"I feel relieved to see you wake up!" Li Wenjia lowered his head after saying this and said nothing more.
"Are you worried about something?" Jiang Wenwen placed a plate of sliced synthetic meat, a few pieces of synthetic grain and a pot of hot tea on the coffee table. She knew at a glance that this guy had something to say but was afraid to say it.
"Let me tell you!" "Uncle Ma," who was sitting on the other side, took over. "We noticed him half a month ago. We didn't expect him to be alive, so we're trying to find him and bring him back to the team. Don't worry, we won't make things difficult for him. We're also aware of your family's situation. To be honest, our Boss Ning is also a Level III mutant."
"So you're here to say goodbye?" Jiang Ling smiled. "Why are you being so timid? Why are you still the same as before?"
Li Wenjia grabbed a few pieces of meat from the plate and stuffed them into his mouth, making a few indistinct mumbles.
"It's like this. Xiao Li plans to go to our place to handle his discharge procedures. It will take about half a month to go back and forth." Another person explained.
Li Wenjia seemed to have finished his meal. "Yes, I'm here to say goodbye. But I don't think I'll be back for a while. I plan to realize my dream!"
"Oh, you are going to be a hero. But the government is doing well now, who are you going to be a hero for?" Jiang Ling knew what kind of person he was and said something sarcastic.
"For those in need!"
"Little girl, there's some news you don't know. The situation has changed, and the world is no longer peaceful!"
"What happened in the past month?"
"There are many things, some good and some bad. What do you want to hear first?"
"Let's start with the worst!" Jiang Wenwen interrupted.
"Then let me go first!" Mr. "Qinghai" opened up his news mode, holding a cup of hot tea. "The worst-case scenario would be nuclear war, right? We've been trying to contact the central government for the past month, but the interference is too strong, so we haven't been able to get through yet. We're planning to send volunteers to Shu to investigate the situation, but it'll take at least two months to figure it out."
Uncle Ma took over the conversation. "So we're an isolated system now, and we've sustained some damage. According to intelligence from the UN disaster satellite, major countries around the world have been destroyed. We must be prepared to rebuild on our own."
Jiang Wenwen thought for a moment and then asked, "I saw the news on NT0603 station. Isn't there anything wrong with most of the metropolitan area?"
Li Wenjia replied, "That was a morale-boosting broadcast. Watch it less in the future. Shanghai's desalination system was damaged. Even if we start repairing it now, it will take until next year. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we'll be rationing drinking water in a month."
Uncle Ma nodded. "Yes, we will soon be short of water. The groundwater is now contaminated by nuclear radiation, and it will be very expensive to treat it."
"We'll probably have to limit the purchase of food and water at ration stores. The entire system is 40% overcrowded. Industrial capacity has been lost by 20%, and the recovery time is still unknown." The man named "Qinghai" seemed to have a slight accent.
"Aren't you a local?" Jiang Ling asked.
"He is from the Western Regions." Uncle Ma replied.
"Then tell me something nice?"
"Compared to this worst thing, there are a lot of good things. What do you want to hear?"
"What about mutants? Any explanation yet?"
"Well, the interim government has already made it public. You can look it up. Mutants that were previously difficult to deal with have now been treated with many simple and practical methods."
“Yes, we must rely on the people!”
"Then..." Jiang Ling looked at Li Wenjia: "Did we do it?"
He was stunned for a moment, then understood. He rummaged through his clothes for a moment before pulling out a pass. He gently placed it on the coffee table and said, "They call the 'mutant' who saved this land that day 'Hou Tu'."
"I get excited when I think about this, but unfortunately I don't know where she went later." Uncle Ma looked grateful when he talked about this.
"Yes, we will all be her descendants!" Qinghai exclaimed.
"How do you say that?"
"Don't you know? That day, more than three thousand missiles were aimed at us, some of which were launched from the moon. The great god Hou Tu destroyed ninety-nine percent of them. That's how we, over four hundred million people, survived!"
"So many!? What about worldwide?"
"We spent several days counting the data sent by the remaining satellites. About five billion people died worldwide." Uncle Ma said in a deep voice.
Everyone was silent for a while, and Uncle Ma spoke again: "Let's not talk about this. We who survived will always remember those people."
"I've spent all the points I've accumulated these days on this card of yours. I've upgraded your permissions to A, which will be much more convenient in the future. You'll know once you use it!" Li Wenjia took over the topic.
"You've used it all? That's several thousand!" Uncle Ma was a little surprised.
"No, there's still some left. I thought it would all be spent at first. As for the reason, she saved my life!" Li Wenjia explained.
Jiang Ling picked up the pass and saw that nothing had changed except that the first letter of the serial number had been changed to "A". "Nothing has changed!"
"Yes, the balance hasn't changed!" Li Wenjia said with a wry smile, "It's hard to upgrade your card to A! Usually only the military can temporarily upgrade to A-level, but yours is permanent."
"Then I have to keep it safe! By the way, what did he do to earn so many points in such a short time?"
Uncle Ma was about to answer, but was silenced by Li Wenjia: "We don't steal or rob, we're all doing legitimate business!"
Jiang Ling glanced at him suspiciously, then accepted the answer. But she immediately asked another question: "So what kind of contract did he sign with you?"
This time Uncle Ma answered: "Well, we are the volunteers!" He drank a sip of hot tea nonchalantly.
"Is this your way of being chivalrous?" Jiang Wenwen exclaimed.
"That's about right. This is also the exchange for my discharge from the army."
"Our Countermeasures Bureau has just been established and we are very short of people. He is a 'veteran' who can survive the era of countermeasures organizations and is very valuable to us!" Qinghai explained.
"Then you better do your best and don't die." Jiang Ling ended the farewell party.
Before leaving, Li Wenjia shared some more information. He said there were several protective suits and some notes he had written about outdoor activities downstairs, and suggested they take a look at them.
He also said that the surface area within more than 50 kilometers was classified as a yellow zone by the provisional government, which means a moderately polluted area. People had to wear protective clothing when going out and could not stay there for too long. But in Jiang Ling's case, she probably only needed to open a shield.
Finally, the two of them took the three brave adventurers to the pressurized isolation door downstairs, watched them put on their exoskeletons and helped close the air pressure door.
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