The armored vehicle drove forward slowly.

Chishan Town is relatively remote, with few residential buildings and mainly large industrial buildings.

Many houses on both sides of the road have cement floors, which to a certain extent prevents the growth of mutant plants.

There are not many mutant plants here, and due to the lack of a living environment, there are not many mutant animals.

Now that the snow has fallen, everything is white, flat, and there are no footprints, which looks very clean and tidy.

Xia Lunong sat in the front seat and stretched out her hand to show Yan Xinian the way. "Brother Xinian, there, there is a road that can be turned into."

"Okay." Yan Xinian held the steering wheel. "Is it clean in there? Are there any mutant animals or plants?"

Xia Lunong shook her head. "Probably not. We didn't see any traces."

Their armored vehicle quickly drove along the road to a parking lot.

When they drove in, they saw that it was neatly parked with yellow tow trucks, shovel trucks and other large vehicles.

There were also many trucks inside.

"Hey, it looks quite new." Yan Xinian said, "I'll go down to investigate first, you guys sit up there, and we'll come down together

later." Xia Huoqu stood up, bent down and followed him, "Together."

Kong Zhi spoke from behind, "I'll follow you down, I've seen it from the sky before, and I'm familiar with the nearby terrain, Brother Huoqu, otherwise you and Xiaonong stay here."

Xia Huoqu said, "Then the three of us will go down together, and Xiaonong will stay here to guard our car."

"No problem, I promise to complete the mission." Xia Lunong turned her head, "Let Xia Huajiao go down with you."

Xia Huajiao: "Swoosh."

The three of them went down to check the situation nearby, and Xia Lunong stayed in the car.

Everyone had a walkie-talkie on them, so they could communicate with each other. Xia Lunong did nothing, her eyes focused on the outside of the car, ready to respond at any time.

After Yan Xinian and his companions went down, a bird fluttered and took off, but no other sound was heard.

This parking lot was very quiet.

The three of them looked around.

Yan Xinian looked around, and the reflection of the snow made his outline appear darker.

The only marks on the snow nearby were those left by him walking here. He picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Nothing's wrong here, what about you guys?"

Xia Huoqu's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "I found two nests of mutant birds here, right in the car fight, they don't look aggressive."

Kong Zhi said, "Everything is normal in my direction."

Xia Lunong said in the walkie-talkie, "I don't think there's anything interesting outside, can you go into the warehouse and see if you can find anything?"

This parking lot is full of various cars, and further inside is a row of bungalows, which are probably warehouses.

Compared to high-rise buildings, these bungalows are not so badly damaged, and many bungalows are still standing and have not collapsed.

In this case, you can usually find a lot of supplies.

Yan Xinian said, "Okay, let's meet up and go in and take a look."

"Okay, Brother Xinian, you all be careful." Xia Lunong said, "These houses should all be dangerous. If there is anything wrong, you should evacuate in time."

Yan Xinian said, "It's okay. Even if it really collapses, we can run out in time with our strength. I won't tell you anymore. I will meet up with your brother and Kong Zhi. Let's go in and take a look first."

Kong Zhi said on the walkie-talkie, "Xia Huajiao is following behind."

Xia Lunong was relieved, "You go in, I'll watch outside."

There was no sound in the walkie-talkie for a while. Xia Lunong stared out of the car window. It was very quiet here.

Because it was too quiet, he even felt a little sleepy sitting in this environment.

Xia Lunong reached for the thermos, poured himself a cup of rose tea, and took a sip, hoping to refresh himself.

Before he swallowed the tea, Yan Xinian's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "Hey guys! Come over and see what I found?"

Xia Lunong's hands trembled, and he almost let the tea in his hand wet his pants. He hurriedly put the tea away, "What's wrong?"

"We found a warehouse filled with all kinds of supplies!" Yan Xinian said, "Most of the food! They are still edible, and most of them are not expired!"

Xia Lunong blinked, "What kind of food? Biscuits, canned food, etc."

