"Boss!" Yu Fen ran up to Cheng Zhen, his steps light and his sunny young face beaming with a cheerful smile. "The water peanuts have all been transported away. When are we leaving?"

This time, the city's outer defense forces supported the inner city in eradicating the mutated plants, and at the same time brought back a convoy of food and feed. This not only alleviated the defense forces' food problem, but also allowed them to try raising livestock in the camp. This was undoubtedly good news for their camp!

Just thinking about how Yu Tongguang's scheme failed and instead gave them such a great gift made Yu Fen unable to help but laugh.

Cheng Zhen looked at Jiang Wan, who glanced at the twins' condition and said, "Let's go."

The two little ones looked hungry and tired, and all she wanted now was to settle them down as soon as possible so they could eat, drink, and sleep well.

Cheng Zhen then said to Fen, "Let's set off immediately."

Then, with a long stride, he naturally climbed into Jiang Wan's RV, met her surprised gaze, and patiently explained, "I'll drive. You've been tired all night, so let the kids sleep first."

As I spoke, a strange feeling crossed my mind: he already has a child?

Jiang Wan thought that the city guard's camp might have some secrets that couldn't be known to outsiders, such as the entrance route, so she nodded in agreement, folded up the sofa and dining table in the back of the RV to make a big bed, drew the curtains, and went to sleep peacefully.

Cheng Zhen glanced silently in the rearview mirror and felt inexplicably that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

She hadn't slept all night and was really tired and sleepy. She barely remembered taking two bags of finger biscuits and milk from the tree hole space to feed the twins. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell asleep immediately.

The two little ones took naps on and off, but couldn't fall asleep for a while, so they snuggled up next to their mother, curled up, and whispered in each other's ears.

"Brother, is Grandpa really dead?"

"Um."

"Does that mean we'll never see Grandpa again?"

"……Um."

"Mommy must be very sad." Jiang Xiaoxin's little face was full of worry. Her round eyes looked at her mother's tired sleeping face. She let go of the finger biscuit she was holding and quietly touched her mother's fingers.

Jiang Xiaoshu looked at her younger sister, then at her mother, and said nothing. She ate some finger biscuits and drank some milk, then obediently lay down next to her mother. Before going to sleep, she told her younger sister, "Be good from now on, and don't make Mommy angry."

Mom is already heartbroken enough.

The little girl nodded very seriously: "Good boy, brother, you should smile more often so that Mommy will be happy!"

Jiang Xiaoshu kept her eyes closed and didn't make a sound, as if she were asleep.

Jiang Wan, who was fast asleep, had no idea that in the eyes of the two little ones, she looked heartbroken.

Cheng Zhen also thought that although she was pretending to be nonchalant, she was actually very sad and sensitive inside, so he subconsciously drove the car very smoothly and steadily.

Yu Fen, who was following behind him, looked at the RV in front of him that was crawling like a tortoise and for a moment thought that the driver had been changed. This was definitely not the car driven by his hot-tempered and decisive captain!

He bet a month's allowance that it definitely wasn't true!

Jiang Wan didn't sleep for long; she woke up as soon as the car stopped.

"We've arrived?" She sat up, her mind still a little hazy, only remembering that she was supposed to go to the city's outer defense camp.

The twins lay side by side on her inner side, fast asleep. Jiang Xiaoshu slept peacefully, her small body sleeping very neatly and orderly. Jiang Xiaoxin had cookie crumbs on her face, was holding half a finger cookie in her hand, and had an empty milk carton next to her.

But her other small hand tightly gripped one of her fingers, and Jiang Wan's gaze softened unconsciously. She carefully pulled her finger out and tidied the bed.

A loud argument erupted outside, all men, and one of the voices sounded familiar to her—it was Yu Fen.

He seemed to be going berserk: "Try taking another step forward? My gun doesn't have eyes!"

Then it was Cheng Zhen's turn. His voice was cold and intimidating, relatively calm yet exuding a sense of power: "Yu Tongguang, have your men get out of my car."

As he finished speaking, a "click" sounded as a gun was cocked.

Jiang Wan calmly walked to the small kitchen in the RV, turned on the induction cooker with a "beep", then added water and put it in the pot to cook noodles. She hadn't eaten anything yet and was very hungry.

The city guards outside have incredibly sharp hearing, so even though the RV has good sound insulation, they can hear everything that happens inside.

For a moment, the two sides in the standoff had different expressions and thoughts.

Yu Fen thought to himself: Holy crap! What kind of goddess is this? She's in such a bad situation and she still has the mood to cook!

A fleeting smile crossed Cheng Zhen's eyes. Yu Tongguang, sitting opposite him, seemed to only now notice the RV, then smiled broadly: "It seems that Captain Cheng has really gained a lot from this support mission!"

He walked towards the RV, stood outside the window, and asked loudly, "May I ask which botanist is inside?"

It's no secret that after the apocalypse, every camp was looking for botany experts.

Jiang Wan paused, but didn't say anything. She continued to increase the heat, waiting for the water to boil before adding the noodles.

"I am Yu Tongguang, the captain of the inner camp of the Xiangcheng City Guard. Since you are a botanist, please get out of the car and let me meet you!"

Yu Fen and the others had ashen faces and clenched fists; clearly, they were all on the verge of losing their tempers.

Cheng Zhen threw him aside from the RV, narrowed his eyes and warned in a deep voice: "Yu Tongguang, know your place. If you cross the line again, don't blame me for being impolite!"

As he spoke, he clenched his fists tightly, and bursts of electricity and firelight flashed between his fingers.

The subordinates of both sides continued to stand in a tense standoff, with the atmosphere on the verge of exploding.

Yu Tongguang felt a sharp pain in his shoulder as the man grabbed him. His eyes darkened, a glint of malice flashing across them almost imperceptibly, and he let out a cold laugh.

"Cheng Zhen, you need to recognize your own identity. Who are you people? You risk your lives fighting against mutated plants every day. You can't even guarantee your own safety, so how can you guarantee the life of a national treasure-level botanist!"

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, protecting the botanist's safety isn't just about ensuring his physical well-being, but also about preventing brain damage!"

"I don't need to tell you how much damage extreme oxygen deficiency can do to the human brain, do I? Do you think the oxygen content in the air outside the city is higher than inside the city?"

Yu Tongguang spoke one sentence after another, with reason, evidence, and righteous indignation.

Hearing this, Yu Fen couldn't help but fly into a rage.

Cheng Zhen glanced at him coldly, suppressing the curse that was about to escape his lips. He clenched his right hand, summoned his lightsaber, and slightly raised his chin towards the open space, saying, "Enough nonsense, let's fight. The winner takes the expert."

Yu Tongguang squinted, not immediately responding to the challenge: "Cheng Zhen! Don't be so ungrateful!"

Just then, a childish voice came from inside the RV: "So annoying! Can't I get any sleep?!"