Li Jian did not deny it, he just slowly knelt down in front of Zhang Yi.
"I'm sorry! We failed to protect the child you left behind."
"I know you are very angry, but under these conditions, we have done our best. If you want to kill, just kill me! But please don't hurt other people, they are innocent."
After Li Jian said this, he calmly prepared to die.
He didn't intend to die, but as the building manager of #18, he knew that if he didn't die, it would be difficult to calm Zhang Yi's anger.
But at this moment, an old man's voice suddenly came from inside the building.
"Li Jian, you can't die! If you die, all of us will have no hope of living!"
Zhang Yi raised his head and looked towards the room on the 6th floor.
A group of people appeared there, and the person standing at the front looked familiar. He seemed to be the old man who had taken away the grain with Li Jian.
The old man's name is Ge Chenghua, and he is a highly respected agricultural professor.
He led a group of neighbors over, with firm looks on their faces.
"Zhang Yi, it's our fault that we didn't feed the child you sent. But Li Jian is our hope. Please let him go and let me die for him!"
Ge Chenghua looked at Zhang Yi without fear and said firmly.
"If you want revenge, just take my life! Anyway, I have lived a long enough life."
An old lady with gray hair said.
"Let me come and kill me!"
"I'm a bachelor and I'm not afraid of death!"
…
Neighbors rushed forward to die in Li Jian's place.
Li Jian's eyes filled with excitement, "You..."
The scene of this group of people rushing to die made Zhang Yi a little touched, but also a little speechless.
He sneered and asked, "Who said I want you to die?"
Li Jian looked at Zhang Yi in astonishment, lowered his head and said guiltily: "We didn't feed the child you sent over. You can't possibly forgive us, can you?"
Zhang Yi took a deep breath and looked at Li Jian and the others as if they were mentally retarded.
It turned out that Xie Limei's child was dead.
Sure enough, there are not so many miracles in this world.
An infant is too fragile to get sick even in peaceful times, let alone in the extremely cold temperatures of the Ice Age.
The reason why Li Jian and others were afraid was because they thought the child was very important to Zhang Yi.
Little did they know that Zhang Yi left the child to them because he felt that the child was a burden.
If it weren't for the fact that he was afraid that he had inner demons, he would have given the child away with his own hands.
Now that she is dead, she is dead, Zhang Yi doesn't care.
So Zhang Yi said: "I know you can't do anything about this kind of thing. Li Jian, get up!"
Zhang Yi asked Li Jian to stand up and stop kneeling.
Hearing Zhang Yi's words, Li Jian was stunned for a moment, and then felt ecstatic.
Don’t you have to die?
Li Jian was deeply moved and felt that Zhang Yi was really a good and humane person.
The neighbors of #18 also breathed a long sigh of relief.
"I want to know how you survive until now. What do you rely on? Tell me in detail! I'm very curious."
Zhang Yi directly stated the purpose of his coming.
Naturally, Li Jian did not dare to hide anything. He extended his hand to invite Zhang Yi to enter the unit building.
"You will understand all this if you come over and see with your own eyes. I will explain it to you slowly."
Zhang Yi looked at the dark corridor, reached out and touched Huahua's head, smiled and nodded.
"Okay, let's go over and have a look."
With this super bodyguard here, he really isn't afraid of any danger.
Li Jian led the way, and Zhang Yi walked upstairs with him.
On the way, Li Jian told him what happened during this period.
"Since we received the seeds you donated, we have tried various methods to try to make them take root, sprout and grow."
"But the results after trying it are not very good, and a large number of seeds are dying. Even if there are some that survive, their vitality is very weak."
"At one point we were all desperate and even considered organizing a group of death squads to go out in search of food."
"But at this time, a group of believers who called themselves the Snow Worship Sect came."
Zhang Yi's eyes flashed, "Worship the Snow Sect? Do you mean to say that you are able to survive now because of their help?"
Li Jian did not dare to hide anything from Zhang Yi.
He said: "Their people came and found me. They said they could help us survive and give me extraordinary abilities."
"At that time, we had no other choice, so I agreed to their conditions."
"Everyone is going to die anyway, so we will accept any conditions now."
Zhang Yi was also curious about what conditions the other party put forward to get back what they paid.
Li Jian said: "But they said that as long as we believe in the Snow God, nothing else is needed."
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhang Yi's mouth.
He never believed that there was a free lunch in the world.
A certain penguin used himself as an example to teach countless young people across the country that free things are the most expensive!
