novelraw Chapter 555
Chapter 555
"It's time for the market! It's time for the market! There are still 15 minutes left, open the door and leave! Who hasn't come yet!"
In the village surrounded by farmland, the loudspeakers in front of every household sounded the shout of the village captain with a strong local accent.
"Don't wait for it!"
Looking down from the air, the village on the middle of the mountain is very large, and the center is surrounded by the first wall, which appears to be very densely populated houses.
Radiating down from the fence is a second fence surrounded by terraced farmland.
There is also a third wall, which is the flat farmland at the foot of the mountain and within the village entrance, which is considered vast.
The farmland is full of various crops, as long as the defense towers lined up are ignored, it will be a thriving scene.
For safety, within the triple wall, from the most central house to the outer farmland, there are defensive towers built at intervals.
In the high tower, there are still people stationed and defended. From time to time, they shoot a few arrows at the birds and beasts swooping down in the sky. It can be said that the defense is strict.
Among them, scattered in the double to triple walls, the sparse supporting houses with fields and houses seem very abrupt, but these houses are no longer houses, but rather round-arched earthen fortresses, with smokestack.
It looks very safe.
Lin Lan's home was located far away from the center of the village, and was built in a big house higher than the village in the middle of the mountain.
It can be said that her family is the one with the highest latitude in the whole village. It is on the edge of the second fence surrounding the village. Outside the fence is a large bamboo forest and a small lake.
"Xu! Xiao Gu and I went to the market, so please watch out for me!"
At this time, she was carrying a big bucket of breakfast, and placed it beside Xu's kang bed.
As expected, Xu on the Kang didn't give any response.
Looking at Xu, who was snoring soundly asleep in the middle of a pair of miscellaneous fur quilts, without even opening his eyes, but exuding an aura of decadence all over his body without distinction, Lin Lan could only accept his fate.
"Forget it, you'd better go on sleeping, I'll just lock the door, you don't want to go out anyway."
I don’t know if this guy heard it. Time was urgent. Lin Lan set up the fire spar in the kang and extinguished all the flames in the house. After thinking about it, it was still not safe. He took out two buckets of food from the space and placed them on the bed. On the low shelf beside the Kang.
That's right, it's a bucket!
God knows what the structure of her brother's stomach is, he can't fill his stomach no matter what...
If he didn't prepare enough food, he would probably eat off the kang at home.
This kind of big stomach king, no matter how rich the family is, will be poor!
Lin Lan had obviously resigned to her fate.Check the surroundings again, she sealed the wall door close to the back door of the house with soil last night, there is no gap!
It's very safe, even if there are wild animals passing by, it can't break the defense, perfect!
can go!
There is no farmland in the middle of the mountain and in the dense forest.
The trees are growing so fast that they are not habitable without daily cleaning.
In order to prevent the invasion of dense wild plants, the village only built a thick and thick second wall on the mountain far away from the village. After making sure that it can block the plants on the back mountain and the wild beasts that go down the mountain for no reason, it is It's no longer in charge, and the third protective fence has not been built.
The location of Lin Lan's house is too remote. For the sake of safety and convenience, after obtaining the consent of the village, a gate was opened on the second fence, and the small lake and bamboo forest allocated by the village belonged to their family. , Build another thick wall by yourself, it can be regarded as the third wall.
The defense tower, there is one next to the second fence, but because it is too far away from the village, their family can't afford the extra security protection fee, so they put it on hold.
After finishing all this in an orderly manner, there was not much time left. Lin Lan climbed onto Xiaogu's back and sat down, then ran down the mountain quickly.
The gathering place for the market is the first wall in the village, which is the entrance of the village where the captain is.
The gate of the village had already been opened, and the team leader knew who was coming when he saw the dust rising from the middle of the mountain and heard the shocking sound of running.
The captain who couldn't hold back his temper shouted with a loudspeaker: "Girl Lan, please slow down, the village road will be trampled by your little bones again! You can't be on time!"
Just after the roar, a two-meter to three-meter-high black-and-white giant panda, running with its heels scattered, appeared in everyone's sight with a large cloud of dust on it.
