Wu Xuan burst out of the apartment building like a firecracker and ran straight onto the street.
"Is he going to the supermarket?" Yu Fen drove behind him at a leisurely pace.
Wu Xuan was too young to notice that someone was following him.
Jiang Xiaoxin panicked: "Oh dear, Mom, is he going to use my coupon?"
The little girl was furious. She had just called her a puppy and refused the supplies she gave her, but now she was using the coupons she gave her to buy supplies!
She was too young to think of what it was called, and in any case, she got even angrier!
Jiang Wan gently stroked her fluffy head and said, "Don't worry."
Yu Yuan volunteered and got out of the car: "Sister Wan, I'll go!"
Jiang Wan didn't want them to call her an expert, but calling her by her first name was even more inappropriate, so he compromised and came up with a nickname, "Sister Wan." This made everyone feel closer!
But as soon as he got out of the car, two or three boys around thirteen or fourteen years old suddenly darted out in front of Wu Xuan's small body not far away.
"Hey! You dare to run away?" A tall, thin boy wearing a black vest and shorts, wielding a nunchaku, approached the small Wu Xuan step by step.
"This kid's got guts!"
"I think you weren't scared enough this morning, were you?"
"Now that we've run into each other, you should know what to do," the nunchaku man threatened, brandishing a piece of the stick. "Be smart and hand over everything you have, or you'll suffer less."
"This little body is getting new injuries before its old ones have even healed. Tsk tsk, I'm afraid it won't be able to take it!"
Wu Xuan remained silent, clutching his pocket, and seized the opportunity to turn and run away.
But he was young and injured, so he couldn't outrun them and was soon grabbed by one of them.
The man snapped, "Hey! You think you can run, kid!"
He raised his hand and slapped him twice on the head and face.
Several teenagers were bullying a six-year-old child. Yu Yuan couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Stop! What are you doing?!"
He and Yu Fen were secretly escorting Jiang Wan into the city, so they were both dressed in civilian clothes, but his imposing presence as a city guard was quite intimidating.
The boys were intimidated when they saw him: "Who are you? What business is it of yours? Get out of the way!"
Yu Yuan pointed at Wu Xuan: "You're bullying a child? Have you no shame? Let him go!"
The boy with nunchucks scoffed, "Who are you to him? Are you going to stand up for him? Even his own parents don't care about him, what right do you have to stand up for him?"
"Exactly! Go and see, which parents stay at home and send a little kid out to buy supplies? Isn't this just blatantly delivering food to us?"
"We bullied him? We didn't bully him at all. Of all the injuries he's covered in, only one or two were inflicted by us. The rest were all from his own parents!"
Yu Yuan glared at them, and the boys, half complaining and half explaining, slowly retreated and slipped away.
Wu Xuan was free, but he didn't want to run away again. He glanced at Yu Yuan and recognized him as one of the people who had come with Jiang Xiaoxin. He looked around but couldn't find anyone and was slightly disappointed.
Yu Yuan looked at the child with a complicated expression: "What they just said, was it all true?"
Wu Xuan remained silent. He reached into his pants pocket, took out a handful of coupons, handed them over, and said, "Give this back to Jiang Xiaoxin."
Then she shoved it into his hand and ran away quickly, but not in the direction of home.
Yu Yuan returned to the car with a handful of crystal vouchers in his pocket. Jiang Wan and the twins had already witnessed the whole thing.
Jiang Xiaoxin didn't hear what they said, but she remembered the scene of Wu Xuan taking out points.
Yu Yuan said, "This child is quite strange; he took the initiative to return these coupons."
Jiang Xiaoxin's eyes immediately lit up, her gloomy mood instantly lifted, and she became happy.
As soon as the silly girl was in a good mood, she immediately snuggled up to her brother on the small bed in the back of the RV and fell into a sweet sleep.
Yu Yuan then whispered the gossip he had just overheard: "Aren't these child's parents incredibly heartless? In this world, how can they be so lazy? Not protecting their own child, aren't they just pushing him to his death?"
As Yu Fen drove, he said indignantly, "I think that's probably their plan: if the child is beaten to death, their pressure will be lessened."
As the two gossiped, they suddenly realized that Jiang Wan, this seemingly cold mother, was actually quite competent. At least she was wholeheartedly devoted to the twins, protecting them and taking meticulous care of them.
Although Jiang Wan saw through Wu Xuan's mother's intention to exploit the child's sympathy to obtain supplies and felt that she had some problems, she did not expect the reality to be like this.
Just because you're lazy, afraid of being robbed, or feel that raising a child in the apocalypse is too much of a burden, you can force a 6-year-old child to risk all sorts of life-threatening situations and go out alone to buy supplies?
Even someone as cold-hearted as her wouldn't do such a thing.
Jiang Xiaoxin, who was asleep, suddenly burst into tears: "Mommy, Mommy, it hurts so much! Waaah, it hurts so much!"
Jiang Wan quickly turned around and went to the back of the car, picked up Jiang Xiaoxin's sobbing body, and gently comforted her, "It's okay, it's okay, Xiaoxin, don't be afraid. Mommy is here. Did you have a nightmare? Don't be afraid, we'll chase the nightmare away."
Jiang Xiaoshu was also awakened by her loud crying. He immediately grabbed his sister's hand and used his purification ability.
Soon, Jiang Xiaoxin calmed down and fell asleep peacefully once again.
Jiang Wan glanced outside and told Yu Fen, "Let's go! It's not safe here!"
Yu Fen and the others were unaware, but she and Jiang Xiaoshu were almost immediately certain that some plants nearby had mutated.
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, something shot out onto the car with a "bang".
"Holy crap!" Yu Yuan exclaimed, "It's a cactus! This thing has mutated!"
A cactus by the roadside suddenly grew to be half a person's height. It swayed its body and kept spraying its thorns at people and things around it. The thorns were sharp and thin, and after the mutation, they were obviously poisonous. People who were hit by them all collapsed to the ground.
"groove!"
Yu Fen and Yu Yuan are both soldiers protecting the city. Their military mission and responsibilities cannot allow them to ignore the harm caused to humans by the mutated plants. However, they are also responsible for protecting the experts, putting them in a dilemma.
Seeing their furious and anxious expressions, Jiang Wan said, "You guys go ahead, we'll stay in the car."
After considering it for a moment, Yu Fen instructed Yu Yuan, "You protect the expert, I'll go!"
But they entered the city secretly today, without wearing military uniforms or protective suits. Even with his light wave abilities, he was forced to stay away by the cactus's thorns.
Jiang Wan watched for a while in the car and then reminded him, "Cacti are susceptible to waterlogging. You need to find a way to concentrate the watering around their roots!"
The roots of the mutated plant contain crystals. Only when the roots die and the crystals are removed can the plant be considered truly strangled.
Just then, a man rushed over and shouted at Yu Fen, "Stop! Stop it now!"
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