Chapter 3
After the end of the world, in order to save electricity resources, the Safe City stipulated a monthly electricity quota. In order to save electricity, everyone turned off the lights and went to bed early at night. The Safe City was pitch black at night, and the moonlight seemed particularly bright.
Liu Huaizhao stood on the windowsill, looking at the moon which was similar to the one thousands of years ago, and couldn't help feeling homesick.
After a while, there was a knock on the door behind me.
He turned his head and saw Qin Zunyue standing at the door, wearing pajamas, holding a piece of cloth in his hand, looking at him.
"Why don't you lock the door?"
When Qin Zunyue came to give him a bath towel, he saw that the door of the house was open, revealing the lonely back of the owner.
Liu Huaizhao was staring at his calf, where there was a large, hideous scar.
He snapped back to his senses when he heard Qin Zunyue's words. He realized that his behavior was too rude, so he quickly looked away, "...I forgot, what is this?"
Qin Zunyue didn't notice it. He handed him the thing in his hand and said, "Bath towel, you can use it after taking a shower."
Liu Huaizhao shook his head: "No need to bathe, I have the body cleansing technique."
"Your magic spells are really comprehensive." Qin Zunyue chuckled, not intending to disturb him anymore, so he put away his towel and prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute." Liu Huaizhao stopped him and asked, "Do you have any books for children's enlightenment that you can lend me?"
"You want to learn to read?"
Liu Huaizhao nodded. He couldn't understand the words here, and sometimes couldn't understand what they were saying. It was really inconvenient.
"I don't have the book, but I can take you to school."
Liu Huaizhao nodded and thought that having a teacher would definitely be better than reading by himself.
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Liu Huaizhao unexpectedly had a good relationship with children. During the time he was sent to school by Qin Zunyue, he had basically understood the life of modern people.
One day, Qin Zunyue sent Liu Huaizhao to school as usual. After seeing Liu Huaizhao sitting in the last row and starting to learn to read with a group of children, he went to the shelter to find Wang Haitong.
Wang Haitong was waiting for him at the door of the shelter. He had been looking for Qin Zunyue for several days, but Qin Zunyue was busy sending children hunting and picking up children every day and had no time to look for him.
The shelter is full of orphans and elderly people who rely on subsidies from the command center to survive. As an instructor here, Wang Haitong is very popular among the elderly and children.
He greeted each of the elderly people basking in the sun in the yard and brought Qin Zunyue into his room.
"Where is Xiao Liu from? How did you two know each other?"
Qin Zunyue poured a glass of water and placed it in front of Wang Haitong, saying with a smile: "I have already reported the person I met on the road to Commander Yan. He is not a bad person, don't worry."
"Hmph, I can't control you now." Wang Haitong snorted coldly, took a sip of hot water, put the cup down, and said, "I told you some time ago, the daughter of the old Zhang family..."
"Tsk, why haven't you given up yet? I told you I don't have that intention."
"Well, you don't have that mindset. You're always thinking about how to kill those monsters. I heard the army issued a notice that the monsters have been acting strangely lately, and they're telling all the monster hunters to be careful. You too, should all be quiet. It's not that easy to starve to death now. Don't fight so hard. You..."
"I understand." Qin Zunyue interrupted him, but still made a promise, "We are only fighting for the rations we need to eat now."
On such matters, he never refuted Wang Haitong.
"You know shit! I told you not to do this a few years ago, but who listened to me?"
Qin Zunyue felt guilty and could only listen to Wang Haitong's lecture with one ear and out the other. He was distracted while listening to Wang Haitong's lecture.
He thought again of Liu Huaizhao's back on the night he first arrived, and thought that it was inevitable for a boy of just twenty-one to miss home. It was also because the moon was too round that day, making him look so thin and pitiful.
Bang bang bang.
The table in front of him was hammered a few times. He looked up and saw Wang Haitong glaring at him: "You're not a child anymore. Even if things aren't as comfortable as they used to be, you still have to live your life. Look at how many children have come to Safe City over the years. It's suddenly become so lively."
It was quite lively. Qin Zunyue stood at the door of the classroom waiting for Liu Huaizhao, and the children's screams gave him a headache.
