Chapter 456 The bitter wine cultivation plan (2) (two in one chapter)
No. 44 carried the seeds home.
In the backyard, Teacher Hope had already plowed the ground. When No. 44 came back, she invited him to go to the ground with her.
No. 44 opened the bag and planted different seeds one by one according to the teacher's instructions. He is very pursuing perfection. If the teacher said 5 cm deep, it means 5 cm deep. If it is too shallow or too deep, he will dig it out and plant it again. When he finishes planting
When I looked up from my row, I found that the teacher had already taken care of the next few rows.
"What's this?"
No. 44 pointed to the machine next to the land. He had been curious when he was burying the cat.
"Artificial solar lighting."
The sky above their heads is always dark without any light, so lighting equipment needs to be turned on at any time. Planting vegetables and fruits also requires such solar lamps next to them to grow normally.
No. 44 heard a word he was familiar with, turned around and ran into the house, and came back a few seconds later holding a picture album.
The teacher didn't know why, so No. 44 turned to a certain page and handed it to him: "Teacher, is this 'sunshine'?"
On the left half of the album, there is a golden sun with several orange lines spreading out around it. A blue sky spans two pages. On the right half of the page is a piece of grass with a young man and woman standing on it, with a child between them——44
The number refers to the orange line around the sun.
"Yes." The teacher nodded.
No. 44 lowered his head, this time his eyes fell on the three people.
He looked at the smiling faces of the three of them for a long time, and suddenly pointed at the two adults: "Is this a caregiver?"
The teacher's expression froze: "...that's right."
"Then he is so happy..."
No. 44's fingers brushed against the child in the painting. He was not wearing a jumpsuit or a number armband on his arm, and he murmured quietly.
"To have two caregivers take care of him, and they will smile at him and be willing to hold his hand..."
He turned to the next page. On the next page, the child was held in a woman's arms. He could reach out and hug her neck, but his hands had not been knocked off.
"My caregiver has never smiled at me, let alone hugged me like this..."
Jing Baiye couldn't see the teacher's expression at this moment. He only felt the other person's silence for a few seconds, and then his body moved lightly——
The teacher put his hands under his armpits and hugged him in the same posture as in the picture album.
No. 44 was stunned. He held the picture album in his hand and turned to look at the face of the teacher who was close to Chi Chi. The teacher's skin had been roughened by the wind and rain, and his blond hair exuded the color of the picture album under the artificial sun lamp.
The sun shines brighter and brighter.
"Don't envy others, cherish the things you have around you. You also have things that others don't have," the teacher said.
"Okay." No. 44 nodded vigorously, stretched out his arms and hugged the teacher's neck.
The teacher carried him all the way back to the house, put him down at the dining table, and touched his head.
…
Their dinner was very simple. The teacher had a plate of green vegetables and white porridge, and No. 44 had a tube of nutritional ointment. One tube of nutritional ointment would keep him from being hungry for three days.
After many years, Jing Baiye tasted the taste of nutritional cream again - very bitter, very greasy... Jing Baiye, who could already eat other foods, described it as like eating a piece of lard soaked in bile.
Jing Baiye felt a familiar bitter taste in his mouth, feeling that the simulation of this game was so realistic.
Because of that electronic sound, he knew very well that he was in the game, rather than falling into a coma and dreaming about the first life. But this made him more curious, curious about the designer of this game...or the person who let him enter this game.
What do you want to do?
No. 44 finished a tube of nutritional ointment and only drank half of the teacher's porridge. Even if he had never eaten anything else in the past, No. 44 could tell at a glance that this bowl of hot white porridge tasted better than what he had just eaten.
The people at the table watched eagerly.
The teacher felt a little uncomfortable with his gaze. After he hesitated several times, he finally put down his chopsticks.
"You want to eat this?"
"Is that okay?" No. 44 stood up and leaned toward the teacher, "Just eat a little."
The teacher gave him the bowl and a clean spoon. No. 44 was very obedient and actually ate a little bit - half a spoon.
As a result, as soon as he finished half the spoon, he collapsed instantly.
Jing Baiye's eyes went dark, and his hearing and senses were lost. He realized that No. 44 fell into a brief coma due to indigestion. In the first life, he could only eat nutritional ointments, and he could not eat anything else. If he ate it, he would become ill.
fall.
When I woke up again on the 44th, it was already an hour later.
The teacher took him to the training camp for treatment. After the treatment was completed, he quickly took him out and is now holding him on the way back.
