"Rumble"
A bolt of lightning flashed across the dark clouded sky, followed by rolling thunder.
The big raindrops poured down like a pouring ladle, shrouding the whole world in a misty rain curtain.
It was late in the evening, but the sky outside was already as dark as midnight. Coupled with the heavy rain, one could not help but sigh that human beings are so small and helpless in the face of the power of nature.
However, Lu Yu had no intention of feeling so emotional. He and Xiao Ran had just finished a simple dinner - a can of canned herring, two poached eggs, and a pot of fragrant rice. Lu Yu needs to assemble Xiaoran's weapons as soon as possible.
It was a small crossbow, one of the relics left by Lu Yu's father.
Lu Yu's father had no other hobbies during his lifetime. He just liked to study some ancient weapons, and was especially interested in the hidden weapons among them. I often search for long-lost hidden weapons on the Internet and study how to use modern technology to restore and manufacture them.
However, Lu Yu's father has not been successful often, because most of the relevant information is incomplete, and many of them are even fabricated by netizens. The only weapons that Lu's father could successfully imitate were relatively simple weapons such as crossbows, and what Lu Yu was assembling at this time was a crossbow left behind by his father.
Normally, every time Father Lu copied an ancient weapon, after a brief trial, he would dismantle it into parts and place them on a bookshelf for display. Firstly, it is because these models are extremely lethal and are controlled by the state; secondly, Lu's father is worried that if his home is robbed, if these models are used by criminals to do something harmful to society, what will happen? Not good.
Therefore, among the parts on display, one or two key things are often missing to prevent someone from easily assembling these weapons of mass destruction.
Lu Yu remembered that his father would often stand in front of the bookshelf, admiring the displayed parts, and then sighing with emotion.
"These small parts have no effect at all when taken alone, but once they are assembled and combined, they will explode with unimaginable power."
Lu Yu looked at the exquisite crossbow in his hand and couldn't help but fall into memories again.
Since my father's death, my mother's whereabouts are also unknown. The originally happy family of three was left alone, and these models on the bookshelf were forgotten in the corner by Lu Yu.
Now that the disaster has broken out, the weapons in these bookshelves have become Lu Yu's most important life-saving trump card.
"I really don't know if it's a coincidence or if my father did it intentionally."
Looking at the crossbow, Lu Yu knew that there were two parts that had not been installed. These were the parts that his father deliberately did not copy - the 'hook' and the 'combination key' in the crossbow!
Without these two things, the crossbow in Lu Yu's hand would still be a harmless model, because it would be impossible to fire the crossbow arrows at all.
"The key combination is easy to make. I remember there should be a lot of materials in dad's toolbox to make one..." Lu Yu pondered, "What to do with this hook? I remember the strength requirements for this part are quite high. It shouldn’t work with ordinary wire.”
Just as Lu Yu was thinking about what kind of materials to use to make the hook heart, Xiao Ran walked out of the study.
"I've read all the books in the study. Are there any new books?"
"Have you finished reading them all?" Lu Yu was surprised. Although there were not many books in his study room, Xiao Ran had only read them for two days since he woke up. Such an astonishing reading speed for a 9-year-old girl. Is it a bit too exaggerated?
"You're not going to swallow it all, are you?" Lu Yu put down the crossbow in his hand and expressed doubts about Xiao Ran's exaggerated reading speed.
"Really, if you don't believe me, feel free to do it, I've memorized it all." Xiaoran put her little hands behind her back, with a look of eagerness on her face.
"I really don't believe it anymore. After waking up from coma, he really became the most powerful brain?" Lu Yu thought to himself, but he didn't stop. He came to the study and randomly picked out an encyclopedia and opened one of the pages. asked Xiao Ran.
"Big flower purslane belongs to..." Before Lu Yu could finish speaking, Xiao Ran rushed to answer.
"Annual herbaceous plant, 10 to 30 centimeters tall. The stems are lying flat or ascending, purple-pink, with multi-branched nodes covered with hairs..."
Xiao Ran's childish voice was like a tape recorder, and she recited every word about the purslane in the book without any mistakes.
"Really, every word is correct." Lu Yuhe closed the book and did not test anything more.
When Xiao Ran just woke up, she showed Lu Yu her powerful computing power. As long as it was the knowledge she had learned, she could flexibly apply it and give accurate answers quickly. And now Xiaoran has shown another amazing ability, which is photographic memory.
"Is it possible that as long as you survive the infection period, your intelligence will improve? Then I..." Lu Yu couldn't help but have a bold idea in his heart, but he soon shuddered again and suppressed the idea.
Yes, he thought that since Xiaoran could gain computer-like computing power and camera-like memory after recovering from the infection, he might also be able to gain some other improvements if he was infected.
But the risk is too great!
If you don't take care of yourself and become infected and become a zombie, it will be great fun.
"Maybe it's the effect of aspirin..." Lu Yu thought of the two bags of aspirin he threw in the corner of the sofa. They were the drugs that Zhang Heng, the self-proclaimed "traveler", asked him to buy.
If you have an infection, take aspirin too. But Lu Yu still couldn't do such an outrageous thing as actively contacting zombies and then being infected.
"It's better to be steady and don't wander..." Lu Yu said in a confused manner.
Xiao Ran on the side was confused. Uncle Lu Yu in front of him closed the book and lowered his head in thought. The expression on his face was excited and depressed for a while, and finally he said something like "Stay safe". wave……
"Well, let's take a look at your weapons." After stuffing the books back into the bookshelf, Lu Yu and Xiao Ran returned to the living room.
