The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 149: Underground Garage, Tracking the Crab Brigade

Such an abnormal situation shocked Liang Yuan.

He stepped back hastily, released his mental strength, and quickly scanned the surroundings.

Then no suspicious mutant creatures were found nearby.

The mutant creatures around the fifth floor were too large to enter the building.

He explored carefully and suddenly realized something, and quickly climbed upstairs.

When I climbed to the sixth floor, the stuffy and uncomfortable feeling disappeared.

“Is it the water pressure?”

He immediately understood that with his current physical condition, reaching the fourth floor was already at the limit of his body's endurance.

Going further down, the water pressure was too great and his internal organs could not withstand the underwater pressure.

"Phew~, there are only a dozen meters to the bottom of the water. If we go under the water and leave the community to go to the small shop, there might be a lot of snacks and food sealed up there."

He frowned slightly. You know, when Liu Erlong and the others robbed the convenience store, they didn't take everything.

There are also two supermarkets on another commercial street nearby.

If we can get through, there should be a lot of food to eat.

Many modern foods are vacuum-packed and are extremely airtight, so they will remain safe even if soaked in water.

Liang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Let me try again to see if my [Evolution] ability can help me evolve my body and transform my organs to adapt to the underwater pressure."

Liang Yuan immediately walked down the stairs again and came to the fourth floor.

As soon as he arrived at this position, the water pressure hit him and he immediately felt his lungs becoming stuffy. At the same time, it was not only the water pressure that was causing the problem, but also his own buoyancy that made his body unconsciously float upwards.

Liang Yuan knew that if it weren't for the great increase in his physical attributes, increased muscle density and weight during this period, he would have been forced to float to the surface when he was on the eighth or ninth floor.

"Self-buoyancy is also a problem. How can we overcome our own buoyancy and avoid being repelled by the buoyancy of the water?"

He grabbed the railing, steadied himself, and forced himself to stop on the fourth floor.

"My body's buoyancy mainly comes from the gas in my body."

"How do fish control their own floating and sinking?"

Liang Yuan's thoughts turned and he immediately thought of the key point.

"It's fish bladder!"

"The gas stored in the swim bladder can control the fish's buoyancy and stability in the water."

Liang Yuan thought of this and immediately looked at his body.

"Are my lungs similar to fish bladders? They expel all the oxygen in my body, leaving only enough to maintain basic breathing."

Thinking of this, he opened his mouth and exhaled slowly, and a large number of bubbles gurgled out of his lungs.

His chest was slightly sunken, and the buoyancy of his entire body was rapidly weakening.

Soon his body stabilized on the fourth floor, no longer affected by buoyancy.

Liang Yuan was delighted, this trick was indeed effective.

At the same time, the sense of oppression around is also weakening.

Liang Yuan could sense that his own supernatural energy was rapidly transforming his body cells.

Quickly adapt yourself to the water pressure here.

"Did it change the osmotic pressure of my cells?"

Liang Yuan thought in his mind and felt that the density of his entire body was also changing.

It seems that the direction of evolution is to change the internal pressure and enhance the osmotic pressure of cells, so as to reduce the pressure difference between the outside world and the internal body and quickly adapt to the high pressure of deep water.

In addition, Liang Yuan could also clearly feel that his bones were rapidly becoming stronger and more stable under the influence of his supernatural powers.

In addition, the cheek organs that evolved behind the ears seem to have undergone some changes.

Liang Yuan didn't know what kind of change this was.

He didn't understand the theory, he only knew that his special abilities were helping him quickly adapt to the current environment and evolve more useful organs.

"What an evolutionary ability!"

Liang Yuan was delighted and became more and more satisfied with his special ability.

In just a moment, his body had completely evolved.

There have been some big changes in appearance.

The skin becomes oily, as if a layer of oil film is wrapped around the skin.

It's just like the feeling of catching those fish in your hands, slippery and hard to let go.

