Chapter 17
The all clear.
Fu Erdie took the air dumpling, cut a hole in it, and tried to drink the air through the hole.
One second later.
Two seconds later.
Nothing happened...
There is only some fresh herbal scent of green radish.
Fu Erdie inhaled for a long time, and felt that even an oxygen tank would be sucked away by her, so she opened the air dumpling. It was clean and empty inside. She didn't know whether the energy ball was sucked away or disappeared on its own.
Fu Erdie and Luluo looked at each other in silence for a moment.
"Forget it." Fu Erdie is also a Buddha.
She sat down in the corridor, next to the door of Room 16-1. The scratches and bites on her left shoulder and body were causing her to ache.
Currently, the only two ways that Fu Erdie can think of to develop superpowers are being scratched by a superpower zombie and eating a crystal core.
The method of eating crystal cores has not been put into practice, but you can continue to practice it if you are scratched by zombies.
She was worried that the mutant virus in her body would not work and would be eliminated by the treatment at home, so she did not choose to go home for treatment, but sat at the door and waited. If the zombie virus broke out, she would fight it.
When she couldn't bear it anymore and was about to turn into a zombie, she went back at the last moment.
The large leaves of the green ivy covered the area where Fu Erdie was still bleeding, and pressed to stop the bleeding.
The dog lay beside Fu Erdie to keep her company, with the roots of 16-7 ears of grain struggling to stretch out next to them.
They were all around, looking at her, quietly supporting and accompanying her.
Fu Erdie smiled and noticed that the blood flowing out of her body turned into white light, merged into the house and was absorbed by the room.
In the past, the white light would come back to heal Fu Erdie's wounds after a circle. Now, under Fu Erdie's refusal, she was the only one who bleeds and provides energy.
She raised her hand and weakly touched the snow-white wall: "It can be considered as a snack for you, right?"
The white light on the house flickered slightly, making some silent responses.
Fu Erdie leaned her head against the wall and said softly, "I don't understand. It would be nice if you could speak."
Fu Erdie felt that her eyelids were heavy and she might fall asleep at any time.
She forced herself to chatter away, talking to the dog, the house, the green ivy, and the blurry leaves in front of her eyes that she could no longer tell were orchids or gardenias.
She didn't feel like she was mutating, nor did she have a high fever or the urge to eat people. She just felt very tired, in pain, and wanted to sleep.
She pinched herself and tried to cheer herself up, but the pain was nothing compared to the other wounds on her body, not even an itch.
The door of 16-1 was not closed tightly. Fu Erdie put her hand on the door and pushed it gently, and the door opened.
But going in this time would mean that her journey to evolve her superpowers had failed.
In the novel, some people evolve overnight, and some take several days. What if she is the type that takes several days to evolve?
If she missed this opportunity, she would have to fight the mutant zombies and get the crystal core again...
No, she had made up her mind, this was the last time.
She was really tired and didn't want to move.
After repeated mental torture, Fu Erdie finally couldn't withstand the physiological reaction of excessive blood loss and fainted.
At the last moment, consciousness did not open the door of 16-1, but closed it fiercely.
On the white walls of the house, there were flickering white lights.
The door turned slightly outwards, but still respecting Fu Erdie's wishes, she was not taken home by force.
Fu Erdie had many wounds on her body, but none of them were fatal. Luluo had already stopped the gushing blood by physically stopping the bleeding.
So now, Fu Erdie is not in any danger.
She had a dream, a very long dream.
In her dream, she turned into a little child, happily chasing a butterfly, and it was pitch black around her.
But the butterfly flew very fast, much faster than her with her short arms and legs.
At first, the butterfly teased her, fluttering around as if she were within reach, arousing her curiosity and tickling her nerves.
Later, when she officially began to chase, the butterfly flew higher and higher, and farther and farther.
She ran so fast that she twisted her foot and fell to the ground due to unstable balance.
At this time, the butterfly would stop at a high altitude and look at her from a distance, as if waiting for her.
She gathered her courage, got up again, ran and chased, and fell again...
Until the end, there was no more of that little bit of fluorescence on the butterfly's wings in my world.
In the darkness, she finally realized that the butterfly did not belong to her.
But, it doesn't belong to her, and she still has to hang in front of it. It's annoying, isn't it?
In the corridor, Fu Erdie was lying on the ground in a mess, and a line of tears suddenly slid down her unconscious face.
The weather in September is much better than in August.
At least for humans, a temperature of 37 degrees is much better than above 40 degrees.
However, Fu Erdie’s record notebook will always stay on August 31st.
——The day nothing happened after killing the speed zombie.
In fact, when he said nothing happened, he only referred to Fu Erdie himself.
Apart from her, there have been great changes in Building No. 7.
After she woke up that day, she went straight to the old lady and asked her to live in room 16-1, on the condition that she went to water the mutant plants on different floors of Building 7 every day.
