123 The Mystery of the End Times(1/2)
Ah Qing took a group of clerks to bathe Abu. They thought the money was worth it. Because I took three hours to take a bath, I used countless tons of water and shower gel, and finally cleaned the foam. Liu Fengyu collapsed the first time, "I finally finished washing. How long has it been."
The weather gradually became hotter and everyone was sweating all over. Ah Qing wiped the sweat from her head, flapped her colorful wings and flew down, and smiled and said, "Handsome Liu, are you out of patience? After taking a shower, you have to remove insects, repair hair and blow dry. Hehe, in fact, you can go back and wait and pick it up again in the evening. How about it, I will take you two thousand yuan and it is not expensive. It is only for the sake of so many handsome guys." Everyone in the Qing Dynasty gave a charming look.
Deng Xiao couldn't stay still, and said with a sad face, "I'm so hungry."
Xiao Wang said: "There is a refreshment over there. The snacks are very good. Do you want to sit for a while?"
"Why didn't you say it earlier?"
Xiao Wang said: "I didn't expect it to take so long, and I thought it would be enough for an hour or two."
Aqing shook his head, "It's early."
"Boss." A girl in a raincoat trotted over, "Boss, guest, Abu's hair is too long and lacks care for a long time. It is extremely knotted. It is impossible to comb all of it. Now that the weather is getting hot, the hair is tied with knots and it will be very hot and it is easy to grow fleas."
Zhuang Yao frowned and said, "What should I do?"
Aqing sighed: "The best way is to shave it and grow it again."
Everyone took a look at Abu, who was washed clean and in a good mood, and couldn't think about what it would look like if it was shaved.
Deng Xiao frowned and said, "It will be ugly if you shaved it."
Liu Fengyu said indifferently: "It's just a cat. How can it know it looks good and ugly? I'll shave it. I've felt hot these two days."
Aqing looked at Zhuang Yao, "Little handsome guy, how did you decide? Such long hair will suffer a lot in summer. If you live in Beijing for a long time and take care of it once a month, you can keep its hair at a relatively suitable length. Now we cannot repair it, it is too long and too complicated."
Zhuang Yao said helplessly: "Then let's shave." After that, he walked towards Abu.
When Abu saw him coming and rubbing his hand affectionately, Zhuang Yao touched it, "Abu, I tell you that they are going to shave your hair now for your own good and will grow out soon."
Abu was stunned for two seconds, and suddenly started to scream. His four claws retreated, but the range of movement was very small. He looked at Zhuang Yao's face while moving, and it seemed as if he was struggling.
"Abu, you are obedient and will not become bald, but your hair will be shorter. You will also feel hot in this weather. It will be comfortable if you cut it short."
Abu still whispered, staring at Zhuang Yao quietly with his amethyst-like eyes, and slowly moved back a little.
Zhuang Yao hugged Abu's nose and spoke a little tougher, "Abu, be obedient."
Abu meowed in grievance, lowered his head and stopped moving.
Aqing and a few flying mutants came out carrying something like a plow.
Cong Xia blinked, "What...this thing?"
"Customized hair removal machine." A Qing flew to Abu, swung the plow on Abu, and then pulled it, and a large bunch of white hair fell off Abu.
Cong Xia opened her mouth wide and looked at Abu's bald body, and suddenly felt a little worried.
Abu lay down and buried his head in his chest until an hour later they shaved its hair clean, and it kept in that position without looking up.
Deng Xiao looked at Abu, who had no hair and couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha, Abu seems to have lost half of his weight. It turns out that this is the case without hair, and the flesh is still pink, hahahahaha."
Zhuang Yao patted his stomach hard, "Don't laugh at it anymore."
Aqing smiled and said, "I'll be a little uncomfortable at the beginning. Don't worry, new hair will grow in a few days. We sprayed it with deworming potion all over the body. As long as we take regular care of it, the small insects that make it itchy will not grow."
Cong Xia touched Abu's face, "Abu, we're back."
Abu was still lying on the ground, his face buried in his chest, motionless.
"Abu?"
Zhuang Yao also pushed Abu, "Abu, are you back, Abu?"
The two looked at each other, feeling helpless.
Aqing walked around Abu for a long time, "Oh, its self-esteem is so strong..."
Zhuang Yao sat next to Abu, "Abu, don't be so embarrassed, let's go back."
Abu made a very thin cry from his throat, sounding very aggrieved. No matter how they persuaded him, Abu kept in that position and remained motionless.
Two hours passed and no one could touch it.
Cheng Tianbi also began to get impatient, "Let's go back, it will keep up by itself."
"What if it doesn't follow it."
"It's your cat, find a way."
"Of course it's time to figure it out."
“A waste of time.”
Cong Xia sighed, "Why don't we buy it a fish."
Xiao Wang clapped his hands and said, "Buy fish? I know where there are fish, I'll take you there."
Cheng Tianbi said: "You stay and protect Zhuang Yao, and Liu Fengyu will go with us to buy fish."
