The sun has completely set from the top of the mountain, and night has fallen.
Ana Shen followed the two vegetative teenagers and walked south along the road for about ten minutes, and finally arrived at the entrance of an old community on the north side of the town.
There are no street lights around, and there is no light in the residential buildings in the community. It seems that in this town composed of vegetative people, there is no electricity at all.
Standing outside the community, you can only see a building completely wrapped in plants lying on the ground like a black giant beast.
"Xinyi Garden..."
Ana Shen saw a stone carving at the entrance of the community, and could vaguely see several large characters carved on it.
Arriving at the gate of the community, the two vegetative teenagers found that Ana Shen was still following them, and the pheromones emitted revealed their confusion: "Are you also a resident of this community? Why haven't we seen you..."
Ana Shen responded calmly: "I live in the center of the city, there is still some distance to go back. But I can't walk anymore, let's see if I can get some water."
On the way back, Ana Shen noticed that the two teenagers had lost a lot of water, the leaves on their bodies were wilting, and their movement speed was getting slower and slower.
Obviously, a vegetative person consumes more water than he thought, and it will directly affect the vegetative person's action efficiency.
Lack of water is a serious matter for a vegetative person. If Ana Shen uses this as an excuse, it will usually not arouse much suspicion from others.
Sure enough, the two teenagers, who were already in a state of dehydration, did not have the slightest suspicion, but turned around with some vigilance.
Among them, a fat young man anxiously conveyed the message: "I... our family doesn't have much stock. If you want to borrow water, you should go to another house."
Some thin young people on the side slapped some fat young people on the head: "Idiot, our family doesn't have much inventory, our family doesn't have any inventory at all!"
After teaching his brother a lesson, the thin young man looked at Ana Shen again and smiled shyly: "The water tower was blocked so suddenly. Our family doesn't have the habit of hoarding water, otherwise we wouldn't go to the dry river embankment. Get some water on the side."
Ana Shen smiled and nodded: "It's okay, I can just find a place to rest."
Of course, Shen Yan could see the little thoughts of the two teenagers at a glance.
Water is almost a necessity for survival for vegetative people. In an era when it was not very convenient to obtain water, ordinary people would prepare daily water at home, not to mention the current vegetative state.
Moreover, Ana Shen clearly sensed that in the dehydrated state, the psychic energy fluctuations on the bodies of the two teenagers were gradually strengthening, and even the fluctuations were chaotic.
Just like a person whose heartbeat is accelerated and accompanied by irregular heartbeat, he doesn't know when he will have a heart attack.
If the water source is not replenished for a long time, the physical condition of the two teenagers will change.
Therefore, there must be water in their homes.
As for why you have to go to a dry riverbed to get water, it’s nothing more than risk prevention.
After all, no one knows how long the water tower will be closed.
But this has nothing to do with Ana Shen. He just found an excuse to get in touch with other vegetative people here.
Seeing that Ana Shen had no intention of leaving, the two teenagers looked at each other and could only walk home with a grimace.
When faced with this situation, they had no better solution. They couldn't fight but couldn't fight, couldn't run but couldn't run...
I had no choice but to let him follow me. Since the adults at home were all there, we were not afraid that he would have any bad intentions.
The home of two teenagers lives on the 7th floor of Building 8 on the east side of the community.
The elevators in the community used to be abandoned long ago, and the vegetative people each chose their own residence. The 7th floor was already relatively high. Going up, there is almost no one living after the 10th floor.
The two teenagers slowly climbed up the stairs and knocked on their door uncharacteristically.
After a while, a middle-aged male in a vegetative state opened the door from inside and poked his head out of the crack in the door.
Among the two teenagers, the thinner one took the opportunity to pass one of his vines up and put it on his father's wrist.
In the completely dark corridor, Ana Shen couldn't see clearly the boy's little movements, but just stood behind him and waited honestly.
After a few breaths, the boy seemed to have finished communicating with his father.
The middle-aged male in a vegetative state spread a ray of pheromones to Ana Shen: "We are guests from afar, let's come in and have a rest."
Ana Shen responded: "Thank you."
Following the middle-aged man, Ana Shen walked into the family's living room.
In the room without lights, Ana Shen could only vaguely make out the outlines of some furniture through the faint light emitted by the plants outside the window.
This is a fairly small living room, about fifty or sixty square meters. There is only a rattan sofa, a large table, and three short stools in the living room.
The fat boy reluctantly brought a stool to Ana Shen: "Sit down, my dad went to get you some water. There isn't much water at home..."
The little fat boy Chen Chen was a little annoyed. He and his brother Chen Luo decided to go out to fetch water privately. They originally wanted to reduce the family burden, but they didn't bring water instead. Instead, they brought back an oil bottle. Now the family didn't have much money. The water is about to bottom out.
I don’t know if I can survive tomorrow.
Ana Shen pretended not to receive the pheromones from the little fat man, sat on the stool and looked at the plants outside the window.
All the buildings in the entire town are wrapped in plants. They look like nothing during the day, but when night falls, these plants take on a strange brilliance.
Strings of vines shine with fluorescent green light, and flowers can be seen everywhere, entwining with each other.
Shen Yan even discovered that these light spots, like breathing, spread out in every corner of the city like a network, and then converged towards a certain location in the center.
It is very similar to the mechanical city where the protagonist finally came to in The Matrix.
"It's beautiful."
There was a burst of pheromones from behind, and Ana Shen turned around to see a middle-aged man carrying half a bucket of water coming behind him.
The male vegetative person handed the bucket in his hand to Ana Shen, and Ana Shen reached out and took it: "Thank you."
The little fat boy Chen Chen and his brother followed behind his father, staring directly at the bucket in Ana Shen's hand.
Ana Shen saw that the leaves on the plant parts of the two teenagers had regained some moisture, but they were still a little wilted. It was obvious that the two of them were not full.
He looked at the half bucket of water in his hand, pretended to put the root at the end of his arm in, and then handed the bucket with water to the two teenagers.
The two teenagers reached out to grab the bucket excitedly, but when they realized that their father was still around, they pulled back.
Ana Shen: "Go ahead, I'll replenish the water, it's enough."
The father showed a kind smile to Ana Shen and nodded to his child.
The two teenagers grabbed the buckets and stepped back in surprise.
After the children left the living room, the middle-aged man sat down next to Shen Yan: "I often sit here like you, staring at these light spots outside the window in a daze."
"It always reminds me of the days when I was still a 'human'..."
The middle-aged man smiled self-deprecatingly: "Forget it, let's not talk about it. We are all eliminated by human society, why are we talking about this?"
"It's pretty good now. At least I don't have to pay the mortgage for a house that's in ruins. I can survive by enjoying the sun and drinking some water every day."
