“Sigh… I’m afraid they’ll encounter snow…” The time limit for Linglan is only twenty-four hours, and the longer it takes, the more worried Mother Xu becomes. In this world, she always feels that there isn’t enough time to spend with her loved ones, fearing that every separation could be permanent. But even so, people have to strive to survive.
“Grandma, it’s okay. Xiao Shu can turn into a tent! It can keep the snow outside!” Mo Tiancheng looked up and reassured Mother Xu.
“I know, but I’m worried that they won’t be able to come back tonight…” Without the camper, how fast could they possibly travel? Now she regrets not going with the children.
Mother Xu’s worries were not unfounded. After she and the twins processed nearly twenty kilograms of cotton and cooked two large pots of mixed stew, the sky had already turned completely dark, and they still hadn’t returned.
Feeling anxious, Mother Xu contacted them through Linglan and learned that they were still in the city and planning to return. Only then did she calm her restless heart and went to sleep with the two children. Early the next morning, before anyone even opened their eyes, they heard some commotion outside—the courtyard gate was opened.
“Mom and Dad are back!” Mo Tianyou rubbed his eyes and yawned, then suddenly realized what he said and quickly covered his mouth.
Mother Xu didn’t show any objection to this title at all. For her, as long as they came back safely, even if her own son had truly become a “daughter,” it wouldn’t be a big deal.
She put on her clothes, got out of bed, and shivered. It was surprisingly cold, even though there was heating in the vehicle!
Taking a glance outside, she realized that fortunately, it wasn’t snowing, although it remained overcast. She quickly ran out to greet them, and then…
“Why did you bring back such a big vehicle?!” Mother Xu was dumbfounded, looking at them driving in with a large container truck, black lines appearing on her forehead.
Xu Song closed the door from behind and smirked at his mother, “We found it on the way, what else could we do?”
So you managed to bring it back?
Xu Tiancheng cleared away some ivy to make space, and Yue Zheng parked the vehicle next to the first container. Then Mother Xu complained, “How did you come back at this hour? Where did you spend the night?”
Xu Song yawned, “We didn’t sleep much. We were worried about the snow, so we traveled through the night, taking turns driving and napping.”
“You can’t do this in the future. What if something happens again?” Mother Xu complained, then curiously asked, “Did you bring back the rats?”
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Mother Xu burst into laughter, “You put them all on top and left the cargo area empty?”
Xu Song shook his head, “No, it’s not empty. There’s something inside.”
“Something inside?”
A brand-new pickup truck, half a truckload of beer, cola, Sprite, various fruit juices, cigarettes, tea leaves, and medical supplies. The assorted hunted game they had casually caught, some cotton they had stepped on, and a large pile of honeycombs…
“You went to collect honey?!” Mother Xu was startled. She didn’t expect them to go south again.
“Well, we went on a trip, otherwise we would have come back earlier.” If they had only looked for a vehicle and killed some mutant rats in the city, they would have returned last night.
“But we didn’t expect that there would be even more mutant rats at night. We encountered a large group of them, and the ones on top were only a small portion. There were even more that we burned to death.”
This time, Mother Xu turned green. The stacked mutant rats on top were at least thirty or forty, and that was only a small portion? Oh my, can people still stay in the city at night? No, they couldn’t even stay alive during the day!
Mother Xu raised her hand and kept poking her son’s forehead, wanting to scold him a few times. But she knew that her child had grown up and the current situation outside didn’t allow the children to stay safely in the base. In the end, she spared Xu Song’s forehead from being poked red.
Covering his forehead, Xu Song jogged to the container truck, avoiding his mother’s clutches.
Xiao Shu once again demonstrated its crane function and lifted the pickup truck off the container. They didn’t have time to modify the two newly acquired vehicles, so they collected some gasoline from the scattered cars in the city and drove back. They could slowly tinker with them later.
Tiancheng and Tianyou heard that there was honey to eat and happily ran into the container truck, holding a large piece of honeycomb. They went into the camper and started dividing the snacks.
“What is this?” Mo Tiancheng grabbed a soft, twisted white worm from the honeycomb.
“It’s a bee! It hasn’t grown up yet.” Mo Tianyou poked the fleshy strand and felt a trembling sensation of fear through his fingertips. So he used his ability to communicate with the little creature.
Sensing the sweet scent of honey, Ahci wriggled and crawled onto the couch, sniffing at the bee larva in Mo Tianyou’s hand. This was its delicacy… so plump, so fragrant, so big…
“No, Ahci, you can’t eat this!” Mo Tianyou extended his hand, blocking Ahci’s nose. Ahci twisted and turned, attempting to use cuteness to exchange for high-protein snacks.
