Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 308 Their Children (The Finale)

The weather forecast was very accurate this time. The next morning, before dawn, snowflakes began to fall like pieces of paper.

Before long, a thick layer of it covered the ground.

In Shenzhen, sentries at various posts had already changed into cotton-padded coats and hats, and each of them was meticulously on guard with night binoculars. If they found anything unusual, they would immediately pick up their walkie-talkies to notify the patrol team.

Therefore, although there were a few unusual events inside and outside the city in the early stages of the heavy snowfall, they were quickly brought under control and did not affect everyone's snow removal efforts in the slightest.

Although the heavy snow had only just begun, the city and its surrounding areas were teeming with people. Everyone was carrying brooms and wooden shovels, sweeping and shoveling the snow in an orderly fashion, then loading it onto tricycles, which were then pulled together to a single location and pushed into the ditch.

Like rain, snow is polluting. Only by controlling it within a certain area and using water-based ability users to purify the water can we prevent large-scale land pollution.

Through repeated experience, everyone has realized that we must never wait until the snow piles up like mountains before clearing it, as the consequences would be far more serious than they are now.

"Dad, shall I go for a walk outside the city?"

Having just returned from Kyoto, Jiang Qi and his group hadn't officially returned to school yet. Taking advantage of their few days off, he wanted to accompany Song Xiaoxiao back to her home.

Her inner conflict needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

Because it is right next to the Pingjiang Bridge, Pingcheng has long been cleaned up and is perfectly safe.

Therefore, when Lin Zhe heard that the two of them were going to Pingcheng, he turned around and ran away without saying a word.

The two of them went to pay respects to their elders. Song Xiaoxiao was heartbroken, so Jiang Qi had to hug and comfort her.
He's not going to be that third wheel.

I haven't seen Du Xiaoleng for more than three months. The little girl was so angry that she turned her back to him yesterday. I need to hurry home and coax the child while I'm free.

Yueyue was pulled over by Gao Junyu to see the new fruits and vegetables he had encouraged to grow. Even though it was snowing heavily outside, her enthusiasm remained undiminished.

Lin Zhe felt that Junyu was getting better and better, and among all of them, they might be the first to drink wedding wine.

As soon as Youyou came back, she went to the orphanage with Aunt Cheng. The two were so close that they looked like a mother and daughter.

Lin Zhe was already used to this, and Xu Bo, needless to say, was even more used to it than him.

Anyway, as long as Cheng Siyun is around, in Xu You's heart, the two of them definitely can't get in.

It's not that she has no status at all, but she's definitely ranked after Cheng Siyun.

As for her encounter with her biological mother and the Zhou family in Kyoto, before they could even speak, the Kyoto side had already reported everything to Jiang Minglang.

Xu Bo didn't say anything for the time being after he found out. As for what he would do or how he would do it, there was still a long time to tell. He would settle this score with Zhou Huai'an sooner or later.

In the midst of the heavy snowfall, Shenzhen was in a state of orderly and peaceful tranquility, looking nothing like the apocalypse, but rather like an ordinary snowfall before the end of the world.

Standing on the roof of her villa, Bai Li looked out over the city through the various green vines and couldn't help but sigh: she could never have imagined this scene at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Even more unexpectedly, she, who has always disliked meddling in other people's business and only wished for the safety of her own family, would one day become one of the guardians of a city.

Yes, now everyone in Shenzhen knows that any area covered by green vines is definitely safe.

Even though her pothos plants often mutate, the white flowers on them look a bit like man-eating plants. Whenever an animal passes by, it will open its petals and take a bite.

But almost no one is afraid of them, because they never bite.

So although many people have never met Bai Li in person, her name is already a household name.

When others talk about her, they always refer to her as Deputy Base Chief Bai. Even though she rarely goes to the base chief's building, her office is practically non-existent, and she doesn't handle any of the base's trivial matters, everyone still thinks that she, like Deputy Base Chief Jiang, is also a deputy base chief.

How do you describe this feeling?

I'm actually quite proud of it!
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Five years later, in the sixteenth year of the apocalypse.

"Has the person been found?"

Jiang Qi, who had officially graduated from military academy and joined the army as a qualified field team leader, was frowning as he asked Lin Zhe on the other end of the phone.

Although the network has been fully restored, it still disconnects from time to time due to the weather. In some areas, there is no network at all.

