The situation was quickly brought under control. As the zombies in the periphery and the crowd were cleared out, people gradually calmed down, stopped running around, and became obedient. However, when they were asked to check each other to see if they were infected, they found that more than ten people had been bitten or caught by zombies.
Among them was Lin Tantan’s brother.
He was completely stunned and rushed to Lin Tantan: "Tan Tan, save my brother, save me, I don't want to die, I can't die!"
Lin Tantan still looked at him indifferently. She had seen many desperate and crazy people dying after being infected, but those people would not come to her for help in the past.
As the eldest brother of the Lin family cried and begged, the other infected people seemed to have found a guide and rushed towards Lin Tantan. They didn't know who she was, but they were just grabbing at a straw in desperation. No matter who the other person was, they just knew to hold on tightly.
These people were stopped by Mei Bosheng and others and burst into tears. Lin Tan turned away and said calmly to the eldest brother of the Lin family, who was still crying and snotting, "I can't save you."
If there was only one person, she could save him by gritting her teeth, but with so many people, she didn't want to cut herself into a stick.
Besides, who is this eldest brother of the Lin family to her? Why should she make an exception?
At this moment, Lin Tantan, who had been silent as if she had suffered a heavy blow, suddenly started to make a fuss. She shouted, "Save him! Save him quickly! You have the ability to save him!"
Lin Tan thought to himself: "Yes, I have the ability, but why should I save him?"
"He's my brother!"
"Don't you hate your family? Just now you wished your parents would die immediately."
Lin Tantan jumped up and down: "Then I order you to save him now. How can you not save my family after you used my body?"
Lin Tan Tan was still calm and composed: "If it were in the past, I might not be able to get over the hurdle in my heart, and I would have tried my best to save him, but now isn't what we have is a pure transaction? I will fulfill one of your wishes, and this body will be completely mine." Since it is a life-and-death relationship, why bother to talk about feelings?
Lin Tantan was so blocked that she couldn't speak, and she was spinning around like a trapped beast in the narrow space of consciousness. Of course, she didn't want to save her brother. Their relationship was negative. She would celebrate if the other party died, but how could she watch Lin Tantan complete her request so smoothly, and then live happily while she was going to die?
She would rather Lin Tantan was infected and they died together.
She cried, "You must save him, or else I will not give you my body!"
Lin Tan Tan: "It seems that you don't have the final say on this matter now. It's all your fault that you didn't promise me to take care of your family before."
Now Father and Mother Lin are safely on the divine machine. As long as the two of them are fine, it's fine. It can only be said that these two people came to the door too timely, and their group also arrived in time. Otherwise, if they were a step later, the crowd would be trapped in the workshop, and if the infected people started to bite again, I'm afraid the last group of people would have died.
However, Lin Tantan seemed to have no signs of disappearing. She frowned slightly, then relaxed her brows. Lin Tantan's wish was to let Lin's father and mother live a good life. Not yet, but after taking them back, she would settle them down and let them live a "good life".
As she pondered these things, the infected before her collapsed into a heap of tears. Some, in despair, even attacked and injured others, attempting to drag them down with them. The others scattered. The fire-type psychic instantly killed them, but after they fell, their family members, who had fled, returned, crying and cursing at them for killing them. Some even claimed they had been hiding well, and it was only their presence that had led to this situation.
In short, there was crying and screaming at the scene, just like a medical dispute.
Several psychics were so annoyed they desperately wanted to unleash their ultimate attacks and slash everyone. Encountering such situations during a rescue is the most frustrating thing. While understandable, everyone in the apocalypse has experienced similar situations. They're already overwhelmed by their own sorrows, so how can they afford to empathize with others? Therefore, seeing such unreasonable people is simply annoying.
Among the uninfected crowd, an old Taoist priest wanted to rush out, but Master Jin held him back.
"Why are you pulling me in? She could have saved someone but she just stood by and watched."
Uncle Jin shook his head with a serious face and whispered, "Don't say anything. She is determined not to save anyone. What's the point of you yelling? Look at the psychics around her." Any one of them can take care of everyone here.
