Lin Tantan treated Ye Xiao for a long time, went back to his room and took a nap before running over to check. Ye Xiao's chest was still bright red, and the flesh that had grown with great difficulty was showing signs of burning.
She frowned: "How could this happen?"
She thought about it for a long time and suddenly realized that this was a wound caused by supernatural powers. Unlike ordinary wounds, fire energy was still lingering in Ye Xiao's wound. If this energy was not completely removed, the wound would be difficult to recover.
Fire-based abilities are naturally best controlled and eliminated with water-based abilities.
She raised her head and looked at Ye Xiao for a moment.
It was almost dawn outside, the lights were on in the room, and Ye Xiao was lying on the bed obediently. If it weren't for the exaggerated wound exposed on his chest, he wouldn't look like a wounded person at all.
Ye Xiao was not too worried about his injury. He knew that this injury would not harm his foundation and would only cause him some trouble and pain.
"Are there any difficulties? Or is it incurable?"
Lin Tan Tan pursed his lips and said, "Close your eyes."
Ye Xiao blinked, with something strange in his eyes, and then slowly closed his eyes.
Not long after, he felt something cold wrapped around his wound. The feeling was different from the wood energy that Lin Tan had experienced. The wood energy was warm and gentle, giving people a very comfortable feeling, but this time it felt very cold, which just relieved the burning sensation that lingered in his chest all the time until it was completely dispelled.
The sky gradually brightened.
There were sounds of other people moving around outside.
Lin Tantan said that she couldn't let anyone know that she was staying in his room, so she quietly climbed over the balcony, changed her clothes and pretended to come out of her room. When she went downstairs, she saw that Ye Xiao was already downstairs, and he was faster than her.
She couldn't help but glance at Ye Xiao's collar. His clothes were neatly dressed and there was no sign of injury.
She was very curious, how did he do it?
Ye Xiao then said he would not be going out today and assigned some tasks to the others. No one objected, except Mei Bosheng, who winked at Lin Tantan and, before leaving, ran over to whisper to her, "The boss is not going out to accompany you to recuperate. How touching."
He had been lectured yesterday, and then he realized that there was something going on between the two of them. Although Lin Tantan had said that she had someone she liked, who could be better than his boss? He patted Lin Tantan on the shoulder and said, "I support you!"
Support a ghost!
Lin Tantan really wanted to kick him. After everyone left and only she and Ye Xiao were left in the villa, she said to Ye Xiao, "Do they all think you stayed here just to keep me company? I feel so wronged."
Ye Xiao glanced at her. To some extent, this was indeed true, but he still had to comfort her: "Except for Meimei, no one else is so gossipy. Don't pay attention to him."
It seems so. Anyway, Bai Cheng knows that Ye Xiao is injured, so it's okay as long as Bai Cheng doesn't misunderstand. But Lin Tantan feels something is strange. Ye Xiao is injured, so why doesn't Bai Cheng seem nervous?
But soon her attention shifted to Ye Xiao: "What did you put in your clothes? Why can't I see it?"
Ye Xiao treated himself as a patient and calmly undressed in front of the doctor, revealing his bright red chest. He said, "I'm just using my supernatural powers to support the outline."
Lin Tan Tan suddenly realized: "That's what I said, even if you use something to cover it, at least it will appear that one breast is bigger and the other is smaller. You can't even tell at all."
Ye Xiao: “…” This was simply unacceptable.
Lin Tan Tan spent another two hours treating him, finally getting most of the muscle and skin to grow back. However, because some of his pectoral muscles hadn't grown back yet, the two sides of his chest were still very asymmetrical. She couldn't help but glance at him again and again, secretly comparing left and right. After finishing, she gave him earnest instructions: "I'll treat you again this afternoon. Try to make the flesh grow back as quickly as possible. But after your ribs have grown back, you should also pay attention to exercising your left pectoral muscles. Staying in shape is still very important."
Although Ye Xiao's muscles are not exaggerated, his chest muscles are still very beautiful and stylish, and he looks particularly good in clothes. Now only half of it is left, which is a pity.
Ye Xiao's face was full of black lines. He looked down at himself and thought, well, it's time to exercise properly.
