Chapter 144 Has it changed?

"We have also set up a special position of librarian to manage these books. Everyone can ask the librarian to get what they want to read."

"No one else will come, so we don't take care of this bookstore."

"It's a little dirty, don't mind."

Chen Qingqing walked around the house.

Why would she mind?

This was her favorite place to go in the afternoons when she was a child.

Take a comic book and sit outside the bookstore along the wall.

Sometimes someone from the village would pass by pushing a cart selling ice cream.

Chen Qingqing often saved up a week's pocket money and spent it all on this day.

"Qingqing, what book do you want? I'll find it for you." asked the village chief.

Chen Qingqing said very impolitely: "I will take all the books away."

The village chief was stunned, but he was smart enough not to ask any more questions.

"Okay, okay...are these enough? Do you want me to ask someone to collect all the books in everyone's hands?"

"No, everyone can keep the ones they have now."

Chen Qingqing said, turning around and taking out a few more books from her bag.

"This is the cooking method of mutant animals. You can cook according to the methods on it in the future."

The village chief took the book she handed over, flipped through two pages, and became more and more excited.

"Mutated animals...can be eaten?"

Chen Qingqing nodded: "There should be a lot of mutant pheasants and rabbits in the nearby mountains, which is also a source of food."

"Okay, okay."

The village chief was very excited.

"Qingqing, you have helped us a lot."

At this time, someone came over and said that the food was ready.

Chen Qingqing asked the village chief and others to go first, and she moved the books in the bookstore.

She said she was moving books, but in fact, she just put the books into the space after they left.

The bookstore that was full of books just now was clean in the blink of an eye.

Chen Qingqing returned to the house, and the village chief had already set a table of dishes.

"These dishes are enough for the villagers to eat for a while. In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome."

Chen Qingqing said.

The village chief waved his hands repeatedly: "What's this? You have helped the village so much. If we don't give out even a little bit, it would be too unreasonable!"

After dinner, Chen Qingqing and Ming Peilan went to the beach together.

Although this beach has been cleaned up by the villagers, the two people standing here can still smell a faint fishy odor.

Chen Qingqing stood on the rock and looked at the water not far from her feet.

"Qingqing, do you see anything wrong?"

Ming Peilan walked closer with her crutches, squinting her eyes and trying to see more carefully.

Chen Qingqing shook her head: "No."

Ming Peilan sighed: "Don't be too anxious, how could we have expected this natural disaster?"

"It doesn't matter even if you can't find the reason, it's not your problem."

"After all, we are all ordinary people..."

Ming Peilan racked her brains to persuade Chen Qingqing, but she didn't expect that Chen Qingqing suddenly rushed over and pulled her back from the rock just before she said the last sentence.

Ming Peilan's shoulder hit the rock, and she gasped.

Chen Qingqing quickly helped her up: "Are you okay, Aunt Ming?"

Ming Peilan glanced at where she had just stood: "What did you see?"

She knew Chen Qingqing would not act rashly, especially at her age. It takes

a hundred days to heal a broken bone. If it wasn't an emergency, Chen Qingqing wouldn't be so sudden.

Chen Qingqing's tone sank: "Just now... I seemed to have hallucinations."

"I saw a... fish with hands."

Ming Peilan was stunned for a moment, and after making sure she had heard it correctly, her voice trembled a little: "What did you say? Fish? With human hands?"

Chen Qingqing pursed her lips and began to be uncertain.

She quickly walked to the edge of the rock and looked carefully at the sea again.

But this time there was nothing.

"I think it's an illusion."

Chen Qingqing frowned and pressed her temples.

"Maybe I've been too nervous lately, so it's possible that I'm having an illusion."

For example, when she lost her loved ones one after another in her last life, Chen Qingqing often had an illusion that her family members were still by her side.

Ming Peilan didn't think so.

She walked back to where she had just stood with a serious face: "You are such a sober and cautious child, how could you have hallucinations?"

"And we have passed the busy period when we just took over the base. Everything in the base has basically settled down. Your pressure is much less now than before."

"How could you have hallucinations at this time?"

Chen Qingqing asked uncertainly: "So... Aunt Ming, do you think what I saw is real?"

Chen Qingqing couldn't tell for a moment whether it was more serious that she had hallucinations or that the fish in the sea had grown human hands.

Ming Peilan patted Chen Qingqing on the shoulder: "Qingqing, you go back and rest first. I'll stay here for a while, maybe I can still see that thing."

Chen Qingqing paused.

She also felt that it was time for her to rest.

Unexpectedly, she had just turned around and walked two steps towards her house when she heard the sound of water.

Then Ming Peilan shouted, "Qingqing! I caught it!"

Chen Qingqing turned her head sharply, and the crutch in Ming Peilan's hand poked a fish.

The fish was the size of two palms, and the front gills had grown hands that were human-like but shrunk many times, and two eyes without eyelids stared at the whole world.

For no reason... it made people disgusted.

Ming Peilan walked quickly to Chen Qingqing with her cane in hand. The fish on the cane was still twisting its body crazily.

Ming Peilan asked, "Qingqing, have you seen this kind of thing?"

Chen Qingqing shook her head in disgust.

The most disgusting marine creature she had ever seen in her previous life was a small lobster with five claws.

This thing in front of her... has it already transcended the barriers between species?

Ming Peilan's first reaction was excitement, but the more she looked at it, the more disgusted she felt.

"It's enough that this thing looks disgusting, but why does it actively attack people?"

Ming Peilan was standing on the edge of the rock when this thing jumped up.

It waved its two little hands, as if it wanted to prey on Ming Peilan.

Ming Peilan got goosebumps when she thought of this.

"This thing won't want to eat me, right?"

Ming Peilan wanted to give the person a taste of his own medicine.

But even if this damn thing wasn't poisonous, she wouldn't dare eat it!

"Let's take it back first." Chen Qingqing suppressed her disgust.

Lin Bo found a basin and filled it with sea water, and put the thing in the basin.

Several people surrounded the basin with very rich expressions.

Xiao Huan spoke without restraint: "Mom, what is this ugly thing used for? It's so disgusting."

Chen Qingqing: "..."

Chen Qingqing really wanted to say that every creature has its reason

for existence. But what is the meaning of the existence of this thing in front of her?

Is it to transform into a human form one day, and then go ashore to conquer the earth?

...

Chen Qingqing paused.

This... doesn't seem impossible.