Chapter 1： rebirth

In the early morning, the sunlight outside the window shone down on the soft bed in the middle of the bedroom through the untightened curtains. Ye Xuan on the bed rubbed his eyes that were stabbed by the light, and after fumbling for a long time from the pillow, he found his mobile phone and turned on the screen to take a look. — August 22, 2020.

Ye Xuan squinted and looked at the numbers on his phone for a long time, and found that no matter how he looked at the date, he threw the phone aside in annoyance.

He looked at the white ceiling and thought: When will this nightmare of going back to the past end?

Three days ago, Ye Xuan was eating a hot pot made of mutant beef for his birthday in the core area of ​​the B city base. He was thinking about making some fruit as an after-meal snack when a big whirlpool suddenly appeared in the room. , before he was ready for defense, the whole person was directly swallowed by the whirlpool, and when he opened his eyes again, he had returned to ten years ago, that is, a month before the end of the world.

According to what Ye Xuan knew, the apocalypse came because of a virus from outer space that human beings had never seen before. Humans gave it a code name called A virus. The A virus quietly arrived on the earth on the day of the vernal equinox five months ago, and it only took a few seconds to infect the creatures on the earth, including humans, animals, and plants.

After a six-month ambush period, the A virus broke out completely on September 23, which is the day of the autumnal equinox. At the same time, life forms all over the world entered a seven-day dormancy state. Doomsday.

The environment of the earth has become extreme. Half of the year is hot summer and half of the time is cold winter. Spring and autumn are almost reduced to only a few days in the year.

As far as biology is concerned, human beings were the first to be affected by the A virus, and about three-quarters of the human beings did not survive, and were transformed by the virus into zombies with no intelligence, no consciousness, and only crazy pursuit of raw meat; About one percent of the lower one-quarter of the human race became psychic. Speed, strength, space, spirit, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and many other strange abilities also appeared one after another.

A few months later, animals began to mutate similar to humans. They were divided into ordinary animals that did not change, mutant beasts with a little intelligence (in Ye Xuan's words, the most important thing is to be edible), and disgusting and useless zombies After a period of time, the same changes occurred in plants. Zombies, mutations, and originally harmless plants completely became killers hidden in the dark.

With the occurrence of these changes, human beings on earth have officially begun a long journey of survival in the apocalypse.

Ye Xuan was the luckiest group of people. Not only did he not become a zombie, but he even became an ability user.

The group of power users who awakened when the end of the world came is much stronger than the power users of the same family, and Ye Xuan, as one of the rare element power users, is even more blessed. Before he was forced to be reborn, he His life is already quite nourishing among power users. Apart from being forced to go out to do quests every few months, he only needs to spawn a batch of vegetables or purify a batch of crystal cores every morning to get a lot of contribution points. Either laying at home and playing games, or walking around the base, is a total happy salted fish.

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But now it is meaningless to say how comfortable his life will be ten years later. He was reborn, and he was reborn ten years ago when the end of the world was about to come. To say how good his future will be, it will have no effect except to **** his heart. .

Before returning to the apocalypse, other people may think about telling everyone the news of the apocalypse, prepare a lot of materials, organize the forces to resist the zombies in advance, and get rid of those who betrayed themselves in the apocalypse in advance... All in all, go back Before the end of the world, it is a great opportunity for many people to live a good life, to be king and hegemony, and to reach the pinnacle of life.

But Ye Xuan just wanted to go back quickly, whoever wants this opportunity.

End the apocalypse early? The A virus that led to the end of the world has long been quietly rooted in the bodies of earth creatures, and no hospital or research department has discovered this for five months. According to the post-apocalyptic news, those scientists didn't notice this at all before the end of the world, and even the infection time of the A virus was only discovered a few years later. As for solving the A virus, that is a matter of no consequence at all. Let Ye Xuan, a pure layman, do this kind of thing to save mankind, so forget it.

Early warning? Although the main cause of the end of the world is the virus, natural disasters have occurred in many places around the world in the half month or so before the end of the world. Many people have said on the Internet that the end of the world is coming, and even brought many people to save it at home. food and water. All Ye Xuan can do is to talk a little more about the situation of the apocalypse without putting himself in it. Can anyone believe that it is entirely up to his life.

