Chapter 85: The First Ray of Sunshine (Three-in-One Chapter)
Chen Ji and Zhou Wan took the big cat and walked into the subway together, followed the stairs, passed through several layers of iron doors used to block the cold wind, and went down to the subway station.
Thousands of people in the hall came to see each other.
Chen Ji also saw clearly the appearance of the subway station that had been transformed into a doomsday settlement.
The entrance to the subway station was turned into a makeshift hospital, with ample lighting and some heating, and rooms were dug out of the walls around the hall, wards, emergency rooms, operating rooms, medical storage rooms, nurses' rest rooms, plus the command center of the settlement, the broadcasting room, and so on.
But there were still not enough rooms.
There were also many people in the hall who were sitting or lying on the ground in thick clothes, with pale faces, purple lips and trembling bodies, as if they had gone up to the heated hall to rest because they could not stand the cold underground, which caused them to suffer from hypothermia.
Thousands of people looked at each other after hearing the news of the Adept.
Shocked, curious, confused, fearful, and so on, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan are like giant pandas, which is very rare.
"Don't be nervous, everyone!"
Duan Zhengyan glanced at the mutated black cat and reassured everyone: "These two newly awakened supernatural beings are named Chen Ji and Zhou Wan, if they can order this black cat, everyone can rest assured!" ”
After ordinary mutated creatures saw so many humans, they had already pounced fiercely.
But the big cat next to Chen Ji is honest, his eyes are very peaceful, and he occasionally raises his front paws to scratch the cat's face, as if he has become a family cat, but it is just that it has increased in size and strength.
Zhou Wan stroked Xiao Ke's back with her white little hand to show that it was friendly.
The crowd was even more amazed.
"You sit down for a while, and I'll come back to you when the mutant creatures are defeated."
Duan Zhengyan asked a few fighters to follow Chen Ji to act together to prevent the big cat from getting out of control.
He hurriedly walked into the subway dispatch room, left after a while, and continued to go up to the ground to command the battle.
Soon, the radio sounded, announcing the appearance of the three Adepts and the important news that the Adepts had taken the mutated black cat as a pet.
The female announcer in charge of the broadcast had a passionate voice, full of hope, excitedly praised the bravery of Chen Ji and the others, and briefly told everyone the information of the light and heat abilities, the space ability, and the Nine Domains ability.
The Nine Domains ability makes people extremely powerful, and high school girls can take on dozens of mutated creatures alone.
Heat and Light emits warm balls of light that warm people and mutate creatures to obey.
Not to mention the spatial ability, the potential is huge, the human perception of time and space may be refreshed, the theory of relativity may be rewritten, and so on!
The sound of the radio spread throughout the settlement, reaching everyone's ears.
Chen Ji saw the change in their expressions, from the previous doubts and fears to surprise and fiery.
"Humanity needs to see hope."
Zhou Wan, who also witnessed the change in everyone's expressions, said softly.
With the world's current technology, it is already very difficult to build a manned spacecraft that can fly to the sun, let alone check why the sun is extinguished.
Human society must usher in major changes, technological changes, nuclear fusion, biotechnology, or human beings themselves mutate like animals and plants to break the current desperate situation!
Mutant mammals have been around since two months ago.
People all over the world waited for another two months, and heard many false rumors, before the first Adept was actually standing in front of them!
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen, you, you are a light and heat powerhouse, right?!"
A middle-aged man rushed out of the crowd, eagerly ran to Chen Ji, and looked at him with bloodshot eyes: "I heard the radio that you can warm people up, can you save my mother?" She had severe hypothermia and the doctor said she was ......"
His expression was gloomy and he didn't say anything further, but Chen Ji could understand what he meant.
In the current apocalyptic environment, once a person has a serious illness, it is very likely that he will be directly abandoned, because medical supplies, personnel, and even beds are in a high state of shortage.
"Hypothermia?"
Chen Ji knows this, it is a symptom of people who have been in a low temperature state for a long time, and moderate hypothermia will make people confused and faint.
"Yes."
