Chapter 834: Troubled Times and Difficulties
A bottle of water with more than 200 milliliters is nothing to Lin Fan, but to Lan Pingru, it is something she can get outside the city, taking risks and working hard for a long time. supplies.
The last days are difficult, but in terms of time, it has only been more than a year.
The time it takes for people to acquire superpowers is even shorter.
Most people have not even psychologically adapted to various changes, so they have no choice but to force themselves to assimilate and survive in a difficult world.
Survival of the fittest sounds simple, but what can you do if you don't adapt?
Those who have acquired superpowers are better off, but those who have not acquired superpowers and can only survive in the inner city are not even as good as pigs and dogs.
Too many survivors are a burden to any base.
Not everyone can obtain the constitution-improving potion.
The large base of ordinary people who have fallen to the bottom in terms of physical fitness or other aspects are even worse than the pigs in the pen.
Although the base has routine maintenance work every day to give these ordinary people a way to survive, there are more monks and less meat, and exploitation is everywhere.
In order to get a relatively stable job, in the face of human life, it is not easy to break one's head, even if the income from this job can only make a living.
Under the pressure of life, human nature becomes extremely evil.
The upper management of the base where Lan Bingru is located seems to deliberately allow such internal strife to occur. Every day, bloodshed occurs one after another. From the small gate in the north, there are always bloody trucks leaving the city in the early morning...
Wife No wife, no children...
What will happen to a world with moral decay and broken rules? No matter how one imagines it, it is still less than one ten thousandth of the truth.
Some people enjoy the rights in their hands, while others are eager to leave.
People with superpowers are all the product of accidents. Improving superpowers is not as easy as shown in movies and TV shows. Even at the beginning, it took a while to figure out how to use my powers well without accidentally injuring myself.
The zombies have crystal nuclei in their brains, but they are also newly mutated, very small, and still growing together with the skull.
If someone hadn't searched persistently, the thing would indeed have a different color from normal bones, just like the pebbles on the tourmaline bracelet, and it would have been possible to miss it.
Since zombies have it in their brains, mutated animals should also have it, and so should plants. It's just that compared to zombies, the mutated animals that have existed for a long time are more difficult to fight, and of course the crystal nuclei are larger.
Plants don’t have brains, but it took a lot of effort to find similar crystals underground and at the roots. Similarly, the more powerful it is, the larger the crystal nucleus is and the darker the color is.
Now that the crystal core is there, it takes a lot of effort to use it. If you bite it, your teeth will break, and if you swallow it directly, you will die violently. It took me a while to figure out how to successfully absorb it.
After some comparison, it was found that the ability to absorb crystal cores improves much faster than simply killing monsters daily to increase skill proficiency, so crystal cores have become a scarce resource again.
The upper levels of the base control the crystal core and use it as a means of controlling superpowers.
All the crystal cores brought back by superpowers from their missions outside the city must be turned over to a large base ratio, and usually only a few are left in their own hands.
Crystal core resources are already in short supply, and the ones that low-level superpowers can produce are only as big as gravels. Although they can improve faster than themselves, they are not much faster.
On the upper level of the base, those with status and abilities have more resources, can upgrade faster, and will naturally improve faster. The resources obtained will be more, and the status will be higher...
The low-level superpowers can only accumulate crystal cores little by little, and improve their proficiency through hard work. However, the improvement of proficiency is linked to physical fitness. The materials required for physical fitness are exchanged for tasks and crystals...
These materials are richer than ordinary people, but if a few people in the team share them, they will be enough. The kind that will have enough food and clothing, and you have to think about it for a long time if you want to be luxurious.
The gap just widens.
If you want to live a good life, in addition to working hard, there is another shortcut - relying on the upper class.
The upper level of the base, whether those with superpowers or those without superpowers, all need followers.
To put it bluntly, it is betraying yourself. Those who are capable can show off their ability, be a thug, be a younger brother, you name it, even if you flatter the right person, if the superior person casually misses a little bit, it will be better than your own hard work.
Those who are incompetent must either sell their brains or their bodies... If you want to take advantage, there is always a chance.
There are not a few people who choose this path, and the hierarchical differentiation of the base, which was originally divided into classes, has become even stronger.
Of course, there are also upright people who are unwilling to vassal, like Lan Pingru’s team, who are proud and unwilling to sell their dignity, and would rather work hard and endure...
But as the current situation changes, the power struggle becomes increasingly intensified, and everyone is forced to take sides. There is less and less space left for these low-level superpowers.
The soldiers guarding the city gates looked at them with increasing contempt; they became increasingly tight on supplies and deliberately forced treatment; and Lan Pingru’s former little sister repeatedly carried the "feelings" of the superiors. Come to persuade her to submit...
All the pressure made everyone sleepless and uneasy. Seeing the danger approaching, there was nothing they could do.
So, after finding out the general situation of other bases, these people who would rather bend than bend escaped...
With their beautiful vision and hope, they wanted to go to a more relaxed environment. Start a new life at the base. I just didn't expect that I escaped from the base, but not from these monsters.
The monsters in the wild are far more powerful and denser than those outside the city...
Lan Pingru pulled her thoughts away from her memories and silently screwed on the bottle cap.
With her previous experience, she did not dare to be overly optimistic about being rescued.
The two people in front of them, the girl is pretty, the guy is handsome, they are neatly dressed as if they are living before the end of the world.
Although there are some damages on the back of the clothes, in this dilapidated and dirty apocalypse, these two people are as clean as if they are shining. They have unique weapons and decisive strikes... It doesn’t take much thinking to know that they are high-level superpowers.
Such a person is always hard to tell when he is angry. Saving people and killing people in the blink of an eye...
Thinking of all the things she had done as a high-level superpower in the base, Lan Bingru quickly smiled and said thank you as sincerely as possible.
Then he remembered that his face was full of blood, which was unsightly, so he just mobilized the last trace of supernatural power in his body, and a thin layer of water mist floated in his palms. He wiped his face and threw the blood to the ground. Then he continued to raise his head and smile with his teeth exposed.
Communication is not a problem.
The language of this planet was given by the Octopus Man as early as when Lanxing was developing a translator.
Although they were just passing by, they collected some information during their satellite exploration, including the language system.
Fortunately, there is only one section of this planet, and the language system is single. At most, there are small differences in accents similar to dialects due to different regions, which does not affect daily communication. Greatly reduces the difficulty of learning.
As early as the first day when the Noah set its goal to come here, everyone on the ship began to learn the language of this planet.
Of course they have a translator, but the translator can only quickly translate the other party's language to the Lanxing people. If the Lanxing people want to communicate, they have to speak to the translator... After all, it is not as convenient as speaking on their own.
The more important reason is that they found that the language system of this planet is very close to the Lanxing language system. To put it bluntly, it is easy to learn.
Except for those engaged in scientific research, the people on the spacecraft even had time to raise pigs. If they had something to do, they would just do it for entertainment.
Even if you don’t like studying, you will happily get excited thinking about being able to stand on an alien planet and talk fluently with aliens one day.
It's a pity that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. When the time came, the friendly visit scene didn't appear, and no one could get out...
When it came to studying, Antonio took it seriously, and his progress was no worse than Lin Fan. He simply didn't want to be so tired.
Who in this world doesn’t live a free and easy life? Anyway he is.
So as a socialist, after the alien girl expressed her willingness to communicate, he took over the conversation for Lin Fan, who was slightly afraid of society. Smiling and leaning over to express concern.
“Hey, are you okay, sister?”