And if they turned around and left at this moment, who would deal with so many zombies here?
Ye Xiao saw that Lin Tan Tan really had no intention of saving the eldest brother of the Lin family. He vaguely knew that she was not just amnesiac, but was probably not the original Lin Tan Tan at all, or there was some hidden story, otherwise she would not have changed her name and used such unfamiliar terms as Lin family members and Lin family parents. Therefore, he could not treat the eldest brother of the Lin family who was crying and wailing as his brother-in-law.
Since it was a business matter, he used his supernatural powers to suppress the desperate, violent and crazy infected people, and ordered the remaining survivors to tie them up.
He'd experienced this kind of thing many times. If he encountered a group of people, including an infected person, unless the situation was urgent, he usually wouldn't take action himself, but let the group handle it themselves. If he couldn't bear it or couldn't see clearly, then he'd just sink into the same pit with the infected. There was no such thing as asking for help for even this little thing. In the end, after escaping danger, he'd have reason to resent the person who helped them for being so cruel and heartless.
His face turned cold, and his voice was low and penetrating. The noisy crowd finally quieted down. These people were able to walk thousands of miles from the south, so naturally they were not all confused. Everyone looked at each other, and someone came out to do the same.
After tying up these infected people, the others gathered together, and those hiding in other workshops also ran out.
Ye Xiao asked those who were capable of fighting to come out and follow a few people with special abilities to kill the zombies. The others tried to find various things to surround the area and resist for a while. At the same time, he told these people that the rescue team from Zhengyang Base had set off.
The orderly orders and the news of the rescue team's imminent arrival cheered these people up and made them obedient. They soon found something to do. After arranging these things, Ye Xiao sent Lin Tan to the Shenji: "You go back first."
Lin Tantan was screaming and making a fuss in her mind. Lin Tantan was annoyed by her and could hardly concentrate. Knowing that staying here would only be a hindrance, she nodded. As for going back first, that was not possible. Shen Ji could provide support from the air here.
The rope was thrown down, and Ye Xiao carried her up. As soon as they entered the cabin, Lin's father and mother rushed over: "Where's A Rui? Where's your niece?"
A Rui is the eldest brother of the Lin family. Lin Tan said, "He was bitten."
"What?" The two were struck by lightning. Mother Lin asked anxiously, "How could this happen? He was fine just now. Why didn't you save him? Did you deliberately harm him?"
She spoke without thinking, and Lin Tantan raised his eyelids. It seemed that the parents were self-aware and knew that their daughter had a bad relationship with them, so bad that it might harm their son.
Father Lin also glared at her.
Lin Tantan was too lazy to pay attention to them: "Shut up!"
They were both stunned.
Lin Tan Tan pressed his forehead and thought to himself, "What the hell do you want? Just shut up!" Lin Tan Tan was still shouting, "I want to change my wish. Throw them down, throw them down! I'm going to die, why should they still be alive? No, no, I won't die. This is my body!"
She was obviously losing her composure. Lin Tan Tan just wanted to get rid of her quickly, but then his mother burst into tears. "That's your brother! How could you watch him die? And your niece, bring her up here! What are you doing sitting here? You still have the nerve to rest! If you don't save them, I won't acknowledge you as my daughter!"
Obviously, she had been instilled with a lot of ideas along the way that her daughter valued and cared about them. Especially this time, Lin Tan came so quickly and rescued them as soon as he arrived. Lin's mother was so inflated that she threatened to disown her as her daughter.
If possible, Lin Tantan really didn't want to deal with such people. She said coldly: "Since you are so worried, go down and save them yourself. I can throw you down immediately."
Her expression was cold and she didn't use any threatening tone, but she gave people the feeling that if you pushed her any further, she would really throw you down.
Mother Lin fell silent immediately, stammering and not daring to speak. She looked at her as if she were a complete stranger. In addition to fear and shock, there was also a hint of accusation of how could she be so cold-blooded and unfilial.
