58 Chapter 58
Chaos at the foot of the mountain
Chapter 58
The end result was that the child received the full beating from his father that he had not received from his uncle.
Looking at the child tied with a rope and sobbing, Ying Huai felt helpless.
"Yes, another one comes to face me and reflect on himself."
Ying Huai muttered something to himself, but still threw a small bunch of locust flowers from his body to the crying and sad child.
This child had recovered from the quarrel with his uncle and stopped crying. Everyone thought he had escaped, but in the end he still got beaten.
Thinking of this, Ying Huai wanted to laugh when he saw the sad child who was still crying.
"It's useless even if you're good at talking..."
When Momo saw this, he muttered to himself.
When his brother Shitou said this before, he thought it was his uncle's problem.
I didn't expect it to be a common problem among adults.
I learned that you really shouldn't talk too much when you're being beaten.
"But I can't just wait until I've been beaten. That would be a waste..."
"So you have to run! If you don't run, how will you know if the adults really want to hit you or are just pretending?"
Shitou heard Momo's voice, and very experiencedly joined in Momo's mumbling and began to share his experience with him.
"Well, you do have more experience than me."
After hearing what Shitou said, Momo recalled how many times Shitou had been beaten in the past, and was convinced that he was no match for Shitou, and he was convinced.
"What are your brother and Brother Shitou talking about?"
Nuonuo was right next to them, holding a small stone doll. He looked around at his two brothers who were talking about how they got beaten, feeling somewhat puzzled.
"You don't need to understand this. Your parents won't beat you anyway, so just be a good boy."
After hearing what Nuonuo said, Xiao Ling'er turned to look at her two brothers, listened carefully, and after confirming that they were sharing their experiences of being beaten, she was speechless and turned to tell Nuonuo not to think too much about it.
Nuonuo is the baby of their family. They had finally gotten this child with much difficulty. Nuonuo’s parents couldn’t take enough time to pamper her and rarely did anything to her on weekdays.
Even if she was stubborn and refused to give in when faced with problems, her parents would only teach her a lesson on the surface, but they would still focus more on reasoning and would only use gentle methods.
"Oh, I see."
Hearing Xiao Ling'er's words, Nuonuo nodded. Since it had nothing to do with her, she turned her attention back and looked at Xiao Ling'er as if she remembered something.
"By the way, Xiao Ling'er, my parents have agreed to let me play with the little stone doll!"
As she spoke, she lifted up the little stone doll in her hand and showed Xiao Ling'er the stone in her hand.
"Well, how could your parents agree to that?"
It's very strange.
Xiao Ling'er looked down at the ugly stone in her friend's hand, feeling a little confused.
"Doesn't it look less ugly than before?"
Xiao Ling'er took a closer look and confirmed that she was not mistaken. Then she looked up at Nuonuo and asked with some doubt.
"Yeah, yeah, I don't know what happened, but by the time I noticed it, it had already gotten better looking."
Hearing Xiao Ling'er's question, Nuonuo didn't know how to answer, and could only say this in the end.
"That's strange, but it's still pretty ugly now."
Xiao Ling'er shook her head, unable to understand, but seeing that the little stone was as ugly as before, she wanted to change the subject.
"No, it's much prettier now. Look, it even has eyes!"
Nuonuo was a little unhappy when he heard Xiao Ling'er say that his little stone doll was ugly.
In the past, when Xiao Ling'er said that the little stone doll was ugly, she had no way of refutation. In addition, the little stone doll had been buried in the soil for a long time, and its face was blurred, so it was difficult to tell whether it was ugly or beautiful.
But now it's different.
I don’t know when it started, but the little stone doll began to slowly lose its earthy brown color caused by being buried in the soil for a long time, and slowly revealed its original color.
And as time goes by, its facial features and other features are becoming more and more perfect.
Although it looks a bit mottled now, if you look closely, you can still see that it was originally a very beautiful little stone doll.