"Then what abilities do you have now?"
Zhang Yi stared at Li Jian and asked.
Li Jian answered honestly: "He planted a white seed between my eyebrows, right here."
Li Jian reached out and touched the spot between his eyebrows.
"I felt like I was thrown into an ice cellar, and then there was a burst of heat like fire."
"Then, my body produced a strange power. Look!"
Li Jian lifted up the clothes on his right arm in front of Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi saw a very strange scene. He believed that any trypophobia patient would feel numb when seeing this scene.
The skin of Li Jian's skinny arms was covered with bumps one after another, and there were dense network roots that penetrated deeply into the flesh.
The entire arm no longer looks like a human arm. Instead, it looks like a petri dish. Everywhere you can see are small raised bumps.
"What is this?"
Zhang Yi swallowed his saliva, feeling a little resisted by this strange feeling, but he still asked.
Li Jian said: "These are the seeds of food."
He looked at Zhang Yi and showed a weak smile: "My ability is to use my own body to cultivate plants. The grain cultivated by my body will not only have more vitality, but also grow faster."
Zhang Yi remained silent.
He just took a deep look at the scrawny Li Jian, and finally understood why he became such a human being and a ghost.
"Just using your flesh and blood to grow food won't be able to meet the nutrients needed for planting, right?"
Zhang Yi said calmly.
"Ah! This problem can be easily solved. We have Professor Ge here. He is an expert in the field of agriculture!"
Li Jian took Zhang Yi to the door of a room. When he reached out to turn the door handle, he looked at Zhang Yi apologetically.
"The following picture may make you a little uncomfortable, please forgive me."
Zhang Yi smiled disapprovingly and said, "Do you think there is anything else I haven't seen before?"
"Ah, that's right."
After speaking, Li Jian reached out and opened the door.
A touch of green caught Zhang Yi's eyes.
He felt the warm and humid air, the crisp green color before his eyes, and everything in this room was indeed full of weirdness.
This is a planting room, filled with all kinds of cultivated grains, which are lush and green and grow very vigorously.
But the place where they take root is not soil—but corpses.
Plants take root on the corpse, absorb nutrients, and then grow vigorously.
Li Jian said to Zhang Yi: "Due to the lack of nutrients, we can only attack the dead residents of the community."
Zhang Yi curled his lips and said with a smile: "Isn't this good? At least you know how to recycle waste. This way you don't have to feel moral guilt due to cannibalism, and you won't waste any resources."
He suddenly thought of something and asked Li Jiandao: "Did you build those tombs outside to store corpses?"
Li Jian nodded sheepishly: "That's true."
Zhang Yi took a look in the room and saw that the grains were growing very well.
Those corpses had long been drained of nutrients and turned into white bones.
There is still a lot of soil on the corpse, and the remaining nutrients and microorganisms will be absorbed by the soil.
Really nothing is wasted.
"How many breeding rooms like this do you have in your unit building?"
Zhang Yi reached out and pinched the leaves of a wheat plant, and asked casually.
"There are three rooms in total."
"Well, that's good. It's good to be self-reliant."
Zhang Yi glanced at Li Jian and said, "But if you continue like this, you will die!"
In the three breeding rooms, each seed absorbs Li Jian's flesh and blood and grows.
For him, what is overdrawn is his vitality, which is equivalent to using his life to exchange for the hope of food growth.
Li Jian scratched his head and laughed: "Anyway, at this time, even if you do nothing, you will still die!"
"It's better to try my best to do something, and then... let my wife and children live."
When Li Jian mentioned his wife and son, his eyes were filled with warmth.
That's something called love.
Zhang Yi couldn't help but have a hint of admiration for Li Jian.
Maybe one day he will be like this when he has a child.
But that day will at least have to wait until the end of the world is over.
"Li Jian, let me see your ability!"
Zhang Yi put away his sympathy and stared at Li Jian seriously.
So far, he has seen many artificial aliens, let's call them modified humans for now.
The ability to transform people is much worse than that of naturally awakened aliens.
Li Jian's abilities are very practical, but he doesn't show a strong enough aspect.
Zhang Yi wanted to confirm how far the so-called Snow Worship Sect's Great Decree can stimulate people's potential.
Li Jian was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then agreed with a firm look.
Although this kind of thing is very harmful to his body, he cannot refuse Zhang Yi, or in other words, he is not qualified to negotiate terms.
"I understand, now I'll let you see my abilities!"