After the Global Evolution, I Stand at the Top of the Food Chain

41/Seven Streams

Lu Yan doesn't have the talent of affinity, but he looks good.

 When a person who is easy to see and has a gap with normal people whispers to you, even if he does not have the talent of affinity, the effect is similar.

When Lu Yan was in college, he dissected a lot of rabbits. He knew exactly how to calm down a frightened little animal.

But since it was inconvenient for an adult man to touch his head, Lu Yan just patted his back lightly.

Tang Xun'an's heavy breathing gradually calmed down, and his tense expression relaxed.

He withdrew his claws, but did not let his guard down, he retreated to the corner of the wall, and the thick and long dragon tail surrounded himself in a circle. Even without eyesight, the look in Lu Yan's eyes is still full of alertness.

In the monitoring, the rest of the staff were relieved and heaved a long sigh of relief.

"That's great. Tang still retains human reason and consciousness." Catherine wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a tissue, "This way I can leave the institute with peace of mind."

"The previous wounding phenomenon should only be the stress caused by the rejection reaction after surgery." Professor Wu also said, "Now Tang Xun'an's disease degree is still very high, and he can wait until the fusion is complete before observation."

Among the researchers with no facial features, a professor named Gong Weibin was particularly eye-catching because he had a human face.

His unsmiling face looked a little serious and gloomy, his fingernails were gnawed short, and his hands were peeling for some reason.

Gong Weibin said coldly: "Don't be too happy. Like this combination of people and pollutants, no one knows what the **** will become in the end. It's a lot of experiments, and it's time to prove the results. of."

If Lu Yan was here, he would probably be shocked.

When training new employees at the headquarters, he vaguely heard that the director of the first research institute is now Gong Weibin.

His words made Professor Catherine frown uncomfortably: "We are not conducting experiments, we are facilitators. Assisting the Apocalypse of the Combat Department to obtain stronger power."

Gong Weibin smiled and didn't answer. He was talking about his own topic: "I recently discovered that transplanting a dog's genes into a synthetic person will make the synthetic person have the same loyalty as a dog..."

"I won't agree with your research topic." Catherine frowned.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Professor Wu quickly interrupted: "Okay, okay, Tang Xun'an doesn't need to be euthanized, this is a happy event. Why are you being so serious? We won't talk about work today. What about Director Qiao?"

"I don't know, I heard something happened and went out."

The first evolution may have been a choice from God, and among the Kochi, the awakened Apocalypse is especially rare.

Qiao Yu's old friend Yu Hanxi is one of them. The innate ability is called foreknowledge.

Yu Hanxi is also a complete workaholic, because he never got married until he lost his fertility. Two years ago, he adopted a daughter from an orphanage and named him Yu Zhizhi.

This little girl is stupid by nature, but she looks very cute.

Professor Yu treats her as if she were his own. She is afraid that her daughter will not be taken care of when he dies, and he has created a foundation specially.

Because both of them are busy with work, when they encounter problems, they often finish their communication on chat software. Only this time, Yu Hanxi insisted that Qiao Yu come to his house.

So Qiao Yu came.

As soon as he saw Yu Hanxi, Qiao Yu understood why the other party must have come over.

Yu Hanxi's appearance... a little scary.

The skin on his face fell off, his hair was completely gone, the blood vessels on his body swelled, and bright red bloodshots continued to seep out of the capillaries, like a person who had suffered severe nuclear radiation.

"What are you?!" Qiao Yu has seen a lot of big scenes, but when this scene happened to a close relative, it was still difficult to keep calm, "Why is this happening?"

Yu Hanxi smiled self-deprecatingly: "Overused talent. Unsurprisingly, I died soon after."

"What did you do to overuse it?"

Yu Hanxi coughed twice and spat out pieces of broken spleen and lungs: "I didn't do anything, I just had a dream."

"I only have time to tell you... Qiao Yu." Yu Hanxi's face was deeply tired, "I saw Zhizhi in a dream, and her whole body began to glow. I approached that light source and could feel my talent. Lost the effect... No, it's not that I lost the effect, it's that I returned to the state before the cataclysm."

