Compared to the spicy Sichuan hot pot, Xuanqing definitely prefers the mellow flavor of copper pot hot pot!
Mainly, he loves the seafood inside, especially the plump oysters brimming with broth and the tender, springy shrimp. He doesn't even need any sauce; he thinks they're incredibly delicious on their own!
Almost one and a half of the two large plates of oysters that Zuli prepared ended up in Xuanqing's stomach!
At night, Zuli hung a string of small nightlights under the crabapple tree. The bulbs were not very bright, and the light cast a dim, shadowy glow under the cover of the crabapple leaves.
Su Li lay on a rocking chair under a tree, covered with a blanket. A small stove was lit next to her, with a pot of hot tea boiling on it. Two sweet potatoes were roasting beside her, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of a hearty tea gathering.
The temperature was even cooler tonight. Su Li wore a fleece-lined thermal underwear and a cotton vest over it, and only felt warm from the stove next to her.
The tranquility was rare, and the air at the mountaintop was quite fresh, so she didn't want to go inside.
The sky above was dark but filled with twinkling stars; the apocalypse on Earth was just a tiny, insignificant event in the vast universe.
Occasionally, noises from mutated animals and zombies could be heard around the villa. Thanks to Xuan Qing's cleanup efforts over the past few days, there were far fewer mutated creatures in the mountaintop village.
Even now, when Zuli turns on bright lights at night, the number of mutated creatures she can attract is already very small!
The crabapple tree produced by the space is larger than the trees before the apocalypse, but still smaller than the mutated trees. Among the layers of leaves, a light-colored flower bud can be vaguely seen.
The current weather is not suitable for crabapple trees to bloom, but the existence of the mutated plant makes the existence of these flower buds not special.
Su Li lay on the rocking chair, drowsy from the hot stove, unaware that above her head, the cat demon, whom she had long regarded as a pet, was undergoing a tremendous change!
The moonlight was like water.
Xuan Qing was hiding on the thickest branch of the crabapple tree. The dense foliage blocked the silvery moonlight and concealed his snow-white body in darkness.
But silvery light always falls through the gaps, illuminating that exquisitely handsome face, as if it were a work of art.
It was a face so exquisite it was almost bewitching. On the young man's face, there were sharp, long eyebrows that reached his temples, and in his glass-like eyes, blue starlight shone brightly, and as he turned, it seemed as if a vast ocean was surging!
A pair of black triangular ears stood atop his long, jet-black hair, twitching occasionally. The hair cascaded down, covering the boy's naked body up to his waist. There, a long black tail hung down from the tree trunk, its tip slightly upturned.
Xuanqing was half-squatting on the tree trunk. He glanced down at his naked body, and after a while, he retracted his long cat tail, passing it between his legs behind his buttocks and extending it to the front, with the tip of the tail half-circling around his waist, attempting to cover certain private parts.
A black cat tail wrapped around snow-white skin, the ink-wash painting and the deep white contrasting, creating a strong visual effect that exudes a sensual and ambiguous atmosphere, but unfortunately no one saw it at the moment.
Xuanqing did not rush back to the villa to find a piece of clothing to cover his body, because he could feel that the vital energy in his body was still unstable.
But soon, perhaps in a day or three days, his ears and tail will be able to retract!
The boy looked at the girl under the tree. At that moment, the girl sat up, picked up a sweet potato roasting next to the teapot, and slowly peeled it.
Xuan Qing's aquamarine eyes lit up. The next second, he pushed off the tree trunk with his feet and fell headfirst down the tree. Just as his body was about to fall into the girl's sight, a soft light flashed, and the black cat landed steadily in the girl's arms!
Su Li frantically steadied the cat that suddenly flew down from above her head, then looked at him speechlessly:
"Can't you at least tell me before you suddenly appear? You almost startled my sweet potato so much I dropped it on the ground!"
Xuan Qing ignored Su Li's complaints, keeping his eyes fixed on the sweet potato in Su Li's hand ever since he jumped down.
"I want one too."
Su Li glared at him, annoyed: "I know!"
After saying that, he still placed the peeled sweet potato in front of Xuanqing.
There were two roasted sweet potatoes in total. One person and one cat each ate one. The warm sweet potatoes warmed up our whole bodies.
After finishing their sweet potato supper, Su Li finally got up, extinguished the fire, and took Xuan Qing back to the villa to wash up and go to bed.
The bed in the master bedroom of the villa has been replaced by a two-meter by two-meter double bed by Su Li. Now that she has settled down, all the furnishings in the house can be arranged according to her wishes!
As night deepened, the girl lying in the middle of the large bed had fallen into a deep sleep.
The heavy curtains in the room were drawn, completely blocking out the moonlight from outside.
If there were any light at that moment, you would see that the bed sheet next to the girl suddenly began to sink!
A pair of long, slender, and strong legs stretched out, and then the lean and wiry boy suddenly sat up from the bed.
His movements were extremely light. The dark green thin blanket slipped down from his waist, revealing an inverted triangle waist that seemed completely out of place with the boy's delicate face. His abdominal muscles were firm and his skin was smooth, making people want to reach out and touch it just by looking at it!
Xuan Qing turned around and glanced at Su Li, who was still fast asleep.
The girl was sleeping soundly, her breathing even.
He looked at her, then suddenly leaned slightly towards her, his long, ink-like hair falling over his shoulders, with two strands deliberately landing on her face.
He watched as Su Li's dark eyebrows furrowed, and after a long while, just before she was about to wake up, he chuckled softly and then gently blew a breath onto the girl's face.
In just a moment, the girl who was about to wake up fell into a deep sleep again!
The pitch-black night did not affect Xuan Qing's vision. He walked to Su Li's bathroom with ease and pulled out a bath towel to wrap around himself.
There was no other way; no one had ever considered that a man would stay in Su Li's villa, so this was the only thing he could find to cover himself with!
Tonight is a full moon night, and the spiritual energy on the mountain gathers at night, making it an ideal time for cultivation.
Although the spiritual energy in this world is much thinner than that in Xuanqing's original world, it is still more concentrated at their location on the mountaintop compared to other places.
Xuanqing came out of the villa, looked around, and finally used magic to fly to the roof of the villa and sat down cross-legged.
This sitting continued from the pitch-black night to the first light of dawn.
Su Li felt that she had slept exceptionally well.
She got out of bed, stretched, and walked to the window, slightly opening the curtains a crack.
It was bright outside, and it was already eight o'clock in the morning.
Perhaps people really are inherently lazy. Su Li felt that after being in this world for so many days, her biological clock from when she was in the army had been completely disrupted.
Even her vigilance sometimes relaxed a lot because Xuanqing was there!
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