Xia Huoqu's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "Almost."

Xia Huoqu called Kong Zhi on the walkie-talkie, "Kong Zhi, come with me. This should be a supermarket warehouse. There are a lot of things. Come and help."

Kong Zhi responded, "I found some books and materials here. I'll come over after you put them away."

Xia Lunong and her friends usually collected less food when they went out to collect supplies.

The catastrophe actually lasted for a period of time, and it was not an earthquake or an explosion.

During this period, everyone would consciously collect supplies, so supplies in human settlements, especially food, were actually decreasing.

They also rarely collected processed food outside.

The food in various supermarket sites had already been taken away by people, but there was more food left in residential areas. However, as time went by, many foods either spoiled, were contaminated, or were taken away by various mutant animals.

Xia Lunong swallowed his saliva when he heard the snacks, "Are there a lot of things? Do you need me to come down to help?"

Xia Huoqu's voice was filled with a smile, "Lock the armored vehicle before you come down."

"Okay, no problem!" Xia Lunong was no longer sleepy, and put the thermos bottle tightly, "I'll lock it while I'm there."

Xia Lunong was anxious, but he still checked the situation in the car and made sure there was nothing unusual before getting out.

He got out of the car and was about to identify the direction to walk towards the warehouse, when he saw Kong Zhi's tall figure had already crawled out of the garage and walked towards him.

Xia Lunong waved her hands vigorously, looked around, and seeing that there was no danger, she ran towards him quickly, and jumped to his side in three or two steps, "Why did you come out?" "

I came to pick you up." Kong Zhi took his hand, took the backpack with the space bamboo tube on his back, and looked around.

The parking lot was full of cars, and their view would be blocked by the cars when they stood on the ground.

In this situation, they need to be extra careful and be alert to the mutant animals and plants that may suddenly jump out from the car or under the car.

Xia Lunong took his hand and looked around with him, saying happily: "My strength is not that bad, so I won't be in danger every few steps."

"I'll come out to pick you up, so you can rest assured."

The two walked into the warehouse hand in hand. The warehouse was a tin house that looked quite solid and the possibility of sudden collapse was very small.

However, the air permeability and lighting of the tin house were not very good.

Xia Lunong smelled a moldy smell that the air had not been circulated for a long time.

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian were opening cardboard boxes and stuffing things into the bamboo tube in the space.

Xia Lunong went up to take a look.

He squatted beside and quickly found the clue, "Biscuits?!"

"Yes." Yan Xinian happily stuffed a bag of biscuits into his mouth, "Those boxes are all biscuits, various wafers, soda biscuits, and there are also eight-treasure porridge, wine, chocolate, etc. Look and see what you want to eat, go and get it yourself."

Xia Lunong was not in a hurry to eat snacks, he was just curious about what was in it.

He turned around and looked at the cartons one by one. There was no label printed on the outside of the cartons, and the contents inside were varied.

He soon found instant noodles, ham sausage, pickles and other convenient foods inside.

Various convenient foods and wine were actually the most.

Xia Lunong could almost imagine that this warehouse used to be specially made for some more substantial food in order to supply drivers and passengers on the road.

Unexpectedly, they got the advantage now.

Just when Xia Lunong was distracted, Xia Huoqu called him, "Xiao Nong, this bamboo tube is full, change to the next one."

"Oh." Xia Lunong quickly carried her backpack and ran over. While taking out the bamboo tube, she asked, "How come it is full so quickly?"

The space in the bamboo tube is not small, at least several hundred cubic meters.

Xia Huoqu and the others had been in for a while.

Xia Huo said, "When we came in, these cartons were piled up to the ceiling, and now they are already half full."

"That much?" Xia Lunong turned around and took a look, and said expectantly, "I just wonder what's in those warehouses next to it? Will they also be full of food?"

Yan Xinian smiled, "I am already very satisfied with so much food, and the possibility of there being more food next to it is very small."

