His protective suit seemed damaged, and his white shirt was tattered from being torn apart.
Lin Ya pretended not to see; even if he had clothes, he couldn’t bring himself to give any to him.
In the past, he wasn’t afraid of exposing his identity in ancient times, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be afraid in modern times. The modern weapons were too powerful, and he genuinely feared being cut to pieces.
After tending to the wound, Lin Ya pulled out a nutrient solution and forced it to his lips, making him drink. There was no way to transfuse blood due to heavy blood loss; all he could do was provide this.
[Host, your gathering skill has leveled up. Do you want to collect the other two mutated plants?]
Earlier, he couldn’t enter from outside, so Lin Ya had no choice but to follow the system’s suggestion, spending points to upgrade his gathering skill from 1 meter to the ability to manually collect within 10 meters.
Fortunately, it wasn’t expensive; it only cost 50 points.
“Let’s wait until he wakes up to talk,” Lin Ya thought. This person was not a teammate of the original host and he didn’t know where he came from. Apart from his protective suit, he didn’t have a single medicine on him and was injured all over.
Only then did he notice the lifeless right hand. Lin Ya had to let the mutated succulent contribute a piece of its body. He stripped off all the thorns and used a piece of his own torn shirt to make a splint for the right hand.
During this time, Lin Ya also lay down on the ground, letting the system guard and directly taking a nap.
…
Time passed second by second.
Gu Ming moved his fingers and opened his eyes in a daze. A familiar smell of a hemostatic spray hit his nose. He turned his head and saw that his right hand seemed to be secured somehow, and his leg wasn’t as painful anymore.
“You’re awake,” a young male voice came from not far away.
Gu Ming’s thoughts became clear.
He weakly sat up, looking toward that direction, and saw a figure in a protective suit sitting there, seemingly holding a yellow object.
But the next second, that person stood up and walked toward him empty-handed. He immediately thought he had misread the situation.
“Hello, I am Gu Ming. Are you also from the Southern Base? How did you end up here? Thank you for taking care of my injuries…”
After sleeping for a while, Lin Ya found that he still hadn’t woken up. So, at the prodding of 123, he went to collect the mutated mango tree he was interested in, and what he held in his hand was the mango produced by that tree.
Feeling the sweet aroma, he felt like trying it; even if he got poisoned, he could buy detoxification pills from the system shop.
Just as he was thinking of eating it, the person woke up.
“…Lin Yao, from Hope Base. You’re from the Southern Base? How did you end up here?”
Gu Ming was a bit surprised; it was the first time he had seen someone from Hope Base. Each base generally has a planned search area, and people usually wouldn’t come here since it was considered an uncleared zone, very dangerous.
Uh… of course, he ended up here by accident.
“You wouldn’t have been caught in a storm too, right?” he looked Gu Ming over and then felt that it didn’t seem like it, as his equipment was intact and he had no injuries.
“Uh… are you too?” In fact, Lin Ya had already made a few guesses.
Gu Ming: “…” He looked at himself and then at the other person’s perfectly intact appearance, feeling a bit indignant.
Why was he so unlucky?—
“Your injuries are quite severe; you need at least two days of rest before you can move.”
Lin Ya glanced at the countdown in the upper left corner.
Only about 6 days left.
If he didn’t set off along the correct route soon, he definitely wouldn’t be able to return to the base in these few days.
Gu Ming had a positioning map to head to the Southern Base, but his injuries were severe. If he brought him along, the time would be delayed.
“…” Gu Ming fell silent for a moment. He knew his current state wasn’t suitable for travel, but he had just received news from the base that a superstorm was about to hit the ground, and the base would close the surface passage, not notifying anyone when it would reopen.
If he couldn’t make it back, everyone left on the surface might die in the storm’s onslaught.
But… he also couldn’t shamelessly ask someone else to carry his weight to escape…
“…You can go. Don’t worry about me; someone will come to pick me up,” he lowered his head and slowly exhaled, then raised his head to Lin Ya with a calm smile.
At the very least, he couldn’t drag anyone down.
He also probably didn’t bring many supplies, and if he took him along, the two of them would starve eventually. Besides, what if the other person hadn’t considered taking him along?
Lin Ya nodded, not replying to him, but instead took out a dark green block-like object from his backpack, cut it in half with a short knife, and handed it to him, speaking blandly: “Eat this?”
“…Uh, what is this?” Receiving it faster than he could think, Gu Ming felt its cool and slightly heavy touch in his hand, losing his smile. It felt somewhat familiar, so he hesitated to ask.
Lin Ya held a piece for himself, carefully peeling it with the knife: “This is the thing that pricked you earlier. Don’t eat the outer skin; it’s inedible and toxic.”
Gu Ming’s hand trembled as he held the succulent block; pain began to shoot through his leg, and he raised his voice slightly in disbelief, looking at him eating it with relish.
“Huh?!”
“Don’t eat it! This stuff is a mutated plant, man!”
“It tastes like aloe, not bad.”
“Who cared about the taste?! Wait… don’t swallow it!”
“…You’re done for.” Gu Ming stared blankly at him. It was common knowledge that mutated plants should not be eaten. Most mutated plants are difficult to obtain. The base had previously conducted large-scale extermination, bringing back dead mutated plants for research.
Some people had tried eating them, but those who did either contracted strange diseases, died on the spot, or even got infected with the zombie virus.
“Really not going to try it?” Lin Ya wiped his mouth with his sleeve, still feeling as if he had eaten aloe-flavored jelly.
Its texture was firmer than jelly, not very moist, but enough to meet human needs. It was a good mutated plant. If it weren’t called mutated succulent but rather called mutated aloe cactus, it would be even better.
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