Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 113: The strange rain in the past, the old man scratching his head
"You can also become invisible?"

Lu Xian got out of the car and glanced at the roof.

It seemed that because he saw that person coming out of the cornfield, Chai Xin was a little scared, so he used his ability again to disguise himself and hide himself.

But this time she couldn't use that ability well, her clothes were still showing, stretched out loosely, and she looked like a ghost floating on the roof of the car.

This would be an urban legend in the old world.

Lu Xian sighed inwardly, pointed his gun at the strange-looking, hunchbacked old man—from his old appearance and posture, Lu Xian was sure he was an old man—and asked, "Why are you invisible?"

The old man shrank his neck and raised his hand a little higher: "Can you please please please please don't point the gun at me?"

Lu Xian and Yao Wei lowered their guns slightly and moved them away from the old man.

If there is any problem with the old man, the two men can quickly raise their guns and shoot at him.

But even so, the old man felt a little more relaxed, and he no longer stuttered: "That's good... That's good... I'm just an old man, how could I have seen a gun... Don't dare to point a gun at me.

"If I had known you had guns, I wouldn't have dared to stand up from the ground. Actually, getting stepped on a few times isn't a big deal. I've lived for so many years, and it's not like I haven't been stepped on before."

Lu Xian asked, "Who stepped on you?"

The old man scratched his head, making the tree roots rustle. "I can't remember, and I don't recognize it. Sigh... I'm really old, and my brain doesn't work well. Anyway, it's not much."

"Ever since that strange rain, all the people in this area have left. Not many people from other places have come here since then. Our village is too remote, and most people don't come here."

"Strange rain?"

Lu Xian caught the key point of the old man's words.

"Yes, there was a strange rain. It happened a few years after the cold disaster. How many years was it? I can't remember..."

The old man scratched his head again, almost scratching off a slightly thin tree root on the edge. "Anyway, it was really difficult back then. The land was hard to farm, and the house was not warm. We could only rely on relief from the county.

"I can't watch TV anymore, and my phone has no signal. If I want to know something, I have to listen to the radio."

Lu Xian said: "Let's get to the point. What's the matter with the strange rain?"

"Oh... the important point, the strange rain, I almost forgot..."

The old man was in a daze, and his thoughts were forcibly pulled back by Lu Xian, "Anyway, it just rained strangely, and then everyone here was ruined by it.

"Everyone's skin started to break and rot, and they were dying from the pain. Those who were hiding in the house and not encountered them also ran away quickly."

Lu Xian suddenly thought of the fungus stone wrapped in wolf skin in the car.

Thinking back to the contents of the "X-17 Strain" project practical manual, my heart skipped a beat.

The increased concentration of type D-1 strain is the type D strain.

Chai Xin relied on the fungus stone to transform from a D-1 type new human to a D-type new human, but the other D-1 type new humans all had skin ulcers when they touched the fungus stone, and were even tortured to death by the pain.

The people the old man mentioned had the same symptoms as the other people who touched the fungus stone.

The old man's abilities are somewhat similar to Chai Xin's.

Does the strange rain that the old man mentioned have similar properties and ingredients to mycium?
Type D strains can appear in the form of fungus stones, or they can become a strange rain?

"What color is that strange rain?"

Lu Xian recalled the stone after it was unwrapped in the wolfskin and asked again.

But the old man scratched the tree roots above his head in confusion and said, "Color? I can't remember... Alas, I'm old and can't remember..."

Lu Xian: "..."

Never mind, let's forget about what happened back then. The old man couldn't seem to recall it. Anyway, something major must have happened in Jianshan City back then, causing the same consequences as the arrival of the fungus stone.

And now, the old man's condition seems to be related to the fungus stone - or the strange rain at the beginning - and has produced characteristics combined with Chai Xin and other people who touched the fungus stone.

"You also encountered that strange rain?"

Lu Xian asked.

"Yeah...wait, let me think..."

The old man was scratching at the tree roots again. "I got caught in the rain, too. It was quite heavy. The radio said...it rained over most of Jianshan City."

"I wasn't here at the time, I was on the top of the mountain...

"Oh, I remember now. Go west to Dongshan County, it's right on the top of Dongshan Mountain.

"It was freezing cold back then, and life was so difficult. Many people went to the top of East Mountain to jump off the cliff. Then someone recruited people to watch from the mountain, and I signed up.

"I was on the mountain when it rained, and I got soaked all over. Look, the sores are still there, look—"

He spoke more and more fluently, as if a lot of his memories from that time came back, and he became more and more energetic. He even forgot to raise his hands and stretched his arms forward to show Lu Xian.

There were indeed sores all over his arms, and there were quite a few on other parts of his body as well.

However, the old skin, like tree bark, covered the shape of the sore with its yellow and black color, and it was not clear unless you looked carefully.

Lu Xian only glanced at it once or twice, then looked away and continued to ask, "And then?"

"Then..."

The old man fell into deep thought. After a while, he touched the tree roots and said, "Then I didn't know what hit me and I fell into a pit, and then I fainted.

"When I woke up, the rain had stopped. I came down from the mountain and returned to the village, but there was no one there.

“After that, I lived here alone for many years, growing my own food and eating my own food.

"Then some unknown people came... Oh, yes, yes, they were the first people I met after the strange rain. They started searching everywhere, even holding guns and plucking the corn from my field.

"I was a little scared, so I hid under a tree and accidentally became invisible."

"..."

Lu Xian asked, "You accidentally became invisible, what does that have to do with the strange rain?"

The old man scratched the roots of the tree: "I don't know... Anyway, I think there is a connection."

Ok……

Lu Xian thought that the old man's feeling was actually accurate. Although he couldn't explain it clearly, it seemed to be related to the strange rain.

The old man couldn't explain these questions clearly, so Lu Xian simply stopped trying to get to the bottom of it and got down to business: "What's the secret to this invisibility? Can you tell me about it?"

"The trick..."

The old man scratched his head and thought for a while before saying, "I can't explain it. I guess it's just... I just need to be scared a little more, right?
“Anyway, I couldn’t come here by myself before. After others came, I would get scared and hide under a tree so that others couldn’t see me anymore.

“Fortunately, those people came here and kept breaking off my corn to eat, and then they died after eating it.

"I've been scared enough that I've gradually become invisible. Wasn't that the same thing happening to this little girl just now?"

He grinned and gave Chai Xin on the roof a kind smile, "Don't be afraid, little girl. I'm not a bad person. Do you want some corn? I'll pick an ear for you."

(End of this chapter)