Not to mention Jiang Wan herself, even the twins were dumbfounded!
Holy crap!
How dare he take advantage of their mother right in front of them?!
The two little ones exchanged a fierce look, their eyes conveying a clear message: We absolutely cannot let him get away with this next time!
Cheng Zhen led a small team of ten people and quietly infiltrated the abandoned factory that Yu Fen had previously scouted.
Jiang Wan helped the twins get dressed and up, then started making dinner. The twins went outside the car, squatted in front of the mutated rose wall, and began to train their superpowers.
At first, they were exercising seriously on their own, but gradually, the two children started to act strangely.
Jiang Xiaoxin stopped communicating with the mutated rose; her sensory abilities seemed to have drifted away to who-knows-where.
The two were training together, and when she didn't react for a while, Jiang Xiaoshu had no choice but to stop. Seeing that her expression and reaction were quite strange, he frowned slightly and asked her hesitantly, "What are you thinking about?"
Jiang Xiaoxin snapped back to reality, initially stammering and unwilling to tell the truth, but when she met her brother's eyes, which seemed to see right through her, she subconsciously chose to confess honestly: "I'm... I wanted to see where they went."
Twins do have some kind of sensory connection, and Jiang Xiaoshu almost immediately realized that she was monitoring Cheng Zhen's movements.
He subtly raised an eyebrow: "You care about him a lot?"
"Of course not!"
Jiang Xiaoxin would never admit that she cared about that strange uncle; he had even taken advantage of her mother before!
She just wanted to know how he was doing, and the next time she saw him, she was determined to get her mother to slap him across the face!
If Mom doesn't dare to do it, then she'll do it herself!
Anyway, she wasn't afraid of him because she had her brother backing her up!
Thinking this, she asked, "Brother, if he hits me, you'll protect me, right?"
The topic jumped around way too fast!
Jiang Xiaoshu barely managed to follow her sister's train of thought and nodded, "Mm."
Jiang Xiaoxin instantly became happy: "Brother is the best!"
Then he started to look distracted again and stopped seriously training his abilities with him.
Jiang Xiaoshu had no choice but to ask again, "Xinxin, why aren't you using your time to train your superpowers? What are you doing?"
Jiang Xiaoxin seemed to be exerting herself, and it took her a while to come back to her senses. She frowned and looked quite unwell.
"Brother, did I tell them there was danger when I was in the car?"
"Hmm." Jiang Xiaoshu sensed that something was wrong with her mood and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
“It is indeed dangerous, but why do they still go?” Jiang Xiaoxin immediately jumped up, grabbed her brother’s hand, and said excitedly, “It’s very dangerous there! What should we do? Should we tell Mom?”
Meanwhile, Jiang Wan was making a fruit platter. In the oxygen-deprived post-apocalyptic world, food was scarce. In order to ensure that her two children received comprehensive nutrition in the most effective way, she made the fruits into a platter so that the two children could share them. This way, they could eat a little bit of each kind of fruit and avoid waste.
Everything was fine, but for some reason, her heart suddenly stopped, her brain suffered from insufficient oxygen and blood supply, her vision went black, and she lost her balance, cutting her finger with the fruit knife.
The stinging pain in her hand finally brought her to her senses, but it also made her panic and feel completely lost, as if something terrible was about to happen.
"Mother!"
Just then, Jiang Xiaoxin ran and shouted as she boarded the RV, followed closely by Jiang Xiaoshu. Both of them looked unwell, but the latter seemed more worried and nervous about her younger sister.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Wan suppressed her unease and decided to reassure the twins first: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Jiang Xiaoxin hugged her mother's leg tightly, "Mommy! Mommy! That strange uncle is in danger!"
"Who?" Jiang Wan's heart pounded, and the unease she had felt earlier returned. "You mean Cheng Zhen?"
Jiang Xiaoxin nodded repeatedly: "It was him! Mom! Something was wrong with the weapons factory they went to! I just realized that the reason I couldn't sense the specific situation underground was because someone ate all the mutated plants around there!"
Afraid her mother hadn't understood, she emphasized, "Mom, all these plants have been eaten! That means there must be a very high-level monster in that underground factory!"
As Jiang Wan listened, she felt as if her heart was about to leap out of her throat.
She suppressed her worry and heard her own trembling voice ask, "Do you know what kind of mutated plant it is?"
Jiang Xiaoxin shook her head: "No plant dares to get close to investigate. Anything in that area, whether mutated or not, has been eaten!"
As she spoke, she became increasingly distressed and began to sob softly. It was unclear whether she was grieving for the mutated plants or worried about Cheng Zhen's safety.
Jiang Wan wanted to take a deep breath to clear her mind before thinking about the matter rationally.
However, the more she tried to calm down, the less she could. Her heart was pounding as if it wasn't her own anymore, and only one thought occupied her mind: Go save him!
Actions spoke louder than reason; she immediately said to the twins, "Sit down, Mommy's going to save him!"
Regardless of whether he was in danger or not, she had to get to his side immediately!
But she still had some rationality left. She could take the risk, but there was no need to drag the two children along. She hesitated for a second, then tried to persuade them to stay in the safe zone.
But the twins seemed to know what she was going to say, and immediately interrupted her, saying directly, "Mommy! We want to go with you!"
Jiang Xiaoxin was terrified that her mother would abandon them and go on her own adventure, so she quickly counted her and her brother's strengths on her little fingers: "...Mom! My brother and I can both help!"
Even Jiang Xiaoshu had a nervous look on her face, afraid that she would really abandon them.
However, Jiang Wan did not.
Once she decided to rescue Cheng Zhen, she became calm and rational, and nodded: "Okay."
Indeed, she has little combat ability, and her vine whip is not very accurate. Encountering more than two zombies would be enough to give her trouble. If she goes over like this, she may not be able to help Cheng Zhen and the others, but is more likely to be a hindrance to them.
But twins are different. Xinxin has the ability to sense things and can at least find out some information, while Xiaoshu has the ability to purify, which is equivalent to an invisible protective shield!
Bringing them along is a better strategy than her going in alone!
But they can't just blindly go thousands of miles to their deaths; that would be too foolish!
Her gaze fell on the window, and a plan gradually formed in her mind. She then told them to sit down and fasten their seatbelts, and drove the RV straight into the wilderness, but not towards the abandoned factory that Cheng Zhen and the others had gone to.
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