang took two quick steps and picked her up.
"Tangyuan, have you eaten?" Fangtang asked in a gentle voice.
"I've eaten." Fang Yuan poked his head out from Fang Tang's arms and looked at the few people, then greeted Qi Le, "Brother and Master, good morning."
Qi Le nodded and greeted her.
"Brother, didn't you say yesterday that you would take a rest today and take me out to play? I couldn't find you when I woke up. Where did you go?" Tangyuan still paid more attention to his brother.
"Brother has something to do, you..."
"Fang Tang, it's a rare day off, so you can stay at home with Tang Yuan. I'll take them over." Qi Le made arrangements for Fang Tang without waiting for him to refuse.
"But..." Fang Tang immediately retorted. In his eyes, Zhou He and Yun Bai were both high-level psychics, while Qi Le was just an ordinary person. Now they were meeting for the first time and they were not familiar with each other. Who could guarantee if anything would go wrong?
"It's okay. Captain Zhou's abilities are no worse than yours. What can go wrong with the two of them around?" Qi Le didn't let him say what he was worried about. "Besides, everyone in the training ground is also full of people with abilities."
Thinking of the level of the psychics over there, Fang Tang nodded and said to Zhou He, "Please both of you protect my master's safety."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
After getting Zhou He's assurance, Fang Tang still had a worried look on his face, but the little girl immediately became happy, and almost twisted into a dough stick in Fang Tang's arms, giggling continuously. Finally, Fang Tang also smiled helplessly.
After saying goodbye to the two of them, Zhou He asked about Fang Tang's situation.
"Don't look at his young age. He has a lot of responsibilities. His parents passed away not long after the end of the world, and he struggled to raise his sister by himself." Qi Le's tone could hardly hide his admiration for Fang Tang.
The girl doesn't look like she has ever been tortured. In the big environment of Panshui base, Fang Tang must have made a lot of efforts. Zhou He also praised her, "That's really amazing."
"he……"
"master……"
The clear voice of a little girl sounded from behind them. The three of them turned around and saw Li Jing running towards them with a weaving frame on his back. He spoke in a coquettish tone and bumped into Qi Le's arms, hugging his waist, "Master, where have you been? I came back to look for you yesterday, but you were not at home."
"I'm taking care of the mountain god." Qi Le rubbed her head, "Where are you going?"
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