Perhaps the roar of the village chief played a role. The running giant panda came to a sudden stop not far from the entrance of the village, successfully stopped outside the crowd, and brought up a large cloud of dust along the way... and everyone There was an unrestrained, choked cough!
Without waiting for the captain to get angry, Lin Lan poked her head out from the fluffy back, showing a standard smile with eight teeth: "Uncle Qi, I'm here, I'm not late today, there are still 5 minutes..."
After the dust passed, the team leader, whom Lin Lan called Seventh Uncle, rolled his eyes at her, waved his hand indifferently, and signaled her to return to the team.
Lin Lan didn't care either, ignoring the envy, sympathy, contempt, curiosity and other gazes around her, she directed Xiaogu to find a good place to stand, and waited to set off.
The four bullock carts that were already parked at the entrance of the village and used for public use were already full of people.
After the bullock cart, there are people like Lin Lan who drive themselves with wealthy families.
Some are donkey carts, some are mule carts, and the more advanced ones are locomotives modified by crystal nucleus kinetic energy... It's mighty and spectacular.
On the market day every ten days, almost all of the more than 500 households in Linjia Village sent representatives to Lucheng not far away to exchange supplies.
The most eye-catching thing is probably the young and strong guards around their vehicles, driving modified side three-wheeled motorcycles and fully armed.
The body is rattan armor stuck to the soil, with a bow on his back and a spear in his hand. His muscles are tense, his eyes are stern, and he is vigilant about his surroundings.
"Let's go!" The captain in the same attire, with an extra gun on his body, held a horn and threatened fiercely: "Old rules, be careful, follow the team, and leave behind! Although this road, we left Many times, but whoever dares to be careless and slow down, I will throw him out to feed the wild beasts! Do you hear me!"
"I heard it!" The people in the same team shouted in response.
There were a few fat women who couldn't see it, and thought it was too serious, so they joked: "Captain, don't be afraid, we can do it when it's really critical. When it comes to killing pigs and sheep, our women Comrades don’t give in too much!”
"exactly……"
"Go away~"
Laughing, cursing and fighting, the convoy left the gate of the village surrounded by thick earthen walls and walked towards the gate.
As soon as they left the gate, everyone quickly put away their fighting mood, and their expressions were tense. Not only the surrounding guards were vigilant, but everyone around them was also very tense.
The main road is paved with blocks of earth bricks, very flat, a large distance between the two roads is vacant, and beyond that, there are dense forests.
Birds chirping in the air from time to time, and insects and beasts roaring faintly from the dense forest on both sides of the road made everyone control their breathing rate, fearing that if they were not careful, they would be irritated or startled by louder voices.
The same defense towers as those in the village, there will be one at intervals on the road where everyone is walking, but compared with the simple settings in the village, the equipment on these towers is much more advanced, and they also have forts.
It's just that in most cases, the guards on the defense towers use bows and arrows, the turrets are all shelved, and the crystal core is too expensive.
On the way, Lin Lan often saw the guards on the defense tower, using bows and arrows to shoot down birds flying low, or wild animals running out of the forest.
Unlike the people in the same car who were trembling with fear, Lin Lan was envious.
Without him, these are all meat!
As far as I can remember, Lin Lan's family has never had a surplus of food.
There are two big eaters at home!
In addition to the one lying at home who probably hasn't woken up yet, there is also the fat panda who is crouching over him.
To say too much is to cry.
These two big stomach kings made Lin Lan live in dire straits every day.
So Lin Lan was sitting on the back of Xiaogu, walking on the periphery of the guards. On the section of the road that the guards of the defense tower could not take care of, when she saw birds and beasts alone, she would decisively draw her bow and shoot arrows to kill them. With the cooperation of the small bones, the meat is quickly put into the space.
That movement is strong and smooth, which makes the people in the same industry admire and envy, of course, more sympathy.
Lin Lan's family is really very famous in Linjia Village.
For her family, there are those who are envious and jealous, and those who sympathize with her family, and the perceptions are very complicated.
Brothers and sisters Lin Xu and Lin Lan...