For example, several cities such as Pingcheng, Connecticut, and Sucheng-Jiangcheng, which were severely polluted and unable to be rebuilt, have long been turned into desolate wastelands due to prolonged rain and snow infiltration and damage from mutated plants and animals.

No one will come in here unless absolutely necessary.

Even the White Tiger, which occupies a part of Pingcheng, rarely ventures into the area.

That's right, this tiger king is still alive.

This apocalypse seems to be a process of survival of the fittest; those who survive and develop superpowers will live longer.

So no one knows how long this white tiger will live.

Fortunately, it had already reached a consensus with Jiang Minglang and the others to depend on each other and not interfere with each other.

At this time, the civilian team that Jiang Qi and his group were looking for was not in the wasteland formed by these cities, but in a large mountain in the northwest region, 200 kilometers away from Pengcheng.

They accepted a task issued by the management office to collect five mutant plants needed by the research institute.

The team consists of twenty members; fifteen went out to collect plants, while five stayed behind.

Yesterday, the five people went to the management office to request a rescue, saying that their team members who went out on a mission had been out of contact for three days.

Just then, Jiang Qi was patrolling the northwest area of ​​Pengcheng with his team, so the management office assigned them the task of rescuing the team members.

Lin Zhe led his men up the mountain to search, while Jiang Qi remained at the foot of the mountain as the commander-in-chief, which also facilitated their support.

"Bro, there's actually someone in the Dawn team."

Jiang Xiaobai, who had been pulled into the team for training by Jiang Qi, pointed to a name on the list and handed it to Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi only glanced at the names of the captain and vice-captain on the list of fifteen people; he hadn't paid any attention to the other team members. Therefore, he was slightly surprised when he saw the name his sister pointed out.

"He's actually a member of the Dawn team."

Although the Dawn Team is not as good as Liu Feng Team led by Liu Xu and Liu Ying, it is still the third ranked team in Pengcheng. Over the years, they have taken on many tasks, big and small, and have completed almost every one with high quality and quantity. Therefore, they have a very good reputation in the management office.

But Jiang Qi didn't know that his nominal "second uncle," Jiang Zhijie, was also a member of this team.

My father severed ties with the Jiang family years ago, so neither Jiang the Second nor Jiang Zhijie have paid any attention to them in recent years.

Unexpectedly, I saw this person's name during this rescue mission.

Jiang Qi said nonchalantly, "Just treat them like ordinary people, do what you're supposed to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone, which had been silent for a while, finally came through with Lin Zhe's voice: "We didn't find anyone in the east, but we found a series of footprints that ended at a cliff. I just got here and found a small cave below. I was just about to send someone in to take a look."

Upon hearing the words "small cave," Jiang Xiaobai's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother Jiji, is that cave very small? Can you guys go in? If not, I'll go over. It's best if we, as family, don't take unnecessary risks."

Oh dear, it's time for her to show off her skills again.

Places like caves and cliffs would be perfect for her pothos plants.

And that was indeed the case. Jiang Qi instructed Lin Zhe to have people guard the area, and he and Xiao Bai would go there immediately.

Four people stayed behind at the foot of the mountain, while the brother and sister went up the mountain alone. Before long, they found the cliff in the mountains based on the marks left by Lin Zhe.

The cave is only half a person's height and is located about three meters down the cliff. Because it is too steep and there is no foothold, it is indeed difficult for a person to go down.

However, there are two very obvious footprints on the two rocks below, and judging from their size, they are men's feet.

This suggests that someone went down there and most likely entered the cave.

Jiang Xiaobai released her green ivy, but unexpectedly, it was swallowed whole by a gaping maw as soon as it entered. She didn't even 'see' what it was before she was plunged into darkness.

That's the belly of this thing.

Jiang Xiaobai reacted quickly, immediately scattering three more green vines, which peeked into the hole from different directions, while simultaneously hinting to her brother: There's something down there, a big mouth, but we don't know what it is yet.

However, Jiang Xiaobai quickly 'saw' what this big-mouthed monster staring menacingly at the cave entrance was: a mutated toad!
One of the pothos plants, just like the previous one, boldly 'crawled' inside. While the toad opened its mouth wide, still trying to swallow it, the other two seized the opportunity and darted in.

Zizi!

