"I see." Liu Chang nodded, "Then I'll go first, the more things drag on, the bigger the trouble will be." ”

"Well, there you go."

After Li Qingshui nodded, Liu Chang left the laboratory with the little girl.

After returning to the dormitory, equipping the bow and crossbow, and checking the crossbow arrows and the saber that was coming from the army in the past two days, Liu Chang explained to the little girl: "You just wait here, I'll come back at night, I'll go around Zhengzhou City, you don't have to accompany me." If I go out and lead you all the time, I will inevitably be suspected. There was nothing before, but now there are many eyes and ears in this laboratory, and there are even more people like Xiang Zhao Zhuo who have the ability to analyze metamorphoses. I guess if he had known the news, he would have deduced something. He is just like Mr. Li, who knows the slightest minutiae, and can guess the whole thing. ”

"But there is still danger outside, even in Zhengzhou, it may not be able to guarantee 100% safety......" The little girl still had some reluctance in her eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll be back before night, I promise you." Touching the little girl's head, Liu Chang said: "Be obedient, if your news is exposed, we will be a hundred times more dangerous than going out to find out about the plant, so even if it is for the sake of my brother's safety, you should stay here honestly, you know?" ”

"Hmm." Although the little girl nodded, there was still a little reassurance in her eyes: "You have to promise me that you will come back before dark." ”

"Okay." Liu Chang stretched out the little thumb of his right hand, "Let's pull the hook." ”

"Hmm!" When the little girl heard this, she immediately nodded vigorously, and then hooked her slender fingers with Liu Chang's little fingers.

After pacifying the little girl, Liu Chang also put on his crossbow and left the room with a dagger.

Walking out of the door, Liu Chang melted into the dense fog and slowly walked out of the courtyard of the science park. The soldiers guarding the door did not embarrass him when he went out, and the familiar faces of the institute were generally known to these soldiers, so he came to the streets of Zhengzhou outside without hindrance all the way.

came to the world of ordinary people.

Within the institute is the superstructure of mankind, in which there are top talents in genetic science, armies, weapons, and leaders. And in the outside world, there is nothing but ordinary people and the way of survival struggling between life and death.

This is also a familiar taste for Liu Chang.

In fact, in the past few days, although he has been surviving in the institute, as an ordinary person, he is incompatible with the aura inside. He couldn't understand the open and secret struggle between Li Qingshui and the high-level people, and he couldn't participate in all kinds of scientific experiments. Outside of "governance" and "science", he is just a small ordinary person, he belongs to the outside world, so although the outside world is dangerous, it is also very kind to him.

When he came to the street outside, Liu Chang walked all the way, and what he saw was the wisdom of the common people, who had spontaneously organized small groups of human beings, so that these ordinary people formed various small groups with the family as the core unit and the circle of friends as the outreach unit. It seems that everyone who has gone through the last days understands that the strength of the group is always stronger than the reading body than the survival of one person.

Small groups of one kind or another were walking on the streets, and Liu Chang was also wandering aimlessly on the streets.

Although he swore to Li Qingshui to go out to find food that could be grown, in fact, he had no clue at all. Even the poor biological knowledge in Liu Chang's mind made him unable to even distinguish the types of plants and whether they could be eaten.

So he didn't find anything for his morning wandering, except for letting him see the ecology and all kinds of chaos of the human beings at the bottom, and he didn't even find a single thing to eat.

Until he met a man - a man carrying an iron cage.

The man appeared to be in his fifties, with his wife and two children, and wandered the streets with kitchen knives and iron rods—like other small groups of humans, searching the ground for edible food.

Liu Chang saw this small group from afar, and he didn't pay attention to it at first, after all, this kind of small group was everywhere in Zhengzhou City. What really caught his attention was the scene he had overheard of the man feeding the insects in the cage - the man was carrying a small cage in his hand, and every time he walked, he collected plants from the ground to feed the little insects, and his family did not stop him from doing this strange thing.

And his behavior also reminded Liu Chang of the term "insects that can find food on their own", when this word appeared in his mind, he was shocked, and immediately followed the small team all the way.

And following all the way for thousands of meters, Liu Chang didn't think of a good way to ask, and thought of several ways to talk to the other party on the way, but in the end he vetoed them one by one, and then chose the most straightforward and ordinary way.

Slowly walking within three meters of the family, Liu Chang's appearance attracted their attention.

"Who!" Seeing that someone was in sight, the man and his child raised their weapons at the same time, and when the person who could see the sight was not an acquaintance, the man shouted loudly: "This brother, I hope you don't go any further." Everyone knows the rules since the end of the day, and it is best not to walk within three meters of strangers outside. And we don't have food in our hands, so if you want to grab something, I think it's better to forget it. ”

"Don't be nervous." Seeing that the family was fully armed, Liu Chang raised his hand slightly to indicate that he had no malicious intent. He could understand the nervousness of the family, and in the morning, he had seen many horrific scenes of fighting between human groups. There is no law and no police constraints, and the strength of the army can only be "maintained. stability", but far from "curing". Ann". They can only maintain the normal operation of the general framework of society, but they can no longer control the struggle between the human beings at the bottom.