Liang Yuan estimated that this thing should reduce water resistance and block the water in his body at the same time.

Anyone who has swum knows that if you soak in water for a long time, the water in your body's cells will be lost to the outside of the cells due to the osmotic pressure.

The resulting effect is that the skin becomes dry and wrinkled, which is especially obvious on the fingertips.

With this layer of oil film wrapping the skin, it will lock the moisture in the cells and prevent the cells from becoming dehydrated.

Liang Yuan moved his hands and feet and suddenly felt something unusual in his palms.

He looked over immediately and found that a layer of flesh had grown between his fingers, connecting his five fingers together to form a webbed palm.

Liang Yuan was astonished. He never expected that the [Evolution] ability could allow him to evolve so many organs suitable for survival in water.

Liang Yuan tried paddling, and sure enough, the displacement increased and he swam very fast.

It’s a pity that there is no mirror, so I can’t see what I look like now.

I don’t know if it’s scary.

A mess of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Liang Yuan quickly dived down in this position and continued swimming.

There was nothing to find in each room, so all the electrical appliances were taken away, and some other unopened items that could be preserved in a vacuum were also taken away.

Liang Yuan then continued to explore further down.

When he reached the third floor, Liang Yuan's expression changed slightly when he sensed it with his mental power.

Outside the window of 301, a large number of plants are swaying.

Sensing from afar, these things seemed like human hair, dancing in the water.

Liang Yuan moved closer, his mental power spreading out, and then he knew what it was.

It turned out to be a large area of ​​kelp, densely growing at the bottom of the water.

It is extremely long, having grown to the height of the third floor.

Liang Yuan scanned the area with his mental power and found that due to the dense kelp, there were not many big fish here. Instead, there were many conchs, shells, and crabs hidden among them.

Some of these kelps are very large, and their roots may be underground in the community.

Some of them actually grew directly from the cracks in the bricks of the building.

Liang Yuan touched the kelp growing on the wall. It was slippery and covered with a layer of slimy substance.

He followed the kelp and felt his way toward the wall.

The root was deeply rooted in the wall and had already created a crack in it!
Liang Yuan's expression became serious: "With such a large area of ​​kelp, I wonder how many of them have taken root in the cracks of the wall."

"If the price continues to rise like this, the building will be torn apart by the seaweed sooner or later, and the whole building may collapse."

He was certain that these seemingly tall buildings that rose above the water would not last long in the future.

"Leaving the building and going to higher ground is the only solution."

It’s pitch black under the water, and if it weren’t for the mental power that could detect the surrounding objects, you wouldn’t be able to see anything at all.

The dense kelp also seriously hindered the detection of spiritual power.

Liang Yuan did not dare to leave the building rashly and enter the kelp bush.

He just harvested some kelp to see if he could make it into kelp shreds to add to everyone's meal.

He also dug up some kelp and prepared to transplant it outside so that Song Wen could try to cultivate it.

In addition to ordinary kelp, Liang Yuan noticed that some of the kelp was thick and wide, and it was as easy to cut as cowhide. It was strong, wear-resistant and extremely tough.

He guessed that this type of kelp should be a mutated kelp.

The mutated plants all have certain special features. If they are brought to Song Wen for cultivation and manipulation, they might have unexpected effects.

He continued to go deeper into the lower floors, and after clearing out everything that could be taken away from the building, he looked towards the garage.

"There are quite a few cars parked in the underground garage. Although some of them are soaked in water, if we move more vehicles of the same type, we might be able to piece together a car and fill it with gasoline and still use it."

"But it seems that there is no place to drive now, but if the engine is not damaged, it can still be refurbished."

Liang Yuan thought about it and decided to go to the underground garage. There was an inventory there anyway, so it wouldn't be a hassle to just put the things in the inventory.

Thinking of this, Liang Yuan quickly followed the safety stairs and continued to dive.

The further down you go, the greater the water pressure.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible to dive so deep.

Even if one is a mutant, without special abilities, he would never be able to reach such a deep place.

