The total amount of this meal was significantly more than what Zuo Youcheng and Fang Tong had eaten in the basement before, and the quality was also much higher.

It was already dark after eating. In order to save some batteries, Bian Na usually doesn't arrange any other activities after dark, and Zheng Rui originally planned to do another near-death experiment, but considering that Zuo Youcheng and Fang Tong were still here, she had to give up this plan.

Out of care for the injured person, Zheng Rui let Fang Tong sleep behind the counter where she slept before. In addition to the guilt, this arrangement is also because Fang Tong's ability is indeed a bit weak.

Although Zuo Youcheng's ability is not weak, it takes too long for him to release it, and he can't find a way to deal with the alien with changing gravity for the time being, so he is arranged to sleep next to the warehouse door, with two empty boxes in the way.

Benna still sleeps between the two shelves she originally picked.

Zheng Rui, as the person with the highest force value—and judging from her experience in fighting with aliens, it seems that she is much higher than the others—and she sleeps directly at the entrance of the commissary. If there is really an alien, you have to gnaw on her first, anyway, she is not afraid of this immortal type.

In fact, the place at the door feels the best. The weather is still very hot, and the air conditioning fan in the kiosk is not working because there is no electricity. Although the underground is a little cooler, it is uncomfortable to not be exposed to the wind. Only the doorway can still be slightly blown by the wind, and it is much more comfortable to lie here than to lie in the corner fence inside.

But although Zheng Rui was lying in this comfortable place, she couldn't sleep a little.

Now she knows that training abilities can evolve abilities, and that her strength increases as she evolves, so it's easiest to practice abilities to increase her force value. But with Zuo Youcheng and Fang Tong here, she can't just commit suicide and resurrect herself. Not to mention these two people, even if there is Bian Na next to her, she also has to think about whether she will scare the young lady.

It's okay to close the door in the warehouse, but you have to shine a flashlight all the time, which is a waste of battery.

In fact, Zheng Rui most wanted to do a near-death experiment on the ground, so that it was close to the broken water pipe, and it was convenient to clean it later. But the enemies on the other side have already gone to the door to steal vegetables, and then rashly go to the ground to play and commit suicide, isn't it clear that they can fake their death and resurrect?

They may not know what it means to fake death and resurrection, and even if they do, they probably won't know that her blood has a powerful healing effect. But people can think and reason, if Zheng Rui can come back from the dead, and Bian Na was attacked by aliens but survived, everyone can guess a little connection between the two.

She must not take the risk of revealing that she can take blood for medicine.

All actions must be based on freedom, and without freedom everything is exempt.

The question then is, how can you properly perform near-death experiments without going to the ground and avoiding other people?

Zheng Rui suddenly thought that if he didn't have to look at the time on the spot to make experimental records, it would not be so troublesome to cut the artery in the warehouse. She could slice the carotid artery with her alien claws—the tip of that thing could cut deep with a small wound—and use a cup or something like that to pick up blood underneath so it wouldn't get all over the place.

The blood is still there. On the one hand, it is necessary to see how long it will take for her blood to deteriorate, and on the other hand, if there is an alien or an enemy invasion during this period of time when it has not deteriorated, she can use it directly when she needs to be treated.

It's a good idea.

Zheng Rui got a satisfactory answer, turned over and was about to fall asleep peacefully when she suddenly heard a rustling sound from the other side of the warehouse door.

It's Zuo Youcheng, what does this kid want to do if he doesn't sleep?

Zuo Youcheng tiptoed to the entrance of the commissary, and with a little moonlight at the door, he bent down and carefully observed, as if he was looking to see if Zheng Rui was asleep.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Rui asked in a whispered voice.

Zuo Youcheng was taken aback, staggered for a moment, and then replied in a whispered voice: "Big guy...... You didn't sleep either, did you? ”

Zheng Rui's first reaction was that this kid was going to steal something and slip away, but since he was already an ally, this suspicion must not be spoken.

"I'm not asleep yet." She just explained.

"I can't sleep a little bit either." Zuo Youcheng squatted down and gently tapped the floor next to her head with his fingers, "Big guy, why don't we go out and talk?" ”

Zheng Rui felt that this classmate was sick in the second year, but she was not too sleepy anyway, and it was understandable to go out. She carefully climbed up from the ground, stepped over the barrier set up by the doorway to prevent intrusion, and slipped through the gap between the shelves and the gun.

Zuo Youcheng also followed her example and followed Zheng Rui to the steps outside.

"What's wrong with you?" Zheng Rui asked with his arms crossed.

Zuo Youcheng was a little embarrassed and had to tell the truth: "Alas...... Actually, I just didn't dare to come out alone. ”

He sat down on the steps, as if feeling the summer night breeze, and then said, "By the way, you haven't given me the form to fill out for training." ”

Zheng Rui remembered that there was still this matter, and she wanted to make a training plan for Zuo Youcheng, but she was also interrupted by the "harassment" of the enemy on the other side.

"Save the battery at night and turn on the flashlight, and I'll write to you tomorrow during the day." Zheng Rui said, "It doesn't matter if you practice by yourself now, this thing just has to be practiced anyway." ”

Zuo nodded in the dark, after which both fell into a brief silence.

Zheng Rui looked up at the starry sky, which was once where she knew the future of humanity was—a common assumption for science fiction lovers—but now it should be the present of humanity.

The entity that brought people into the "post-apocalyptic mod", if it was really an alien, then they were probably watching from afar.

- Or is the Earth already full of "wise children" that they use as surveillance, relaying this reality show of a lower civilization fighting wild beasts for the citizens of another civilization?

No, no, Occam's razor - don't add entities unless you have to.

There is no need to look at the problem from the perspective of that entity, there is no need to assume the subjectivity of that entity. She shouldn't even think of it as a survival game, though it does seem that the "post-apocalyptic mod" has a lot of deliberately balanced features, and even a bug where psychic abilities can't be used in communication channels other than the connection to consciousness.

But still—don't add entities unless necessary.

This is not only to reduce fantasies, but also to avoid stereotypes.

Zheng Rui took a deep breath.

In fact, when Bian Na didn't come before, she did near-death experiments alone every day, waiting for unknown rescue in the future, and it was quite simple. But as Benna joins and brings news about the neighborhood across the street and about the business district in the distance, what she has to consider becomes more complicated.

The surface buildings are gone, but human society is still there – and I don't know if that's good or bad.