Chapter 41 Transfer of Rights
Jiang Rong went back and called Xin Jue and Cai'er out, while Uncle Zhao stayed at home. At least one person had to stay at home.
They are now planning to go to the village chief's house first, at least to tell him the news that his son has passed away.
However, they have not brought out the body of the village chief's son yet. Otherwise, it would be a bit too cruel to bring the body of someone else's son directly to the door. At least they have to give the old village chief some buffer time.
Although it is actually a rare thing to have corpses left in the apocalypse.
In addition, if the body is to be buried now, burial is probably not an option, otherwise the person might be dug up by nearby mutant beasts just after being buried.
The best option is cremation.
But cremation now wastes fuel, and there is still nearly a year of extreme cold to go. To be honest, cremation now deprives the living people in the family of the chance to survive.
What if there is no other fuel at all?
Without any fuel, the temperature inside the room would be at least minus 40 degrees Celsius. If a person sleeps in such an environment for a night, he or she would probably be stiff when he or she wakes up the next day.
Jiang Rong walked over and felt that his thoughts were a little too divergent. Why was he worrying about how to bury someone else's son?
It took nearly an hour to walk from Jiang's house to the village chief's house, and the journey was not peaceful.
Normally this road would take about 20 minutes to walk, but now due to the snow on the road and the mutant beasts that occasionally popped out, the journey of more than 20 minutes was stretched to more than an hour.
Jiang Rong's home is on the mountain, and the village chief's home is at the foot of the mountain like Cai'er's home, with the height difference of a four-story house between them.
The ends of the houses on the mountain and at the foot of the mountain all lead to the same path, which is the only way out of Qingshan Village.
There are many houses along the road, which stretches for several hundred meters. Then there is a wider winding mountain road. The road is winding, steep and difficult to drive on. If the car coming in from outside does not have enough horsepower, it is possible to slide down halfway. In short, it is even more dangerous in rainy and snowy days.
The village chief's house is probably in the middle of the village.
Therefore, the houses of Jiang Rong and his family are actually quite remote, and if you go a little further to the right you will be in the mountains.
Jiang Rong and his companions first informed the village chief of the news of his son's death, and then they did not stay long and left quickly.
But when she went out, the suppressed crying coming from the village chief's house still lingered in Zhao Caier's heart for a long time.
Xin Jue's expression was very solemn at this moment, less gentle than usual and more cold.
Jiang Rong, on the other hand, had a calm expression and a peaceful heart.
She had seen too many of these things in her previous life, to the point where she had become numb.
It's just the beginning, and things won't be any better than they are now.
She had no time to feel sad about other people's pessimism and separations, and could only try her best to protect those who were still alive.
Because it was difficult to travel in the heavy snow, and they also had to deal with various mutant beasts that might appear at any time, Jiang Rong did not let the people from the village chief's family come out with him.
The only person with superpowers in their family has died. Now the whole family is just ordinary people, and they still need to be protected when they go out. To put it bluntly, it is quite troublesome.
Therefore, before they left, they made an agreement with the other party to send the person back the next day.
The old village chief just thanked them with red eyes. At this moment, his back, which was not very straight to begin with, looked even more hunched.
The extremely cold wind and snow outside, as well as the mutated monsters, had never overwhelmed him, but the news of his children's death made him look several times more miserable in an instant.
The whole person is like a deflated ball, and what little energy he had left is gone.
On the way out, Jiang Rong saw Cai'er looking depressed, sighed, and patted her on the back to comfort her.
"If you feel sad, just kill a few more mutant beasts. That way, fewer people will die in the village."
After that, several people began to sweep the village.
Start cleaning out one by one the places where mutant beasts might exist.
At this time, because the abilities of several people had greatly improved compared to before, although they had not even reached the first intermediate level, their ability to resist cold and freezing had increased a lot. In addition, their bodies had been moving all the time, so they managed to hold on outside.
Some people go out early and return late.
It took nearly a whole day, and they worked together to kill nearly a hundred low-level mutant beasts.
If they encounter a large group of small mutant beasts, they usually have no choice but to hide.
In addition, Jiang Rong let the short snake swallow the corpses of the mutant beasts they killed on the spot and swallowed them into its space.
There was no covering up.
If you don't want to be unable to use the supplies in the future, then there is no need to hide it.
Anyway, the space belongs to the little short snake. If others want to take advantage of it, they have to see if they can deal with it.
In addition, when most people first see it, they probably just think that it eats all those things, and they may not associate it with space for the time being...
In about a day, Jiang Rong had about a hundred more mutant beast brain pills, but these brain pills were very mixed and messy, and if she wanted to purify them, it would take a lot of effort.
But Jiang Rong doesn't have so much time now, so she will only purify the brain pill of the quack beast for the time being.
The previous quack beasts had captured over 500 in total.
So now she still has about three hundred brain pills of the quack beasts waiting for her to purify.
At night, Jiang Rong stayed in his grandmother's room for an hour as usual, and then returned to his own room.