Save family and friends? Ye Xuan's parents both died in an accident two years ago. After that, he didn't interact much with people. He only traded stocks at home every day and lived on the inheritance of his parents. He really had nothing to risk exposure. Save the friend.

Collecting supplies to dominate? Ye Xuan, who had been involved in base affairs and found out within two days that he was really not the material, crossed out this option as soon as he came up, not to mention that he would come again, no matter how many times he tried, he would not be able to become a hegemon.

Ye Xuan thought a little irritably. He survived the early apocalyptic period when natural disasters continued, his abilities were weak, and the social order was chaotic, and he passed through the mid-apocalyptic period when there were various forces fighting inside and zombies besieging the city outside. It was hard to wait for a new pattern. Formed, the society is stable in the post-apocalyptic period, and the results are good and then reborn? Did God force him to suffer again because of how unpleasant he was?

But the matter of rebirth or not is not based on Ye Xuan's will. He can't change the matter that the whirlpool dragged him in and sent him to the end of the world, and he can't change the matter after ten years.

So Ye Xuan lay on the bed for ten minutes, and after realizing the cruel fact that he was still before the end of the world today, he resigned himself to getting up and started the countdown to the end of the new day.

As he heated the food he had packed yesterday in the microwave from the kitchen, he thought a little bit of self-sacrificing, anyway, this matter of rebirth can't be changed, the big deal is to add ten years of life in disguise, and you can't just die just because you can't accept the reality, right? ?

After eating a simple breakfast, Ye Xuan took out a piece of raw meat from the refrigerator, and released a green vine with a faint hint of blood from the red mark on the palm of his left hand.

The rootless vines are floating in the air, strange but it makes people think that it should be like this.

The vines, which had not been out for a long time, rubbed against Ye Xuan intimately, and then wrapped around the piece of raw meat on the plate. A faint red light flashed, and when the vines were released again, the plate was empty, even a little blood. No, as if such a piece of meat never existed.

This is Ye Xuan's biggest reliance.

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About the fifth year after the end of the world, Ye Xuan accidentally entered an abandoned village when he was out looking for resources.

At the beginning, Ye Xuan didn't care about the tranquility of the village. There are many empty villages in the apocalypse. Some people died when the zombies broke out, and some survivors moved their families to the base. Protected by high walls, it is normal for people to leave wherever zombies enter. As for zombies, after they have lost their traces, they will basically never appear again.

But when he found a room that he could barely live in, and when he spawned mutant plants to set up a defensive circle, a mutation suddenly occurred. The mutant plants that he had refined many times and had the same mind as him suddenly died. When he spawned seeds All the injected powers flowed to the large vines that suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and even the powers in his body began to flow to the vines uncontrollably.

This is the passive start of the process of recognizing the master. Ye Xuan is very clear that now he will either cut off the connection between himself and the vine at the cost of greatly reducing his strength, and then be swallowed by it; or take a gamble to conquer it, the worst is It is controlled by it, and in turn becomes its servant. .

The pros and cons of the two paths were clearly laid out in front of Ye Xuan. Based on his experience in recovering mutated plants many times, he continued to input abilities while making a big cut in his left hand, walking towards the place that covered the sky and the sun. The vine that makes people feel depressed, establishes a connection with it with blood.

The vines came into contact with his favorite wood-type ability and the blood of the ability user excitedly, and the vines in the middle slowly touched his palm, and slowly began the ceremony of recognizing the master.

After an unknown amount of time, when Ye Xuan began to lose consciousness and felt that his abilities and blood were about to be sucked up by the vines, it finally gave Ye Xuan a reply.

Large tracts of vines wrapped around Ye Xuan, and the green vines transmitted energy to him the moment they touched him, and then withered and fell to the ground. Finally, the strongest vine in the middle also wrapped around Ye Xuan's body, a flash of light flashed, and the vine disappeared. When Ye Xuan advanced, there was a leaf mark on the palm of his hand. This is what the vine left him. .

