"Rebirth After the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Part 3)...
Ye Xiqing was unconscious for a long time. When she woke up, she was afraid that she had been reborn.
Fortunately, the dull pain in her right hand told her that she wasn't sick.
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and slowly look at your right wrist.
It's bare, and doesn't really look like it has hands.
Turn your head and close your eyes again.
My heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally died.
Her series of actions were observed by the person taking care of her, who couldn't help but chuckle: "I'm sorry, although your emergency measures were very good, the base's current medical conditions are not yet capable of reattaching severed limbs."
"You're still young, losing an arm is nothing. You can try the new external prosthetic limb developed by the base. You might find that it's not a weakening effect, but an enhancement."
Before coming, Ye Xiqing had prepared herself mentally and quickly managed to control her emotions.
But she didn't expect the doctor to comfort her; it showed real human compassion. So she turned around and thanked him, saying, "Thank you, I understand."
The doctor appreciated her optimism and gave her some additional instructions.
The wound from the severed wrist was too large; it wasn't enough to just stop the bleeding. Ye Xiqing was asked to stay in bed for observation for a period of time.
Even if the injury is on your hand and doesn't affect your mobility, don't run around recklessly as soon as you feel energetic.
Ye Xiqing nodded repeatedly. "Don't worry, no one values their life more than her. Even if you tell her to run, she won't."
In the post-apocalyptic world, even surgery might not have anesthesia, let alone high-end things like painkillers. The pain from the severed wrist was so intense that Ye Xiqing wanted to die.
Fortunately, the brain is an amazing thing; the pain lasts for a while, then begins to subside and stays within a tolerable range.
Stimulated by the pain, Ye Xiqing became more alert and began to observe the world.
The hospital was certainly an important part of the base, but its rudimentary state gave Ye Xiqing a rough understanding of the living standards in the apocalypse.
The woman who treated her was a well-mannered middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties, just like people before the apocalypse.
If things were normal before the apocalypse, then things take on a different meaning after the apocalypse.
In the post-apocalyptic world, besides direct death, there is also endless radiation and viruses. Most of those who survive have developed tolerance, but only those with superpowers can maintain a completely healthy body.
When Ye Xiqing saw her ordinary, normal appearance, he knew she was a superhuman. In this environment, superhumans must have a high status.
This person is not simple.
Luan Anchun was surprised that someone with a broken hand still had the leisure to observe her. She smiled and looked at Ye Xiqing with a calm demeanor: "You have a good attitude. May I ask you now, what happened during your duty this time?"
“You’re in terrible shape, and neither of your teammates have come back.”
When someone of a certain rank asks her about this kind of thing, it's definitely not just casual conversation.
But aside from the fact that he had time-traveled, Ye Xiqing had nothing else to hide and told him everything directly.
"We didn't encounter any danger; it was internal betrayal."
"They both tried to kill me, but I killed them instead."
After listening to Ye Xiqing's account, Luan Anchun's face gradually turned serious: "Such a thing actually happened?"
Ye Xiqing was also distressed, seemingly unwilling to face reality. She looked at Luan Anchun with a haggard expression and asked, "My crystal core was destroyed during the sneak attack. Will I still be able to participate in duty in the future?"
Luan Anchun looked at Ye Xiqing with a hint of pity. The base was a reality, and the preferential treatment brought by superpowers would soon be lost without them.
But saying these things now would be too much of a blow to the injured person. Luan Anchun did not answer directly, but looked at Ye Xiqing: "When I brought you here, I found that your wound treatment was very professional. Did you study medicine before the apocalypse?"
Ye Xiqing nodded: "Yes, before the apocalypse I was a pharmacy PhD. Medicine and pharmacy are inseparable, so I have studied some medicine."
Luan Anchun: ...
"What? A PhD in Pharmacy? Then why have you never mentioned that before!"
"Because I prefer field work. Of course, I don't mean to discriminate against office work. I just feel that as a superhuman, field work better highlights my value."
Luan Anchun was instantly heartbroken: "How foolish of me! The base has always treated top talents with preferential treatment. If we had known in advance that you were a PhD in pharmacy, we would have provided you with more meticulous protection, and things wouldn't have turned out like this!"
Ye Xiqing also looked regretful and turned to Luan Anchun: "After I lose my ability to go on fieldwork, can I come and work for you?"
For the first time, Luan Anchun, who had always been polite and refined, showed enthusiasm: "Don't worry, I will report to my superiors."