The green radish has grown. The leaves and body have become larger, and the root system and branches can extend farther.
It thought about it, and then extended its roots to the empty house at 16-2, occupying the entire house in one go.
When Fu Erdie learned about this situation, he guessed that the energy of the crystal core must have been absorbed by it unconsciously.
Eating one energy crystal core is more effective than eating a floor of zombies. It is normal to occupy a new house.
As the temperature drops, zombies become active, and mutated plants also become active.
The yield of mutant plants other than 16-1 increased significantly, especially the millet of 16-7, which grew with the wind and became a tree in the room, with ears hanging all around it. The old lady had to carry a lot of it back every day.
The spider plants will grind the ears of grain into millet, and now they are piling up more and more, and two people and a dog cannot finish eating them.
In addition, kumquats, peaches, cherries, sweet potatoes, potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, and tomatoes are also in good harvest.
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Potatoes and sweet potatoes can be stored for a long time, but fruits must be eaten immediately, otherwise they will go bad.
Every day Fu Erdie would drink some millet porridge, eat some fruit, then go back to her bedroom, close the door and lie down.
The old lady was afraid that the extra fruit would go bad, so she asked her dog to eat it together every day. If they couldn't finish it, they would give it to the mutant plants.
Not to mention, you can tell the grudges and hatreds between plants by looking at what fruits they eat.
The first to be affected are cucumbers and tomatoes.
The two old enemies were planted on the balcony of 16-1 at first. But because they kept fighting, Fu Erdie planted them outside.
The longer they stayed in 16-1, the more vigorous the intelligent mutant plants became. They didn't need any soil at all. They would just crawl all over the room by themselves after being placed at the base of the wall.
Fu Erdie placed the cucumber at 16-5 and the tomato at 16-10. The two plants were basically at opposite corners of the entire floor and could not touch each other in any way.
As a result, they seemed to be able to sense each other's location and had to move towards each other's territory. Right now, the root vines have just crawled out of the room, but it is estimated that in a year or two, they will be able to climb over each other's heads.
The little old lady didn't understand.
At first I thought these two plants had a good relationship, but they were separated by Fu Erdie.
Later, when there is excess production and the plants start eating fruits, they will definitely choose each other's fruits.
Normal plant eating - secreting corrosive liquid, wrapping the food in it and digesting it slowly.
Eating tomatoes and cucumbers - inserting, tearing, and shredding them, making it look like a crime scene, and then secreting corrosive liquid to digest and absorb them.
It’s okay for tomato to eat cucumber, it’s not that scary.
Cucumbers and tomatoes, the "blood" in the room almost gave the old lady a heart attack.
The dog is very well behaved, and spends most of his time patrolling Building 7. If a zombie comes up, he will bite it to death and drag it to the root system of the succulent plant to be eaten.
However, its hearing and sense of smell are getting better and better now, and it can hear what is happening downstairs even from five or six floors away.
So after patrolling around, it would return to 16-1, stand up on its familiar legs, open the door with its front legs, enter Fu Erdie's bedroom, shake off its hair and feet that had just been cleaned by the spider plant, jump onto the bed, and lie down next to Fu Erdie.
What is Fu Erdie doing?
She is listening to the radio.
This is the channel provided by the state for listening to messages when the signal is briefly restored at the end of the world.
But now there is no sound, only the distracting sound of crackling.
Fu Erdie didn't turn it off, treating it as white noise and continued to stare at the ceiling in a daze.
Hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but giving up makes it easy.
She is at home now, eating fruits and enjoying air conditioning every day. She has a dog to fight ordinary zombies, and when she encounters a powerful zombie, she just lies down and waits for death. It's pretty good.
If the person who came was a bad psychic, there was nothing we could do if he killed her or kicked her out of the house.
There's nothing else to do except give up.
As she was thinking, she stood up from the bed, ran to the window sill and looked down.
There are too many corpses in the chaotic apocalypse, and hers might not be needed either.
Fu Erdie pushed open the window and wanted to stick his head out, just to see if he could find some familiar corpses or zombies out of boredom.
As a result, the window seemed to be welded shut and could not be opened no matter how hard we pulled.
Fu Erdie looked at the flickering light on the wall and smiled faintly: "No, why would I commit suicide?"
The house ignored her.
As a last resort, Fu Erdie had to give up looking at the scenery and continue lying on the bed.
In mid-September, it rained in City C.
In the past, the dog would accompany Fu Erdie for a few hours every day. But in the past two days, he either didn't come back or came back with injuries, and recovered with the help of the house.
Fu Erdie realized belatedly that this rainstorm had lasted a bit long and the temperature should drop again.
She looked at the outdoor thermometer and saw that the temperature, which had previously been around 37 or 38 degrees, had dropped to below 35 degrees.
This is the temperature at the beginning of the apocalypse, when zombies are very active.
(End of this chapter)