Chapter 352 Puzzling
There are soldiers guarding inside and outside the portal to prevent sudden hordes of zombies from running through the portal into the base.
As the second wave of transfer plan is about to begin, we have to be careful about everything.
Xia Yan was wrapped tightly, even wearing a windproof mask over her eyes, but some people still recognized her by her brightly colored down jacket.
"Boss Xia is here~"
"Go this way, this path has just been cleared, there's no snow, and it's not slippery!"
Xia Yan took his hand out of his pocket and waved it twice, and his white fingers were immediately frozen red.
"You guys are busy, don't worry about me."
As they were talking, fierce gunfire rang out from the other side of the portal. Everyone was startled and moved ten meters away from the portal.
The soldier guarding the door cocked his gun and asked in a deep voice, "Do you need backup?"
A burst of supernatural bullets whizzed out of the gun muzzle, followed by the sound of bullets breaking through the skin, and in between, a few words were spoken quickly:
"No need! There are only a dozen zombies. They move slowly and are easy to kill!"
Within five or six seconds, the gunfire from the opposite side stopped.
"Crisis over, get back to work!"
The residents breathed a sigh of relief and gathered together again to shovel the snow very skillfully. No one noticed when Boss Xia left.
"Work, work, finish early and go back to bed early!"
“Knock knock knock!”
Xia Yan reached out and knocked hard on the door.
Fu Niang's house is wrapped with layer upon layer of vines, so people inside can't hear anything without some effort.
Besides, it was daytime now, so she didn't have to worry about disturbing others late at night.
Soon, a faint rustling sound came from inside the door, which was the sound of vines moving.
Fu Niang approached the door and whispered, "Who is it?"
"Xia Yan."
The movement inside the door suddenly quickened, and with a click, Fu Niang's little face, which had finally turned white after being covered for a whole winter, appeared behind the door.
“Come in quickly!”
Xia Yan walked into the room, stepped on the soft rattan mat floor, and his expression became serious.
Seeing her like this, Fu Niang couldn't help but lower her head and bite her lips, entangled their fingers.
"There's something I have to tell you."
"...Um."
"She guessed you were still alive."
Fu Niang looked up in surprise, "Why, would that happen?"
Xia Yan said with regret, "I really wanted to keep it a secret for you, but she's been short on crystal cores lately. She's joined the outbound team and doesn't need any supplies, relying solely on the cores to survive day by day. So I advised her not to refuse what she needs. If one day, you go to see her, you two can't both go hungry. Maybe that's how I guessed it. You and your daughter are both very smart."
She never said anything extra, but she could not resist her longing for her daughter. After finally getting a glimmer of hope, she chewed it over and over again every night, trying to guess the deeper meaning hidden in it.
"She asked me to bring you two bags of food." Xia Yan took out the food and put it on the floor. "Fu Niang, I've been involved in your affairs for too long. No matter what you do in the future, I won't care anymore. Only these two times, Lin helped me, so I'll repay her."
Just run errands twice, you can't keep doing it forever.
The time she came to see Fu Niang was because she was curious and wanted to confirm it.
If the two of them are still awkward with each other and refuse to meet, and are still worried about each other not having enough food or clothes to eat or wear, it would be annoying for her to run errands for them.
Her principle is that things never happen more than three times.
It is her habit to speak bad words first.
Fu Niang's eyes shifted away from the food packaging, her face a little embarrassed. "I, I know."
Seeing her like this, Xia Yan suddenly had an offensive thought in his mind: You are a very smart child, why do you fail at the critical moment?
Logically speaking, people who have experienced the turbulence of the end of the world would not have any thoughts when they heard the news about their family. They would first reunite with their family. However, Fu Niang was too delicate and had put too many blockades on her heart. She was obviously a very independent and strong woman, but when she met Lin, she panicked and dared not meet her.
A thought floated through Xia Yan's mind, "Fu Niang, aren't you afraid that your mother will beat you?"
It was a little excessive, but she just wanted to ask.
Unexpectedly, the other party actually hesitated and nodded!
Xia Yan:
(Black face)
Bok Niang: "It's not just because of this, the main reason is that I'm worried that my mother won't be able to accept it..."
Xia Yan was puzzled: "She was able to accept your death and still persisted in searching for you. What could be more difficult to accept than finding you and you not wanting to go back?"
Fu Niang was struck by a blow, breaking through the barriers of her thoughts. Her face was filled with clarity, as if the clouds had parted and the sky was bright. "...You're right. How come I have never thought of this before?"
"Maybe it's called, 'A bystander sees more clearly!' Okay, think about it slowly by yourself. I have to go back."
Xia Yan waved to her and teleported back to the hotel lobby.
Fu Niang looked at the two bags full of food at her feet, and the strength she had just pretended to have suddenly cracked.
She opened the bag and scanned the colorful packaging bags, which contained various snacks, bread and biscuits, even buckets of instant noodles and self-heating pots.
All of them are her favorite flavors.
Suddenly, a childish voice rang in my ears:
"Mom, I want to eat potato chips. My friend said the tomato flavor ones are especially delicious."
The young woman picked up the bag and shook it. The crispy potato chips flipped upside down in the air-filled bag, making a rustling noise.
"Listen, girl, there's not much in there. Mommy will make it for you when we get home, okay?"
"No, you can't make tomato-flavored chips. I want to eat tomato-flavored chips."
"...Tomato flavor..." The woman's eyes quickly glanced at the amount of money below, and shuddered as if she was burned. "Dear baby, stop making trouble. Have you forgotten that mommy is Superman? Mommy can do everything. I will definitely make it for you today!"
The little girl saw the woman's actions. She also glanced at the string of numbers. She had an indescribable feeling. She always felt that the handwriting was twisted and distorted, like a ferocious dog that would pounce on her and bite her.
"Mom, hold me!"
When life got better, every time she went to the supermarket, her mother would push the shopping cart without her asking, and the wheels would roll over and over until it stopped at the potato chip section.
"My daughter loves tomato flavor the most, so she has to get two bags." The mother muttered silently and put the potato chips into the car carefully, fearing that if she moved too much, the chips inside would be incomplete.
The little girl had grown up by then, and every time this happened she would never say anything, but just smile sweetly.
"Mom, your cooking is delicious too!"
The mother's eyes were complicated. "Don't try to cheer me up. It's just a little salt. How can it be delicious? Oh, it was so hard back then. You suffered so much... Mom has money now. As long as you want to eat it, Mom will buy it for you!"
Fu Niang pulled herself out of her memories and peeled off the surface of the food.
In the middle, she saw the familiar, tightly wrapped tomato-flavored potato chips again.
She pressed the potato chips tightly against her chest, where a huge black hole suddenly appeared. Even if she shed all her tears, it couldn't fill it.
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