Chapter 111
People outside were milling around for nearly an hour and finally left. As soon as Jiang Ling went out to look for fuel, he changed his mind and called Azheng and Zhou Xiaojin to go with them.
When Zhou Xiaojin walked to the door, he turned around reluctantly and said to Bai Zhi, "We'll be back in a minute."
"Okay." Bai Zhi bit into the plum candy and her voice was a little unclear. After eating the first piece of chocolate, she discovered that sweets could relieve pain, and she hasn't stopped eating them to this day. She just changed the chocolate to candies of various flavors.
There were three less people in the cave and it seemed much more spacious. The smell of Angelica dahurica quietly emerged, but the floral fragrance remained. Zhang Tianzhao took a deep breath, put the pharmacopoeia in his hand together, "Dahurian angelica?"
"Say." Bai Zhi bit the sugar ball hard, and with a gentle crunching sound, the room was filled with the sweet and sour smell of plums.
"You ate too many sweets. Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Zhang Tianzhao threw away the book and moved to sit next to Bai Zhi. "If you feel uncomfortable, just say so."
"It hurts a bit." Bai Zhi yawned, "Maybe it's because the time between the two attacks was a little short."
"Take off your coat and let me squeeze it. If you have any problems, deal with them immediately." Zhang Tianzhao said this calmly.
Bai Zhi hesitated for a moment, then took off her coat and sweater, revealing her exquisite curves wrapped in a tight long-sleeved T-shirt. Lin Yunlai raised his head and saw that a cigarette he had been playing with for a long time fell on the moisture-proof mat. He lowered his head to pick up the cigarette and turned his eyes away.
Hai Fengqiu opened his eyes and watched Zhang Tianzhao pinch Bai Zhi's arms and back a few times. He helped analyze Bai Zhi's reaction and said, "It looks like chronic muscle soreness. Take some vitamin E?"
"It's better not to eat for now. Did you feel severe pain when you were at the beach a few days ago?" Zhang Tianzhao helped her put on her cardigan, sweater and jacket, and Lin Yunlai's relieved voice could be heard clearly.
"Yeah." Bai Zhi responded in a low voice, "It didn't happen like this before, it's a bit strange."
Zhang Tianzhao stood up, picked up the Pharmacopoeia, put it into his backpack, and sat down opposite Bai Zhi. "After you go back, can you go to Haihuo's for a checkup?"
Bai Zhi's muscles tightened, and she subconsciously looked at Hai Fengqiu and said, "I won't go."
"Don't be afraid, I... we will accompany you." Haifengqiu jumped up and down next to Bai Zhi, "I have to have a checkup every year, check me first then, okay?" His attitude It was so soft that it was like coaxing Xiaofei to get an injection.
"I don't." Bai Zhi leaned firmly against the cement wall. The rough and hard wall gave her a sense of security. "I refuse any form of physical examination."
"It's impossible not to check you before, at least once a year...forget it, I won't check you if you don't want to." She takes stabilizers once a year. When she loses consciousness, a physical check-up is necessary. . He went around again, but he couldn't get around Zhang Tianlie no matter what. Zhang Tianzhao lowered his head in frustration.
Bai Zhi understood why Zhang Tianzhao was so depressed, and she said softly: "Show me what Zhang Tianlie left for you."
Hai Fengqiu rushed to say, "You promised me not to mention old things."
"It has something to do with me." Bai Zhi turned to look at Hai Fengqiu, "It has nothing to do with you."
"It has something to do with me! One year I sensed your existence, and I almost found you." Haifeng Qiu also turned his face sideways and looked directly into Bai Zhi's eyes, "Shen Tang should have informed my sister when he found you, but she didn't. Instead, it cuts off the connection between me and you. This matter has a lot to do with me."
"Then you have to go find her. What happens next is my business." Bai Zhi met his eyes and emphasized, "Mine."
"Ours." Haifengqiu insisted, "As long as we are both alive, it is our business."
"I am alone." Bai Zhi also insisted, "Nothing related to me should be hidden from me."
"Even if it's your own business and you want to know, I have no obligation to tell you." Zhang Tianzhao snorted, "We are just partners, we want to know, equal exchange. Tell me, what can you give me?"
"What do you want?" Bai Zhi looked directly at him.
"Sorry, I don't want anything except my partner." Zhang Tianzhao leaned forward slightly, his posture extremely tough, "I won't tell you anything about your private affairs, I don't want to."
