I strained my back without warning, and it hurts to walk now.
The little girl tilted her head and smiled as she looked Zhang Xiaojuan up and down, then playfully stuck out her tongue. "I told you to get out of the way, is it my fault that you were slow to react?"
"Luckily you ran into me and Piggy, otherwise you would have been eaten by the swamp beast. That thing is very fierce!"
The little girl's smile faded, and her face tightened as she reminded them, "These swamp beasts can't be cut by knives or burned to death; only carrion pigs are their natural enemies."
"Carrion pig? A new variant after the apocalypse?" Sun Tiantian looked at the fat wild boar behind the little girl, who was so full she couldn't stand up, and pursed her lips awkwardly.
This thing doesn't look very smart at all...
The little girl followed Sun Tiantian's gaze and glanced back. Her face immediately flushed with embarrassment, and she struggled to hug the scavenging pig's large head, trying to help it stand up.
But the carrion-eating pig was determined to stay on the ground, and no matter how the little girl tried to drag it, it just lay there lazily, panting.
"How come you don't know anything?"
Finally, unable to drag it any further, the little girl resigned herself to sitting on the carrion pig's rear end, staring at Lu Sheng and the others with a look of astonishment.
"There are dead bodies everywhere, and the swamp beasts have been rampant for more than half a month. The pigs also started mutating at the same time."
Lu Sheng and the others exchanged glances.
For the past two weeks, they've been slacking off at the base, their only outing being to Oasis Group, so they haven't had any chance to learn about the new changes in the outside world.
"My name is Qi Yue, what about you?" The little girl's eyes were kind and full of curiosity.
In the apocalypse, most of the people she saw were struggling to survive and looked disheveled; very few were as clean and tidy as Lu Sheng and her group.
Before Lu Sheng and the others could answer, a series of sputtering sounds came from behind them.
The group looked in the direction of the sound and saw a large convoy of lawnmowers driving towards them.
"My uncle is here. Where are you going? I'll give you a ride." Qi Yue greeted Lu Sheng and the others warmly, then waved vigorously at the lawnmower team.
Lu Sheng and the others: "..."
Have Shandong Lanxiang's excavator team dug all the way to Beijing?
"Uncle! They're trapped here by swamp beasts, shall we take them with us?"
Qi Yue dragged herself a few steps with difficulty, clutching the pig's ear, and called out breathlessly to the man leading the lawnmower team.
The apocalypse has been going on for some time now, and most people are too busy taking care of themselves to encounter someone as enthusiastic as Qi Yue.
A robust middle-aged man jumped off the lawnmower. He bore a resemblance to Qi Yue in appearance and had a similarly healthy and simple look.
"My name is Qi Peng, you can call me Pengzi."
Qi Peng has an honest appearance and speaks with a strong, resonant voice.
"No, we can walk by ourselves."
Lu Sheng politely thanked Qi Yue for her kindness. Just as the group was about to drive away, they discovered that the front of the car had been completely corroded by the swamp beast.
Qi Peng, ever the familiar type, squatted down to inspect the vehicle, then stood up and dusted off his hands. "Have you guys been out for a while? The mutated plants are growing like crazy now; your kind of car won't last very long before it breaks down."
"What kind of car can I drive?" Han Rui asked impatiently.
"See? We've converted lawnmowers into passenger vehicles now; regular cars can't be driven on the road anymore." Qi Peng smiled憨厚ly and pointed to the four lawnmowers behind him that had been converted into small tanks.
Lu Sheng and the others wanted to refuse, but the car couldn't move, and if they were stuck here, they didn't know what kind of monsters they would encounter.
"My uncle is amazing. He has the ability to modify machines. He can modify any kind of machinery."
Qi Yue's accent had a slight regional flavor, and she grabbed Lu Sheng and the others, pulling them toward the lawnmower.
The dozen or so people in the lawnmower team were mostly strong and fit men who had worked in agriculture for many years. They waved to Lu Sheng and the others in a friendly manner from afar.
“It must belong to a family farming in a neighboring province. This lawnmower was allocated to the collective agriculture by the government,” Zhang Xiaojuan said in a low voice, pointing to the inspection mark in the corner as she got on the modified lawnmower.
The working people are relatively simple and warm-hearted. At the moment, Lu Sheng and her group had no better way to leave, so they could only stay put and temporarily leave with Qi Yue's group.
"We're going to the K3 base. Where are you going? We can give you a ride along the way."
Qi Yue chattered incessantly around Lu Sheng like a little sparrow.
"You're going to K3 too?" Lu Sheng frowned slightly, his gaze towards Qi Yue becoming more inquisitive.
What is a team of lawnmowers, composed entirely of farmers, going to the K3 base for?
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