Chapter 23

Xiaohua was already dazed from being kissed so much, and when she suddenly heard Shenyuan's question, she couldn't react for a while.

"Lingling, do you want a wedding?" Shi Changyuan looked at Lin Ling and asked again.

Lin Ling got a chance to catch his breath. His empty brain first thought in surprise: Shen Yuan actually knew about the wedding?

Then the second thought was, but he doesn’t have any relatives.

"What's wrong?"

Shi Changyuan saw that Lin Ling seemed to have started to daydream, so he pinched his face to bring his thoughts back to his mind.

"Do you want it?" Lin Ling immediately dived into Shi Changyuan's arms again, subconsciously kissing him. "Human weddings invite relatives and friends, and then get everyone's witnesses and blessings, but we don't have any relatives."

"Witnesses have nothing to do with individual organisms." Shi Changyuan immediately hugged Xiaohua, who came into his arms on her own initiative. His tone was very slow and long, as if he was chanting some mysterious and ancient spell.

The abyss said, "Our witnesses are the heaven and earth, the universe, the sky, and this world."

"The world will give my little flower the best blessing."

"It's okay to hold a wedding, but don't make it too grand!" Lin Ling said subconsciously, "It's super, super tiring!"

Shi Changyuan looked at the lazy Lin Ling in his arms and smiled, "Well, it will definitely not tire Xiaohua out."

When the two had just discussed the wedding and nothing was finalized, within a few days it seemed as if the whole world knew about it and sent congratulatory messages one after another.

Especially Mo Cheng, after she found out, she called Xiaohua and said that Xiaohua and Shenyuan could come to attend a human wedding, today just in time, to feel the atmosphere and learn from the experience.

"There will be many small cakes at the wedding, and the bride is Xiaohua's favorite cartoonist. Xiaohua may want to ask about her new works."

After the human base was established, in order to ease everyone's tension about the end of the world, the base promoted many cartoonists with healing styles, and Lin Ling, who had just transformed, was immediately touched by them.

Lin Ling's eyes lit up, and just as he opened his mouth, before he could utter the word "wow", Shi Changyuan suddenly appeared beside Lin Ling and spoke in a sinister tone.

"…What does Xiaohua like the most?"

"Xiaohua doesn't like me the most?"

When the human saw the sour taste coming towards them and realized that something was not right, they quickly hung up the call, leaving Xiaohua alone to face the deep jealousy.

"No, no, that's not the case." Lin Ling waved his hands quickly, "This liking is not the same as liking you."

"What's the difference?"

Lin Ling looked at Shi Changyuan who kept asking questions and felt a little curious. So this is called jealousy?

He thought about it, then stood on tiptoe, put his arms around Shi Changyuan's neck, kissed him, and said, "I like you, I want to kiss you, hug you, and be with you forever. But as for that cartoonist, I just want to meet him at most."

“And, and…”

Lin Ling racked his brains and tried very seriously to figure out this problem.

"What I like about The Abyss is that I like it when you stand here, and I don't need to do anything. But if that cartoonist stops drawing, or her drawings are not good, I won't like it."

Shi Changyuan looked at Xiaohua, whose eyes were full of seriousness. Every word she said was like a little hook tugging at his heart.

He held Xiaohua's face and kissed her brow tenderly.

"My favorite is Xiaohua. Apart from Xiaohua, I don't like anything else."

The abyss gave Lin Ling his only preference.

Lin Ling was just trying to coax his jealous boyfriend when he was caught off guard by this sudden and blunt confession. He responded subconsciously.

"Me too."

Xiaohua blinked and said according to the logic of the Abyss, "Because the Abyss was born in this world, I like this world and many things in this world."

"If the Abyss ceases to exist someday, I won't like it anymore."

"So, don't be angry, let's go to the wedding together." Xiaohua immediately hung on Shi Changyuan and directed Shenyuan to go out and head to the wedding venue.

Shi Changyuan and Lin Ling did not wear anything particularly formal, but in Lu Jiajia's words, as long as they are respectable, nothing can stop them from looking noble, especially since their usual clothes are already the best.

Mo Cheng greeted them in advance, and the two of them got along smoothly.

Shenyuan had never attended a human wedding. When he heard that he had to give a gift, he thought for a moment and then took out a huge piece of rare metal from the Shenyuan space.

“Is this enough?”

The human who received the gift money was so frightened by the rare metal as big as a football that he fell off his chair. Then, a group of researchers quickly came to the backfield and carefully carried the rare metal back.

"What is this?" Xiaohua asked.

"I don't know. It's extracted from the land I devoured. It should be similar to gold and takes up quite a bit of space." Shen Yuan wasn't very clear either.

Later, Xiaohua learned that the piece of metal taken out from the abyss directly accelerated the research progress of human laboratories by fifty to one hundred years.

It still sounds amazing.

So, when Xiaohua and Shenyuan ate and took various small cakes at their wedding, no one had any objection, and even the bride's bouquet was delivered to the two of them personally.

"I heard that you are my fan?" The bride winked at Lin Ling lively, gave Xiaohua a wink, and whispered, "I know you, Xiaohua."