Liang Yuan's supernatural powers changed his body structure, and he evolved some cellular characteristics of deep-sea fish to adapt to the deep water environment.

Liang Yuan quickly walked through the dark stairwell and opened the security door of the underground garage.

"what!"

To his surprise, there was light here!
It was not the light from energy-saving lamps, but the many glowing corals growing in the corners and walls of the underground garage.

In addition to these corals, there are also some fish that glow. Although the light of a single fish is very weak, the schools of fish look like a group of small swimming colored lights, illuminating the huge underground garage.

The mutant fish swam around in the garage as if they had no natural enemies here.

These mutant fish are not big, most of them are only the size of a fist.

Liang Yuan could roughly see the surrounding environment with the light they emitted.

The cars were parked neatly in the parking spaces.

The parking space that once cost 80,000 yuan has now become a happy playground for fish.

Liang Yuan walked towards a nearby Mercedes Benz, feeling emotional.

Before the flood, he would have never thought of owning a car of this level.

Now...

As he thought about it, the black Mercedes-Benz was immediately put into his inventory.

After collecting a black Mercedes, Liang Yuan swam inside.

An oil film evolved on the surface of his body, which seemed to block his breath, so that the mutant fish did not actively attack him as before, but instead treated him as a mutant creature in the water.

Liang Yuan did not take the initiative to provoke other mutant fish, and those mutant fish would not take the initiative to besiege him.

This discovery made him feel both pleasantly surprised and delighted. The ability of 'evolution' was truly powerful.

He moved around the garage, quickly collecting car after car.

He tries to collect cars of the same make and model as possible so that the parts on these cars can be disassembled and used in conjunction with each other.

In the underground garage of Unit 2, Liang Yuan was inside a Toyota car and was about to take the car away.

Suddenly, a face floated up from the car window.

In this dim light, such a creepy scene frightened Liang Yuan so much that his heart started beating uncontrollably.

He swam away hurriedly, clenched his fists, and was ready to attack at any time.

But they found that the man's face was swollen like a pig's head and he was floating in the car.

Liang Yuan frowned, and used his mental power to penetrate the car body and probe inside.

"died?"

It turned out that the person in the car had been dead for who knows how long.

His entire body was soaked and rotten, and he was locked in the car. He suddenly floated up because Liang Yuan swam over and created an undercurrent.

Liang Yuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and felt sad for the owner.

"When a flood comes, why are you here instead of staying at home?"

Liang Yuan shook his head and did not take the car away. He swam in other directions and continued to collect cars.

As I was swimming, suddenly a group of crabs more than half a meter tall came running towards me.

Liang Yuan hurriedly swam behind a pillar and hid himself.

There were about a dozen crabs in total, running rampant on the driveway.

Watch them move forward and backward, all moving together, looking like an army.

Liang Yuan was suddenly surprised.

"How is it possible for these crabs to form such an orderly formation?"

Liang Yuan was surprised and hid in the dark to observe.

But the crabs came to a car and smashed the window. Then one of the smaller crabs crawled into the car, and came out again after a while.

The two pliers actually held two packs of wafer biscuits!
Liang Yuan was stunned. These crabs were actually looking for food in the car!
"No, why would these crabs eat human food?"

"And he found the wafer biscuits so accurately?"

Liang Yuan was surprised and immediately became alert. He watched carefully as the crabs knocked on the window one by one in search of food.

Then they moved neatly to the other end of the garage.

Liang Yuan followed quietly.

After walking for about ten minutes, Liang Yuan became a little anxious. He could already feel that most of his supernatural energy had been consumed.

If he continues like this, after his supernatural energy is consumed, all his evolved organs will return to their original state.

At this moment, the crabs suddenly stopped and then crawled into a safety door!
Liang Yuan's heart skipped a beat: "Safety gate! There are people behind these crabs!"

Liang Yuan immediately thought that someone might have controlled the crab to come down in search of food.

