Chapter 32

Seeing clearly that it was a green ball, Wen Xin was slightly startled and called it: "Alu?"

"Meow."

After the green dumpling responded, it rubbed against his arm again, looking even clingier than before.

Wen Xin subconsciously rubbed Green Ball's head.

Immediately afterwards, a sharp swelling and pain came from his temple, and he couldn't help but raise his hand and press hard.

Gunshots, roars, screams...

Wen Xin's mind flashed with scenes of the fierce battle with zombies last night.

He frowned while enduring a headache.

Why are there so many zombies here, and where does that giant zombie come from?

They're almost... Wait!

Wen Xin immediately looked up and asked, "How is everyone?"

Before he finished speaking, Canary came over with a basin of warm water.

The blood scab on his neck had fallen off, leaving only a faint mark.

"Everyone is fine."

The boy put down the basin: "Number one... Xiao Hei is outside investigating the situation, Lan Lan is resting in the sink, and Ah Zi is at the door making a fire and cooking."

"As for the others, they are all here."

Canary pointed to the ground and Wen Xin looked over there.

The kids were worried that Wen Xin wouldn't sleep well, so they tucked him in and adjusted his sleeping position. They also pulled up the quilt for a while from time to time, taking into account that the wound couldn't breathe.

Xu Qiang and his friends were not treated that well.

They are still the same as they were when they were thrown to the ground last night.

Some people were scrambling to the ground with their heads, some were bent into twists, and some kicked another person in the face.

The shoe prints are quite clear.

Wen Xin's mouth twitched.

I'm not sure what happened last night, but it was not a good idea to lie on the bed alone while others were lying on the floor.

He quickly got out of bed and checked on the crew cut guy and the others.

After finding that there were no zombie teeth marks or scratches on the bodies of the people and that their breathing was still normal, Wen Xin instantly breathed a sigh of relief, helped them up and put them on the bed.

Fortunately, the bed is big enough, so it is not crowded even if placed horizontally.

But in the process of helping one of them up, Wen Xin's overly dull brain suddenly moved and became a little more sober.

He noticed that Canary had omitted the word "Dumpling" from her words, and her voice was flat when she spoke, and she seemed quite depressed.

Looking back, it was not only the canary that was behaving abnormally, but the usually talkative green dumpling was even more silent.

Except for the few minutes when he called out after he woke up, Green Group squatted beside the bed and looked at him quietly for the rest of the time.

Those shining beastly eyes had lost their usual arrogance and confidence, staring straight at his every move, revealing an indescribable stubbornness and sadness.

Wen Xin curled his fingers subconsciously.

When he retracted his hand, he felt the softness of the pink hair and the hardness of the green scales at the same time.

Somehow, a bad guess flashed through my mind.

Wen Xin took a deep breath.

He moved everyone to bed as seamlessly as possible, took the wet towel handed to him by Canary, and washed his face.

After doing all this, he calmed down the violent fluctuations in his heart and returned to a relatively calm state.

Wen Xin picked up the green ball that was caught off guard in this state that would not irritate anyone else.

He reached out his hand again and pinched the green ball's furry cheek lightly.

The green ball suddenly felt pain and growled.

When it looked up at Wen Xin's expression of unable to hold back his laughter, it immediately became angry: "Meow!"

What are you doing!

"Nothing."

Wen Xin seemed to understand Lu Tuanzi's complaint. His eyes curved slightly and he smiled innocently and brilliantly: "It's not easy to see our Ah Lu in such a deep mood. I found it quite strange and couldn't help but take action."

“…”

After hearing the explanation, the green group suddenly became even angrier: "Meow meow!"

Wen Xin you big bastard!

After being stimulated like this, the sadness on Green Dumpling's face disappeared instantly.

Wen Xin waited for it to grumble for a few times before he smiled and coaxed it softly.

"It's my fault. Lord A-Lu is very generous. Please forgive me, okay?"

As he spoke, he rubbed Green Ball's head and pinched Green Ball's cheek.

He placed his entire palm around the back of Tuanzi's neck, and moved his hand down along the spine, gently but firmly.

The hair smoothing effect is immediate.

Under the gentle touch, the angry green ball soon forgot the unpleasantness just now, collapsed softly, rested his chin on his thigh, squinted his eyes and purred.

Its recovery ability is amazing. The marks left by bullets last night could not even be called wounds. They disappeared in just a few hours, and Wen Xin could safely touch them.

Seeing that Lutuan was so comfortable, Wen Xin couldn't help but soften his gaze. He stroked him from his head to the tip of his tail, and even touched the pads of his paws twice.

After comforting the green ball, he turned around and looked at the canary next to him.

Facing those warm and clear eyes, the canary pursed her lips, thinking about how to tell the young man that the little fox had left last night.

Unexpectedly, the other party said something shocking as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Xiao Qi left, right?"