To be precise, it should be said that the two cousins grew up in the city with their respective mothers when they were young, and they also received the education of the city people, and they were "assigned" back to Linjiacun later.
The mothers of their brothers and sisters, Lin Meifeng and Lin Meihuang, are twin sisters. As their names suggest, they are the golden phoenix that flew out of the Lin Family Village, a person with supernatural powers.
However, since he was conscripted into the army by the state 30 years ago, he has never returned to Linjiacun.
As for the fathers of their brothers and sisters, it is said that they are also high-ranking officials in Xicheng, have an iron job, are from the city, and of course they are also people with supernatural powers.
It's a pity that Lin Meifeng and Lin Meihuang were not able to be with their brothers and sisters' biological fathers in the end.After the fathers of the brothers and sisters all remarried, the Lin family sisters also found other people one after another.
As a result, Lin Xu and Lin Lan became veritable oil bottles.
Especially Lin Xu's biological mother, Lin Meifeng, became pregnant not long after she got married. After a checkup, she was still twins, so Lin Xu seemed very redundant and in the way.
As for Lin Lan's mother, Lin Meihuang?
She was not pregnant, but the person she married already had a son and a daughter. The son was three years older than Lin Lan, and the daughter was the same age!
What exactly happened, the people in Lin Family Village don't know.
But what they knew was that once Lin Hui and Lin Lan turned 12 years old, when they were legally determined to be in a safe environment and able to live independently, their mothers sent them back to Linjia Village to settle down.
It is still the kind of household registration that is transferred back, and the urban household registration is directly determined to be the rural household registration.
To achieve this level, it is not bad to say that the relationship is severed.
On the way back, the two poor children were not escorted by adults, and they were attacked by wild beasts on the way. If they hadn't caught up with the village's market day, they were met by the captain and the others, and they snatched them back from the mouth of the wild beasts. disappeared.
The two poor children were seriously injured. After being sent to the hospital in the town for emergency treatment, they stayed in the hospital for a whole month before recovering.
Even if they were promoted to heaven-level supernatural beings by chance, they didn't make their parents change their minds. They just paid off the medical expenses indifferently, and those who gave each a sum of money were dismissed.
The villagers speculated that it was probably because the awakened natal contracted beasts of the two children were not very useful.
Let's talk about Lin Xu, his natal contracted beast is a dragon-headed tiger-body, it is said that it is very similar to the auspicious beast Pixiu, auspicious!
It should be very powerful and able to fight, but unfortunately, when Lin Xu fought against the beast, Dan Jing was seriously injured in order to protect Lin Lan.
Although the doctors in the town tried their best to rescue her, they could only repair the shell of Danjing, and the inside of Danjing was empty.
Pill crystal is the crystal nucleus condensed in the dantian position of the supernatural being. It is the central position for cultivating supernatural powers. It is very important!
In other words, no matter how powerful Lin Xu's natal contracted spirit beast was, he couldn't go any further.
As for Lin Lan, she was healed. She didn't have any old wounds on her body, but... the contracted spirit beast she awakened was a... carp!
To beautify the name, it is a small black and white koi fish, fry cub!
Apart from granting the contractor the ability to swim in the water and summon small water balls and small water jets, it is useless.
After practicing for 300 years, you may be able to shoot a powerful water arrow!
This kind of contracted spirit beast that is born awakened, might as well not be awakened, and go to the wild to capture a more powerful beast. It is more useful to force the contract while the beast is alive or dead.
Even if the beast contract of his own contract is not as easy to use as the natural awakened ability, it is still more useful than koi fry.
In addition, people who have awakened their natal contracted spirit beasts cannot contract any other living beings. That is to say, Lin Lan, a celestial supernatural being, has no future at all!
In this way, it is only natural for the siblings to be abandoned.
This is one of the reasons why the villagers envy and envy their brothers and sisters. Even though they were exiled back to the countryside, their strength and family background are still very enviable.
The third fence in the village was extended half a kilometer because of the people their parents sent to open up wasteland for them.
No one in the village has ever seen such a powerful sky-level wind and fire superpower.
