Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 361 Is this heaven?
Another member of the already dwindling clan has died. When they were driven out of the underground city, there were over a hundred; when they decided to seek refuge with Li Xiang in City 03, there were still thirty-seven; by the time they arrived in Yunnan Province, only twenty-one remained; and now, only twenty are left!
The Ice Claw Soul Devourer's azure carapace gleamed with a cold metallic light, its six spider-leg-like icy limbs piercing the rock wall. As Kanna swung her bone spear toward the leader's compound eye, the beast's head suddenly split open, spewing out icy mist from its three-lobed mouthparts. The girl spun swiftly to dodge, frost still clinging to the tips of her hair.

At the same time, two strange beasts behind them clamped their pincers around the waists of two tribesmen, and the cold poison instantly froze their bodies into bluish-purple ice sculptures.

"Damn beast!" Two more members of the tribe have been lost, leaving only eighteen people!

With fire burning in her eyes, Kanna rushed forward and fought fiercely against the beast. However, the beast was too strong. The three beasts that came were at least at the sixth rank, while she was only at the fifth rank.

If she were alone, she would definitely use earth magic to escape immediately. But now, her clansmen are right beside her. Should she abandon them and try to escape on her own, or choose to die together?

Kanna didn't hesitate; she would never choose the former!
"Run!" Kanna screamed, coughing up blood. She tried her best to entangle the three strange beasts, hoping to create time and space for her people to escape.

However, in just a few minutes, she had more than ten new wounds on her body, one of which was fatal. Her thigh was slashed open by the claws of the strange beast, and the cold poison entered her body. Fortunately, she was a superhuman and had a certain resistance to poison, but her thigh was becoming more and more numb and losing sensation.

"Swoosh~" A strange beast swung its huge claws and slashed at Kanna, who had nowhere to dodge and was filled with despair.

Meanwhile, the other two strange beasts pounced on the tribesmen who had just escaped not far away.

We're about to be wiped out!

"Li Sheng, I guess I won't see you again. I hope I'll have the chance to be your little lover in the next life."

Kanna never expected that after finally reaching China and seeing her destination in sight, she would die here.

"Hey~"

The air was suddenly torn apart by a sharp whistling sound, and a figure appeared before her like a comet falling to earth. To Kanna's astonishment, the three-headed beast had been severed at the neck, its corpse rolling down into the icy valley.

"You are... Li Sheng?" Kanna looked at the mysterious armored man in front of her, overjoyed. In her relaxation, she could no longer hold on to her injuries, her head spun, and she collapsed to the ground.

Before she lost consciousness, she vaguely felt that Li Sheng had pulled her into his arms.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Kanna awoke to find herself in a makeshift shelter, warmed by a roaring fire. She was wrapped in a thick, soft wool blanket.

"Uh..." Kanna sensed something was wrong, lifted the blanket and took a look. She was completely naked, but all her injuries had healed and there wasn't a single scar left.

"Was it Li Sheng who stripped me naked and treated my injuries?" Kanna admired Li Xiang's strength, that he could heal wounds without leaving scars, but she was also a little shy, after all, her idol had stripped her naked and seen her naked. She wondered if Li Sheng would think she had a good figure.

It wasn't that Li Xiang wanted to strip her naked, but she wasn't wearing any underwear. She had many injuries that required her to be clothed, and her coat was tattered and dirty. If she were to cover herself with it, it would only make her wounds more susceptible to infection.

It's not that Kanna doesn't like wearing underwear, it's just one word: "Poor!"

However, as a superhuman, he still has a very good physique.

"You're awake?" Li Xiang walked in.

"Are you Li Sheng, the Divine Envoy?" Kanna asked, slightly excited, to confirm.

Li Xiang nodded and smiled, "It's me. I was just lucky. I was looking for you, but I ran into you as soon as I stepped out the door."

Actually, this location is five or six hundred kilometers away from City 03, but for Li Xiang at Mach 80, it really feels like he just stepped out the door and "walked only a few steps".

The Nine Netherworld Eyes noticed the fighting and instantly arrived at Mach 80, saving them.

"Looking for me?" Kanna seemed to remember something, and her voice trembled slightly. "You saw my email?"

"Yes, your Chinese is quite good," Li Xiang praised.

Kanna then realized that Li Xiang was speaking to her in Hindi. However, writing in Chinese was probably a little trick of hers—she wanted to show off the results of her hard work in learning Chinese.

The "Chinese fever" is now sweeping the globe, with large numbers of people learning Chinese in almost every underground city. It's said that learning Chinese before practicing breathing techniques leads to a deeper understanding. And Li Xiang, along with other instructors, uses Chinese in their online classes.

Although translation software exists, the sentences and words translated by it are never as accurate or meaningful as those in Chinese.