There was no light in the room at the moment, so Jiang Rong lit a one-dollar candle.
There were plenty of candles in her space, but gasoline was limited. Although Xin Jue didn't know where she got it from, there were quite a few barrels of gasoline, but she still tried to save as much as possible.
Gasoline is used in so many places. If you don't save it, it will run out one day.
Now, except for a few elderly people whose rooms still have the air conditioners turned on, young people like Jiang Rongxin Jue haven't turned on the air conditioners yet.
Just use hot water bottles and heating stoves.
However, the main reason why they, the psychics, were able to hold on was because their ability to resist freezing had improved.
In addition, almost the entire Jiang and Xin families basically no longer turn on the headlight on the roof at night. Everyone either uses desk lamps or flashlights, which can cope with the night.
At this time of year, the elderly don’t have much entertainment, and they usually go to bed early. If the children can’t sleep, they turn on the table lamp and read picture books or something like that.
Ever since Jiang Suan received the small silver-blue robot from Jiang Rong, he has been sleeping with the small robot every night.
The little robot sleeps at the innermost, he sleeps in the middle, and grandma sleeps at the outermost, making him feel at ease. If he can't sleep, he talks to grandma. If grandma ignores him or falls asleep, he talks to the little robot.
Time passed quickly and another three days passed.
Wu Hui and his companions roughly counted the population of the village and found that 32 households had died, with a total of 232 people. There were still 78 households left, with a total of 584 people.
Among them, there are forty-three surviving people with special abilities, which is a large proportion compared to ordinary people in the village.
In addition, the statistics on what specific abilities everyone possesses are not complete.
Because some people are unwilling to reveal their special abilities.
This is something that saves people's lives in the apocalypse, so they are understandably reluctant to reveal it.
Jiang Rong, Xin Jue and Cai'er didn't say anything.
Although Wu Hui and his companions were somewhat dissatisfied with this, there was nothing they could do.
Jiang Rong and the others all agreed that taking the initiative to reveal their special abilities was undoubtedly a way of trapping themselves, which was both dangerous and stupid.
Wu Hui and his colleagues had good intentions, but they were indeed a bit too idealistic.
Fortunately, they didn't dwell too much on this issue.
In addition, in just three days, although the old village chief was the apparent leader of the village, in reality his power had already begun to be hollowed out.
Now the actual leaders of the village have almost become Wu Hui and his group.
Because of their statistics and dangerous visits over the past few days, many ordinary people in the village, except for those other people with special abilities, have placed great trust in them.
Trust them to protect them, trust their ability to act and organize and their 'ability to speak'.
Jiang Rong and the others just watched silently.
They would go out and clean up the mutant beasts in the village every day, but they didn't interfere with other things. After clearing a certain amount of mutant beasts every day, they would go home to practice.
Today, Jiang Rong and his team had just gone out with their equipment early in the morning when they were notified that all people with special abilities needed to gather in an open space in front of the village.
They didn't have any idea about it, but along the way, they could see several young people who were also psychics walking towards the open space with dissatisfaction on their faces.
No one spoke to each other along the way.
Because Jiang Rong and her group used to be a group of three, and because of Jiang Rong's lazy personality and not caring about other people, there were not many young people in the village who had a good relationship with her and them.
Many times, we would only see each other at banquets in the village during festivals and holidays, and then we would know who the other person was, the son or grandson of so-and-so.
But there is no intersection with them personally.
If we have to say that there is an intersection, it might be that before we entered junior high school, a group of kids played hide-and-seek, police and robbers, and other multiplayer games like "one, two, three, stone" and played together.
But that was basically a long, long time ago.
Looking back now, Jiang Rong feels that with her personality, she would never play these games with those little brats.
About five or six minutes later, Jiang Rong and the other two arrived at the small open space where everyone was gathered.
At this moment, it was probably because almost all those standing here were psychics of varying strengths, and the low-level and low-grade mutant beasts around them sensed the danger and did not appear.
Not a single one.
If a mutant beast really appeared at this time, it would probably not be a low-level mutant beast, but at least a first-level intermediate or above.
Jiang Rong stood on one side of the crowd, and glanced around calmly. He saw many people who looked familiar but he couldn't remember their names.
During this time, some people saw her and looked away expressionlessly, some nodded slightly to greet her, and some smiled and waved at her.
Jiang Rong...
However, this group of people are basically all young people between 20 and 30 years old.
Some of them are older.
There are almost no children.
According to Jiang Rong's impression, those with special abilities under the age of eighteen will basically awaken in the red fog one year later.
Therefore, the three children in their family may also have the opportunity to awaken their special powers.
However, at that time in the previous life, the mortality rate of people in this age group was very high, so the success rate of awakening was also very low.
Jiang Rong stood in the crowd for about ten minutes, and basically everyone was there.
At this time, some people have already become impatient waiting.
Therefore, he said to Wu Hui and the others in a nasty voice: "Why did you call us here?!"
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