Raising an island tortoise in the apocalypse

"Now I'm reporting the morning news on February 26. Yesterday morning, the Panel on Climate Change observed that the global sea level is rising sharply, nearly a thousand islands have been submerged, and the area of ​​coastal cities is also shrinking sharply. According to experts It is predicted that the rate of sea level rise will not slow down in the short term, and I hope that the society will pay attention to this..."

"Ding!" The time set by the microwave oven is up, Yi Wei turns off the video, and takes out a bowl of hot milk and oatmeal from the microwave oven.

He rummaged through the box to find a clean spoon, put it in the bowl, turned around and went to the refrigerator to take out a fresh-keeping box.

A few words are marked on the box: bento of cantaloupe.

The cantaloupe was a little turtle that his parents bought for him when he was just born, and they didn't forget to lie to him that it was his younger brother, the kind that could die in retirement.

It's a pity that he believed it so much when he was a child, and the sense of responsibility to take care of his younger brother weighed heavily on Yi Wei's immature shoulders.

When he pulled the cantaloupe until he was ten years old, and the cantaloupe was still the size of a palm, Yi Wei finally realized that he had been deceived so much that he didn't even recognize his younger brother.

But it was too late, this sense of responsibility had already been deeply rooted in Yi Wei's bones.

Just like now, breakfast must be eaten first by taking care of my younger brother!

Yi Wei picked out a finger-thick strip of meat from the bento box, and placed it near the mouth of a turtle whose pattern resembled a cantaloupe.

He squatted on the edge of the water tank watching the cantaloupe slowly stretching and retracting to eat the meat strips, looked at it suspiciously, and suddenly picked it up in its entirety: "Melon, have you grown a lot? I remember that you were only half the size of a tank a few days ago?"

Cantaloupe has long been used to its elder brother who has convulsions from time to time, and he still doesn't forget to hold the meat stick tightly in his mouth when he is hugged in mid-air, waiting for his elder brother to put it back and continue eating.

Yi Wei weighed the weight in his hands carefully, but couldn't figure out whether it was normal or not.

"Buzz buzz—" the phone rang loudly.

Oops, we're going to be late!

Yi Wei hurriedly put down his younger brother, walked quickly to the edge of the dining table and sucked a whole bowl of oatmeal into his stomach, rinsed his mouth, picked up his bag and rushed out of the house.

He left in such a hurry that he even forgot to cover the cantaloupe lunch box on the ground.

After the cantaloupe slowly finished eating the strips of meat, his black bean-like eyes scanned around and fixed on the bento box outside the glass.

It stretched its neck slowly, then slowly raised its front paws and body, and put it on the side of the glass tank. With a kick on its back foot, it turned over with force, and the whole turtle landed firmly on the smooth floor tiles. , has not landed on the turtle shell, it can be seen that he is a very skilled and repeat offender.

It opened the half-covered box, and slowly ate up the whole box of fresh meat strips.

If Yi Wei saw this scene at the scene, he would definitely collapse in fright. You must know that the meat strips in this box are his brother's food for three days!

Yi Wei rushed into the car at the last few seconds when the red light of the subway came on, heaved a sigh of relief, and turned on his phone to check today's to-do list.

He mixed in the crowded subway car, chattering and rustling discussions everywhere.

"I heard that the tsunami in a neighboring country has submerged several islands. Many people died!"

"Isn't it? One of my cousins ​​is studying there, and he said it's even worse, the seawater has flooded the big cities."

"Ham, don't talk about neighboring countries, I think our coast is enough. Those fishermen who live by the sea have lost their homes."

"Scary, luckily we're inland..."

Yi Wei listened silently, and frowned. There were too many news about being submerged in sea water recently, which made him feel a little uneasy.

As a patient with mild anxiety disorder and mild persecution paranoia, although subconsciously I know that some rumors are groundless, but this heart, I just can't help being panicked, and this hand, I just can't help but want to chop it off.

For example, his family still stockpiles the salt that was robbed by a certain rumor many years ago...

Another example is that he can't help but start to open a certain treasure to browse all kinds of equipment for drifting and diving. His fingers are flying and he ordered a bunch of survival supplies, as well as tightly sealed food such as compressed biscuits and canned food. The anxiety that was entrenched in my heart was relieved.

Today's work content is as boring as ever, and the office is full of worries and gloats about rising sea levels.

Yi Wei tapped the keyboard mechanically and repeated the same operations, while subconsciously thinking, if so many lands are flooded, will the housing prices skyrocket in the future...

After thinking about it, I began to feel grateful that I had such a foresight to buy a small nest.