Lin Tantan was wondering what the standard was for them to live a good life. Was it just about having good food and drink? Or was it about satisfying all their demands?
She said, "I will take you back to the base in a moment. What kind of living conditions do you want?"
Not understanding why she suddenly became so easy to talk to, the two looked at each other, and Father Lin spoke first: "We need to eat our fill and have meat for every meal."
Lin's mother asked, "Do you have a change of clothes? Is there a place to live?"
The two of them raised a lot of requests one after another. Lin Tantan had been listening silently. Seeing that their words were getting more and more outrageous, her brows began to frown a little. Looking at the greed in their eyes, she suddenly had a bad premonition.
Lin Tantan interrupted them: "Alright, I'll make arrangements based on the situation. You should also exercise restraint. The base is not a paradise. It's impossible to restore our previous living conditions!"
Lin Tantan sneered, "Hahaha, I almost forgot. They are the greediest people and will never be satisfied. If they don't say they are satisfied, you can't count as having fulfilled my wish!"
Lin Tan thought to himself, "As expected, making a wish is so troublesome. Is this just a wish, or a bottomless pit extending from a wish?"
She looked at the embarrassed couple again. Although they kept their mouths shut, their eyes kept darting around, giving them a shifty vibe, clearly still trying to come up with some kind of request. If they insisted that Lin Tantan rescue their son, then Lin Tantan would have no choice but to do it. However, they had clearly forgotten about this, even their niece, and were only thinking about how much benefit they could get for themselves.
Such people are easy to deal with, but difficult to deal with either. It is best to trick them into giving you a satisfactory answer as quickly as possible.
…
Below, after sending Lin Tantan to the divine machine, Ye Xiao had no worries at all, and he used his supernatural powers more vigorously. He launched a wind net to strangle the zombies, and large groups of zombies fell down. With such a powerful weapon, the number of zombies was decreasing at a very alarming rate.
Soon after, the swarm of zombies gradually retreated and the situation completely stabilized. When it was dawn, the rescue team arrived and took these people back to the base.
Several thousand people in total.
I heard that at their peak, there were nearly 100,000 people along the way. However, due to various reasons, some were scattered, some fled, and some died. In the end, only a small number of people arrived at the Zhengyang base. But this may be just the first wave, and more people will arrive later.
The base took in these people, but first placed them in marginal areas to observe and test them. During this process, those who were capable or motivated could naturally find jobs and improve their lives, and then more smoothly become official members of the base and be entered into the base's household registration system.
But for those who are incompetent, have no ambition, or even like to cause trouble and have bad intentions, no one can help them. Just like those disgusted and unreasonable people, they can only be marginalized and exiled, receive a relief meal every day, and muddle through.
Lin's parents are not among them. They are relatives of Lin Tan and were taken to live in a relatively high-end residential building. The furnishings are all good. The daily supply of food, water, clothing and shoes are all provided by Lin Tan, using her contribution points.
But before Lin Tan Tan was about to take them over, a woman rushed out, holding a five or six-year-old girl in her arms. She burst into tears: "Dad, Mom! Tan Tan! You can't just ignore Ling Ling and me!"
This is Mrs. Lin and her daughter. The eldest brother of the Lin family has died. Although the mother and daughter are still fine, they have lost the pillar of the family and can only cling to the thighs of their parents-in-law and sister-in-law.
Lin Tantan was indifferent. She had seen many orphans and widows, and she would not give them preferential treatment just because they were pitiful. But when the Lin family's parents saw their granddaughter, they remembered their dead son and were filled with grief. Naturally, they did not want their granddaughter to suffer. Seeing this, Lin Tantan agreed to let the mother and daughter come with them.
Seeing their bright new home, the family's eyes lit up. Lin Tantan told his father and mother about the daily food allowance and asked, "Are you satisfied with this kind of life?"
The family really lived up to Lin Tantan's evaluation. Lin's mother said shyly, "Can we hire a nanny? We have a lot of people in our family, young and old, and your sister-in-law is not in good health. You can't let me do the housework, right?"