Because they realized this, Nono's parents no longer opposed Nono bringing such an unlucky thing home. Instead, they helped Nono boil water every night and watched Nono carefully bathe the little stone doll.
Although they didn't understand what could be obtained by bathing this colorless stone, Nono did it anyway. What if it was useful?
And didn’t godmother say that their Nono has abilities that ordinary people don’t have?
Nono usually didn't show this. The reason they knew Nono had special abilities was because Tang Rufeng had asked all the capable people in Daxi Village to go to his yard for statistics and records, and Xiao Shitou had specifically asked him to go there, so Nono's parents knew about it.
Although the godmother didn't tell them personally, some of the children who were inspired by Xiao Shitou at that time have now developed inexplicable abilities, and they don't know how to control and use them.
Asking your godmother for help means that your ability is still weak and difficult to control, so just take it slow.
They thought the same about Nono.
Perhaps it's because Nono has had her ability for too short a time, so she doesn't know how to control it yet, and she hasn't revealed what kind of ability she has yet. Nono's parents just need to wait.
In fact, they still had some guesses in their hearts. After all, after Nuonuo came back from the city, her already delicate and beautiful face became more beautiful the longer she stayed in the village.
Nono’s parents sometimes wonder if Nono’s ability is to become beautiful?
For this reason, they even went to Ying Huai and asked him indirectly, but Ying Huai didn't answer. It was good to let them wait with some anticipation.
Nono's parents' doubts still have no conclusion, but Nono himself seems to know something.
Ying Huai looked at the little stone doll that Nuonuo was holding all day long, and after he was sure that the connection between them was getting deeper and there were no side effects, he let it go.
The little stone doll is also a well-behaved one. Every time Nuonuo takes him out to play, when he gets under the locust tree, he doesn't make any noise that disturbs the locust tree.
Now the little stone doll is completely able to communicate with Ying Huai. Perhaps because it senses Ying Huai's strength and is afraid of something unexpected happening, the little stone doll has never made any strange noises in front of Ying Huai.
For example, at this moment it was provoking the emotions of the little ornaments around Chu Xinran, and then watching those little ornaments quarreling.
Chu Xinran just squatted beside Xiao Ling'er, and even though she listened to the whole thing, she didn't show any emotion at all.
She has gotten used to it during this time.
At first she thought her condition was getting worse because she could hear the sounds of the decorations in her home, but now she has seen so many incredible things in the village.
I also saw so many animals and plants on the Internet that can attack people. In addition, someone would appear on the Internet every once in a while, telling about what abilities they possessed, and then disappear inexplicably due to Internet control.
In addition, when the village was registering people with special abilities, the village chief specifically asked her to go with him.
If she doesn't understand her current situation, she is a fool.
However, because she herself didn't know how to control the ornaments from making noise, she could only get close to Xiao Ling'er and let Xiao Ling'er's abilities suppress the overly active emotions of the small ornaments.
Even now, although she is still a little mentally unwell, at least she doesn't have to take so many medicines to suppress it.
Because she knew that these were not diseases and could not be suppressed by medicine at all.
Xiao Ling'er sensed that the special ability next to her was becoming active again. She turned around helplessly and stretched out her hand in that direction to use her ability to suppress the active ability. After sensing that the ability had calmed down, she turned to look at Nuo Nuo and continued to talk to Nuo Nuo.
Xiao Ling'er is almost used to these overly active super powers. If she didn't know that those overly active super powers would drive her sister Ranran next to her crazy, she wouldn't mind even if there were more active super powers around her, because they couldn't hurt her anyway.
But if she didn't take care of it, Sister Ranran's screaming would hurt her ears, so she took care of it.
Just think of it as practicing your own special abilities.
"Sister Ranran, you have to try to accept your own abilities and then control them..."
It was almost time to go home for dinner. Xiao Ling'er was about to go home and pack up the toys she brought with her. She seemed to have thought of something, turned her head to look at Ranran beside her, and said softly.
"Yeah, I know, but sometimes I can't help it. They're too noisy."
