Chapter 53 Chapter 53
The sunlight became increasingly dazzling. Qiao Yanrou, who was using her special powers to water the vegetables, finished watering the remaining vegetable plots. Not daring to stay there for too long, she quickly ran back to the basement.
She hummed a song while washing rice and cooking. She cooked whenever she could. There was a lot of rice in the storage space. She kept the food that had a longer storage time just in case, so that she could fill her stomach easily when she was forced to leave here for various reasons.
Qiao Yanrou had just closed the lid of the rice cooker when she heard a knock on the partition. The sound that came out of nowhere startled her and she turned around and looked up at the partition.
“Knock knock…”
The people above were still knocking. The incident happened so suddenly that Qiao Yanrou even forgot about her disguise and stood under the partition.
She climbed up the escalator and was very close to the partition. The people above knocked a few more times.
Qiao Yanrou didn’t know who the person above was. There was no sound of the car at all. Could it be... a high-level zombie with intelligence disguised as a human?
She was extremely anxious, fearing that her life would be in danger. She was about to retreat to a corner and condense water arrows to prevent zombies from breaking in.
“…Yan Rou, it’s you… isn’t it?” Ji Yuanchen’s voice clearly reached her ears through the partition.
Qiao Yanrou was stunned. The water arrows surrounding her disappeared instantly. It was... Ji Yuanchen.
Not only did he discover the basement, he also guessed that the person in the basement was her.
Qiao Yanrou stood on the escalator. She still didn't respond, although she felt bad in her heart, after all, he had been looking for her for so long.
But... she would rather continue with her current life, occasionally feeling nervous but spending most of the time in comfort.
At the basement entrance, Ji Yuanchen stood up straight, looking down at the motionless floor with a dejected look.
He stood there for a long time, so long that he forgot the time, and the basement was silent.
He understood Qiao Yanrou's choice, but he couldn't move his feet. The fingers in his trouser pockets were trembling slightly.
In order not to hinder her free entry and exit, Ji Yuanchen said to the basement: "I'm leaving." Then he moved his body that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and left.
In the basement, Qiao Yanrou was also in a heavy mood. Among these four men, the one she could never forget the most was Ji Yuanchen. Although he was also unrestrained, the romance he often created and the little details in his life for her were something the other three men did not have.
But no matter how good he is, he still can't compete with her desire to live a free and easy life, and falling in love... will always make her worried.
When Qiao Yanrou heard him say he was leaving, she looked up at the partition and said goodbye to him silently.
When she came out of the basement, it was already evening. The abandoned house was empty and Ji Yuanchen had left.
Qiao Yanrou paused for a moment. He should have noticed that she was very satisfied with her current life.
Walking into the back room, she silently watered the vegetable garden through the window. Although her mind was full of memories of Ji Yuanchen, it did not waver in her decision.
Ji Yuanchen stood next to the big tree and saw her watering the vegetable garden through the window. A smile appeared involuntarily in his eyes. As long as she was still safe and alive, it was more important than anything else.
He was guarding her in the dark, that was enough.
Qiao Yanrou thought Ji Yuanchen had left and was somewhat depressed. It was not because of his departure, but because Ji Yuanchen had been looking for her for so long but she could not respond to his feelings.
After being depressed for about two days, she returned to her previous leisurely state, going up and down the abandoned house every day, busying herself with the vegetables in the vegetable garden, and spending the rest of her free time reading in the basement.
After half a month, Qiao Yanrou found that she was becoming more and more lazy the more she lay down, so she decided to get up and exercise every morning.
The next morning, after washing up, she went back to the basement to exercise, doing sit-ups and various exercises.
Maybe the basement was a bit stuffy, and she felt a little out of breath after exercising. She quickly walked out of the basement to breathe fresh air. It seemed necessary to find an open place to exercise, as the basement was too stuffy.
Qiao Yanrou was panting and no longer sweating. She went into the bathroom to wash up and change her clothes.
She used her special powers to wash the clothes until no water could be wrung out, then hung them on the clothesline in a room that could be used to water the vegetable garden. The sun was strong here, so she usually hung the clothes here until they were half dry, then took them back to the basement to hang them there, and they would dry quickly.
Ji Yuanchen was standing on a big tree eating bread, watching her hang up the clothes. He noticed some movement in the grass not far away. He ate the rest of the bread in one gulp. The packaging bag turned into ashes in the air. Then his tall figure jumped down from the tree and walked towards the grass.
Qiao Yanrou hung up the clothes, returned to the basement, and filled a bowl of slightly warm vegetable porridge.
She was not used to eating food that was too hot because it would hurt her esophagus. In this apocalyptic world, there were only scarce healing techniques and no hospitals, so she could only try her best to protect her body.
After drinking the vegetable porridge, he sat on the bed, took out a book and read it slowly.
The light reflected on her beautiful profile, soft, quiet and beautiful.
I feel a little tired after exercise, especially after reading for a while, I feel sleepy.
Qiao Yanrou closed the book in a daze, put it aside, and lay down on the bed to sleep for a while.
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