I'm not really a zombie

After an unknown amount of time, Yuan Ling woke up.

He squinted his eyes, lazily with a hint of disbelief, and fell asleep just like that, his vigilance was too low.The peaceful life in the base wears down people's will, which is not entirely a good thing.

He opened the door of Professor Ji's office, and opened it easily this time. In the room, Professor Ji was enjoying the bright sunshine outside the window.

"It's been a long time since I saw such a bright sunshine."

In the last days, the clouds are dense, and the dust haze is everywhere. The sky is gloomy all day long, and the sun may not be seen several times a year.In this setting, bright sunshine is almost the embodiment of hope.

Yuan Ling sat down on his own seat, and began to process the documents that Professor Ji taught him to process yesterday.

The sun shone on Professor Ji's face, adding a bit of vitality to his depressed face, and he seemed to be in better spirits.

"Just now I was explaining some private matters to them. My time is running out, and some things have to be ordered in advance."

"Professor, you don't have to explain this to me." Yuan Ling answered while sorting out the documents, with a look of disinterest in everything.

"Okay, let's not talk about that."

Professor Ji closed his eyes to enjoy the rare and precious sunlight for a while, and finally spoke again.

"Your ability, can you increase the number of uses by shortening the use time?"

The movement of Yuan Ling's hands paused, and said, "Yes."

The ability he registered with the base is hearing.But in fact, others can discover the problem as long as they think carefully, but they may not be able to find evidence.However, for Professor Ji, who has seen the first scene of the monster's death and almost has mind-reading skills, this little trick can't be hidden from him at all.

Fortunately, he didn't intend to hide it from Professor Ji, but Professor Ji's cooperation was beyond his expectation.Although I don't know the reason, but since Professor Ji is so cooperative, he should show some sincerity.

"In the future, I will observe three times in the morning, afternoon and evening." Yuan Ling said.

Although doing so would make him a little embarrassed, but in comparison, this embarrassment is nothing.What's more, he can also be proficient in the application of his detection ability. Frequent use of a large number of abilities can also expand the reserve of abilities. Although the process is not so simple, it can even be called a bit painful.

However, when it comes to the reserves of abilities, Yuan Ling can still feel the overflowing abilities of Sister Ruan in the medical room even though two walls are separated.

"Okay." Professor Ji nodded with satisfaction, "Actually, it won't take long. Lin Yi can solve the matter in a few days."

It's rare that Professor Ji is in good spirits, Yuan Ling thought about it and said, "By the way, Professor, there is a female patient named Ruan in the medical room, and she is in a very bad condition."

Professor Ji was silent for a while, then sighed, "Ruan Lin also has a hard life."

"She does have a few relatives alive who provide her with protection and convenience, but at the same time, she must also do something for her relatives."

Speaking of this, Professor Ji didn't know what to think of, and suddenly stopped, and asked, "Yuan Ling, have you seen the child outside?"

When Yuan Ling was asked this question, he began to recall it seriously, and at the same time began to think about the meaning of Professor Ji's question.child, child.Obviously, the child here refers to a baby, not a fifteen or sixteen-year-old "child" like him.

Before going to Yiren City, he and Yuan Jiu lived a life of wandering, wandering everywhere, wherever there are few people, the small den of a dozen people is the foothold they often visit. In it, they seem to have seen A few times I saw children, and once even saw a deformed child with three eyes.

As for large-scale bases, it's not that they haven't mixed in before, but the larger the base, the stricter the screening of foreigners, and even a lot of inspections to stay inside, which makes them only stay for a short time.Speaking of children, there is a lot to be heard about the abduction of women in some large bases, but there are also a lot of abductions of men.

As for the Yiren City, the supernatural beings in it go together to avoid hunting and killing, and are exhausted, so they rarely see children. Fourteen or fifteen years old is already considered young.

After Yuan Ling thought about it, he replied truthfully, "I've seen it."

"So have you heard about the declining birth rate?"

Yuan Ling caught the sense of loss in Professor Ji's words, and intuited that there should be something behind this topic, "No."

Surviving in the last days is not easy, there are various crises, food, water sources, infection, mutation, but he has never heard of the fact that he cannot have a child.If there is a serious reproductive problem, then even if he is not concerned, he should not have heard of it.Since he never said it, there shouldn't be such a problem, at least not serious.

However, since Professor Ji asked this question, then this problem must exist, for example, in City Z.

"You guessed right. This problem exists in City Z." Professor Ji affirmed Yuan Ling's guess, "The vast majority of people in City Z have lost their fertility."

Professor Ji sat up straight, "In the ten years since we left the laboratory and returned to life on the ground, only seventeen children were born. These children came from five mothers, and there are more than 70 women in the base. More than 50 of them are of childbearing age."