When Chu Xinran heard Xiao Ling'er's words, she felt a little embarrassed, smiled, and explained softly.
"You should put your ability on the stone at the entrance of the village and see if you can communicate. Then, when someone comes to the village or there's some gossip, you can hear the whole thing as soon as you arrive at the entrance. How great is that."
Xiao Ling'er looked at her, tilted her head and thought for a while, then set her sights on a large stone at the entrance of the village that had been moved back by the villagers as decoration, and whispered a suggestion to Chu Xinran.
After hearing Xiao Ling'er's words, Chu Xinran turned around. It seemed that this stone might really be useful.
After all, she can hear the voice of the small stone doll in Nuonuo's hand. The stone at the entrance of the village has been there for at least twenty or thirty years. With supernatural powers, communication should be possible.
Thinking about it, she wanted to give it a try.
The result is certainly good. After all, the stone is so big that even if no one pays attention to it, the attention left behind by so many people passing by can make it generate some thoughts.
Just as I put my power on the stone, I heard it start shouting over there.
The big rock seemed to be very lonely as well. It spent most of its time sleeping. In the few moments it was awake, it would watch the people walking around it and start to mutter about how they walked the last time they saw them, whether they walked as well this time, etc.
Well, another chatterbox.
Ying Huai watched with his own eyes as Chu Xinran released her power onto the stone next to him, causing a long-mouthed, chattering thing to appear next to him inexplicably. The entire tree was speechless.
He felt that his life was pretty good before, even though the villagers often came and went under his tree, chatting and gossiping.
Zuzu accompanied him every day, but he would not often talk to Ying Huai or quarrel with Shu.
fine.
But now it’s not so good.
Because of Chu Xinran's ability, the first thing that the big rock that was originally unable to speak was talking to Ying Huai was.
It started whispering to Ying Huai, but Ying Huai ignored it. So it started talking to the small ginseng plant growing next to Ying Huai, a demon plant that couldn't even speak clearly.
Listening to the chirping of the two birds next to him, Ying Huai felt helpless and innocent.
He hasn't done anything yet, but a chatterbox suddenly appears next to him and starts talking excitedly.
Chu Xinran's ability is quite strange. Her special ability is very lively, which makes the objects that can talk carried by her special ability also very lively.
Every one of them is eloquent.
Ying Huai couldn't understand why the big rock next to him, which hadn't spoken much since it appeared and had been sleeping most of the time, could speak so fluently the first time it spoke and even teach the little demon plant next to it to speak?
Looking at the little demon plant planted by Grandma Stone next to him happily chatting with the big stone and learning how to talk from it, Ying Huai said nothing and chose to listen.
He was afraid that if he interrupted, the other two would turn around and talk to him endlessly.
After Chu Xinran dropped a verbal bomb next to Ying Huai, she followed Xiao Ling'er and the other children away, leaving the big stone muttering there, with no intention of going back to get rid of it.
Ying Huai listened for a while and was sure that it could not be removed, so he had no choice but to accept it temporarily.
The mountain seemed to be calm for the time being. Because of the mutant wild animals brought back by Ali, there were basically no more powerful mutant animals coming around Daxi Village.
Of course, even if it came over, before it was discovered by the villagers of Daxi Village, it would have been discovered by those mutant animals and eaten up with a crunch.
Those who can mutate, apart from other things, at the very least, have real spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy on his body is like a snack for those mutant animals that lack the ability to grow after mutation.
If they didn't have brains and knew that the humans in Daxi Village couldn't be harmed and were protected by Ying Huai and Ali, they would probably have set their sights on those humans who had abilities and could absorb spiritual energy from the very beginning.
This is unavoidable. If humans want to enhance their abilities, they need to absorb spiritual energy to enhance their abilities.
The same is true for animals, and they have many ways to absorb spiritual energy. Eating mutated animals and plants with spiritual energy, and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth themselves are all powerful ways.
And eating it directly is faster than absorbing it slowly by yourself, it just depends on their own choice.