He looked everywhere for Liu Huaizhao but couldn't find him. He just grabbed a kid and asked, "Where's your brother Liu?"
The child pointed to another classroom and said, "He and Liu Yin are in there."
Qin Zunyue felt puzzled. Liu Huaizhao usually waited for him obediently in the classroom, so why did he leave with other children today?
When he opened the door, he saw Liu Huaizhao and several other children secretly turning on a TV used by the teacher to watch cartoons.
After the end of the world, all electricity-consuming appliances were eliminated, and only a few old televisions were left in the school. These kids didn't know how they found a few animation CDs and watched them with Liu Huaizhao.
When Liu Huaizhao saw Qin Zunyue coming, he left his little friend and left.
"How was your study today?"
Just as Liu Huaizhao was about to answer, he heard a parent who came to pick up his child ask the same question.
The two were silent for a moment, and Liu Huaizhao said calmly: "I know everything the teacher taught today. The teacher also gave me a few books. They are not difficult and I can understand them all."
The clever student ate a small cake that was rare in the apocalypse. After he finished eating it, Qin Zunyue ordered a larger piece and prepared to take it back for others in the evening.
Qin Zunyue didn't take any supplies when he went out today, so he left a signed note. The owner of the dessert shop knew him and said he would deliver it to him in the evening and take the supplies with him.
After seeing the cake in the evening, Tong Le and Qiao Lang's screams almost broke through the roof. Qin Zunyue felt like he was back at the door of the classroom in the shelter. He blocked their mouths with the cake and went to the kitchen to re-count the food.
Liu Huaizhao stood by and was conflicted. He liked to eat this kind of thing, but he had already eaten it secretly. Now he was too embarrassed to snatch it from them, so he put on a cold expression and went back to his room.
But Qin Zunyue still brought him a piece in the evening.
"I won't eat it anymore. Leave it for them."
"They specially left this for you. Eat it. It's okay." As if seeing through Liu Huaizhao's thoughts, Qin Zunyue added, "If you hadn't shown up in time that day, we wouldn't even be alive to eat the cake now."
The sweetness of the cake tempted Liu Huaizhao, and he finally took the cake and ate it carefully, bite by bite.
"Many of the turbid monsters you killed that day turned into golden elixirs after they dissipated, making our lives suddenly prosperous."
Qin Zunyue had been observing Liu Huaizhao's expression. Seeing that Liu Huaizhao slowed down his eating after hearing these words, he asked, "Did you not have golden beads at that time?"
"How do you know?"
Qin Zunyue leaned against the wall, folded his arms and looked at him: "Guess."
Liu Huaizhao put down the cake and answered him: "Indeed, no, but I used my spiritual power to feel the golden elixir and it has no harm to you, so I didn't tell you."
"It really has no harm. It can bring dying people back to life, but it's only useful for those injured by the turbid demon."
Liu Huaizhao nodded and picked up the cake again: "Because the turbid demon hurts people by injecting turbid air into the human body and then absorbing the turbid air in the human body, and the pure air counteracts it, so the two can cancel each other out."
"Then do you know why there is pure energy in the body of the turbid monster now?"
"When the heavy turbid energy created the turbid demon, it absorbed the turbid energy of the world, so an inner elixir filled with turbid energy formed within the turbid demon." Liu Huaizhao paused, "That's the sphere you see. But the clear energy... Logically, the clear and turbid energies should counteract each other, so the clear energy shouldn't appear within the turbid demon. But why this is happening, I don't know."
"Okay, I will report the matter of the golden elixir. You can rest first." After asking all the questions he wanted to ask, Qin Zunyue took away the empty cake plate and said good night to Liu Huaizhao.
"Wait." Liu Huaizhao stopped him and asked after hesitating for a while, "Why do you believe me?"
Qin Zunyue didn't expect him to ask this, so he smiled and said, "It's my intuition."
Liu Huaizhao pursed his lips and said good night to him.
After using magic to cleanse his body at night, Liu Huaizhao returned to bed and began to think about the problem that had been bothering him recently: their magic spells all rely on the clear yang energy to be cultivated, but he is now unable to perceive the clear yang energy in the heaven and earth, so why is his spiritual power gradually recovering?