It is a sunny day today. When Lin Tantan saw the big sun, she couldn't help but want to wash clothes and dry quilts. She did it right away. She threw the clothes to be washed into the washing machine, turned on the power, and clear water flowed in.
There are probably not many people who can afford to use a washing machine to wash clothes nowadays. There must be enough water in the water tank upstairs, but she was still thoughtful enough to add some water herself.
After the clothes were washed, she rolled up the quilt on the bed, tied it with a wooden strap, picked it up and carried it on her shoulder and went upstairs to the rooftop. When she went out, she happened to meet Ye Xiao who was also holding a quilt and walking out of the room.
Ye Xiao: "Go upstairs?"
"Why."
He freed his hands and took what was in Lin Tan's hand.
"Your injury..."
"It's okay, I can't touch it."
A few minutes later, on the rooftop of the villa, Lin Tantan's quilt fluttered in the wind, bathed in the golden sunlight, while Ye Xiao's quilt was burned by him because it was stained with blood.
Then he went downstairs to the storage room on the first floor and brought up a new quilt, which he hung out to dry next to Lin Tantan's quilt.
Looking at the two quilts that were very close to each other, one was a warm yellow color and the other was a cool blue-gray color, Lin Tan looked left and right, feeling a little strange, as if they were living together.
Well, they are living under the same roof now.
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
Mutant rats climbed up one by one and circled around Lin Tantan. Lin Tantan scratched his face and said, "It seems like it's time to give them a bath. The last time was three days ago."
Ye Xiao looked at the dirty ones and said, "I'll do it."
Then he brought up the large basin, shower gel, brush and towel, directly filled it with water from the water tower, and began to scrub the mutant rats one by one.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" The mutant rats protested to Lin Tan Tan. Lin Tan Tan guessed that they were dissatisfied with Ye Xiao's strength and the cold water. After washing, there was no fireball drying service and they were directly blown dry by the wind power. The fur of each rat was blown into a mess and shook like chaff in a sieve.
"It's good enough if you're taking a bath. Don't be picky." Lin Tantan placed the fragrantly washed mutant mice on a chair to let them bask in the sun. A root-like creature peeked out from the edge of the rooftop. Lin Tantan noticed it and waved at it: "Do you want to take a bath too?"
The latter seemed a little hesitant, but still crawled over happily, stroking his short beard.
"..." Ye Xiao looked at the mud all over its body and the mud wrapped around its bulging part, and finally wiped it off out of consideration.
A basin of mud and water was wiped out.
When he went downstairs to put the washbasin away, he noticed a call coming from the intercom he had left in the room. It was from Lv Jianping. He called back, and Lv Jianping said awkwardly, "Ye Xiao, the capital has given me a mission. They want me to persuade you to go back and take Xiaolin with you. They already know that Xiaolin is a three-element superpower user."
Ye Xiao: "I understand."
"I've brought that up, so I've done my bit of persuasion."
Ye Xiao put down the walkie-talkie without any change in his expression, turned around and went upstairs again.
Lin Tantan was lying on a recliner, basking in the sun with her eyes closed. She was surrounded by a circle of mutant rats, large and small. A mutant plant, like a giant snake, coiled around her feet, its roots resting on her calves. The whole scene was a bit eerie, yet strangely harmonious. He watched for a moment and said, "Take them with you wherever you go from now on."
"Hmm?" Lin Tantan opened his eyes.
Ye Xiao walked over and picked up the now plump gray rat. He looked at it, and it kept kicking and twisting its body. This was the first mutant rat to collide with Lin Tantan's hand, and it was the leader of the mutant rat pack. It originally had only a small tuft of golden hair on its head, but now that small tuft had grown into a large one, probably related to the strengthening of its gold-based ability.
He said, "Although they are a bit stupid, they are still quite useful. I plan to replace the people protecting you with people with special abilities, but sometimes people are not as useful as animals, so let them stay with you at all times."
"Mice, scatter and pay attention to any movement. This one will lie dormant underground..." Ye Xiao said, and then he felt that this mutant plant seemed to have no other use except running faster in the soil. As if sensing his disgust, the mutant plant shook its two broken limbs, a little unconvinced.
After a period of time, the two broken limbs have grown back and are slowly growing longer. The first time they met, they twisted the car into a pile of scrap metal, which shows how strong the combat effectiveness of these two limbs is.