Bai Zhi was stunned for a while and said calmly: "I know, I won't trouble you with similar things in the future."
"Thank you for understanding." Zhang Tianzhao smiled and leaned back against the wall, took the cigarette from Lin Yunlai, popped out a small fireball and lit it.
Lin Yunlai lit a cigarette for himself and threw another one to Haifengqiu. Hai Fengqiu folded the cigarette into two pieces and said, "Pinch it. You will smell the smoke outside."
Zhang Tianzhao put out the cigarette and also pinched Lin Yunlai's cigarette.
"The three of you are so uncomfortable, but no one mentioned breaking up. How about I help you do it?" Lin Yunlai sneered, "Forget it, let's go away and do whatever you have to do. How about that?"
"For me, there is no such thing as breaking up with Bai Zhi." Haifengqiu smiled, "Even if we are just partners now."
"Private matters are private matters." Zhang Tianzhao nodded in agreement with Hai Fengqiu's attitude, "The three of us have no conflicts in other aspects. Yun Lai, this is a matter between the three of us and has nothing to do with the fourth person."
"I am the fourth person." Lin Yunlai stood up and said, "Azhao, goodbye." He turned around and walked out of the passage without looking at anyone.
"Wait a minute." Zhang Tianzhao threw the small jewelry box to Lin Yunlai who stopped and turned around. "There are two earrings. Give them to the person who loves you."
Lin Yun came to hold the box and went out without saying a word. Zhang Tianzhao opened the team panel. Jade Bird had withdrawn from the team, but there were still five people in the gang member panel. Lin Yunlai was quite rational and was not so decisive as to quit the gang. He had a backpack and he had no problem surviving alone. Zhang Tianzhao breathed a sigh of relief.
After a long silence, Hai Fengqiu asked: "Are you and he in a companion relationship? Why does it have to be like this?"
"Everyone has to have one. Someone has to help you when you lose control. Someone has to watch you when taking stabilizers." Zhang Tianzhao said: "Even if there is no similar person, there will be a close one. Jiang Lingyi and Azheng look like That's the kind. You must have it too, who has been playing with you since you were a child?"
"Ren Xiaonan and Yan Baisen. They have been fostering at my house since they were in elementary school." Haifengqiu smiled bitterly, "I don't take stabilizers, and my relationship with them doesn't seem that close. Does Bai Zhi have a companion?"
"Girls don't have it. In order to ensure stable complementation, the source of the DNA fragments embedded in them is different from ours." Zhang Tianzhao moved his gaze to the face of Bai Zhi, who was in a trance. Her face was even paler than before. "According to the original idea, girls are more likely to survive, and there is no need to worry about the mortality rate. I heard that the first few batches did not consider giving birth to girls at all."
"Girls are indeed healthier with ordinary IVF." Hai Fengqiu exhaled, "Why can't the transformed girls survive?"
When Lin Yunlai was away, Zhang Tianzhao spoke more directly, "Based on Bai Zhi's experience, girls may need many times more resources to survive than boys. Maybe one of them has to monopolize a cube. Bai Zhi's luck is so good."
"How many cubes are there in total?" Bai Zhi asked.
"I know, it's three yuan at most. I don't know if I can make it into one." Zhang Tianzhao smiled bitterly, "Everyone who participated in the plan is rushing to have a son. No one would dare to be so crazy if they only support the growth of a girl. Shen Neither can Tang. How did you deal with that cube before the end of the world?"
Now Zhang Tianzhao can completely treat her as a partner. Bai Zhi adjusted her mood and said calmly, "I will open it and take a look when I think of it. I touch it twice every month. Do you suspect that I have less contact in the past two months?"
"You go in and take a few bites. Jiang Lingyi has lived here for two or three months. There is no way that there are no supplies at all. They should have gone to their warehouse to move things and won't be back soon. You go back quickly. ." Haifengqiu smiled.
Bai Zhi didn't even stand up and teleported directly into the gang territory.
Zhang Tianzhao was stunned for a moment, then came over and sat down next to Bai Zhi's original seat. He put his hands on the lukewarm moisture-proof mat and said, "Has Yunlai been like this in the past week?"
Hai Fengqiu smiled at him, "He has been avoiding Bai Zhi for the last month. This time he can tolerate it for two or three days at most. Her ovulation period has advanced. If he doesn't want to be killed by Bai Zhi afterwards, he has no choice but to leave."
Zhang Tianzhao snorted coldly, "Why don't you leave? You are so pretending. If I had known that you were the same kind, I would never have let you take care of her that time."