Father Lin said, "I just heard that the work assignments here are very clear. What is your position in the base? Can you arrange a decent job for me in the future?"
The eldest sister-in-law of the Lin family said, "Is there any fruit available? Your niece hasn't eaten a bite of fruit for a long time. The child is malnourished at such a young age. Poor your brother, he died so tragically. You must take care of your niece!" As she spoke, she wiped away her tears, trying her best to express her misery as a widow.
Lin Tantan closed her eyes, pressed her eyebrows, her hands shaking a little, and said, "Well, we can hire a nanny and arrange work for you, so are you satisfied with this?"
She simply ignored the request of the eldest sister-in-law of the Lin family. She was not her target of the mission, but just an incidental one.
Mother Lin's eyes lit up. "Are these contribution points used to buy things here? How much can we get every month? I feel uneasy without any money. I can't just ask you for anything, right?"
Father Lin said: "What kind of job is it? Can I be a small leader? After all, I am your father, so I can't be too shabby, right?"
Lin's eldest sister-in-law also wanted to speak.
Lin Tan Tan: ...Damn it!
Lin Tantan laughed wildly. "I'm right, aren't I? You'll never be able to satisfy them. What's the point of finding them? I'm so smart to make such a request."
"Let them live a good life" was just a casual remark of hers, but she hadn't expected it to become the crux of Kashilin's discussion. This was such a vague and ambiguous concept. What was a good life? As long as the person involved didn't think it was good enough, it wasn't a good life.
Lin Tan Tan's face darkened as she looked at this family whose greed was written all over their heads and toes. She knew that she was too impatient. She had shown too much desire to satisfy them and had fostered their greed from the beginning. Even if she met their current demands, they would still have more demands.
She thought she had to change her thinking.
She said coldly: "You ask for so much, do you want to die?"
Lin family: "..."
"Looks like I'll just let you do the same as those people and just draw a place for you to build your own houses."
Father Lin's expression immediately changed, and he said hurriedly, "No, no, that's enough. Our current conditions are very good, and we are very content."
Lin Tantan glanced at him, sensing nothing had happened. The contract between her and Lin Tantan remained unchanged. Lin Tantan froze for a moment, as if someone had grabbed her throat, trying to wait for judgment. But she soon realized nothing had changed, and laughed even more crazily.
Lin Tan Tan: "..."
She looked at Father Lin coldly. It was useless if he didn't mean it.
There is no solution to this problem!
At this moment, she really wanted to drive them all out and eat herself.
But he still restrained himself and rushed out to stay with the survivors who had just come in. What if there was a conflict and he lost his life?
She turned and left. Ye Xiao, who was waiting outside, saw her dark face and looked at the Lin family: "What's wrong?"
Lin Tan Tan pulled him away and whispered, "I want them to live a good life, and for them to feel that they have a good life, and to feel satisfied. But they... they ask for too much. Even if we satisfy them, they will ask for more. What should I do?"
This request was indeed a bit strange, but Lin Tantan was in a hurry, and Ye Xiao always took her thoughts seriously. He thought seriously: "Do you mean, do you want them to willingly and sincerely feel that they have lived a good life?"
"Yes, yes, that's what I mean."
"In this situation, you shouldn't be too nice to them at the beginning." He asked, "Will brainwashing work?"
Lin Tan was stunned: "I don't know." After thinking about it more deeply, he frowned and shook his head, "No, this is cheating, it shouldn't be allowed."
If it were that simple, we wouldn't judge their half-hearted expressions of satisfaction as inadequate.
Ye Xiao was not disappointed, and thought: "Then we need to take some measures. You won't feel sorry for them, right?"
"No, as long as their lives are safe, that's all."
Ye Xiao patted her head: "I roughly know what to do, but it's hard to say. After all, if they really want to think so, what's the situation? Can you tell me clearly, so that I can have a better idea."
Lin Tantan bit her lower lip, looked at the people at the door who were looking anxiously, pulled Ye Xiao further away, and whispered, "Actually, I'm not the real Lin Tantan. I... I should say I'm a reincarnated spirit."
