Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

"It actually has such a magical ability..."

the old man exclaimed.

Li Wenxi had just briefly introduced her abilities.

"I heard that your current metal ore reserves have been exhausted, right?" Xu Ying asked.

"...That's true." The old man nodded heavily.

"More than 50 years ago, you also knew about the situation here. More than 50 years have passed, and the situation has not been alleviated, but has intensified. However, due to the shortage of ore and other resources, we have no It’s already getting a little tight.”

"Is it getting worse..." Xu Ying frowned, "Didn't you take the initiative to attack?"

"Of course there is, but..." the old man sighed, "their number is endless, even if an area is cleared, it can only maintain stability for half a year, and after half a year it will become a dangerous area again. Their reproductive ability, It's really too strong."

"We have put in a lot of effort in this area, but in the end it didn't work. On the contrary...the consumption of our resources is too huge. Now that it has become the current situation, we may have to bear a large part of our original decision. responsibility."

As he spoke, the old man's cloudy and majestic eyes dimmed slightly.

"You can't say that, Grandpa." Wei Shishi retorted, "If Grandpa hadn't made that decision, perhaps the human base would have suffered from it fifty years ago."

"What are you talking about?" Li Wenxi was a little confused, "Why can't I understand?"

"Let me explain." Wei Shishi explained, "You are not from our human base, right?"

"...Well." Li Wenxi nodded, "No."

"If you live in our city for a few days, you will have a good understanding of what we just said. This matter is the biggest crisis for all human beings in the current human base."

"If only a few people know that our resources are about to be exhausted, then this is a real crisis that everyone knows."

"Our human base has been attacked by herds of beasts for hundreds of years."

Li Wenxi opened her eyes slightly: "The herd of beasts...attacked? You will suffer... ah!"

She thought of the experience of exploring the underground world that Xu Xin had communicated with her before.

Under the cultivation of alien invaders, the underground world indeed already has a relatively stable ecosystem.

"I don't know how you live, but our human race has lived underground for thousands of years, and has always been very peaceful and stable. The area of ​​​​the base area has gradually expanded, reaching its peak a hundred years ago."

"As for why we stopped expanding the base a hundred years ago, it's because...there were unusually large beasts around the base, and they were not friendly to us."

"A huge beast?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise, "Is it a giant beast?"

Wei Shishi did not answer, but continued: "Those huge beasts have basically the same characteristics as the above-ground beasts recorded in the history books, but they are much larger in size, and the number is also abnormally large. They will attack the outermost human bases in groups."

The giant beast's...beast tide?

Li Wenxi was very surprised.

"The human beings a hundred years ago really lived too comfortably. During the rapid expansion, they did not take any protective measures in advance on the periphery of the base area."

"So, when the beast disaster came from many points outside the human base, those humans who encountered the beast disaster didn't have any resistance at all. At that time, it was really... a loss of life."

Li Wenxi looked at Xu Ying.

As a person who has spanned a thousand years, she should be familiar with that era, right?

Xu Ying understood Li Wenxi's meaning, shook her head and said: "I haven't been here a hundred years ago. The last time I came here was fifty-five years ago, that is, the time I had friendship with Wei Bai. The last time, That was two hundred years ago."

Weibo is the name of the old man.

When Xu Ying said this name, the old man smiled.

At the age of eighty, hearing his name from an old man whom he hadn't seen for more than fifty years made him feel a little touched.

Wei Shishi on the side frowned slightly.

Seeing a girl who looked like her call her grandpa by his first name made her a little uncomfortable, but she couldn't say anything.

"Then... didn't you go back and look at it?" Li Wenxi asked, "Go back and look at that time a hundred years ago?"

Giant beasts suddenly appeared and besieged the human base in the underground world. Doesn't this look a little abnormal?

"No." Xu Ying shook her head, "In order not to change the future and affect our layout, we usually don't time travel to the past."

"Otherwise, if we set up a plan in the future and go back to the past, we don't know what we did, causing a butterfly effect and changing the future...that would be too stupid."