Then, the bride took out a complete set of comics and handed them over, including the signed copies.

"It's just as I imagined."

Lin Ling took it blankly, not really understanding what the bride meant.

But he looked around and realized that there were many familiar base managers or various researchers and scientists at the wedding, which he had not noticed before while eating.

"My dad almost became bald because of what happened between you and Deep Abyss. I also secretly read Professor Mo Cheng's "Plan to Save the World with Love Brain" and suddenly got a lot of inspiration."

"So, can Xiaohua and Shenyuan be the protagonists of my next comic?"

Xiaohua felt her head buzzing as she listened to the first bunch of talk, but she immediately caught the key word "comic protagonist" at the end, and her eyes lit up.

“What an honor!!!”

The keyword captured by the abyss nearby is "love brain".

Love brain? What is love brain?

So this time, Xiaohua didn't pay attention to the wedding procedures. She was eating and laughing while holding comics the whole time.

After Xiaohua returned, she would still write letters to him, telling him about what happened between her and Shenyuan.

Shenyuan looked at Xiaohua, and every time he tried to hug her from behind to attract her attention, Xiaohua would push him away and say, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait until I'm done here."

There are 24 hours in a day, and the two of them will stick together for 23 hours. Except for the 10 hours of sleep, Xiaohua will focus on herself for at least half of the 23 hours.

But since Xiaohua got the comic book, it took up another 2 hours of her attention every day, and writing letters took up another hour. Shenyuan couldn't understand why these things occupied so much of Xiaohua's attention, but he also stayed by Xiaohua's side.

"Why are you unhappy?"

Lin Ling put down his pen, stood up, and hugged Shi Changyuan in front of him.

Xiaohua looked at Shenyuan, who was feeling a little depressed, and kissed him hard on the lips, guessing, "Do you want a letter too? I can write you a love letter."

"I can write letters to anyone, but I only write love letters to you."

Shi Changyuan listened to Xiaohua's words, smiled, kissed her back, and then whispered in Lin Ling's ear, "No."

"I was just thinking, if the seeds hadn't been lost..."

He paused for a moment and continued.

"According to human terms, we should be childhood sweethearts, and our perceptions of the world should be completely unified and synchronized, rather than having to learn from others about what Xiaohua liked in the past."

"I will know what Xiaohua likes and why she likes it."

"No one knows my little flower better than I do."

2.

It turned out that Shenyuan was not jealous for no reason. Lin Ling had never thought about it, and he had been brooding over this matter.

Xiaohua thought about it and realized that the Abyss didn't seem to show this feeling when they first met, until humans moved back to the Seventh Base.

The three years he spent in the human base, the people he met and the things he encountered actually had a profound impact on Xiaohua, and also caused him and Shenyuan to have some different ideas.

"Then I'll take you to the place where I lived before and start over again." Lin Ling pulled Shi Changyuan up and decided to help Shenyuan resolve this knot in his heart.

“I want to experience all the things I have experienced, the people I have met, the scenery and comics I have read with you again.”

Lin Ling was thinking seriously about a feasible plan. He said, "Besides this, I can also tell you what I was thinking at the time. In this way, you will definitely understand me better than the worms in my stomach."

Deep Abyss: ...That’s not necessary.

"Moreover, I can use the memory of your existence to overwrite my own memory, so that my brain will be filled with you."

Xiaohua's eyes narrowed. "How about joining me?"

"good."

"Join you."

The place where the small flower sprouted is under the southern wall of the seventh human base, about 600 meters away from the gate.

"I haven't moved since I sprouted." Lin Ling brought Shen Yuan to the previous location, but now there was a collapsed pit at the location.

Xiaohua was stunned for a moment, thinking that someone had stolen his house while he was not paying attention.

"Ah, I remember now. During the previous rainstorm, we dug a big hole here, and it hasn't been filled up yet."

After saying that, Lin Ling found a small hoe from the bushes not far away, squatted on the ground and filled the hole with Shen Yuan, and then planted a small sprout on it.

"Okay, this is me in the budding stage."

Lin Ling said that after the buds sprouted, he carefully observed them for a long time, about three months. At that time, Xiaohua was still a little scared, after all, he was unfamiliar with human life, and some humans looked very fierce.

"Then, I would often hide among the creepers and climb up the walls to see what the humans were like."

After saying that, Xiaohua climbed up the high city wall in one go and called Shenyuan to observe humans with him.

When the two appeared on the wall, the patrol discovered them.

The patrolman knew Xiaohua and his boyfriend, and they were told by their superiors to do whatever they wanted, so he just muttered, "Young people nowadays, they take love to such a high level and such a dangerous level."

The two of them sat from the afternoon until the evening.

The nights of the apocalypse are more dangerous. Most human bases work from sunrise to sunset, so when the bright moonlight shines on the earth, the entire base falls into silence. Only the night shift guards patrol the base to ensure the safety of the people.

And from outside this high wall, one or two cries and roars of abnormal creatures could be heard occasionally.

"I was very young before, and I was a little scared every time this time came."

"After all, my roots are outside, and there are no human patrols to protect them. What if a mutant comes to eat my roots while I'm sleeping in the middle of the night? I wish I were a little flower growing inside the city wall."

