Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight: Keep an Eye on Mommy p1
“Whoosh—”
Soft light shone on Lin Xiwan’s face. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she opened her eyes.
After exhaling gently, Lin Xiwan breathed in an incredibly fresh “grass” smell.
It was a smell of earth mixed with a bit of moisture and sunshine, which made people feel refreshed and happy.
This was the second sleep in Kun City. Every time she woke up, Lin Xiwan felt that Kun City was really suitable for living.
Lin Xiwan slowly looked at her sister in her arms. At this time, her sister was closing her eyes and looked like she was sleeping soundly.
Why could she tell that she was sleeping soundly?
Because drool was flowing from the corner of her mouth!
“How old are you…” Lin Xiwan gently wiped the drool from the corner of her sister’s mouth with her finger and said with a smile.
She naturally didn’t know that this was because her sister couldn’t control the opening and closing of her mouth after fainting, and coupled with the fact that she was lying on her side, she couldn’t control the drool from flowing down.
It made it seem like she really dreamed of something delicious.
Lin Xiwan gently laid her sister’s body flat, let her rest her head on the soft pillow stacked with vines, and then looked at the next bed, but did not see Huayibai’s figure.
Where was Huayibai?
Seeing that her sister was breathing steadily and still sleeping peacefully, Lin Xiwan quietly got out of bed, did not put on her shoes, and walked directly out of the dormitory.
The ground was basically covered with vines or moss, and there were no sharp objects. Walking barefoot would actually be more comfortable.
Most importantly, the sisters’ shoes had been torn to pieces in one battle after another, and they were basically no longer in the shape of shoes. It was better to go barefoot.
After walking out of the dormitory, Lin Xiwan saw a white figure sitting in front of a big tree not far away, not knowing what she was doing.
“Huayi…”
Just as she was about to call Huayibai, she suddenly remembered that her sister was still sleeping. Lin Xiwan quickly stopped her voice and slowly walked behind Huayibai.
“Good morning, Sister Xi.” Hearing the footsteps behind her, Huayibai leaned her waist back, tilted her head up, and called out sweetly.
But Huayibai, who was sitting, leaned back a little too far and fell straight backwards. Fortunately, Lin Xiwan stretched her calf forward in time, so that Huayibai could lean on it.
“Morning,” Looking at Huayibai’s cute appearance, Lin Xiwan asked with a smile, “What are you doing?”
“Huayibai is making friends!” Huayibai, who was sitting on the ground, moved her little butt slightly, turned her body halfway, and showed Lin Xiwan the things on her skirt.
“This is…”
At this time, Huayibai was sitting on the ground with her legs slightly apart. Her little skirt was propped up between her legs to form a small cloth platform.
On the skirt, there was a large white object that looked like a white cauliflower at first glance, placed in the middle of Huayibai’s skirt.
“Hiss…” Lin Xiwan took a slight breath. She could recognize what these things were. Many of them were covered on the vines and building-trees, but it was indeed a bit creepy to see them up close.
“What is this… white lump?” Lin Xiwan bent her knees slightly, supported her knee with her left hand, and pointed to the thing placed in the middle of Huayibai’s skirt with her right finger and asked.
“It’s Little Black,” Huayibai stretched out her chubby little hand, touched the white lump, and explained, “It’s a friend Huayibai just met.”
“Why is it called Little Black? Isn’t it white?” Lin Xiwan asked curiously.
“Where is it white?” Huayibai seemed a little puzzled. She picked up the white cauliflower and held it in front of Lin Xiwan, saying, “Sister Xi, look, it’s black!”
After getting closer, Lin Xiwan noticed that this was not a cauliflower.
These were tiny mushrooms with white mycelium. You almost had to use a magnifying glass to see clearly that they were strands of mycelium supporting the translucent cap on top, and there was indeed a small black dot in the center of the cap.
“It said it has lived here for a long time. It usually drinks water and occasionally draws a little sap. When there is a fire, it uses a part of its body to extinguish the fire.”
As Huayibai explained, a small part of “Little Black’s” body began to demonstrate.
Its translucent cap, like a water droplet, quickly withered, and the black dot in the middle that absorbed nutrients quickly expanded, and then burst with a very small “pop” sound, spraying out a large number of white spores.
It seemed that the white powder that Lin Xiwan had encountered before when there was a fire, falling from the sky like moths to a flame, was this guy called “Little Black” by Huayibai.
But more than that, what surprised Lin Xiwan was how Huayibai communicated with such a small mass of non-humanoid mycelium?
Lin Xiwan directly asked Huayibai this question.
“Well… it’s just…” Hearing Lin Xiwan’s question, Huayibai gestured with her hands, seeming a little embarrassed.