Xiao Wang led the three of them out. After walking out of the pet shop, Xiao Wang stood by the side of the road, fiddled with his cell phone and sent a text message, and then stood there waiting.
Cong Xiaqi said: "Xiao Wang, who are you waiting for?"
"Waiting for the car."
"ah?"
"Taxi, the fish selling place is a bit far away from here. There are new solar cars in the city. Although the speed is very slow, it is still better than walking." Xiao Wang smiled and said, "It's very expensive. I have never been willing to take it, but you probably don't care."
Ten minutes later, a three-wheeled motorcycle-shaped car drove over. The car looked very light and the material was thin, bigger than the three-wheeled motorcycle. The two rows of stools were able to sit four people.
The car parked in front of them, and it was driven by a middle-aged woman, "Where are you going?"
“Go to the Aquatic Street.”
"Sixty yuan."
"forty."
“At least fifty.”
"Okay, okay." Xiao Wang smiled at them with a sense of accomplishment, "Get in the car."
After getting on the bus, Xiao Wang said, "It will take at least half an hour to arrive. In fact, it is okay to call people from the Aquatic Products Street to deliver goods, but the professor told you to learn more about Beijing. I think it is better to let you go and go there in person."
Cong Xia smiled and said, "It's good. We really need to know more about this place, and there are many questions to ask you."
Xiao Wang touched his head, "You ask, I can't answer it if it's too profound, but I still know most of the things in Beijing."
"Can you briefly introduce to us what is the situation in Beijing now? For example, what institutions are managing now, what rules do each mutant organization operate under, what laws and constraints do there be, what innovative inventions do so many people in Beijing rely on to make a living, and, in what direction are we developing?"
Xiao Wang laughed dryly, "Well, I can't turn my mind, I'll answer one by one. What's the situation in Beijing now? How to say it? According to Professor Cong, Beijing is an active volcano, and under the calm surface is lava that may erupt at any time. Because all scientists insist that this disaster for mankind is much more than that. It took almost a year since the earthquake and now, it was just a preheating. The punishment of the "Cambrian consciousness" on human beings has just begun. So, although Beijing looks relatively calm now, at the beginning
After a large-scale death, he gradually adapted to the new environment and re-established a relatively stable living circle. However, Professor Cong said that these are temporary and will change soon. As for what changes, I don’t know. Anyway, more and more mutants cannot have children. Everyone knows this. If this continues, powerful mutants cannot have children, and weak ordinary people cannot protect themselves. Humans will sooner or later be finished. But I feel that Professor Cong is not worried about a few decades later."
Cong Xia nodded, "Inability to give birth is definitely not the most urgent crisis to be solved. Not to mention the distant future, after spring, mutated animals and plants will usher in the recovery of mutated animals and plants. After a winter test, those surviving plants will become more and more powerful, and those animals that have awakened in hibernation and large aquatic organisms that have frozen and dissolved will bring another wave of threat to humans."
Xiao Wang sighed, "So, in this world, only heartless people can sleep well every day, and sometimes I will be scared by my own nightmare."
Cong Xia comforted: "Do your best and let your fate be yourselves. Let's talk about the current distribution of power in Beijing."
Xiao Wang said: "I can still make it clear. After the end of the world, a peak of human death was ushered in. Beijing's population was reduced from more than 10 million to more than 1 million now. Many of these more than 1 million were people from other places later. In short, not only ordinary people, but also many of the senior leaders died. After the end of the world, our troops had been on the front line of the fight against mutant animals and plants. Later, a large number of mutant people woke up and joined the battle surrounding the city. It took nearly half a year to kill the messy mutant animals and plants in this city, and to restore safety here. Although there are always incidents of mutant animals and plants attacking people every day, they are all small-probability events and no longer
It poses a threat. During the period of cleaning up these things, the troops gradually gained real power. Although the former leaders were still there, they could no longer speak and were protected by food and drink. It turned out that there were three armies in the Beijing Military Region. The 14, 27th, 35th and 35th armies died the most in the battle to clean up mutant animals and plants in the city. The commander of the 35th armies died of the plague. This army was incorporated into the first two armies, namely the 14th armies led by General Xu Ying, and the 27th armies led by General Cao Zhixian." When Xiao Wang said this, he glanced at Cheng Tianbi. It seemed that the relationship between Cheng Tianbi and Cao Zhixian was not a secret. At least, if Cao Zhixian had the intention to hide it, he would not have come to see Cheng Tianbi openly.
Xiao Wang continued: "The three most powerful forces in Beijing are the army, the Academy of Sciences and the Mutant Organization. Among them, the army is the two armies I mentioned. The Academy of Sciences is divided into six districts, and the Mutant Organization is headed by four major organizations, with a large number of people. Because the army holds hard weapons and people's expectations, it is an orthodox national force, because Beijing is now under the management of the army. However, these two armies are also secretly fighting for the control of Beijing, and what causes this situation is caused by the differences of opinions on human reconstruction work. This difference in opinion arises from the brain evolvers of the Academy of Sciences. This difference is divided into the conservatives led by Professor Cong, Colonel Tang, and the radicals led by Dr. Zhuang. Behind Professor Cong are the 27th Group and the Dragon Blood Clan, as well as other scattered mutant organizations, and behind Dr. Zhuang is the 14th Group Army Fenglan Association."