Ye Xiao's pupils shrank. He had guessed it, but he was still extremely shocked when he actually heard it. Moreover, the term "reincarnation" was really horrifying, not because it was scary, but because of the meaning behind it.
He immediately grasped Lin Tantan's hand, staring at her intently, his voice tense: "You...your past, where is your real body? Is it gone now?"
After Lin Tan Tan finished speaking, he waited for his reaction. Unexpectedly, he was not frightened but his first sentence was this.
Seeing that he didn't reject it, her heart was at ease. She hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I was fine before. The term 'reincarnation' isn't quite right. The more accurate term is 'travel through time.' I, I'm not from your world. I don't know why I suddenly woke up in this body."
She didn't want to tell Ye Xiao that her former self was dead.
But the answer that he is not from your world is no less shocking than that he has died in the past. Ye Xiao was silent for several seconds before he slowly recovered his breath. He had forgotten to breathe at that moment.
He looked at her with complicated eyes. In the past, he had not speculated on such a mysterious answer. He was more wondering whether she had developed a new personality because of the awakening of her superpowers.
But the truth is far more crazy and shocking than people can imagine.
He had so many questions he wanted to ask. What was she like before? If she was not from this world, then what was her other world like and where was it?
But he also knew that now was not the time for a deep discussion, so he asked, "So, you came into this body, what is your situation now?"
Lin Tan Tan looked down at his feet, his brows furrowed slightly. "I always thought the original Lin Tan Tan was dead. This body was already dead when I traveled through time. But starting in September, she suddenly appeared and wanted to take it back. Unless I fulfill one of her wishes, I can't drive her away to save myself. The best I can do is die together, so I must fulfill this wish."
"This wish is her family?"
"Her parents, to be exact. Finding her parents and giving them a good life is what she said," Lin Tan Tan said. "I came to you last night just to talk about this. Who knew her parents would come over by chance? Now the first half of her wish has been fulfilled, and only the second half remains."
Ye Xiao understood everything, and his expression was also solemn: "If she herself decides whether her wish has been fulfilled..."
"It's not her, it seems to be some kind of mysterious force, I can't really explain it, but now it's like this, both she and I must abide by this rule." And this rule is actually in her favor, because she can do anything, while Lin Tantan can only hide in a corner and watch the situation develop.
Ye Xiao's eyes were solemn. This matter was beyond his ability. If it really came to the final step, he would have no way to intervene.
So you absolutely cannot reach the last step.
He touched the little girl's hair and said, "I won't let anything happen to you. Leave this to me."
Ye Xiao's method was simple and violent. He asked Lin Tantan to pretend to agree to all the current demands of the Lin family. After she left, he went to their house and, in the name of her boyfriend, accused Lin's parents of only taking their son and his family to escape after the apocalypse, completely ignoring their daughter who was still in the university town, and of ignoring their daughter before the apocalypse.
From Lin Tantan, he already knew the Lin family's attitude towards their daughter.
Lin's parents were stunned. They were immersed in the joy that Lin Tantan agreed to their request. They were thinking about what other requests they could make and how to better exploit their now promising daughter. Then Ye Xiao came to their door and started scolding them with such a ruthless and fierce attitude.
Father Lin said nervously: "We are Tan Tan's parents, and she cares about us very much." So shouldn't this boyfriend please them like her? Why does he have such an attitude?
They didn't know that Ye Xiao was the leader of this base, otherwise they would be even more panicked and complicated.
Ye Xiao was not going to tell them. After a scolding, in the name of venting his anger for his girlfriend, he ignored the two men's shouting and had them dragged away, making them do hard labor.
He went straight to the security department, the most professional ones. They were extremely intimidating in their uniforms. There were fifteen or sixteen of them staring at them, and they even followed them to the toilet. Their ferocious looks were scary enough, but Ye Xiao's intention was not only to scare them, but also to ensure their safety.
