Chapter Seventy-One: Slowly
Fang Tong was almost forced to take a piece of alien meat to the ground, chewing slowly as Zheng Rui drank water to project the feeling of eating alien meat.
Zheng Rui looked at him in a very good mood.
This is indeed the same as watching mukbang, and it is also a mukbang that can really have a real feeling. She used to like to watch the cats at home eat, but now looking at Fang Tong is similar to watching cats, and she is still a pretty good-looking cat.
As for the feeling of chewing alien meat projected, for Zheng Rui, it was just an itch in his boots. She still felt hungry – as long as the sympathetic nerves weren't very excited, and she couldn't suppress that feeling of hunger after drinking a lot of water.
Zheng Rui realized a little that this hunger was probably not generated by any physical or psychological needs, but perhaps structural, regardless of whether or not to eat, and would not be alleviated by any ability. She believed that her previous suspicion was correct, that the entity that had modified them had designed this hunger pang so that humans could induce humans to fight aliens for food, or even kill each other for food.
This is too cruel, but if the Earth is really the "cricket jar" of the alien race, it is quite reasonable to lure them to "fight" with hunger.
An entity beyond human comprehension is necessarily anti-"human". Just like human behavior, it is inevitably anti-"cricket".
Zheng Rui gradually felt that instead of thinking about these things, it was better to have fun in time. But at the same time, she wondered what the end times were all about—though she might not change anything if she knew, but it was out of basic curiosity.
When Fang Tong finished eating a whole piece of alien meat, Zheng Rui used a mug to scoop a glass of water into the alien shell.
Fang Tong: Do you want to eat more?
Zheng Rui: No need...... And the sensations you project on me can't fully simulate eating.
Fang Tong: Why don't you eat something? Fasting for so long should be enough proof, right?
Zheng Rui: Not enough. People can live for more than 30 days if they only drink water and do not eat.
Fang Tong: But if you don't eat, it doesn't affect your physical fitness, which should explain the problem?
Zheng Rui: It can be said that energy converters can also supply the energy required for physiological activities, but it still does not mean that it can be fully supplied. For example, it may be able to provide energy for gluconeogenesis pathways, but people can't survive on gluconeogenesis alone for long – which is why the ketogenic diet is so painful to maintain.
Fang Tong: I remember that gluconeogenesis also consumes energy storage substances?
Zheng Rui: Yes, it also consumes non-sugar substances - I'm just giving you an example, if you can only promote gluconeogenesis, then it is estimated that you will not be able to maintain these two days of strenuous activity.
Fang Tong: What are you going to do next?
Zheng Rui: After Sister Na confirmed the status of the five people on the other side, if I can, I plan to patrol the surrounding area in case there are aliens that are incubating.
Fang Tong: What if you run into an alien...... What to do?
Zheng Rui: If you encounter it, you will kill it, what else can you do?
Fang Tong: After evolution, if there are more of them, it should be very tricky......
Zheng Rui: If you can't beat it, you can run.
She felt Fang Tong laughing—laughing in her head.
Zheng Rui: Comrade Fang Tong, be serious. This is an operation in strict accordance with the 18-character decision of guerrilla warfare.
Fang Tong: I know...... It's just that it's a bit weird to really say it so directly.
Rui Zheng: Truth is always concise and beautiful – so I don't think quantum theory is very essential, that's another matter.
She drank another glass of water, and then saw Bian Na and Zuo Youcheng walking this way.
Zuo Youcheng's legs look completely fine, and the hanger that was originally used for fixation has been removed. The previous fracture didn't seem to affect his walking posture at all, and I don't know if it was due to Zheng Rui's self-taught bone grafting skills, or just because his luck was really good.
"Oh, classmate, you're recovering well." Zheng Rui walked over and leaned over and patted the outside of his thigh, "It looks exactly the same as before." ”
"That's not it, thanks to the big guy, this is really a wonderful rejuvenation." Zuo Youcheng also complimented very cooperatively.
His Secondary 2 level is just like Zheng Rui's before, which makes her feel very adaptable.
But I still have to get down to business: "Sister Na, what's wrong with the five over there?" ”
"I listened outside the door for a while, and they were sure they had lost their abilities." "But I don't know if it's permanent." ”
"Later, you can try the energy converter again, and see if there is any reaction to determine if it is permanent." Zheng Rui put forward a hypothesis and a way to verify it, and then asked, "How is the mental state of the people over there?" Did they break the door? ”
"Some people are crying, some people are grabbing food, and I feel like I can't recover for a while." Benna added, "But there isn't enough food, and sooner or later they'll start breaking the door." ”
Zheng Rui jumped from the top of the stairs - since the last time, she found that she didn't feel at all from a nearly three-meter jump, so she began to get used to this way of going downstairs. She picked up the cylinder, which was supposed to be an energy converter, and threw it onto the pavement floor.
"Sister Na, you try it first." Zheng Rui said.
Benna radiated an electromagnetic beam at the cylinder that adhered to the shriveled vessel, and this time it didn't react at all.
According to Zheng Rui's conjecture, this should indicate that the energy converter has been destroyed. She guessed that the energy converter should be powered by a fission or fusion reactor, and that the reactor should be restarted without a foreign neutron source when the reactor stops and cannot be operated directly through the shell to change the internal structure.
Let's think it's permanent.
Zheng Rui said to Bian Na: "Sister Na, I plan to patrol around here in case there are hatching aliens nearby. ”
Although Zheng Rui has invisibly become the leader of the team, she still asks Bian Na for advice. In her concept, those who have not graduated are "minors" in a broad sense, and although Benna is not much older than her, those who have entered the society can be regarded as "real adults".
"Are you going to go on your own? Or is it all together? Benna asked.
"I'll ...... myself" Zheng Rui didn't think too much about this issue, and thought of the previous arrangement of setting off to find the hospital, "Otherwise, I'll take Fang Tong there, and you two will stay at home here, looking at the other side." ”
Bian Na looked at Fang Tong: "Spiritual-type abilities must need to be connected to consciousness, so it's just right." She patted Zheng Rui's shoulder, "Xiao Rui, then you go out today, don't go too far." ”
"Well, I'm going out today just to take a look." Zheng Rui nodded, "I took another bottle of blood, what do you have to do directly connect with me." ”
Hey, how does this sound like a phone call?
"Okay." Bian Na couldn't help but laugh and said, "If there is something, I will call you from the consciousness, and you can't do it if you don't answer." ”