If God doesn't give it to you, you must have the talent for magic.
The point is not about "God's refusal" and "deformed children".
The point is nuclear radiation!
Li Guanqi looked at the crying baby girl in his arms who was born without a left arm, and was completely sure of this matter.
Before this, Lin Xianbai once mentioned to him that in reality, he had tried experiments on ordinary people who were born with disabilities, but the result was that those people had no aptitude for spells.
In other words, the spell qualifications of 100 million extraordinary people are actually just rewards from the strange world.
Those with disabilities, regardless of congenital or acquired, were given corresponding spell qualifications after entering the strange world.
As for those without disabilities, if they can pass the first level of Wei Mo's two bowls of curse insects test, they can also obtain lower spell qualifications.
But in reality, those with congenital disabilities who are not selected to become one of the 100 million extraordinary beings will not actually have the aptitude for spells at all.
But...this is a phenomenon before the end of the world.
After an extraordinary 20 years of nuclear war, intense nuclear radiation spread all over the world, turning the sky into a gray cloud.
The horrific nuclear radiation has caused genetic mutations in some unborn babies while they are still in their mothers' wombs.
This also makes some human beings, who do not have Lin Xianbai's spiritual roots, find another way and obtain the talent of sensing and controlling spiritual power in another way.
Nuclear radiation?
No, it's more than that.
In today's wasteland world, besides nuclear radiation, what else is there?
Different blood virus!
It is very likely that the combination of nuclear radiation and the thin alien blood virus in the air gave some babies the gift of sensing and controlling spiritual power, and they also acquired a kind of innate ability.
A special ability similar to a superpower.
That is...the magic organ, the so-called natural magic organ!
The magic organ of the magician is the product of nuclear radiation after the nuclear war. It is a mutated organ only possessed by the new humans in the wasteland. It is the "new spiritual root" in the era of nuclear radiation!
But the price of excessive nuclear radiation is physical deformities and lesions.
One less hand is actually very good.
More serious deformities should be more like monsters... However, such people and such spell geniuses are already very rare in the strange world of the New Age.
"Mr. Strong!"
At this time, Zhang Shang walked up to Li Guanqi and solemnly stretched out his right hand, "Please return this ominous baby to us. We need to bury it near the tribe!"
"..."
Li Guanqi frowned slightly.
He looked at Feng Yao beside him, frowned and said, "You said that the Flower Tribe is a big tribe, so how do you deal with such things?"
"Send to be burned on the altar."
Feng Yao said matter-of-factly, "It is normal to give birth to deformed children. There can be two or three out of ten. We usually burn them to death directly, because deformed children cannot become qualified laborers, and for ordinary wasteland
For a family, it is completely unworthy and unaffordable to raise a person who cannot become a qualified labor force."
"really."
Li Guanqi can understand, after all, ordinary families in the wasteland have to live.
But understanding this doesn't mean that he will do the same thing.
"Go back."
Li Guanqi looked at Zhang Shang coldly, "I'm taking this child away. This is not a discussion, but a notification."
"But... uh?!"
Zhang Shang subconsciously wanted to refute, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a huge ice pick appeared in front of his mouth out of thin air.
It seemed that if he dared to say one more word, the ice pick would be inserted directly into his head.
"Feng Yao, let's go."
Li Guanqi held the baby girl in his arms and turned to leave.
…
…
After some time.
Above the wilderness where countless zombies roamed, under the gray sky, a green storm swept past, flying into the distance at an alarming speed.
In the center of the eye of the storm was Li Guanqi, dressed in black, holding a gray animal skin swaddling bag in his arms.
Feng Yao was standing next to him. Due to Li Guanqi's exquisite spell control, Feng Yao didn't feel like he was being carried by the strong wind at all.
Standing on the air current feels no different from standing on land.
On the outskirts of the area where the Ziye tribe was located, the zombie army that Feng Yao had previously regarded as a barrier to the abyss was meaningless in front of Li Guanqi. He flew over with a wind control technique, and the countless zombies below could only stare at him.
"Wow..."
Amidst the howling wind, the baby's cry was extremely clear.