The small crossbow was placed on the coffee table. Xiao Ran's eyes lit up, he grabbed the crossbow and started playing with it.
"It can't be used now," Lu Yu sighed. "I can't find the materials to make the hook. Even if I have crossbow arrows, I can't use this crossbow."
"Hook Heart? That structure that requires higher strength?" Xiao Ran dismantled the crossbow in his hands out of curiosity. At this time, Lu Yu was still thinking about the material of the hook heart and did not notice Xiao Ran at all. The movements in Ran's hands.
By the time he reacted, Xiaoran had already reduced the crossbow in his hand into a pile of parts.
"What the hell! Why did you dismantle it? It took me a long time to put it back together." Lu Yu, who was wandering thousands of miles, finally noticed Xiao Ran's movements, but it was already too late. The crossbow on the coffee table had turned into a A bunch of parts.
"I think the hook center and key combination part can be solved by changing the structure. I have read in books that the force that the mortise and tenon structure can withstand is amazing. Changing the structure of the hook center should be able to meet the requirements."
However, Lu Yu didn't listen carefully to what Xiao Ran was saying. His mind was now filled with the pile of scattered parts.
But in the end, Lu Yu did not lose his temper at the little Loli. Instead, he sighed helplessly and set about assembling the pile of parts.
"Saw the legs of the chair and make a crossbow with a mortise and tenon structure." Xiao Ran slapped away Lu Yu's stretched out hand, looking calm and composed.
"I don't know how, little ancestor!" Lu Yu spread his hands, indicating that he was just a stupid ordinary person.
"I'll teach you!" A smile appeared on Xiao Ran's cheek, and his blue-black pupils shone with a cunning light.
The heavy rain continued to fall tirelessly, and a sound of thunder brought Zhang Ning's consciousness back to reality.
"Why did I faint again..."
Touching the slightly swollen back of his head, Zhang Ning remembered that he seemed to have eaten the 'good stuff' from the Money Tree before, and then suddenly lost consciousness. His head probably hit the ground at that time and was swollen. of.
"You are still here, how long have I been unconscious?" Zhang Ning found himself surrounded by several zombies, the same ones he had used as bait for the money tree before.
The zombie was naturally unable to answer Zhang Ning's questions. He just twitched his nose unconsciously and drool kept dripping from his wide open mouth.
"Oh, forget it, look at your imbecile looks."
The money tree in the distance had already turned into a pile of broken branches and leaves. The heads in the tree had lost their support and fell to the ground. From a distance, they looked like watermelons covering the ground.
Zhang Ning didn't get up to take a closer look. He already had the human head, so there was no need to study it.
But if he went to take a closer look, he would find that the heads of those people rolling on the ground had more or less the same black scales as those on Zhang Ning's neck, but those scales had lost their vitality and shriveled off. Quite a few.
"Why aren't you hungry anymore? Are you too hungry?" Zhang Ning touched his stomach. The original strong hunger had disappeared, and his whole body seemed to be full of strength. There was even a comfortable numbness in his chest. came...
"Ah!" A shrill scream echoed in the deserted supermarket. Even the zombies surrounding Zhang Ning were frightened and screamed, as if they were frightened by Zhang Ning's exaggerated scream. Same.
"Why does the psoriasis on my neck seem to be bigger..."
Zhang Ning was like a young girl who had been raped by a gangster. She kept groping her neck and body. He felt that the scales that were only on his neck had now spread to his chest.
The comfortable tingling sensation I felt before was exactly where the scales grew on my chest.
"Is it because I ate that white thing?"
"Sure enough, you can't just eat randomly!"
"But it doesn't seem to be the case with psoriasis. It's quite comfortable to look at, but it's a bit ugly."
"Could it be that the white thing growing out of the money tree is some kind of natural treasure?"
"But I haven't met any old man with a white beard or a system that's crazy cool and awesome, right?"
"Could it be that my golden finger is my superior IQ? Is this battle with the Money Tree an adventure of mine?"
"So the reason why I have more psoriasis must be because I ate that weird thing under the money tree!"
Zhang Ning, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, was like a Tang monk chanting sutras, muttering in a low voice. His tone changed from the original panic to calmness, then from calmness to excitement. Finally, he stood up from the ground with a shudder and made his own move. judge.
"I am indeed the protagonist. With my intelligence and intelligence, I defeated the first big boss in my cheating life, and also obtained the treasures of heaven and earth. The weird scales on my neck should be an evolution, unique to the protagonist. evolution!"
But soon, the excitement receded quickly like the tide on the beach. Looking at the dilapidated supermarkets around him, Zhang Ning thought of his girlfriend, Jiayi.
"Jiayi must be very sad when she knows I'm dead..." Zhang Ning thought that when he first regained consciousness, he was lying in the morgue. That's more. According to the message Jiayi received, he was already dead. status.
"By the way, there are my parents!" Zhang Ning patted his head, as if blaming himself for his unfilial behavior of thinking of his girlfriend first and his parents second.
"I have to go home quickly. It's such a mess now. I wonder how my parents are doing."
With his mind made up, Zhang Ning no longer hesitated and immediately had the idea of leaving the supermarket.
He wants to go home first and understand what is happening in this world.
But when he was about to leave the supermarket, he suddenly felt a chill in his lower body. Only then did he realize that the thin cloth originally used to prevent him from running naked had fallen to the ground, and the little brother under his crotch was bathing in the slightly cool air.
"Well, let's find a pair of pants first..."
