Chapter 253 Heading to the Quarantine Zone to Collect Mulberry Peaches and Lin Mo...
Sang Zhitao and Lin Mo lived a very ordinary life.
This made Sang Zhitao feel inexplicably disoriented, as if she were still living on Earth, rather than in a dangerous alien world.
"I'll go get some pasta." They had just finished eating barbecue that day. Lin Mo returned from outside in silence, looked at Sang Zhitao for a while, and then said softly.
"It's too dangerous, let's forget it." Sang Zhitao rubbed her stomach and frowned.
Lin Mo shook his head: "You need to eat some plants now."
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but breathe on her palm. A belching smell caused by eating meat for a long time filled her palm, making her unconsciously frown.
"Okay." She pressed on her stomach again; she had been constipated for the past two days, and her stomach had been uncomfortable.
Thinking that her constipation was caused by a lack of vitamins, she subconsciously looked at Lin Mo.
Lin Mo immediately understood her thoughts from her expression. After a moment of silence, he said coldly, "You won't eat the bitter grass."
This time, it was Sang Zhitao's turn to remain silent.
The so-called bitter grass is a wild vegetable that is very common in pipes and outdoors, and it is also the source of vitamin intake for most people in the superpower world.
But as the name suggests, bitter grass is very bitter.
When Sang Zhitao was wandering in the Pipe World, she was fed by people. Every time she ate it, she felt like she was eating bitter melon on an empty stomach.
However, bitter herbs are so easy to obtain and have such a high vitamin content that even though everyone finds them extremely bitter, they are willing to endure eating them day after day.
However, Sang Zhitao came here from a country with a great culinary culture, where there are so many kinds of vegetables that she can completely avoid the ones she doesn't like.
"But it's too bitter..." Sang Zhitao is still a baby, and a baby with her father's protection, so she has the right to be willful.
"Or you can eat bitter grass, or..." Lin Mo, who was usually indifferent, was unusually lively lately. He looked at Sang Zhitao with a playful expression, "Continue to mumble without coming out?"
Sang Zhitao touched her calf with a wronged expression. She had just gone out to pee, but her legs were numb from squatting for so long before she finally managed to pee.
Seeing her like this, Lin Mo's smile became even wider: "Alright, it's only ten miles. There haven't been any battles lately, so there's no danger."
"How about I come along? I am a healer after all." Sang Zhitao scratched her cheek.
Lin Mo couldn't help but pat her head: "Didn't you say I'm your father? It's only natural for a father to take care of his daughter."
“But… I’m worried.” Sang Zhitao looked up at Lin Mo’s face.
Looking into her eyes, Lin Mo paused, sighed silently, and patted Sang Zhitao's head: "Okay, let's go together, father and daughter."
He glanced at the sky outside and said, "We'll set off together tomorrow; it's getting a bit late."
Sang Zhitao nodded obediently in agreement.
Lin Mo has now expanded the room by several meters, completely blocking the pipe fork in the room.
The room's interior had been re-divided. Where Lin Mo's bed used to be, there was now a bunk bed. The light-colored wooden bed was covered with light-colored bedding, and underneath it was a set of light-colored wooden desk and chair, on which were several books that Lin Mo had somehow acquired.
The tool shed on the right has also been rearranged, with an additional low table and chairs, which is Sang Zhitao's small workbench.
Sang Zhitao had no idea where Lin Mo got so much wood. In the Pipe World, she had seen all kinds of metal furniture, but only here did she see so much wooden furniture.
She had asked, but Lin Mo had always been unwilling to tell her.
So much so that even now, she still doesn't understand.
After a sleepless night, before dawn, a loud noise woke the father and daughter.
"Tao Tao, come to Daddy." Lin Mo quickly rolled off the bed, put on his gear, and whispered to Sang Zhi Tao, who was sitting on the bed with sleepy eyes.
Sang Zhitao obediently hummed in agreement, then flipped over and jumped onto Lin Mo's body.
Lin Mo used the slings he had prepared to carry Sang Zhitao on his back, and then took a small crossbow from the table and handed it to Sang Zhitao: "Take good care of yourself."
"What's wrong? It's so noisy." Sang Zhitao rubbed her eyes and looked at the time on her communicator. It was only around 2 a.m.
"It's nothing, it's probably just the Spiral Tower and the Shadow Council fighting again, it has nothing to do with us." Lin Mo bounced his back to make sure the straps were sturdy enough, and then casually replied to her.
"Oh, I see..." Sang Zhitao yawned. "Won't they attack our house?"
"No, don't worry." Lin Mo smiled slightly.
As he spoke, he carried Sang Zhitao out the door, locked it, hung up a sign indicating he was out, and walked away into the night.
"Why are there signs? Will someone be looking for us?" Sang Zhitao looked back at the front door and curiously leaned on Lin Mo's shoulder.
Lin Mo turned on the light on the communicator and carefully walked forward, not forgetting to turn back and say to her, "Sometimes some strange people come over and say strange things."
Hearing him say that, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but feel a little curious.
Having spent time with Sang Zhitao, Lin Mo had come to understand her personality and knew she was very curious about this matter, but he had no intention of explaining. After all, he hadn't really paid attention to what those people were doing or saying at the time, and now he didn't know where to begin.
