by Chen Ran
"Let's just wait until the boss comes back." Holt muttered, he did not dare act as a hero and agreed to Lea's words.
Holt did not forget that half a year ago, only one team of ten armed soldiers was heading towards the city. The man was also confirmed to have been infected with the virus, so Old Jack personally shot and killed him. Holt did not want to follow in their footsteps. He had already decided that once the boss agrees to the Young Miss' request, he would pretend to be sick to avoid this mission.
"Then let's go home first." Lea said, she packed up her things briefly and pushed the door and walked out.
The black bodyguard followed closely behind.
Walking out of the infirmary and passing through a dark passageway, there was an open underground space that suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.
Since the Cataclysm Day, the world has experienced floods and radiation, and the surface is no longer suitable for human habitation. Only a place like this, which was hundreds of meters deep underground, or some nuclear shelter of the old era, could provide the living necessities of ordinary humans. Z7 was more of a mine than a base. Compared to a nuclear shelter with perfect functional equipment and even a water circulation system, everything at Z7 could only be described as simple.
In fact, Z7 was only a newly developed mining base for the big tycoons of Parkland twenty years ago. Due to the increase in the number of workers, it gradually became a semi-residential, semi-industrial base.
Water and medicine were the relatively scarce materials in Z7 base. The former was still good, but there were regular transportation by the chauffeurs. Although it was only second-grade drinking water, the amount of radiation it carried was still within the acceptable range of the human body. However, drinking water was expensive. Most of the people in the base used most of their income on it, but it was only barely enough to sustain the daily needs of the base.
As for medicine, the Parkland's valve would not provide any. To those old masters, the people that this world lacked the least were the poor, and the people that were lowest were the poor as well.
Using precious medicine for the life of one or two untouchables was simply an outrageous luxury.
There were only a handful of drugs in Z7, and there were only two ways to do that. The first was to purchase it at a high price from the corporate sector, and the second was to take a risk in the ruins of a city. In that deserted city, there were often some hospitals that still had drugs that did not expire in their warehouses. However, compared to the first method, the second method was much more dangerous.
Walking in the living area of the base, Lea saw many people heading towards the Operating area. She blocked the oncoming youth and asked, "Where are you guys going?"
"Oh, my dear Miss Lea. You still don't know, Master Jack found a hibernation chamber in the mining area, inside it was a sleeping survivor from the old era. Now that Master Jack has brought him back, everyone is in a hurry to watch the show. "
After the youth said his goodbyes, he joined the crowd that was rushing towards the Operating area.
"Survivor?" Lea held onto Holt's hand, his eyes shining with excitement: "Let's go, we're going to take a look as well. I hope he's a doctor, and I'm the only doctor in the base who's really busy. "
The black man could not resist her, so he had to lead the way for the young lady.
In front of the Operating area's main entrance, the unique voice of the hydraulic machinery echoed in everyone's ears. A large amount of steam was sprayed out, and the rusty dark yellow alloy door first shrank backwards. After shrinking by three meters, they opened up two paths through the surface of the ground, revealing a deep tunnel that led to the mining site.
An old-fashioned mineshaft drove along the tracks and stopped in front of the gate. There was only one mining vehicle like this one, and only Old Jack had the right to ride it. But now, there was another person on the mineshaft.
A man.
Wearing the camouflage clothes from the old era's field operations, the new level of this military uniform was enough to make anyone go crazy with jealousy. However, the miniature machine gun that the person casually lifted with his right hand was able to calm even the craziest of people. The man seemed exhausted. He leaned against the mineshaft, closed his eyes, and dozed off. He only opened his eyes when Old Jack kicked him in the legs.
A commotion broke out.
Some of the spectators even screamed, "Look at his eyes, it's the Yin Yang Eyes. "These are the eyes of a demon …"
Bang –
A loud gunshot interrupted the man's words. With a gloomy face, Old Jack shot the revolver into the air, the muzzle of the gun still curling with white smoke.