He also asked Lin to make sure that they did not have any serious illnesses and would not die suddenly due to excessive emotional fluctuations. He also prepared nutritional supplements for them that did not taste very good but were nutritious enough. Although he asked them to do hard labor, he knew when to stop and did not dare to let them get too tired.
Anyway, it's just about making trouble on the surface, finding faults and threatening them, scaring them like a frightened bird, but it won't really hurt them.
It can be said that he has good intentions.
He even stopped doing anything else and just kept an eye on them secretly.
They were so tired after a few days. When they were terrified, crying and feeling that life was dark and bleak, they finally let Lin Tantan appear.
Lin Tantan once again played the role of a filial daughter. She brought them back to their original house, prepared delicious food and drinks for them, soothed their emotions, and told them that she would have a good talk with Ye Xiao and try her best to make their lives good in the future.
Lin's father and mother were so frightened that they had nervous breakdowns. Now that they were brought out by Lin Tantan, they felt like they had met a savior and were saved from death. They just believed whatever Lin Tantan said and nodded continuously.
When Lin Tan Tan asked them meaningfully whether they were satisfied with their current lives, they nodded hurriedly: "I am satisfied, I am completely satisfied. This is the best way now."
These words came completely from the heart, and Lin Tantan felt that something in his body had changed. In that dim space of consciousness, something like complicated pictures and texts suddenly lit up, as if completing the last stroke. At the same time, Lin Tantan, who was trapped here, suddenly seemed to be attacked. She screamed miserably, and her soul body quickly dimmed.
Lin Tantan couldn't see the changes in her consciousness while awake, but she could feel it and hear Lin Tantan's screams. She couldn't believe it was so easy to achieve her goal.
She stood there for a moment, then turned and ran out without paying any attention to Lin's parents. Ye Xiao was waiting for her outside, his expression extremely tense. When he saw her come out, he hurriedly asked, "How is it?"
Lin Tantan stopped and looked straight at him, the smile on his face growing wider and wider, and finally he pounced on him, his eyes full of joy: "They said, they said they are very satisfied with their current life, we succeeded, Ye Xiao!"
She stood on tiptoe and hugged his neck tightly, repeating excitedly: "We did it!"
Ye Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, his tense heartstrings loosened, and he raised his hands to hug her back: "That's good. Has the soul of Lin Tantan left?"
"Not yet, but soon."
Lin Tantan's soul knew she was dying. She screamed and cursed her, "You used my body and lived for almost two extra years, and you're still not satisfied! Lin Tantan, you've harmed me, you're ungrateful, you're greedy, you're repaying kindness with evil, you'll get your comeuppance!"
Lin Tantan's face darkened slightly. He said nothing and did not respond to the other party.
Is it greed? Right? If I had told her from the beginning that she could only come to see Ye Xiao, only accompany him for a period of time, only change his fate, and then she would have to leave, she would have been like receiving a great gift from heaven, willing to accept it no matter what the cost.
But humans are greedy animals. After doing all this, she wanted to spend her life with him, so Lin Tantan must be the one to die.
Who is right and who is wrong? If you say Lin Tantan has a better point, she is indeed the original owner of this body. But if Lin Tantan had not taken over, this body would have died long ago, and Lin Tantan would naturally no longer exist, not even a fragment of her soul would be left. If you say Lin Tantan is the owner of this body, she is indeed an outsider.
Therefore, a wish, a rule, and an invisible contract determine who lives and who dies.
It's funny to say that the final decision on such a crucial matter lies in the hands of that couple. This body was born by them, so perhaps there is indeed a destiny in the dark.
In short, the final result was that Lin Tantan won.
Lin Tantan screamed sharply and unwillingly, and then suddenly fell silent, as if her entire soul had suddenly disappeared.
Lin Tantan frowned. Is this the end?
Ye Xiao noticed her expression: "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"No, it should be fine." Lin Tan Tan shook his head, feeling a little uneasy for some reason.
She didn't know that at the same time, in another place in the base, someone was casting a spell to summon spirits.
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