"I won't give you anything else to eat next time, and don't eat randomly yourself." The teacher said helplessly.
"Yeah." No. 44 leaned her head on his shoulder and nodded slightly.
Suddenly, the teacher's arm holding him tightened, and the exposed intact eye opened slightly as if seeing something unbelievable. No. 44 touched the teacher's shoulder, but he didn't react at all. He was wondering.
Then he turned his head and looked in the direction the teacher was looking.
Now Bai Ye could see clearly what was going on.
The gate to the yard was open, and a wooden board on one side fell to the ground. It was covered with messy footprints, as if someone deliberately stepped on it repeatedly to vent their anger. The blood of an unknown animal was splashed on the wall next to it, and lines of bloody words were twisted and crawled on it.
above.
--murderer!
--monster!
——Get out of here!
…
A mess.
In the backyard, the artificial sun lamp fell down and glass shards were scattered on the ground. The ground they had worked hard to plant before dinner was dug up, and some larger seeds were exposed. Even the small ones that No. 44 carefully piled up were dug up.
The dirt bags were dug up, and the kitten's body was dug out and thrown aside.
No. 44 ran towards the house and stopped at the door of the bedroom.
Several tables and chairs were kicked aside, the quilts were stained with large stains, and the stench of excrement floated in the air.
"…………"
No. 44 was completely dumbfounded. He stood at the door in confusion, looking left and right. He didn't know why he only went back to the training camp for treatment once, and this place would become like this.
His home was destroyed less than a day after arriving.
If it were Jing Baiye who controlled the body, he would have gritted his teeth and found the murderer immediately, crushing his bones and scattering his ashes. But now there is only No. 44 here. He has just left the training camp and is ignorant of everything.
The ignorant No. 44 wanted to enter the room. As soon as he raised his feet, he found something under his feet. He picked it up and found that it was a piece of paper torn from a picture album.
No. 44 picked up the torn picture album, looked into the room again, and murmured: "Why is this happening..."
Jing Baiye felt a pain in his left eye, as if something with high temperature had burned his eyeball.
There were several lines of words written in blood on the wall. Because the strokes were more complicated than those on the outside, they became blurred after the blood slid down. No. 44 wanted to get closer, but a hand suddenly placed on his head, stopping him from going forward.
Check.
There was no expression on the teacher's face: "It's just those curse words anyway, don't worry about it."
"Teacher..." No. 44 finally came to his senses and said angrily: "These... who did these? Why did they do this? If they are enemies, we..."
The teacher shook his head to stop him from continuing.
"Pack your things and let's go."
No. 44 didn't have much luggage. He put his gun bag on his back, put the torn picture album inside, and went to the backyard to pick up the cat's body - he wanted to rebury it somewhere else - and when he stepped out of the door, he turned back
He glanced at the seed bag leaning against the wall.
"Teacher, do you want to return those to the neighbor sister?" He asked, "Will their home also be attacked? Do you want to go and take a look?"
The album says that you should help others within your ability.
"No need." The teacher said calmly.
Instead of looking for the murderer, he took No. 44 away from here.
…
The next few scenes are fragmentary, but almost repeat the same thing.
——No matter where they go, as soon as they come into contact with outsiders on the 44th, their home will be gone, whether that's the same day or as long as a week.
Jing Baiye watched his and his teacher's home burn to ashes in different ways again and again. Even though he knew that this happened a long time ago, the anger in his heart swelled and burned to the extreme. He even doubted whether this was the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes -
—Make him angry to death in the game.
On the way, the teacher took him to a friend's house. That friend also had a child from the training camp. They had a fight for unknown reasons and finally broke up.
In the end, there was no other choice, so the teacher decided to take No. 44 to camp in the wild temporarily.
The tent was not big, and could only accommodate two people at the same time, and there was no room for anything else. They spread two sleeping bags inside and hung a small lamp above them. In front of the tent, they placed a few sleeping bags from other places.
The small wooden box I found was used as a table, and the laptop used to communicate with others was placed on it.
Don't worry about someone stealing it. Stealing or destroying communication equipment is a felony and can easily be charged as a "crime against humanity" and punishable by death.
No. 44 got into the tent, touched the sleeping bag with his left hand, and touched the curtain and pillars with his right hand. He felt that he couldn't see enough.
This is his new home.
"Pack up, let's go to the market to buy things." The teacher said.
