Chapter 085 Zombie Apocalypse 23
The stone pavement at the main entrance of the super supermarket was broken into pieces, revealing the soil underneath. On the left, a clump of Venus flytraps and another clump of pitcher plants took root.
Walking through the gate destroyed by alien plants, the plants inside also warmly welcomed Lu Xizhou.
Lu Xizhou: “…”
He didn't dare leave.
The small clips and cages at home are of normal size, mini and cute. When I talk to and touch them, I don’t feel anything strange about them.
When Xie Yunsui warned him that there were Venus flytraps and pitcher plants bigger than humans out there, Lu Xizhou was mentally prepared.
But it’s everywhere!
This is really scary.
Lu Xizhou didn't even dare to touch them. He leaned carefully against Xie Yunsui and looked at them vigilantly.
Flytrap: Heartbreak.
Nepenthes: Tears.
Xie Yunsui looked sideways at him and said, "Don't be afraid. They just want to be close to you."
Lu Xizhou clutched his clothes tightly: "...Why are there so many?"
"Because you are raising them." Xie Yunsui felt that there was nothing to hide.
Lu Xizhou was stunned: "Me?"
Xie Yunsui said gently, "I've mentioned to you before that this world has changed drastically, and these alien plants are one of them."
At that time, no one knew how much Xiaoxi knew about the changes in the world. Xie Yunsui only revealed some strangeness in a few words in the note.
He was anxious to take Xiaoxi out because he also wanted him to understand more about the current world.
"The two pots of grass you raised have mutated. Relying on the energy you gave them, they've grown and expanded, taking over the entire central district. The houses you saw along the way are all filled with them."
"B-but I..."
"This isn't a bad thing." Xie Yunsui pushed aside a pitcher plant and walked forward with Lu Xizhou. He continued, "For you, this is actually a good thing."
Lu Xizhou was silent for a moment, and saw that all the shelves in the supermarket were tilted by the alien plants, and the goods on the shelves were scattered all over the floor.
If it weren't for these mutated plants, perhaps this food would have been taken away by people and would not have been wasted.
As soon as he frowned, he knew he was thinking too much again. Xie Yunsui couldn't help but rub the top of his head to disrupt his thoughts.
"Don't take all the blame on yourself. You woke up in the third month of the apocalypse. In those three months, everyone who should have come has already come, and everything that should have been taken has been taken away. What couldn't be taken away has basically rotted away."
Lu Xizhou is not stupid, he just stayed at home for too long and couldn't keep up with the changes. He figured it out after thinking about it carefully.
When things really get to the point of being at the end of their rope, no matter whether they are mutant plants or not, people will cut down and eat the Venus flytraps and pitcher plants if they are extremely hungry.
To put it bluntly, these supplies are left here because everyone has other options.
Then he has no need to feel guilty.
Lu Xizhou breathed a sigh of relief.
The fresh meat area, dessert area, and fruit area were all occupied. Fortunately, the alien plants here had some ability to purify the air (?), so the smell was not obvious. The two quickened their pace and moved to the next area.
"These cookies should still be edible." Lu Xizhou quickly stepped forward and picked up a large box.
This is a combination pack, the plus version of daily packaging. After unpacking, it actually contains eight or ten packs of daily portions.
Xie Yunsui got a box of butter biscuits on the other side. The packaging said "crispy and crunchy, no extra price for more quantity". It looked like they tasted pretty good?
Lu Xizhou noticed it with his sharp eyes and reminded: "This is not tasty."
He was deceived by the slogan. Thinking back to the fear of being dominated by this cookie, he would rather sleep for a whole day than eat two bites of this cookie.
But Xie Yunsui did not let go of these: "I will sell them to others to eat later." At most, it will be cheaper.
The two of them worked together to find intact supplies in there, and their movements were very quick. Basically, they just needed to find items that were well packaged and still within the validity period. Then Xie Yunsui put them directly into the space.
Boxes of cookies, bags of candy, jars of nuts, boxes of chocolate...
The next shelf area is the rice and noodle area, where all the rice and noodles sold are high-quality rice and noodles. However, the outer packaging is often scratched by the thorns of the Venus flytrap, and the rice and noodles exposed to the air have deteriorated and become moldy.
What a pity, Lu Xizhou tried his best to find those with intact packaging.
Then they came to the shelf of barreled cooking oil, where pitcher plants were crammed one after another. Seeing Lu Xizhou coming, they happily shook their stems and leaves, banging the crooked shelves loudly, and then accidentally knocked two barrels of oil into the cages...
“Don’t push!”
Lu Xizhou struggled to maintain order among the grasses. Seeing more and more oil barrels rolling out of the pig cage, Lu Xizhou was anxious and simply pulled out the stems and leaves and turned the pig cage upside down in an attempt to save the oil barrels.
"Be careful." Xie Yunsui pulled the man over to avoid the digestive fluid in the pig cage.
A piece of digestive fluid fell on the floor, making a "hissing" corrosive sound.
Lu Xizhou also saw that those oil drums disappeared in the digestive fluid in no more than three seconds.
“What a waste again…” Lu Xizhou slapped the pitcher plant angrily and said, “Go away!”
You can't leave, your roots are here, and you can't just pull them out and run away.
Nepenthes: Otherwise I will just die in front of you.
This patch of pitcher plants instantly turned black, rotted and shrank until they shrank into a ball. In an instant, half of the supermarket was empty.
Xie Yunsui's eyes suddenly became clear.
Lu Xizhou was silent for a moment and looked at his hands.
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In the evening, Lu Xizhou sat on the small balcony, looking at two pots of grass.