Not long after the brothers and sisters moved into the village, they exchanged the newly reclaimed land under their names for the contribution value of the village under the pretext of not being able to take care of it, and gave up the value of the village center. The big house, with the panda cubs, moved to the middle of the mountain, far away from the village and heart, they still make the villagers envy and jealous.
Who would have thought that when the two siblings were seriously injured fighting against the wild beasts, they rescued a panda cub that was released, and they would come back with them.
These days, those who can make mutated wild beasts recognize their masters and become domestic beasts are all powerful people!
He has a background behind him, has knowledge since he was a child, and has a simple family population. Apart from two brothers and sisters and a Roll, he has no burdens.
Perhaps in the eyes of the city people, their brothers and sisters who are born with awakened supernatural powers are not worth much, but in Linjia Village, a rural village close to the outpost of exploration, they are already very powerful.
With the addition of their brother and sister's ability to protect the family beast panda, in the village, no one dares to recognize the number one if they dare to recognize the second.
Otherwise, the villagers would not rest assured that the two of them and a domestic animal lived exclusively on the most dangerous edge of the mountain.
They are willing to guard the most dangerous place in the mountains, they can't wait for it.
In today's dangerous world, in the eyes of the lower class, people who are afraid of dying suddenly for a bite of food every day, and those who are able to save their lives are enviable and jealous.
It's a pity to sympathize...
It's even simpler, poor!
To be honest, there is no one poorer than their family in the village.
Just like the small birds and beasts encountered on the road now, they are all very annoying existences with little meat and useless crystal nuclei. Under normal circumstances, except for the sentries on the guard tower, they will do something to them for mission reasons In addition, everyone else hides as soon as they can, because the rate of return is too low.
However, due to family reasons, Lin Lan didn't spare any meat.
The reason is that the family members can eat it!
Lin Xu and Fat Panda Xiaogu are very, very, very, very edible!
People who are born to awaken contracted spirit beasts will always have the essence of spirit beasts. Lin Xu's contracted spirit beast is Pixiu...
People in the village don't understand what auspicious and auspicious animals are, but it is true that Lin Xu can eat very well.
Originally, because of the arrival of the two celestial supernatural beings, the people in the village happily wanted to hire them as the village's worshippers, but they all gave up later.
The goal of the village has been Lin Xu from the very beginning. Although his ability cannot be upgraded, it is definitely enough to deal with the beasts and birds that harass the village's farmland around the Lin family village from time to time. However, Lin Xu can eat too much. up.
All the young and old people in the village can't beat him!
Within three days of hiring Lin Xu, the village's grain depot was more than half empty, and the village chief almost knelt down and begged both parties to terminate the contract.
Not to mention the small bone, just look at its size, you will know how edible it is!
Lin Lan, a good farmer with a sky-level water system ability, can barely fill the stomachs of Lin Xu and Xiaogu.
It has become the instinct of Lin Lan who is short of food to catch meat.
Lucheng is not far away, a group of people speed up with various tools, which is more than half an hour away. As Lucheng gets closer, the defense towers and patrol guards are getting denser, and the surrounding trees are cleared. After more and more people gathered from all directions, everyone relaxed.
They have entered the outer safety zone of Lucheng, and everyone's safety can basically be guaranteed.
Linjiacun's speed also slowed down due to several similar teams around and more and more crowds.
"Girl Lan, what are you going to change this time. Do you still use fur, flowers and plants for crystal nuclei and food?"
Enthusiastic aunts in the village have time to tease the little bones with big pie faces.
He took out the fruit from the space and threw it at the chubby panda who seemed to have a smiling face by nature. Seeing the chubby panda eating happily, he asked Lin Lan, the owner, by the way.
"Yes..." Lin Lan's smiling face immediately froze because the gate of Lucheng was getting closer, and she chatted a little decadently: "The family's expenses are too high! There is always not enough food..."
Looking at these aunts who are overflowing with sympathy and naturally like to inquire about other people's homes to show their kindness, Lin Lan is very helpless.
Say they are malicious, really not.
Knowing the situation of their brothers and sisters, these enthusiastic aunts often help them secretly, especially Xiaogu, as long as they go to the village, they can always bring back a lot of food, even though they have the appearance of the Lin brothers and sisters , and because Xiaogu was born with a friendly and cute temperament, but they were really generous to the Lin Xu brothers and sisters.
