In the warm spring of March, the sky breaks out at six o'clock in the morning.
Xu Qiao laid out the quilt, washed up and put on a simple set of sportswear.
The building was full of old neighbors who knew each other well. Xu Qiao parked her 70% new bicycle in the stairwell.
She unlocked the door and pushed the bicycle out of the unit. A cement path in the middle separated two small courtyards surrounded by wooden fences.
The two small courtyards belong to the Xu family, who lives in House 101, and the Lu family, who lives in House 102 across the street. The land in the base is very expensive, and the houses with small courtyards mean high housing prices that are far higher than those on other floors.
In order to buy this apartment, Grandpa Xu spent the points he had accumulated for most of his life.
The expensive courtyard is of course used to grow expensive fruits and vegetables.
It has been a hundred years since the global biological mutation and Blue Star entered the new era. Some humans will awaken their spiritual bodies and become superpowers.
The spiritual body temperature is nourished by the crystal nucleus in the brain of the superpower, and can be released to the outside world, appearing as a nearly transparent energy body that is visible and touchable.
There are all kinds of strange spiritual bodies, ranging from animals and plants to electronic products and mechanical weapons. Each spiritual body will give the superpower its related abilities.
The spiritual bodies of four generations of the Xu family are lotus flowers, which is probably related to Xu Qiao’s great-grandfather’s obsession with cultivating lotus flowers.
The wood-type abilities granted by the plant spirit body can be divided into three practical categories: planting, treatment, and combat. As the technological level in the base becomes increasingly advanced, when a person with superpowers awakens his spiritual body, the detector will automatically detect the superpower attributes of the other party.
For example, when Xu Qiao wakes up, the detector will display:
Name: Xu Qiao
Spiritual body: Lotus
Main ability: Wood type·Healing, Level: C
Auxiliary ability: Water type·Combat, Level: D
Dual-type and multi-type abilities are very special Commonly seen, such as terrestrial plants such as wheat, corn, elm, pine, etc., the auxiliary abilities are mostly earth-type. The auxiliary abilities of aquatic plants are water-type, but the level of auxiliary abilities will be lower than the first level of the main ability. Even two levels.
In the new era, the mutation rate of crops raised by non-wood superpowers is as high as 90%. Mutated plants may cause harm to people or be inedible, so the base prohibits such people from planting them privately.
Among the wood-type superpowers, those with the planting type can increase production faster while farming, while those with the healing and combat types can only maintain the growth rate of crops in the old era, but this is enough to make the general public and other types of superpowers deeply envious. .
After all, in the southeastern base, the general public can only drink nutrient solution, E- and D-level superpowers occasionally open fires to cook, C-level people have enough food and clothing, B-level people are well-off, and A-level and above belong to wealthy families who dare to eat and drink.
Nowadays, Both courtyards are managed by Xu Qiao.
The two apple trees were covered with small white flowers, and several vegetables planted a week ago were sprouting green shoots.
Crime is prohibited in the base, and the supervision of the second ring where people with special abilities live is even stricter. Intensive monitoring ensures that no one dares to risk stealing food.
Satisfied, Xu Qiao "watered" the green shoots on both sides with the wood power, then got on his bicycle and set off.
Ten minutes later, Xu Qiao locked his bicycle and followed some uncles and aunties into the comprehensive supermarket in this area.
The five floors above ground provide basic necessities, food, housing, transportation and various entertainment services for nearby residents, while the first floor below is where various ingredients and food areas are located.
The Xu family's life is not rich. In other respects, Grandpa Xu lives frugally, but he is willing to spend points on three meals a day. Xu Qiao's appetite is whetted by all kinds of fresh ingredients, unless one day she is really at the end of her rope. , she would not force herself to eat those nutritional solutions that are tasteless and have a weird texture.
Her grandfather left her a small amount of savings before he passed away. Now Xu Qiao is working and making money, which is enough to support her in maintaining her original standard of living.
After shopping around, Xu Qiao bought three days' worth of vegetables and fresh meat in one go.