"All of you shut up! Whoever dares to speak nonsense will be sent to see God!"
In Z7 base, Old Jack's people dared to disobey him, so the onlookers all obediently shut their mouths.
"Grandfather!"
Pushing the crowd, Lea walked forward. She also looked towards the miner's truck, and saw the man in camouflage clothes, as well as his right eye, which shone like gold.
Lea couldn't help but exclaim.
Just then, Old Jack jumped down and walked towards his granddaughter, blaming the black bodyguard: "Holt, what the hell are you doing? Why did you bring Lea to the Operating area, why aren't you bringing her home quickly!"
Old Jack was not slow, but someone was faster than him. A figure suddenly walked past him and arrived in front of Lea like a whirlwind. It was the survivor that Old Jack had found in the mine … Zero.
Zero looked at Lea in disbelief, the beautiful figure in his dream overlapped with reality. Except for the color of her hair and eyes, everything else was very similar to the girl in her dreams.
He reached out his trembling hand towards Lea's face.
"Li …" Zero called out the girl's name from his dream.
Lea was in a trance, being gazed upon by this strange man's deep emotions. In the space between the black and gold pupils, Lea saw her own figure and the unrelenting love hidden deep within her eyes.
"Scram, boy!" The loud voice of the black Holt caused Ling and Lea to wake up.
Holt pulled Lea away, raised his huge fist and punched towards Zero Faced Sect.
When he came back to his senses, his eyes flashed with a light as cold as the polar regions. No one knew how he moved, but the scene before their eyes blurred. The tall and sturdy black man was thrown to the ground by him.
Holt opened his mouth to scold his, but suddenly felt a chill. When he looked again, he saw a black barrel sticking out of the barrel, causing the black man to break out in cold sweat.
The black man shivered when his emotionless gaze fell on Holt. That person's eyes did not seem to be looking at a person, but at a corpse.
"Quickly stop!"
A scream came from behind Zero. He turned around and saw that Lea looked like an angry cat. The girl's hair stood on end, and she angrily shouted: "Put the spear away, you are not allowed to treat Holt like this!"
The black man could not speak, but he looked gratefully at the girl.
Zero hesitated for a moment before slowly withdrawing the gun barrel. Just as the barrel of the gun left Holt's mouth, a strong kick landed on Zero's calves. He groaned and involuntarily knelt on the ground. He tried to get up, but the gun was still warm and pointed at his temple.
"Amazing, boy. However, he had just woken up and dared to trespass into Old Jack's territory. "Do you believe that I will shoot you right now and throw you into the wilderness to feed the dead dogs and carrion eagles?"
Old Jack used the revolver to press himself against Zero's head, his mouth that was covered in false teeth shouted out repeatedly, saliva flying in all directions, and it almost splashed onto Zero's face.
Zero's expression did not change as he said in a voice that only Old Jack could hear, "You won't …"
"You're pretty confident, kid." Old Jack snorted coldly.
The black Holt took the opportunity to c
rawl up from the ground and immediately threw a left hook punch. The powerful hook caused Zero's entire head to jerk to the right, and then he slowly turned his head around. The left side of his face was red and swollen, but Zero merely spat out a mouthful of blood and then looked coldly at the black man.
The black man wanted to punch him a few more times, but the revolver that was aimed at his head was pointed at his chest. Old Jack's gloomy voice rang out, "Dogs, don't take Old Jack's words as wind passing by. I will throw you all into the wilderness again, before my eyes. "If you have the ability, then go and find those monsters to evacuate!"
After he finished speaking, Old Jack said to his granddaughter, "Lea, bring this person back first and let him eat his fill.
