Chapter 206 He fell asleep.

Shu Maomao is so quiet. When she was little, she would grab her and ask her mommy, "Why? Mommy, what is this?"

After growing up, he basically never spoke except when he had something to say. He looked distant and indifferent to everyone. He followed her around every day but didn't make any friends.

Shu Lan thought he didn't want to communicate with others. In fact, he did want to communicate with others, but he just didn't know how to take the initiative to speak and couldn't find a topic to talk about.

Alas, she is too slow.

After that, whenever Shu Lan talked to others, she would bring Shu Maomao in and say a few words.

For example, Lu Qinghe complained about her father: "I asked Lao Lu if he liked Sister Wang, and he said no, and then he stopped looking for her. He's so stupid, he actually thought I was blaming him."

Shu Lan turned around and said, "Baby, do you know why Lao Lu feels that Aunt Qinghe is blaming him?"

Shu Maomao said, "I don't know."

Shu Lan gestured to Lu Qinghe and said, "He thought I would feel that if he were with Sister Wang, he would be sorry for my dead mother. My mother died before the zombie virus. He finally found a second person he likes. There is one more person to accompany him and understand him. As a daughter, of course I support him."

Shu Maomao strangely understood Lu Qinghe. He had previously rejected Li Yanli, thinking she would take away Shu Lan's only love for him. But after noticing that she started smiling more often, he slowly came to accept Li Yanli's existence.

Shu Lan sighed, "Unlike me, my thoughts are very dark. After my parents got married, I cursed them every day that they wouldn't be happy in their new family."

Lu Qinghe opened her arms and said, "Hug, this is not your fault. They didn't fulfill their parental responsibilities and give you enough love. Only wealthy people would want to share it."

Shu Lan smiled broadly: "I'm very wealthy now! Our baby and the person I love love me so much."

"Who do you like, anyway?"

"I won't tell you."

"Okay, it seems that our sisterly feelings are still not deep enough, let's hug for a while longer."

Li Yanli would also use Shu Maomao's super hearing to draw him into the topic.

"Maomao, what are you thinking about when you're not talking? Are you secretly cursing people in your mind?"

Shu Maomao said, "I didn't think much."

"Then will you curse?"

"meeting."

"Let me hear you curse."

Shu Lan complained, "Li Yanli, you're sick. You owe it or not, and you let people scold you for no reason."

Shu Maomao raised the corner of his mouth and imitated Shu Lan's words: "Are you sick? You owe me something. Let me scold you for no reason."

Li Yanli chuckled: "I am sick, the zombie virus."

Shu Maomao said, "Idiot."

Li Yanli said, "You learned it from your mother, right? You only know these few words. But it's enough. Don't learn too much. Do you know what your grandparents are like? Let me introduce them to you."

"I know. I've seen your memories."

Li Yanli's speech suddenly quickened: "You've read all of it? You've read it since I was a kid wearing open-crotch pants? Shu Lan, you saw it too?"

Shu Lan shouted, "I don't want to watch it!"

Shu Maomao said: "No, it started when you met my mother."

"Then you don't fully understand your family members. Let me tell you in detail."

Days like this lasted for a long time, and there was a kind of beauty in it that flowed slowly and steadily.

Just as Li Yanli said, all the zombies will rot, and in less than a year, he will be the only living thing left on the ground that can move.

The reason why he lived so long was that his self-healing ability helped him fight the speed of decay.

Shu Lan sometimes thought with hope that he was a zombie transformed by a plunderer, and he was special. Perhaps he could live with them outside like this until the end of the eternal night.

I just don't know when it will end.

Every once in a while, they test whether the water coming out of the pipes is safe to drink.

The soil has a purifying effect, but without the participation of sunlight and plants, the water cycle has slowed down significantly. For two consecutive years, people have been unable to obtain usable water from the blue planet.

In addition to water, they are also trying to find ways to help the blue planet that has entered eternal night.

Among all the people, only Shu Maomao could escape from the ground unscathed.

He first went to the outside world to get a can of air and gave it to Zhou Yan to analyze the composition of the air. Then he worked with the scientists in Area 1 to study how to use the production line in space to develop protective clothing suitable for ordinary people's activities in the outside world, as well as machines that can purify the air.

In addition to being able to protect against poison, it also has to protect against cold. Every time a protective suit is made, Shu Maomao will first wear it outside for trial use, record the shortcomings of the protective suit, and then wear it back to tell everyone to continue to improve it.

Sometimes he would get frostbite, sometimes his mask would be penetrated by poison gas, the air would make his eyes red and his facial skin rot.

But he can block out pain, heal himself, and go back in time. Even if he appears in the laboratory covered in wounds, he will be intact in front of Shu Lan.

But as the commander, Shu Lan would be in charge of the progress of the experiment. When the fourth-generation protective suit still failed to allow Shu Maomao to spend three hours safely on the ground, she decisively stopped the experiment.

"Now is not the time to think of a way out. Wait a little longer."

The authoritarian and rational commander showed a completely different face in front of Li Yanli: "They used my son as a guinea pig! I am heartbroken!!!"

Shu Maomao said, "Mom, nothing will happen to me."

Shu Lan touched his face and said, "Nothing will happen. I can't hurt your body over and over again like this. Big Mouth said that the mission will end eventually, which means that the Eternal Night will end sooner or later. Don't be impatient."

Shu Maomao stared at the earphones on her ears, said nothing, and lowered her eyelids quietly.

It's not that he is impatient, it's that some people are running out of time.

Li Yanli smiled and said, "That's right, listen to your mother, there will always be an end."

At night, after Shu Lan took off her headphones and fell asleep, Shu Maomao used his clairvoyance to look at Li Yanli sitting on the execution platform and whispered, "Will my healing spell work?"

Li Yanli shook his head: "I tried, healing doesn't work on zombies."

"How long do you have?"

"Two or three days."

Shu Maomao was silent for a while and said, "She will cry for a long time."

Li Yanli said, "Then remember to prepare some more paper and hot water for her."

"Um……"

Shu Maomao closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. After a while, he opened his eyes again and said, "I don't hate you."

Li Yanli raised the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, you are so kind."

Shu Maomao hummed softly: "I just don't hate it."

"You don't dislike it?"

Shu Maomao didn't answer, closed his eyes again and turned over: "Sleep, good night."

Three days later, when the lights came on, Shu Lan put on her headphones and shouted happily, "Li Yanli!"

"Li Yanli?"

"Li Yanli..."

Shu Maomao knocked on the door, and after she opened it, she handed her a photo album.

His expression remained calm as he told her, "Mom, Li Yanli is asleep."

Zombies can't sleep. Shu Maomao, who always speaks directly, learned for the first time how to tell the truth in a tactful way.