Canary couldn't help but ask, "How do you know?"

Seeing that the young man did not refute, Wen Xin probably knew what was going on.

In an instant, his mind seemed to be in turmoil.

Many thoughts were mixed together, half of which were great worries about the little fox leaving home alone, and half of which were doubts about why the little fox wanted to leave.

These thoughts only took less than half a breath.

Wen Xin calmed down and continued to ask, "Xiao Qi left because it suddenly attacked everyone last night, right?"

Canary was so shocked that she forgot to answer for a moment.

But he showed all his surprise on his face.

Wen Xin's guess was confirmed and he closed his eyes.

He suppressed his worries and tried hard to recall the details that he had never noticed or paid attention to in the past.

Xiaoqi entered the growth stage. He felt unwell and began to sleep.

Xiao Qi suddenly attacked the people around him without any warning. Xiao Qi left overnight without even saying goodbye to him.

…

Wen Xin pieced these messy clues together to come up with a cruel and bizarre truth.

——During the growth period, Xiaoqi would lose control. This loss of control could not be suppressed and was extremely unstable, so serious that it would endanger everyone's lives, so it had to leave immediately.

However, knowing the situation is one thing and accepting it is another.

Wen Xin tried his best to take this unexpected incident calmly, but it was difficult to remain completely calm.

He asked: "When Xiao Qi left, did he tell him where he would go in the end?"

The canary was silent for a moment and shook her head. "It just said to find a place where no one is, so that it won't hurt anyone."

Hearing this, Wen Xin's chest heaved.

This stupid fox.

There is no one to take care of you. What should you do if something happens?

This is not something a young fox cub should have to endure.

Thinking of this, Wen Xin reflexively took a step forward and walked towards the door.

But after taking a few steps, he was forced to stop.

Now a whole night has passed, and with the speed of the little fox, it would have disappeared long ago.

He had no idea where to find this silly little fox.

Gently massage the area between the eyebrows.

I pressed my skin till it turned red before I managed to suppress my anxiety.

He could only comfort himself.

——Xiao Qi is good at illusion, and ordinary people can't beat it or hurt it. And Xiao Qi wandered with Jiu for a while before coming to this house, so he shouldn't be stupid enough to believe in someone unconditionally after seeing him.

Wen Xin was so anxious that he didn't notice that the green ball in his arms raised his head and was secretly looking at him.

Originally, the Green Group was still a little bit bothered by the fact that they were leaving.

But now, its irritability and anxiety were suddenly relieved by the warm and anxious eyes.

Scaled Viper thought.

The fact that humans can be so anxious means that they take these things very seriously.

Even if they can't come back one day, humans should not forget them.

Of course, humans' memory is not as good as mutants', and the scale viper knows that.

As long as Wen Xin can remember them for twenty years, ten years, five years...

Even if it was only for a short year, the scale viper felt very satisfied.

After all, these are the humans it wants to protect, so we can't be too harsh on them.

"Meow~"

Wen Xin came back to his senses when the green ball rubbed his chin with his head.

While he was anxious, he remembered that he was holding something in his hand, so he slowly opened his palm.

The pink hair was a souvenir the little fox left for him before it left.

So what does the other green scale mean?

Wen Xin bit his cheeks and felt that the green ball in his arms suddenly weighed a thousand pounds, making him a little unsteady.

Green Ball didn't want to move either, for it was afraid to say goodbye to Wen Xin.

But when it found that Wen Xin's eyes were always on its scales, it couldn't help but be excited, turned its head and meowed twice at the canary.

The canary's eyes are full of complexity.

Finally, he followed the Scaled Tree Viper's instructions and said, "A-Lu found this scale on the slope early in the morning. He thought it was very beautiful, so he brought it back for you as a souvenir."

Canary felt that what she said was a bit absurd.

I've only heard of snakes shedding their skin, but I've never heard of snakes shedding their scales.

Moreover, this area is extremely desolate. Where on earth can one find a complete snake scale?

Who knew that the young man in front of him was slightly startled, and then laughed out loud with understanding: "So that's how it is."

Canary: ...Did you really believe it? ?

This statement is full of loopholes, how could Wen Xin believe it?

He just saw the look in Lu Tuanqi's eyes and couldn't help but say this.

After saying this, I realized that the green cat had a wrinkled face and didn't look satisfied at all.

Wen Xin blinked his eyes, put aside those messy worries and sadness, and carefully reviewed what the canary said.

Soon, he found the key sentence in that passage.

——Alu thinks it is very beautiful.

Wen Xin lowered his head and looked at the scales in his hand more carefully than before.

He did not immediately follow Green Ball's wishes and praise him, because that kind of perfunctory attitude was not what Green Ball wanted.

With just a quick glance, he discovered the extraordinary nature of this scale.

Every corner seems to have been carefully polished, smooth yet sharp. The scales are moderately thick and no part stands out.

The most important thing is color.

