End of the World Cycle

Fear, regret, pain, heat. These were Xie Qin's final feelings. She felt stupid countless times, but God would not give her another chance.

When she woke up again, the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant. Although her eyelids were heavy, Xie Qin still forced herself to open them a little. The white walls and the voice of a woman. In addition to the pain in her shoulders, there was also a tingling pain in her legs. Her heavy body and her still-thinking brain were undoubtedly telling her that she was still alive.

His throat was extremely dry, and his mouth seemed to be glued shut and he couldn't open it at all. He was so thirsty and his strong desire to survive made Xie Qin move. The female doctor who was treating someone else's wound noticed Xie Qin and came to her side after treating the wound. She blessed the nurse beside her with a slightly excited voice.

"Quick, go tell Principal Huang that the child is awake and alive! Alive!"

Then Xie Qin felt the warm water sliding into his mouth through the gap between his lips. His eyelids were forcibly pried open, and the strong light shone on his pupils. Xie Qin couldn't help but move his eyeballs.

"Can you hear me, classmate?" The female doctor's voice was clear. Xie Qin heard it very clearly and nodded with all his strength.

Although Xie Qin was not fully awake, he could clearly hear the conversations of the people around him. After a while, a man came in. He sounded quite old, with a deep and powerful voice and clear pronunciation.

"I said, this kid is still alive. It's worth it that I carried him back home after a day and a night on my back."

"That's right. I was shocked when you brought her here. Luckily, Teacher Yu went with her and was able to stop the bleeding. Otherwise, she would have died on the way."

After a while, two more people came to see him. They talked about how they met him as if they were chatting. From their conversation, Xie Qin roughly understood that he was rescued by them.

But her dogs were gone. These people all spoke of them with admiration. Before she lost consciousness, Xie Qin only saw the two dogs rush into the fire. She also learned about what happened afterwards from their conversations.

In order to save themselves, the two dogs dug a trench along the fire circle, so that the fire did not spread to them. However, the dogs' already scarred bodies were burned again. In the end, they died beside themselves.

The fire created by the fourth-level fire ability would not be extinguished without a large amount of water. They only found Xie Qin when they saw the fire when they went into the mountains to hunt. It happened that a water ability user saved the dying Xie Qin.

Xie Qin was in a heavy mood, sad about the departure of the three dogs, but even more angry about her own thoughts. If she could do it again, she would still call the dogs to protect her for a chance of survival. Once again, the dogs around her paid the price for her stupidity, but she was more grateful that she survived.

The feeling of knowing that she was shameless but still felt that what she did was right was suffocating. She didn't want this to happen again. Every time she gained experience, it was at the cost of others or things. Maybe this was why she couldn't become the protagonist. At least in terms of character, she couldn't compare with the original heroine.

It was on the third day that Xie Qin regained consciousness. This was a school, Mengga City No. 1 Middle School, a closed school built halfway up a mountain, consisting of a junior high school and a high school department.

There are more than 3,000 teachers and students in the school, and they were trapped here during the rainy season. After the rainy season, this was also the first area where zombies appeared. At that time, the school leaders immediately closed the school to ensure the safety of the students. In difficult times, they did not dare to take the risk of taking the children to the north. They only accepted a few airdrops of supplies, and with the spontaneous organization of the teachers to go out and look for supplies, the children in the school basically survived.

The one who saved Xie Qin was the principal of this school. The principal's surname was Huang, and he was a second-level space-based psychic in his fifties. He had been leading the school's psychic team to personally search for supplies.

There are many people with special abilities in the school, and Xie Qin has also discovered that most teenagers with excellent physical fitness basically have special abilities. Therefore, boys in high school are the main force of the special ability team.

Among the three thousand students, there were nearly five hundred people with special abilities. However, they were all common special abilities such as strength, speed, water, wood, and earth, and they were all first-level. Only Principal Huang, who was a second-level space-type, and a physical education teacher, who was a second-level wind-type. The others did not have much combat power.

Therefore, these two would lead the team to hunt in places a little further away, to provide nutrition for the many children who were still growing and developing.

Everything here is in order. Adult psychics will join the supply group and follow Principal Huang and physical education teacher Mr. Gu to search for supplies.