"I remember that your family's contribution rate is only enough for you to pay the public grain payment for next year! With boy Xu here, do you have enough food in your family? Just ask if you need anything, they all belong to the same ancestor, don't be polite! We rural people can’t be short of rations if we lack anything!”
Look, they are so enthusiastic!
Lin Lan sighed helplessly, and could only nod obediently.
Fortunately, the gate of Lucheng has arrived, and Lin Lan wants to go to the same destination as the people in Linjiacun, so she urges Xiaogu to leave as if fleeing, and finally escapes the care of these enthusiastic aunts.
The market in Linjiacun is a large-scale trading market outside the gate of Lucheng City, so there is no need to enter the city.
There is an entry fee to enter the city. For rural people, this is an unnecessary expense. In addition, things in the city are much more expensive than those outside the city. Only fools go to the city!
However, Lin Lan had something to go to the city. Although she felt a little heartache, she could only swipe her ID card, got on the train to enter the city, paid the entrance fee, and went to the center of the city.
The bullet train moved, and looking at the city wall on top of which you had to look up from a distance, and the row of leaking cannon launch pads above the city wall, Lin Lan sighed, it was so strong, and it really looked like a prison cell!
Although the prison cell that humans have built for themselves is safe, it cannot be denied that it is very oppressive within the towering walls.
Lin Lan, whose thoughts were far away, silently recalled what his history teacher said when he was a child, before the new century, the images of human cities and towns, and was in a daze.
Before the new century, which is now known as the era of science and technology, the history of the planet before 2564 AD.
At that time, human beings always believed that they were the masters of the earth, arrogantly occupying most of the planet's resources, making many species unable to inhabit and endangered.
At that time, although human beings kept saying that they wanted to protect the environment and the planet, the position they stood on was nothing more than the position of human beings.
As long as there is no danger to humans, it is not a problem.
I thought that this situation would continue to accelerate with the development of science and technology, and even human beings have already explored the interstellar without any scruples.
Who would have thought that overnight, it would return to its original state.
Before human beings came back to their senses, the world changed drastically.
The bustling city was re-occupied by the forest after just one day and night.
Mountains and rivers have shifted, flowers, trees, birds, beasts, insects and fish, these creatures that have been suppressed by humans, seem to have regained their confidence, manipulated their abilities, turned from prey to hunters, and stretched out their claws towards humans.
It's not that human beings haven't come to their senses, it's just that human beings are too conceited. They regard all the reminders of the mutations in the world before the mutation as a joke to wow the public, and laugh it off.
In the month before the mutation, many things that cannot be explained by scientific common sense happened all over the world.
Such as:
The domesticated cats and dogs suddenly went crazy and bit people, and they learned to spit fire and water strangely;
A giant carnivorous flower appeared in the wild;
Amazing human beings...
Everyone subconsciously ignored these countless video hotspots, stubbornly immersed in the prosperous and stable life, and dismissed the warnings from the world.
It was not until the world changed drastically that he realized it, and regretted it endlessly.
Among them, those who are prepared are probably those keen and expected big forces.
For example, countries that have been monitoring changes in the world and many groups with relationships and wealth... and individuals who believe in doomsday rumors and hoard things crazily when they see something wrong.
However, under the premise that the state apparatus and the upper echelons who control the main wealth and materials are prepared, this drastic change in the world can only be called a catastrophe, not the end.
The Creator is fair, well...
According to science, the variation produced by the same planet is equal to all species.
Humans also have supernatural powers.
Why use "all"?
Of course, it's because the mutation is so fair to the extreme, all the exaggerated ones have abilities!
Well, it should be said that except for a small number of people who are about to reach the end of their lives due to age, disease, accidents, etc., 90.00% of the human race has awakened their abilities together.
Although the quality varies from good to bad, but such things as abilities, as long as they are still alive, everyone has a share, and they will never fail.
Isn't it magical?
Surprise no!
However, human beings who are on the same starting line with other creatures again, the awakened ability, like other species, has a very obvious species unity.
