Chapter 59 Leaving the Team
After the convoy stopped, Cheng Sinian went to find Lin Yingjie in person and told him what Qiao Yu said and about the mutants.
"...We'll take turns keeping watch, one day each. We'll be in charge tonight. Please tell Fang Lin and the others later." Cheng Sinian patted Lin Yingjie's shoulder. "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."
"Brother Cheng, wait a moment." Lin Yingjie stopped Cheng Sinian who was about to leave.
"Is there anything else?" Cheng Sinian turned around and saw that Lin Yingjie looked embarrassed to speak, so he raised his eyebrows.
"It's like this..." Lin Yingjie rubbed his hands, "We've been feeling pretty stuffy these past couple of days and want to go out for a walk, but the people in our family who don't have special abilities... it's not very convenient for them to go out, so could you please help look after them?"
Cheng Sinian glanced at him twice, then smiled and said, "Okay. Remember to come back early so as not to delay your journey tomorrow."
"Of course! We'll be back soon." Lin Yingjie nodded, and after watching Cheng Sinian go back, he first went to find the three women to explain the situation, and then took Lin Chi, Lin Han and Deng Minglang out of the woods.
Cheng Sinian went back and told Qiao Yu and the other two about this matter.
"Have they said where they are going?" Luo Zhenzhen asked.
Cheng Sinian shook his head. "No, he just said he wanted to go out for a walk."
Qiao Yu had a hunch that Lin Yingjie might be hiding something from them, but after thinking about it, he decided it didn't matter. "Forget it. They have their own freedom. There's no need to report everything to us. As long as they don't try to trick us, let them be."
Jiang Zhan could sense that Lin Yingjie and the others were becoming increasingly depressed in recent days, as if they were worried about something.
But he has never been a person who likes to meddle in other people's business, so he said nothing, just touched Qiao Yu's hair and said softly: "Let's eat."
Seeing this, Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen didn't say anything else.
Dinner was noodle soup taken out from Cheng Sinian’s space.
This noodle soup was kept in the ring space for three days, and it was still hot when it was taken out.
But when Qiao Yu measured it with a thermometer, he found that the temperature had dropped slightly.
Qiao Yu estimated that at this cooling rate, the ratio of time in the ring space to that outside was about 1:850.
In other words, food that could only be preserved for one day can now be preserved for half a year in the space of the ring.
Qiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is not static, the storage time is at least extended a lot.
So Qiao Yu gave some of the things in the space to Cheng Sinian as if he was moving house, until Cheng Sinian said that the space could no longer hold them.
After Cheng Sinian finished collecting his things, he took a couple more bites of his unfinished meal. Suddenly, he remembered that they had to keep watch tonight, so he took the initiative and said, "You guys go to sleep later. I'll keep watch tonight."
"No need. I'll do it."
Jiang Zhan's tone was still calm, but Cheng Sinian could hear a hint of concern in it.
"No, Brother Zhan." Cheng Sinian glanced at Qiao Yu and smiled mischievously again, "I know you care about me. But you've been using the spiritual barrier in the car day and night, and it's quite exhausting. You should rest more occasionally."
Hearing the sarcasm in Cheng Sinian's words, Qiao Yu glared at him.
"You two, stop arguing." Qiao Yu put down the bowl, took out a jade seed from the space, and gave birth to a vine. "We can just use it to keep watch."
It was the first time for both Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen to see jade seeds.
They both found it quite novel to see it sprout in just a few seconds and then grow to about two meters.
"Is this also something from your space?" Cheng Sinian touched the bud at the top of the vine. "Can this thing keep watch at night?"
The vine's consciousness was connected to Qiao Yu, so it did not attack Cheng Sinian when he touched it.
But when Qiao Yu saw that Cheng Sinian was a little suspicious, he wanted to open his eyes.
As soon as he thought about it, the flower bud at the top of the vine exploded with a "swish", and five slender vines with barbs aimed straight at Cheng Sinian's face, as if ready to attack.
"Oh, quite fierce." Cheng Sinian knew Qiao Yu wouldn't hurt him, so he looked at the five thin vines that were almost about to hit his face without any fear. He just raised his eyebrows and said to Qiao Yu teasingly, "No wonder they say: If you keep something for a long time, it will become like its owner."
Qiao Yu rolled her eyes at him, too lazy to argue with him. "Alright, I'll get two vines and put them outside. They have a pretty wide monitoring range, and they can also cover the Lin family and Fang Lin, so you don't have to worry about this. Just do whatever you need to do after dinner."
"Sister Qiao, if we get discovered... will it be okay?" Luo Zhenzhen looked a little worried.
"It's okay. There are mutant plants all around. It's not easy for them to find it." Qiao Yu shook his head and comforted him softly, "If they are really discovered, just say that they are mutant plant seeds found in Guojia Village. This kind of thing is not uncommon after the apocalypse."
Usually, once alienated plants die, they will rot quickly until they are absorbed by the soil, leaving no trace.
Only the seed plants are different.
Seed plants also decay quickly after death, but they leave behind their seeds when they first die.
These seeds will quickly sink into the soil, and after a period of growth, they will continue to take root and sprout in the same place, growing into new plants, just like the planting before the end of the world.
But as long as the seeds are taken away immediately when the plant dies, they can be used by aliens.
The seeds of these alienated plants usually possess the abilities of their own alienated bodies. After being induced by alien powers, they will obey the alien who transmits energy to them and only attack people other than their owners.
However, since these seeds must be planted in the ground as soon as possible after being stimulated by supernatural powers, not only are they unable to move freely, but they will also indiscriminately attack other humans, so few people actually use them. Only a few solitary supernatural beings will pick up some of the less lethal supernatural plant seeds and take them home to protect their homes.
Luo Zhenzhen didn't know the reason, but seeing that Qiao Yu didn't care about it, she nodded and felt relieved.
As long as Sister Qiao says it’s okay, then it must be okay!
After nightfall, fires were lit next to the Lin family's and Fang Lin's cars.
Qiao Yu waited until they added firewood and returned to the car before he planted two vines on the grass next to the car, one on the left and one on the right.
Qiao Yu originally wanted to hide them in the grass, but as soon as the two vines penetrated the soil, they used their branching vines to break the grass plants next to them in half.
“…”
Cheng Sinian was right, he was quite fierce.
Qiao Yu walked back silently, reflecting on himself: Am I really that cruel...
The woods were very quiet, with only the crackling sound of the burning fire.
Lin Yingjie and the others haven't come back yet.
Qiao Yu calculated the time and found that they had been out for more than two hours.
"Ah Zhan, do you think anything will happen to them?"
Qiao Yu lay in Jiang Zhan's arms, flipping through two pages of a book in a low mood, with a bad feeling in her heart.
Lin Yingjie couldn't possibly get into trouble. If something happened to him, wouldn't the entire Lin family be relying on them?
Jiang Zhan kissed her frowning brow and was about to say something to comfort her, but his expression suddenly turned cold.
"A Zhan? What's wrong?" Qiao Yu couldn't help but get nervous when he saw that he looked upset.
"Deng Minglang and Lin Yingjie are back."
Just as Qiao Yu was about to continue asking questions, he heard Deng Minglang's panicked shouts from outside the car: "Boss Jiang... Boss Qiao! Help! Help! --"
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