Sang Zhitao yawned; the early morning sleepiness left her no time to pay attention to the issue.
The summer night breeze carries a hint of heat, and when it blows on you, it feels like a pair of warm hands gently caressing you.
The chirping of insects echoed incessantly in the grass, and these plants and animals, which had not yet been affected or contaminated by the supernatural power, still retained their appearance before the great mutation.
The chirping of insects and the rustling of grass, along with Lin Mo's breathing, formed a lullaby in Sang Zhitao's ears.
"Baby? Baby?" Sang Zhitao didn't know how far she had walked, but she felt her body temperature gradually rising, and she heard a soft call in her ear.
She opened her eyes, yawned, and responded softly.
Lin Mo's smiling voice reached her ears: "Baby, look ahead."
Sang Zhitao obediently raised her head, but was stunned by the sight before her.
In the distance, the upper half of the sky is a gradient of shades of gray-blue, with the stars not yet completely disappearing, and the milky white moon hanging on one side, appearing and disappearing. The lower half is composed of various warm colors such as light pink and light orange.
The interplay of cool and warm colors extends to the bottom where it meets the green grass, forming a bright white line.
Before long, the white line widened, and the warm tones climbed upwards until they completely swallowed the cool tones. Then, a sun slowly rose from the horizon.
"So beautiful..." Sang Zhitao couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
"Let's sleep a little longer. We probably won't arrive until tonight." Carrying Sang Zhitao on his back, Lin Mo was unwilling to take a forced march. In addition, they had to be careful and vigilant along the way, so what should have been a few hours' journey would have taken them a whole day and a half.
Sang Zhitao didn't care about the speed, since she couldn't be slower than the speed at which she traveled in the pipe world.
The father and daughter's figures were gradually swallowed up by the tall grass, looking from a distance like the sea slowly merging after Moses parted it...
"Out?" At their doorstep, a girl in her early twenties frowned as she looked at the sign hanging on the locked door.
"Maya, isn't Lin Mo here?" A male voice came through the communicator she was wearing.
"Yes, it has a 'Out of Service' sign on it." Maya responded softly, walked to the window next to her, and peeked inside a few times on tiptoe.
"Going out?" The male voice on the communicator sounded puzzled. "Why would he? Hasn't he always disliked going out?"
Maya frowned and told the other person about the changes she had seen in the room.
"I understand. You stay put for now while I check his location." The person on the other end paused for a moment before giving her a serious instruction.
Maya readily agreed.
She sat down on a stool in front of the stove and waited for instructions from the other end of the communicator.
Not long after, a message came from the other side: "He went to the quarantine zone ten miles away. Follow him and try your best to prevent him from being discovered by the Shadow Council."
Maya pursed her lips, and hesitated before speaking, "He's just an amnesiac ability user. There are so many people like him in the Pipe World, why should we pay so much attention to him?"
"..." The person on the other end was silent for a moment before saying to Maya with a warning, "Maya, there are some things you shouldn't ask about."
Maya hadn't expected her question to elicit such a warning. She took a deep breath and said, "Yes."
"Catch up with them as soon as possible, and it would be best to become friends with them." The male voice on the other end of the communicator seemed hesitant to say what he was about to say, and he sighed silently, "If you could make them like you..."
Maya stood there stunned, never expecting to receive such a task.
By the time she came to her senses, the other party had already hung up the communicator.
Looking at the somewhat dilapidated but clean house in front of her, and thinking of the two beds, one large and one small, and the obvious signs of a child's life inside, Maya couldn't help but clutch her chest.
She wore a bitter smile, unsure of who to confide her myriad emotions to.
She is 22 years old this year. Two years ago, she won the championship in the Spiral Tower's Emotion Building Competition and became an Emotion Motivator, known as the Rising Star of Emotional Symphony.
Her powers are collectively known as Painful Joy, and among them, the most suitable for being an emotional manipulator is the Triumph of the Stars. It can be said that she is the most suitable power user on the battlefield, as she can mobilize the powers of her teammates to the maximum extent.
After receiving orders to be transferred to the battlefield, she was unexpectedly assigned to a guard post at the intersection of the Pipe World and the Spiral Tower.
She had thought the battlefield needed her, but she never expected that she would be used as a pawn in a honey trap.
Maya looked at her fair hands, and the talent she had once been so proud of seemed to have become stagnant. Her usually positive mood was also tinged with sadness.
She sighed deeply, knowing that she had no power to disobey her superiors' orders. She could only compose herself, pack her bags, and head towards the quarantine zone.
The father and daughter had no idea that someone else was coming to see them, let alone that the other party was carrying out a mission involving a honey trap.
After arriving near the quarantine zone, they set up camp nearby, waiting to collect the mutated fruit from the plants the next day.
It was unusually chilly tonight, so Lin Mo took off his coat and wrapped Sang Zhitao up tightly before holding her in his arms.
"Is it alright?" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but ask.
"I'm an adult, it's okay." Lin Mo showed her the sweat on his forehead.
Seeing this, Sang Zhitao felt relieved and slept soundly through the night.
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