"I was surprised, and I wanted to find you with Zhizhi. I met the wall of resentment on the way, but after the light from Zhizhi's body came into view, the wall turned back to an ordinary wall..."

"On the road, there are still many pollutants. They have all returned to the state before the catastrophe. But... these pollutants are too much, they are like crazy, they keep attacking Zhizhi, Zhizhi's light It's getting darker. It's getting darker. I want to protect her, but she still goes out in my arms. The world is pitch black in that instant, shrouded in pollution."

There were blood and tears on Yu Hanxi's face, blurring his vision: "Then I woke up. Do you remember our initial deduction?"

Qiao Yu's heart was shocked: "...Since there is pollution, it will be purified."

"Yes, my disease degree will exceed 100 immediately. But I don't want to be that kind of thing. After you leave, I will end myself." Yu Hanxi's tone was sparse and normal, as if he was chatting with him at home, "Yu Zhizhi will do it. please."

"it is good."

Qiao Yu's tone was firm, but more of an indescribable sadness.

Yu Hanxi turned his head and waved to the little girl who was watching everything silently upstairs: "Zhizhi, come here. Dad can't watch you grow up with his own eyes. I will listen to Uncle Qiao Yu's words in the future."

In the first research institute, there was another little girl. Neither the apocalypse who came to accept the transformation, nor the scientific researcher.

It is said to be the only daughter of Director Qiao's friend. His friend died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. No one took care of the daughter, so Professor Qiao had to take her with him.

This argument does not stand up to scrutiny. Because they have done scientific research to the point where they are no longer short of money.

Not to mention the cold mechanical instruments, where the outside world is rich and colorful.

But Yu Zhizhi was extraordinarily calm and quiet. Don't cry or make trouble.

When Qiao Yu was writing her experiment report, she would quietly paint on the side, or play Tetris with a pixel game console.

Yu Zhizhi's paintings are all simple children's drawings, the colors used are bright and vivid, and he looks like a very gifted child.

Director Qiao has always been one-of-a-kind in her research institute, and since Yu Zhizhi never made trouble, everyone acquiesced to her existence.

‌Some researchers who are full of maternal love even go to buy some beautiful dresses for Yu Zhizhi to put on after get off work.

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What happened outside the tenth underground floor had nothing to do with Lu Yan for the time being.

His job is to record Tang Xun'an's daily physical condition and feed him.

Although Apocalypse people don't need sleep and food very much, if they don't eat or drink for a long time, their body will go wrong. It is manifested in the degeneration of digestive organs.

Fortunately, next to Tang Xun'an's bedroom was Lu Yan's dormitory and kitchen.

Lu Yan was willing to call his dormitory a nanny room. I don't know if it was because the basement didn't have enough space in the end, but the place where he lived was only a little bigger than a six-person dormitory - but next to the bedroom, there was a game hall, and the one inside was quite spacious.

To put it more intuitively, the size of Lu Yan's residence is not as big as the bathroom with bathtub in Tang Xun'an's bedroom. Probably when it was built, I never thought that besides Tang Xun'an, people would live here for a long time.

Fortunately, Lu Yan lived alone, so he could survive.

At Lu Yan's request, every day the staff would bring fresh ingredients to the elevator door.

Lu Yan opened the four doors to go out in the morning, picked up a dish and closed the four doors to come back. A round trip less than 500 meters would take half an hour and 16 verifications.

Cooking is one of his few hobbies.

Today's lunch is tomato ball soup and stir-fried pork with green peppers. Saute minced garlic and **** slices in hot oil, it smells very attractive.

He put the fried vegetables on a plate, and out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of someone pulling at the crack of the kitchen door to look at him. When he turned his head, the door was empty.

There seemed to be no one else on this floor except him and Tang Xun'an.

He put the dishes on the dining table, thought for a while, and knocked on the bedroom door: "Are you awake? Are you going to come out to eat?"

No one responded.