The middle-aged man said with pain: "My mother lives in the third district, and she has been shaking when she gets up in the morning, and she finally applied for the qualification to come to the hospital after fainting at noon, but it is ...... It's too late. ”
Chen Ji subconsciously glanced at the hall, there were two or three thousand people here, not counting the people in the ward and operating room.
"This gentleman."
One of the warriors who followed Chen Ji said tactfully, "You should now follow the doctor's instructions and take care of your mother as much as possible, after all, the Alien has just appeared." ”
This is a disguised way to tell him that Chen Ji's light and heat ability may not have such a magical ability.
"I know, but... But I really can't help it! ”
Middle-aged man has a voice infarction.
"Take me to see it first."
Chen Ji said.
"Thank you, thank you so much, Mr. Chen, you go this way!"
The middle-aged man kept thanking him and hurriedly led the way.
Chen Ji patted the big cat's head to let it settle down, and then took Zhou Wan's hand and entered the crowd.
There are many, many people who suffer from hypothermia, and the low temperature caused by the sun goes out is unbearable for many people, and even when they come to the hall, with a certain amount of heating, they are still very cold.
Not only the cold, but also their long-term depression and anxiety, as well as food shortages.
After Chen Ji and Zhou Wan walked into the crowd with the black cat, they kept watching, expecting a miracle to happen.
But I don't dare to have too strong expectations, lest my hopes be disappointed again.
Soon, Chen Ji met the middle-aged man's mother.
She was lying on a hospital bed, wrapped in a thick quilt, with hot water bottles on her forehead and in the quilt, but she was still unconscious and purple, and there were doctors and nurses next to her, but not for her, but for other patients.
"Light and heat powerhouses?"
When the doctor saw Chen Ji with the big cat, after understanding what had happened, he shook his head and sighed: "I don't know what kind of magical effect Mr. Chen's ability has, but the symptoms of this hypothermia patient are already very serious, ventricular fibrillation, no response to pain, basically can only rely on the patient to survive." ”
The middle-aged man became so nervous that his hands were shaking.
All his hopes at the moment are in the new Ability, and this Mr. Chen happens to be the Light and Heat Ability!
"I can give it a try."
Chen Ji raised his hand and summoned a ball of light.
The light ball emitted a light that was not bright, and the heat was so low that the people next to it could not even feel it, so that many people were disappointed.
"My ability can warm people up and easily thaw a car."
Chen Ji paused and looked at the middle-aged man: "But whether it can work on hypothermia is still unknown." ”
The middle-aged man nodded vigorously, "I understand!" I am willing to accept all possible consequences! ”
Chen Ji no longer hesitated, and hit the ball of light directly into the patient's face, allowing it to blend into her body.
The doctors and nurses, as well as the people around them, watched with wide eyes.
Under the gaze of everyone, the mother of a middle-aged man with severe hypothermia, has undergone drastic changes:
Her face returned to ruddy at a speed visible to the naked eye, her breathing became steady, her originally painful expression softened, and a fine sweat even appeared on her forehead, indicating that there was a lot of heat production in her body, or rather, her body was recovering quickly and was able to maintain a normal body temperature!
"This!"
The doctors and nurses were shocked, and after looking at Chen Ji, they hurriedly went to check the patient's condition.
It was quickly concluded that:
Not to mention other complications, at least she is now breathing smoothly and reacting to the outside world, and may soon be awake.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, Mr. Chen, thank you so much!"
The middle-aged man was full of excitement and choked up again.
"This, this... It's incredible! ”
The doctor looked at Chen Ji and Zhou Wan with bright eyes, "The ability of the Stranger is so magical, it completely subverts my imagination!" ”
The few fighters who followed behind Chen Ji were also dumbfounded, just like everyone else.
Only after the big cat saw the ball of light, he rubbed Chen Ji with his head, making Zhou Wan on the side smile brighter, and reached out to touch it again.
"Mr. Chen, please help my son too, he is also hypothermic, and now he is shivering with cold!"
"I used to work to earn merit points. Now I'm sick too. ”
"Mr. Chen, help me!"
After everyone reacted, they swarmed around, they were no longer afraid of the mutated big cat, and only hoped that the stranger could cure them or their relatives' diseases.