Ye Xiao said: "Okay, then grow up quickly."
Lin Tan Tan agreed with his suggestion. She would rather be surrounded by animals and plants than by people. She touched the top of the mutant plant (the root tip) and said, "Let's give it a name. Calling it this root or this thing doesn't sound good."
"What do you think it's a good name?"
Lin Tantan thought for a long time: "Three?"
“…”What kind of weird name is this?
"Look, it has three rhizomes, and it can even form the Arabic numeral 3. Isn't this name very appropriate?" She continued confidently, "Mutated rats also need names. You'll be called Big Gray." She said to the big gray rat that Ye Xiao had caught, and pointed to a smaller white mutant rat and said, "This one is Big White, this one is Little White, this one is Big Brown, this one is Second Brown, and this one is Third Brown..."
Ye Xiao looked at the confused mutant animals and plants, silently sympathized for half a second, and then reluctantly praised: "It's a very appropriate and memorable name."
In short, the morning passed leisurely, and after another treatment in the afternoon, the two of them couldn't stay in the villa anymore, so they went to the construction site.
The ground, which was expected to take two days to fill, was completed yesterday with the help of the masses. The entire land was filled slightly higher than the parking lot over there, so there is no worry about flooding. Construction officially started today. When they went there, they were laying underground drainage pipes.
Those pipes were naturally brought in from outside yesterday. Large and small pipes were laid and buried underground, which looked extremely professional. In some places, foundations were laid and steel bars were erected, and they were starting to build houses.
There are two more projects next to the construction site, one is brick burning and the other is cement burning, and everywhere is busy.
Lin Tantan was more concerned about the sheep pen. He went over to take a look and found that there were only a few sheep left. He said that some of the sheep had been distributed as wages and some had been sold. As for the trading method, it was either barter or purchase with crystal cores, with one level one crystal core exchanging for one pound of meat.
Lin Tantan calculated that a single sheep would cost hundreds of level one crystal cores. It was a rip-off.
Even with the mutant sheep still in short supply, the military bought up a ton of them. This was largely due to the zombie siege, which had lasted for over half a month, leaving behind countless crystal cores. The military had amassed the largest stockpile, a mountain of them to be exact. Furthermore, the system of using crystal cores as currency hadn't yet taken off. Lin Tantan remembered that in the early days, the purchasing power of crystal cores wasn't very high.
Before the base gates closed in the afternoon, waves of people returned, most with good catches. Some caught mutant sheep and chickens, others fish and rats, and even some bizarre mutant animals, like snakes with two heads and giant mutant toads. Others found corn cobs bigger than clubs, lettuce half a man's height, and something that looked like sugarcane and thicker than a man's waist.
In short, people, their minds opened up, searched everywhere for all sorts of rare finds. The collective power was truly rewarding, and all sorts of new species were brought back to the base. As for whether these things were edible...
That night, Lin Tantan was urgently awakened. The person who was poisoned was Lu Jianping's right-hand man. Seeing that ordinary potions and wood-type ability users could not save him, he could only shamelessly come to Lin Tantan for help. Lin Tantan thought that he had spoken for him, so he went over without saying a word.
Ye Xiao naturally accompanied her.
When they arrived at the place, they saw that the person lying on the bed like a dead person was an acquaintance, the mixed-race young man who was guarding the gate of the base at the beginning. At this time, his handsome mixed-race face was already blue and purple, and it was obvious that he was severely poisoned.
"What happened?" Lin Tantan was shocked. This guy is also a mutant. How could he be poisoned like this? Did he swallow the poison directly?
Lu Jianping looked embarrassed: "He ate two snake gallbladders."
"Is it the two-headed snake?" Lin Tantan had also heard of the reputation of the two-headed snake. It was said that it was a very large snake with scales all over its body that were black with emerald green, and its texture was like jade. Its two heads looked particularly spiritual, and it was said to be a very tonic snake.
The snake was caught by a team of psychics, and it would be impossible for ordinary people to catch it.
Ye Xiao asked: "Hasn't it been tested and can be eaten?"
"Yes, we asked Liu Jian to take a look, and the scientists also tested it, and they all said it was edible. We did eat the snake meat, and everything was fine. But he became like this after eating the snake gall."