A pot of Venus flytrap, with a small clip the size of a shell, and the stems and leaves are so tender that they seem to break with a pinch.
A pot of pitcher plants, with a small cage filled with water hanging from the top of the leaves.
It's so small, how could it be the same as the mutated plants outside?
Lu Xizhou reached out and touched it. The two pots of grass were swaying without any wind, their stems and leaves swaying.
Xie Yunsui said that "raising" them is not about how much water you give them, but how much energy you give them.
energy……
How could he be a healing psychic? He clearly looks more like a planter, right?
Lu Xizhou picked up the knife next to him, gestured twice, and then cut open the clamp of a Venus flytrap.
"Huh?" It can't be cut open.
He changed the pitcher plant, put the tip of the knife against the pitcher, and tried to poke a hole in it... but he couldn't.
Lu Xizhou tried his best, even digging up the soil, but he couldn't make a single scratch on the two seemingly weak pots of grass.
The skin is really thick...
The roots are exposed. Logically speaking, if they are left like this, the grass in these two pots will die in just half a day.
Lu Xizhou thought about it and went back to his room to prepare for bed.
The next morning, Lu Xizhou went to the small balcony first.
The two grasses had somehow switched places, their roots clinging to the scattered dirt, pretending to be still in the pot. The small clip and cage were swaying in the wind...
No matter how much he didn't want to believe it, the facts were right in front of him. His two pots of grass really had mutated...
It obviously looks different from those big guys outside. What went wrong?
Xie Yunsui said that these two plants were able to control themselves from growing in size, which must be a bit of a skill.
He asked Xiaoxi to take good care of the two pots of grass, and then took his men out again.
"I want to clear out this entire block. I'm not going to care about the shops on the street yet. I need to clear out these residential buildings first. I'm afraid they'll collapse after a while."
"It's better to leave the roadside clear, otherwise it will be inconvenient to walk. They can just grow in the green belt."
"By the way, I leave two Venus flytraps in front of my store. I sometimes throw away trash there."
Lu Xizhou's eyes lit up: "Is this your convenience store?"
The small convenience store is completely surrounded by Venus flytraps. It doesn't look big, but when you look inside through the glass door, it is clean and tidy.
"Go in and take a look?"
As soon as Lu Xizhou entered the store, he heard a happy child's voice coming from above the door: "Welcome~"
Looking up, I saw a small mechanical bee with a cold glow on its shell, giving it a very mechanical feel.
"Its name is Tiantian. She is my partner, monitor and security guard," Xie Yunsui introduced.
Lu Xizhou was curious: "Is this also a mutated creature?"
Xie Yunsui: "I guess so."
He then pointed to the obvious trash can in the corner and said, "It's called Youyou. It's my little housekeeper, responsible for cleaning and taking out the trash."
Lu Xizhou nodded, still a little puzzled. Shouldn't cleaning up the garbage be included in the scope of cleaning?
It was not until one day later when he saw Youyou trying to put a garbage mutant into the garbage bin that he realized the necessity of this classification.
At this time, Lu Xizhou treated it as a real trash can because it looked cute and was cylindrical in shape. He even reached out and touched it.
Feeling the transfer of energy, Youyou erected a light screen: ^-^
Xie Yunsui quickly stopped him: "Don't touch it, you'll be hungry again later."
Lu Xizhou: "Oh."
He began to tour the small convenience store, which was just as he remembered.
If he had never been out, this convenience store would not have caught his attention. However, he had just seen the ruined city yesterday, where even such a large supermarket was in ruins. So such a bright and still operating small store was obviously special.
Xie Yunsui couldn't help but smile when he saw him looking through the shelves one by one and actually selecting products.
It’s no wonder that he renovated the store overnight last night!
Originally, considering the current social environment, Xie Yunsui only put basic living supplies on the shelves, including food, drinking water, daily necessities, medical products, weapons and other daily necessities. He made a good convenience store look like a grocery store, and now it is more like the convenience store in people's memory.
Lu Xizhou was carrying a small shopping basket. He picked up a pack of plum cakes, two packs of braised chicken feet, and durian-flavored potato chips? I'd never tried them before, so I'd take a box.
Turning around, there was a small cold cabinet. The brands of cold milk and yogurt on the upper shelf were unfamiliar to Lu Xizhou, so he just took a bottle of yogurt for the sake of courtesy.
Looking down, the second row is filled with various styles of rice balls. He likes the tuna triangle rice balls!
Below are ready-made cold dishes, cold noodles, salted peanuts, drunken shrimps and other snacks. Lu Xizhou's mouth is watering just by looking at them, and he really wants to eat them!
A serving of spicy hand-shredded chicken alone took up half of the shopping cart. Lu Xizhou hardened his heart and only took one serving, eating it first and then coming back for more.
There is also a freezer in the corner, which contains more than a dozen flavors of ice cream and cold drinks, all of which are unfamiliar brands.
Lu Xizhou selected his troops and chose a vanilla chocolate crispy popping pearl ice cream.
Seeing that it was almost done, Lu Xizhou came to the cashier counter, but suddenly he couldn't walk anymore.
The cash register table is wide and long, and the cash register system only takes up a small grid. There is even a sausage grill and hot pot skewers next to it!
Just as Lu Xizhou was about to speak, he heard a voice from the door: "Grilled sausage? Is that the smell of grilled sausage?"
“Bang!”
Ji Tianyuan collapsed at the door, his legs leaving two bloody marks, but he still moved forward bravely: "Thank you, Boss. Give me two grilled sausages first, thank you."
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