Plant Invasion [End Times]

"...Sorry, I apologize for my indiscretion. I didn't mean to insult the researchers, I know they are the hope of mankind, I know, I, I just... I..." Shen Kuo explained incoherently, but couldn't find to justify themselves.

Finally, he let out a long sigh, bowed his head and admitted: "I'm sorry, I did blame them in my heart."

How could it be possible not to harbor resentment—for Shen Kuo and the others who were abandoned by the base city.

Even if Shen Kuo and his village had a way to survive, what if they didn't?If there was no such accident as Shen Kuo, they would either starve to death when the food was exhausted, or turn into a cannibal village, struggle for a few more months, and then continue to meet the fate of starving to death.

How could it not be blamed?

Shen Kuo looked at the ground depressed.

A hand rests on his shoulder.

"Sorry." Jin Shao's whisper came from beside his ears, "I overreacted, and I can't control myself every time something like this happens. It's not your fault, you don't need to apologize. What should be apologized is I."

Shen Kuo turned his head and saw Jin Shao frowning, looking at himself in distress, "I...I don't know how to tell you...my brother is a scientific researcher in the base city, and he can't sleep day and night for research. , lost all his hair, but the citizens of the city always spread some bad rumors about him..."

"So I, sorry, I always overreact to similar words. Just now I almost regarded you as those idle citizens."

He looked into Shen Kuo's slightly puzzled eyes, and explained: "You are entitled to complain to the scientific researchers, because you are the one who was abandoned, but they didn't, because my brother and they are doing research desperately, just for their future. Make an effort."

Ugh.

What else could Shen Kuo do, of course he chose to sigh and forgive him.

"Stop talking about this, let's get back to the topic." Shen Kuo tried to ease the heavy atmosphere, "Don't you find that we always digress while talking?"

"It seems so." Jin Shao smiled.

"There are only a few hundred people, it seems that I don't need to prepare too much food." Shen Kuo said.

"No, I think the more food you prepare, the better." Jin Shao said seriously, "I haven't finished what I said before, I just estimate that there are hundreds of them left, but in fact, what can happen in this world There are too many accidents, and maybe they will all be wiped out before we reach them. In this case, we have to consider looking elsewhere."

"Didn't you say there was..." Shen Kuo stared blankly at Jin Shao.

"No, I'm not that sure, I just took a random guess."

Shen Kuo: ...

"Anywhere else? How far is the next closest place?" he asked.

"It should be QP County, about 250 kilometers away from here. The reported population is [-]." Jin Shao is like a treasure.

Shen Kuo couldn't help but glanced at him thoughtfully, and joked seemingly unintentionally: "You're quite well informed, you know everything."

"My brother is a scientific researcher." Jin Shao said without hesitation, "If you haven't been in the base city, you can't feel how high a scientific researcher is in the city."

But that's your brother, not you.Shen Kuo tapped his fingers on his knee, Jin Shao's identity was more mysterious than he thought.

In the case of an elder brother who is a high-status researcher, why did he leave with hatred, or be expelled?

He has supernatural powers, shouldn't he be cherished by the base city even more at this dangerous time?Among other things, you should be good at running errands, right?

Shen Kuo's thoughts were racing, and Jin Shao's voice came again: "By the way, you were right before, the food for the villagers must be well prepared. We don't know how long it will take us to go, maybe there will be an accident and we will never come back again." It’s not certain that you won’t come back, so you must leave enough food for the villagers. At least prepare for them to eat for a year or so.”

"It must take a few months to prepare the food for the people in the temporary base, otherwise it will make no difference if we go or not. Also, we can't eat less on the way... Speaking of it , so much food needs to be prepared, can that god give it?"

Shen Kuo's eyes returned to Jin Shao's face, and he stopped distracted, but continued: "You don't have to worry about the food. But, is there really no closer temporary base? It's so far away, I always feel that I'm going to die on the road."

"Can I still lie to you?" Jin Shao shook his head, "Only these two are the closest ones. Don't worry about things on the road. Don't forget where I come from. The base city is more than 800 kilometers away from here." , Didn’t I come to you alive and well? Plants are just plants after all, they are much more rigid than you imagined, as long as you master the correct way of walking, it is not difficult to safely pass through the jungle.”

"In contrast, if you must be worried, I think you should be more worried about how we can safely knock on the door of a temporary base, enter and leave alive. Believe me, human beings who have been hungry for half a year are better than evil Wolves are much more terrifying."

Thinking that it was very possible that he was going to rescue, no, it must be a group of cannibals, Shen Kuo's heart was blocked, and he felt an unspeakable nausea.

He didn't mean to look down on anything. The instinct to live made some people make such primitive and barbaric choices. He is a lucky person who has hardly been hungry except for the few days when he frightened himself. He has no right to criticize them. of.

Jin Shao and others who gave up on them are even less qualified.

But Shen Kuo's physical nausea when thinking of this incident is also difficult to control.

"God, what should we do then? How do you gain their trust? Do we really have a chance to reason with them? Their first reaction when they saw us should be that two fat sheep with a lot of meat came outside, right?" Shen Kuo I trembled all over.

"Be reasonable? Who wants to reason with them. For them, fists are the best reason." A strange smile appeared on Jin Shao's face, and Shen Kuo's hairs blew up when he saw it.

"Hey, hey, have you visited one or two temporary bases?" Shen Kuo said.