But when Lu Yan took a nap and was about to throw the dishes into the dishwasher, he found that the dishes on the dining table were empty.

There seems to be no difference between making a meal for one person and making a meal for two people.

Lu Yan was used to serving dishes on separate plates, and he was also used to getting up and washing the dishes after sleeping.

On the fifth day, his invisible roommate finally came out of the bedroom and sat silently at the dining table.

Tang Xun'an's shape didn't change much, but the dragon wings and tail behind him couldn't be retracted. They took up a lot of space and looked extra bloated.

Lu Yan prepared chopsticks for him, but his obviously deformed hand could no longer hold this thing.

The picked dishes will fall back on the table within three seconds.

But Tang Xun'an's personality was rather stubborn, probably because he really wanted to show his "human" side in front of Lu Yan. Even if he suffered repeated defeats, he insisted on using chopsticks to eat, and his eyes were red with anxiety.

Red bloodshots spread all over the white eyeballs, looking terrifying and ferocious.

Lu Yan put down his chopsticks and was silent for a while: "I'll come."

So, Tang Xun'an sat on the chair and didn't move.

Tang Xun'an's teeth were very sharp, giving Lu Yan the illusion that he would be bitten at any time.

But throughout, he was docile. He even subconsciously wrapped the dragon's tail around Lu Yan's waist.

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The tenth day of living together.

Lu Yan put down the heavy "remodeling surgery" record report at hand, turned off the light, and got ready to sleep.

He asked Professor Wu for a lot of research materials.

In real life, these are absolutely secret. It's really a shame if you don't watch it in your dreams.

Things seem to be going in the right direction. Tang Xun'an's disease degree is slowly decreasing, and the dragon wings on his back are no longer bleeding, but they are shedding scales every day.

Every morning when Lu Yan went to record data, Tang Xun'an's bed was always full of blood and dark dragon scales.

The new scales will be sharper and stronger than the old scales, but if the old scales are not sloughed off, the two scales will crowd together, and because of insufficient energy supply, diseased white scales will appear.

Therefore, Lu Yan still has a task every day, which is to help Tang Xun'an check that the old dragon scales are not cleaned up. If not, you need to use a tool to pull it out.

Lu Yan had his scales pulled out, knowing that it was painful.

But he really had no other way.

This seems to be the weakest time of Tang Xun'an's day, with his head resting on Lu Yan's shoulder, looking weak.  When Yu's dragon scales were pulled out, he would let out a pained groan from his nose.

Painkillers seem to be useless to Tang Xun'an. Lu Yan could only pinch the back of Tang Xun'an's neck soothingly-because of the scales, Tang Xun'an was often bloody, and people couldn't find a place to start even if they wanted to hug him.

For both sides, the area that was very torturous was the scales of the dragon's tail, especially at the base of the tail.

The senses here are more sensitive than other places. When the scales were pulled out, Tang Xun'an's reaction was also exceptional.

Specific manifestations include but are not limited to grasping the sheets, shaking all over, and humming softly.

Lu Yan wasn't sure that he didn't hear Tang Xun'an crying.

But even so, the other party was still very obedient and raised his tail to facilitate Lu Yan's inspection.

Lu Yan: "..."

He just pulled out the tablet, but he couldn't help putting down the large surgical forceps in his hand, and went to the bathroom to pour some water on himself to calm down.

"People at least can't, shouldn't..." Lu Yan said to himself in the mirror with a blank expression, "So, perverted."

All in all, everything went smoothly.

Thirty days.

The disease degree on Tang Xun'an's body finally dropped below 90, the palm of his hand returned to human form, his simple thinking ability was restored, and some voices were restored.

Tang Xun'an was finally able to speak, and the three most frequently used sentences were: "Lu Yan, hungry", "Lu Yan, sleepy" and "Lu Yan, pain".

According to the system's previous statement, the key to breaking the game is to wake up the owner of the dream.

But Lu Yan had been there for so long, and he still didn't know how to make Tang Xun'an sober.

