Shu Xingbei sat on the bed with a slump in the buttocks. Yes, there is no more reasonable reason than that.

He didn't have the ability to pay doctors, so what could Nie Lan use to hire a doctor for herself.

Also, it should have been past the time to pay the rent, why didn't the company drive him away?

Shu Xingbei clenched the sign that was still in his hand, and tears flowed down.

Since the death of his parents, Shu Xingbei's tears have dried up. He had always lived like a walking corpse.

But now Nie Lan aroused his thoughts of hard work. No, I can't let Nie Lan leave like this. No, never.

The tears that flowed back from the lacrimal glands seemed to mark Shu Xingbei's new life, and his gaze became extremely firm.

He clenched his fists, and his nails dug into his flesh, but Shu Xingbei was still unaware. Find Nie Lan and set her free.

If you find Nie Lan, you must find her and rescue her.

Nie Lan, you wait for me!

The doctor didn't know that Shu Xingbei seemed to be a different person in a short period of time, he impatiently cleaned Shu Xingbei's back wound, posted a plaster, turned around and was about to leave, but turned back and said: "Find me again, you need 3000 ml of water." ”

He expected that Shu Xingbei would not have a chance to get so much water, so he quoted a price, just to let Shu Xingbei know the market situation.

Shu Xingbei did not answer.

Shu Xingbei clearly felt the doctor's contempt for him just now, as well as the pride of thinking that he was superior.

The doctor's treatment helped, but it didn't allow Shu Xingbei's back injury to heal. As a rule of thumb, the colder the weather, the more difficult it is for the wound to heal.

The curtain on the small window of the houseboat on his back was broken, and the pain of the tear made Shu Xingbei more and more unbearable. He wanted to be warmer.

But there's no fire in the houseboat, spea

Boathouse residents are strictly forbidden to light fires.

The dilapidated ships were held together by chains of giant trees, like melons and fruits on vines.

Once a houseboat runs out of water, the fire will inevitably burn out everything.

Food is liquid, water is too, and it doesn't seem necessary to start a fire.

Everyone gradually got used to the days when there was no fire.

Whatever is gradually accustomed to it becomes a matter of course in the eyes of people.

Shu Xingbei decided to find the only place in the houseboat area that could bring him warmth.

In that place, the houseboat residents mentioned that they would change color, and there was no one who was not afraid.

There is a crematorium.

Fatalities in the houseboat area cannot be thrown directly into the water. In order to avoid causing the plague, SPEA

The company built a crematorium on the periphery of the houseboat area.

The crematorium and the houseboat area are separated by thermal insulation, and the middle fence is partially blocked with iron sheets, as if they are common color steel tiles for earthlings, but they are built higher than color steel tiles.

The crematorium was built on several large barges and had a small house at the entrance.

In the small house, there was a middle-aged man with messy hair like a straw pile, a big beard under his cheeks, and a pair of yellow-eyed eyes, his name was Sha Lian.

Sha Lian and Shu Xingbei's father were both bounty hunters and salvaged underwater ruins together, and then Sha Lian didn't know what to do and came to work in the crematorium.

Shu Xingbei once went to the crematorium under the leadership of his father to visit Shalian.

Sha Lian told Shu Xingbei in front of Shu Zhennan at that time that if he encountered difficulties in the future, he could try to come to him.

When Shu Xingbei's father came to be cremated, Sha Lian also said the same thing.

Shu Xingbei never took this seriously.

What is he doing with Sha Lian when he is in trouble? Cremation for free?

Cremation is meant to be free of money.

Even if the crematorium wants to charge a fee, the residents of the houseboat area can't afford to pay it.

This time, Shu Xingbei thought of Sha Lian, and his purpose couldn't be simpler: to rub the heat of the crematorium.

The crematorium is not powered by electricity, and the staff pushes the bodies of the dead into a large and tall cylindrical cabinet, and then pours the inexplicable animal fat from the plastic buckets, which ignites the grease.

The roaring fire rattled in the hearth, and the corpses of the dead were instantly wiped out, and even the burial procedure was omitted.

Salian was in charge of registering the body.

Shu Xingzhen was not sure if Sha Lian was still working at the crematorium. However, he had no other choice.

Shu Xingbei made his way west along the side of the houseboat, and along the way he met bounty hunters who had gone out in groups. Numbness and vicissitudes are written on everyone's face.

More than two hours later, Shu Xingbei finally arrived at the location of the crematorium.

He poked his head into the hollow position where the steel plate was opened.

The small house at the entrance to the crematorium was there, and the door was ajar.

"Uncle Sha," Shu Xingbei called inside.

After a while, someone pushed open the door from the house, probed out, and glanced at Shu Xingbei, "Is the corpse here, is it Xingbei?" ”

The middle-aged man's yellow eyes widened a little with messy hair, "You? Come on in. ”

Sha Lian walked over, opened the door next to the hollow position, and led Shu Xingbei inside.

