“What the hell, they didn’t leave anything behind. Those people even stole a piece of broken wood.” Luo Wen’an took a sip of water, complaining about the people who had raided their area.
He Nian tilted his head back and laughed. “I told you not to go. They took everything down there days before if they had something.”
“But we still have to check. What if?” Luo Wen’an sat on the ground with an unhappy expression.
“After we left, nothing happened here, right?” Su Daji also sat down, looking at He Nian and the person lying on the ground.
“Nothing happened. Right now, everyone is busy finding things and setting up temporary living spaces. Who has time to cause trouble?” He Nian took the water bottle that Wang An had just drunk from and put it in his bag. Suddenly, he looked up and saw two people walking towards them. He was stunned.
Luo Wen’an and the others also turned around in a hurry. Su Daji exclaimed, “It’s Yue Zheng and his wife.” Forgive them for not remembering Xu Song’s name for a moment. It had been almost a year since they last met, and it was normal not to remember the other party’s name.
They quickly looked back. Wang An, who had just sat down, stood up, looking at Yue Zheng and Xu Song’s decent clothes with a bit of lamentation. In this day and age, it wasn’t easy to wear clothes that looked decent. Moreover, they had gone through numerous difficulties to come to B City after the Chinese New Year.
Yue Zheng had just met them the day before. It was okay, but Liu Shishi circled around Xu Song twice. Xu Song was inexplicably turning his head to seek help from Luo Wen’an.
Unfortunately, someone had no intention of restricting his girlfriend. He casually chatted with Yue Zheng, “I heard that several people in the air-raid shelter died yesterday?”
This matter couldn’t be considered confidential. Except for the air-raid shelter where everyone was suffocated to death, the rest of the shelters had surviving people inside.
So Yue Zheng nodded, “Not all died. There was only one shelter where everyone died.”
After Liu Shishi finished looking at Xu Song, she asked, “What kind of life are you living? Your face is smoother than mine, and you even gained weight!” This life can still gain weight, and people are white and tender. It seems that life is going smoothly… It’s so enviable that it’s about to kill someone.
Xu Song helplessly rolled his eyes, “Don’t girls like thin guys? Why envy me for gaining weight?”
“Huh.” Liu Shishi disdainfully said, “Modern men like to have some meat on their bodies. They even find us troublesome, and you’re complaining that we’re too skinny. What do you think?” She turned her head to look at He Nian.
He Nian vigorously nodded, fixing his envious eyes on Xu Song’s little belly…
Xu Song had an impulse to turn around and run. How could these two people look at him as if he were a piece of fat meat? By the way, although he was indeed fed a bit more by his mom, he wasn’t fat at all!
The problem now is that his belly is flat, but the bellies of these people are concave!! Can he be blamed for this?! He clearly exercises every day, but there are no abs on his belly! Can this constitution problem be blamed on him?!
“Now, what about those two little guys?” Liu Shishi, after stimulating Xu Song, immediately shifted the topic, her eyes brightening. Her level of concern for those two children was much higher than for these two “dads.”
“At home, watching over the house with my mom.” Xu Song didn’t know how Yue Zheng arranged it, so he vaguely replied.
Liu Shishi was a bit dissatisfied. “Why didn’t you bring them along?”
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Wang An pointed to He Nian and said, “This is He Nian. You should have seen him when you were at the S City base…”
Yue Zheng nodded, “At that time, the leader of those ability users should be Furong, right? Where is he now?”
Luo Wen’an and the others exchanged glances, showing some helplessness. Luo Wen’an spread his hands, “At that time, he instigated the ability users to unite and seize power. It did happen, but just after taking control of the S City base for less than two days, the seafood collectively invaded.”
Seafood invasion… this term was really full of irony.
“Marine creatures invading?” Yue Zheng had seen satellite photos from Elder Wu. Although there were only two images, they were truly shocking.
Several people nodded with lingering fear, “You didn’t see that scene… It was more spectacular than the bird attack on the base this time.”
“If it weren’t for us reacting quickly, and Daji helping us investigate the situation, we probably would have been destroyed along with the base.”