Because life was too peaceful and fitting, Lu Yan even felt like he was immersed in this dream. Only when I see some people without facial features come and go, will I realize that this is not reality.

The research team said that with the further improvement of the fusion and the reduction of the degree of lesions, Tang Xun'an will gradually get out of this "mentally retarded" state.

Lu Yan felt that this might be true, because after a month, Tang Xun'an finally learned to pull out the scales by himself and no longer needed his assistance.

When he was kicked out of the bedroom by Tang Xun'an, Lu Yan actually felt a little sadness that "the child's wings are hardened".

After discussion, the research team decided that they wanted Tang Xun'an to make contact with the outside world and restore sociality as soon as possible.

So Lu Yan took on a new task, which he liked to call "walking the dog". One end of the chain was in his hand, and the other end was tied to the high-voltage electric collar around Tang Xun'an's neck.

The 8th and 9th floors underground are the dormitories of other volunteers undergoing surgical transformation, and the 4th to 5th floors are the places where researchers usually live and rest. 1 is the refuge, 2 and 3 are the experimental areas.

Every day, Lu Yan would take Tang Xun'an to hang out on the 9th to 5th floors underground for 2 hours. This is probably useful because Tang Xun'an's ability to learn is fast. On the tenth floor, he didn't learn how to use chopsticks for a month, but he learned how to use chopsticks in two days.

Lu Yan still doesn't know where the first research institute was established.

But this underground space should be an inverted pyramid structure, narrower as it goes down.

At first, everyone was a little nervous. After all, if Tang Xun'an suddenly went mad, no one would be able to restrain him. Fortunately, although Tang Xun'an looked fierce, he listened to Lu Yan's words. After a long time, everyone will not be so nervous.

Professor Wu highly praised Lu Yan's work completion, and patted Lu Yan's shoulder: "Little Lu, I knew Director Qiao would not misunderstand anyone. You simply overfulfilled the task!"

Beside him was a timid little girl.

To Lu Yan's surprise, the little girl's face was also very clear.

After staying in the dream for so long, Lu Yan basically understood one thing. In Tang Xun'an's dream, the facial features are still preserved, and it is estimated that they are important NPCs.

Professor Wu said that this is Director Qiao's niece, called Yu Zhizhi.

Lu Yan replied, "Thank you."

Tang Xun'an's icy gaze turned to Professor Wu's hand that clapped Lu Yan.

Old Wu suddenly felt a chill behind his back, and withdrew his hand: "Ha, Professor Qiao said, Tang Xun'an's eye reconstruction surgery has been designed. We have found a suitable source of pollution. If the reconstruction is successful, he can get a pair of eyes that will never go blind. The golden pupil..."

Yu Zhizhi couldn't speak, so she glanced at Lu Yan and Tang Xun'an beside him, lowered her head, and smeared on the paper.

Lu Yan and Professor Wu just happened to meet in the tea room and didn't talk for too long.

Just as he was about to leave, the little girl took a step forward and grabbed the hem of Lu Yan's clothes.

Yu Zhizhi couldn't speak, so she stood on tiptoe and handed over two paintings.

Professor Wu smiled and said, "Zhizhi likes to draw. This is for you."

"Thank you Zhizhi." Lu Yan showed her a gentle smile, "The painting is really beautiful."

He lowered his head and looked at the two pieces of paper. The smile at the corner of his mouth suddenly solidified on his face.

A black dragon is drawn on the first sheet of paper. The ‌ is very large, with flames lingering around it. Although it was a simple drawing, the picture still had a manic feeling. Two horizontal bars were deeply smeared with blue crayon in the golden eyes, which looked like crying.

In the other one, the ocean is drawn with blue waves. A person is on the bottom of the sea, and his gender cannot be seen. The lower body of this person is a long dark golden tail, which is more like a snake or a dragon than a fish tail.

The tail takes up two-thirds of the entire sheet. Obviously there is no expression, and the colors are very bright, but the picture gives people a very gloomy feeling.

A thin black thread wrapped around its long tail, as if to drag it into the abyss.