"For example, my elder brother and I came fifty years ago and told Wei Bo many things. If we go back to a hundred years ago and unconsciously caused some changes, causing changes to occur fifty years later, Wei Bai is no longer the head of the family, or, there is no such person as Wei Bai at all...then our efforts are wasted."

What Xu Ying said made the three people present look a little strange.

The old man Wei Bai suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and said with a wry smile, "Then do I want to thank you for not killing me?"

He has long known that Xu Ying can travel through time, but this is the first time he has heard of such a thing.

On the other hand, Wei Shishi, who had always been expressionless, looked at Xu Ying with deep vigilance and a trace of fear in her eyes.

If this kind of thing can be realized, it is simply killing people invisible!

"I'm sure I won't do this kind of thing, and aren't we talking about the beast tide? Wei Shishi, go ahead, I don't understand this either." Xu Ying leaned on the back of the chair and said.

Although she was not very satisfied with Xu Ying's lazy sitting posture at this time, Wei Shishi did not talk nonsense, but continued: "A hundred years ago, the human base area was devastated by the attack of giant beasts, and most of the people outside Fleeing inside."

"The tide of giant beasts is almost endless!"

"At that time, almost all the soldiers went to the front line. The foundation accumulated over hundreds of years was exhausted in one year, and the military resources were also consumed a lot, more than the sum of the previous nine hundred years."

"And we, as the Wei family in charge of military power, suffered the greatest loss in that disaster, and have since lost control of this underground human base. The three families began to fight against each other."

"That's true." Xu Ying nodded and said, "Our original plan was to support a certain family that is stronger than the other two. Although the three families are divided into families on the surface, the Wei family has the ability to rectify the three families secretly. With a little help, you can have the ability to centralize power, and as a result...the sudden disaster a hundred years ago turned the apparent pattern into a real pattern."

"That's it." The old man Wei Bai sighed again, "Fifty years ago, when Xu Ying and Xu Xin came, they wanted to help us become stronger again and regain control."

"But it's a pity that our strategic resources were exhausted at that time. We had technology but no resources, and wild beasts invaded the periphery. Under internal and external troubles, the Wei family at that time was really out of breath. So at that time ……well……"

Wei Shishi nodded and continued: "In the past fifty years, the beast horde has continued, and not only the external beast horde, but also almost all the sparsely populated places in the base area have been occupied by them, and they have become real beasts."

Now the size of the human base is almost equal to the size of a large country on the earth thousands of years ago. In such a large area, it is very understandable that there are wild beasts roaming inside.

Such a long border line, so many herds, there is no way to guard against it...

"Fortunately, in the past twenty years or so, these wild beasts have stabilized, especially the wild beasts in the territory, they hardly attack the human bases anymore, but have integrated into the ecology of this area."

"But even so, in order to prevent problems before they happen, the necessary resource consumption is also essential. In the past fifty years, our heritage is still slowly decreasing."

"So..." Wei Shishi looked at Li Wenxi, "If you really have that ability, please save us."

"If this continues, this human base will lose the ability to protect itself."

Li Wenxi basically understood the current situation of the human base, she nodded hurriedly: "Of course, of course I will help you, and that is why I came here. Moreover, during the time I have been here, I have already discovered that There's a mine."

"Already discovered?" Wei Bai and Wei Shishi were both surprised.

Xu Ying chuckled: "Sister-in-law's ability is definitely a real life-saving straw for you now."

The most important purpose of her bringing Li Wenxi here is not to save this underground world, which will be exhausted in a few decades.

After all, the most important resource, the crystal stone, has almost been exhausted.

Although there is a huge amount of energy in the crystal stone, the human beings underground can't mine and use it at all. It can almost only be used to release light and let it release energy passively.

Similar to the effect of the sun.

But the crystal stone that maintains the basic energy source of the underground world, which is a necessity for the maintenance and expansion of the human base, has almost dried up within a thousand years.

Living in the underground world is not a long-term solution after all.

Xu Ying brought Li Wenxi underground because she wanted Li Wenxi to provide resources capable of manufacturing a large number of weapons, and turn this underground human base into a crazily operating underground arsenal.