"Hey, if you cry again, I'm going to hypnotize you."
Li Guanqi lowered his head and looked at the baby girl in his arms, feeling quite helpless.
"Woo...hehe!"
Interestingly, when Li Guanqi looked at her like this, the baby girl stopped crying. Instead, she blinked her big and lively eyes, laughed playfully, and wanted to reach out and touch Li Guanqi's face.
But she only has a fleshy right hand, and only a short fleshy arm at her left shoulder, which is moving slightly.
"If God doesn't give it, it will give it to you."
Li Guanqi held the baby girl curled up in the animal skin swaddling clothes with his left hand, stretched out the index finger of his right hand, gently teased her little hand, and smiled softly:
"You don't have a left hand, but it doesn't matter. You also have something that ordinary people don't have, which is the ability to perceive spiritual power and control spiritual power... You will come into contact with another world, the world of conjurers."
"Boss, what are you muttering about?"
At this time, Feng Yao next to him hesitated to speak, and finally couldn't help but said: "Also, boss, you have just returned to this world, so you may not be clear yet.
The world now has become a wasteland, with nuclear radiation everywhere, and the survival rate of babies is very low.
If you want to raise her, what if she dies later, and you have to give up your feelings for nothing, and you will be sad when the time comes, how uncomfortable will it be?"
"Feng Yao?"
Li Guanqi was still teasing the baby girl in his arms, smiling without looking back.
"Um?"
Feng Yao looked at him curiously.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are really bad at talking?" Li Guanqi's smile remained unchanged.
However, Feng Yao's expression froze, and a few drops of cold sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.
He suddenly remembered that in the cave before, he was still saying that Li Guanqi, the man of the Evil Phoenix Queen, was not a man... As it turned out, the Li Guanqi in the poem's story was actually beside him.
Feng Yao lowered his head and did not dare to speak anymore, for fear that he would not die in the monster's mouth, but die from his own words.
"I don't want to raise her."
Li Guanqi looked at the baby girl in his arms with soft eyes, "Actually, you are right. She is indeed a burden to me. I am going to Guanmeng Shelter, and it is impossible to take a baby with me on the way."
"Huh? Then why..."
Feng Yao was confused, "Boss, I don't understand what you want to do."
"She is a burden to me, but to this wasteland world, she is not."
Li Guanqi looked at the disabled baby girl with only her right arm and said seriously: "She is the key, which will open up another extraordinary path for this world, an extraordinary power that all different-blooded superhumans have to face up to. That is magic."
The power of law.”
Feng Yao was stunned.
Li Guanqi held the baby girl with calm eyes.
In one extraordinary year, 100 million extraordinary people disappeared, the apocalypse has not yet come, the world does not have nuclear radiation and different blood viruses, in reality no one can mutate magic organs, and no one has the qualifications for magic.
That means there are no magicians.
Coupled with the 80 years of life in the wasteland after the apocalypse of Extraordinary Year 20, much of the previous knowledge has been lost. Those spellcasters who only appeared in Extraordinary Year 1 first became legends, and over time were forgotten.
.
In this wasteland era, people... at least, most of the middle- and lower-class people don't know that disability represents aptitude for spells. Instead, they think it is a bad omen.
Li Guanqi will change this perception.
With this little baby girl in my arms.
"What kind of woman is Asuka, the leader of the Minghua tribe?"
Li Guanqi held the baby girl and suddenly asked Feng Yao.
"ah?"
Feng Yao immediately guessed what Li Guanqi meant, and immediately shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, no, no, no, no! No! No!"
Boss, Asuka is a good leader, but she is definitely not a good mother!
It is impossible for her to help you raise this baby girl. Even if she is forced to agree in front of you due to your strength, she will definitely burn this disabled child to death after you leave."
"Good leader?"
Li Guanqi smiled, "That's better. I need a good leader more than a good mother. If Asuka is really a smart leader, then she won't reject the child, because... this represents her tribe
The rise of.”
"Rise?"
Feng Yao was confused, "Boss, I don't understand."
"You don't need to understand."
Li Guanqi looked forward calmly, "You are just a leader. I am too lazy to explain too much to you."
