“These first-level crystal nuclei have no effect on us.”
Hou Ying pointed to the iron boxes that store crystal nuclei in different categories according to the attributes and grades of the crystal nuclei, and muttered, “What we need is the second and third-level crystal nuclei. Instead of wasting time looking for rare high-level zombies, we should cultivate them semi artificially.”
“Do you want zombies to be a petri dish for the energy of our abilities?!”
Liu Zhan said in shock. He felt that this idea was too crazy and too suitable to his taste! His face flushed slightly, a little excited, and couldn’t wait to start this experiment.
Others were also shocked, but when they thought about the foreseeable results of this approach, they were all eager to try.
In fact, Hou Ying is still a complete businessman. It’s not surprising to think of this.
Just like fishmongers, they will definitely change from catching fish to raising fish. Even if the fish that is raised is not as nutritious as the wild ones, it wins more by quantity. And it also has the protein that people get from the fish for consumption. It’s the same thing when it’s replaced by the crystal nucleus energy.
Only Gongsun Jing hesitated and said, “Brother Hou, I think this method is destroying a certain ecological balance… I always feel a little uneasy.”
Hou Ying nodded, “I understand your concern, and I’ve thought about that too. There must be a certain synchronous relationship between the evolution of zombies outside and the evolution of human’s abilities. The apocalyptic divided humans into two types of creatures, and also turned zombies into our natural enemies for survival. This food chain relationship must be kept at a delicate balance point. If it’s a large-scale experiment, this method certainly can’t work. We don’t have so many people, and I’m not so greedy. As long as we get enough energy for ourselves. If the energy field changes in a small range, I believe it will not cause any butterfly effect. As long as we are careful not to let higher-level zombies run outside, there will be no big problem.”
After a pause, he said with a smile, “Of course, we must be careful when feeding. In case we raise 4th and 5th level zombies, we will suffer the consequences.”
After the plan was determined, Li Xuanyuan spent a little time drawing the topographic map of Daocheng where the fifth stop was located. Several people discussed the trial of zombie feeding and finalized the scope and location of the preliminary and further trials before the meeting was considered adjourned. This night, Ji Yao was guarding the middle of the night. He called Hou Ying and looked at him as if he didn’t know him. He looked at Hou Ying strangely, “Why, I suddenly found out that I became handsome? You won’t… suddenly want to agree to be with me?”
Hou Ying asked in Ji Yao’s ear the last sentence.
“Fuck you!”
Ji Yao angrily pushed him away. Thinking that when the two of them hooked up and went to bed, they found that each other had the same attributes, and no one was willing to compromise. The black history that broke down was the pain of his life, OK!
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He coughed against his fist, brought the atmosphere destroyed by Hou Ying back on track, and then said to him, “Monkey, have you noticed that you have become strong recently?… Unique leadership style!”
Hou Ying’s rapid growth and dazzling excellence make Ji Yao proud of him, but he can’t help feeling strange and flustered—the world has changed too much, he doesn’t want Hou Ying to change too, let alone face the possibility that one day he will become more and more distant from him, or even be left behind.
Hou Ying chuckled, as if he couldn’t help it, laughed, and bent over. For a long time, he got up and patted Ji Yao’s face [what the baby saw before was really an illusion] and said, “You think it’s so easy to pretend? Those big brothers,” he stubbornly said, “It’s not only the elders but also the problem children. How can I hold up the scene if I am not good enough? Back then, I asked you to accompany Laozi to the training class to minor in psychology. You didn’t even know whether the teacher was a man or a woman from the beginning to the end. Now you know that you are at a loss?”
Ji Yao, “…”
Hou Ying patted his thick chest, held his shoulder, and gave him a kiss on the cheek, “Don’t worry, dear Yaoji, we’ll have a good life.”
Ji Yao, “…”
“Hey, I said, what’s your reaction?” Hou Ying is upset when he sees him with a sullen face. Ji Yao’s face was strained and he pointed behind Hou Ying. Hou Ying looked back—he saw Li Xuanyuan leaning on the heavy truck and staring at them intently.
Hou Ying, “!!!”
He instantly released the hand that was holding Ji Yao, raised his hands in a surrender gesture, showed a flattering expression, and said with a dry smile, “We’re just talking…cough cough, why aren’t you asleep, Xuanyuan?”
“I’m going to pee, you continue.”
After a meaningful look at Hou Ying, he walked away. Hou Ying paused for a while, then abruptly raised his feet to catch up, “Hey, Xuanyuan, wait for me, let’s go together! Hey, don’t walk too fast. I’m afraid of the dark—”
In Hou Ying’s shameless distant voice, Ji Yao, who can’t hold on, laughs. Hahaha, Hou Ying, you also have today!
When they finished harvesting the first zombie test field, Meng Hanghai finally woke up from a coma.
It seems that Meng Hanghai is still trapped in the panic of being frightened by the mutant zombie. As soon as he wakes up, his first reaction is to hold his head and suddenly shrink back. At that time, Gongsun Jing accompanied him by the side and said distressed, “Good boy, it’s okay, don’t be afraid, those zombies have been killed by us. You are fine, your Uncle Lao’er is fine, don’t be afraid.”
But no matter how she comforted, it didn’t help. Hou Ying and Qiao Daye, who heard Meng Hanghai wake up outside, rushed over.
