The Doomsday Paradise

Chapter8: Oops, it's dawn

In the evolved humans, there is an unwritten agreement not to inquire about each other's abilities. Since the abilities that have evolved are all very peculiar and beyond imagination, every seemingly insignificant ability may become a trump card to save one's own life. Therefore, naturally, no one is willing to expose their trump cards to others. Even if it's not absolutely necessary, using abilities in front of others has become a taboo.

Luze had already mentioned this to Lin Sanjiu - so why did Mathers make such a request? "Don't get me wrong," probably feeling a bit inappropriate, Mathers smiled. She was no longer young, and a few faint lines appeared with her smile: "At my current level, I can't know your advanced abilities, I can only analyze some basic data. Understanding your basic data is also beneficial to you... Of course, it all depends on you. Want to give it a try?"

"Okay!" Lin Sanjiu readily agreed, extending her arm. "I trust you have no ill intentions."

Moreover, just now, when they were entangled with the fallen, both she and Luze had exposed their abilities a lot. Neither of them were fools, and she could guess Luze's general abilities, so Luze must have already made an estimate of her abilities, and there was no need to hide anymore.

The hard nail tip was shining coldly like metal, and it gently touched Lin Sanjiu's arm. The tip seemed to be invited and smoothly sank into the skin - she had just felt a slight pain when Mathers had already retracted her nails, and said with a smile, "It's done."

She dropped a round drop of blood on her palm, and the blood drop immediately disappeared. Then Mathers closed her eyes. Lin Sanjiu looked again, and the cut on her arm was too subtle and had already stopped bleeding.

"Mathers' ability is still relatively primary now, so it may take a while to read your data..." Luze seemed a bit embarrassed to explain: "All advanced abilities will slowly upgrade during use, you will know later."

Lin Sanjiu thought of her own strange ability.

So, these broken cards will also upgrade? What will they become? At least they should let her transform items without restrictions...?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of the two iron doors she had collected - although the second time only lasted for a short one or two seconds, but she didn't know if today's quota was also used up? It seems that she needs to find a suitable opportunity to test...

While waiting for Mathers to read the data, out of curiosity, Lin Sanjiu chatted with Luze about all kinds of things - after all, he had seen two new worlds more than her, and many of his experiences were unheard of to her, which made her exclaim, laugh, and worry from time to time. Luze probably hadn't chatted with someone so happily for a long time, and for a while, the two became much closer.

Seeing that they had almost finished chatting, and looking at Mathers again, she was still the same as before, with her eyes closed and silent.

"How long will it take Mathers to read the data?" Lin Sanjiu finally asked.

"Uh... it seems that it will take at least another one or two hours." Luze looked a bit embarrassed. "When Mathers analyzed my data before, it didn't seem to take so long..."

"So long?" Lin Sanjiu was surprised. She then leaned down, looked up at the sky outside the car window, and at this time, the dark night had already become much lighter, and the east had already faintly shown a touch of gray. Sitting back in her original position, her face showed a faint worry.

"What's wrong? Why do you look like this?"

"The sky is about to brighten." Lin Sanjiu murmured, turned her head and looked at Luze. "It's already so hot at night, and when the sun comes out, the car is just in the sunlight... How high will the temperature be then?"

Luze was dumbfounded by her question, and the two looked at each other - Lin Sanjiu rubbed her forehead, a little tired, and said: "In another two hours, I'm afraid we will all become ducks in the oven."

Although the car's fuel and electricity were still sufficient to support the air conditioning for a while, the coolness seemed so fragile under the fierce high-temperature invasion of the outside world - and this was just at night. The poor air conditioner in the car, even if it burned the wire, I'm afraid it cannot resist the blazing sun during the day...

"Do you know this area well, is there any way?" Luze's expression, which had always been relaxed, couldn't help but become a bit heavy.

There is indeed a way. Near this apartment community, there is the most expensive shopping center in the city. The building itself has lost its value - because the shopping center center designed a tall tropical forest, in order to achieve a transparent natural visual effect, the ceiling is made of transparent tempered glass. Before, it was indeed a very pleasant thing to walk beside the lush green plants with sunlight on the shoulders, but now it is fatal.