"..."
Feng Yao was speechless.
"Watch the direction and don't take me the wrong way."
"Yes, yes."
The cyan storm swept across the gray sky, flying all the way into the distance, constantly heading towards the Bright Flower Tribe.
However.
What appeared before the Minghua tribe was a group of flying mutant giant birds.
In other words... the bird demon species!
"It's the Bone-Eating Eagle!"
Feng Yao looked at the group of gray giant eagles in the distance, and his expression suddenly changed drastically, "Old, old, boss! Be careful! Those giant eagles are all first-order demon species, but they come in groups and collectively spit out the bone-corrosive poisonous mist.
Even a second-level alien-blooded superhuman can't handle it...well."
He didn't finish speaking.
Li Guanqi waved his hand casually, without even bothering to pinch the seal, and directly above the group of giant birds, a huge fireball condensed out of thin air.
"boom!"
The fireball exploded, and all the giant birds turned into barbecued meat and plummeted to the ground.
And on the withered yellow earth, countless zombies of different blood also opened their bloody mouths, waiting for this "buffet" of roasted birds falling from the sky.
"fire?!"
Feng Yao was stunned and looked at Li Guanqi in disbelief, "Boss, you have two powers?! Wind and flames?!"
"Energy attacks are superpowers? It doesn't matter if you don't know the spells. You haven't seen any Tao spells?"
Li Guanqi frowned, "What about the Penglai Heavenly Master Army? Don't the Heavenly Master Army also know how to use Taoism?"
"What is Taoism?"
Feng Yao was at a loss.
"All right……"
Li Guanqi was a little helpless, "The Heavenly Master Army are all superhumans of different blood? They only use one kind of superhuman power?"
"No, what else?"
Feng Yao now seemed to have been forcibly opened up to the world. After seeing Li Guanqi using the two abilities of wind and fire, he was completely confused.
But Feng Yao is still too weak.
He is a first-level alien-blooded superhuman. He is not considered to be at the bottom, but he can only be said to be an ordinary class in the wasteland. His knowledge of this world cannot explain anything.
Minghua Tribe.
Li Guanqi has to go to a bigger place to know more things.
"call--"
The cyan storm roared through the sky carrying Li Guanqi and Feng Yao. Occasionally, it encountered flying monsters looking for death, but they would kill them casually. Sometimes they didn't even bother to kill them. The cyan storm would directly hit them and force them to do so.
Make a way for life.
Time passed little by little.
Night falls.
In today's wasteland, the sky is filled with gray clouds and mist. It looks very dark during the day. At night, it becomes even darker. For ordinary people, it is almost impossible to see.
Fortunately, both Li Guanqi and Feng Yao are superhuman beings who can see at night.
Time passes gradually.
The world gradually regained a little light.
the next day.
This was the morning after Li Guanqi returned to reality.
"Wow - wow -"
At this time, the baby girl didn't know why, she kept crying and cried very hard.
"Don't cry, don't cry."
Li Guanqi was a little confused for a while, awkwardly shaking the baby, trying to do what he saw on TV before, where a woman would hold a baby and shake it, and then the baby would stop crying.
But it's no use.
The more Li Guanqi shook, the harder the baby girl cried.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Li Guanqi glanced out of the corner of his eye and caught a glimpse of the mountaineering bag on Feng Yao's back.
The bag is full of mineral water.
"Want some water?"
Li Guanqi hesitated.
Feng Yao was immediately stunned when he heard this.
After a long while, he looked at Li Guanqi and said cautiously: "Well, boss, yes, is there a possibility, that is, I don't know what it was like a hundred years ago, but...
Well, that is, human babies in a hundred years will need more... um, milk?
Speaking of which, she is also amazing. She was born overnight, didn’t drink anything, and she is still crying loudly..."
Feng Yao, this new human being in the wasteland, is really afraid of saying the wrong thing again.
"...Why am I so stupid?"
Li Guanqi covered his face, feeling a little embarrassed.
yes.
The baby must drink a lot of milk!
"Is the Minghua tribe coming soon?"