The rest of the minors with special abilities were assigned by the security department to protect the school. The rest of the students without special abilities were living and attending classes normally, but the classes here were not as focused on learning Chinese, mathematics, and foreign languages ​​as before. After the apocalypse, the main classes became plant research classes led by biology teachers, physical training classes led by physical education teachers, as well as handicrafts, medical care, infrastructure classes, and so on.

Everything is based on survival. It was this group of teachers who led the children to grow benign mutant vegetables, one-meter-tall cabbages, half-meter-long corns, and ten-pound potatoes. These were all cultivated from seeds brought back from the mutant plant farm. Although there were many children, it was obvious that none of them were hungry. In fact, they were raised on mutant vegetables and fruits, and they were taller and stronger than the children in other bases that Xie Qin had seen.

The school has its own power generation system, including wind power generation and human power generation. There are many active children, and there are always children running on the human-powered generator wheel. Therefore, the school has no shortage of electricity.

These were all told to her by the school doctor who was taking care of her. When Xie Qin actually saw the scene outside the infirmary, she was surprised.

After a week of rest, Xie Qin was able to walk again. The wound on his foot was probably caused by the dog biting his leg and trying to drag him away. His right foot was also burned by the fire, leaving an ugly scar. There were also some burns on his body. The wound that ran through his shoulder must have damaged the nerves. His entire left hand was almost unable to move.

It's not an exaggeration to say that he was covered in bruises. His throat had not recovered from inhaling the smoke, and he couldn't speak a word. Now, except for his clean face, there was no intact part of his body.

Leaning on crutches, I walked out of the infirmary and looked at the huge campus. I still felt familiar. All the teaching buildings were concentrated in the two buildings at the front. The building at the back was converted into a laboratory and a workshop. The huge playground was also reclaimed and covered with greenhouses to grow vegetables. All the green areas on campus were planted with vegetables.

Xie Qin walked forward slowly for a while without seeing anyone, then arrived outside the cafeteria. On the open space outside the cafeteria were sturdy iron cages, in which were kept wild boars and pheasants that should have just mutated.

These mutant animals had no other features, except that they were much larger. They must have been kept in captivity for a long time, and their eyes were not as cruel as those of the animals he saw in the forest. Instead, they had a clear stupidity.

Xie Qin had been standing there observing the animals, and didn't notice when someone came next to him until that person spoke.

"These were captured by Principal Huang and his team. These pigs and chickens can reproduce. They have already given birth once, and the piglets and eggs are being raised in the laboratory building."

Xie Qin looked up and saw a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, a first-level water-type mutant.

"Huh? Why don't you speak?"

Xie Qin wanted to answer, but couldn't make a sound, so he found a stone nearby and wrote

(My throat was hurt by the smoke.)

"Oh! Sorry, my name is Pei Yue. What's yours?"

(Xie Qin) Xie Qin was curious, after all, no one in the base outside had started eating mutant vegetables and animals. So she continued to ask.

(How dare you eat these? Aren’t you afraid of problems?)

Pei Yue squatted next to Xie Qin and smiled.

"Before the apocalypse, our school was one of the best in the province, so our teachers were very good. We had a large number of people, so the teachers would often organize people to go out hunting and search for supplies. We discovered that plants had mutated eight months ago. The biology teachers began to study the mutations after discovering them. They compiled a lot of edible mutant plants and animals."

(a lot of?)

"Come on, I'll take you to see it."

Pei Yue took Xie Qin's hand and helped her up. Seeing that Xie Qin's feet were inconvenient to move, she wanted to carry Xie Qin on her back. Xie Qin was a little panicked and waved her hands quickly.

"It's okay, it's just over here on the second floor. Come on, I'll carry you. You're such a young sister, I can easily carry you to the tenth floor in one breath." Pei Yue said confidently, patting her chest.

Xie Qin instantly found it funny. Yes, she did look like a little girl now. She was only about 1.6 meters tall, and judging from her hands, she must have lost a lot of weight. I was afraid that she might have lost 70 kilograms. Looking at the heartless girl in front of her, Xie Qin could not feel the slightest bit of reluctance.