Cong Xia said: "College Tang? I seem to have heard of this name."
"College Tang is a top expert in the field of genetics and the first person in charge of the Dragon Blood Man experiment. Well, he is also a brain-region evolver. I heard that the smarter the person, the easier it is to become a brain-region evolver because the genes in this part are better and have a higher starting point than others, so it is easier to evolve. I don't understand it. Anyway, Professor Cong's theory is that the better the performance of a certain dominant gene, the easier it is to evolve, so basically all brain-region evolved before were geniuses. Look, College Tang, Professor Cong, and the two Dr. Zhuang, weren't they all before?"
Cong Xia nodded, "This makes sense."
Liu Fengyu said: "Continue to talk about the division of forces and give it more details."
"Beijing is controlled by these two major forces. Except for the two mutant organizations mentioned above, Jiujiang County and Liudao Huangquan have always been neutral. They usually accept tasks assigned by the troops. No matter which force is issued, they never take sides. The leaders of Jiujiang County are very arrogant, and the leaders of Liudao Huangquan are relatively low-key. They do not have close contact with the troops."
"What is the reason why the Dragon Blood Clan and Feng Lan will have a superficial position?"
"Because the Dragon Blood Clan is the army. Needless to say, Colonel Tang, you know it by the military rank. In addition, all the Dragon Blood people are in the army, and of course their leaders are also. Of course, they have close ties with the army. As for why they stand in the 27th Army, they must be in that disagreement. Colonel Tang's choice is the same as Professor Cong. The boss of Fenglan Association is a tyrannical person with no sympathy. His greatest interest is to keep getting stronger. Dr. Zhuang's concept of survival of the fittest coincides with him. Most of the other scattered mutant organizations are still neutral."
"So what is the reward for Jiujiang County and Liudao Huangquan to accept the tasks assigned by the troops?"
"This is a lot." Xiao Wang said: "First, we have a puppet jade legally. The troops are collecting puppet jade nationwide, and they don't let go of any of them. Only four organizations can own it. Secondly, they can enjoy a lot of resources, energy, and food. There is also the right to use new weapons, the right to use new drugs, and the right to use various new inventions. They don't need to worry about food and clothing. However, in order to collect puppet jade for the troops, they have also lost a lot of people, and those things are exchanged for their lives. Yao Qianjiang's injury last time went to Xi'an, but it has not healed yet."
Liu Fengyu thought of the insects in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and couldn't help but have a cold war.
Cheng Tianbi asked: "So, what are the ideas of Professor Cong and Zhuang Yu on the reconstruction of human beings?"
Xiao Wang said: "This is a big deal, and I can't explain it clearly. Simply put, Professor Cong advocates the development of new agriculture, animal husbandry, and the development of new energy to restore human life to the right track as much as possible. Dr. Zhuang believes that only by constantly studying genetic modification experiments can make mutant people stronger and make ordinary people who have not mutated become mutant people, so that humans can not be afraid of any threats from mutant animals and plants and return to the position of the planet overlord. Their ideas are very in-depth, and I can't explain clearly. On the surface, it seems that Dr. Zhuang's approach is cruel, but his last speech was very inflammatory. I am an ordinary person, and I don't agree with his opinion, but..." Xiao Wang sighed, "If it were mutant people, many people would support him, and their positions are different, and I dare not say who is right or who is wrong. You should ask Professor Cong for this question."
"So, are the food you eat now produced by new agriculture and animal husbandry?"
"Most of them are. At the beginning, we rely on mutants to hunt and maintain the food supply for the whole city. At that time, many people starved to death every day. Later, new seeds were developed and some livestock were domesticated. The situation gradually improved. Now it can solve the problem of food for more than one million people, which is the credit of the Academy of Sciences, because the Academy of Sciences has a very high prestige. Now the Academy has started a nationwide resumption of communications to help other cities solve food problems and solve safety problems in the next step. Although it is just starting out and it is very difficult, there is always hope." A light flashed in Xiao Wang's eyes.
Cong Xia nodded with a smile, "Humanity still has great hope."
Xiao Wang looked ahead and said, "Hey, the Aquatic Products Street is here. Sister, let's get off here, I'll take you around."
The four of them got out of the car, and there was a bustling street in front of them, with many citizens coming and going, and large trailers were everywhere. It seemed that no matter where they were, energy was a scarce thing. The most important means of transportation - cars, have now become special items that special people can use.
Xiao Wang smiled and said, "This aquatic street sells freshwater fish, most of which are farmed. Because the growth cycle of fish is short and much better than livestock, fish have become our main meat now. However, it is still difficult for ordinary people to eat. Most of the people who come here to buy are mutant organizations."
To be continued...