He Zhuo was about to retort to Chi Yanzhou's teasing, but he caught a glimpse of Gu Qi's gaze out of the corner of his eye.
He Zhuo got goosebumps when he was looked at.
He shuddered violently, and the corners of his mouth twitched, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
"Old Gu, take away that unclean look of yours!" He Zhuo hugged himself exaggeratedly and shrank back: "Your eyes look like you are greedy for my body."
Gu Qi's forehead veins throbbed, and he gritted his teeth... "I don't need to worry about you!"
Chi Yanzhou was enjoying the fun and added slowly, "Ah Qi, the way Lu Zhuo's mother looked at him probably wasn't as loving as you are - tsk, loving."
Gu Qi's face darkened, and he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "I think you two are blinded by shit..."
By the window, Gu Wan, who was eating melon seeds with Lu Nange, suddenly shouted, "Brother, pay attention to the occasion!"
Gu Qi choked and swallowed the second half of the sentence. His Adam's apple rolled twice and he managed to say, "...I don't want to waste my time talking to you!"
When he looked up, he saw Lu Nange and a few others sitting in a row, crackling melon seeds in their hands.
They look like a group of civets waiting to watch a show.
Gu Qi: “…” Be careful in making friends!!!
At this time, Wen Qing pushed the door open with a bowl of hot porridge in his hand and said in a gentle voice, "Master He, drink some porridge first to fill your stomach."
Gu Wan patted the melon seed crumbs on his hands, raised an eyebrow at Lu Nange, and said in a long tone: "Lu family - He Zhuo -"
"Poof!" He Zhuo spat out a mouthful of porridge, choking and causing him to cough.
"Gu Wanwan! Can you be a little more cultured! Either call me Lu Zhuo or He Zhuo. If that doesn't work, you can just compromise and call me Lu He Zhuo! What the hell is 'Lu He Zhuo'? I'm not marrying into the family..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed the gazes of Lu Xici and Lu Beiye and choked up: "...I actually want to..."
The next second he shook his head violently: "No, do I want to or not?"
Everyone said in unison: "Drink your porridge!"
...
He Zhuo finished the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl in a few gulps, wiped his mouth, and was pushed and shoved by the crowd to the planting greenhouse.
He looked around and pointed at himself in disbelief: "You asked me to 'show my talents', and all I want is to be a vegetable scrubber?"
Everyone nodded in unison, their eyes sincere.
Gu Wan patted his shoulder and said sincerely, "The more capable you are, the more work you should do. No one else can do this job except you with earth-related abilities."
He Zhuo's mouth twitched: "Gu Wanwan, how can you say such cold words with your 37-degree mouth?"
Lu Nange gave a thumbs up: "Brother He Zhuo, you are the chosen one!"
Lu Beiye leaned his hands on his back and looked up: "Brother He Zhuo, great!"
Others were bent over, busy in the vegetable fields.
He Zhuo sighed, raised his hand resignedly, and moved his fingertips slightly, using his earth-based ability to accurately peel off every grain of dirt on the leaves.
Gu Qi used his water ability to rinse the vegetables again, and waited for Lu Nange to put them away together.
A day's work is boring and repetitive, but when night falls, everyone sits around the dining table.
The boiling soup wrapped in fresh and tender leaves slid into the throat, and the exploding taste on the tip of the tongue relaxed the tense nerves briefly.
--comfortable.
This word, which seems almost luxurious in this apocalyptic world, actually seems real at this moment.
After dinner, everyone took a shower and fell asleep.
...
It was a little after five the next morning, but it was blindingly bright outside the window.
Lu Nange raised his hands to cover his eyes, but couldn't block the scorching heat.
The days are getting longer, the temperature is rising day by day, and even the morning breeze is filled with suffocating dryness.
There was a rustling sound of fabric rubbing against each other beside me.
"Nannan, is it hot again?" Gu Wan asked as he saw Lu Nange with his eyes open and shaking his sweaty short sleeves.
Wen Qingjing sat up silently, and his hands paused as he was putting on his shoes.
"Well, the days are longer." Lu Nange's voice was a little hoarse.
The moment I opened the door, the heat wave came like a wall.
In the open space, Chi Yi was doing push-ups with one hand, his arms forming sharp lines.
Chi Yi is a training maniac and he will do a few sets of exercises whenever he gets the chance.
"Ms. Lu, Miss Gu, Miss Wen, good morning." Chi Yi's voice was filled with the heavy breathing typical of morning exercises.
After the three of them simply responded, they went to wash up.
I splashed cold water on my face, barely washing away the drowsiness.
By the time Wen Qing finished making breakfast, everyone got up.
They had already finished cleaning up the vegetables yesterday and were ready to continue their journey today.
The two off-road vehicles did not enter the urban area of Ning City again.
Instead, we drove along the national highway towards Quzhou City.
Outside the car window, the scenery was desolate and depressing.
There are many abandoned cars on the roadside, piled up in a crooked manner.
Occasionally one could see a few bodies that had long since dried up, with no one to bury them, and only tattered clothes floating in the hot wind.
Most of the road signs were damaged, and the words on the rusted metal signs were blurred, but the general direction was still recognizable.
Most disturbing of all were the plants—they were much more lush than he remembered, their branches twisting and spreading toward the center of the road.
The wild grass on the roadside grew wildly to more than two meters high, rustling in the hot wind.
We passed some self-built houses intermittently, and most of the doors and windows were broken.
There was no sign of living people, and even the number of zombies was abnormally small.
The weather was hot, but fortunately there was air conditioning in the car, so it was relatively cool.
Looking out the car window, the distant horizon was distorted by the heat wave.
The asphalt road was emitting visible heat.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, two off-road vehicles parked side by side under a huge old tree.
Just as Lu Xici rolled down the window and was about to hand food to He Zhuo and the others, a scorching heat wave suddenly rushed into the car, instantly swallowing up the cool air.
"What kind of horrible weather is this! I feel like I'm going to wilt!" He Zhuo's curses exploded from the intercom, mixed with the muffled sound of slapping the air-conditioning vents.
Bang!
There was a deafening bang and the whole car shook.
Everyone looked up suddenly, and saw a group of furry snowflakes standing in the dust in front of them.
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