Several warriors changed from looking at the big cat to blocking the crowd, and the desire for the Adeptus was too strong.
Suddenly.
A bright and soft light shone out, enveloping the entire hall.
The closer you get to the center of the light, the more you can feel the warmth of the sun.
Three thousand people froze in unison.
It was as if they had seen the sun shining again, seeing the rising sun, and the world became bright and warm again!
Long.
The light slowly faded.
"This is my last supernatural ability."
Meow meow!
Chen Ji's side, the big cat rubbed him vigorously.
……
……
To Chen Ji's own surprise, his abilities seemed to have changed again.
The light only shone for about 30 seconds, but it warmed the subway hall for a long time, like real sunlight, and the feeling of warmth after basking in objects.
So much so that Chen Ji hid in the control center at the entrance of the subway station, and the people outside were still looking at him eagerly.
Fortunately, the radio gave them the concept of "alien ability" in time, so that everyone calmed down.
Chen Ji couldn't cure those conditions immediately, but at least he gave them alleviation.
"With Mr. Chen and Miss Zhou here, our hospital is much easier, and your abilities are very powerful!"
Zhang Jiande, the person in charge of this settlement, took the time to clasp Chen Ji's hand and said excitedly.
He also said that after the end of this mutant rat attack, Chen Ji and the three of them would be rewarded with a large number of merit points.
"It's over."
Chen Ji was modest, and was about to say that he would count all his merit points on Zhou Wan, when suddenly, the phone in the control center rang.
"Wait a minute!"
Zhang Jiande immediately went to answer the phone.
"What? The passage has been dug up by rats again? ”
His first words made people's hearts tighten.
Listening to the report, Zhang Jiande's face became more and more serious, and he said, "You try to dig first, and I'll go over immediately!" ”
He hung up the phone and immediately called a few people to go underground with him.
"Let's go check it out, too."
Chen Ji drank the hot tea in the cup in a few sips, stood up from the sofa, and Zhou Wan also stood up.
"Aren't you without supernatural abilities?"
"I don't, but Zhou Wan still has, and there are cats that specialize in catching mice."
Chen Ji pointed to the big cat lying at the door.
Zhang Jiande nodded, time was pressing, and told Chen Ji and Zhou Wan about the current situation as he walked.
The settlement was built mainly on the basis of subway tunnels, and several tunnels and spacious halls were dug for crowds within a few kilometers of the vicinity.
Two hours ago, the mutant rats dug through the ground, allowing cold air to pour directly into it, causing a riot in the colony and attracting other mutated creatures to attack.
Not long ago, the mutant rat once again dug down several sections of tunnels, including the main passage, emergency passage, vents, etc., all of which collapsed, trapping thousands of people in one area.
"How smart are they?!"
Chen Ji was shocked.
He had heard Zhou Wan say before that the mutant rats would destroy the colony before attacking.
Now listen carefully, these mutant rats have actually learned the trick of containment separately, planning to trap thousands of people to death, and after exhausting the ammunition of those trapped warriors, they will rush up and attack the humans again!
It's almost certain that when the excavator is driven to dig the tunnel, the mutant rats will continue to harass and dig more and more places, making the rescue progress slow!
"Yes, those rats have become very smart!"
Zhang Jiande explained with a serious expression as he walked down the stairs: "We have compared and found that the mutant rats in other places are not so smart, so there is reason to suspect that there is some special factor in the sea market, it may be that there is a rat king, or there may be a place for them to mutate." ”
"Unfortunately, we organized multiple searches, killed thousands of rats, and repeatedly studied their corpses, but we couldn't find the cause."
Chen Ji frowned, it was indeed very strange.
"Next time I go to search, I'll go with me!"
Zhou Wan took the initiative to ask Ying, she hated mutant rats to the core, and she was willing to do her part to find out why mutant rats were so rampant.
Zhang Jiande nodded, but now is not the time to talk about this.
The group quickly rushed to the site where it had been dug up.
The situation is bad.
The blocked earth was nearly ten meters thick, and the outside world was completely disconnected from the blocked area, and even the vents were blocked.