Back in the community, Xu Qiaocai pushed his bicycle into the unit door. The door of room 102 was suddenly pushed open from the inside. Xu Qiao looked up and saw Lu Yang.
The fifteen-year-old middle school student is nearly 1.8 meters tall, but too thin. His black school uniform hangs loosely on his body.
This is the younger brother next door that she watched grow up. He was still strong last year. Ever since Uncle Lu died in a mercenary mission, the low mood and the sudden reduction in expenses have made the developing middle school student grow taller but not fat. .
Xu Qiao smiled at him, took off the two shopping bags placed in the car basket, and said, "You wash up first, and I'll cook. I'll call you when I'm ready."
Lu Yang lowered his eyes and took out an empty bottle of nutrition from his back . Liquid packaging tube: "I've eaten, just do your share."
Before Xu Qiao could react, the middle school student closed the door from the inside.
Xu Qiao: "..."
Without a rice partner, Xu Qiao still made her egg noodles with shredded vegetables and pork as planned.
While the noodle soup was bubbling, Xu Qiao leaned against the sliding door of the kitchen, recalling the changes in Lu Yang in the past six months.
Uncle Lu is a B-level gold-type superhuman mercenary. Even though he is missing an arm, he is still very capable in the second ring of the base where there are five million E-, D-, and C-level superpowers.
After Aunt Lu passed away, Uncle Lu seemed to continue to live for two things: raising Lu Yang up and saving enough tuition for Lu Yang to attend military school.
Military Academy is the abbreviation of the University of Superpowers. All middle school students who awaken their spiritual bodies at the age of sixteen can enroll in the military academy. However, the base resources are limited, and superpowers are the main force in maintaining the security of the base and replenishing resources. In view of the fact that most superpowers None of the students are willing to risk leaving the base, and the military academy has to charge high tuition fees to the students.
Rich people don't care about the tuition fees. In order to provide their children with a complete education for superpowers, ordinary families either have to work hard to save enough tuition fees, or they can only sign a ten-year "sell-out contract" with the military school: During the term of the contract, upon graduation, The military cadets must stay in the army, undergo rigorous training with the escort, and go out regularly to collect supplies.
As we all know, the escorts go to dangerous areas that have not been fully explored, and the death rate of soldiers has always been high.
Xu Qiao's military school tuition came from the consolation money received by Xu's father for his sacrifice in the Guards Corps.
Uncle Lu only saved two years of tuition for Lu Yang.
After the funeral, Lu Yang briefly mentioned to her that he planned to attend the military academy at his own expense first, and after he learned his skills, he would use the winter and summer vacations to do missions to save for the third year's tuition.
Xu Qiao sighed.
Both his parents are superpowers, so Lu Yang will definitely awaken his spiritual body. If he can inherit Uncle Lu’s B-level metal superpower, it will indeed be safer to go out to the base to do missions, but what if he awakens Aunt Lu’s cotton spiritual body? ?
The arable land in the base is owned by the government, and the planting-type superpowers can only get a decent salary at most.
Uncle Lu...
the cold and silent face came to mind, and Xu Qiao felt a pain in his heart.
When she was sixteen years old, just after she awakened her lotus spiritual body, her grandfather passed away happily. For the next four years, Uncle Lu took care of her, saving her from being entangled by some overbearing and rude male classmates, and taking her through the process. A person with special abilities must perform a basic mercenary mission every six months, and then step forward when other people with special abilities want to threaten her to sell fruits and vegetables at low prices.
Whether it was this care or her affection for watching Lu Yang grow up, Xu Qiao regarded Lu Yang as a younger brother.
After breakfast, Xu Qiao changed into work clothes and when he opened the door, Lu Yang came out with his schoolbag.
After saying hello in a muffled voice, Lu Yang went to push his bicycle.
The middle school student bent over, his school uniform clinging to his back, outlining the obvious shape of his spine. He was really too thin.
Xu Qiao: "The purchase of nutrient solution in the base is limited. You can only buy three bottles a day. It is enough for ordinary people. You are a quasi-powerful person who is about to awaken. You have great nutritional needs. Insufficient supply may affect your power level. The same is true. Level B, there is a difference between strength and weakness."
