Chapter 28 Sickness

Jiang Mi did not continue watching the next scene because she knew very well what would happen to these cockroaches.

"Fortunately, we discovered it in time. If these things were allowed to continue to reproduce, I'm afraid the whole mountain would be their nest." When Jiang Mi thought of that scene, he felt a layer of white sweat on his body. It was not just fear, but also an indescribable nausea.

Jiang Xun opened his mouth to speak, but a layer of itchiness rose in his throat. He couldn't help coughing twice, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Fortunately, the bait is toxic enough, otherwise it would take some effort to get rid of these cockroaches."

Seeing him cough, Jiang Mi handed him a glass of water and said, "The radiation outside is too strong now. We can't patrol the mountain for the time being. We can only check the surveillance more to prevent similar problems from happening again."

Jiang Xun took the cup of water and drank it all in one gulp. Only then did he feel his dry and itchy throat better.

"Find an opportunity to repair the surveillance in several important areas." He said after thinking for a moment.

Surveillance is their only way to observe the outside world at any time. Once these "windows" are all damaged, they are no different from blind people.

And now the snow outside is getting heavier and heavier. The ground is covered with a thick layer of gray snow. If it continues like this, I'm afraid that in two days the snow will be deep enough to bury my calves.

By then, dangers from insects like cockroaches will be hard to spot.

Jiang Mi thought about it and decided to go out and repair the surveillance cameras tomorrow.

As a result, the next morning, she had completed her two-hour daily exercise, but Jiang Xun still didn't get up. This made her heart sink, and she had a bad feeling.

You know, Jiang Xun is so self-disciplined that he is like a robot. No matter how late he slept the night before, he would wake up at six o'clock the next morning. But now it's almost nine o'clock, but he still hasn't shown up. This is simply unreasonable.

Jiang Mi hurried to Jiang Xun's room. There was no sound in the room. She raised her hand and knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside. The feeling of uneasiness in her heart became stronger and stronger. She didn't care about anything else and pushed the door open.

The room was dark. She raised her hand to turn on the light and saw Jiang Xun lying on the bed with a red face and a furrowed brow, as if he had lost consciousness.

"Brother? Brother?! Wake up!" Jiang Mi's heart sank to the bottom when she saw him like that. She rushed to the bed and tried to wake him up.

But no matter how she called, Jiang Xun showed no sign of waking up.

She raised her hand and touched his forehead. The scorching heat from her palm seemed to burn her hand.

Without having time to think about it, Jiang Mi hurriedly took out a thermometer and put it under his armpit. He then found out the antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs and fed them to him, and put a fever-reducing patch on his forehead before he breathed a sigh of relief.

When the time came, Jiang Mi took out the thermometer and saw that the scale showed 42 degrees!

Everything seemed normal before going to bed yesterday. It was only one night, how could the temperature be so high?

This is obviously not normal!

As if he thought of something, Jiang Mi quickly lifted his eyelids and took a look. Under the light, Jiang Xun's pupils did not dilate or become dilated due to his loss of consciousness. Instead, they were contracting rhythmically, and even some red spots could be seen in the center of his pupils.

"Advanced?!"

Jiang Mi murmured in a low voice, with a puzzled look on his face.

In their previous lives, the survivors were reluctant to call the process of acquiring superpowers a mutation, but instead called it advancement.

Jiang Xun's current situation is clearly the state that humans exhibit when they are about to gain superpowers.

But advancement is an extremely dangerous thing. Not only do humans have to endure high fever for several days in a row, but they also have to endure physical deformities. If they are not careful, they may fail in advancement.

The end of failure can be summed up in one word: death!

However, these failed advanced players will not die completely. Instead, their bodies will deform faster and become complete monsters.

Now Jiang Xun has the help of the water from the space lake, so his body will not be deformed, but he has to rely on himself to endure the high temperature brought by the advancement.

After knowing the reason for Jiang Xun's current condition, Jiang Mi finally felt relieved.

But he still couldn't help but check Jiang Xun's body to see if there was any deformity.

Fortunately, the result made her feel at ease, there was no deformity on Jiang Xun's body.

The time required for advancement varies from three to seven days. Jiang Mi took a cup of space lake water and fed it to Jiang Xun before leaving quietly.

After telling his parents about his brother's current situation, they rushed to Jiang Xun's room in panic to check.

"How come he suddenly started to advance? Will there really be no problem?" Mother Jiang couldn't help asking as she looked at her usually handsome son who now turned red like a shrimp.

Jiang Mi stroked her chin and thought carefully. All the food and supplies for their family were taken from her space. The things in the space were definitely not contaminated, and the air inside the air-raid shelter also had self-circulation, so there was no possibility of leakage from the outside.

The only possibility is that my brother went out to deal with a bunch of mutated cockroaches yesterday.

But whether it was because of insufficient protection that led to his own infection or because the radiation outside was so strong that even the protective clothing could not block it, we can only wait for Jiang Xun to wake up and ask.

In the following days, the family was a little absent-minded. They went to Jiang Xun's room to check on him every day as if they were punching in. It was not until the third day that Jiang Xun's temperature began to drop and the family began to let go of their worries.

The drop in temperature means that the advancement is about to be completed. Once the temperature returns to normal, Jiang Xun will be able to wake up.

For three days, Jiang Xun didn't eat anything except three cups of water a day, which made Jiang's mother very distressed, but there was nothing she could do except wait.

His originally plump and strong face became thin and haggard after three days of torture, with sunken eye sockets, pale and cracked lips, and he looked like he was about to die.

Jiang's mother tried to feed him some liquid food, but there was no way she could get it in. After trying a few times, she gave up. She could only watch and worry, waiting for him to wake up silently.

Another three days passed, and it was already the sixth day. Jiang Xun's body temperature finally returned to normal. His skin was no longer as red as a cooked shrimp. His frown relaxed, and his uneasy face returned to calm, as if he had fallen asleep.

Jiang Mi breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that Jiang Xun had successfully advanced. All he had to do next was wait for him to wake up.

The three of them watched and waited eagerly, and at noon on the seventh day, Jiang's mother, who had been guarding by the bed, saw Jiang Xun lying on the bed and her eyelids trembled, then slowly opened.

"...mom?"

A hoarse and arduous voice sounded, causing Jiang's mother, who was sitting beside her with her forehead supported and eyes closed to rest, to open her eyes and look over with great surprise.