Even if the mutant rat does not take the initiative to attack, the people inside will die of lack of oxygen.
Excavators and various equipment are still on their way.
The makeshift tunnels were not wide enough and not well built, making every rescue operation uncertain and having to be excavated with care.
In addition, there are a large number of mutant rats lurking in the dirt, which may come out and attack at any time!
It couldn't have been worse.
"I'll give it a try."
Zhou Wan stood up calmly, and hundreds of fighters and excavation staff all looked at her.
They already knew the news of the Stranger, and they had just learned about Chen Ji's presence in the hall.
But at this moment, I can't help but have doubts in my heart:
"Will it work?"
Zhang Jiande looked at her and Chen Ji with hopeful eyes.
There was so much earth that had collapsed, and there were crumbling concrete walls, and they couldn't imagine how strong it would take to dig the tunnel!
"You can give it a try."
Zhou Wan used a tone similar to Chen Ji and smiled at him.
Then, she walked to the collapsed tunnel, where a dozen warriors followed to protect the mutant rats from suddenly attacking them.
"My ability can control everything within a certain radius."
Zhou Wan slowly stretched out her hand towards the blocked dirt wall.
She closed her eyes, as if feeling and remembering something.
"Space is distorted, shortened, extended, broken and condensed in my hands, and everything is controlled by me."
"As Xiaoxiao said, within the extension of my supernatural ability, all objects that exist in space need to obey my orders!"
"Now, I order:
In the space in front of my eyes, the crack is unraveling! ”
Bang!
A thunderbolt-like flash of lightning swept through Zhou Wan's mind, as if something had been broken in her brain, she seemed to have grabbed something, and opened her eyes to see.
The blocked tunnel had parted to form a neat road two meters wide and high, the incision was flat and neat, and the group of people on the opposite side looked at her in amazement.
Looking back, Zhang Jiande and the others were also stunned.
Only Chen Ji came over to support her and gave her a thumbs up, saying that she had done a great job.
Leaning on him and looking at him with her eyes, Zhou Wan pursed her lips and smiled a little shyly, "I seem to have become a little powerful." ”
"Not a little, very!"
"Hee-hee."
……
After an hour, the mutant creature is temporarily knocked back.
The news of the existence of the Anomalous was like lightning, and before the Doomsday Response Center officially made an announcement, many cities already knew what was happening in the sea market.
"The Light and Heat Adept can actually emit a glow as warm as the sun?!"
"And cure the disease? Can any illness be? Oh my god, is it really fake? ”
"The spatial ability is so rebellious?!"
"That's still fake, that Miss Zhou stretched out her hand and waved, and the tunnel of thousands of meters was instantly opened!"
"I'm Cao!"
"What is the Nine Domains Adept? You can actually make a high school girl beat hundreds of mutant creatures! ”
The personal information and abilities of Chen Ji and the others were hotly discussed by countless survivors, and there was a tendency to spread more and more outrageous, because the news could only be transmitted through the command center between cities, and ordinary people could not access the Internet.
Chen Ji did not stay in the stadium subway entrance settlement for too long, after discussion and research, comprehensive transportation, safety protection, personnel transfer and other factors, the settlement of Haishi was reduced to three again.
The people will be gradually moved to a large bomb shelter settlement on the outskirts, where four months of excavation will allow for more people.
In addition, the bomb shelter is digging a huge wellhead a kilometer deep to release the geothermal heat, and the temperature will be more habitable than here.
Chen Ji, Zhou Wan and Mu Xiaoxiao took a car to the new settlement.
Chen Ji could hear the loud roar of machinery from afar, and in the bright lights, a large number of workers were working in the freezing cold on the ground, trying to build the underground of the bomb shelter into a huge underground city.
In the absence of nuclear fusion, only geothermal energy can survive humans!
The arrival of Chen Ji and the others did not alarm the engineering team, but after Qiu Chengguo got out of the car, he immediately spread the news.
Instantly, many workers and engineers in thick clothes came to watch, their eyes full of eagerness.
Chen Ji could only greet them, and released a football-sized ball of light that swept over their heads, allowing the ball of light to bloom in the middle of the crowd, and a radius of dozens of meters suddenly warmed like spring.