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It took Ye Xuan a long time to figure out the characteristics of this vine, and then regarded it as his biggest trump card.

First of all, it has a complete symbiotic relationship with Ye Xuan. When Ye Xuan dies, it dies, and it will not be controlled by other wood-type abilities. This can be said to be Ye Xuan's most loyal partner in the extremely chaotic environment of the last days. .

Secondly, it is very easy to maintain, Ye Xuan advanced it, and it does not need to consume crystal cores at all, and Ye Xuan always feels that after having this vine, his advanced speed is much faster. He guessed that part of the energy it absorbed was passed on to him, or it was not necessarily that it accelerated his energy absorption.

Last but not least, this vine gave him an ability—space ability.

There are some space power users in the last days, but there are quite few good space power users, because this power is really a bit tasteless.

Space ability users need to reach a very high level to have the ability to fight. In the initial stage, it is completely an item storage box. When encountering ordinary zombies, they use weapons to fight. When encountering powerful zombies, they can only run away. And no one else can see what the space ability user has saved. In this apocalyptic world where resources are scarce and a pound of rice can fight, the space ability user is simply the one with the lowest trust in every team.

But when a group of people go out to the base to do tasks, the team must also bring a space ability user, otherwise it will be a big trouble if there is no place to put materials in the car.

Therefore, after the space ability user has passed the period when everyone thinks that having a space is a good thing, and after the period of attracting space ability users, this ability that has no combat ability and will make everyone defensive is no longer popular. . Basically, it is enough for each team to have a space ability user who can meet the basic storage requirements of the team, and after the storage capacity is reached, the team will not give them too many crystal cores to improve their combat capabilities, and not many people will Trusting them wholeheartedly, the status can be said to be quite embarrassing.

In Ye Xuan's memory, it seems that only the "large mobile warehouses" of the military have a relatively high level of space ability users.

Ye Xuan has never exposed the fact that he has space before. He is a person who follows the officials of the base. Usually, he either spawns vegetables and fruits in the base as logistics, or he goes on missions with the officials. .

This space that can be expanded as long as the vines eat raw meat is just a portable safe for storing drug crystal cores. Although the area is far larger than that of ordinary space power users, it is basically not serious. It has been used several times, and it has shrunk greatly during the rebirth process. By the way, it destroyed a large number of crystal nuclei in Ye Xuan's existence, making Ye Xuan feel the pain of dying.

but now…

Ye Xuan thought about it for a while and then took out a piece of meat and handed it to the vine, the vine turned on the piece of meat for a long time, and Ye Xuan somehow saw the word disgust from a vine, and he said bitterly: " Now there are no mutant beasts for you to eat, I can only give you the meat of ordinary animals, you work hard first, and I owe you the meat in a few months, okay?"

His ability level is now zero, and apart from being able to release vines, he can't even make seeds germinate. If he can't hold the thighs of the vines well, he really isn't sure that he can survive the most naive time. Not to mention, how much he can store before the end of the world, but it really depends on this little ancestor.

The vines swayed for a long time, perhaps realizing that the host was a little "poor" now and could not provide himself with delicious food. After struggling for a long time, he still ate that piece of meat. After rubbing against Ye Xuan, he went back to absorb the energy.

Ye Xuan waited until the vines finished eating and went to rest before starting to clean up the kitchen.

While packing, he couldn't help but think that how much other people's animals and plants eat in a meal is calculated according to the number of energy, and the flesh of a palm-sized high-level mutant beast is enough for them to digest for a long time. However, my ancestors came according to the volume, and the meat with energy content took the same time to digest. In the past, I had a lot of resources and it was no problem to raise it. Now it is really difficult to provide suitable food for it.

Ye Xuan made a rough calculation in his heart, and at this rate, when the end of the world comes, the materials that can be stored in the space will be enough for him to eat for a few years. But things can't be counted like this. His abilities were too weak in the early days of the apocalypse. He always had to prepare something for himself to protect himself.

As for life ten years from now?

Hehe, he still dreams faster.

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Vine: It is really hopeless that the host can only provide food with large volume and low energy.

Ye Xuan: Shut up!