But how did that person do it?
Mutation ability?

Liang Yuan quickly followed and looked at the signs around the security gate.

After being soaked by the flood, the wall paint has shown signs of peeling off.

I could vaguely see the words "Building 88, Unit " on the wall.

“Is this already the 88th building?”

Liang Yuan was surprised. The distance between Building 88 and Building 76 was no more than 86 meters, with Building 87 and Building in between.

Liang Yuan didn't expect that he had walked so far underwater.

“This underground garage was already quite convoluted before the flood, and now without the sign, it’s even more convoluted.”

Liang Yuan secretly sighed in his heart, not daring to delay any longer, and swam quickly upstairs.

As he continued to float up, the air pressure in his body kept changing, and the osmotic pressure of his cells kept adapting to the external pressure.

Around the twelfth floor, most of the crabs crawled into room 1205.

Among that room, there was a room equipped with anti-theft windows. After the crabs entered the room, they saw a half-meter-long octopus crawling out from the living room and locking the door.

Then the octopus rolled up all the food, stuffed it into a net bag, and quickly went out.

From the human-like look in the octopus's eyes, Liang Yuan sensed that this octopus was definitely being controlled by human consciousness!

He quickly followed the octopus, but saw the octopus grabbing the net bag and floating up quickly.

Soon we arrived at the 14th floor.

The terrain here is slightly higher than Building 76, and the fourteenth floor has not been completely submerged.

The octopus came to a room on the fourteenth floor, put down the net bag, and then quietly dived into the water again.

This time, Liang Yuan did not follow Octopus, but hid in Room 14.

He glanced around and found that most people were fishing on the 15th floor.

The fourteenth floor was half flooded and no one came down.

Most of the people fishing are men, and there are few women.

They remained wary of each other and no one spoke to each other.

Unless you come as a group.

"It seems that there is some powerful person in charge of these 88 buildings, and a set of order has been established."

"I wonder if this guy is the one who controls the crabs and octopuses."

"No, it shouldn't be like that. If this person is the one in charge of this place, he wouldn't have to go to such great lengths to ask the octopus and crab to help him find food underwater."

Liang Yuan was curious about who this person was.

What role does it play in this building?
After waiting for a few minutes, suddenly there was a sound of splashing water outside the door.

Liang Yuan crawled in the water, hiding his body, spreading his mental power, and secretly observed everything.

Not long after, a figure wearing a black baseball cap, a black mask on his face, a slightly thin figure and a black T-shirt flashed into the room.

It was a dimly lit room and the man was dressed entirely in black. If it weren't for the sound of wading, it would have been difficult to spot him.

Liang Yuan hid in the water, but he could see everything clearly with his mental power.

Although the other person was wearing a loose T-shirt, one could still tell that she was a woman from the considerable rise and fall of her chest.

I just don’t know what it looks like.

The woman entered the room and looked around vigilantly to make sure there was no one. She went straight to the corner, groped in the water for a while, and quickly picked up the net bag left by the octopus.

She was immediately delighted: "Found it."

Liang Yuan could hear that there was a hint of excitement in her voice.

"He shouldn't be very old."

Liang Yuan thought to himself and made a judgment.

He didn't take the trouble to go up and say hello, as under the circumstances, misunderstandings were likely to arise.

After watching the girl in the black T-shirt leave with the net bag on her back, Liang Yuan slowly stood up from the water and was about to explore the 88 buildings.

Suddenly, there was a scream and curse from upstairs.

Soon, someone else sneered.

"Catch her, there's food in her bag!"

"Damn it, I was wondering why I never saw you go out fishing, but you always had food, so it turns out you were hiding here!"

"Wang Ling'er, hand it over. Don't let us do it."

"Xiao Ling'er, for the sake of us being neighbors, don't force me, your brother Zhao, to take action."

Several men laughed lewdly. Liang Yuan frowned, thinking that this girl was so careless that she was targeted.

(End of this chapter)