Those that need to fly to survive, such as birds and insects, awaken all wind-type abilities; creatures that live in water awaken all water-type abilities; plants that need photosynthesis awaken all wood-type abilities!
Human beings are all unified, and they all have earth-type abilities.
Perhaps, as the legend says, people are really made out of clay.
The types of supernatural awakening are the most variable, probably all kinds of beasts and insects, all kinds of species, but they are all unified, and they are all uniform variations.
It seems very responsible, but after summarizing the statistics, the abilities are divided into three categories according to their attributes.
Earth, wind, water, and wood powers for survival support; fire, thunder, and metal powers for attack; and spirit, space, and corrosion and poison powers for special types.
As for the last three being classified as special types, it's not because they are scarce, but because they are too routine and common.
Let's talk about the corrosive poison system first, as long as the creature that has awakened the ability dies abnormally, the corpse will more or less carry this corrosive poison system.
As for the spirit system and space system, it is even more common.
Creatures that have awakened supernatural powers, as long as their supernatural powers evolve to a certain level, will suddenly realize the mysterious and mysterious ability of spiritual power, and then they can open and build their own portable space with just a little stimulation of the crystal nucleus of the space system.
Other species don't know, anyway, the smart humans really got one for themselves later on.
By now, almost everyone has a space.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the market in Linjiacun to have only people and no goods.
Everyone hides in their own portable space!
In short, not long after the world mutated, almost everyone has awakened the ability of the earth system.
Instinctively sense the dangers around you from the ground beneath your feet.
This kind of magical attribute, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, has saved many human lives.
In the beginning, human abilities were too low, and the mutated animals and plants that were picked and slaughtered all contained toxins and could not be eaten.
It wasn't until later, forced by livelihood research, that the toxins in these animal and plant "cadavers" could be manually eliminated, and there was no shortage of food, and human beings really stabilized.
The method is very simple, everyone can do it, use the soil purified by the soil ability to make a simple filter device, and then use these devices to filter the water source again.
Well, yes, when the catastrophe began, humans couldn't even stand the mutated water, but after manual filtration, it was usable again.
Soak these animal and plant "cadavers" for a period of time with water acceptable to the human body, change the water several times, and leach the toxins in them, and these animals and plants can be eaten.
Later, with the proficiency and refinement of human beings in their own abilities, human beings discovered that they have continuously improved and optimized planting skills since ancient times, and they can still use them after experiencing the catastrophe of heaven and earth mutations!
Even, with the familiarity and manipulation of the land with supernatural powers, the plants grown are very docile, and the nutrition is even higher. After being very suitable for human consumption, the advantage of the overlord of the human planet has returned.
Because the planted plants are of great benefit to the evolution of human beings, so is the poultry meat that is fed with the planted plants!
Later, human beings with endless life and continuous progress continued to study the earth-type supernatural powers, and found that after reaching a certain level, they can stimulate their spiritual power. With a little trick, everyone can create a super-private superpower by themselves. practical portable space.
Although the space is not suitable for living things, let alone an exaggerated planting space, the function of food preservation is unparalleled.
The freshness period can be calculated in years!
In the absence of food and clothing, human beings would not face the danger of genocide if they wanted to survive, even if they made some sacrifices.
This kind of natural disaster is just a little more dangerous, so it can't be regarded as the end!
If this is considered the end of the world, then the creatures in the end of the world in other places will probably want to kill all the people in this plane who are still in the blessings and don't know the blessings, so this is actually caused by a change in the world Just a catastrophe.
Therefore, everyone calls this change a new century, not the end.
Human beings, as the overlord who have always dominated, have natural advantages. After the beginning of the new century, but less than 80 years ago, they finally stabilized again.
After dragging on for so long, the main reason was internal strife, which was also helpless.
It didn't take long after some random thinking, the bullet train arrived at the city center, which was Lin Lan's destination, the city's large-scale trading mission center established by the state.
Lin Lan's purpose this time is: exchange for housework robots!
Excited!Finally, I can get rid of the day and night of cooking and feeding Lin Xu and Xiaogu.