She didn’t know how to communicate these topics with humans who didn’t have spores. Logically speaking, those with Mommy’s small spores should know these things by nature.
Seeing Huayibai’s embarrassment, Lin Xiwan no longer dwelled over this question. She rubbed Huayibai’s head, told her not to stay too far away from her sister, and then got up and left the dormitory.
While her sister hadn’t woken up, she wanted to see if the car abandoned on the edge of the city before the battle had been burned.
If it hadn’t been burned, there were still some survival supplies such as food, napkins, and clothes inside. She could bring the car back while her sister hadn’t gotten up.
Although Kun City was good, it was too “natural”. It still needed to be artificially modified to make some areas more suitable for human survival.
“Pitter-patter…”
Just when Lin Xiwan was slightly exercising her muscles and preparing to run towards the place where she entered the city before, she heard the sound of small shoes stepping on the vines behind her.
Turning her head to look, Lin Xiwan saw Huayibai holding that cluster of mycelium, and holding something in her hand, running towards Lin Xiwan.
“Sister Xi!” After running to Lin Xiwan, Huayibai raised her head, holding that cluster of mycelium in her right hand like holding a doll, and stretched out her left hand towards Lin Xiwan.
“This is a gift from a new friend to Sister Xi.”
In Huayibai’s hand was a small wreath woven from thin vines. There were small white flowers made of white mycelium on the wreath, and there were some thin blood-red flower buds in the center of the small white flowers, looking small and lovely.
“For me?” Lin Xiwan looked at the bracelet in Huayibai’s hand with some surprise, smiled and took it, and put it on without hesitation, “Thank you, Huayibai.”
After the desperate joint battle that night, Lin Xiwan’s trust in Huayibai had obviously risen to a higher level, and naturally she would not suspect that Huayibai would harm her.
After putting the wreath on her right hand, Lin Xiwan smiled and waved her hand, told her to take good care of her sister, and then jumped directly, flashing and moving between the vines.
Seeing that Lin Xiwan put on the bracelet before leaving, Huayibai nodded slowly.
That bracelet had no special effect, and it was not a gift from the “new friend” to Lin Xiwan, but something Huayibai made on the spot by pulling a few vines.
The shape of the vine bracelet and the white flowers were all to make the flower buds composed of Huayibai’s blood-red mycelium in the middle not so strange.
Mommy valued and liked Sister Xi very much. While Mommy was sleeping, Huayibai had to protect Sister Xi well.
Simple Huayibai’s thoughts were very simple. She just wanted to protect Mommy and Mommy’s “personal assets”. In Huayibai’s view, Sister Xi was also a part of Mommy’s “personal assets”.
With Huayibai’s mycelium by her side, even if Sister Xi encountered any danger, Huayibai could notify Mommy immediately and arrive immediately.
After Lin Xiwan ran away, Huayibai casually threw the “new friend” in her hand to the ground.
“Sister Xi told me to keep an eye on Mommy, you play by yourself.” After saying that, Huayibai couldn’t wait to take small steps and ran towards the direction of the bedroom.
Huayibai would definitely live up to Sister Xi’s instructions and protect Mommy in all aspects!
……
Guangkun Highway, 20 kilometers away from the Kunzhou Expressway entrance, a convoy was stationed here.
A large pot was set up in the middle of the convoy. The canned cabbage soup in the middle of the pot had already boiled, but it seemed that no one was in the mood to serve a bowl.
Everyone was staring at the leader of the convoy, and the leader was looking at a radio in front of him, puffing on a hookah.
“Boss…” A middle-aged man couldn’t help it anymore and asked, “Are we… still going?”
If Lin Xiwan was on the scene, she would definitely recognize who that man was.
It was the person who thought that their car had overturned a Voodoo Cult convoy that day, and then sold several boxes of pure water to them in exchange for the right to scavenge.
At this time, this Panlong Square convoy that had been following them was also about to reach the entrance of the Kunzhou toll station, but at this time they stopped in front of Kun City and did not dare to move forward.
Because just before they were about to reach Kun City, they saw thick smoke and ashes covering almost the sky in the early morning, which seemed to have been burning all night.
And when they stopped in doubt to rest, they heard the news that the leader of the Voodoo Cult and another B-rank had been beheaded in Kun City.
This news made them drop their jaws.
Originally, they thought they were just following a few powerful C-rank Awakened, using them to open the way in front, so that their convoy could safely reach a place to stay.
But they never expected that they were not following three angels opening the way, but three Yama Kings.
They could only be thankful that the camp had not shown any hostility to those three from beginning to end.
This highway went straight, and it must be to Kun City, which meant that the three beautiful girls in that car had entered Kun City before the battle broke out.
And the towering smoke they saw from afar might be the ruins after their battle.
Now you radio told them that the three B-ranks of the Voodoo Cult were all killed in Kun City?