Even after becoming a cripple, Ye Xiqing still received excellent treatment in the resource-scarce post-apocalyptic base. This just goes to show that knowledge can change one's destiny.
No one doubted Ye Xiqing's claim of betrayal within the group, since it was hard to imagine why a superhuman would risk shattering her crystal core to kill her boyfriend.
Rosie's boyfriend was an ordinary person before, but he gained superpowers after Rosie brought him into the base.
If Rosie wanted to kill him, she could have simply abandoned him when he was just an ordinary person.
In the apocalypse, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive without the help of people with superpowers.
Ye Xiqing felt very relieved and waited for her wound to heal before getting out of bed.
Luan Anchun also brought news that she had been transferred to the medical department.
Strictly speaking, Ye Xiqing's experience studying medicine dates back "several hundred years," and Ye Xiqing herself has almost forgotten about it.
However, some things are different once you've learned them compared to never having learned them. In the post-apocalyptic world, technology has regressed to the point where even antibiotics are rare.
Unfortunately, in this world where asteroids collide with Earth and nuclear weapons explode, humanity hasn't followed in the footsteps of the dinosaurs, all thanks to the author's mutation cheat code and the fact that they haven't yet written about ecological degradation.
Otherwise, what if an asteroid, which all modern technology can't intercept, just hits Earth and we're fighting zombies instead?
One moment the earth's crust is in turmoil, with mountains roaring and tsunamis crashing, and the next moment the Ice Age arrives, killing everyone. If people still want to live, they'll just live as specimens.
It's already amazing that they've accurately identified the mutated apocalypse; don't ask for too much.
After the Great Purge, the human population became extremely small. Even the supposedly large Huiyang Base only had about a thousand people, most of whom were ordinary people without superpowers or medical knowledge.
When there are billions of people in the world, it's not surprising that there are all kinds of talented people. But when there are only a thousand people, people will applaud you even if you just rub penicillin on something.
Everyone in the medical department looked at Ye Xiqing in shock: "You have such advanced pharmacological knowledge, why didn't you say so sooner!"
Ye Xiqing: ...
"Actually, although I have a PhD in biopharmaceuticals, the job market in our field is quite tight. I didn't work in this field after graduation. I was a little hesitant to apply to the medical department."
The others, upon hearing her say that, immediately understood.
"Actually, before the apocalypse, I was just a medical student..."
"I am a dentist."
"I am a nurse."
Luan Anchun is indeed a surgical director, and although she is only the director of a small hospital, that is enough for her to become the head of the medical department.
Luan Anchun patted Ye Xiqing on the shoulder: "Little friend, you have a bright future ahead of you."
Ye Xiqing: ...
Her post-apocalyptic scenario seems to have suddenly changed from "Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it: I won't leave after the apocalypse" to "Global medical standards have dropped ten thousand times, but I remain unchanged."
...
People in the post-apocalyptic world may not know how to do or use many things, but they do know what is good.
The primary task of fieldwork is to explore the outside world and collect various supplies.
Medical supplies are definitely the most important. Not only are there readily available medicines, but medical equipment will also be brought back if conditions permit, for those who know how to use it.
Coincidentally, there was a pharmaceutical factory near the Huiyang base. Some pharmaceutical equipment that the base had looted was originally unusable, but now it was all being used by Ye Xiqing.
Ye Xiqing touched these familiar devices, as if she hadn't driven in a long time and was touching the steering wheel again.
As soon as I got started, all the long-forgotten memories came back to life. I turned to everyone and smiled, "Thank you all. I happen to have some insights into these things."
The crowd erupted in cheers.
A good horse needs a good saddle, and good instruments need a good pharmacist.
With the pharmaceutical equipment, Ye Xiqing was greatly empowered and quickly produced some important, commonly used medicines.
At the same time, we request permission from the base to collect live samples of mutated plants and animals to bring back to the laboratory during missions.
Humans are different now, and so are plants and animals; there's no such thing as medicine that remains unchanged.
Previous drugs cannot always be effective; pharmacology needs to be constantly updated.
The base's leadership immediately agreed to her request.
Without someone skilled in pharmaceutical manufacturing, medicines are consumed in small quantities and their supply dwindles. Now that the base has a pharmaceutical master, it means there will be a continuous stream of new drugs in the future!
Ye Xiqing's pharmaceutical value was no less than that of those with superpowers, and she quickly gained the attention of the base, which opened a new pharmaceutical department and appointed her as its head.
