under the tower

"Let's go back to the city for dinner first, I'm so hungry."

"Yeah." Yan Yi squatted down naturally, "Carrying you?"

In fact, Ji Xi was not too tired. After the new metalized ability appeared in his body, his physical fitness seemed to have recovered for a short time, but he still climbed up Yanyi's back like a sloth. Paralyzed on Yanyi's solid and broad back.

Someone is willing to carry him, so why should he walk by himself?

Jixi in the Yan area went to a very down-to-earth restaurant in Bingmu District.

There are four eye-catching big characters "Frequently come to the restaurant" on the door of the restaurant, and the name is quite casual.

This store is located next to the largest farmers market in Blightwood District. Usually, Yan always passes by when he comes to buy vegetables, but he seldom visits it. Ji Xi is actually here for the first time.

When Ji Xi saw the farmer's market, he was quite surprised by this primitive and traditional management method.The hawkers and customers who wandered through it seemed like inhabitants of another world to him, only in old books and faded photographs.

Ji Xi lay on Yanyi's back, and sighed in an excited tone of discovering the new world: "It's amazing that people still buy things with cash. These hawkers don't seem to have used the nutrition shed, so these foods are Where is it made, is it poisonous?"

Yan Yi smiled wryly: "Every meal you eat at my house is bought here. If it was poisonous, you would have died."

"Also, that word is called species, not manufacturing."

"Vegetables are grown from the ground, the sun shines, the rain waters them, and they grow naturally."

"Oh, I see." Ji Xi felt that Yan Yi seemed a little unhappy, and closed his mouth resentfully, "I just haven't seen it before, there is no other meaning."

"I know." Yan Yi said, "Most people are surprised by our way of life, but this is how humans lived decades ago before the end of the world."

"Hmm." Ji Xi kept following the customers who were picking and choosing in front of the booth, "Why doesn't the base care about you?"

"It is said that there was a large-scale rebellion that swept the entire base from here three years ago, against the entry of mechanization and intelligent equipment." Yan Yi pondered, "Of course, they failed in the end, but after this incident, the government no longer Give us any smart services and outlets and let us fend for ourselves."

"Almost every year in the past five years, the base has suffered a large-scale invasion of abnormal people. Frequent challenges have led to a lack of resources in the base and severe inflation. Some residents living in other high-price areas cannot survive due to unemployment and other reasons, and will also degenerate. Come to Sickwood."

"They are considered to be unnecessary residues of society. This is the garbage dump of the entire Beicheng base, and it is also the place closest to the outskirts of the city. If one day the mutants break through the gate of the base, we will be the first to die."

Yan Yi narrated very calmly, and Ji Xi heard a kind of helplessness and desolation that he couldn't understand from his words.

While talking, Yanyi lifted the dirty door curtain of the frequented restaurant, and he blocked it for Ji Xi to prevent the door curtain from touching Ji Xi.

As soon as you enter the door, there is no reception. The first thing you see is a huge hall with noisy voices. Plastic tables and chairs are crowded in the hall. Everyone is holding a large black rectangular plate in their hands. Enter at the door plate, pass through the "cabinet" that holds the dishes in turn, and then there is a sign saying "Exit" in the corner on the right, and there is a person standing there, holding a strange and heavy machine, everyone one by one Put the plate with many dishes on the machine.

What is this?

Ji Xi was put blankly by Yan Yi on a chair in the crowd. It was an empty seat for two people. The table was shiny and greasy. Yan put him down and said: "I'm going to cook, you Wait here for me."

Ji Xi nodded, Yan Yi left, Ji Xi sat motionless, very uncomfortable.

He saw Yan Yi took a big plate at the entrance like everyone else, and then slowly moved forward in the line.

It will take a long time.

Ji Xi felt a great hunger and a sense of emptiness, perhaps because the new abilities consumed too much energy.