Jiang Xiaobai originally intended to tie the toad's mouth shut, but the liquid flowing from its mouth turned out to be corrosive. When the pothos touched it, it emitted a puff of white smoke and was quickly corroded away.

The other two pothos vines that had sprung deep into the cave, though it was dark and difficult to see clearly, she could vaguely 'see' something that looked like bones piled up in a corner of the cave.

She led Green Ivy deeper, and finally they saw several corroded, bloodstained human skeletons.

Jiang Xiaobai's face darkened. When exactly did this thing appear?

Just as she was about to report the situation to her brother, she suddenly "saw" that the pile of bones was moving. Then, a normal human hand wearing gloves emerged from it, followed by a normal head, and then the two eyeballs on that head stared straight at her.

No, to be precise, it was looking at her pothos plant.

Although it was through the perspective of the green ivy, Jiang Xiaobai had already adapted to the darkness in the cave. She looked at the team member who had survived by chance, and with a complicated expression, she conjured up a fine green ivy net in front of him, and then covered the net with a piece of metal.

This will effectively protect him from the toad's venom.

Then she told her brother, "We found a team member hiding in the deepest part of the cave. The toads are poisonous, so we can't fight them up close."

Jiang Qi and Lin Zhe immediately ordered their team members to retreat. At the same time, Jiang Xiaobai spurred a large number of green ivy vines to grow in the cave behind the toad. However, due to the limited space in the cave, he could not whip it as vigorously as usual, but could only poke its buttocks in small movements.

Perhaps the cave wasn't the toad's real battlefield. Annoyed by the poking of a bunch of green vines, it didn't have time to turn around and use its venom to corrode them. It suddenly darted out of the cave and saw a dark, ugly sphere covered in disgusting bumps. It bounced down the cliff and fell straight down.

Lin Zhe unleashed a bolt of lightning, and with a crackling sound, the toad let out a miserable croak. Immediately afterward, a cloud of black smoke rose into the air. Jiang Qi covered Jiang Xiaobai's mouth and nose, carried her back five meters, and at the same time threw three flying knives down.

Unfortunately, they failed to cut down the toad; it fell into a mud pit below the cliff with a plop.

After placing Jiang Xiaobai in a safe area, Jiang Qi immediately leaped down the cliff, with Lin Zhe following closely behind. The two finally landed on the edge of a mud pit.

As Lin Zhe landed, another bolt of lightning struck the spot where the toad had landed. At the same time, Jiang Qi crouched down and froze the mud pit, causing the toad, which had already fallen into the mud, to get stuck and unable to sink any further. The lightning struck its body directly, crackling loudly, and as the bumps on its body were broken by the electricity, even more black smoke billowed out.

Jiang Qi immediately covered the pit with an ice cover, containing the black smoke in one area. At the same time, Lin Zhe unleashed an even more powerful bolt of lightning, electrocuting half of the toad's head.

Jiang Qi immediately sealed the ice cover, and the thick black smoke was gathered together. When it encountered the ice layer, it made a hissing sound, indicating how toxic this thing was. It seemed to be able to corrode everything.

Above, in a cave on a cliff.

After the poisonous gas dissipated, Jiang Xiaobai called a few team members and used the vines of the pothos to pull the injured team members out of the cave.

"Where are the others? There were fifteen of you. Are you the only one left?"

Jiang Xiaobai stood in front of Jiang Zhijie, who had an injured leg, and looked down at him, asking a question.

Jiang Zhijie, whose face was deathly pale, finally felt the reality of being alive at this moment.

He wasn't displeased at all by the girl's blunt question; after all, she was the one who saved his life.

He was almost unconscious when he suddenly saw a piece of moving pothos. At first, he thought he was seeing things, but upon closer inspection, he realized the pothos was indeed moving. After confirming that it was the same kind of pothos as those on the walls of Pengcheng, Jiang Zhijie immediately perked up.

It's Bai Li, she's here.

Although he knew he was nothing in his sister-in-law's eyes, and no matter what he had done all these years, he had never had the audacity to acknowledge Jiang Minglang, he was still a member of Pengcheng and a member of the Dawn Team.

Based on that alone, she wouldn't stand by and watch someone die.

So Jiang Zhijie, who was already exhausted and unable to move, managed to push aside the bones buried on his body with his last breath, trying to make a little noise so that Green Ivy could 'see' him.