Therefore, Liu Chang raised his hand to see that the other party still had no intention of putting down his weapon, so he simply raised his hands high and made a posture with no offensive intention at all.

"I really don't mean anything, I'm just here to ask you questions."

"It's okay to ask questions, you stand there and ask, don't come here." When the family saw Liu Chang's posture, they didn't press too hard.

"Well, I want to ask what is the bug in your hand?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen it before, it's just an ordinary insect after evolution."

"And what do you keep feeding it for?" Liu Chang's second question caused a strong reaction from the family.

"You're following us?" They looked nervous again.

"No, I happened to see it, so let's ...... I won't ask in vain. As Liu Chang spoke, he took out the saber he had brought out from the experimental park from his waist and said, "Your weapons are all self-made, or they are modified from household tools, and there must be many inconveniences in using them." ”

"The saber in my hand is from a genuine arsenal, made of alloy steel, with a sharp edge, much stronger than your homemade weapons." Liu Chang raised the saber and pointed to the small cage in the man's hand, "If you tell me what that worm does, I'll give you this knife, what do you think?" ”

"Done!" When the man saw the saber, his eyes lit up, and he agreed without thinking about it. "I'll give you all the worms, and you throw the saber first."

"Hmm." Liu Chang didn't talk nonsense, if he controlled absolute force, he would always control the initiative, if he didn't want to use shameless means, he could completely rob it. Therefore, after he threw the saber and the sheath together, he did not worry at all that the other party would not admit it.

"What a happy man." Seeing Liu Chang throw the saber at his feet in the air, the man relaxed, "There is nothing ordinary about this bug, it was just discovered by our family by chance, the staple food is vegetarian, and of course meat is also eaten." We have a very good sense of smell and can tell if a plant is edible or not, so we grabbed one and kept asking it to test us for toxins in food. It doesn't eat things that can't be eaten, it doesn't taste good, it tastes very bad, and it doesn't eat much with slight toxins. And the plants that can be eaten by humans, it can be swallowed. ”

"So when I found out about the characteristics of this bug, I didn't think about it that much, so I caught it and transplanted it. After all, the plants outside have changed now, and those who could eat before may not be able to eat, and those who can't be eaten may become edible, and in addition to those that have been seen before, there are so many strange tree species. Therefore, I thought that there was no shortage of food in this world, but most humans did not dare to eat it, so I caught this bug. ”

As the man spoke, he threw the iron cage against the ground to Liu Chang.

"If you want it, I'll give it to you, there are a lot of water pipes next to my house, so it's not troublesome to catch them."

"Thank you so much." Picking up the insects from the ground, Liu Chang looked at the alien in the iron cage.

An ordinary insect that looks a bit like a longhorn cow, nothing very strange, but the two antennae in front of the head are extraordinarily long, and it looks like a sensitive sensory look.

Liu Chang got the bugs, the family got the saber, the two groups were happy, and they were wary, and when they were about to part ways, a team of patrolling soldiers entered Liu Chang's sight.

The soldiers are a squad, about a platoon, and while all kinds of guns are loaded, there is also a person in the front row holding an electronic loudspeaker and howling loudly.

"Attention, citizens, attention. Politics. The government has good news that the institute has developed a new type of food, and the food seeds will be available to the public in three days. This new type of food can solve the problem of food and clothing for all of us, so please stabilize your mood and wait with peace of mind. ”

The leader of the band, shouting through a loudspeaker, handed out leaflets to everyone he passed by and saw.

And the pair of soldiers also happened to walk by Liu Chang and the family, so both waves of people received the inferior propaganda paper.

After receiving the leaflet, Liu Chang only took a brief look at it, and then he knew most of the contents of the leaflet -- promoting the "Liang Dou" synthesized from "Zhao Zhuo". The flyer praised Liang Dou as a skyscraper, all kinds and. The harmonious wind is like the news union of the seventies. The broadcast is like a spring breeze at a glance, and the happiness index has risen by dozens of percentage points in an instant.

"Can this crop really be grown? Then our good days will come, we don't have to worry about food, we can save a lot of trouble. The man's wife took the flyer with an excited expression on her face.

"Phew, you know the! You can't eat it, I don't eat it, and neither you nor your children can eat it. When the man saw the leaflet, he snatched it from his wife and tore it to pieces. Genes are also transfected. Who is being fooled by genetic stuff! You can't eat this thing! ”

"It's clear that you can eat it, I really don't know what you're afraid of!" The man's wife loudly expressed her dissatisfaction.

"Afraid of what? Think about the big head back then. Doll poison. Milk powder, ground. Ditch oil, trimer. Cyanogen. Amine, Su. Dan red duck eggs, wax flipped. New rice, poison capsules, dead. Baby capsules, leather shoe protein, Hainan mineral water, we all survived, this point turns. What are the genetic foods afraid of. The man also yelled at his wife loudly, "At most, our son can't give birth to a child like a rat in the Northeast, what can we be afraid of!" ”

(To be continued)