This might be the tacit understanding between people of the same age. Xie Qin lay on Pei Yue's back. Pei Yue walked neither fast nor slow and was very steady. After entering the laboratory building, she slowly saw someone.

"Pei Yue, what happened to this classmate?" A boy asked when he saw Pei Yue carrying Xie Qin upstairs.

"She is the child that Principal Huang rescued last time. Her injuries haven't healed yet, so I carried her around on my back."

"Let me do it. I don't have any classes, so I'll go with you." The boy said as he reached out to pick up Xie Qin.

"No, I can carry her. This little girl is too light."

"Well, you guys go and look around, I'll go help out in the fields."

"Go."

After the boy left, Pei Yue said with a smile.

"Don't be afraid. This is our school spirit. (Do my best to help others) Especially when you are someone who needs help, they will pay extra attention to you."

Xie Qin also smiled unconsciously and said "hmm" softly.

Soon the two arrived at the laboratory. There were many people in the laboratory, students and teachers were busy. You could see inside clearly through the window. Next to the laboratory were two classrooms, and there were teachers and students in class. Xie Qin glanced at the blackboard and saw that it was about gene mutation.

During this period, Xie Qin only followed Lu Chaoyun to study crystals and mutant humans, and did not know much about these mutant plants and animals. Looking at the slightly simple formulas on the blackboard and listening to the teacher's words, Xie Qin roughly understood that they divided mutations into benign mutations and malignant mutations.

Benign mutations will only make animals and plants bigger, with no changes in appearance, while malignant mutations will cause drastic changes in appearance, such as the two-headed snakes I have seen, things that look like cats and dogs, and wild boars with colorful bodies and poisonous thorns. There are all kinds of strange and moving plants.

These wild and malignant things all have one characteristic, that is, they have crystal nuclei, while benign ones do not. The laboratory further inside is the cultivation room. The layout is similar to the previous place, but the laboratory is twice as large. The laboratory is in the middle, and the classrooms are on both sides, where students also have classes.

The incubators in the lab were filled with benign mutant babies. There were chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, and pigs. There were especially many eggs from chickens, ducks, and geese, which almost took up half of the lab.

"We are building a large incubator next to the playground to ensure the hatching rate. Soon we won't be short of meat. The principal and others won't have to risk their lives to go out hunting." As Xie Qin spoke, he could feel that Pei Yue was a little sad, and even lowered her head.

It is not difficult to imagine that this school has only 200 faculty and staff, and even fewer of them have special abilities. If they want to feed more than 3,000 people, there must be a lot of people going out to find supplies. As long as they go out, there will be danger, and whether they can come back is the biggest problem.

A middle-aged man came out of the corridor. He had sparse hair and wore thick glasses. He was a little fat, but not ugly. Xie Qin was a little surprised and frowned at this man. She had never heard of a third-level psychic. Because she was injured and did not use her supernatural power to check the school, she did not know about this person.

"Pei Yue? Didn't you go to class?"

"Hello, Teacher Zhang! I just went to fill the canteen with water. I met a new student and showed her around."

The man named Teacher Zhang then set his eyes on Xie Qin. It was an aggressive look that made people feel uncomfortable. Xie Qin's sixth sense told him that there was something wrong with this man.

The man just smiled at Xie Qin, nodded and left. Without turning back, Xie Qin could feel the man looking back at him.

Xie Qin pointed at the stairs and indicated that she was leaving. Pei Yue carried Xie Qin back to the infirmary. After finding a pen and paper, Xie Qin began to ask questions.

(Is Mr. Zhang a person with special abilities?)

"No, Mr. Zhang is the head of the biology group, a very capable teacher. Those benign mutant plants and animals were all researched by Mr. Zhang and his team."

Speaking of Teacher Zhang, Pei Yue's face was full of admiration. Hearing this, Xie Qin fell into deep thought. That person concealed his ability. Indeed, the strongest person in this school should be Teacher Gu, the physical education teacher. A wind-type ability user at the end of the second stage. As long as Teacher Zhang was determined to conceal it, no one could find him.

But why is this? When Xie Qin gets better, he will find out. As long as he recovers a little, he will know what secrets this person has that he can't hide from her.