Chapter 43
"Hehehe, Brother Tao! You're back? Come, have some fruit mochi, mango is your favorite~" Kang An was just talking about his melon when I came. He was a little embarrassed and raised the small box in his hand with a slightly flattering smile.
Li Tao looked at him like that, feeling both angry and amused. He quickly reached for the small box and said, "Next time I hear you talking about my melon, I won't take you out for supper!"
Kang An jokingly pulled a folding stool over and placed it between the two stalls. He pulled Li Tao to sit down and massaged his shoulders and back. "Brother Tao is the best. I will never talk about your gossip again. When are we going to have a midnight snack?"
"That depends on your performance." Li Tao enjoyed it for a while, and then Kang An was called by a customer who came to the stall for treatment.
Seeing that they were still getting along as before, Ai Tiantian felt relieved and continued to sell fruit glutinous rice cakes.
"I'd like a serving of durian mochi."
"Okay, 25 points. Scan here."
Life in the hotel is quiet and peaceful, but life outside is not so comfortable.
Fengying was in a small village in J City, Province J. She sat on the ground, panting wildly, her eyes unconsciously staring at the two women standing in front of her. She knew them. It was thanks to them that she had just come out of the illusion.
Fengying arrived at this place in the afternoon. She was driving a motorhome and saw something shaking inside from a distance. She checked the hotel map and found that there were no zombies inside, so she packed up the motorhome and moved forward.
She stood in front of a stone slab and whispered the words engraved on it, "Mu Nian Village." Is this a village? The buildings seemed quite old, all made of blue bricks and black tiles.
She took a step forward and entered the village. Suddenly, a winding path appeared before her, flanked by lush rice fields. On either side of the fields were cascading hills. At the foot of the hills stood a few houses, wisps of white smoke rising from their roofs, as if someone was cooking.
Fengying's intuition was wrong. It must be an illusion. She punched herself twice, feeling the pain. "What's going on?"
Could it be... a psychic ability? But the map showed no zombies or mutant beasts. She tried to retreat, but a force resisted her, pushing her forward two steps.
She immediately turned around and punched the air wall in front of her, but it was useless. Her fist was like hitting cotton.
She used her special power to create fireballs and threw them at them. What she didn't expect was that the fireballs disappeared immediately after hitting the ground.
"It seems that we can only move forward."
Fengying took out a laser sword from the space, put on a transparent airbag, and then walked slowly along the narrow path.
It wasn't until she reached the end of the path and saw a few houses ahead that she saw someone else. But those people seemed to be oblivious to her, minding their own business, occasionally chatting with passersby or bragging to the children playing around.
She planned to go forward and look for clues. She couldn't just stay here and watch them live a peaceful life.
Fengying put the laser sword behind her back and formed a mini fireball in her left palm. The mini fireball was extremely powerful. If anything went wrong, she would just smash it and burn them to death.
She stepped forward, facing the three aunties who were chatting, forced a smile on her face, and asked in a gentle but slightly stiff tone, "Auntie, where is this? I seem to be lost."
When the three aunts heard her voice, their cheerful chatter suddenly stopped. Their heads were as stiff as springs that had not been oiled for ten years. They turned around one by one, their black and white eyes staring straight at Fengying.
Fengying's face froze. She could clearly see that the three of them had only their heads turned, their necks and bodies motionless. The other people passing by were the same, with only their heads turned towards her, some lowering their heads, some looking up, and some looking straight at her.
"Little sister, are you lost?" One of the aunties opened her mouth wide, revealing her sharp white teeth. The other auntie turned straight around and walked forward quickly, her heels barely touching the ground. She was so fast that it seemed like she was flying. She said with a grin, "Then stay and be our companion!"
Fengying threw the mini fireball with her left hand, hitting them. It exploded with a "hiss". The fireball surrounded the dozen people standing there and burned fiercely.
She whipped her right hand out, pulling out the laser sword from behind her, and slashed at the woman flying towards her, splitting her in two and dropping to the ground. A dozen people from the side of the house who hadn't been burned by the fireball also rushed forward, determined to stop her.
Since they wanted to keep her and didn't give any useful clues, she had no choice but to take action.
Moreover, when she saw the aunt who was split in half by her sword falling to the ground turned into two pieces of wood, she knew that since she was not a human being, she would not show mercy.
Feng Ying flew forward and swung the laser sword in his right hand vigorously, knocking down three people instantly. He also kept throwing fireballs in his left hand, which immediately caught fire when they hit them.
Fireballs and laser swords flew everywhere, and screams continued. "The screams are so ugly, so shrill!"
The scream paused in vain, then continued.