People around her also showed her more and more respect, addressing her as Dr. Luo and asking if she could mentor some new employees to help expand the pharmaceutical department.
Ye Xiqing understood this perfectly. When the end of the world is approaching and humanity is in danger, people will naturally not care about cherishing what they have.
Humanity is a community with a shared future; only when all of humanity survives can individuals live better lives.
However, she was always very sensitive, and seeing that the group of students was all male, she asked directly, "Are there no female students who want to learn, since you're all male students?"
Hearing her ask this, the base's high-ranking officer who brought the people seemed quite surprised: "Of course, such hard work should be done by men; it's too inconvenient for women."
Ye Xiqing had already guessed the answer to what would come next, but she still wanted to ask, "What do you mean by 'inconvenient'?"
The person in charge said matter-of-factly, "Everyone in the base needs to contribute to the base. Of course, women should focus on having children and contribute to the population growth of the base."
"It's not right to make pregnant women do heavy work. Let the men do it."
"By the way, Dr. Luo, now that you've switched to logistics, you have more free time. Are you interested in finding a partner?"
"Given the current situation, if Dr. Luo can find a good match, everyone will be happy for you."
After he finished speaking, a burst of good-natured laughter rang out from the crowd.
Hearing the laughter, Ye Xiqing slowly raised her eyes.
They spoke so matter-of-factly that Ye Xiqing's question seemed utterly nonsensical.
Ye Xiqing slowly recalled that, indeed, apart from those who clearly possessed superpowers and older women, she had not seen any other ordinary young women at the base.
She woke up to find Luan Anchun there, and her medical department also had many female students, which gave her a false impression.
The system anxiously told her to return to the main storyline at the beginning, but never mentioned it again after she woke up, which was obviously wrong.
All the answers were revealed at this moment. Ye Xiqing looked up and asked, "System, have you prepared another interesting plot for me?"
The system, which had been silent for a long time, chuckled.
When Ye Xiqing initially wanted to stay in the previous life's side story, the system was completely baffled, having never encountered anything like it before.
But as the story unfolds, the system decides to accept its fate.
After all, the plot it wants doesn't seem to interfere with the show.
...
Ye Xiqing calmly supported her chin with her left hand. Since losing her right hand, she had to use her left hand to scratch her chin.
Actually, it's not that strange.
In apocalyptic themes, it's a bit of a challenge for screenwriters not to depict women selling their bodies for food or becoming reproductive tools to showcase the cruelty of the world, just like it's a challenge for historical themes not to depict women being violated or show the suffering of a nation.
It's not entirely unrealistic, but it is somewhat realistic. After all, in places where there are many men, there is indeed a lot of malice towards women in this regard.
But realistically speaking, the living environment of primitive societies and primitive humans was not much worse than that of the apocalypse.
Even in such a harsh environment, matriarchal societies persisted for 30,000 years without inventing a clever way to ensure the survival of their race by using women as reproductive tools.
Modern screenwriters are incredibly creative!
Ye Xiqing didn't know whether to laugh or not, because it was just too funny.
Civilization is progressing, but women are regressing.
Even a chicken will fight back when you kill it, but in the eyes of visionaries of the future, women will obediently wait to be eaten under any circumstances.
He looked up at the system and said, "System, I have a question for you. In ancient society, what would happen if the government levied a 30% tax on the people?"
The system was chuckling to itself when it suddenly saw Ye Xiqing's familiar expression and tensed up: "What..."
Ye Xiqing smiled and replied, "Nothing will happen; the government has already collected 30% of the taxes."
system:……
Before the system could even reprimand Ye Xiqing for his nonsensical writing, Ye Xiqing spoke again: "Do you know what will happen if the government finds nothing has happened and then increases taxes by 50%?"
The system had already sensed something was wrong and remained silent, so Ye Xiqing didn't need its reply.
"Nothing will happen. Not everyone will starve to death. Those who have food won't care about those who have no food and are starving to death. Those who starve to death have no voice."
"What if the authorities find out it's only 50%, and then increase the limit to 90%?"
system:……
It already knew what Ye Xiqing wanted to say, but it didn't want to answer or corroborate Ye Xiqing's point of view.
Ye Xiqing smiled to herself.
"The person who issues the order will be eaten alive."
"Because according to the universal values of normal human beings, if we can't achieve a win-win situation, then we all lose!"
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