However, the mutated animals that came to Daxi Village from the mountains had obviously made their choice and could live in peace with the humans in the village.
There is Ying Huai watching over the mountain, so there is no problem, but it is different at the foot of the mountain.
Things have been in chaos down the mountain these days.
The mayor had been staying in Shangyou Village with the special rescue team.
They have been staying in the mountains for many days now. The only reason they are stuck here is that the village chief Dai from the upstream village can read divination in dreams and predict what will happen next.
Many divinations have been read these days. Ever since the mayor and others went up the mountain to Shangyou Village, Village Chief Dai has been dreaming of the same divination every night, but he has no idea what it means.
Still studying it now.
Uncle Xiao also tried to show the hexagrams to a Taoist priest, but after looking at them, the Taoist priest said they were very confusing and he could not analyze anything at all.
But they all knew that this hexagram was very important, otherwise Village Chief Dai would not have dreamed about it for so many days in a row.
Because they wanted to know the result of the divination, they stayed in the upstream village for many days.
By now, the situation at the foot of the mountain was in great chaos. Two consecutive calls had been made to the mountain, requesting the rescue team to come down the mountain for rescue and requesting the mayor to come down the mountain to take charge. Only then did they choose to give up.
"Let's go down the mountain first. You can study it yourself. If it doesn't work, just put it aside for now."
Gently putting down the hexagram he had drawn on his hand, the mayor spoke softly to Village Chief Dai and told him the final decision.
They spent too much time climbing the mountain. Because the upstream village did not have the locust tree from Daxi Village to protect it, the situation in the upstream village was much worse than that at the foot of the mountain.
These days he has been studying these hexagrams with Village Chief Dai. The special rescue team comes back at night to study, and goes out during the day to find trouble with those mutated animals and plants and eliminate all those who are dangerous.
Today we have barely managed to eliminate all the dangers around us.
This was the limit of how long they could stay in the mountains.
After hearing what the mayor said, Village Chief Dai also knew that the future would depend on him, so he did not object.
"Okay, let's have another meal at home and leave in the afternoon."
Nodded and started to arrange the next itinerary.
"Xiao Liu, we'll be going down the mountain this afternoon. You can help Village Chief Dai on this mountain. You can also keep an eye on those people with special abilities in the village. If you can suppress them, do so. If not, it's up to Village Chief Dai to decide."
Before going down the mountain, the mayor took Xiao Liu, the former secretary, now cadre Xiao Liu, aside and whispered some instructions.
Unlike the many people with special abilities who appeared in Daxi Village, there were also people with special abilities in Shangyou Village, but not many.
But just looking at these people with special abilities who have appeared, and seeing that there are few people with special abilities among the surrounding villagers, it is inevitable that one will feel a little arrogant.
And these days, watching the special rescue team cleaning up the mutated animals and plants around them, he put himself in the main position to clean up those mutated animals and plants in the future. He felt that they would have to protect the villagers in the future, so his attitude became a little arrogant.
It doesn't seem like a big deal now, but I'm afraid that these people won't be able to control themselves in the future, and once the water starts to float up, they won't be able to suppress it, causing irreparable damage to the upstream village.
That’s why the mayor gave this advice.
"Well, Mayor, don't worry. I've remembered all of this and will keep an eye on them."
Xiao Liu nodded, indicating that he had remembered the mayor's words.
In fact, even if the mayor didn't say it, he himself had noticed the attitudes of those people. After all, he would live in this mountain in the future. For the sake of his future stable living environment, he could not ignore the attitudes of those people.
After checking the upstream village again and making sure there would be no danger in the short term, Captain Dai led his team, the mayor and others down the mountain.
After going down the mountain, the mayor looked at the piles of documents on his desk and realized the emergency situation in the surrounding area.
Their town was relatively peaceful during this period. After all, before they went up the mountain, the special rescue team walked around the area and eliminated most of the dangers.
The rest can be handled by the town’s defense team.
