"Is there running water here?"
Lin's father's voice attracted Lin's mother's attention. She immediately came over and placed her hand under the faucet, feeling the water flow over her palm.
"This water is so clean. I haven't had such convenient access to water in a long time," Lin's mother also exclaimed.
Lin Yan walked over, looked at the water from the faucet, and felt the faint power. Lin Yan roughly understood what was happening.
"There's always been water here. We used to draw groundwater with a water pump. Now that the zombies in town have been cleared, the water plant has probably resumed supply.
There are quite a few awakened water-element ability users in town. This water should have something to do with them," Lin Yan guessed.
In fact, Lin Yan's guess was close to the truth. After Lin Yan left, more people awakened their abilities. Due to practicing martial arts, their physiques improved, and they all survived the initial high fever.
Coupled with the relatively complete supply of medicine in town, these people successfully awakened their abilities. However, their newly awakened abilities were not very useful, and their killing power was not even as good as their martial arts.
So they developed new uses for their abilities. For example, water-element ability users went to the water plant, exerting their abilities to improve with each trip. Fire-element ability users were used to burn zombie corpses and help in the cafeteria to cook, the former improving the flame temperature, and the latter improving their control over fire.
Earth-element ability users helped build walls, metal-element ability users manufactured tools, and wood-element ability users promoted plant growth.
This was why the base's defenses were built so quickly, and there was no shortage of vegetables and fruits to eat.
"Ability users?" Lin's father thought of Zhang Hu's group of awakened ability users who looked down on ordinary people with arrogance. He found it hard to imagine ability users working at a water plant.
"What if they are ability users? Aren't they all people!" Lin Yan said with a smile. "Besides, aren't you, your daughter, an ability user too? There's nothing strange about it."
Moreover, she would research a drug that could awaken abilities. It wasn't enough to just develop an antidote. If she could develop a drug to awaken abilities, the apocalypse could end sooner.
She herself had successful experience. As long as the dosage could be confirmed, it should not be as painful as it was for her.
Even if it was more painful, she believed that many people would be willing to endure such pain to awaken their abilities!
"That's true. Yan Yan, I almost forgot you are also an ability user."
"Sui Sui is too!" Sui Sui quickly ran over, looking up at Lin's father.
"Yes, yes, our Sui Sui is too!" Lin's father patted Sui Sui's little braid and said kindly.
"Old Lin, the situation here is different from our home. We need to adapt. Let's take a good look at this place that Yan Yan has been thinking about." Lin's mother had a good initial impression of this Peach Blossom Spring base.
She felt that the name was indeed fitting; this place was truly a Peach Blossom Spring in the apocalypse.
"Mom and Dad, you should take a shower and change your clothes first. Then I'll take you around the base. However, I haven't been back for more than twenty days, so I'll have to ask Xiao Cheng and the others to guide us."
After speaking, Lin Yan beckoned Sui Sui and left the bedroom together.
After Lin Yan's family showered, Xu Nan and the others brought over the food. Although they brought the food, they did not stay for the meal.
Even though Lin's father and mother tried to persuade them to stay, they still left. However, before they left, Lin Yan asked Wang Cheng to come over after eating to accompany them around town and show them the changes in the base.
It was two hours later when Lin Yan and her family were walking on the town streets. Lin Yan first took them to the government affairs hall to exchange the supplies she brought for points. Then, using the points, she bought two mobile phones for Lin's father and mother.
After registering their information on the phones, Lin's father and mother finally understood why people were looking at their phones even while walking.
The phones could conveniently display the task requirements posted by the government affairs hall and allow them to accept tasks directly.
There was also a forum on the phone for asking and answering questions. Any questions they didn't know could be posted on the forum for others to answer, which also required points.
"There's internet here?" Lin's mother looked at Lin Yan's account among her contacts. "Can we communicate with each other?"
It was important to know that communication had been impossible for a long time since the apocalypse began.
"Only within this town, and at most five hundred meters outside the town. It will be expanded later. If you encounter danger when you go out, you can also use your phone to call for help." Lin Yan explained.
"That's still amazing!" Lin's father, although a businessman, knew that such technology was not easy to achieve.
"This is all my sister's credit. My sister is amazing!" Wang Cheng, who was mature for his age, also said proudly.
"Yan Yan?" Lin's father looked at Lin Yan in surprise, unable to believe it was his daughter's doing.
"I'll tell you more when we get back. Let's continue looking around." Lin Yan did not explain. Her father would eventually know about this matter, and she couldn't do nothing just to avoid their suspicion.
After Lin's father and mother toured the base, they also realized their daughter's importance to this base.
That evening, they did not eat at their own home but were invited to a restaurant in town. The person in charge of the base, whom they had met during the day, was waiting for them in the hall.
The dinner that evening was a welcome banquet for Lin Yan's family. The meal was enjoyable for everyone. It also made Lin's father and mother realize that the base truly did not lack food.
After they were settled, Lin Yan transferred a sum of points to them and handed them over to the person in charge to see what her parents could do.
As for Lin Yan herself, she applied to the base for a house to use for research.
Lin Yan's application was quickly approved. While the house was being prepared, the base also sent over a lot of experimental supplies.
Some were taken from schools, and some were taken from the town's health center.
However, this was only temporary. Hearing that Lin Yan was going to conduct research, many people prepared to form teams to move the medical equipment from a nearby Grade II A hospital.
But Lin Yan stopped them. She did not need such high-end equipment for now. She planned to wait until she had prepared everything and then go with those people to move the precision instruments back using her system backpack.
Those precision instruments were not easy to disassemble, and they could be damaged if not handled carefully. Besides herself, no one else in this base had such a large space to transport those instruments. Therefore, it was safer for her to move them herself.
As soon as Lin Yan's laboratory was tidied up, she asked Sui Sui to move the Chinese medicinal herbs from a traditional Chinese medicine shop in town. Then, she produced her first product.