“Oh, my dear ancestor, you are awake at last! If you still don’t wake up, I’ll hit the wall!” Qiao Daye is both relieved and surprised. He wanted to hug this child who had saved his life and saved his mistake, which almost cost Gongsun Jing’s life, but Meng Hanghai escaped with a scream and looked at him in horror as if he didn’t know him.
“Isn’t it… amnesia?”
Qiao Daye froze.
Hou Ying pushed him away, stepped forward, and stopped at a safe distance, “Xiaohai, do you remember us?… You remember me, don’t you? Don’t cry. I won’t hurt you. Have you forgotten that I promised to accompany you and take care of you when you grow up?”
Meng Hanghai shook his head.
“Is that frightened? Don’t cry. The zombies are dead. We are all alive. No one is hurt.”
During his speech, he once tried to cross Meng Hanghai’s panic line of sight to reveal the safe distance to him, but only one step forward, Meng Hanghai immediately stepped back, so that Hou Ying had to stop again to comfort him.
“…Really?”
Meng Hanghai wiped his tears and confirmed.
Hou Ying was startled, and said softly, “Of course, we are still alive, otherwise, where do you think we are now?”
Meng Hanghai quickly looked at the situation, only to find that he was in their “room”. As soon as his guard relaxed, he threw himself into Hou Ying’s arms and cried loudly, “I, I thought I killed you all, ooh, I thought you all hated me…”
He really cried too miserably. The few people who walked back with the crystal nucleus heard him. Wang Hehe is ecstatic. He likes and cares about the child who shared life and death with him. At present, he completely leaves the work of carrying the crystal nucleus to Su Fenghe and runs back happily. As a result, when he ran up the stairs, he saw the child Meng Hanghai lying in his old uncle’s arms. His old uncle was still coaxing him, which made him feel a little bit sour.
However, thinking that Meng Hanghai had saved his life and had been in a coma for so long, that discomfort was quickly thrown away. Wang Hehe lay on the doorway where the rain cloth was rolled up and asked him, “Xiaohai, you wake up. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat?”
Meng Hanghai has recovered from the collapsed mood. At this time, he takes a careful look at him to make sure that Wang Hehe’s smiling face is full of joy for his waking up. He also smiled, got up, squinted his swollen eyes, and said, “I’m a little hungry, but I don’t want to eat.”
The two “children” talk together. Hou Ying doesn’t know whether to be happy or not with his 21-year-old nephew who is extremely harmonious with Meng Hanghai.
After Meng Hanghai had eaten, Hou Ying asked what his ability was.
Meng Hanghai grabbed his face and didn’t want to say it. Hou Ying pacified him for a long time before he whispered, “It’s not an ability, it’s something harmful…”
“What is the matter of harming people? You see you saved all of us with it.” Hou Ying said with a smile, “Besides, you see Uncle Xuanyuan who controls vines or uncle Jiang Tao who breathes fire. They have these abilities that others would have found strange before. But now it’s different. It’s better to have abilities. These abilities are gifts given to us by heaven, and they are the guarantee of our survival. So we don’t have to be afraid of it. We have to thank it.”
Although he has always been in the protection circle of adults, the changes in the last days are subtle.
The eleven-year-old Meng Hanghai’s way of thinking is already different from that of elementary school students more than a month ago. After thinking about it carefully, he said to Hou Ying, “My ability appeared when I was very young. There was no apocalypse at that time and there are no zombies, so it is a bad thing. But now it is not, is that right?”
“Yes, you can say that.”
“If… Uncle Hou, I mean if my ability first appeared… I killed my mother?” Although the mouth said if but Meng Hanghai’s eyes quickly turned red. Hou Ying was stunned. Unexpectedly, there was such a cruel past hidden behind this. He hugged the child who was silently crying for help and whispered, “Now it’s the end of the world. The previous things are no longer important. Only living is the right thing. If you want to say it, you can tell me so that you don’t have to be so sad and afraid.”
Meng Hanghai looked up at him, wiped away his tears, and began to tell Hou Ying the truth he learned from his father.
Meng Hanghai was only three years old that year. He had just had a fever and was playing with his mother in the living room. That’s when he was able to do it…let’s call it a supernatural power for the first time. His grandmother was in the kitchen when she saw his mother split apart in front of him… His mother didn’t even scream. She fell to the ground and scattered… unequal pieces of meat.
Since then, his grandmother has been crazy, and his grandparents who learned the truth from his grandmother will throw him away. It is his father who insists on protecting him and guiding him to control his supernatural powers. After he was five years old, this ability never appeared again. He originally thought that the evil power had disappeared in his body, until that day when he saw that Qiao Daye was about to be eaten by the monster, it suddenly returned to his body.
In the face of such a truth, Hou Ying does not know how to comfort him.
However, Meng Hanghai, whose growth experience was very different from that of ordinary people, quickly adjusted his mentality. He pulled out the necklace he had always worn around his neck, touched the cross on it, and said to Hou Ying, “This is what my dad left to me when he went out of the car to beat a zombie that day. He said…If he dies, find a way to open it.”
Omg… Poor Menghai :(((((
Thank you for the chapter!!
Wow I spelt his name wrong lol my brain cannot brain today *Meng Hanghai
Ohh!! My boy it’s okay not your fault.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Aww poor baby that explains why he was so afraid upon waking up :'( You’re in the good hands now Xiaohai, no need to be afraid anymore.
Ah, his dad must have sealed his ability. This also indicates abilities (and zombies) May have been around for awhile.