"Ugh." Faced with this situation, the owner of the barbershop had no choice, and he had to walk if the road was difficult, and with a heavy sigh, he picked up the iron spear and steel gun and walked into the gray, red and white world.

Yanjing is calm, Yanjing is irritable.

Five days later, the temperature here has reached more than minus 20 degrees, and the night has reached a low temperature below minus 30 degrees, there is no power supply, no coal, if it weren't for the fact that the body was much stronger a few years earlier, human beings would have frozen to death in patches.

But even so, the situation is not encouraging.

The owner of the barbershop took off his jacket and wrapped it around his three-year-old son.

"No, I have to add some wood to the fire, I can't burn it, this kid is constantly hot, I think it's a fever." The boss looked at his son, and his eyes didn't know if it was because he was frozen, or because he hadn't slept well, and he had layers of dry skin, which looked unhealthy.

"It's more than 30 degrees below zero, the firewood can't be burned, and it's useless to add firewood." Next to the barber shop owner, the boss carefully chopped the furniture with a small military axe, and then filled the furniture legs into the bonfire in the middle of the bedroom.

"I don't know if this kid can stand this hurdle." The owner of the barber shop had a hoarse voice, and after wrapping the child, he placed it next to the choking firewood, his eyes anxious.

And the woman chopping wood on the side was also anxious on her face, and it seemed that her anxious emotions had nowhere to vent, so she counted down the man.

"At that time, I said that I would not let you give birth to this child, you want to give birth to a child, did you give birth to a child and live a good day with us?" The woman chopped firewood, her mouth kept talking, and her eyes were red with tears, "I'm either afraid of this or that every day, how difficult is it to run from Langfang to Yanjing along the way?" And later, it was hard to gain a foothold in Yanjing, and it depended on the faces of those black societies. When the child was young, he didn't have enough breast milk, and he couldn't even find milk powder, so he let him eat those rough grains early......"

"I'm sorry, it's my fault." The man sighed and did not retort.

"What's the use of your fault, your fault, your fault?" The man's attitude did not make the woman's mood better, but made her fist-like words seem to hit the cotton sleeve, and she was not focused, so her anger became even greater, "At that time, you were not allowed to give birth, you preferred to give birth, and the child was destined to end today from the day he was born." Born in hell, this child is in the current situation, and it's all your fault! ”

"Alas!" The man was speechless, sighed heavily, and after a moment of silence, he rose from the ground.

"You take good care of the child at home, and the fever reducer has not improved after taking it, I think it's because I'm hungry." With that, he took his weapon and walked out of the room again.

Outside is a world of ice and snow.

Inside the house is a world of resentment.

The woman watched the man go out and opened her mouth to say something, but when she saw the feverish child, her open mouth did not spit out any notes.

Then, time slows down and the sky gets brighter.

The night passed - and the man did not return.

Another day passed - and the man still hadn't returned.

On the third day, the woman had no expectations, and in the temperature that plummeted to minus 40 degrees, she held the child in her arms and fell into a cold sleep together.

The only thing she regretted before she died was why she didn't let her family die together.

Institute.

Seventeen looked at the sky outside, frowned and asked Wang Pengfei on the side.

"Have you been making a lot of trouble lately?" Seventeen fingers are naturally those citizens whose lives cannot be sustained.

"I thought there would be a lot, but in fact there weren't too many." Wang Pengfei had a surprised expression on his face, "Many people were frozen to death and starved to death and didn't come to look for trouble, which makes me very confused, which seems to be a bit diametrically opposed to the situation in Zhengzhou back then." ”

"It's not the other way around, it's the people who can live here and understand things better." Seventeen explained: "As I said before, there are only three kinds of people who can settle in the inner city of Yanjing - one is a connected person, one is a smart person, and the other is a person with great luck. ”

"Except for the lucky handful, the people involved know that neither the political axe nor the research institute can do anything about the current situation. And smart people don't have to worry about it, they can think of this. As for the lucky part of the people who have survived until now, after all, they are still a minority. Seventeen sighed, "That's why these people didn't come to make trouble, but the more they did, the more anxious I was." ”

"Mr. Seventeen doesn't need to do this, this is God's business, even if it is you, or even if Mr. Li is here in person, there is no way to do it." Wang Pengfei tried to comfort No. 17, but found that it didn't work at all.