“You’ve grown so much, but you still look a bit like you did when you were little.” Li Xiang glanced at Kanna’s exposed shoulders, feeling rather apologetic, and then took out a set of cold-weather combat clothing from the system’s inventory and handed it to her. “Kanna, I’m sorry, I had to treat your injuries earlier, so I had to… offend you a little. I hope you don’t mind.”

Kanna: "I...I don't mind." She thought to herself, "I'm actually honored."

"Your people are all outside. Come out and get something to eat later." Li Xiang walked out.

A short while later, Kanna came out dressed. Her previous tattered burlap clothes and animal skin boots were already too worn to wear. Because she had no change of clothes and was dirty from the long journey, she now looked graceful and heroic in the combat uniform that Li Xiang had given her.

Even Li Xiang's eyes lit up.

The makeshift shelter that Li Xiang dug was naturally larger than the one that Kanna dug. It was located deep underground, with several rooms and small ventilation ducts. Kanna's people were outside warming themselves by a fire and eating beef soup.

"Here, Kanna, this bowl is for you." Li Xiang personally took a large bowl and filled it full of tomato and beef brisket soup for Kanna. There were many large chunks of beef brisket in it, and a thick layer of oil floated on the surface of the red soup. Kanna couldn't help but swallow her saliva just by looking at it.

"Thank you, Your Excellency." Kanna accepted the food but didn't eat it immediately; tears welled up in her eyes.

“Don’t be so formal from now on, just call me Brother Xiang or Boss,” Li Xiang said.

"Thank you, boss." Kanna still chose to address him as "boss" because she felt unworthy to be called "Brother Xiang." It felt like a dream, unreal.

Kanna ate three large bowls of soup before she felt even slightly full. Her journey had been extremely physically and spiritually exhausting, and now, after three bowls of beef brisket soup, she felt better than ever before.

Li Xiang always told the others to eat a little at first and then eat more a few hours later, because ordinary people who have been starving for a long time and then suddenly overeat can have problems. But since Kanna is a superhuman, there is no need to worry about this.

In fact, Kanna used her spiritual energy to aid digestion, so she only ate about 70% full.

Kanna had slept for about seven or eight hours, and her people had eaten two or three meals. Everyone had received warm clothes distributed by Li Xiang.

The shelter was now filled with laughter and joy. Several people had fallen ill with fevers, and Li Xiang had provided them with medication. External injuries were naturally no problem either. Li Xiang's interdimensional warehouse was extremely well-stocked, possessing everything imaginable, even clothes for the baby, which greatly surprised and moved the child's mother.

This baby was incredibly lucky; it survived the journey, though it was extremely thin and skin and bones.

Li Xiang chatted with Kanna and asked her if she would be willing to join the "Earth Vein Envoy" team.

Kanna was naturally very excited and readily agreed.

Afterwards, Li Xiang led them on their way. With his cultivation level of 27, he used earth magic to easily and quickly carry Kanna and her group, arriving at City 03 in just a few minutes.

Li Xiang almost never uses the main entrance when he goes out; he always uses earth magic to enter and exit without needing to open the gate. He does the same when he brings others with him.

In fact, there is a complete procedure for normal entry into the city, especially the disinfection step, which is essential.

At each entrance and exit of the underground city, there is a disinfection plaza and several curved glass disinfection channels where nano-disinfectant sprays will appear, some of which will also carry the fresh scent of lemon or grass.

However, when Li Xiang brought his people in and used his spiritual power to envelop them and use earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique), he had already used spiritual power to vibrate and disinfect them, ensuring that no viruses or pathogens would be introduced, so this step could be skipped.

The moment they passed through the last rock wall, the "blinding" warm white light made everyone instinctively raise their arms—after months of trekking in the dark, they had almost forgotten the texture of sunlight.

After finally adjusting to the bright light of the underground city, Kanna and her people were utterly shocked, as if they had fallen into a surreal science fiction world.

This was an extremely clean, tidy, magnificent, and futuristic underground city. Kanna and her people were like country bumpkins visiting the Grand View Garden, finding everything here incredibly novel and looking around with a sense of unease.

Li Xiang led them to a resting corner in the city hall, where there were rows of chairs. He told them to wait there or wander around the nearby streets, but not to go too far. Then he went to find Jiang Cai'er.

Instead of sitting, Kanna and her people walked around, continuing to curiously observe the street outside through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows.

Several bold girls, one of whom was Kanna's cousin, went out after getting Kanna's permission, while the others remained inside the city hall.

Kanna told them not to go beyond 500 meters, lest they get lost and be unable to find each other later.

"Okay, sister." Kanna's cousin is named Tanya. She has very thick lips and is even darker than Kanna, but she is not as pretty as Kanna, and her figure is naturally not as good as Kanna's. However, she has a set of bright white teeth when she smiles.

