The villas here are actually quite far apart. Although the two areas where Lin Tantan and the old lady are located happen to be the closest places between the villas, there is still a distance of more than six meters. Ordinary people can only sigh in despair.
Lin Tantan's eyes lit up. She looked carefully at the old lady and the room visible through the window. There were definitely no zombies. Could there be bad guys? She looked at the seven or eight zombies with their hands stretched out at her feet, looking like starving ghosts. Then she looked at the zombies in the window behind her that had already knocked the window into a spider web, and made a decision.
She waved at the old lady: "Get out of the way!"
Then two green ribbons came out, hooked the window sill, and smashed over like a cannonball.
He threw himself into the window in one fell swoop. The two green ribbons had exhausted their energy and this time did not return to Lin Tan's body, but dissipated.
It's quite frustrating that she uses her wood-related abilities as a retractable rope.
Lin Tantan got up and shook her head, and saw the old lady by the window looking at her in astonishment. There were several people standing at the door of the room, all looking at her with their mouths wide open, as if they were deeply amazed at the way she appeared.
Lin Tantan stood up and went to the window first. Sure enough, the zombies turned around and reached out to this side, but unfortunately there were two layers of walls and fences in between, so they couldn't get through.
Lin Tantan closed the window and drew the curtains. The light in the room was on, so it was quite bright. She looked at the old lady and said, "Thank you."
"Hey! My dear, I saw you rushing in alone. It must have been difficult." The old lady finally realized what was happening and looked her up and down. "You must have been injured a lot. I have some medicine at home. I'll get it for you."
As she spoke, she walked out of the house, and Lin Tantan followed. The people at the door spontaneously separated, still looking at Lin Tantan in surprise and some vigilance, while following them downstairs.
Lin Tantan was also looking at them. Most of the people upstairs and downstairs were old men and women, about seven or eight of them, and there were two middle-aged women, one of whom was well-dressed and good-looking, and the other looked like a nanny. Then there were four children ranging from four to five years old to seven to eight years old.
There wasn't even a young man here. Lin Tan was worried about the safety of these people, but he did feel relieved, and his tense nerves relaxed a little.
Facing such a group of people with little fighting ability, she seemed to have nothing to worry about. Instead, she herself, a dirty weirdo holding a big axe, looked more like a bad guy.
When she arrived at the living room on the first floor, the group of old men and women surrounded her and started asking questions, asking what was going on outside and where she came from.
Lin Tan Tan told everything he knew. He heard people eating each other outside and there was chaos. The faces of these people, old and young, were very worried. Some were worried about their children outside, and some were worried about what they should do.
Lin Tantan also understood their situation. The owners of the villa were an elderly couple surnamed Xu. Their son died a few years ago and their daughter-in-law remarried. Only a seven-year-old granddaughter was left living with them. Together with a nanny, there were only four people in the family.
Today, New Year's Day, many families in the villa area had relatives and children visiting, leaving the few remaining families without anyone to visit. It felt particularly lonely, so they gathered at the Xu family's house to hang out. Coincidentally, after the apocalypse, everyone here was fine, while the villa area was completely in chaos. The people in the Xu family villa quickly locked the inner and outer gates and hid away.
At this time, the old man of the Xu family comforted everyone and said, "Don't worry, the rescue team will arrive tomorrow. There will always be a way."
Lin Tantan was surprised to hear this: "Are there rescuers coming?"
Yang City was a third-tier city that was neither good nor bad. It was not taken seriously and was one of the first cities to be abandoned. She remembered that it was more than ten days after the end of the world before the army came in to pick up the survivors for evacuation. At that time, in a city with a population of two million, less than 300,000 people left alive.
"It's a special forces team," said Old Lady Xu, who had just called Lin Tantan over. She was impressed by her bravery and ability when she learned that Lin Tantan was a female college student who had come here all by herself. She said, "My husband made some contributions to the country before he retired, and my son also sacrificed his life for the country. And now the higher-ups still want us and have sent people over. Why don't you come with us, my daughter? It's too dangerous to go alone."
Lin Tan Tan shook his head: "I'm going to Peking University Town."
"Oh, that's far away."
“It’s more than an hour’s drive.”
"How can you drive now? Didn't I hear this girl say the roads are blocked by cars?"
The old people started talking at once and asked Lin Tantan why she wanted to go there. Lin Tantan said she was going there to look for someone. The old people sighed again. They also had children and relatives living outside, and they didn't know how they were doing and whether they could see them again.
After they met and got to know each other, Mrs. Xu gave Lin a medicine box to talk to, arranged a room for her on the first floor, and found her some clean clothes.
Faced with such enthusiasm, Lin Tantan felt quite embarrassed. It was not easy for someone to take him in since they were not relatives or friends.
The old lady sighed, "Times like these are tough for everyone. We all have to help each other. We, young and old, are just sitting here waiting for help. Otherwise, we'll just die."
After the old lady left, Lin Tantan came to the window and slightly opened the curtains. It was already dark outside. She had checked when she came in just now. There were no zombies inside the wall of this villa, but perhaps there were too many people here and the atmosphere was too crowded. There were more and more zombies outside the wall. Lin Tantan was also sweating in her heart. Fortunately, these zombies could not climb the wall, otherwise it would be dangerous.
