Chapter 218 Pets
Youxi did not leave the Star House rashly.
She opened the door, walked up the stairs to the terrace, and looked out along the round glass wall with an excellent view.
Because the fixed space of the Star House is in the kitchen of the rooftop restaurant, and this is a restaurant with a view, the kitchen is right in the center of the rooftop, and the Star House is equivalent to standing in the center of the rooftop. Standing on the terrace, not only can you have a 360-degree view of the entire city, but you can also fully view every corner of the rooftop.
The spring rain outside has stopped temporarily, but there are layers of rain clouds in the sky, and the stars are still not visible. The rooftop outside the glass is full of dilapidated building debris, and only one-third of the walls used for partitions have collapsed.
She carefully checked every broken wall, but did not see any figure. She originally thought that Shen Qiu wanted to fulfill his wish and came up to find her.
You Xi turned around and went down the stairs to the simulated apartment. When she was about to return to the room, there was a crackling sound outside again. This time she heard the direction of the sound clearly, stepped onto the terrace again, and walked directly to the source of the sound.
A few meters away from the Star House, at the edge of the building, in the shadow of a broken wall corner, a slender green object was shaking hard.
After a moment, the shaking green object sprayed many sharp and hard short thorns on the bricks in the corner of the wall. The thorns converged on the bricks and made a crackling sound, which was exactly the sound she had just heard.
You Xi frowned and looked at the green thing. After it finished firing the thorns, it seemed to be seriously injured. It collapsed all of a sudden and lay in the shadow without moving. No wonder she didn't notice it just now. You
Xi wrapped a long thick sweater over her pajamas, changed her shoes at the entrance, and walked out of the star house.
Almost at the moment she came out of the star house, the green thing that was originally slumped against the broken wall immediately stood up. It twisted and turned in place. After a moment, it pulled out the khaki meridians that were originally stuck in the sand and stones, and then ran towards her.
Youxi: ...
This is the first time she has seen a plant that can walk. Those khaki meridians should be its roots. Probably because of the collective changes in the roots of plants outside, its rhizomes have also changed, but the direction of change is slightly different from that of other plants.
Other roots have become extremely thin and sharp in order to penetrate into organisms to absorb nutrients, but its roots have formed a flat shape underneath, as if... for walking? !
The tiny, slender plant moved its roots quickly, nimbly jumping up and down from all kinds of messy building debris, and finally came to her.
It was a shrub seedling only about ten centimeters high, with no branches on the stem, a small green flower bud on the top, and a few leaves, bare and without thorns, looking a bit shabby.
Seeing that she didn't move, it jumped directly onto her shoes, bent its stems and leaves and rubbed them against her ankles.
Youxi: ...
Okay, she has recognized it. This is the mutant rose seedling she randomly gave birth to yesterday. Although I don't know what happened to it to become what it is now, it is obvious that it has achieved the first condition for her to choose mutant plants as fighting partners: get rid of the soil.
Compared with the other party's eagerness, Youxi looked at her blackened white sneakers with some disgust, reached out and picked it up, took out a bottle of water and rinsed the mutant rose seedling.
The other party seemed to like cleanliness very much. When he found that the clean water was flowing down at a steady speed, he quickly straightened his roots, shook the flower buds and leaves, and let the water wash him up and down.
Youxi concentrated on communicating with the plant, feeling the mutant rose seedling's joyful mood. She put away the water bottle, bent down and stretched out her hand to the seedling, and it jumped onto her palm with a plop. Several roots stood firmly on her palm, and several roots stretched and wound around her wrist, fixing itself firmly on her body, and then continued to rub against her palm.
Youxi: ...
Is this...a dog?
But the other party had climbed all the way up to the 25th floor to find her, what else could she do? Just keep it.
"You are so amazing, how did you find me?"
Mutated rose seedling: Twist, rub, twist, rub, twist, rub.
Youxi understood that the other party remembered her aura because he had received her plant ability. However, her breath was interrupted at the top of the building. The star house was another space. As soon as she walked into the star house, the breath disappeared.
In order to lure her out, it deliberately fired rose thorns to attract her attention.
Mutated rose seedling: twisting, twisting, twisting...
Youxi looked at the green seedling in her palm and slowly frowned. If she sensed correctly, the other party was so anxious to find her as a warning!
She continued to concentrate on sensing the message conveyed by the green seedling: destroy... grow... the building... all... destroyed...
Youxi stood up and walked quickly to the edge of the building. In the night, the growth of the plants was slower than yesterday, but it still did not stop.
The slender roots gradually became thicker, and the branches were like a huge umbrella, piercing the outer walls of nearby buildings. On some building walls, the vines moved like man-eating pythons, and then tightened up little by little... The same situation happened in the building where she was.
Among those climbing vines, some of the longer ones had unknowingly spread to the tenth floor. A small part of the entire building had turned completely green, as if the outer wall was wearing a green coat.