Not only to resist the herd of beasts underground, but also to prepare for the battle above the ground in the future.

This was their original purpose, making this underground force one of the backbone forces against alien invaders in the future.

This beast invasion that lasted for a hundred years has consumed too much power in the underground world, so there is no way but to replenish it first.

Fortunately, the current progress on the ground has not yet reached the time when a large army of weapons is needed.

However, hurry up!

Wei Bai showed joy, stood up, did not question, but asked directly: "Where are the resources?"

"Well, it's near where I live, but it's..." Li Wenxi pointed to the top of her head.

"Above..."

"Well, do you have the ability to mine upwards?"

Wei Shishi pondered for a while: "This involves some problems. There is no problem in terms of technology, but in terms of potential safety hazards... If there is a residential area below, it may be necessary to transfer people first. If it is a densely populated area, then I'm afraid it will be more troublesome..."

"It's the outskirts of the city, but not many people live there." Li Wenxi recalled.

"These are not problems." Wei Bo waved his hand, "You just tell us where the location is, and we will take care of other things."

It seems that Wei Bo has really been coveting resources for a long time, and his obviously anxious attitude now is enough to show how lacking resources the Wei family is now.

"Is it near the villa?" Xu Ying asked.

"Yes." Li Wenxi nodded.

"Then come with me, let's go and have a look together!"

...

For Shi Wanyun, the story continues.

"When that woman looked around at me, I really felt like a cardiopulmonary arrest." Shi Wanyun said softly.

"She is also a genetically modified person, but she has no special characteristics?" Xu Xin thought, "Could it be..."

"Well, it's definitely a genetically modified person, but... I really can't tell." Shi Wanyun recalled, "You guessed it right, the stronger the people there, the more indistinguishable their appearance from normal humans , on the contrary, the weaker the person, the more strange signs they will have."

"Go on."

"good."

After being targeted by that mature woman, Shi Wanyun felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

Even though her whole body was being enveloped by the influx of heat, she still felt a chill down her spine.

She had a feeling that the mature woman in front of her might be able to subdue her with just one finger!

The scarlet eyes staring at her made her body a little stiff, and she didn't dare to move easily.

"My lord, it's like this..."

No. 228, who brought her over, hastily explained: "She is a member of the Sanwu who passed through from below..."

In a few words, No. 228 said everything he knew: "That's the way it is, my lord, I plan to tell you after the baptism, after all, you can't interrupt during the baptism..."

"...such an important thing, you actually told me now!"

The mature woman suddenly slapped her across the face!

With a "pop", accompanied by screams, No. 228 was immediately blown away.

Her head spun several times in response to the sound, her neck was instantly twisted into a twist, and her body also flipped a few times in the air before landing on the ground with a snap, her body twitching slightly.

However, she did not die, but after twitching a few times, she quickly stood up, her neck and head spun at a rapid speed, then returned to the original position, lowered her head and said in trepidation, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my lord supervisor..."

"...Forget it, I don't blame you." The mature woman shook her head, "No matter who you are, you must be baptized first. I have always taught you this way, and your approach is not wrong."

As she spoke, she looked at Shi Wanyun in the pool who had begun to feel drowsy.

Seeing the scene just now, it would be a lie to say that she wasn't afraid, so when the mature woman stretched her hand towards her, Shi Wanyun subconsciously wanted to hide back even though her head was dizzy.

Naturally, she had no ability to dodge, and was grabbed by the arm of a mature woman in an instant, as if she was carrying a chicken, she easily lifted it out, and then...

With her head and feet down, she was held under the armpit by a mature woman who was holding her as if she was carrying an object.

She was put in this position without a strand of hair on her body, she was really ashamed and insecure.

But after soaking in the pool for more than a minute, all the strength in her body disappeared, and she couldn't make any movements, even opened her mouth, but she didn't make any sound.

She felt hot all over her body.

"She's special, I'll take her away for a while, and you guys continue with the baptism." The mature woman's voice sounded, and there seemed to be a hint of... joy in her tone?

"yes!"

In a daze, she knew that she was taken away from the baptismal space shrouded in red mist, and after that she fell into a coma again.

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