"President An, isn't this inappropriate? You're a girl..."
"Just take it off if I tell you to. What's with all the nonsense? If you don't move, I'll have Luo Luo come over!"
Luo Luo smiled, and several excited vines appeared behind her.
Hai Changfeng looked at them and felt they were very similar to certain themed adult films from Neon Country, the ones with tentacles...
Hai Changfeng, blushing, took off his clothes one by one.
He kept a pair of briefs on and felt shy.
"President An, can I keep one piece on?"
"Stand up and turn around."
Hai Changfeng: ...
What else could he do? He could only obey.
Hai Changfeng turned around twice.
The other three squatted to the side and watched.
Luo Luo: "It does seem a bit strange."
An Nuan: "The shape isn't normal, right?"
Chang Kaitong nodded: "Sister Nuan is right, I also think it's not quite normal."
Hai Changfeng shyly hunched his neck.
"President An, please don't make personal attacks..."
"Attacks? No, the place where you were scalded by boiling water before has changed shape, look for yourself."
Hai Changfeng looked in the mirror with his back to it and was stunned.
When he left the company, An Tianxin had someone deal with him. His back was severely scalded by boiling water, and his clothes had stuck to his skin.
It was An Nuan who rushed over, chased the attackers away, and sent him to the hospital for treatment.
After he was discharged, he started working in the pharmaceutical field.
The wound on his back, which was originally ugly and large, had now become a small patch.
"It's healed! It's really healed."
Hai Changfeng exclaimed joyfully, "Does this mean I'm unkillable?"
"Hard to say. Ordinary zombies are also unkillable, but they die from headshots. I suspect your vital point is like a zombie's."
Hai Changfeng's expression fell.
He had seen zombies on the road when he was kidnapped by Old Tao.
How disgusting!
"President An, can you please not lump me in with them?"
"And stop calling me President An. Call me An Nuan, or Little Nuan is fine too."
"Okay, Little Nuan..."
Hai Changfeng was used to calling her President An and felt a bit awkward changing.
An Nuan took out many blood-replenishing, calcium-replenishing, and zinc-replenishing products from her spatial storage.
She rolled up her sleeves and apologized, "Changfeng, I'll have to trouble you!"
For the next three days, Hai Changfeng voluntarily participated in An Nuan's various experiments.
Everyone concluded that Hai Changfeng's ability was: healing!
He could not only heal his own injuries but also cure others' wounds.
All it took was cellular contact.
Cellular contact, in layman's terms, meant fusing his cells.
Drinking blood and eating hair were forms of this, and contact was another.
However, limb contact could only heal minor injuries, basically just abrasions and small wounds that stopped bleeding.
Moreover, the degree of healing would vary with Hai Changfeng's emotions.
An Nuan had tried it. When she cut herself, a mere touch could restore the wound.
Luo Luo was the same.
Because the three of them had known each other for a long time and Hai Changfeng had a deep friendship with them, their healing was efficient.
However, when Chang Kaitong got injured, he needed to drink a drop of Hai Changfeng's blood or consume his cellular elements to recover.
This was because their emotional connection was not yet deep.
As for the others, An Nuan hadn't conducted experiments on them yet.
But she was certain that if Hai Changfeng disliked someone, even if that person ate him, they wouldn't be able to trigger his healing power.
Just like Mo Shu, who got splashed with so much of Hai Changfeng's blood when he beat him up, yet his wounds and lame leg showed no signs of recovery.
An Nuan summarized.
"All abilities need to upgrade by fusing crystals, but within the same stage, they can change due to emotional fluctuations and personal development."
"Luo Luo's vines growing thorns is the best proof of this."
Luo Luo agreed.
She had inadvertently extended thorns during a life-or-death moment.
Hai Changfeng said, "What do we do now?"
Abled individuals were appearing one after another. Soon, everyone would discover the crystals in the zombies' brains.
As time passed, there would be more and more abled individuals, and they would become stronger.
In the apocalypse, only the truly strong could survive and protect themselves.
For example, Chang Kaitong at Tier Eight, and the rumored Tier Nine super-god.
But for now, it was best for them to stick together and upgrade.
An Nuan analyzed the team: "My brother and I are the main attackers, the two cats are for hunting, Luo Luo is support, and Changfeng is a 'poison healer'. The lineup is decent. Now we need to divide our tasks and focus on improving everyone's abilities."
"First, basic physical training. Does anyone have any objections?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Without a healthy physique, even the most powerful abilities would be useless.
"Then there's individual specialized training. It's easy for Xiao Tong and Luo Luo, but the problem lies with you."
Hai Changfeng was also quite helpless.
His healing ability was too tricky, and he didn't know how to improve it.
"I also have no clue. I'll do whatever you say, Xiao Nuan."
"Alright, then you'll eat and sleep with Xiao Tong for now, foster your relationship a bit more."
"Deal, then I'll stick to Xiao Tong."
Hai Changfeng hugged Chang Kaitong, and the younger boy rested his head on his shoulder: "Brother Hai, protect me."
"Don't worry, Brother Hai will protect you with his life!"
Luo Luo felt a bit like she was witnessing a romantic pairing.
An Nuan: "Secondly, you should take more nutritional supplements and let your hair grow."
Hair and blood were the most potent for healing, and losing blood too often had too much of an impact on the body.
Hair, however, was different.
It was painless and harmless; even shaving one's head wouldn't have any negative effects.
If injured, pulling out a few strands of hair and swallowing them would suffice.
Luo Luo understood An Nuan's meaning.
She felt disgusted: "Do we really have to eat hair? It's even more disgusting than drinking blood."
"It's fine if you don't want to eat hair. Fingernails, dandruff, and beard trimmings are also options! If all else fails, urine..."
"Stop, stop, stop! I think hair is perfectly fine, very good!"
Luo Luo was already starting to feel nauseous.
Hai Changfeng scratched his head sheepishly: "I'll try my best to take good care of my hair, wash it clean, so it doesn't have any smell."
The other three: ...
The temperature started to rise again these past few days. In just three days, it had shot up from below minus ten degrees Celsius to thirty-two degrees.
Although the temperature was suitable, the two extreme weather conditions caused some people who couldn't adapt to die.
The ice pillars that had frozen the "dragon sucking water" also began to collapse.
Within a few days, everywhere was filled with places smashed by ice pillars.
After heavy casualties, no one was bothering with the arson and disappearance case in the villa area anymore.
This was within her expectations, as was the power outage.
After the ice melted, hot rain began to fall from the sky, and the humidity broke through 70%. Every day felt like bathing in a hot spring.
Due to the continuous disruptions, the power was completely out, but fortunately, the water was still running.
Her brother and Hai Changfeng had made seven or eight iron barrels, each as tall as a person.
The bottom of the barrels was hollowed out, allowing firewood to be placed inside and burned.
The barrels were filled with water, and they were just the right size for one person to bathe in.
Luo Luo could now grow wooden blocks, which were perfect for burning.
An Nuan soaked in an iron barrel, looking at the 40°C rain falling outside, finding it quite an experience.