"Splash!"
The black rain pounded hard on the ground, and the water evaporated into mist the moment it touched the ground, making the whole world feel like it was in a steamer.
But this scene only lasted for two minutes because the rain was just too heavy!
Countless people walked out of their homes in a daze, unable to believe that it was really raining.
They stared blankly as they reached out to catch the rain, only to have their palms sting from the huge raindrops. But no one cared; they were frantic, gesturing wildly as if performing a shamanistic ritual: "It's raining! It's raining!"
Some people even tilted their heads back, opened their mouths wide, and frantically swallowed the rainwater. In that instant, the desire to live overcame everything, and no one inappropriately said that the rainwater was dirty and could not be drunk directly.
"You can't drink it! You can't drink it!"
A sharp voice suddenly rang out, but no one paid any attention.
"The rain is black, you can't drink it!"
The shrill voice was tinged with sobs.
The person standing in the rain suddenly snapped back to reality. Black...?
The cheering crowd suddenly looked like ducks being choked, and the only sound in the air was the sound of rain falling.
Maybe it's a minute, maybe it's ten minutes.
A man with a bulging belly wiped his face and laughed loudly, "Black is black, so be it. We're all going to die anyway, might as well die full!"
He spoke with great composure, yet his voice carried an indescribable sorrow. Why did hope, which was so close at hand, suddenly shatter in an instant, letting them know that they might not live much longer?
How tragic!
Some people, in a fit of despair, continued drinking water with their mouths wide open; others silently went home, grabbed a kitchen knife, and then smashed their neighbor's door, shouting, "Hand over your food..."
Banxia was unaware of the chaos below the mountain. She stuffed the energy fruit into Nanxing's hand, opened the bedroom door, and went downstairs to check on the state of the gold and silver.
After the energy fruit tree was transplanted into the space, it only bore this one fruit in the past six months. The fruit that the big black ox used to apologize was eaten every day.
As for why she doesn't eat herself, it's because the Devouring Tree obtains energy by eating, and no matter how much it absorbs, half of the energy will automatically enter her body.
No matter how much energy she absorbs, half of it will belong to the Devouring Tree, so it makes no difference who absorbs it.
Jinzi and Yinzi had fallen into a coma at some point. Banxia separated them, poured 50,000 purified first-level crystal cores into each of them, put on her raincoat, and went out to check on Tuanzi and Heizi.
Tuanzi and Heizi also fainted. They lay quietly at the door with their eyes closed, their fur soaked by the black rain.
Banxia took out a plastic sheet from her space and covered the two, then placed 50,000 first-level crystal cores next to Tuanzi and 100,000 crystal cores next to Heizi.
She wasn't discriminating against them, but rather because Jinzi, Yinzi, and Tuanzi were currently level one mutated beasts, and absorbing too much energy rashly might backfire, while Heizi was already level three, so there was no need to worry too much.
After dealing with the fuzzy tree, Banxia went to check on the apricot and camellia trees in the sunroom. Both trees were also asleep. Without hesitation, Banxia gave each tree 100,000 first-level crystal cores.
In the past six months, she has acquired a total of 750,000 level-one crystal cores, 20,000 level-two crystal cores, and 6,000 level-three crystal cores. Half a month ago, she and the Devouring Tree each absorbed 100,000 level-one crystal cores and 3,000 level-three crystal cores to upgrade their superpowers to level five. Tonight, she used up another 500,000 level-one crystal cores, leaving her with only 50,000 level-one crystal cores and 20,000 level-two crystal cores for future use.
After Banxia finished calculating, she suddenly had an urge to go down the mountain to fight zombies. She tried to comfort herself, saying that after the black rain, zombies and mutated plants and animals would be able to evolve attribute crystal cores, and it would be more worthwhile to kill them then.
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Nanxing didn't know why he was suddenly able to see his past in the form of a soul, but he tried various methods and could not return to reality. He could only try to suppress his anxiety and watch the events unfold in the dream.
He was born into a powerful but feudal family.
His parents each had their own lovers, but were forced into marriage due to family authority, resulting in his birth. After the child was born, both parents acted as if they had completed their mission, eagerly reuniting with their lovers and leaving the newborn to be cared for by a nanny.
The nanny was very professional and didn't mistreat him, but she also didn't get close to him. So, ever since he could remember, he was always sitting silently by the window, lost in thought.
When he was one and a half years old, the two of them accidentally went too far and each fathered a child out of wedlock, leading to a big fight and a talk of divorce.
But how could the two families possibly agree to such a marriage after having just defeated their rivals?
The two gradually escalated from arguing to fighting, and they would beat each other almost every time they met.
On his birthday, in order to demonstrate their sincerity in cooperating, the two families prepared to transfer five percent of the group's shares to his name.
The two men, who had reluctantly agreed to the marriage out of self-interest, immediately opposed it upon hearing the news. But if they couldn't even resist a marriage alliance, how could they possibly defy their family's arrangements?
Both families used inheritance rights to coerce the two women into developing a relationship with him, and the two women were once again forced to take him on a trip alone.
On their trip, the two suddenly started arguing again on the highway, and then tacitly abandoned him on the highway and went their separate ways.
Nanxing watched silently as the two men left with relaxed yet smug smiles on their faces, and suddenly realized that back then, they didn't just want to get rid of him, but they wanted him dead.
It's ridiculous that they would kill their own flesh and blood for profit.
However, he didn't care, because he knew that the police would soon be sent to the orphanage, where he would find a tiny bundle of Banxia and form a happy family.
As before, he was taken to the police station by traffic police in the days that followed. The police asked him if he remembered his home phone number, address, and his parents' names, and he silently shook his head.
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