Tanya excitedly ran outside with a few friends. The mother holding the child looked and followed them out. Later, a few more people couldn't resist their curiosity and ran out as well.

They were all very sensible and dared not go far, only visiting the surrounding area. Everything was so novel and technological.

A virtual starry sky was projected onto the dome of the main thoroughfare, with the flowing Milky Way reflecting the neon lights on the ground. Inside the glass-walled shops, holographic mannequins were displaying jewelry inlaid with psionic crystals. As Tanya approached, the mannequin suddenly blinked and smiled: "Would you like me to help you try it on virtually?"

The girl was so frightened that she fell to the ground on the glowing floor tiles.

On the holographic advertising screens on both sides of the street, Jiang Cai'er's virtual avatar is explaining the latest psionic armor, with data streams spreading out beside her like phoenix wings.

Not far away, a patrol of six-legged robotic dogs passed by, their metal shells gleaming with eerie blue energy patterns.

Tanya and the others looked at the robot dog with curiosity.

The robot dogs suddenly stopped, and one of them turned to the mother holding the baby, its mechanical claw popping out an insulated baby bottle: "Nursing woman detected. City 03 Maternal and Child Care Plan has been activated."

As the warm goat milk was placed into her hands, the mother trembled as she knelt down to kiss the robot dog's sensors, only to be gently lifted up by a mechanical arm: "According to Article 19 of the Dawn Outline, the dignity of citizens is sacred and inviolable."

Kanna's uncle needed to urinate, and seeing a public toilet in the park on the street corner, he went over.

When the crystal doors of the public restroom slid open automatically, Kanna's uncle thought he had stumbled into a palace—the mirrored dome reflected soft light, the air was filled with the scent of cedar, and each stall was equipped with a fully automatic cleaning system.

When he discovered that the temperature-sensitive pad on the edge of the toilet bowl automatically raised the seat, this man, who had once shared a dry toilet with thousands of others in the slums, sat on the smart toilet, covered his face, and wept bitterly.

If men are like this, then women are even more so.

The mother holding the baby stayed in the restroom for a long time, unwilling to leave. Especially since there was a mother and baby room right next to the restroom.

She felt this wasn't a toilet at all, but an ultra-luxurious mansion. She had never seen a toilet like this, so heavenly, in her entire life.

They entered a commercial street, where neon signs suddenly transformed into a sky full of fireflies. A holographic nine-tailed fox leaped out from a ramen shop sign, carrying a ribbon of light that wove the words "Mid-Autumn Festival Special Offer" above their heads.

As Kanna's brother stared at the molecular gastronomy display case in the dessert shop—a suspended caramel pudding decomposing and recombining into the shape of a phoenix—his trouser leg was suddenly gently tugged by a cleaning robot. It turned out that the ice cream he had dripped while staring had been completely decomposed by the nanobees.

"Is this really the end of the world?" One of Kanna's older sisters-in-law, who looked like she was in her fifties or sixties despite being thirty-five, touched the warm, faux-wood bench in the community center. Immediately, a floating holographic menu popped up with health and wellness packages for the elderly.

When the AI ​​voice asked in Hindi if she wanted to contact a volunteer, she suddenly gripped Kanna's hand tightly: "Sister, have we arrived at Shiva's Mount Meru?"

A holographic news pillar on the street corner was playing footage of Jiang Cai'er being interviewed. When Li Xiang's image flashed by, the people of Kanna knelt down and kowtowed in unison until the patrolling bionic police officers gently lifted them up with an energy field: "Citizens, any form of kneeling is prohibited in City 03."

They didn't stay long before Li Xiang returned, accompanied by several staff members. They helped Kanna and the others obtain identity chips and were assigned to an apartment building. The girls were divided into five-person rooms, couples had family rooms, and the men were divided into six-person rooms.

In addition, each person will receive a resettlement allowance of 100 calories.

"Tomorrow, our staff will come to your door to help you choose a job."

The fact that they were even offered jobs and the opportunity to choose them filled Kanna's people with indescribable excitement.

Dinner was at the communal canteen downstairs in the apartment building. It was a very generous meal, and each person only spent a little over one yuan on calorie coins. It was great value for money.

As dusk fell, the community's AI automatically adjusted the wavelength of the ambient light based on the biometric data of the residents.

Kanna lay on the heated bed in her assigned apartment, looking out the panoramic window at the children playing outside—those clean, agile, and lively figures overlapped with and separated from the slum children in her memory who were scrambling for food in piles of excrement.

When the cleaning robot gently knocked on the door with a cup of honey and milk, this earth-elemental superhuman, who had once torn apart alien beasts with his bare hands, finally curled up and cried like a lost child.

(End of this chapter)