Choices between Going and Staying

While everyone was searching for crystals in the camp, Tom instead reminisced with his good friend, the gecko biscuit.

Originally, when he was renting out the building, the gecko was preparing to enter a sleep state and digest the crystal that Tom had fed him. At that time, it was in a daze, like a workaholic who had worked all night for three consecutive days and nights, very tired, which was why it was pushed down the building by Zhang Meng.

When it fell, the biscuit was awakened by a startle. As it was about to fall to the bottom of the building, its two forelimbs were just attached to the wall, which prevented it from being injured. After landing, it was still frightened, afraid, and exhausted. Instinctively driven, it fled into a sewer to sleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I woke up, I found that my body had grown bigger and I almost couldn't get out of the crevice in the sewer. Then it wandered around, but could not find Tom's trace. Instead, it accidentally discovered the scent of Zhang Meng.

It clearly remembers that it was Zhang Meng who caused it to separate from Tom, and naturally wished to eat Zhang Meng. So he quickly approached Zhang Meng, who surprisingly had three companions at the time. Under the attack of the gecko, Zhang Meng was injured and abandoned his teammate to escape. Biscuit did not intend to harm his teammate, but was still delayed by them.

Afterwards, Zhang Meng's "human touch" suddenly disappeared, and the persistent biscuit continued to search, only to find Zhang Meng again. However, by that time, Zhang Meng had already become a mutant.

After several pursuits, Zhang Meng escaped again, but Biscuit was also injured by his counterattack. But it is obvious that Zhang Meng underestimated the stubbornness of this four legged snake. For nearly half a year since the micro disaster, Zhang Meng has been wandering from Jiangxia Village and hiding. He was stuck by biscuits like gum.

It can be said that Zhang Meng's escape journey was the revenge path of biscuits. As far as the supermarket, Zhang Meng was almost bitten to death by the biscuit. It was the black widow who passed by and seriously injured the biscuit that saved Zhang Meng.

Originally, Zhang Meng thought that Biscuit was dead this time, but the ability of the second mutated Biscuit to revive was comparable to that of an undead Xiaoqiang. In a daze, with only half of his body and half of his head rotten, he gradually survived.

This restoration completely changed the body structure of the biscuit, and it became what it is now, like a fire breathing dragon.

Despite the significant change in appearance, Zhang Meng still recognized the biscuit at a glance. This is enough to indicate that the pursuit of cookies has become an unforgettable nightmare for him in the past six months.

Cookie's memory is a bit chaotic, and he cannot recall the scene when he was killed by the Black Widow, leaving Tom with no way to know what the Black Widow had to do. But after the resurrection of Biscuit, he still did not give up chasing Zhang Meng, but followed his trail to the supermarket. It only remembered the aura emitted by the Black Widow, making it dare not attack Zhang Meng recklessly. This is enough to demonstrate how terrifying the strength of that sweet girl named Black Widow is.

Tonight, it was the biscuit who had been wandering nearby that found the scent of the Black Widow had disappeared. It was then that he boldly attacked the camp, hoping to seek revenge on Zhang Meng, but unexpectedly ran into Tom, the "master" whom he had been missing for a year.

Regarding the variation of cookies, in Tom's view, it has surpassed the secondary variation, with a much larger body size and even a different form, which is probably unusual.

At this time, the biscuit not only has a very hard outer layer of keratin on its body, but also has wings to fly and a mouth to breathe fire. With a body length of 63 centimeters, its tongue can even extend by 130 centimeters and is very flexible. In addition, it not only grows sharp teeth, but also sharp claws on the soles of its feet, and can eventually crawl invisibly.

For little people, that is a very scary monster.

Even though the body has undergone such a huge change, its original intention remains unchanged, still the greedy and lively little gecko who trusts Tom. And even after being separated for a year, it still remembers Tom's education not to eat people. Chasing Zhang Meng along the way, it preys on mutated insects, peels off and swallows the crystals inside the mutated organism. Whether it's a living or a dead person, it's a very obedient and sensible baby.

Tom had just finished reminiscing with the cookies, and the gladiators reported that they had not found Zhang Meng's collection of crystals. Instead, they found a place for food, water, and various supplies. When Tom asked Chen Zhensheng, number 97, about Natasha, Chen Zhensheng pursed his lips. As expected, Mao Mei ran to the pile of wine again to get drunk.

In the group of maids, Wu Yingxiao, who was once assigned to sleep with Tom for a week, came up and led him, Chen Zhensheng, and others to the material warehouse. In an inconspicuous corner, he lifted a brick and found the wall. After Tom smashed open the wall, he indeed found many crystals inside.

From level five to level one, all levels of crystals are available, with the first level having the most crystals of all colors, roughly over a hundred. This must have been prepared by Zhang Meng for his "chosen person".

And there are six of the most precious fifth level crystals, with three being red.

Whether it's Zhang Meng, these fierce mutants, or the mutants of the Darwin Order, they don't need to activate their body's powers with crystals anymore. Crystals are just "batteries" for them to consume inside their bodies. However, Tom, like them, had crystal nuclei in his body, but his basic body values were strengthened by non-human factors. Afterwards, with the addition of crystals, it was truly incredibly powerful, which gave him a new guess about his own situation.