She heard the slight cracking sound of the building wall unable to bear the pressure, and in the distance, a building somewhere collapsed.
Under the tightening force of the plants, the already precarious building was the first to collapse.
You Xi frowned. If this situation continued, the survivors hiding in the upper floors of the city's buildings would be wiped out.
She closed her eyes and began to sense the plants on the building below her feet.
The need for growth and "nutrients" was still very strong, but much less than yesterday. She focused her attention and put all her plant abilities on this building.
After a while, the vines outside the building finally began to move, reluctantly loosening their grip on the building, and no longer ignoring the walls and load-bearing columns. Instead, more vines were drilled out of the existing doors and windows and hung.
She couldn't deal with such a large group for the time being, but if it was just this building, it was still within her control.
She didn't know how many survivors there were in the city, and in which buildings they were distributed. It was okay for buildings closer, but for buildings farther away, she simply couldn't control the plants there.
Spreading aid would definitely not work. Perhaps, she should think of a way to transfer the survivors in other buildings over.
You Xi felt the mutant rose seedling rubbing against her palm, and reached out to tap its small leaves: "Thank you for your warning. My ability is limited. Let's try to see what we can do before the Star House is reset."
**
The survivors on the 14th floor did not sleep well these two nights. The changes in the city were despairing. However, compared with Zhuo Yun's group, which had obtained a lot of new supplies, and Lu Yichen's group, which had "money power" and had stockpiled a lot of supplies and still had some supplies, Yan Ya's group was in a much worse situation.
If it were in the past, Yan Ya might still be able to rely on the idea of teamwork and get some supplies from Zhuo Yun, and Zhuo Yun would also help him and ask Lu Yichen if he could get more supplies.
But now, his girlfriend Mu Kelian has blocked this road for him.
After they escaped on the line between life and death that day, they discovered the change in the situation. He didn't know what Mu Kelian had said to Zhuo Yun. Mu Kelian herself refused to say, and Zhuo Yun was disdainful to say.
The temperature was low before, and in order to save fuel, everyone dragged out the mattresses and quilts and slept on the floor in the hotel lobby where a fire was lit. Although it was warm, after all, so many people were crowded together. Some people snored and gnashed their teeth at night, and others couldn't sleep well.
Now that the temperature has warmed up, some people can't wait to choose a room near the lobby, restore the mattress to its original state, and live together with three or four people who have a good relationship.
So, if someone doesn't want to see someone, just close the door.
It was quite chaotic when they fled back to the hotel on the first day. Everyone was still in shock. Yan Ya did not notice the change in Zhuo Yun's attitude towards him. By the time he came to his senses, the golden period for handling had passed.
Zhuo Yun knew that Yan Ya was good at talking and did not want to see him at all. When he came to knock on the door, he just found someone to send him away. The man was very smart. He knew that Zhuo Yun was too lazy to talk about the details of what happened, but he let the other party know who the troublemaker was in a few words.
As for the distribution of supplies, I'm sorry, with the current situation in the city, they don't have much food, so they really can't distribute it.
Mention the past?
In the past, they were a team, and from the beginning, the two families shared Lu Yichen's supplies. Lu Yichen's supplies, Yan Ya's knowledge of plants and animals, and Zhuo Yun's fighting ability made it possible for the three-way cooperation.
Although everyone found a lot of things together later, in a three-way cooperation, everyone contributed, and it was not a question of who helped whom.
So in the final analysis, Zhuo Yun didn't owe Yan Ya's team anything, or he could go to Lu Yichen to see if he was willing to share supplies under such circumstances.
Yan Ya got angry at Mu Kelian after returning that day, not only because she got in trouble, but also because she didn't explain what happened afterwards.
It's a pity that Mu Kelian is self-centered and can't understand the human relationship. She always thinks that everyone in the team listens to Yan Ya, and Zhuo Yun's breakup is just talk, and it will be fine as long as the matter is over.
Yan Ya got angry, and Mu Kelian cried and made a fuss, saying that it was obviously he who didn't trust others, otherwise they would have been like Zhuo Yun and Shen Qiu, and would have withdrawn early after getting the supplies, and they would not have been injured, and their protective clothing would have been reimbursed.
Yan Ya was choked by these words and lost all his face.
No matter how much they quarreled, they still had to eat. Yan Ya and his group were running out of food, but Mu Kelian had a big bag of food. Everyone knew the importance of food. Even if she was willing to give it to Yan Ya, she would definitely not give it to other people around Yan Ya.
She was not crazy. If she saved this bag of food by herself, it would last her at least more than a week. If she shared it with so many people, it would be gone in two days.
And the food was not found by them, it was given to her by Shen Qiu!
But she would never say these words, she just sat there crying with her schoolbag tightly in her arms.