Yuan Ling frowned. Fifty and five, one in ten chances, this problem sounds serious, even a layman like him who had no prior knowledge of this aspect felt something was wrong.He began to guess why Professor Ji told him this.

Outside of city z, fertility is not a big problem, but in city z, the problem of childbearing is very serious.

There are almost no supernatural beings outside City Z, and more than half of City Z are supernatural beings.

There are almost no children in the Yiren City, which is almost full of supernatural beings.

If it is deduced in this way, is there a problem with the birth of the supernatural person?

Hiss, it doesn't seem too rigorous.

"Yes, it's not rigorous." Professor Ji said to Yuan Ling with a smile.

Yuan Ling raised his eyebrows. Although this kind of mind-reading communication is a little uncomfortable, it is very smooth, and it is very suitable for people like him who don't want to talk.

"Of the five mothers who gave birth to children, two were supernatural beings. We have proved that both men and women with supernatural powers can have children."

Yuan Ling connected Professor Ji's words with the original question.

Sister Ruan should be one of the five women who gave birth to a child. She lost a child in the sneak attack, which caused her to break down emotionally, and she has been unconsciously releasing abilities.

"What is Sister Ruan's ability?"

Professor Ji's behavior was a little abnormal. He looked into Yuan Ling's eyes, as if confirming that he was not lying, and then said slowly, "Ruan Lin has no supernatural powers."

Yuan Ling was stunned by these words, how could he not have supernatural powers?But then he realized he had made a mistake.No one has ever said that Sister Ruan, that is, Ruan Lin, has supernatural powers. This conclusion was observed by himself.

"I just asked casually." Yuan Ling tried to cover up.

"I understand, I understand. I haven't heard anything, and I don't know anything." Professor Ji understood Yuan Ling's meaning in seconds, and cooperated with Yuan Ling.

Yuan Ling was a little discouraged, isn't this deceiving himself?

I know my secret has been exposed, and you also know that my secret has been exposed, but I pretended not to know that you knew it to cover it up, and you also pretended not to know anything and followed me to cover it up.In fact, how many brushes each other has had already been cleared up.

When he lied about his ability, he didn't want to hide it for too long, and he didn't think he could hide it from everyone, especially Professor Ji, who had close contact with him and had mind reading skills.

What's more, Professor Ji doesn't have much time to live now.

In the end, Yuan Ling gave in, he whispered. "I just want to keep some cards."

"I understand. Everyone has cards, and so do I." As he spoke, Professor Ji blinked hintingly.

Yuan Ling then noticed that Professor Ji had a pair of clear eyes, clear like a lively deer, which did not look like eyes that a person of this age and status should have, and he couldn't help but lose his mind for a moment.

"Can I ask why you think Ruan Lin has supernatural powers? Of course, you can choose not to answer."

Yuan Ling lowered his head and sorted out the documents in his hand, and said vaguely, "It's a feeling. People with supernatural powers feel different from people without supernatural powers. Some people are more obvious, while others are hidden. a little."

Suddenly, the tone became much more straightforward, "Ruan Lin, since the moment she came to the medical room, she has been radiating her abilities non-stop."

Seeing that Professor Ji didn't seem to understand this, he continued, "Bringing out the power is the same as using the power, and it will cause the power to be overdrawn. I have seen people die because of the loss of their loved ones and the exhaustion of the power."

Professor Ji nodded with a vague understanding, showing no attitude.

"Old Xu told me about Ruan Lin. After Xiaodao died, she has been like this. Lao Xu also tried to persuade her a few times, and her family also came, but nothing worked." At the end, I added another sentence, "I'll go and see her later. After all, Knife is also a child I grew up with."

As time went by, the sunlight gradually became a little harsh.

"Every time you meet someone, do you "feel" his supernatural powers?" When he said this, Professor Ji turned his back to Yuan Ling and looked directly at the dazzling sunlight.

Yuan Ling realized that the tone of this sentence was not as casual and gentle as before when joking among friends, but replaced by the alienation and fear from the elders.The sun is a little colder.

"No," he said.

Professor Ji remained silent and did not respond, as if waiting for his explanation.

"First of all, the degree of danger of a person in the last days has nothing to do with whether he has supernatural powers; secondly, the process of judging whether others have supernatural powers is complicated, and may be used as a provocation; finally, this is a new ability that I discovered after I was injured. "

After a while of silence, Professor Ji, like a wilted plant, lost moisture and energy, and slowly lay down on the bed.

"The folder on the lower left of the stack of files on the far left is some reports on the birth situation of the base in recent years. There may be something you are interested in."

After saying this, he closed his eyes and seemed to fall asleep.

Yuan Ling slowly pulled out the document, thinking in his heart, slap a sweet date?It depends on whether the sweet dates are sweet enough.