"She was originally arranged for me." Haifengqiu stood up holding the wall and sat down on the chair at the peephole. "If Shen Tang had given her to me, she wouldn't have become like this. She would have been worse than that Zhou Xiaojin. Innocent, lively and carefree.”
"It's no use finding her. The Gu family won't really hand her over. They will definitely find an opportunity to hide her again, just like they did to Wang Chengpeng." Zhang Tianzhao sneered, "The really inhumane one is Old Man Gu. He let Bai Zhi Take care of her brother taking stabilizers.”
"People who know nothing are so happy." Hai Fengqiu buried his head in his arms, "Does Brother Gu understand?"
"Of course he knows, otherwise he wouldn't let Bai Zhi go out when you and Yun Lai took the medicine. Bai Zhi said that he only took half of the medicine, and the huge pain of taking half of the medicine could offset most of the effects. He knew what kind of That's why you do that because of the effect. The pain of being on the verge of collapse every time is very scary." Zhang Tianzhao sighed deeply, "If I die in front of you, remember to put away the space I exposed, and don't let Bai Zhi discover what's inside. thing."
"Why not just destroy it?" Haifengqiu's eyes widened with a fierce look, "I found out everything related to me in the Beijing Research Institute and burned it, and I also knocked out half of their evolutionary sources and brought them back. , asked my sister to build a research institute by name. If I make a big fuss once, they will be honest, and no one will dare to do anything to me again."
"It's easy to destroy your own information. In fact, Yun Lai has done this before. But I can't do anything about her. What if something goes wrong with her? Should I just watch her die? These things have some reference value. ." Zhang Tianzhao sneered and sneered again, "Wang Chengpeng is Shen Tang's nephew. After Shen Tang discovered Bai Zhi, he began to give Wang Chengpeng medicine to adjust. The offspring of Wang Chengpeng and Bai Zhi are the real new humans, carrying Shen Tang's genetic genes. "
"This woman's selfishness is as big as her ambition. She has even chosen her heir." Haifengqiu whistled, "Does she think she can control everyone and become a queen and build an empire?"
"If she lives another twenty years, maybe she can really do it. It's a pity that God has not been on her side all the time, and she is going to die." Zhang Tianzhao moved his palms around on the cold moisture-proof pad, "Why hasn't Bai Zhi come yet?" Come out? Will something happen? "
"She's giving you time to lick your wounds." Haifengqiu exhaled forcefully, "She didn't even give me a chance to breathe."
"What a considerate and good partner." Zhang Tianzhao retracted his hand, "I'll call her out."
Bai Zhi sat on the eaves of the gang hall, holding a large pot of peaches and looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance. Seeing Zhang Tianzhao come in, he threw a peach to him, "It tastes good."
This peach is red and big, with fresh water drops. Zhang Tianzhao held the peach and took a bite. The fresh fruit smells fragrant, sour and sweet. The fragrance and taste make people feel happy. However, Angelica dahurica has a better smell. He swallowed the peach meat and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore." Bai Zhi jumped down next to Zhang Tianzhao, "Get out."
"You go out first. I'm going to unpack my backpack. The big winged cat gave me a few sets of ores. I'll go find the NPC to check the formula." Zhang Tianzhao walked towards the gang lobby.
Bai Zhi came out holding the fruit bowl and asked Haifengqiu to eat the peaches, saying, "He went to correct the formula."
Haifengqiu picked up a peach and played with it, "I still can't eat it. It feels like I'm eating your flesh."
"Don't worry, eat it. The gang territory doesn't belong to me." Bai Zhi gnawed on the second peach, "Those two changes should be a coincidence."
"You haven't liked eating since your last breakthrough," Haifengqiu took a bite of a peach and said to himself, "The two changes... seem to be... giving you some nutrition."
Zhang Tianzhao came out very quickly and happened to hear the last sentence and asked: "What nutritional supplement?"
"Baizhi has eaten very little recently." Haifengqiu pointed to a few peach stones separated by paper towels in the corner of the fruit bowl. "The food intake in the past few days combined is almost enough for those few peaches."
"She was unhappy and didn't like to eat." Zhang Tianzhao smiled, "I remember one time I didn't hear her cooking for a week. What happened that time? The aunt in the community introduced her to a blind date, and we met her once The man just wanted to live with her, maybe that time."