“And Zhao Xin, his ability also helped a lot.” Su Daji pointed to the person lying on the ground.
Xu Song and Yue Zheng casually glanced at the person but didn’t inquire about the details of his ability.
“Is he injured?” Xu Song pretended to ask curiously.
He Nian frowned, also a bit puzzled, “A few days ago, the base temporarily transferred some ability users here. When we met this morning, his leg was hit by a wall that suddenly collapsed, but my ability didn’t work…”
Zhao Xin weakly smiled, “It’s still useful. Maybe it’s because of my constitution; the recovery speed is a bit slow.”
Zhao Xin looked a year or two older than He Nian, around twenty years old. His voice was a bit hoarse, but he seemed to be in good spirits.
Hearing what he said, as well as his smile just now, Yue Zheng and Xu Song were quite surprised. They thought Zhao Xin was someone taken over by plants, but those taken-over people had some issues with language expression and facial control. However, Zhao Xin, besides looking weaker and having slightly paler skin than an ordinary person, didn’t show any abnormalities.
Since they had been teaming up for quite some time, it seemed that there should be no problems for now.
The two temporarily put this matter aside and asked about the subsequent events in S City.
After the attack by the seafood army (as Luo Wen’an described it), the entire base was almost completely destroyed, and most of the population was killed or injured. It could be said that except for lucky people like Luo Wen’an’s group, most ability users, even those with considerable strength, mostly died in this incident.
Those ability users like Furong were no exception. At the beginning of the incident, a giant whale that was impossible to avoid pressed down on them, crushing both people and nearby buildings. They had no chance to escape.
He Nian had better luck due to his ability. Because of the ability, he and other logistics personnel took care of the injured and didn’t get hurt in the first wave of attacks.
As for Luo Wen’an’s group, they happened to be patrolling in the opposite direction with Zhao Xin when the attack occurred.
When they heard the sound and went out, they saw the gigantic sea creatures, and beside the giant whale, there were countless shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Who would dare to go up and fight? For those who were a bit closer to the incident site, as long as they were a little careless, they would be stepped on by the giant monsters or sprayed to death by the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
Escaping and wandering, Luo Wen’an and their luck were somewhat better. Most of the people around them managed to escape the base together and temporarily took refuge in a nearby cliff. Many of the people who escaped with He Nian were injured, making it difficult for them to run. After a chaotic series of twists and turns, they lost contact with familiar faces in the chaotic crowd and coincidentally ended up where Luo Wen’an’s group had escaped, being pulled to a relatively safe place.
After finally finding a relatively stable place, a group of unlucky individuals hid in a cave on a cliff, occasionally sneaking out to catch some stray seafood. The days could be barely endured. When winter arrived, many of the people who escaped the seafood attack suffered from freezing, but the remaining survivors, during an outing to search for food, discovered — that winter had arrived, and the seafood army had returned to the water!
The people who survived the ordeal returned to the base, only to find it almost completely flattened, making it difficult to find anything.
Some people prepared to return to the base and rebuild its glory, while others chose to stay on the mountain and see how things played out after winter.
Wang An sighed, “Originally, we thought that in winter, it would be too cold even for earth-type ability users to quickly build houses. Moreover, the cave had been transformed quite well by us, so we didn’t feel like going down the mountain.”
Luo Wen’an patted his girlfriend’s shoulder, “Shishi suggested at that time, what if those seafood creatures just disliked the cold weather and decided to come ashore when it warmed up? We felt she had a point, so we decided to wait until spring.”
“As a result, we made the right bet,” Wang An rubbed his face, “Just as the weather warmed up, those seafood creatures came ashore again.”
“Runners, jumpers, all the abilities are at least Tier 2! How can people live like this? Fortunately, we ran fast; otherwise, we’d all end up in the belly of a fish!”
Su Daji’s face turned serious, whispering, “And I seemed to have seen… monsters.”
“Monsters?” Yue Zheng and Xu Song asked simultaneously.
Su Daji nodded with a frown, “It looks a bit like a fierce fish, but it can stand and walk, and it can command other marine creatures.”