Lea almost suspected that she had heard wrongly. She shook her head and said, "Ability evaluation? Don't tell me you suspect him of being an Adept, grandpa? This is impossible, the survivors have not experienced the Cataclysm Day, so it is impossible for their genes to produce an evolution point … "
"In this shitty era, what is impossible?" Old Jack walked past Lea and muttered, "Didn't you notice his eyes? "Those are the eyes of a dragon …"
Longan?
Lea's line of sight fell on Su Yun's left eye. The edge of his pupils was gold, with silver stripes that were faintly discernible. Indeed, they were not eyes that ordinary humans could possess.
"The rest of you, scram back to where you should be, otherwise I will ask Crazy Wolf Ron to deduct all your wages for today!"
Old Jack shouted and dispersed the crowd.
"Follow me." Lea walked to Su Ling's side and asked, "What's your name?"
"Zero …"
The cold light in his eyes faded. The dragon's eyes reflected the girl's figure. That figure that had always appeared in his dreams was the only thing that he could not treat ruthlessly.
A piece of bread that was moldy and hard as stone; a glass of water with no known impurities floating in it. These two items were the snacks. He stared at the bread and water on the table in a daze, unable to connect them with the images of food in his mind.
Confirming that he had been asleep on the hibernation chamber's computer for fifty years, even though his body's functions and appearance had forever been fixed on a certain day fifty years ago. The nourishment in the body, on the other hand, was purely controlled by the computer, continuously flowing into Su's body as a nourishment to support his life.
Even so, Su could not replace true food. Thus, when she woke up, Zero was very weak. At the same time, it was also hungry that she was panicking.
However, no matter how hungry he was, Zero could not muster up any appetite after seeing the two dishes in front of him.
"Hurry up and eat." Lea urged: "Don't just look at their ugly faces, they don't have any radiation. And this is what grandpa specifically instructed you to do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to eat all the food that the base usually provides. "
"This is not the old days, sir. If you can eat bread and water without a source of radiation, you should be secretly laughing. Do you even expect to eat fresh meat and fruits, food that only a man of nobility can enjoy? As for you, you should get it. " Lea laid on the table, sizing up Zero with interest.
Zero frowned, but he still picked up the black bread from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.
Seeing him eating, Lea pursed his lips and laughed. He then asked, "Hey, does your right eye have any special abilities?"
"Right Eye? What happened to my right eye? " Zero swallowed the bread that was hard as stone and asked.
Ever since he woke up, he had not looked in a mirror and did not know that he had a golden eye. He also did not realize that there was anything wrong with his eyesight. Now that Lea had asked him about it, he naturally focused his attention on his right eye.
The silver stripes at the edges of the longan fruit's eyes suddenly concentrated at the center, forming a vertical pupil that looked like a wild beast.
As for Zero's field of vision, if one looked out from the right, the world would be different!
Chapter 3 - Five Power Domains
The normal line of sight suddenly stretched very far. In Zero's line of sight, regardless of whether it was Lea or the items in the room, being able to instantly shrink was as strange as standing hundreds of meters away and looking at them from afar. Naturally, this was not the case. Zero was still sitting in its original position. It was just that the distance between them had changed. His heart was slightly startled, and subconsciously wanted to see Lea clearly.
As this thought rose in his mind, his vision suddenly zoomed in. Lea's figure immediately filled Zero's line of sight. To the extent of being clear, Zero could even see Lea's pair of snow white mountain ranges through the collar of her checked shirt.
Perhaps Zero did not know that at the same time as his field of vision changed, the Silver Eye of the Golden Eye also changed. When the beast's pupils were vertical, the field of vision was lengthened. When the pupils of the beast were perfectly round, the field of vision would be zoomed in.
However, the free change of vision was limited to the right eye of zero. Zero's left eye was normal, so two different fields of vision made him dizzy. He couldn't help but close his eyes, but a voice kept asking in his mind: What's wrong with me?
Lea saw the changes in the golden eye, and asked happily: "How is it, did you sense something strange?"