However, all of this will still need to be confirmed after returning to the Haiwei Mini Industrial Shelter and communicating with Shen Jiayi, through inspection by the R&D department's instruments.

Tom is originally a person who sweeps the snow in front of his door and doesn't want to intervene and take on the lives of others. Since the micro disaster, he has been uniting everyone to survive and enhance the power of survival. Now his heart has flown back to the shelter, but there are over 190 maids, gladiators, and two legged sheep in front of him, all eagerly looking at him, hoping that he will lead them to live in this apocalypse.

Among them, there are naturally the despicable 176, as well as the five siblings Yao Xinlong who were cleaned up by Tom. Not to mention that among these fifty plus gladiators, some of them struggled from a dead fight, which means they have had the lives of others in their hands.

Is it really good to bring such unstable molecules back to the shelter? Especially in the current situation where Shen Jiayi's rule is under threat, going back may face external worries and internal troubles. Once some unstable elements seize the opportunity to cause trouble, it is just adding to the chaos.

Tom consulted with Special Investigation Department No. 2, who naturally hoped that Tom would return to the shelter as soon as possible. However, when it came to the issue of survivors, he did not decisively reject it. Instead, he felt that having more people meant having more helpers.

A year after the Miniature Cataclysm, soldiers as strong as No. 2, are still infected by Shen Jiayi's concept of "life is at stake". Thinking from a human perspective, Tom's final hesitation is dispelled.

So he gathered everyone, from maids to gladiators and finally to two legged sheep. He first expressed his next plans and explained the possible problems he may encounter when returning to the shelter.

At the beginning, everyone's eyes lit up when they heard that the shelter of the Hemingway Mini Industry was a paradise in the apocalypse, a miniature urban world. But when Tom said that there might be unrest in the shelter, and even more terrifying mutants lurking and could face war at any time, some people retreated.

Tom didn't want to interfere with their concerns, and even gave everyone free time to discuss. He would come back in two hours to record everyone's choices.

His departure made some people's eyes light up, and they immediately lobbied and planned certain plans at the conference. Of course, some people quietly approached Tom again, including several women such as Wu Yingxiao.

As maids, the food in the camp is processed by their hands, which inevitably makes some secrets of the camp noticeable to them.

For example, the statement in the gladiator rules that "a person who has honed their mind through multiple elimination matches has a higher chance of retaining their rationality after eating the crystal" was understood by Chen Qi, the maid in chief.

In Chen Qi's view, this theory is just a cover for maintaining the rules of gladiators, for a simple reason. The Black Widow provided a potion, which Chen Qi was responsible for adding to the daily food of the gladiators. Although the Black Widow claimed that this was a nutrient solution to ensure the physical nutrition of the gladiator, Dr. Chen Qi, a medical and pharmaceutical professional, denied the Black Widow's claim after several secret examination experiments. These unknown potions are likely to be drugs that develop the physical potential of gladiators to enhance their chances of remaining rational even after taking crystals in the future.

This time, Tom's other suspicion was finally dispelled.

Zhang Meng's mutation camp is likely to be another experiment of the Darwin Order, using these potions to verify the success rate of survivors' mutations, and the Black Widow is the host of this experiment.

When Tom revived and caused chaos, the Black Widow abandoned the experimental camp in nine out of ten, so she had been coveting cookies nearby before daring to show up and seek revenge from Zhang Meng.

Quickly, two hours passed and Tom returned to the lobby to inquire about the whereabouts of the others.

Sure enough, 176 and Yao Xinlong became the opinion leaders who stayed behind, with nearly half of them choosing to pursue them.

Looking at the agile eyes of number 176, Tom patted the biscuits beside him. He knew that if there were no biscuits to deter him, people like 176 would not just stay, but most likely plan to seek more from him.

No. 97, led by Chen Zhensheng and more than twenty gladiators willing to pursue Tom, is almost all the gladiators in the Luo army team, except for the traitor No. 176.

As for the gladiators of the Big Health Team, half of them explicitly stated, "Wherever Natasha goes, they will go.". At this moment, Natasha arrived at the square under Tom's drag, drunk and drowsy.

"Do you fools really want to suffer with me?" Natasha shook her fork and scolded loudly, "I don't want any unruly fools."

As soon as this shout came out, more than a dozen health fighters who had originally stood on the side of 176 and chose to stay came out and ran to this side, choosing to pursue Natasha.

This surprised Tom quite a bit, because after Natasha became the captain, she was very aggressive towards the people in the team, often scolding them like a dog with punches and kicks. So they knew that Natasha would definitely go with Tom, and choosing to stay was naturally to stay away from the witch Mao Mei.

As a result, Natasha shouted so loudly that the people who chose to stay actually ran towards her honestly.

I don't even know if these people are TikTok or masochistic.

The gladiator is the most powerful young man in the camp, and now more than ten have left, which means that the remaining combat power is less. The faces of No. 176 and Yao Xinlong have become very ugly.