Chapter 266 How could you not remember?
Gu Qi walked over to Shi Xu and asked, "Ah Xu, how's the situation in the capital?"
Shi Xu shook his head, his brow furrowing slightly: "I don't know. As soon as you left, something tried to forcibly invade my consciousness."
He paused, then continued, "After I refused, I had a splitting headache, and when I woke up I found myself here..."
At this point, Shi Xu's ears turned red, and his toes unconsciously dug into the soles of his shoes. His gaze drifted towards the Lu siblings: "...Miss Lu and Young Master Lu were trapped in a pile of dirt. When they crawled up and saw Brother Yan, they realized it was the end of the world..."
He Zhuo's eyes widened suddenly: "What did you say? You don't remember any of it?"
Shi Xu nodded calmly: "Hmm, I don't remember."
"You don't even remember calling me 'Uncle'?" He Zhuo pressed on, pointing at Lu Nange, "What about calling Mei Bao 'Mom,' A Ye 'Brother,' and Yan Ge 'Dad'?"
Shi Xu internally took deep breaths: [Aaaaaaah, I really can't take this anymore!]
Without a moment's hesitation, his expression was resolute: "He Zhuo, don't think that just because I've lost my memory, you can spout off whatever you want."
He Zhuo was so anxious he was jumping up and down: "Think again! How could you not remember? How could you forget something so important?"
Everyone couldn't help but laugh at He Zhuo's nonsensical and unreasonable behavior...
Lu Xici noticed Shi Xu's ears were so red they were almost bleeding, and said, suppressing a laugh, "It's probably the brain's self-protective mechanism at work."
"What's there to protect about this?" He Zhuo scratched his head, looking puzzled.
Seeing Shi Xu's near-collapse in composure, Lu Nange asked, "What are the characteristics of that thing that forcibly invaded your consciousness?"
Shi Xu recalled, "It sounded like a cold, electronic voice... and it could even control lightning-like energy to explode in my mind, it hurt a lot..."
He shook his head: "The rest... I can't remember."
Lu Nange frowned slightly, her mind racing: [It sounds like it's a system similar to "Youyou's"... Is this what "Youyou" is worried about?...]
Gu Qi asked thoughtfully, "So how did you recover?"
Shi Xu: "It seems to be... Miss Lu kept feeding me pills."
Everyone: "Oh, then it's alright..."
He Zhuo: "The sky is falling! I've even planned how I'll make fun of you and how I'll laugh at you after you regain your memories. How can you just forget like that?"
Shi Xu remained unfazed: [As long as I deny it to the death, no matter how much you say, it's all a lie.]
Ji Xian: "It's as if it's preventing you from laughing at people right now."
"Old Ji!" He Zhuo stared wide-eyed in disbelief. "Whose side are you on?"
Ji Xian: "Probably... on the side of justice?"
Amidst laughter and conversation, the group arrived at the section of road where Chi Yi and his companions had previously cleared away the mutated frogs.
Lu Nange gently patted the wavy little head on Lu Beiye's shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work, little Zhizhi."
"Chirp chirp~" Zhizhi swayed the vines happily.
[Master, watch closely...]
Dozens of vines swiftly traversed the ground, instantly gathering up all the scattered crystal cores without leaving a single one behind.
As the night breeze blew by, everyone was by their side, and their tense nerves finally relaxed.
They walked slowly through the ruins under the cover of night, heading unhurriedly towards the outskirts of the city.
Suddenly remembering something, Lu Nange took Zhizhi from Lu Beiye's shoulder and said, "Little Zhizhi, is there anything I don't know about you?"
The branches shook their leaves, making a faint "chirping" sound.
[Master, no, really no more! Besides, you didn't ask, I just forgot to mention it before...]
Lu Nange gently fiddled with the leaves on the branches and limbs with her fingertips: "Can all these leaves on you be used?"
The branches immediately began to wriggle happily, gesturing wildly: "Chirp chirp chirp chirp—"
[Master, look, only these bright green and translucent ones will do. I only have a few left on my hands and feet...]
Lu Nange watched as the branches parted the ordinary leaves on the surface, revealing the innermost few crystal-clear emerald green leaves, with shimmering light seemingly flowing through the veins.
"How did these leaves grow?" Lu Nange continued to ask.
Zhizhi tilted her wavy hair, deep in thought, while the vines unconsciously coiled around Lu Nange's fingers: "Chirp chirp chirp~"
[It was there before, but after feeding it to the owner's younger brother and the others, only one leaf remained. Later, after eating the fruit given by the owner, a few more leaves grew...]
Lu Nange: "You fed Aye and Big Brother with the leaves from your hands, but you fed Yan Ge and the others with the leaves from their feet. Is there any difference in the leaves?"
Zhizhi shook its head, and the little vines waved their hands: "Chirp chirp chirp..."
[There's not much difference, but there are far fewer on the hands than on the feet.]
The vines twisted and tangled together: [The master's older and younger brothers look almost identical to the master...]
It shyly curled its leaves: [The leaves in its hand are clean enough to feed its own family...]
She shook the vines on her feet with disgust: "[These...these things are covered in dirt, ugly, dirty...unclean, we can't feed them to our family...]"
When Lu Nange looked up, everyone was staring at her interaction with Zhizhi.
Lu Xici: "Little sister, what is Zhizhi gesturing about?"
Lu Beiye felt he understood it, yet there were still some parts he didn't understand...
Lu Nange gently stroked the leaves on Zhizhi's leaves: "Zhizhi said that she fed that level 5 zombie a leaf, and the zombie died..."
Shi Xu: "It seems it was first violently stuffed into the stomach of a level 5 zombie, and then pulled out and stuffed into its brain..."
"Holy crap! That's amazing!" He Zhuo turned to look at Zhizhi: "How can little Zhizhi be so handsome?"
Chi Yanzhou: "What kind of leaves are on each branch...?"
Lu Nange: "Zhizhi said that it and I are one, and these leaves and I share the same origin. If someone eats the leaves, it means they harbor ill will towards me..."
Chi Yanzhou: "You'll die?"
In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to Ji Xian.
Ji Xian—[So...give me your ID number today?]
He raised his hands with a wry smile: "What kind of looks are those? I admit, as an ordinary person, I might envy and be jealous that you're better than me. But I've never had the slightest bit of malice towards Nan Nan."
He Zhuo rushed forward and hugged Ji Xian tightly: "Old Ji, oh Old Ji!" His voice trembled: "Luckily you're sensible...you deserve to be alive..."
"..." Ji Xian rolled his eyes as he was being squeezed, but he didn't push him away.
"How amazing..." Gu Wan's eyes lit up: "Nan Nan, what if someone eats the leaf but doesn't mean you any harm? What would happen?"
Lu Nange: "If there's no malice, the leaves are like a tonic! They're good for the body and can even speed up wound healing."
Lu Xici: "Does that mean, little sister, you can have your own team?"
Chi Yanzhou: "Aren't we?"
"Great!" Gu Wan clapped her hands and laughed, "Now we don't have to worry about anyone harming Nan Nan."
Gu Qi: "If there are any powerful superhumans, we can try to turn them against us..."
Everyone nodded emphatically in unison.
Shi Xu: "May I own one?"
"Chirp chirp chirp!" The vines swayed proudly, as if showing off something.
Lu Nange: "Zhizhi said that she had actually fed you all a long time ago."
Zhizhi's original words: [Master, I've already fed them, I've fed them the leaves on their feet... I've stuffed leaves into everyone around you, it definitely won't hurt you in the slightest~]
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