Li Guanqi looked at Feng Yao anxiously, "You said that the Flower Tribe is very big, so there will always be lactating women, right?"
"Forehead……"
Feng Yao looked around, carefully identified the obvious terrain nearby as a reference, and quickly gave a reply, "If we follow our previous average speed, we should be there in another two hours."
"Then speed up."
Li Guanqi's eyes condensed, and the spiritual power in his body exploded. The surrounding wind suddenly became more violent, and its speed increased several times in an instant, piercing the sky!
"brush--"
Ten minutes later.
Li Guanqi and Feng Yao finally saw the outline of the Minghua tribe on the desolate land.
It was a huge city surrounded by mountains on three sides.
It is somewhat similar to the shelter Li Guanqi saw in ancient ruins, but the scale is much larger. The towering cement and stone walls are more than thirty meters high and nearly three to five meters thick, forming a vast circle.
shaped area.
Within the towering city walls, there are countless wooden and stone houses, and a large number of new wasteland humans are thriving inside.
On top of the city, a flag fluttered in the wind.
It was a large pink flag with white cherry blossom petals on it.
That is the flag of the Asuka family and the symbol of the Asuka tribe.
The entire Minghua tribe is clearly divided into two urban areas: inner and outer.
The outer city looks extremely simple, which perfectly fits the word "wasteland".
As for the inner city, Li Guanqi found memories of modern society, those exquisite apartments, small villas, and the towering castle in the center of the city. In addition, he even saw several suspended flying cars passing through the sky above the walled city.
The strong collision between high technology and primitive society, this sense of difference is very strange.
Li Guanqi is not surprised by the emergence of hovercars.
The end of the world only appeared after 20 extraordinary years.
In the past 20 years, the discovery of new energy sources such as spiritual power will definitely make a huge leap forward in human science and technology.
If the apocalypse had not come, it is estimated that when Li Guanqi comes back a hundred years later, he will see the world of Cyberpunk 2077, and it may be even more advanced.
"boom!"
Li Guanqi controlled the strong wind and landed directly over the castle in the inner city. He unlocked the "Sealing Skill" and the terrifying coercion poured out, covering the entire fortress!
The air flow surged, causing his white hair to flutter and flutter, while his blue eyes were unruffled.
Li Guanqi doesn't want to keep a low profile.
In the strange world, he still has to be careful, but when he returns to reality, especially the reality of the wasteland world, with his strength, why should he keep a low profile?!
And he still deliberately wanted to be high-profile.
Because he wants the entire wasteland to know that he, Li Guanqi, is back.
What if Han Mengyao learned about this and came to find him?
No matter what happens, Lin Xianbai can find him.
Well, thinking of Han Mengyao, Li Guanqi suddenly remembered another thing.
Luck.
If nothing else, the luck of this era should no longer be with him. After all, he has disappeared from the real world for a hundred years, so there is no reason that the luck of this era should still be with him.
The peaceful life during the simulation also verified this idea.
Li Guanqi guessed that the fortunes of the current era should be concentrated on those centenarians who have lived from before the end of the world to today, such as King Penglai of the Tianshi Army, and the Evil Phoenix Queen of Guanmeng Sanctuary——
Han Mengyao.
How to do it?
Li Guanqi still wanted to get it back.
Forget it about Han Mengyao, but for everyone else, Li Guanqi will definitely come to see them one by one to see how to get their luck back.
Or maybe he actually needs to find one of the strongest curse spirits today to kill?
But this is all for later.
What is urgently needed now is to find a woman who can breastfeed the child.
"Dear strong man!"
At this time, on the top floor of the castle, a young and beautiful woman wearing a cherry blossom dress walked to the balcony. With several armored guards behind her, she knelt down on one knee directly towards Li Guanqi to show respect.
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In today's wasteland era, which has experienced 80 years of apocalyptic life, human beings have extremely strict concepts of dignity and inferiority.
"I am the leader of the Minghua Tribe, Asuka!"
The woman in the cherry blossom dress didn't even dare to look up at Li Guanqi. She just lowered her head and said loudly: "Minghua Tribe, welcome your arrival!"