“Ah, Mom is sick again,” Mo Tiancheng sighed like a little adult.
Mo Tianyou patted his brother’s shoulder, “This is good news! Mom said yesterday that she would teach us today.”
Thinking back to the last lesson they had from Xu Song, since there was no curriculum, and knowing that the two kids were very smart, Xu Song had attempted to teach them mechanical theory and equations, skipping over the basics of phonics and multiplication tables. As a result, Xu Song was kicked out by Mother Xu.
No matter how intelligent they were, they were still playful kids!
The two brothers nodded vigorously, “Let’s plant something delicious for Dad today.”
“Dad loves oranges!”
“Then let’s plant an orange tree for Dad! Let Dad work hard, and let Mom stay ‘sick’ a few more days!”
These two mischievous boys, although they didn’t know how Yue Zheng had “made” Xu Song “sick,” they knew that to keep Xu Song from getting out of bed, they had to rely on Yue Zheng. Because Grandma said in the morning that Dad had worked too hard the night before, so Mom was sick, and she needed to take good care of Dad today. So they wanted to plant something delicious for Dad!
Yue Zheng received a bunch of delicious food, and after secretly giving some to the Ostriches and Abu, Mo Tiancheng and Mo Tianyou handed the rest over to Mother Xu for distribution.
Looking at the oranges and watermelons in his arms, Yue Zheng thought for a moment, took out a juicer, and squeezed a large glass of fruit juice for his beloved person upstairs, then personally delivered it to the person upstairs.
After eating delicious food and drinking fruit juice, Xu Song’s anger from the previous night dissipated. Although he still felt annoyed, he decided to reluctantly forgive someone who claimed that it was an uncontrollable emotional outburst.
In some ways, Xu Song, who was not prone to temper tantrums and had a gentle and understanding temperament, really had the qualities of a virtuous wife and mother. Of course, Yue Zheng should keep this thought to himself, otherwise, even if his temper was good, someone would get angry.
Upstairs, the affectionate couple enjoyed their time together, while downstairs, Mo Tiancheng and Mo Tianyou, under the guidance of Mother Xu, were preparing for the New Year. Regardless of the changes in the outside world, life must go on. Especially this year, the Gregorian New Year and the Chinese Lunar New Year were very close, and as traditional Chinese people, they needed to prepare in advance.
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The current wrist communication terminal could connect to the base’s network directly. Especially the wristwatches they had just received, because they were the first team to advance to the B-level, the base had not prepared special watches for them, so Elder Wu sent them the same model as the ones their leaders used.
As a result, Mother Xu happily discovered that she could access the internet with this device!
Although the internet was not as good as before, the team had managed to salvage many hard drives and data when they evacuated from the urban area. Mother Xu happily found recipes on the device and then learned various northern dishes. She combined the available materials they had with the vegetables cultivated by Mo Tiancheng and experimented with various dishes on the family’s stomachs, conducting research on different dishes every day.
Xu Song, who had already been well-fed by his mother, regretfully discovered that he was now as fat as Mo Tiancheng and Mo Tianyou — again!
He pinched the little fat on his stomach and angrily poked Yue Zheng’s still rock-hard abs. Xu Song secretly decided to increase his daily exercise!
He couldn’t continue to live in such a carefree manner, or he might turn into a pig someday and be despised by someone.
Due to their unpleasant shopping experience, Xu Song and Yue Zheng rarely went out shopping. They had most things at home, and in case of temporary shortages, they could exchange points for goods at the official exchange points.
Now, the base’s authorities have started openly purchasing the sacs from mutated animals. The exchange rate for these sacs is almost higher than the points required for all other items, which means that anyone who can obtain a sac and give it to the base can exchange it for a good gun and accompanying ammunition. Not to mention food; the price of mutant beast meat is essentially equivalent to the energy sacs in their minds.
Of course, there are rumors circulating in the base as well — these sacs can grant ordinary people superpowers. Additionally, they can upgrade the superpowers of individuals who already possess them.
This rumor is highly tempting and inciting, and surprisingly, almost everyone believes in its authenticity. Perhaps it’s because the current environment has become too harsh, and most people would rather believe that humanity can find a way out in the future, allowing those who have lost their homes and stability to return to their former prosperity and regain global dominance.
Therefore, the majority of people choose to believe that it’s real.