"This is the power of the Adept? Oh my God, it's so powerful! ”
"If there are a dozen light and heat adepts taking turns to release this ball of light, we can work five times faster, this hell weather is too cold!"
"It's so warm, it's like getting sunshine."
Everyone in the engineering team was excited.
In such cold weather, nothing is more inspiring than Chen Ji's ability.
Go down to the Underground Settlement.
Chen Ji saw more people.
Three hours later.
Tens of thousands of people crowded into the spacious hall, eagerly awaiting a special live broadcast.
Soon, the live broadcast began.
The leader of the Doomsday Disaster Response Center delivered an important speech, and the live broadcast was broadcast to the whole country, all the places where the signal can be received, people gather through radio, public projectors, computer televisions, large and small tens of thousands of shelters, settlements, hot springs, volcanoes, nuclear power plants and other warm places.
Even many countries around the world already knew the news and found a way to relay this special live broadcast in advance.
It can be said that this is the highest rated live broadcast in the world since the end of the world, or in history!
People in other countries don't need to understand, they wait for one thing with their eyes wide open:
Stranger!
"My name is Zhou Wan, and I'm a spatial powerhouse."
At the end of the leader's speech, as the first person with extraordinary abilities since the end of this world, Zhou Wan took the stage first.
After she came to the settlement, she took a hot bath, put on simple makeup, and when she stood on the stage, her delicate facial features and elegant temperament complemented each other, making her more and more stunningly beautiful.
What's more, she was only wearing a few thin clothes, and the audience at the scene and countless people watching the live broadcast were different, which set off her special charm as a stranger!
When Zhou Wan briefly told her experience, and manipulated the Liuyue dagger to flash and rotate around her, the dagger went up and down, and she controlled it freely.
She is the goddess in the hearts of countless people around the world!
The director gave Zhou Wan a video of splitting space in real time, and forcibly opened up a nearly ten-meter-long tunnel, which once again made people marvel.
But it's not shocking enough!
The Nine Domains Ability, who looks like a high school student, has a round cheek and a small Mu Xiaoxiao.
"I've created a swordsmanship, you can learn it if you want to."
The Empress of Heavenly Destiny from the Nine Domains was very simple, she didn't say what her ability was, she only released a swordsmanship video, and there were some explanations of her in the video.
The audience's eyes widened at the point of confusion.
This high school girl's ability is swordsmanship?
It wasn't until the director played a video that they were suddenly shocked and their scalps tingled!
In the video, sixteen or seventeen-year-old Mu Xiaoxiao stood in front of a pile of mutant creatures with a long sword in hand, her petite figure was flexible and fast, and the sword light was wielding wantonly, harvesting the lives of mutated creatures one after another.
The video is completely uncensored, and it is shown to everyone in the most shocking way!
Bathed in blood, fierce and powerful, Mu Xiaoxiao, who stepped on the corpses of hundreds of mutant creatures, made everyone look enthusiastic.
They want to be so strong, too.
They also want to get out of the ground, go up to the surface, and fight the mutated creatures!
After the shock, there is hope.
Chen Ji was the last to appear.
He didn't talk much nonsense, for the sake of this live broadcast effect, he also deliberately traveled back to Earth to fill up his abilities.
At this moment, Chen Ji stood on the stage, facing the audience, raised his hands, picked up a soft and warm ball of light, spread it in all directions, and slowly rose into the sky.
Sun-like balls of light emit light and heat above everyone's heads.
The light was not dazzling, illuminating the entire underground space, and tens of thousands of people were bathed in the warm light, and the chill was greatly dispelled.
Many of them were moved to tears.
Countless viewers opened their eyes in disbelief.
They saw the sun!
This is the first ray of sunshine after the apocalypse!
Zhou Wan's spatial ability represents the hope of human beings to break through science and technology.
Mu Xiao's Nine Domains ability represents the hope of human evolution.
Chen Ji's light and heat ability represents the sun, and people look up at the dark sky again and look at the sun that has been extinguished.
It's still there.
After this live broadcast, the Adeptus officially stepped onto the post-apocalyptic stage.