But he didn't expect that the person who came was not Bai Li, but his little niece Jiang Xiaobai.

Jiang Xiaobai, who is only thirteen years old this year, has already reached this level of superpowers?

In his opinion, she was in no way inferior to her mother.

Jiang Zhijie endured the pain in his leg and spoke as gently as possible, “Our team wasn’t the only one here to pick the yellow mutated chrysanthemums. There was another team from outside Pengcheng. A teammate and I went down to pick them, and the captain and others covered us. But as soon as we went down, we heard fighting coming from above. I had just put the chrysanthemums I picked into my bag when that toad crawled over from the side. My teammate was eaten by it while covering me. I couldn’t climb back up, so I could only run into the cave. I didn’t expect there to be a pile of bones inside. To survive, I had to hide under those bones for the time being. I thought the captain and the others would come to rescue me soon, but the toad kept guarding the cave entrance, and the captain and the others didn’t come. From what you’re saying, they’ve gone missing?”

Jiang Zhijie was still carrying a backpack on his back, and the cigarettes inside were perfectly intact, without any damage.

However, what he was worried about now was not Yanju, but their team captain and other members.

Ten years ago, he joined the Dawn team. They supported each other and grew together. Their relationship was no longer that of ordinary team members.

Moreover, at his current age, a stable team and a responsible captain are of utmost importance to him.

If this team is gone, he, who is already in his forties, doesn't know what will happen to him.

“Our captain is always calm and never acts rashly. If you haven’t found his body, then there’s a high chance he’s still alive. Please, search for him carefully.”

Jiang Zhijie's face was full of sincerity, and his worry was evident in his expression.

When Jiang Qi and Lin Zhe came up, they were both stunned to see the person they had rescued.

Jiang Zhijie was a little embarrassed to see Jiang Qi, but now was not the time to worry about his own feelings. He focused on explaining the details of the team he had encountered, what their captain looked like, and how many of them were clearly superhuman.
"Little Nine."

As Jiang Qi shouted, a brown Shiba Inu suddenly appeared from behind and barked at Jiang Zhijie.

This is Xiao Wu's grandson, Xiao Jiu, who just turned one year old.

He used to take Xiao Wu with him when he went out, but ever since he adopted Xiao Jiu, this guy has always been taking over his grandfather's duties. Whenever he goes out, he follows him around like glue, and even after Xiao Wu has disciplined him a few times, it's no use.

So Xiao Wu stopped arguing with it and obediently stayed at home, helping Grandpa herd sheep.

Jiang Zhijie's backpack belonged to their captain. After Xiao Jiu smelled it, the guy turned around and went down the mountain, running in the northwest direction as fast as he could.

Finally, Jiang Qi and his group found the captain and six members of the Dawn Team in a deserted factory. All seven of them were bound with soft wire and were unconscious. There were also four other people lying next to them. After checking, they found that they had been dead for at least a day.

Jiang Qi arranged for three people to take them back to the city for medical treatment, while he and Lin Zhe, along with Jiang Xiaobai, Xiao Jiu, and four other team members, followed the trail and finally found them at a small base called 'Balong'.

Tyrant Dragon? How domineering are you?
Jiang Qi quickly found out the truth: this place, though called a base, was actually a bandit den where robbery and murder were common occurrences.

What they didn't know was that this dilapidated base had actually made a name for itself in the area. The mere mention of the name 'Tyrant Dragon' was enough to make many people wary; they would avoid direct confrontation with them if they encountered them, and would accept being robbed if necessary.

Two days later, everyone in the northwest region of Pengcheng received news that Balong had been wiped out!
She was killed by the son and daughter of Deputy Base Chief Jiang and Deputy Base Chief Bai of Pengcheng Base. It is said that their daughter was only thirteen years old, but her superpowers were already second only to her mother's. It would be no problem for her to become another Bai Li in the future.

Some people say that Jiang Minglang and Bai Li have a worthy successor, and that Shenzhen will only get better, more stable, and more prosperous in the future.
Let's end it here. I want to start writing a new book. I already have a general outline, and I'll work on the outline a bit soon.

At the same time as the new book is being released, I also want to change my pen name so that my friends don't always think I'm a male author.

Thank you all for your continued reading and support!