Nevertheless, even with these beliefs, many people are still too afraid to use the sacs to experiment with the truth of the rumors, especially after witnessing someone eat one of those sacs and then explode in front of everyone.
What’s even more terrifying is that some superpowered individuals who consumed these sacs also exploded!
If it’s believed that ordinary people explode and die because their bodies can’t adapt to the sacs, why do superpowered individuals die as well?
For a while, various versions of these rumors spread throughout the base. Even Mother Xu, who occasionally chatted with the Widow’s Legion through the communicator, had heard about this.
However, no one in authority took a stance on this matter, and Xu Song and his group could only watch from the sidelines. They were also puzzled about whether the previous rumors were deliberately spread or just random speculations from people outside.
In the midst of this unrest, the base celebrated its first New Year since its establishment. On the same day, the highly stressed upper echelons of the base suddenly announced that these sacs could indeed improve the abilities of superpowered individuals and had a certain probability of turning them into superpowered individuals.
However, the sacs needed to be processed in a special way before use.
At the same time, the base introduced an exchange method. You could use the sacs in your possession to exchange for “Energy Capsules” that enhanced the abilities of superpowered individuals and “Superpower Capsules” that had the potential to bestow superpowers upon ordinary people.
The exchange rate is – one sac can be exchanged for two energy capsules (the time interval for taking two capsules is five days).
Three sacs can be exchanged for one superpower capsule. (The types of powers that can be stimulated are uncertain, and whether the powers can be stimulated is uncertain. In extremely rare cases, people using superpower capsules may experience unexpected accidents that lead to death. Therefore, those who wish to obtain superpowers need to submit an energy sac and be tested before they can use a superpower capsule.)
“Black! It’s really black!” Xu Song widened his eyes and sighed repeatedly as he looked at this news on the screen.
They got that kind of capsule three days ago. The technology for energy capsules is made by imitating the membrane outside the sac. Different from the previous injection, the energy contained in each capsule is only one-tenth of that of a complete sac! It’s even less than the dosage of a single injection!
Although there is some energy loss during the production of the capsules due to factors such as energy leakage, that loss is so minimal that it can almost be ignored.
With the dosage of one capsule every five days, the energy from a complete sac is divided over nearly two months, and an ordinary person can certainly absorb the energy from a complete sac in a month! The ability users in the military all inject energy corresponding to their constitution to enhance their abilities. If the ability users outside really follow this schedule, their rate of improvement will definitely be much slower than that of the military’s ability users.
And those “superpower capsules,” in fact, are no different from “energy capsules,” except that the energy they contain is less to prevent weak people from ‘exploding’ all at once. However, their cost is much higher than that of “energy capsules.”
This is just… “It must be the idea of some unscrupulous merchants,” Xu Song shook his head and sighed.
Yue Zheng smiled and patted Xu Song on the shoulder, saying, “It’s not a big deal. After all, they developed these things, so they have the right to set the prices. Besides, there aren’t many of these sacs in the military, so they rely on the various squads to go out and collect them during expeditions.”
Awakening people’s abilities is just the first step. If the energy in these sacs can be used for other purposes, it will be a qualitative leap. Once humans who are skilled in inventing and using all kinds of weapons can harness this energy, maybe human society will return to its former glory.
However…
Thinking of the lush green plants and the relatively free creatures outside, that kind of human society might be the real dead end for them(the creatures).
The two of them didn’t have time to study the base’s strategy for acquiring sacs and the military’s vigorous “monster hunting, sac digging, leveling up” activities. Because last night, they… leveled up again.
Yes, the two of them upgraded again last night, exactly two months after the last upgrade, before everyone else in the base.
What made them feel embarrassed is that this time… they leveled up after a specific physical activity. Of course, they did this kind of exercise almost every night.
With their fourth-level ability users, Xu Song’s flames turned into a dazzling white. This confirmed Yue Zheng’s earlier theory about the temperature upgrade.
What’s even more ruthless about the white flames is that anything they burn doesn’t leave a trace, not even ashes.
After testing and concluding that they had made progress in various aspects early in the morning on New Year’s Day, Mother Xu put a gun to their heads and invited them back to the RV to have breakfast together.
Happy power up 🤣 Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
I love mother xu 😭😭 what a baddie 🙏🙏