“It’s seafood!” Luo Wen’an corrected.
“It can walk upright?” The two exchanged glances. Xu Song used his imagination, “Could it be a mermaid?”
Su Daji’s face twisted a bit, and Liu Shishi burst into laughter, “You really think the same as me…”
Luo Wen’an nodded deeply, “Indeed, it’s a woman’s brain.”
“Who’s a woman!” Xu Song jumped up.
Luo Wen’an pointed at Liu Shishi, He Nian, Zhao Xin, and finally pointed to Xu Song, “A group of sufferers”
Xu Song froze, He Nian blushed and lowered his head, and Zhao Xin still looked like a weak and powerless injured person. Liu Shishi raised her hand to twist Luo Wen’an’s waist, “I am a woman!! A pure one!!”
Unable to muster the energy to correct Luo Wen’an’s statement, Xu Song weakly leaned against Yue Zheng’s side. Yue Zheng then glanced at He Nian’s group and raised his eyebrows at Wang An. Among the people present, Luo Wen’an and Liu Shishi were undoubtedly a couple who had been together since before the apocalypse. So, with this logic, the remaining four people… inadvertently formed two pairs?
Wang An’s face turned red, nearly invisible due to his majestic beard. He coughed, “Um… it’s just that, after the apocalypse, female resources are relatively scarce…”
He Nian heard this, looking at him with some resentment, and said nothing, just silently staring at him. Wang An shivered and hurriedly corrected, “That, just after I was saved from the research institute, he took care of me every day, this and that…”
“Isn’t it just ‘familiarity breeds affection’?”
With a dark face, Wang An attempted to kick Luo Wen’an, but the speed-enhanced individual effortlessly dodged it.
On the other hand, Su Daji remained quite calm and pointed to the injured Zhao Xin, “Well, we’re together now.”
Compared to the blushing He Nian, Zhao Xin smiled shyly at the two. It was genuinely hard to see any traces of being invaded by plants.
“That weird fish looked extremely ugly. If that thing is also called a mermaid…” Su Daji’s expression twisted a bit, “But I only saw it once. That thing was lying on the back of a mutated sea lion.”
“It’s a manatee!”
“Or a seal?”
“Anyway, it’s that kind of thing!” Su Daji glared at Luo Wen’an and his wife, who were interrupting.
Yue Zheng frowned. A fish that could command other marine creatures and walk upright… such a strange fish must have had a considerable level of intelligence.
“By the way, when you passed by the north of L Province, did you encounter a big white snake?” Wang An suddenly asked.
“White snake?” Both thought of the giant snake they had encountered before, capable of storing food.
“Yeah, a big one, with a diameter of five or six meters blocking the mountain road. No one could pass. Later, about a thousand people were ready to break through together, and most of them were killed or injured. They still couldn’t kill the snake. Those of us who managed to come over did it while the snake was sleeping. The rest of the people are still stuck in the south with no news till now.”
The snake had grown larger again, and maybe it had evolved. Yue Zheng nodded, “We encountered it, but at that time, it had just attacked the city at the foot of the mountain, so we went around it from a distance.” Others couldn’t get through with over a thousand people, and they managed to drive away the snake with just two adults and two children? Maybe it’s better to keep a low profile.
After introducing their experiences before coming to B City, Xu Song, and Yue Zheng briefly explained their journey, “After arriving in B City, we found Xu Song’s mom and registered a small team. We often go out on missions, but it’s relatively peaceful.”
Wang An sighed, “These days, it’s not just peace; it’s not easy to find people without missing arms or legs gathered together.”
“Who says it’s not?” In their current situation, being able to meet again after a year and still be alive is practically a miracle! Especially Luo Wen’an and Su Daji, both of their abilities are not very powerful in combat, and yet, they managed to survive until now without missing any limbs. Their luck must be full!
Since they were reintroduced and reunited will they become part of the team, these
Hope they become part of the team and extended family! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🦮🦔🦗🐝
… I guess it is mermaid but with fish face XD
And we have more side CP! Yay!