Chapter 125 Raising Little Zombies in the Doomsday 9 Trying to Save a Dead Horse
After transferring his supernatural powers to He Ruibei, and seeing that he had no adverse reactions, Shen Qian gave him a few simple instructions and took his son back to his own courtyard.
Now we can only live in a trailer, and the environment is indeed a bit simple, but fortunately there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
Shen Qian had a lot of questions after finding his son. Just when he was about to ask him, he saw the little zombie was in a playful mood and started digging the soil in the corner of the yard as soon as he got home.
But after he had planed twice, he found that it was difficult to operate with gloves on, and the gloves his mother gave him could not be dirty.
The little zombie wanted to take off the gloves with a distressed look on his face, but then he became conflicted. These were put on him by his mother, and his mother didn’t let him take them off, so could he take them off?
He turned around and happened to meet his mother's eyes. He raised his hand and shook the half-removed gloves: "Woo-ji?"
Chen Qian also understood what he meant. She walked over and took off his gloves with her own hands, patted the dirt off them, and put them aside: "You can only take off your gloves when you are at home and there are no outsiders around. You must remember to wear them at other times. Do you understand?"
Lu Zai'an hurriedly said: "Wooah!"
After taking off his gloves, his long and sharp nails were revealed. Lu Zai'an dug the soil very quickly and dug a big hole in the ground in just a few strokes.
Shen Qian: “…”
"What are you going to do?" Shen Qian asked, squatting beside him.
Lu Zai'an put the small grass seedlings he brought back in, and then covered it with soil.
Shen Qian held his forehead helplessly: "This is not the way to plant it. The hole you dug is almost big enough to bury yourself. The grass won't survive this way."
"Aunt?"
Shen Qian saw the embarrassed yet curious look on the little zombie's face, so he helped him fill the soil back.
While digging a new hole, he patiently introduced: "This is a Chinese herb called Polygala tenuifolia, also known as Immortal Vine. It has antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects. If you can grow it alive, maybe it can help some patients."
“Ahhh!”
The little zombie understood what she said and howled excitedly.
Shen Qian said helplessly: "It's okay for you to yell like this at home, but remember to shut up when you go out. Your yelling is scary..."
She saw the child's excited eyes dim again and look aggrieved, and she felt a little reluctant.
At this moment, the child did not look like a zombie at all. Shen Qian reached out and touched his head: "Mom was wrong. I shouldn't have said that. I apologize to you..."
The child's eyes suddenly lit up, as if burned by some warm memory. His whole body seemed to be frozen, staring blankly at Chen Qian.
Shen Qian also noticed his reaction and did not move away. She placed her hand on the top of his head and gently ruffled his hair.
The child's hair hadn't changed much, it was still soft to the touch, a little messy, but it made Shen Qian's heart soften.
Lu Zai'an didn't dare to move, his eyelashes trembled.
When his mother's movements gradually stopped and her hand was about to be taken away, he let out an "ah" and actively put his head against it, rubbing it against Shen Qian's hand that was about to leave.
Shen Qian's nose suddenly felt sore. This child must not have been touched by anyone for a long time after he turned into a zombie.
He still retains his old memories, so how miserable, lonely and scared he must be.
She stroked her son's head patiently and said, "Okay, I'll help you wash your hair and take a bath later. Now let's plant this Polygala together, okay?"
Lu Zai'an nodded obediently, then finally squatted straight and let his mother demonstrate how to plant.
When we first moved in, we didn’t have any suitable tools, so we could only dig the soil with our hands, just like our son did.
"The soil needs to be loose and not compacted. This way water can seep in and the roots can breathe."
The little zombie squatted aside, hugging his knees with his hands, watching her movements with bright eyes, like a kitten listening to the class obediently.
Seeing his mother digging the hole and picking out the surrounding stones and weeds one by one, he immediately came forward and moved his hands quickly and violently, accidentally digging out a whole piece of soil.
He let go in embarrassment, and finally behaved himself and filled the soil back.
After Chen Qian finished planting the plants, he found a sealed barrel of water from the collapsed shed. After purifying it, he went to a water source at a designated location to fill it with water. After purifying it with his purification ability, he sprinkled some water next to the newly planted plants.
"Don't water too much, or the roots of the seedlings will rot. This is fine."
Nowadays, no one is willing to grow plants by themselves because drinking unpurified water directly may cause the risk of infection with the zombie virus, and growing plants may also produce mutant plants with deadly toxins or aggressiveness.
Chen Qian was upgraded to level 3, and his recovery speed was very fast after using his supernatural power. Now purifying the water was a piece of cake.
No wonder Xu Yingshuang tried every possible way to upgrade her level. The improvement from level 2 to level 3 is simply too huge.
At this time, Lu Zai'an was circling around the newly planted Polygala tenuifolia, not knowing how to take care of it.
Shen Qian couldn't help but laugh. He never thought that the little zombie actually liked plants.
She casually instructed, "From now on, this Polygala tenuifolia will be left to you to take care of. But be careful not to water it too much."