Yan Ya's companions were very angry. In the past, when they were outside dealing with giant plant insects and searching for supplies, Mu Kelian never missed a meal. Now they were in trouble, and she clearly had something, but she refused to share it.
Just like that, in just one or two days, the atmosphere in Yan Ya's small group became tense.
And Shen Qiu, because she returned to the building early, packed up her things and went to her room early at Zhuo Yun's inquiry.
When Yan Ya came to find Zhuo Yun, Shen Qiu was actually in the room, but from beginning to end, Yan Ya never asked Shen Qiu a word, which shows that Mu Kelian, who had been with her day and night before, never mentioned her to Yan Ya at all.
How could Mu Kelian not notice that she was away for one night?
Even if Mu Kelian was really careless and didn't notice, what about Yan Ya? He didn't notice it either?
It's just that his words are insignificant, and he has no value and no sense of existence.
Zhuo Yun looked at her from the side and asked her if she regretted giving the bag of supplies to Mu Kelian. In her own small team, supplies were never distributed equally. Whoever found it would get it. Whoever was unwilling to work hard would have no food.
If you can't find food, you can use force or other items to exchange it, but it's impossible to do nothing and rely on being someone's boyfriend or girlfriend to divide other people's shares.
Unless his (her) lover is willing to support him (her) and save a portion from his (her) share for him (her).
That day, she went to talk to Yan Ya and did eat the bowl of instant noodles that Yan Ya gave her, but she also gave him two sausages in return.
The situation of Yan Ya's group was different. Perhaps because Yan Ya felt that he was the leader and should enjoy privileges, the things found by the group were always divided equally - even if Mu Kelian had never contributed anything.
This was also the reason why Zhuo Yun had never opened up to the other party even though they had been working together all the way.
Shen Qiu raised her head and shook it at Zhuo Yun.
There was nothing to regret about what she had given. Maybe she had always known what kind of person Mu Kelian was, but in the past peaceful times, no one was perfect, and she herself was not a perfect person either. As long as it was not a matter of life and death, she didn't care about it.
But now it is the end of the world, and in the context of life and death, no one can always be the giver...
Shen Qiu left her usual mattress and quilt to Mu Kelian. That night, she still slept uneasily and woke up before dawn. She used the newly found mouthwash to exchange a bottle of snow water that she had saved before closing the bottle, and carefully held it in her mouth for a long time before spitting it out.
The cool mint taste remained in her mouth, which made her feel better.
She walked to the window habitually to observe the growth of the plants outside, but her sight soon stopped.
Shen Qiu rubbed her eyes and looked down again, about ten floors high... What is that?
**
Fan Qi got up very early, but when she went downstairs, she found that her daughter was already awake. She was still wearing pajamas, sitting cross-legged in front of the French window in the living room, looking down as if teasing something.
What teasing?
Fan Qi had already passed the living room and was about to go to the kitchen, but she noticed something moving in the corner of her eyes, and she was startled and walked back.
On the clean wooden floor of the simulated apartment, a green bean sprout was dancing left and right.
Fan Qi: ! !
"Mom, this is a mutant rose seedling. It's still small and needs to stay in the soil for a few hours every day. After breakfast, let's plant it on the terrace."
You Xi let the rose seedling jump into her palm, then walked to Fan Qi and let the seedling rub against her sleeves and the back of her hand, remembering her breath.
Fan Qi: ...
"By the way, in addition to the pot and soil, you have to prepare a bucket of water for it, so that it can wash the soil off the roots after planting itself, so as not to step on it everywhere in the house..."
Youxi planned to simply mark out a small pet area, where it can plant itself, where it can wash itself, and where it can place a highly absorbent towel for it to wipe its roots dry. However, this step must be taught to it several times. Seeing its happy appearance, I don't know if it can remember it...
Fan Qi was stunned for a long time before she remembered that her daughter had plant powers: "Okay, Mom will make breakfast first, what do you want to eat?"
"Let's have beef, offal and vermicelli soup. We all like it. I put away the pot of beef bone soup we drank earlier, and there is still half of it left. I also have some chopped beef and offal here, so I'll add some vermicelli to make the soup, and I'll fry some scallion pancakes."
You Xi hadn't slept all night, but she didn't look sleepy. She put the rose seedlings on the floor and went to the kitchen with Fan Qi.
A moment later, You Feng's exclamation came from the living room: "This bean sprout can move!?"
Fan Qi sprinkled green onions into the soup pot and laughed: "Your father's aesthetic taste is still something. It looks no different from a pet. How about giving it a name, bean sprout?"
You Xi: ...
Just like that, because of the appearance of "bean sprout", You Xi's parents did not immediately notice the changes in a certain part of the building. It was not until after breakfast that the three of them stepped onto the terrace and prepared to make a pet area for bean sprouts that You Feng saw something connecting this building and another shorter building opposite.
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