“No! I want to keep this. It says that when it grows up, it can produce lots and lots of honey for us and help me deal with bad people.” The little worm in his palm continued to twist and emit an appealing scent, rubbing against Mo Tianyou’s finger with its white body.
Mo Tiancheng broke off a piece of honeycomb and placed it on the coffee table. “Let it live there, and when it grows up, it can make honey for us!”
Mo Tianyou nodded and stuffed the bee larva inside. The relieved larva hurriedly crawled in, not daring to come out again before turning into a bee. That weird hedgehog tried to eat it, as if it didn’t know!
The two kids ate while discovering a few more bee larvae, which they also put into the reserved honeycomb. When Xu Song and the others moved the drinks onto the vehicle, they saw the piece of honeycomb on the coffee table and asked in confusion, “Why is there still a piece left?”
“There is a bee inside. I’m waiting for it to grow and make honey for us to eat!”
Xu Song laughed and looked at Yue Zheng. “We didn’t clean out the honeycomb properly when we were collecting it, so we accidentally brought back the ones with bees.”
Yue Zheng put down the drinks he was carrying and smiled. “If they behave, we can keep them as pets, but they shouldn’t sting people.”
Mo Tianyou tilted his head. “Can we make them sting bad people?”
“Well, that’s possible, but when they fly, their targets are not small. I’m afraid there will be quite a few casualties.” Not everyone could raise jade bees as a weapon. But it would be nice if they could specifically produce honey for the children.
Mo Tiancheng discovered the cola and Sprite they had brought and cheered, pouncing on them.
“Can’t drink too much! Only one can per day for each of you.” Xu Song quickly held back Mo Tiancheng, who was hugging a can of drink and attempting to escape.
Mo Tiancheng blinked his eyes, trying to act cute.
“Fluttering your eyelashes won’t work either. Only one can per day maximum.” This stuff wasn’t something good anyway. If it weren’t for the fact that the car they came across happened to be a vehicle transporting supplies from a supermarket, they wouldn’t have bothered getting these things.
As for the cigarettes and alcohol inside, maybe someone in the base would be willing to buy them, and there seemed to be missions in the task hall to collect these items, so they were willing to bring them back along the way.
“These things are good, let’s keep them for later use.” Mother Xu carried some medicine and followed behind, preparing to store them in a cabinet.
Although they had Xiao Shu with its healing ability, there might be some illnesses it couldn’t cure. So when Xu Song and Yue Zheng saw a well-preserved small pharmacy on their way back, they decided to make a small raid.
After organizing the items, they started dealing with the rats.
In the yard, Xiao Shu pulled the rats off the roof of the car, Yue Zheng was responsible for skinning them, and Xu Song threw the skinned rat meat onto the pickup truck. Mother Xu stood on the other side with three large buckets filled with saltwater, tossing the skinned rat skins into them to clean them.
In the plastic bag in Mo Tiancheng’s pocket, there were some honeycombs. He ate snacks while having Ivy support the clean rat skins and let them dry.
Today, there was still no sunlight outside, but drying these things wasn’t a big problem.
One after another, even with Yue Zheng’s enhanced physical strength, this kind of high-intensity workload, coupled with not having slept much overnight, made him exhausted.
They barely finished skinning and processing all the rats and climbed onto the second-floor bed of the camper, embracing each other, and fell into a deep sleep… He had planned to do some mischief after coming back, but unfortunately, the situation was stronger than people, and objective factors didn’t allow it.
Mother Xu commanded Xiao Shu to cover the mountain of rat meat on the pickup truck with a waterproof cloth. No one planned to keep this meat for themselves, Abu even ignored it. The children’s intention was to take it for the base’s missions. With the weather so cold, delaying the processing until tomorrow wouldn’t affect its freshness.
Back in the vehicle, they had Tiancheng help grow a bunch of potatoes and carrots. Along with various scraps and mutant beast meat, they stewed two large buckets of food for Abu and set them aside to cool down.
Abu sniffled and smelled the aroma emanating from the two buckets, satisfyingly lying next to them and waiting silently. Although the amount of meat had decreased a lot, cooked food smelled much better than raw, and after Xu Song found his mother, everyone’s living standard had improved…
The scent of the stewed meat in the yard not only made Abu’s eyes shine and eagerly wait, but also the residents of Zone G. After smelling the aroma, they once again secretly cursed with green eyes—Damn it, whose house is it again? It’s the perfect time to eat stewed meat on such a cold day… Who does this when it’s not mealtime? Isn’t this teasing people?! Do you think everyone can afford to eat these things?!”
Poor neighbors being teased…🤭 Just get ready your rice and inhale the aroma of 🍖 it’s the same as eating it 😁
😂 eat a spoon of rice and inhale the aroma.
Mother Xu traumatizing the neighborhood xD thank you for the translation !