Chapter 11: A Barren World
When Lin Xi regained his senses again, he found that he was stuffing a half-eaten mosquito net in his mouth.
The mosquito net, which would have looked quite fluffy together, was tightened by him at this time, and it was bundled into a long one, the back half of which was still in his hand, but the first half had been swallowed deeply into the stomach.
"Vomit—"
The feeling of being stimulated by a foreign body in his throat made Lin Xi suddenly start retching violently.
However, in the end, no matter how hard he tried, he could only vomit out half of the mosquito net in his esophagus, and all the other parts that entered the stomach pouch disappeared completely as if they had been immersed in thick acid, leaving only a charred black fracture.
"I'm ...... Ate the mosquito net? ”
Lin Xi held up the half-eaten mosquito net in front of his eyes, his face full of shock.
Then he noticed that under the bed not far away, there were black wreckage scattered all over the floor, and the gastric juice on the wreckage had dried up, but it still exuded a pungent sour smell.
"! So fierce! ”
After a full meal, his brain had a sufficient supply of energy, and his mind seemed to become lively, but after a moment of silence, he immediately reacted, thinking about what had happened during the time he was unconscious, and was immediately startled by his own vigorous recipe.
"I knew I could eat anything now, and I would go out and take a risk!"
Lin Xi scolded and got up from the messy bed/dining table, tentatively broke off a piece of wood from the pen stand next to him and threw it into his mouth, chewed a few times and swallowed it, sure enough, just a few dozen seconds later, he had a strong feeling of vomiting.
"Vomit—"
A small lump of translucent stuff was vomited out by him, which should have been varnish brushed on the surface of the pen holder, but more of the wood part had been completely decomposed and digested by his gastric juice.
"I must be crazy."
In the ensuing time, Lin Xi complained while constantly throwing all kinds of things into his mouth.
The results of the test were astonishing, his stomach pouch was like turning into a bottomless black hole, except for some poisonous or incorrosible materials that would be vomited out of his stomach, the rest of the things, as long as they were organic matter, whether it was the wood that made up the tables and chairs, or the mosquito nets, clothes, sheets, bedding, cotton wool and other textiles, would be completely digested bit by bit, and then become the energy source of this body!
There is no doubt that under the stimulation of the previous wave of hunger, his [digestion] ability has undergone a new evolution!
For the first time, Lin Xi felt that his [digestion] superpower was really amazing!
There is no other reason, it is really that kind of hellish hunger, he really doesn't want to feel it again, as for saying that such an ability may make him no longer like a human, he doesn't care too much, in such a distorted world, it is undoubtedly too luxurious to stick to the identity of a pure human being, and it just so happens that he has read a lot of online novels in his spare time, and his acceptance of this bizarre thing is also very high.
In those novels anyway, even the excuses are ready-made.
As long as the soul is still human.
He comforted himself in his heart, paused, and continued to add: Actually, as long as you are alive, it is already very good, where do you dare to ask for more?
However, in the following days, when Lin Xi, who had eaten and drunk, walked out of the dormitory and re-contacted his former "classmates", he realized that although he seemed to have overestimated his ability, he still underestimated the huge role of [digestion] ability in the end.
During the period when he was foraging for food and in a coma, many familiar people around him disappeared or died, but what was really shocking was the collapse of the entire human social order.
Hunger is like a storm in transit, which in a very short time induces the demons in the hearts of people, and then destroys all emotional bonds.
At the beginning, the cataclysm had just come, and the various food sources in the area of the university town were quite sufficient, and the mutant creatures were not as terrifying as they are now, at that time, the students of Lin Xi's university would still communicate with each other, and some of the top students who had worked in the student union even joined forces with the surviving teachers to organize groups such as the "X Big Self-Help Association", as for their real purpose is really to save themselves and save people, or do they want to share a bowl of soup in the division of the power system after the disaster, That's something that's hard to say.
But then, as the expected rescue was elusive and food reserves began to run out, the atmosphere in the university gradually began to become delicate.
First, some of the more well-stocked survivors were no longer generous and locked up their food, and then there were bloody clashes in many places due to hunger and fear, and after a few days, even the people who had the most snacks finally ran out of food, and the conflict came to an end.
But slowly, a new wave of panic began to brew among college students.
If it was a group of simple farmers at this time, they might have joined forces and tried to look at the natural world in search of food, but college students are different, these self-proclaimed sons of heaven who know everything, the first thing that comes to mind is not the external environment, but the companions around them, the tragic situation of "cannibalism" recorded more than once in the history books began to echo in front of everyone's eyes, and darkness and terror grew in everyone's hearts.
In the process, there will always be some people who disappear for one reason or another, and their disappearance is also attributed to the mutilation of their companions.
Finally, one day, when a person whose psychological defense line collapsed shouted something like "don't eat me", the long-pent-up fear exploded instantly!
Everyone found the person they felt they could trust as soon as they teamed up, and then looked at the others around them with vigilant eyes, and the self-help that had begun to take shape instantly split into multiple small groups, and then with the intensification of the famine and the crazy evolution of mutated creatures, it gradually split further, from the school as a unit, to the department as a unit, to the major, class, dormitory, and finally, even the best friends, the closest lovers, the gentlest teachers and students, they no longer trust each other, Everyone hides alone in their own little corner, looking at others with eerie eyes, always preventing themselves from becoming the food of imaginary "cannibals".
In this way, it took thousands of years for human beings to establish social relations and trust between people, but it took less than half a month to destroy them!
This is the cruelest reality that Lin Xi saw after he walked out!
Although the world is still a thriving landscape, it has become a real barren for human beings!
The barrenness of resources, and the barrenness of people's hearts!
In millions of years of evolutionary history, humanity has once again come to the edge of a precipice!
Further, there is hell; But taking a step back, it doesn't have to be heaven!