When Zero opened his eyes, the Silver Light Beast Eye in his left eye had already disappeared, and countless hair-thin silver lines filled the edges of his pupils. He shook his head and said, "I let you down. Everything's normal."
Even he did not know why his field of vision underwent such a change, so he decided to hide it, including Lea.
"Forget it, it seems like you only have a pair of pretty eyes." Lea was a little disappointed, but very quickly, the girl regained her vigor. Seeing that Zero had finished eating, she said, "Take a rest, I'll go prepare the appraisal machine."
Zero nodded and watched her push open the door and leave. He knew that the so called appraiser should be related to the "Ability Identification" that Old Jack had mentioned before. Furthermore, Lea had also mentioned "Power User" and "Evolution Point". At least in his memory, there was no such thing.
His brain worked like a high-precision computer, analyzing and categorizing all the information he received before coming to a conclusion.
"Is it evolution?" Zero muttered to himself. Based on what he had seen and heard, he already had a rudimentary concept of this world.
After what they called the Cataclysm Day, the genes for life had undergone an earth-shattering change. Some of these genes were seriously mutated, resulting in a variety of monsters. However, a small portion of the genes had evolved, resulting in the appearance of 'Adepts' and 'points of evolution'. Adepts were supposed to be evolved Homo Evolutis, but the direction of their evolution, the abilities they produced, and so on were all difficult to analyze because of a lack of information.
Right now, Old Jack ordered Lea to conduct an ability assessment on him. In other words, Old Jack suspected that she was also an Adept. The basis of his suspicion should be related to her right eye.
Thinking this way, Zero stood up, using the bottom of the aluminum plate as a mirror and holding it in front of his face.
The black and gold pupils were completely different in color, causing Zero to be slightly startled. Subsequently, he smiled bitterly. Such a scene, it was no wonder that Old Jack could think of such things. No matter who saw this double colored pupil, they wouldn't be able to connect it with a normal person. Zero thought.
"The apparatus is ready, you can come over …" "Eh, what are you doing?" Lea pushed open the door and entered. He saw Zero holding a plate of food, doing something unknown, and was curious in his heart.
Zero put down the plate and shook his head. "It's nothing."
Lea did not investigate further, and waved for Zero to go to the next room.
This was a room
similar to a laboratory.
The room was filled with all sorts of test tubes, tools, and even an operating table. There were some bloodstains on the operating table, and he didn't know what had once been lying on it. In a corner of the lab, machines similar to the old magnetic resonance machines were working. Lea was performing operations beside the machine that were incomprehensible by zero, but it was not hard to tell that the machine must be the appraisal machine.
"Although grandfather doesn't know where this old type of appraiser came from, what can be appraised is only the abilities of those below the Third Order and the basic body fusion index. But I think it's enough for you. No matter how you look at it, you don't seem to be someone who is at the third step or above, right? " Lea's hands moved as if they were flying, busily working by the operating table's side.
While watching with rapt attention, these hands should not be operating any ability appraiser, instead, they should be playing an intoxicating piano on the main stage.
"Hey, come over here." Lea's voice shattered Zero's fantasy. The girl pointed at the platform at the entrance of the apparatus, "Come, lie down on this platform."
Zero nodded and lay down. Just then, Old Jack also came in. He stood beside Lea and swept his cold eyes across Zero without showing anything.
Lea was also very nervous as she pressed the start button, announcing the start of the appraisal.
Zero closed his eyes and felt the platform under him being pulled by the mechanical pulley, sliding towards the instrument's warehouse entrance. Following that, various kinds of lights lit up in the instrument, and Zero knew that countless data were being formed and sent to the operating table's display.
Old Jack's eyes widened as he stared at the monitor.
As the data was formed, the emotionless voice of the computer sounded out, "Appraisal completed. Target: Human. Body mass index, using standard data as a reference value, as well as the body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index, body mass index. Strength 120%, body strength 110%, muscle strength 130%. Ability: None. Evolutionary Point: None. "