However, in the basement of the shopping center, there is a vast imported supermarket. Not only is there no direct sunlight, but there is also a large amount of food and water...

Lin Sanjiu said the situation of the center, and Luze immediately became excited: "Supermarket! That's great! You don't know, Mathers and I haven't eaten people's food for more than a year! In the last new world, we ate compressed biscuits and field rations every day. When the situation was bad, we even gnawed on tree bark. Ah, that constipation was so uncomfortable, it was like having a stone in my stomach..."

Lin Sanjiu raised her eyebrows and looked at him - Luze suddenly realized that he had gone too far and coughed awkwardly: "You're right, we don't know how much the temperature will rise during the day, and we should indeed make plans early."

After a few whispers, the two quickly made a decision: first, drive the car to the door of the shopping center, find a shady place to stop, and then Luze will carry Mathers and go down to the supermarket together. The food area of the imported supermarket occupies a large part of the area, plus the inventory in the warehouse, providing food for three people should be more than enough. Moreover, the location of this supermarket is also very ideal - if you are lucky, you may be able to settle down in the supermarket and use it as a base to spend a stable year...

Lin Sanjiu also knew that she might be a bit too optimistic, and the actual situation may not be so ideal - but she never thought that even the first step of the plan, "coming to the door of the center," now seems to be an impossible task.

The shopping center is uniquely located, right on the main road of the city's heart. This small area nearby is a famous sleepless city, bright and busy all night, with continuous traffic. By chance, this month is the "fifth anniversary" of the shopping center, and it is open 24 hours a day throughout the month.

When the temperature soared last night, the first thought of countless people was to escape here to cool off.

At this time, the cars on the main road are packed into a long, rumbling dragon, pushing Lin Sanjiu's car far to the end; and every car that can still start is in the starting state - squinting at the direction of the shopping center, you can only vaguely see the front door of the fountain, densely covered with people lying on the ground.

It seems that it is impossible to drive over - Lin Sanjiu slapped the steering wheel fiercely and planned to reverse. However, as soon as she looked up, she found that in such a short time, new cars had appeared in the rearview mirror, firmly blocking their Audi in the center of the traffic flow.

"The power has been out for several hours, why are there still people coming in this direction?"

In the midst of countless hot engines, the disadvantage of having a broken window became apparent: the little cool air blown by the air conditioner could not withstand the heat surging in from the window cracks - Luze's fair skin had begun to show patches of red, just like a big rabbit.

Lin Sanjiu sighed: "Probably those who want to escape from the city... This is a main road, and from here, you can get on several intercity highways. Let's wait, the cars behind will definitely have to leave -"

But in just these two short sentences, several new cars joined the end of the car dragon - the first one found that something was wrong in front, and I don't know if it was panicked, but it didn't give any warning, turned the steering wheel and went back, and immediately hit the front of the following car, immediately rolling up a cloud of thick smoke.

Lin Sanjiu gave a low exclamation, and then cursed. The car that turned back and hit was a Land Rover, and now its huge body is horizontal, blocking half of the road solidly - plus the front of the other car is destroyed, and it can't move, this time, the retreat is completely cut off.

A car that had just arrived in the distance immediately turned a panic and ran away.

Apart from Mathers, who was unaware of the situation, both people in the car sighed. What else can be done now? They had to abandon the car and walk.

The sky turned into a duck egg green color, although not as bright as the day, it was no longer a problem to see things.

"How much water do we have left?" Luze licked his dry and peeling lips, worried.

Lin Sanjiu looked at the backpack - in fact, she knew without looking, there was no bottle of mineral water in the bag, only three unopened cans of cola, and they were hot to the touch.

Considering the physical condition of the two people, she threw a can of cola over: "There are just three cans left, drink it quickly! It can't replenish water, but it can at least replenish some sugar - our consumption will be huge in a while."

Unexpectedly, Luze opened it and took a sip, but was stunned, and asked "What is this?" - it turned out that there was no Coca-Cola company in his original world. Watching him smack his lips and drink the drink, Lin Sanjiu also threw away the empty can in his hand and asked, "Are you ready?"

Luze nodded.

She took a deep breath, opened the car door and got out of the car - the air that seemed to be tens of times hotter than before suddenly rushed to her face.