Ji Xi didn't lie to Yan Yi on this point, he did undergo a lot of genetic modification before he was three years old, but he didn't actually have much recollection of it himself, and roughly knew from his parents' dictation that it was about physical modification.But the fact is that he even looks weaker than ordinary humans who haven't undergone transformation, with little strength, slender bones, no muscles, and a whole head shorter than Yan Yi, and he looks like he will never grow up.

Later, when Ji Xi was a little older, about seven or eight years old, there were a few times when his abilities were suddenly activated.

One time, he found that his vision suddenly increased. He just wanted to see what the people outside the Pearl Tower were doing, and then he found some slight changes in his eyes. He just wanted to see something. No matter how far away something is, the place where the line of sight focuses will gradually become clear from a blurred outline, and finally even the subtle details are clear.

It was an insignificant ability, useless except to add some joy to his life.

Generally, after discovering a new ability, it takes some time for him to adapt and master it. Ji Xi thought thoughtfully, how to use the new ability he discovered this time?

He opened his palm and mobilized some thoughts, trying to reproduce the silvery metal texture.

But nothing happened.

Yan Yi returned to the table with the plate in his hand: "Did you hurt your hand?"

"No." Ji Xi withdrew his hand and said, "What did you buy? I'm so hungry."

"Scrambled eggs with tomato, braised white radish, fried vegetables, two bowls of rice."

"..." Ji Xi felt her stomach let out a whine in response to the occasion, "So plain?"

"Meat is too expensive, I can't afford it." Yan Yi said, "I didn't have time to work this morning, I still have [-] points left, and these few dishes alone cost more than [-] points."

Ji Xi put himself in his shoes and expressed his horror, and then said something that he probably would never have said in his entire life: "So expensive?!"

"Yeah." Yan Yi casually touched the hair on Ji Xi's head that exploded, "That's why I seldom come here."

Ji Xi was surprised: "Then why did you come today?"

"Didn't you say you were hungry?" Yan said, "There is nothing left in the house. After you come here to buy vegetables, I will go home and cook them for you. You must starve to death, young master?"

Ji Xi trembled, and said softly: "Don't call me that, it's so strange."

"Then what do your family members usually call you? Doesn't that freak... people call you that too?"

"The servants call me Young Master." Ji Xi pouted, "Hey, don't mention it. Just call me by my name."

"Yeah." Yan Yi picked up a carrot with chopsticks for him.

After dinner, Yan Yi sent Ji Xi home first, and then went out of the city to earn points.

At night, after a busy day, Yan Yi went to bed early, while Ji Xi in the living room tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered the bulging eyes and ferocious smile of that deformed person.

After rolling for a long time, Ji Xi scratched her hair irritably, and sat up hugging the pillow.

By the faint moonlight, he saw that Yan Yi's room door was still wide open, which seemed to have become a habit after Ji Xi's arrival, Ji Xi knew that as long as he made a little noise, Yan Yi would wake up and ask Ask him if something is wrong, or if he needs to go to the bathroom.

If he pretended to be asleep after waking Yan Yi up, Yan Yi would quietly walk barefoot from the room to the sofa, tuck him in the quilt, gently touch his forehead, and then go back to sleep again.

Ji Xi looked at the open door. After a long time, he seemed to have finally made a decision. He lightly picked up his pillow, carefully climbed out of the quilt, and then tiptoed into Yanyi like a thief. s room.

He stood by the bed, the man on the bed was fast asleep, breathing steadily, he looked like an unsheathed sword at this moment, or, a painting that people couldn't bear to be alarmed.

This time, Ji Xi never intended to wake Yan Yi up, however, perhaps because of the intuition of a mercenary, Yan Yi opened his eyes after Ji Xi stood by the bed and stared at Yan for a moment.

"What's the matter?" The man's voice was hoarse, yet there was an indescribable feeling in the silent night.

"I...can't sleep, I'm a little scared." Ji Xi paused for a moment, feeling his ears warm, "Can I...sleep with you?"