When the teacher talks about tidying up, he means making No. 44 put on a hooded cloak - because so many people suffer from disfigurement, this kind of clothing has become very popular.
The market was near a residential area. When he arrived at the market for the first time on the 44th, he held the teacher's hand, put on a hood and carefully covered most of his face, and looked around from such a half-hidden perspective.
On both sides are low-rise houses with one to two floors. Occasionally, vendors carrying burdens walk through the crowd. Several long strings of light strips hang low between the first and second floors, lighting up the entire street.
This is a very distorted era. It is absolutely advanced in some fields, but because of the war, many things have returned to the state they were in decades or even hundreds of years ago.
The two of them walked forward and passed by a pharmacy.
A pale and thin old man was kneeling in front of the steps, crying and shouting something. After speaking, he put his hands on the ground and wanted to kowtow to the person in front of him. The man in front of him seemed not to be surprised by this behavior.
Weird, he raised his hand to drive him away skillfully: "Go, go, go! You still want to buy medicine when you have no money? Do you think we are doing charity?!"
The teacher stopped, and No. 44 followed suit: "Teacher, do you want to buy medicine?"
The living standard and safety of Jing Baiye's first life were far inferior to those of the latter two worlds, but there were two things that these two worlds couldn't compare to.
The first is computers, and the second is medicine.
——Although the world has been ravaged by war and is on the verge of destruction, before the war began, humans have conquered more diseases. Many terminal diseases that were fatal a hundred years ago have better drugs to treat or control them, and they are available in the most common pharmacies.
Can be purchased.
"No." The teacher slowly shook his head, "Let's go."
He walked straight past the kneeling old man without making any further stops.
The two of them walked far away, and the begging finally disappeared, but No. 44 felt the teacher's hand shaking slightly as he held it.
"Money is such a good thing..." the teacher murmured.
The radiation contamination that cannot be eliminated has led to a gradual increase in the proportion of survivors who are sick, and correspondingly, the price of drugs is also getting higher and higher.
Even if mankind encounters a catastrophe, it will not prevent many people from continuing to make money.
No. 44 was completely unaware of the teacher's mood. He shook the teacher's hand and said, "Teacher, didn't you say that the superiors will contact us at any time to give us the first task? Once the task is completed, we will have money."
Due to the continuous moving and house demolition, the teacher's savings have long been running low, and No. 44 now wants to make money.
"Um."
After the teacher finished speaking, he held his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he would get lost in the crowd.
After they finished shopping, they left the market. When they passed by the drugstore again, the old man had disappeared. In the drugstore, the man who had driven people away was sitting behind the counter, tapping a stack of money quickly with his fingers, and the smile on his face was bigger than Jing Baiye's.
Winning $444 million at that time was still distorted.
A passerby walked out of the store, looked at the money bag, shook his head and sighed: "What a vampire. He knew it was a life-saving medicine, but he deliberately raised the price..."
The people traveling with him patted him on the shoulder: "Only by raising the price of life-saving medicine can we make money. After all, who would have trouble with their own life?"
No. 44 watched them walk away, and heard the teacher's sigh in his ears.
"If you really want to make money, you shouldn't make money from other people's lives..."
These words drifted into the bustle of the market, and the scene in front of Jing Baiye began to distort again.
[The second scene ends, the third scene is loading...]
The loading time took a little longer this time, and it wasn't until Jing Baiye counted to a hundred in his mind that his vision became clear again.
When she saw the scene in front of her clearly, Jing Baiye was slightly startled.
The crystal clear ice reflected his appearance at this moment - black hair and red eyes, his left and right faces were completely symmetrical, his boots were on the ice, his hand was pulling a slender rope, and he was wearing a shielding suit, which caused a slight sting.
The feeling comes from the wrapping of clothes.
This is……
This time he actually returned...
"Number 44!"
The teacher's voice came from below, and Jing Baiye subconsciously looked down. In the white snow, he only saw a black dot smaller than an ant.
"teacher……"
This shout was made by Jing Baiye himself, and he was surprised to find that he could actually control his body.
He remembered clearly that this was his first mission, to search near the northernmost border.
——In this mission, because he longed to see the real sky, after crossing the barrier set by humans, he climbed up to the 1044-meter-high glacier in front of him, which would exceed the range of the shielding suit.
"teacher……"
In the first life of Jingbaiye, he chose to jump down, return to his teacher, and return to Hope.
And now, the game gives him a second chance to choose.