"Aang woo!"
Shen Qian felt that if his son had a tail, it would be wagging into the sky by now.
After planting the Polygala tenuifolia, Lu Zai'an was covered in dirt, so Chen Qian took him to take a bath.
There was a simple toilet in the trailer, but the gray water tank had to be cleaned after washing. Chen Qian was too lazy to do it, so he suggested that his son just rinse outside the trailer.
“Woo…”
The little zombie was still a little shy, but he couldn't resist his mother who stripped him clean in no time. He could only stand there obediently and let his mother wash him.
After rinsing him clean, Chen Qian gave him a bath towel and asked him to wipe himself clean. He then took a large thin blanket from the trailer and asked him to wrap himself in it.
So Lu Zai'an wrapped himself tightly from head to toe, looking like a little animal, which made Shen Qian laugh.
Since the mother and son had just moved here, Shen Qian didn't have time to go out to find clean clothes for her son. It was already late at night, so Shen Qian just washed his dirty clothes.
Before washing, she found an old photo from the child's trouser pocket, which turned out to be a family portrait of three people.
In the photo, the original owner was holding Lu Zai'an, who looked like a young child, with a man standing beside him.
From the vague memories in her mind, she could tell that this man was the original owner's ex-husband.
This belonged to the original owner's past and had nothing to do with her, so Shen Qian returned the photo to her son.
Lu Zai'an took the photo and found a small, convenient drawer in the trailer to put it away.
When Shen Qian was washing clothes, she found that although the child's clothes were a little dirty, they were not torn at all, and they must have been changed regularly.
She thought of another detail. If the child turned into a zombie when the apocalypse began three years ago, he should still be the size of a 4 or 5-year-old now, because zombies don't grow.
But now my son looks no different from a school-age child, probably around 7 years old. Could it be that he has not been a zombie for long?
As soon as this thought came to mind, Shen Qian immediately rejected it. If Lu Zai'an had just become a zombie not long ago, how did he survive for such a long time after entering the apocalypse?
After the original owner divorced her ex-husband, the child should have lived with her ex-husband and his parents, but those two residences seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time. After the world entered the apocalypse, many people were infected with the virus and died in the first place. The original book did not mention their whereabouts, so Shen Qian speculated that they should have died early.
Otherwise, how could he have the heart to abandon such a young child and escape alone?
Of course, there is another possibility. Someone has been taking care of Lu Zai'an during this period of time, maybe another relative or friend, or maybe a stranger, so the child was able to grow up to the age of seven before turning into a zombie.
With doubts, Shen Qian came to the trailer and wanted to ask Lu Zai'an, but he didn't expect that the child fell asleep directly on the ground wrapped in a thin blanket. He looked thin and small, wrapped himself tightly in the thin blanket, curled up into a ball, like an insecure little animal.
Shen Qian couldn't bear to wake him up, so she didn't bother asking any further questions. After all, what did it matter how the child had lived before? She had already found him.
[Host, I still need to remind you that you have no quests in this world, nor do you have cheat codes. If you intend to keep this little zombie around, you won't receive any points at the end of this world.]
The system gave a very "considerate" reminder.
"I understand." Shen Qian replied indifferently.
In fact, Shen Qian hadn't figured out what to do next. The only thing she was sure of was that she couldn't abandon the little zombie at this time.
He is not an ordinary zombie. He has memory, reason, reactions and emotions that a human should have.
What is the difference between him and an ordinary child?
Since he has come to this world, even if there is no golden finger and task rewards, Shen Qian will accept it. At most, it will delay him for a while.
As for how long he would accompany him, Shen Qian had no time to consider this matter. Zombies would not grow up, which meant that the little zombie would always remain at the age of seven.
Maybe... one day his body will not be able to withstand more purification power and will dissipate, welcoming true death. Maybe by that time, Shen Qian will be able to leave, but at this moment she is completely unwilling to think about that scene.
Chen Qian ate some dry food from his backpack and went to sleep in a small room separated from the trailer.
That night, Shen Qian did not sleep well. She woke up in the middle of the night and quickly got up and went out to check.
Lu Zai'an was still curled up in the corner wrapped in a blanket, but he looked a little painful and seemed to be "sick".
Shen Qian knew that zombies could not get sick, but the child's face changed from pale to blue-gray, and after a while, the dark blood vessels and corpse spots on his neck appeared again.
Shen Qian felt uneasy and took his pulse. She found that there seemed to be a kind of energy running wild in his body. She hurriedly injected him with purification power.
However, this time the input was not smooth and the resistance encountered was even greater than the first time. The child began to twist his body in pain, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Shen Qian soon discovered that this was not feasible.
Perhaps there is a limit to the amount of purification power a zombie's body can withstand every day.
But apart from purifying the superpowers, is there any other way to help him?
Chen Qian thought quickly and took out two mid-level crystal cores from her backpack. These were obtained when she was carrying out the mission with the action team during the day. Since they were not purification crystal cores, she had originally kept them to sell them for supplies when she returned to the survival base. Now she had to give it a try.
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