"En." Jin Shao nodded.

"Have you fought them yet? They want to catch you for food?" Shen Kuo guessed by looking at his expression.

"To be precise, I want to catch them for food." Jin Shao said.

As soon as Jin Shao finished speaking, Shen Kuo's face turned pale.

"You really believe it." Jin Shao seemed to pat his pale face, "I'm just kidding."

Shen Kuo didn't think he was joking.

Thinking about it carefully, he never seemed to have considered the question of what Jin Shao ate along the way from a place as far away as Base City.

That's a journey of about [-] kilometers. Even if Jin Shao is a god, it's impossible for him to eat nothing all the way, right?So here comes the question, what can Jin Shao eat along the way?

Shen Kuo thought about it, the base city couldn't do too much to expel him, and he also has a brother who is said to be a high-ranking researcher, maybe they gave Jin Shao enough food?

Shen Kuo imagined the ridiculous appearance of Jin Shao walking in the jungle with big bags on his back, and immediately dismissed the idea.

Eight hundred miles, it would take a month and a half to walk under normal circumstances, not to mention that under the current circumstances, Jin Shao could not walk for a month or two.Carrying a month or two of food on the road...

Will probably be crushed to death?

He suppressed his trembling hands, and asked, "Then... what did you eat on the way here?"

He knew that this question probably shouldn't be asked, but if he didn't ask, he felt panicked, just thinking that Jin Shao might have come here by cannibalism, Shen Kuo couldn't help but want to tremble.

Jin Shao looked at Shen Kuo who was trying to pretend to sit away from him casually, and patted his head in frustration.

Look at the little village head who scared me.

Do I look like such a murderous person?

Shen Kuo: ...Yes.

"Don't you know that there is a thing in this world called compressed biscuits?"

"How long can that thing last? You have to go for two months, right?" In fact, Shen Kuo could tell from Jin Shao's annoyed expression that he didn't do those things anymore, but he still couldn't help but want to argue.

"Learn about mountain bikes?" Jin Shao had to hold back his anger and amused himself to explain to him.

"Oh..." Shen Kuo showed a suddenly realized expression, "The helmet you were holding was a motorcycle helmet! You even lied to me that it was used to protect the head."

"Isn't it used to protect the head?" Jin Shao laughed.

"Eh..." Shen Kuo was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't bother him, "Then we can make motorcycles?"

He was overjoyed. There was a world of difference between having transportation and not having transportation.But what he was worried about was, "Isn't the outside already full of plants? The plants grow so densely, how do you drive the motorcycle?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Jin Shao said, "The plants are getting longer and denser, but there are also slightly open areas. If you're lucky, you can still come across a road that is not completely invaded by plants. There is a small section like this ten miles away from your village. a good way, or I could not come to you."

Shen Kuo's mood brightened, he stood up and walked around twice, wishing he could get on the motorcycle he was talking about right now.He couldn't help but think of his father who was thousands of miles away, and there was still transportation available. Maybe, probably, maybe, he could still see his father in this life?

"Then where do you park your motorcycle? Is it in the woods? Oh, you said there is a good road ten miles away. Is it there? Is it safe? It won't be stolen, right?"

Jin Shao pushed the excited Shen Kuo back to the sofa, "Sit down first, my village chief. Don't worry, no one will steal it."

"??" Shen Kuo blinked his eyes in doubt.

"I remember I told you before, at least for a long time, there will be no bad people around the village."

"It seems to be." Shen Kuo thought for a while, and a memory flashed in his mind.

"Before I officially visited your village, I wandered around your village for a few days, [beeping] all the robbers I could find nearby." Jin Shao gestured.

"What? You—" Shen Kuo opened his eyes wide, "Although they are a threat to us, but—" The crime is not to death, right?

Shen Kuo didn't say anything behind, but he silently looked at Jin Shao with disapproval.

"Don't always think of me so badly." Jin Shao shook his head helplessly, "Speaking of which, you should blame them."

"What do you mean? They haven't hurt anyone in our village yet." Shen Kuo looked at Jin Shao and said.

"I blame them for increasing your workload." Jin Shao said, "Don't you think those two temporary bases are too far away? Actually, there are seven or eight temporary bases that are closer and smaller. But unfortunately, these people invaded and used it as a slaughterhouse, or in other words, a meat jerky factory. They opened the doors of those temporary bases, then killed all the people inside, dried them in the sun, and used them as their food source. "

"You should be thankful that your village is remote, and that it happens to be surrounded by such dense and large plants. Otherwise, if they find you and move stones over the wall to come in at night, you will be another food producer for them."

Shen Kuo became angry when he heard this: "How many people are there? Don't those temporary bases dare to resist?"

"The ones who dare to resist are still alive," Jin Shao pointedly, "One is two hundred miles away from us, and the other is 250 miles away."

"Those who were successfully invaded by them all stuck to their last human nature and did not choose to eat people as a temporary base—of course, it may be that they were too hungry to walk before they had time to make up their minds to eat. In short, it was those People who are too hungry to resist."

"The cannibals survived, and the robbers didn't dare to provoke them, and the non-cannibals were killed by the robbers and became the rations of the robbers."

Listening to Jin Shao's statement without any emotion, Shen Kuo suddenly felt a burst of sadness.

What kind of doomsday is this? If you don't want to be eaten, you have to eat people.