At this moment, a sharp pain suddenly swept through his consciousness.

"Hmm..." Yi Wei snorted and slumped at the desk.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, Xiao Wei?"

"What's wrong with him, do you want to call an ambulance?"

Colleagues sensed his abnormality immediately and gathered around him.

Yi Wei only felt that his nerves seemed to be pulled hard by a pair of invisible hands, extending and extending until it led to an unknown area, bringing some feelings that did not belong to him.

The pain came and went quickly.

When Yi Wei gradually regained consciousness, he suddenly felt a little... overwhelmed?

Not only was he very stretched, but he also felt that his body was swollen everywhere, as if a pump had been pumping air between the bones and muscles.

This feeling seemed to be there, and the duration was short. Yi Wei propped himself up and shook his head, very puzzled, but after feeling all right, he declined the idea of ​​calling an ambulance from his colleagues.

Because of this, the supervisor conscientiously approved him to leave work early, and Yi Wei didn't want to spend time in the company hypocritically, and went home non-stop to take care of his younger brother.

As soon as he unlocked the house, Yi Wei vaguely felt that something was wrong. He scanned the familiar decorations at home, and finally fixed his eyes on a dark green round stool.

He slowly approached the round stool, desperately trying to recall in his mind when he picked it up.

Until a short pointed tail poked out from behind the round stool.

!!!

Yi Wei knelt down in fright.

"Melon! What's wrong with you, melon?!" He shook his hands and looked at the cantaloupe that had grown into the size of a round stool in the morning, feeling that this world was a bit magical.

Confused, he stayed where he was and thought for a while, but decided to quit the navigation of the pet hospital in his mobile phone and switch to a psychiatric specialist clinic to make an appointment...

I must be crazy haha, how could a tortoise grow seven or eight times its size in one morning!

Just when he was in a trance and was about to pack up and go to the hospital.

A soft and waxy voice sounded from my mind: "Brother, I'm hungry~"

Yi Wei's whole body was visibly stiff and straight.

Prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony...

He silently carried the core values, turned around slowly, and asked awkwardly: "Hami melon?"

"Huh?" Cantaloupe also turned around slowly, and now its longan-sized eyes looked at Yi Wei innocently, and stretched its neck to rub against his calf, "Brother, I still want to eat meat~"

As he spoke, he nodded his head towards the empty bento box.

"Hami melon, did you violate the rules and become a jerk or am I crazy? I think I should be crazy. What do you think?" Yi Wei asked in his mind with his eyes blank, and took out the tenderloin that he was going to fry from the refrigerator. .

Cantaloupe chose to ignore his brother's thoughts and waited for his meal quietly. After all, he had been very familiar with this process for more than [-] years.

Yi Wei squatted by the side and watched the cantaloupe eat a two-pound tenderloin, and finally accepted with mixed feelings that the cantaloupe was about to turn into a green sofa.

Thanks to reading a lot of fantasy novels over the years, he even has the mood to go to Baidu to find out what kind of mythical beast the cantaloupe itself is.

In the end, he was unwilling to confirm the fact that his younger brother was just the most common and special tortoise, without any discussion...

After seeing and getting used to such a big brother, Yi Wei began to worry about where the Hami melon would live now.

The original small jar can't even fit the claws of the cantaloupe. After struggling for a while, Yi Wei decided to give it the toilet in the living room first, although it's a bit... no!Wake up Yi Wei!It's just a turtle!

Cantaloupe has no objection to Yi Wei's arrangement. Being an animal in essence, it is obviously still at the lowest level of Maslow's needs. To it, the toilet is just a tank that can automatically drain water.

In the middle of the night, after Yi Wei fed another crucian carp weighing one and a half catties to the cantaloupe, he said goodbye to his younger brother who was obediently staying in the bathtub, and went to sleep with a psychedelic expression.

The next morning, Yi Wei was awakened by a loud noise.

With frizzy hair, he came to the toilet in a bleary-eyed way, and then his eyes bulged!

What's the matter with you, little brother? !

The cantaloupe that took up the entire toilet glanced at him with fist-sized black eyes: "Brother, this tank is a bit cramped and uncomfortable... Also, I'm so hungry——"

Yi Wei stared blankly at the debris of the bathtub, then turned to look at his new nest of seventy to eighty square meters.

"Brother, you are too fat, you can't eat any more..."

The author has something to say: Warning again, this is a superficial fantasy article, not a hardcore post-apocalyptic article.

This article is also an idealized product after playing games. There is not much textual research and personal experience haha, so there will be many bugs. I suggest not to be too serious~

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