Shi Changyuan looked at Xiaohua who was sitting next to him and understood how Xiaohua felt at that time.

It is a kind of yearning with admiration.

Abyss stood up immediately, jumped down from the high wall with Xiaohua, and then spent an entire night beating up all the offensive mutants around the Seventh Base.

Then he spent a week to make Lin Ling drool reflexively whenever he heard someone's cry. He only remembered the xxx distortion, which smelled so good when roasted!

Slurp slurp~

…

"About half a year passed like this, and then I transformed."

Xiao Hua looked proud, "I pretended to be an ordinary person and followed everyone to the city ruins to try my luck, and then I was lucky enough to pick up a USB flash drive!"

As he spoke, Lin Ling and Shi Changyuan skillfully found a team that was heading to the city ruins, blended in with them, and walked over on foot.

The distance was still quite far if they just walked, and it took a whole day to go back and forth. Shi Changyuan could already imagine that if Xiaohua was really a human, her delicate feet would probably have blisters on them.

"I was a little behind the group, and when I came back, it was already midnight, and only one store had its lights on."

Lin Ling waited until nightfall, then took Shi Changyuan to the private barter point where he had exchanged flower fertilizer for half a year three years ago.

"I was so small at the time, and I couldn't compete with that huge plant deformation for nutrients, so I was a little malnourished. It was only after I ate the flower fertilizer that I was able to bloom successfully."

But this time, three years later, the store seemed to have closed down early.

Shenyuan looked around and found that the shopkeeper seemed to have drunk some wine. He dragged the man up with an expressionless face and turned on the light.

Lin Ling went to knock on the door and said the same words as he did that year.

The drunk hotel owner was in a trance and thought he had returned to three years ago. He was almost sober now, "Fuck, I traveled through time?"

"No." Xiaohua kindly reminded, "It's me."

The shopkeeper took a closer look and said, "It's Lin Ling. Oh, I'm scared to death."

The shopkeeper wiped off a non-existent sweat and said, "I thought I had traveled back to three years ago. At that time, there were earthquakes, high temperatures, and the abyss was expanding at any time. It was not as good as it is now."

Xiaohua smiled, and then heard the shopkeeper speaking drunkenly again.

"Here, this is the fertilizer for your flowers. You always only change this one. I was in such a hurry to move to the city before that I forgot to tell you."

Shi Changyuan looked at the pile of flower fertilizer in the corner that was about to turn into dust. He seemed to be able to see from this tiny gap in time how Xiaohua's life was before in the base.

Then, the next morning, Xiaohua took Shenyuan to find Lu Jiajia again.

When Lu Jiajia heard Lin Ling wanting her to repeat what happened three years ago, she looked at Shi Changyuan standing beside her and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

In the end, she became just a part of the couple's play.

"But I don't quite remember..."

She tried to express her dissatisfaction, but Shi Changyuan gave her too much.

She simply couldn't believe that Lin Ling's boyfriend still had a lot of pre-apocalyptic supplies in the tenth year of the apocalypse, even her favorite fanfiction books -

She could only accept it with tears, make a friendly appearance as herself three years ago, and wish them happiness 999.

Xiaohua took Shenyuan to check in with Lu Jiajia, and then it was Team Leader Mo. At that time, Mo Cheng was really just a small team leader. Xiaohua encountered some danger at that time. A stupid human regarded Xiaohua as a medicinal herb and wanted to dig him away.

But Mo Cheng noticed something was wrong with Xiao Hua and stopped her.

While watering and fertilizing, Xiaohua appeared in front of Mo Cheng in human form.

This is the first human to know his true identity.

"Actually, I know what this means, but I don't think Team Leader Mo looks like a bad guy."

Mo Cheng heard that Xiaohua was taking Shenyuan to recall the past, and then quietly waited for himself to be caught and re-enact what happened that year.

Since returning from the migration city, she has never seen Xiaohua again, and she hasn't watered or fertilized Xiaohua for a long time. She misses her a lot.

But her plan did not go as she wished, as Shen Yuan asked her to perform without props.

Mo Cheng: ...No way, you're even jealous of this???

But when she saw the current true form of Xiaohua, she felt a little emotional.

"Xiaohua is really beautiful now." Mo Cheng recalled, "At that time, Xiaohua was not very good. It had small yellow leaves and only one flower bud."

But now the little flowers grow lushly, crookedly and very domineeringly, with vines extending everywhere to clearly announce their location.

The small white flowers on each vine look like baby's breath.

Actually looking back, Xiaohua has not had such a good time in the past three years. He is like many ordinary people, working hard for his own survival and striving for his own future.

"Then, the high temperature period came, and then humans moved to other cities."

"In the end, Xiaohua encountered the abyss again."

Xiaohua pointed to the big rock that still stood tall and said, "I was right here at that time and saw you in the middle of the abyss over there."

"I'm telling you, hello—"

"Are you the new neighbor? My name is Lin Ling."

Lin Ling looked at Shi Changyuan with a brilliant smile, and then slyly teased, "I am the Xiaohua you are looking for."

"In the future, I will be your dear boyfriend."