And if there is no pure yang energy between heaven and earth now, why is there an inner elixir formed by pure energy in the body of the turbid monster?
Liu Huaizhao couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and meditated. He was eager to explore the memories that had been erased from his mind, but after a night, he found nothing.
Fortunately, it is not a big deal for a cultivator to stay up all night. Compared to Tong Le who was yawning all the time, Liu Huaizhao did not look like he had not slept all night at all.
Breakfast was simple, hand-rolled noodles topped with braised pork sauce. Qin Zunyue was still wearing his black vest, but Liu Huaizhao had become accustomed to the shameless dressing style of modern people and pretended not to notice.
"Eat quickly. After that, I'll take you to class. You must have no problem studying. You speak like modern people lately. If you don't like it, you can stop attending class for a while. Come back and study by yourself."
"knew."
"Brother..." Tong Le, who was eating hard, raised his head and said quietly, "You look like his father. He has been in school for a long time. It's not like he doesn't know the way."
"I think I'm quite like your father. Dean Xu asked you to go to the research institute a while ago. Did you go?"
"Oh, I forgot. I'll go after dinner." Tong Le just picked up a chopstick of noodles and seemed to remember something and asked, "Brother, are you going on a blind date today?"
"Blind date? What blind date? Brother Qin, are you getting married?"
"Tsk, what does this have to do with anything? I didn't agree." Qin Zunyue was about to explain when there was a loud banging sound at the door.
"It must be Uncle Wang." Tong Le walked across the yard to open the door. It was indeed Wang Haitong outside the door. He walked in and asked Qin Zunyue to pack up and follow him.
Qin Zunyue was speechless: "When did I ever agree to go with you?"
"Don't say so much. I already have an appointment with her. She works at the hospital. Do you think she's as free as you? She's very busy. Hurry up and don't waste time."
Qin Zunyue couldn't persuade him, so he put down his bowl and chopsticks, went back to the house to change clothes, and followed him out.
The people at the dinner table were eager to watch the fun, and after they stretched their necks to watch Qin Zunyue leave with a sour face, they started discussing the matter with great interest.
Liu Huaizhao didn't understand what was going on all morning, so he could only ask, "What is a blind date?"
"Blind dates are... two people meeting, chatting, and then falling in love. After dating for a while, they get married... No, dating for a long time means they get married."
Liu Huaizhao understood: "Qin Zunyue is getting married?"
"No, no, no, not so fast. They have to like each other and spend some time together before they can get married."
Seeing Liu Huaizhao's confused look, Tong Le simply put down his chopsticks and taught this ancient man some modern common sense about love and marriage - something that the group of little brats at school could not teach him.
The person involved, Qin Zunyue, walked to the vicinity of the hospital under Wang Haitong's nagging.
The girl was a nurse in the hospital. She met him before work and it seemed that she was forced to come. The two of them were speechless.
The girl looked at her watch and said, "In that case, I'll go in. I don't know why, but a lot of people have been injured by monsters lately."
Monsters will corrode people's skin. Even if many people are not killed directly by monsters, they will die from excessive blood loss or skin infection. However, these can be treated in hospitals, especially now that highly effective hemostatic drugs have been developed for wounds caused by monsters, greatly reducing the mortality rate.
Qin Zunyue naturally would not waste a nurse's precious time. The two said goodbye and parted ways.
Pretending not to see Wang Haitong's disappointed look, he was thinking about rushing back now to send the little genius at home to school.
Unfortunately, they were destined not to be able to send the children to school today. They had just taken two steps when they heard a commotion at the city gate, and then a group of doctors and nurses rushed out of the hospital.
Pedestrians on the road gave way, and soon many soldiers were seen being pushed into the hospital on stretchers.
"Fuck." Wang Haitong cursed. "What's going on?"
Qin Zunyue looked solemn. Since the establishment of the safe city, although there have been cases of soldiers being seriously injured, it has never been so serious.
The person lying on the stretcher passing by seemed to have lost consciousness, and his right arm was missing.
Qin Zunyue gradually heard crying sounds in his ears, and the fear at the beginning of the end of the world seemed to be about to envelop the safe city again.
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