She took a hot bath, changed into clothes that didn't fit her well but were clean, sat on the bed, took out the second wood crystal core she had obtained, and started practicing again.
The energy of the previous wood crystal core has been used up, and her body is now empty.
The crystal core was completely absorbed in just over half an hour. Lin Tantan let go of her hand and let the crystal core fragments fall into the trash can. Her body had been beaten many times and was bruised and swollen, with many broken skin spots, but now it was much better.
Then she took out the golden gold crystal core.
I wasn't sure whether I should absorb it.
Superpowers strictly follow the principle of the five elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint, at least this has been the case for more than three hundred years. So if she cultivates the gold element, it will suppress the wood element. This is why she didn't touch the crystal core before.
However, judging by the various dangers she had just experienced along the way, she would not be able to reach Peking University City tomorrow by relying solely on the Wood Element. She was not good at using the Wood Element to fight, and it was already very good that she could invent a retractable belt function in addition to treatment.
The gold element is her strongest ability besides the wood element.
In her previous life, as a therapist, she had to use the wood element ability every day. So even though she tried her best to maintain a balance among the five elements, the wood element ability kept getting stronger and stronger. It was very dangerous for one element to dominate, so she could only strengthen the gold element to a certain extent to restrain the wood element.
So she spent a lot of time practicing the gold system. As for the other three systems, she didn't have the time and energy to practice them specifically, nor was there any need.
After hesitating for a moment, she placed the gold crystal core in her palm and began to practice.
A weak golden light emanated from the crystal core and was absorbed into the body through the palm of the hand, following a completely different trajectory from the wood element, and finally formed a perfect cycle.
The mist-like energy source in Lin Tantan's mind, the one representing the gold element, also began to rotate slowly. It was originally white, but gradually turned golden.
The green wood element was still rotating slowly and automatically. The only elements that remained motionless were the red fire element, the yellow earth element, and the black water element. Lin Tan Tan estimated that by then, except for the fire element which would remain unchanged, the earth element and the water element would also change color. The earth element would turn brown, and the water element would turn blue.
This is the difference between three hundred years ago and now. At that time, supernatural powers were in their infancy, and the types and forms of energy were numerous and complex. Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth were only a part of the many supernatural powers and did not have absolute authority.
Lin Tantan was absorbing energy while thinking and experiencing it, casually multitasking, when suddenly -
"Hmm?" Lin Tantan noticed something. The mist was very different from the energy core. Later generations of multi-element psychics had to balance each of their elements. If one element was too prominent, the corresponding part of the energy core would expand, causing instability. The mist energy source, however, didn't have this risk. After all, it was just a mist; no matter how much it expanded, it wouldn't break.
In other words, she doesn't have to strictly follow the principle of five-element balance in the future?
This is definitely good news. She can focus on one or two types of abilities, become specialized and proficient in them, and put the others aside for the time being.
"Knock knock." There was a knock on the door. Lin Tantan opened his eyes, put away the crystal core, got out of bed and opened the door.
It was still Mrs. Xu: "My daughter, do you want to have dinner together?"
After hearing this, Lin Tan Tan realized that he was so hungry that his chest was sticking to his back, and immediately agreed.
When I left the house, there was no light in the living room, only a small one in the dining room. The curtains were drawn tightly so that not a single ray of light could leak out.
The meal was indeed ready, but not many people in the room were in the mood to eat. Who would want to eat when they heard the zombies roaring and banging against the fence outside? So, only Mr. and Mrs. Xu, their seven-year-old granddaughter, and two other old men were at the table.
Lin Tan Tan went to get some rice from the rice cooker. She was also very discerning. As an outsider, it would be uncomfortable for her to eat from the same bowl with others, so she used clean chopsticks to pick up a few pieces of vegetables, a few pieces of cold tofu, and a spoonful of stewed egg custard, and then started to eat it with a grunt, without touching the dishes.
This was the first meal Lin Tantan had eaten since coming to this world. The taste was just average, but he was so hungry that everything tasted delicious to him.
The old man and the old woman next to her also smiled a little when they saw her eating happily. Old Man Xu whispered, "Eat more if you like it." As he said that, he coughed softly, then quickly covered his mouth with his hands, not daring to cough out.
Mrs. Xu quickly put down her chopsticks and patted her husband on the back. An old man next to her whispered, "Is Old Xu's old problem coming back again?"
"That's right." Old Mrs. Xu said with concern, "I'll get you a towel. Cover your mouth with it and cough a few times. No one outside can hear it." The little granddaughter of the Xu family also looked at her grandfather worriedly.
Old Master Xu waved his hands, but he couldn't suppress his cough.
Lin Tantan also stopped eating and looked at him for a while: "Grandpa Xu, is this chronic bronchitis?"
"Yes, it gets worse every year, and medicine is useless," said Mrs. Xu.
Lin Tantan thought for a moment, raised her hand and smoothed Mr. Xu's back. A visible green light passed from her hand into Mr. Xu's body.
Several people's eyes widened immediately, while Mr. Xu stopped coughing all of a sudden, his breathing became smoother, and he felt better, with a strange look on his face.
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