Wen Xin has petted cats so many times that he is very familiar with Green Ball's body.

In his impression, only the hair near the heart can simultaneously contain three different levels of color.

Wen Xin thought about it and came to the window holding the green ball.

The sunlight was bright and warm. He placed his scales flat in the sunlight, and they immediately reflected a magnificent light.

Despite their physical defects, most mutants have normal color vision, including the Scaled Viper.

It saw the colorful lights clearly and was stunned.

In the days of escape, it could not appear in the sun, otherwise it would easily expose itself.

Later, when it arrived at Wen Xin's house, it wanted to sleep after basking in the sun, and had never paid attention to its scales in such a scene.

The green group looked a little dazed.

The next second, it heard Wen Xin, who was also in a trance, and sighed to it from the bottom of his heart.

“This scale is really beautiful.”

In an instant, the green ball shook all over and became spirited!

What Wen Xin didn't know was that in order to select this perfect scale, Green Group had spent most of the day picking and choosing on his body.

He thought that this was a souvenir that the Green Group left behind before leaving, and a feeling of discomfort suddenly filled his heart.

As a result, the next moment, the excited green ball jumped up and hit his chin with a bang.

"hiss!"

Wen Xin couldn't bear the impact and took several steps back, gasping in pain.

He suspected that this was the green group's revenge on him for pinching its face just now.

Until a series of joyful cat calls rang in his ears.

“Meow, meow!”

I told you, my scales are so beautiful, how could you not like them!

The green ball rubbed Wen Xin's cheeks and chin, with its tail raised upwards. It was so excited that the volume of its voice suddenly increased by several decibels: "Meow meow meow!"

Wen Xin, Wen Xin, you are the most discerning person I have ever met!

Wen Xin didn't know why Green Dumpling was so excited, but he was happy that he had recovered.

He just let Green Ball indulge him, leaving several cat paw prints on his chest.

When Green Ball calmed down a little, he hugged his own ball and kissed the other's forehead reluctantly.

"...When can you come back?"

The green group stopped moving.

Wen Xin held its head, not allowing Tuanzi to avoid answering, and said softly: "I missed saying goodbye to Xiao Qi, A Lu."

"If you want to leave, you can't not even give me this thought."

"If it's inconvenient for you to come back, I can come find you."

The young man smiled and said, "Even if what we find is a corpse."

When he said this, Wen Xin's tone was very calm.

But his pupils couldn't stop trembling.

When Lu Tuan met Wen Xin's eyes that were filled with suppressed grief, he realized that it was not a good thing for humans to be too smart.

After a while, it lowered its head.

The scale viper doesn't think it can survive the pain of evolution.

However, when facing the humans who care about them, the proud and conceited snakes will become cautious.

It licked the warm forehead gently, as if it was an unspoken promise.

"Meow."

You don't have to come looking for me, I will come back to find you.

“Meow.”

I promise you that when that time comes, no creature, no thing, no danger will be able to harm you.

"Meow."

You will become the safest human being in the world.

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Around noon, the green group disappeared.

Before it left, it imitated the little fox and tore off a large piece of cloth from Wen Xin's clothes.

In front of Wen Xin, very openly.

Wen Xin finally understood why there was a piece missing from his sleeve.

He felt helplessly amused, yet also felt so sad that he wanted to sigh.

Finally, he simply took out two sets of his own clothes from the suitcase he had brought back.

“Isn’t this already available?”

The green group suddenly realized: Hey, that’s right!

In the end, it took the warm and clean clothes, and was unwilling to throw away the piece of cloth that was torn off.

After it left, Wen Xin stared silently at the place where the green ball had last stayed for a long time.

He turned around and looked at the other dumplings with different expressions. He didn't mention when they would leave, but just smiled and said, "Let's eat."

Xu Qiang and others woke up two hours ago.

They tried to recount what happened last night, but before leaving, the little fox had hinted to them to forget in order not to reveal their identities.

So Xu Qiang and the others finally failed to remember the scale viper.

They can only deduce from clues at the scene, such as some strangulation marks on the giant zombie, that an extremely huge mutant python or mutant earthworm passed by and saved them.

Xu Qiang and others: "..."

It has to be said that this analysis can be described in two words: outrageous.

Because they were too unrealistic, they were too embarrassed to tell Wen Xin about these speculations.

Let’s review the journey.

The rescue came too late, their whereabouts were exposed, they were ambushed, and the car was damaged.

Xu Qiang and his friends suffered a heart attack and felt that their careers had suffered a disastrous defeat.

If he didn't do anything to make amends, he would be fired by Wen Jinfeng in no time after returning to City A.

They found the map they had found before: "This place is a long way from City A. It's impossible to walk back."

"Now we can only risk going to the nearby city Z to see if we can find a car that has not been scrapped, or find an official rescue organization and ask them to give us a ride."

【Author’s words】

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