After Fengying dealt with the "people" at the entrance, she walked straight inside. She saw a road winding straight to the top of the mountain. She took out the RV, jumped into the driver's seat, and drove all the way to the top.
When the "people" on the roadside saw her car, they didn't dare to go forward or go back to the house. They just stared at her.
When she reached the top of the mountain, she saw an enormous tree that was emitting a luminous green light. Its canopy was so huge that it almost covered the sky.
She looked at the trunk of the tree and could imagine that it would take more than twenty people to hug it.
"Did you make this village like this?" Feng Ying said without further ado. After all, if animals could mutate, then the plants that were still alive must also be mutants.
The leaves in the treetops rustled, as if responding to her.
Fengying certainly didn't believe that the tree could respond to her so gently. Sure enough, the soil under her feet began to loosen, and strips of earth arched up from below. Fengying immediately jumped up and stepped back. She retracted the laser sword with a wave of her hand and condensed a dozen fireballs in her hands. "Speak nicely, or I will burn you to death!"
"Don't burn the tree, don't burn the tree! It's a good tree!" The soil below was broken by the roots, and the roots were waving in the air.
"Good tree? Good tree is asking me to stay?" Fengying didn't believe it and shook the fireball floating in the air with her hands.
"Doesn't the tree want to keep you as a companion?" When the tree said this, the roots suddenly crowded against the trunk, as if they were shy.
"What's going on in this village? Is this an illusion you created?" Fengying shook the fireballs in her hands again and asked about the village. If the big tree lied, she would burn it.
The roots danced wildly in front of the trunk, "There is no tree, no tree, it is not a tree, the tree just borrowed its illusion and wants to find a partner to accompany the tree!"
"who?"
"The tree can't speak. If it did, it wouldn't lend me the illusion."
Fengying curled her lips and said, "Then I'll find it myself, don't make trouble."
There were no zombies or mutant beasts shown on the map, which meant that it was a plant that created the illusion. But with so many plants around, she didn't know whether these were real or fake.
She searched and searched, from the top of the mountain to the foot, but found no unusual plants. Then she went out into the rice fields, checking two large rice fields one by one. After several hours, she still found nothing.
Fengying was hungry, so she sat down right where she was when she got to the path. She took out her hot pot and started boiling the vegetables and meat. "Nothing is more important than having a full meal."
At this moment, the big tree on the top of the mountain swayed a vine at its top and asked in confusion, "Teng? That person has been looking for you for a long time. She couldn't find you. The vine is really powerful."
The vine slapped the leaves on the treetop twice with its whip, "Tree, you are too stupid. This person will definitely kill me when he finds me, just like the others before. Wait, I will appear in front of her when it gets dark to scare her. If she doesn't kill me, I will let her go." After saying this, the vine slapped the leaves hard, "Look at you, you always want a friend to accompany you. Hasn't I been accompanying you all the time? Isn't having Iden enough? It's different now. When there were people in this village before, they would come to play under the tree, but they died a few years ago, bitten to death by that creature that was neither human nor animal. If it weren't for the vine absorbing that delicious air, none of us would be saved."
"Okay, okay, this is the last time the tree will look for a partner. Don't be angry, vine." The big tree extended a root to the top of the tree and touched the vine.
After dinner, Fengying continued her search, starting from the foot of the mountain on both sides of the fields and working her way back to the top. She was almost exhausted, so she leaned against a tree trunk and gasped for breath. "This thing is so well hidden! I've searched everywhere, up and down, left and right."
"It's not a thing! It's just like a tree, it's... Ouch!" The tree spoke nonsense and was hit by the vine a few more times.
"Ha! So it's right here with you! Ah? It took me so long to find it!" Fengying was ready to stand up and climb the tree. After all, the top of this tree was the only one she hadn't searched yet.
Just as she was about to get up, she heard a "pop" sound, and the surrounding scenery receded like the tide. Even the soil under her feet turned into rubble. Only the tree she was leaning against remained.
Before she could catch her breath, she looked forward, wanting to see who had broken the illusion.
Fengying stared at the two women who slowly appeared in front of her. It turned out to be them. She murmured softly, "Wenren Yue, Murong Ya... Why are they here?"
Murong Ya quickly stepped forward, grabbed her right hand with both hands, and began to channel her supernatural powers. "Are you okay? Captain Feng?"
"Huh? You know me?" Hey, how did Murong Ya know her at this time?
Murong Ya smiled softly, looked back at Wen Renyue, and then turned back, "It's only because Director Fengji is famous that we got to know you unilaterally."
"Ah?" Fengying scratched her head with her left hand, puzzled.
Wen Renyue stood still, looked at Fengying and said softly, "Moving the entire Honglian base to the hotel is enough to make you famous."
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