Lu Yang paused slightly and replied with disapproval: "There are only three months left, it's not as serious as you said."
Xu Qiao: "Whatever you say, I have a suggestion. , you move into my second bedroom and rent out your apartment temporarily, so that you can pay me for food every month and save part of the rent."
The middle school student has a strong self-esteem, so she can only find a way to cooperate.
Lu Yang glanced at the door of his room, thought for a few seconds, and said to Xu Qiao: "In addition to the food expenses, there are also water and electricity bills, and rent. I will pay them."
Xu Qiao smiled: "It is so clear that I am preparing to awaken B-level powers. Then you moved to the central area, don't you want me to take advantage of it?"
Lu Yang became anxious when he heard this: "No, I..."
Xu Qiao: "Then just do as I say, you concentrate on the class, I will rent the house. Come and get it."
After saying that, she didn't wait for Lu Yang to respond, got on her bicycle and left.
There are many large hospitals in the southeast base, and there are also some private clinics run by people with special abilities.
Large hospitals have high wages, good benefits, and strict management. The professional skills and ability levels of medical staff must be re-evaluated every year.
When Xu Qiao graduated from the military academy, she only got a C-level doctor's certificate due to her ability level. In fact, her pathology knowledge and medical device operation were comparable to those of an A-level doctor.
Professor Lin admired her and recommended her to work at the First Military Hospital in the Central District. Xu Qiao was surprised and grateful. But during the short vacation before joining the job, Xu Qiao and Uncle Lu went to do basic tasks outside the base, helping a mercenary. During the treatment, I suddenly noticed that my spiritual body was about to move.
That was an experience Xu Qiao had never had before.
According to the knowledge she has learned, plant-type spiritual bodies are relatively stable and do not like to jump up and down on their own like animal-type spiritual bodies.
After the treatment was over, Xu Qiao was about to release his mental body for a checkup, but he caught a glimpse of a shadow and quickly put it away.
She couldn't explain why she was nervous at that moment, and why she instinctively felt that she shouldn't be discovered by others. In short, her speed was so fast that the mercenaries of the same team who were resting next to her didn't even notice that a lotus spirit body appeared briefly.
Back at the base, Xu Qiao closed the curtains and released his spiritual body.
The spiritual body she is familiar with should be a lotus flower protruding from four green round leaves. The eleven petals are as white as snow, with only the top of the petals showing micro powder.
This new one has four lotus leaves, but its petals have become...
Xu Qiao hugged the slender stem and counted each petal three times, each time there were thirty-three.
From eleven to thirty-three, it tripled.
Xu Qiao knew that superpowers could control the size of their mental bodies. The larger the spiritual body appeared, the more mental power the superpowers would consume.
But Xu Qiao has never heard of a person who can experience detailed changes in his spiritual body. She also knows some people with flower-type spiritual bodies, including a popular female star in the Southeast Base whose spiritual body is a peony flower. That peony flower often releases Outside, the number of petals remains consistent.
The new era has only passed a hundred years ago, and scholars' enthusiastic research on various spiritual bodies and supernatural powers continues, with new discoveries being made almost every year. Rumor has it that some laboratories and large groups will even conduct human experiments on ordinary people or people with special abilities. Of course, these are just casual speculations. No one in the class Xu Qiao has come into contact with can provide any evidence.
In the past, Xu Qiao could laugh it off, but when it was her turn to have a change, she would rather believe it.
In particular, with the increase in the number of lotus petals, Xu Qiao's healing ability has also significantly improved by a large level, and is suspected to have reached B level.
Just because the mental body has become more beautiful, it is not worthy of the attention of scientific researchers, but the level of supernatural powers can actually be improved...
Xu Qiao did not dare to take the lead. She chose to give up the big hospital in the central area and switch to a private clinic in the community, and then carefully Controls the effects of treatment.
You can earn less points, just use enough. Life and freedom are the most important.
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