"Are you okay? Are you having a hard time? Sha Lian walked straight into the house, and asked Shu Xingbei without looking back.

"It's okay," Shu Xingbei replied sullenly.

When I entered the house, it was as warm as before. A pipe went around the house along the wall, and it was full of seawater.

The pipes are drawn from the crematorium, and the hot seawater is just right to provide heating.

The warmth hit, making Shu Xingbei almost shiver with comfort.

He was just about to sit down, but the sudden pain caused by the curling of his back made him cry out.

"Hurt?" Sha Lian's gaze was fixed on Shu Xingbei's face.

"Sea beast," Shu Xingbei replied, "it's better." ”

Sha Lian brought a stool over and brought Shu Xingbei's sitting place closer to the water pipe.

"Do you feel like you've suddenly gained a lot of strength?" Sha Lian asked, looking at Shu Xingbei.

What do you mean? Shu Xingbei shook his head blankly.

"Did you feel anything unusual in your body?" Shalian asked again.

Shu Xingbei felt that Sha Lian's words were a bit clueless. He still shook his head, his gaze resting on Shalian's face.

"Don't you have the ability to awaken?" Shalian muttered.

"Awakening ability?" When Shu Xingbei heard this, he was even more dazed. What abilities?

"Yes, ability," replied Shalian, "before the endless sea as far as the eye can see, it is also the mainland. Whenever the natural environment of the continent changes dramatically, the organisms above also undergo mutations. It's like a sea beast that hurts you, there was no such creature in the ocean before. Of course, people change. ”

"What about the expression?" Shu Xingbei was attracted by this statement.

"The manifestation is the awakening of power," said Shalian, taking a glassware containing something black and slimy.

Sha Lian opened the lid and handed the utensils to Shu Xingbei's hand, "Try a bite." ”

Shu Xingbei hesitated for a moment, then got up boldly and took a sip.

If Shalian wanted to harm him, he wouldn't be the way he is now. Shalian was not indifferent to his arrival.

But he did not perceive any ill will on the part of Shalian.

It's mushy and smells a little fishy. Shu Xingbei took another sip.

"Living in a harsh environment, animals that run slower will run faster, and animals that are not good at attacking will become irritable and suddenly aggressive. Humans, too, awaken all sorts of strange abilities. Some people call this the ability awakening," Shalian paused.

"Even the plants are the same. The tentacles of the plant will roll up what falls into his power and turn it into its own food. ”

Shu Xingbei listened quietly, analyzing all that Sha Lian said in his mind.

"Hungry?" Sha Lian asked suddenly.

Sha Lian is a brainless person who speaks.

Shu Xingbei thought to himself. He shook his head.

Food and water, is the survival gold of the houseboat area. How embarrassed was he to take food from Sarian.

After Sha Lian got up and walked to the bed, he took out a black thing and handed it to Shu Xingbei, "Sea beast meat, cooked." Eat it. ”

Shu Xingbei did not pick up.

"Eat, eat. I still have. The people who sent their families to be cremated, they always wanted to take some ashes back, and they had a thought of their relatives, so I didn't lack food. There's fire here again," Salian explained.

Shu Xingbei finally took it, and he brought the sea beast meat to his mouth and took a bite.

The meat smells very fragrant, the bite is very dry, the chew is very fragrant, tenacious, and the cheeks are fragrant and probably mean this.

For some reason, Shu Xingbei always felt that Sha Lian was looking at him. His gaze was like that of an experimental professor, looking over and over at the guinea pigs in his cage.

"Competence is systematic. One is the power type, and it is also the most common. The more difficult it is to survive, the more important the power-type ability becomes. How much power can you have if you punch out now? Shalian asked.

"Two hundred pounds," Shu Xingbei was not too sure.

"You haven't awakened to the power-type ability," Sha Lian's tone was calm, neither disappointed nor regretful.

"What about other competencies?" Shu Xingbei was attracted by Sha Lian's statement.

"There's also the ability system. Some people can make fire with their minds, some people can bind objects with their minds, and some people can fly for a short time with their minds, and of course, there are far more than that. The ability system is caused by mutations in most of the body's genes. You don't have this kind of ability," Sha Lian smiled at the corner of his mouth, and he motioned for Shu Xingbei to eat.

"In addition to these two, there is also the awakening of blood ability. Blood oppresses other creatures, making them fearful, shivering on the ground, or simply fearful, without even having the courage to look at each other. This kind of blood ability, you also have not awakened, "Sha Lian is like a teacher who evaluates students' homework, saying that you don't have this, you can't do that, in short, the result is one word: poor."

"None?" The awakening of the three abilities really has nothing to do with oneself. If he really awakened a certain ability, it wouldn't be the current situation.

"It's not for nothing. As far as I know, there is another one, called the mysterious source. It's just that I haven't heard of the specific manifestations," Shalian said, his yellowed eyes as if they were about to squeeze out a little depth.