People who think a lot are always easy to worry, Seventeen is no exception, Li Qingshui is no exception, and all smart people are no exception.

As a result, there is an atmosphere as oppressive and dreary in the current institute as the gray-red weather – as is the case in the reading research area, and the same is true in the main research area. Everyone doesn't want to watch human beings freeze to death day by day, but no matter how smart they are in time, it is not God - there is no such thing as sunlight and heat, and there is light when someone says "I want light".

"Are there any death statistics of civilians in Yanjing?" Seventeen didn't look back as he spoke, because the familiar brain fluctuations behind him let him know who was coming behind him.

"The statistics are not complete, but in just a few days, the number of deaths among Yanjing residents has reached 23 percent, although this number is slowing down, and people are gradually finding their own way to survive, but as the temperature continues to drop, the growth of this number will not stop." The boss walked up to Seventeen, looked at him and smiled, "But these days, we have a rare piece of good news. ”

"Liu Chang woke up?" Seventeen looked at the boss's expression and said in surprise.

"No, but it should be soon, much earlier than Liu Xinmin's estimate of seventeen days." As he spoke, the boss took Seventeen's hand and took him to Liu Chang's laboratory, where the largest natural body was Liu's body and the test bed under him. And beside Liuna's huge body, which was nearly six meters high, Liu Chang'an lay there quietly.

In the solution of the crystal vessel, Liu Chang's body looked extremely disgusting at this time.

Yes, it's not too much to describe it as disgusting, his body was originally in a scaly state before death, and after being torn in two, the severed limb was soaked in potion, which was a bit like a corpse device. And at this moment, the severed limb junction of the corpse equipment, the place where blood and white flesh should meet, is not so peaceful, and the broken places of flesh and blood are constantly squirming as if they have come to life - it seems that those flesh and blood have their own consciousness, and they are repairing autonomously and automatically.

And next to Liu Chang's crystal bed, there are three clones who are subconsciously inducing Liu Chang with their eyes closed.

"See, the characteristics of coelenterates have evolved." No. 1 excitedly pointed to Liu Chang's severed limb and said happily: "Evolved this, then it will be just around the corner from his recovery." If it weren't for the fact that his internal organs hadn't grown well, I think he would be able to recover immediately by docking the two amputated limbs together! ”

"yes, it's amazing." Seventeen approached the crystal bed, looked at the severed limb inside, first happy, then frowned, "But what if you wake up?" Things have developed to this point, do you really think that he can save all mankind as Li Qingshui predicted before? ”

"Well, it's impossible." Hearing this, Number One sighed, "But anyway, it's a good thing, one of the few good things in recent times. ”

"Do you know what that guy Liu Xinmin has been doing lately?" When Seventeen heard the boss's words, he didn't answer, but asked about other topics.

"I don't know, it seems to be working on what kind of reproduction and something." The Boss said.

"Breeding?" No. 17 looked at Liu Chang and then at Liu, "Which side does he want to study?" ”

"Study on both sides." While the two were talking, Liu Xinmin's tall body walked in from the door of the laboratory, "After I heard that the undersea people are oviparous, I was thinking about whether I could make these two guys also have super reproductive ability, but it turned out to be unusually difficult." ”

"Let's not talk about the difficulty of flow, the direction of his evolution is unusually weird, the body has no surname, and if there is no surname, it is not suitable for higher animals." Liu Xinmin said this, showing an incomprehensible expression, "But why Liu Chang can't use another breeding method, I can't figure it out." Isn't he already atavistic to a very high and profound realm, and doesn't his body already possess the characteristics of many other animals? If he can't breed on a large scale, what kind of bet did Li Qingshui make on him? ”

"You know what?" Liu Xinmin looked at No. 17.

"I don't know." Seventeen shook his head, "Maybe we can wait for him to wake up and reorganize the physical memories in his body, maybe there is a message that Li Qingshui left for us?" ”

(To be continued)