Roberts was speechless with surprise. He pointed at the old man, then at the mutated creature.
The old man seemed to understand what Roberts meant.
He turned to the mutated creatures around him and said, "Drive away! Drive away!"
It's like chasing away a cat or dog.
These mutated creatures miraculously turned around and left.
Roberts' eyes widened.
What's going on?
What happened?
He simply couldn't understand what was happening.
The mutated creature just left like that?
The old man returned to the outside of the aircraft and gestured for Roberts to open the cabin door.
Roberts opened the cabin door and saw the old man smiling and saying, "Finally, I've seen a living person."
Seeing that Roberts was still in a daze, the old man said, "Oh, I forgot, you don't understand the language of Xia."
Roberts snapped out of his daze and quickly waved his hand: "I understand the language of Xia."
Yuan Guoping laughed and said, "You understand, right? I called you for a long time and you didn't respond. I thought you didn't understand."
Roberts simply couldn't believe what she was seeing.
How could someone walk among mutated creatures unscathed?
Roberts asked his own question.
Yuan Guoping said, "These are not ordinary mutated creatures, but parasitic mutated creatures. Their subjective consciousness is no longer under their own control, but is controlled by the parasitic mushrooms. These parasitic mushrooms will not attack their own kind, but I have developed a medicine that will make the parasitic mushrooms think that I am one of them after I take it, so these parasitic mutated creatures will not attack me."
Yuan Guoping explained, and Roberts suddenly understood.
Then tears started flowing involuntarily.
This is tears of joy.
No one can understand the excitement in the heart of someone who has survived despair.
"Thank you for saving me."
Yuan Guoping said, "Alright, I'm very happy to meet someone like me in a place like this. I've been walking around this area for two days and haven't gotten out yet. I just heard some noise coming from your side and that's why I came over. Do you have any food?"
Roberts immediately took out a nutritional supplement.
Yuan Guoping took it, "What's this?"
“Nutritional solution? You don’t recognize this?” Roberts asked, puzzled.
Yuan Guoping nodded: "I just came out of the shelter. I haven't seen the light of day for 50 years, so I don't know what the situation is like outside now."
“Oh,” Roberts nodded, “All living things outside have mutated, including the soil, which can no longer grow crops that humans can eat. We can only survive by drinking this now.”
"Huh?!" Yuan Guoping was briefly shocked when he heard the news, but then he came to his senses. In fact, it wasn't much worse than he had expected. At least humanity hadn't gone extinct.
Yuan Guoping opened the nutrient solution, and a foul, sour smell wafted out.
"Is this really drinkable?" Yuan Guoping questioned.
Roberts nodded affirmatively.
Yuan Guoping had been out of the shelter for several days, and the food he brought with him had long been used up. He had been hungry for two days and had no other food. He could only hold his nose and drink nutrient solution.
After drinking the nutrient solution, Yuan Guoping's old face seemed to wear a mask of pain, contorted in agony.
It tastes absolutely awful.
"Are you sure this isn't expired or spoiled?" Yuan Guoping asked.
Roberts replied, "That's the taste. After the apocalypse, the land in the world won't be able to grow normal food. You'll be lucky to have something like this to drink."
Yuan Guoping then asked, "What about these mushrooms? Has the whole world been taken over by these mushrooms?" Yuan Guoping had previously conducted experiments and discovered that these mushrooms have many strange characteristics. They can control animals and have a stronger reproductive ability than ordinary plants, making them invincible in the plant kingdom.
Roberts shook his head: "Probably not. The mushrooms are only found in this area, and they've only just sprouted."
Yuan Guoping was relieved after understanding the situation.
After he came out of the shelter, all he saw were mushrooms, and he almost thought the whole world was made of mushrooms.
As long as there are no mushrooms, he is fine. No matter what kind of land he is in, as a botanist, he will find a way to grow plants that humans can eat.
The most urgent thing now is to leave this mushroom area with Roberts.
Yuan Guoping gave Roberts a vial of medicine and made him drink it.
Yuan Guoping told him that after drinking the medicine, he would no longer be attacked by the parasitized mutated creature for 24 hours.
Roberts stepped out of the aircraft and walked a short distance away; indeed, no mutated creatures came to attack him.
He never expected that leaving this small place would be so easy.
Roberts felt a pang of sadness as he thought of Gates, who had just been alive.
It was thanks to Gates' impulsiveness that the gunshots caught Yuan Guoping's attention; otherwise, they would have been left to wait for their deaths.
Unfortunately, he is currently unable to retrieve Gates' body and can only leave it here for the time being.
...
That morning.
Ji Xian took a walk around the neighborhood.
Many buildings in the ruined city have been demolished. It's quite remarkable that such rapid progress has been achieved without the aid of large-scale engineering equipment.
As for the subsequent construction, Ji Xian left it all to Xia Luoxue and Li Lianfang to handle.
Ji Xian had already given Xia Luoxue 10,000 energy points. Xia Luoxue would provide the energy points for any materials and engineering equipment needed, and Li Lianfang would handle the procurement.
These people who have lived in the apocalypse are all more efficient at getting things done than Ji Xian does personally.
Ji Xian confidently entrusted the task to them.
Every slave who saw Ji Xian on inspection worked even harder.
They now know Ji Xian's temperament and personality; he's a hands-off manager who brings them back and then ignores them. It's extremely difficult for them to even see Ji Xian.
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