Although the town's defense capabilities are not as good as those of Captain Dai's team, it is still possible to protect this small town as long as the danger is not serious.
"So how will the higher-ups punish the person in charge of the zoo?"
Looking at the defense documents in his hand, the mayor frowned and asked the secretary who followed him.
"The director of that zoo has been taken away, and the higher-ups are still investigating. We can't rule out the possibility that he deliberately provoked the animals, causing them to escape."
The secretary heard the mayor's question and quietly told him what happened next.
"There were quite a lot of mutant animals in that zoo, but strangely, after the incident, some of them mysteriously disappeared, and no trace of them has been found to this day."
As he spoke, he handed another document to the mayor for inspection.
“These are the lists of animals in the zoo, and the ones that remain are the ones that have not mutated and were brought back.
In addition to those who disappeared and were never found again, there are also some who are entrenched in the surrounding human activity areas and begin to attack humans in order to survive.
In just a few days, there have been multiple cases of missing persons."
"Does the higher-ups want us to help track down those mutant animals, or is it something else?"
After hearing this, the mayor frowned and looked through the documents in his hand.
"There's no clear meaning above, but they hope we can provide traces of those mutants while ensuring our own safety."
The secretary hesitated for a moment and then stated what he had analyzed.
The protection in these small towns cannot be compared with that in big cities, so the higher-ups don’t seem to focus on them in patrols or supporting other cities.
"A blessing in disguise?"
Hearing the secretary's words and thinking about his current position, the mayor raised his eyebrows slightly and made a teasing remark.
Although his current position is not high, it is still not low in the surrounding area.
How can it not be a blessing to be able to have a certain degree of defense and not have to worry about becoming the focus of the calculations of those above?
"They're short on manpower right now, and they're definitely trying to recruit people everywhere. We're lucky to be able to stay safe in this corner for the time being."
The mayor said this, turning his gaze to one of the documents at hand.
What is written here is to call on people with special abilities in various areas to form a team of special abilities to fight against those dangerous mutated animals and plants.
Due to the special nature of cities and their large populations, these are the places where the most mutant animals and plants appear. As a result, even though the defense forces in large cities are already extremely large compared to small counties, they are still short of manpower.
Because of the sudden incident in the zoo, people in the neighboring city began to panic, and what they thought about most every day was how to leave that city.
After all, even if you live in a high-rise building now, sometimes you can look out the window and see what kind of animals have entered your community, how capable they are at attacking, and how long it takes them to break a house's windows and take out human remains to chew on.
Various videos have appeared on the Internet these days, and the most common ones are of mutated wild animals such as leopards, bears, wolves, etc. that should have stayed in zoos.
They walked on the city streets, their eyes roaming around, as if looking for edible targets.
Because they appeared in the city center, they dared not use weapons that could threaten them for fear of harming other innocent humans, and the weapons they could use were not powerful enough to cause any harm to them.
The tranquilizer gun is only useful at the beginning, but these mutant animals originally came from the zoo and are resistant to anesthesia. After the mutation, the only option is to increase the dosage.
But even if the dosage is increased, it still doesn't work. In the end, they become immune and it's completely useless.
The humans in the city began to panic. They were afraid of the mutant creatures that might appear from unknown places, afraid of how they would survive after being unable to go out, and afraid of their future.
The panic spread from the city and spread out in all directions along the network.
Even though the Flower-Growing Country tried its best to appease them, many people still went to extremes.
Because of fear, some people chose to hide in a place they thought was safe, while others chose to take to the streets and began to indulge in their behaviors without regard for their lives.
"This world is over. I can't live anymore. You all should die with me..."
A man stood on a tall building, looking down at the people below, laughing miserably.
From the range of his vision, he could see that the entire building where he was standing was covered in flames.
"This lunatic, if he wants to die, then go ahead and die! He poured gasoline in the hallway, fuck..."
People downstairs who had smelled the wrong gas in advance escaped from their buildings with difficulty, looking at the person standing on the roof and cursing loudly.
【Author’s words】
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