Lin Tan Tan had already examined the Master. The poor poisoned person's mouth was rotten. She emitted energy into his body, and then her expression became serious. She started to touch him, slowly moving down from the chest to the stomach. Ye Xiao's eyes twitched as she watched from the side. She almost never had direct contact with patients when she treated them.
After confirming something, Lin Tan sighed and asked, "Is the snake still there?"
Lu Jianping was even more embarrassed: "We shared it all and ate it. Oh, the skin is still there." He also ate the meat and was worried that he would be the same as his subordinate on the bed in the next moment, but fortunately he was fine so far.
"Forget about the skin." You can't tell anything from the skin.
She said, "If I'm not mistaken, that snake has supernatural powers, similar to Meimei's. The place where the snake stores its supernatural powers is its gallbladder. He ate the gallbladder, and now his stomach is the most rotten. His esophagus and intestines are also severely rotten. Moreover, this corrosive energy has entered his blood and spread throughout his body. It won't be long before his whole body is corroded."
Lü Jianping and the others were terrified when they heard this. Lü Jianping hurriedly asked, "Can they save him?"
Lin Tan Tan shook his head: "My superpowers are only effective for common injuries right now, and they're not very effective for injuries caused by superpowers."
She herself was injured by the lightning element, so she could only let her hands tremble. Ye Xiao was injured by the fire element, and if she didn't have the water element, it would be more troublesome.
Even if this mixed-race youth had swallowed a bottle of sulfuric acid, she could have saved him, but he was poisoned by food containing dark powers, so she had no way to help him.
"But I can save his life temporarily. He became like this because he ate food with corrosive properties. If he could eat food with nourishing and restorative properties, he might still be saved."
"Simply put, it's food with wood, water, or earth-type abilities."
In later generations, there were many precious medicinal and food ingredients with special powers, among which the main tonic types were these three. The wood type represented the growth of life and promoted vitality; the water type represented the endless circulation of energy, and most of them had the effect of opening the orifices and relaxing the body; the earth type was the origin of life, and was basically used to strengthen the foundation and nourish the vital energy; the three had subtly different effects, and they were all like tonic herbs, but they could not be confused.
Lin Tantan knows something about this, but not much. If her patients need medication, there will be professional pharmacists to cooperate with her.
However, in the apocalyptic era, there are not so many requirements for medicinal ingredients and food ingredients. I guess the medicinal ingredients and food ingredients themselves do not have such detailed classification of their functions. Just eat what is good for your body.
Lu Jianping understood and quickly sent people to collect as many mutant animals and plants as possible that had entered the base today.
The first one delivered was a plant that was almost as thick as a human waist, seven or eight meters long, and had the characteristics of sugarcane. The Academy of Sciences has confirmed that it is indeed a mutant sugarcane.
Lin Tan Tan discovered that it was a sugarcane with wood-type abilities and said happily, "Squeeze this into juice and feed it to him."
Then several large buckets of juice were squeezed out, which were poured into the mixed-race youth's body again and again. After a long time, his corrosion was finally alleviated, but it would not be easy for him to recover.
When they returned, they also brought back a bottle of sugarcane juice. Everyone got a little to try. It was very sweet and refreshing, with a more delicate fragrance than ordinary sugarcane juice. The extremely gentle wood energy contained in it was also very beneficial to the human body. Mei Bosheng suggested, "Why don't we go get this mutant sugarcane tomorrow? It's a pity we don't know where it is."
He didn't know, but Lu Jianping had already had people smell it. Before dawn, as soon as the base gate opened, his people left the base and headed straight for the place where the mutated sugarcane was found.
It was originally a sugarcane forest. A heavy rain killed many sugarcanes, but many were left. There were more than one mutated sugarcane there, but that one was the thickest.
However, when the team arrived, the sugarcane field had almost been completely destroyed. The thick mutant sugarcanes fell to the ground and were chewed into a mess. There was also a figure lying deep in the ground, chewing and swallowing the juice.
"Who!" the officer in charge shouted. In the dim light, a figure emerged from the sugarcane field and ran very fast.
"It looks like a person, but it seems to have only half a head. It's probably a zombie." said the subordinate.
"Will zombies eat sugarcane?" The officer in charge frowned. "Never mind. Let's see if there are any intact sugarcanes left and dig them up with the roots."
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