“Gulp—”
The leading man thought of this, licked his lips that were a little pale due to nervousness.
It seemed that they had underestimated the strength of those women… They were not three B-ranks, but three combatants who obeyed the organization’s orders to participate in the battle…
They might have discovered the following of the Panlong Camp long ago, and they might have just been kind and did not stop it.
The fresh tire marks of the tires crushing the moss on the road ahead reminded the camp leader that the tire marks did come from the car they were tracking.
Recalling the cold eyes of the woman in the driver’s seat before, he still felt a little chill in his heart.
“Or… should I go and apologize?” The man who had just asked the leader said tremblingly, “And return the things to them…”
“Maybe they didn’t even notice us… Maybe we are nothing in their eyes, we can just take a detour to other places…”
“Yeah, yeah, we don’t need to get involved in the struggles of these big organizations…”
“Detour? Where do we detour? We will be out of the country if we go further… Or do you want to go to the desert in the west? There are already few resources…”
“Quiet down.” The leader of the Panlong Camp slowly took a breath and said in a deep voice, “No matter what, this is our fault. Prepare later and take out all the spoils of last time. I will go and apologize.”
“You alone?”
“Idiot, can I drive three cars alone?”
“Oh oh…”
It was not feasible to return the same way. Counting the losses and food consumption along the way, and the few remaining searchable materials in Fuyun City, at least half of the people in their convoy would starve to death if they returned the same way.
Not to mention the various unexpected situations that might occur on the road… If it weren’t for the car opening the way before, they would have suffered if they encountered a group of zombie birds on the road.
But they had another way to go.
That was to use the name of apology to tentatively request to join that organization…
They had been listening to the phone radio last night. At least from the negotiations on the radio, the mysterious organization that destroyed the Voodoo Cult was not a cold-blooded organization that would not help those in need.
Just from the fact that they were broadcasting with the voices of girls or young women, you could feel that the organization wanted to announce to the outside world that they were harmless and released goodwill.
After all, the voices of girls and young women were the easiest to make people lower their guard.
Coupled with the attitude of those women after encountering their convoy the previous two times, it also made the leader think that he could gamble.
The worst result was that the other party would not accept ordinary people, only Awakened. If this result really occurred…
He could only lead the team out of the country and find a way to survive abroad.
He didn’t need to join an organization that would abandon ordinary people and let them fend for themselves. He would not abandon the people in his camp.
In the apocalypse where humanity was lost, being able to maintain a camp, without courage and sincerity to the people in the camp, would have been killed by a hidden gun long ago.
“Load the car. Those who are willing to go with me, get in the car yourself.”
After the leader finished speaking, he used the can body of the can to scoop a spoonful of canned cabbage soup from the pot, blew it slightly, drank it all, then put down the can, put away the hookah, and walked towards the car loaded with the Voodoo Cult’s supplies.
The remaining people who were standing in a circle looked at the city that was almost half ashes in the distance, remained silent for a while, and then some people began to follow the leader’s footsteps.
Soon, all the Voodoo Cult’s supplies were cleaned up and packed. They drove three cars, slowly bypassed the crowd, and drove towards Kun City.
The leader of the Panlong Camp was making a big gamble—gambling on the “benevolence” of the other party’s organization.
Although the feeling of handing over fate to others was not good, if he gambled correctly, the whole camp would have no worries about food and clothing.
If he gambled wrong, he would only lose three cars of supplies that did not belong to them.
As for the probability that this organization was cruel, it was not high, because Survivor’s Light was willing to trade with them. An organization that could be endorsed by Survivor’s Light could not be a chaotic and heartless organization.
“Remember not to talk too much later. The more you say, the more mistakes you make, and the more you do, the more mistakes you make. Let me speak alone. When the time comes, if they want goods, we will unload the goods. If they want the car, we will get out of the car directly. No conflicts are allowed, understand?”
“Understood, boss, but…”
“No buts. If we win this gamble, we will be rich and noble. If we lose, we will go abroad to fight…”
“No, boss, look in the rearview mirror…”
At this time, the boss sitting in the passenger seat, who was so nervous that his back was all wet, looked in the direction of the rearview mirror.
Because the road was full of moss and vines, they drove slowly.
And in the rearview mirror, you could see that the men, women, old and young of the camp had all stood up and followed behind the convoy on foot.
They all wanted to go voluntarily, but there were no empty seats in the car, so they could only follow on foot.
The leader looked at the rearview mirror that had been scratched to the point of being almost invisible, his eyes were slightly hot, he suddenly opened the car door, stuck his head out.
“Are you stupid? So many people are following? Others will think we are going to fight them! Go back and sit down!”
Under his scolding, the crowd following the three cars slowly stopped and stood in place to see them off.
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