Chapter 20 Humanoid Warm Baby
Immediately afterwards, a split lightning streaked across the night sky.
"Damn it! God is so unfair!" Li Huiyin was startled by the sudden thunder.
"Misfortunes never come singly." Xu Zhiyang stood up with a headache and broke off a branch. "Break down these thin branches and we can build a rough shelter before the heavy rain comes."
Li Huiyin lay pitifully on the tree branch: "Then can you untie it for me first?"
Xu Zhiyang glanced at her, feeling that something was amiss. "Wait a moment, Zhu Ci and I will be on our side, you two should just move around."
"Okay." Li Huiyin agreed quickly.
Zhu Ci climbed up a little, broke off a thin branch with many leaves, and handed it to Xu Zhiyang.
The two worked well together, and Xu Zhiyang quickly weaved a tight "roof" with branches.
"You have this skill!?" Li Huiyin was surprised.
"When I lived in the countryside with my brother, my grandfather taught me how to weave bamboo baskets. But the branches are still different thicknesses, so I guess they leak a little."
Xu Zhiyang spent nearly an hour weaving the roof a little bigger, so that it could at least cover all of them.
As soon as the roof was woven, heavy rain came pouring down.
Zhu Ci took his scimitar dagger and cut the rope around Li Huiyin's waist with one stroke. Several people huddled together for warmth.
Qin Shiyu was still curled up in his simple hanging basket, squeezed with Li Huiyin on one side and Xu Zhiyang and Zhu Ci on the other.
The roof was just big enough to cover four people, and luckily the tree had grown big enough that the branch could support the three of them.
The sky was still dark, and only the flashes of lightning could vaguely reveal the scenery in the distance.
It was like entering a deep green ocean, with endless treetops and no city in sight.
However, the tree has grown so tall that the city has long been like being moved into a primeval forest. The houses are dead and will not grow taller. They are naturally covered by the forest and cannot be seen.
Xu Zhiyang hugged her legs and looked at the rain boredly. Suddenly, she opened her mouth and sneezed, which scared Li Huiyin and Qin Shiyu, who were also in a daze, and made them shiver.
"Sorry." Xu Zhiyang said with a nasal voice, "I'm a little cold. Are you cold?"
Qin Shiyu curled up into a small ball, "Cold..."
"I'm cold too. I used to love rain in the summer. Every time it rained I would take a shower in the rainwater. But now it feels like autumn. It's freezing."
Li Huiyin gave one of her two coats to Qin Shiyu, and she wrapped herself up so that only her eyes were exposed.
Xu Zhiyang glanced at Zhu Ci from the side, who was still calm, and carefully wiped his small scimitar with a rag dipped in rain water.
"Aren't you cold?" Xu Zhiyang touched Zhu Ci's arm with the back of her hand. "It's so cold! Where's your coat?"
Zhu Ci didn't say anything, but just looked up at Xu Zhiyang.
Following the line of sight, Xu Zhiyang looked down.
Oh, on myself.
It was Zhu Ci who covered him. Xu Zhiyang put it on directly after waking up and forgot to return it to Zhu Ci.
"You wear it." Xu Zhiyang unzipped and prepared to take it off.
Zhu Ci raised his hand again to help him pull it back, "No, I'm not cold, just put it on."
Xu Zhiyang stared at Zhu Ci for a while, feeling that his archenemy had become much easier to talk to recently. A terrible thought arose in his mind.
Could it be that Zhu Ci is - interested in me?
As soon as this thought came to mind, Xu Zhiyang slapped himself in the face!
How is that possible! Zhu Ci is an out-and-out straight man!
Li Huiyin looked at her friend who looked like an idiot, shaking his head and in a daze. Just as she was about to ask him what was wrong, her sleeve was pulled.
She lowered her head with a strange look and asked what was wrong.
Qin Shiyu smiled and shook his head at Li Huiyin, as if he understood everything.
"What?" Li Huiyin asked in a low voice.
"It's okay...shh..." Qin Shiyu replied quietly.
Retracting the indescribable little drama in his mind, Xu Zhiyang coughed lightly and said, "I'll keep you warm."
Hearing this, the three of them looked at him, and Zhu Ci asked, "How do you keep warm?"
"Fire energy." Xu Zhiyang spread his hands flat, one above and one below, and put them together, separating the fire energy from the five elements of energy in his body, gathering it in his palms, and then retracting it when creating a flame.
Let the separated fire energy circulate throughout the body and you will feel warm in an instant.
Xu Zhiyang put his arm around Li Huiyin and Qin Shiyu.
Li Huiyin opened her eyes wide in surprise, "Fire energy can be used like this!" Li Huiyin rubbed her neck against Xu Zhiyang's arm, "Wow! I feel warm all over, as if I'm holding a heat pack."
Qin Shiyu was half-embraced by Xu Zhiyang, as if he was trapped next to a fireplace. It was warm all around and very comfortable.
"Second brother is very clever. He can warm himself by circulating fire energy through his body without creating flames, so as not to attract the mutant animals around him."
Xu Zhiyang smiled and said, "When it's hot in the summer, you can use water energy to make ice, but it consumes some energy."
"But your body can absorb the five elements of energy between heaven and earth. Although it is slow, it can accumulate over time and become considerable in a year."
Qin Shiyu wiped the mist off his glasses and continued, "Although you are at level zero, you are advancing faster than the rest of us. It seems that you are truly a savior sent by God."
"Savior?" Xu Zhiyang sneered, "It's me..."
Thinking of the tragic deaths of his companions in his previous life, Xu Zhiyang felt it was ironic that it was a waste for him to obtain these incredible energies.
Qin Shiyu didn't know why he had touched Xu Zhiyang's sore spot. Seeing that he was unhappy, he stopped talking.
"Mr. Zhu." Xu Zhiyang became interested as soon as he saw the ice cube Zhu Ci.
Zhu Ci heard the voice and looked over.
Xu Zhiyang hooked her finger towards Zhu Ci and said, "It's very cold. Come closer."
"No, I'm not cold." Zhu Ci said stubbornly, looking away and not looking at him.
Tsk, the skin is quite thin.
Xu Zhiyang didn't force him, but just put her hand on Zhu Ci's strong forearm, and waves of warmth were transmitted into Zhu Ci's body from the touched skin.
The fingers, which were already a little stiff from the cold, were soon warmed by Xu Zhiyang's warm palm.
Zhu Ci waited for a long time, and only turned to look at Xu Zhiyang when he fell asleep.
The boy has been busy and tired these days, and looks a little thinner than when we first met. His shoulders are very thin, as if he would be shaky if a gust of wind blew against him.
Zhu Ci subconsciously held Xu Zhiyang's wrist with his backhand and stared at her for a long time.
I wonder if it’s an illusion?
Zhu Ci always felt that he seemed to have known Xu Zhiyang a long time ago, but he just couldn't remember it.
Some memories seemed to be hidden behind a layer of fog that blurred his eyes. No matter how hard he tried to see clearly, he still couldn't see clearly.
Zhu Ci didn't know how long he had been staring at Xu Zhiyang in a trance. When he came to his senses and was about to look away, he saw that Qin Shiyu had been staring at him for a long time. The two looked at each other.
Zhu Ci looked innocent, and Qin Shiyu looked even more naive.
After a few seconds, Qin Shiyu pushed up his glasses that had slipped down his nose and said, "I didn't see anything. I won't tell my second brother."
Zhu Ci frowned when he heard this. It seemed like he didn't do anything?
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