"Yeah. Fortunately, he disappeared automatically the next day." Bai Zhi threw the peach on the fruit plate, "It was so disgusting that I didn't eat for a week. Now I still hate it when I think about it."
"Will such a person disappear automatically?" Hai Fengqiu raised his eyebrows, "Xiao Lin did it, right?"
"Third brother arranged someone beside me, that person should have done it." Bai Zhi wiped her face with a wet wipe and wiped her fingers, "Something seems to be wrong. Do you feel it?"
Hai Fengqiu leaned over to the looking glass and looked outside. The bright moon hangs high in the dark blue night sky, and the tall and low pine trees gather into solid black waves in the distance. A group of people are walking this way.
"Brother Gu San and Jiang Lingyi came here together." Haifengqiu sniffed. The smell of Gu Tianbai was very obvious, as well as the smell of blood. "It seems that Ah Zheng was injured. Clean up the house."
The injured person was Ah Zheng, whose shoulder was bitten by some animal. Jiang Lingyi also had an arm injured. Zhou Xiaojin, on the other hand, was unscathed and cried very sadly.
Zhang Tianzhao arranged the medicines, and Gu Tianbai helped Jiang Lingyi treat his wounds. Xiao Qi used scissors to cut off the pieces of clothing from Azheng's wound and took them away. Zhang Tianzhao washed his hands and disinfected his hands and treated Ah Zheng's wounds. A large piece of flesh was bitten off Ah Zheng's shoulder and he lost a lot of blood. There wasn't much Zhang Tianzhao could do, just disinfect the wound, stop the bleeding, and bandage it.
Xiao Qi washed his hands and found a bunch of peaches in the fruit bowl in the corner of the room. He put away the peach stones, took a peach, cut it into slices and fed it to Ah Zheng. He said, "You are a superpower. Western medicines such as antibiotics are absolutely safe." If you can’t use it, try to eat as much as possible to increase your resistance.”
Ah Zheng held the peach slices in his mouth and sucked the juice hard. Zhou Xiaojin wiped away his tears and went over and said, "I'll feed him."
Xiao Qi gave her a peach and a fruit knife, then gave Jiang Lingyi a peach and said, "Eat one."
It's snowy outside, and it's been two months since the apocalypse, but the peaches are as fresh as if they were just picked. Jiang Ling swallowed those three words together with the peach meat.
"What happened to you?" Zhang Tianzhao asked Jiang Lingyi.
"A few mutated dogs. Fortunately, we met Xiao Qi, otherwise all three of us would have died." Jiang Ling gnawed a peach clean in several mouthfuls, then took out a handkerchief from his pants pocket to wipe his hands with difficulty.
Xiaoqi looked around and found that there were fewer people around, so he asked, "Where is Brother Yunlai?"
"He has something to do, so he's leaving first." Zhang Tianzhao smiled at him, "Have you met anyone, at most thirty or so?"
"No," Xiao Qi bit the peach and sat next to Bai Zhi, "Let's go for a walk around the pine forest. There is a valley hidden behind it, with lights on and people everywhere. There are stalls doing business. It's not even lively. The end of the world." He took out a tendon from his pocket and gave it to Bai Zhi, "Fifth sister, I'll exchange it for a few candies. Here you go."
"You went in? How did you get in?" Jiang Lingyi was extremely surprised.
"We walked in." Xiao Qi happily gnawed on a peach. "No one stopped me when I went in. Someone stopped me when I came out. I said we still have companions outside. We went back to pick them up, and they let us out."
"You are being watched." Jiang Ling rushed towards the peephole. Hai Fengqiu had been looking outside. He turned aside to let Jiang Lingyi.
"We took care of it when Tai came out of the valley. Don't worry." Xiao Qi said nonchalantly, "It seems that the residents there live a good life, and the people who set up the settlement there have really good vision. The place is very warm, and the farther you go in, the better." It gets warmer as we walk. It probably has geothermal resources, and hundreds of acres of vegetables are planted in the innermost part, which are growing very well. I think if they can hire a few technicians and get some equipment, they can generate their own electricity."
"The ferocious beast that looks like Qiongqi was raised by the leader there." Bai Zhi said softly: "If this ferocious beast is indeed developing in the direction of Qiongqi, it can only mean one thing: the leader there is a bad guy."
"Why do you say the leader there is a bad guy?" A voice suddenly sounded.
"Qiongqi's characteristic is to like, hate, and hate kindness." Bai Zhi still felt something was wrong, and she looked at the source of the sound. There is no one in that corner.