"That's true." Xia Lunong took out a few packets of instant noodles from the box and said excitedly, "Let's eat instant noodles later. There happens to be some cabbage in the bamboo tube. Let's cook noodles." "

Eat!" Yan Xinian agreed enthusiastically, "Don't we have ham sausage here? It tastes best when eaten together."

"Yes." Xia Lunong squatted beside, grinning, "I also saw Coke. Let's put the Coke in the snow

later. How about iced Coke with instant noodles?" Yan Xinian gave him a thumbs up.

The four of them worked together and soon stuffed the contents of the entire warehouse into the space bamboo tube.

Most of the things in this warehouse were food, and they almost filled up two space bamboo tubes.

This was because they couldn't put the things neatly in the space bamboo tubes, so they could only throw them all in and pile them up.

If they could put them neatly without leaving any gaps, Xia Lunong felt that one space bamboo tube could probably be filled.

After they finished loading, they went to the next few warehouses to take a look.

There were fewer things in the warehouses next door, and two of them were empty, so they collected fewer supplies.

But this already satisfied Xia Lunong.

He came out with four bottles of Coke, buried them in the snow, turned back to the armored vehicle and took out the pot, intending to cook.

The instant noodles smelled too strong, and although there was a place to cook in the armored vehicle, it was not suitable to cook inside.

Xia Lunong hummed a song, took out Chinese cabbage, instant noodles, and ham sausage, and went to look for eggs and seaweed.

The eggs and Chinese cabbage were all brought out from the base. Apart from that, the rest of the supplies were all found just now.

Kong Zhi and the others were not idle, some were making fires nearby, and some were counting supplies.

Yan Xinian watched Xia Lunong tear seaweed and asked curiously, "Why do you put seaweed in instant noodles?"

"No, I'm just making some seaweed egg drop soup." Xia Lunong's hands moved quickly, "Brother Xinian, you don't know that seaweed egg drop soup is a perfect match for instant noodles! It's a great innovation for contemporary college students to maintain a balanced nutrition."

Yan Xinian smiled, "Beer soaked in wolfberries, instant noodles with egg drop soup for health preservation?"

Xia Lunong raised her chin, "Do you want to eat it?"

"Yes!"

Due to insufficient conditions after the disaster, they hadn't eaten instant noodles for a long time.

Instant noodles are different from dried noodles. They are chewy and smooth, especially when the hard core has just melted and the noodles are not yet cooked. At this time, pick up the noodles and put them in your mouth. The smooth noodles absorb the soup. If you are not good at it, you will get oil spots all over your face!

Xia Lunong cooked the noodles with Laotan pickled cabbage noodles.

He took a bite. The sour and rich soup wrapped the noodles, fully contacting every taste bud. It was sour, spicy, and very thick.

After the noodles, take a bite of the soft and salty ham sausage, or a bite of fresh and tender cabbage. The taste is simply amazing.

After eating, if you don't like the spiciness, you can have a sip of iced cola, if you don't like the saltiness, you can have a sip of seaweed egg

drop soup. The cola and egg drop soup are right next to you, you can choose. Xia Lunong was eating with the bowl in his hand, and he was gasping for air because of the spiciness

. He hadn't eaten so well in a long time, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

Seeing him like this, Kong Zhi gave him the small green vegetables in his bowl and asked him to eat more vegetables to avoid stomachache.

After eating the noodles, Yan Xinian took the bowl to wash it.

The layer of oil on the instant noodles is difficult to wash, and it is also difficult to wash it with hot water.

Xia Lunong would rather cook than wash dishes.

After eating, several people moved their positions and returned to the armored vehicle to chat.

Xia Lunong checked the space bamboo tube and said, "Our space bamboo tube is almost full. We will go to Yueji tomorrow and collect some things on the way. It should be full."

Xia Huoqu nodded, "Then there's no need to make a special trip. We can just drive back through the road we've never driven before."

"Okay." Xia Lunong put away the bamboo tube, touched the branch of Xia Huajiao who was resting next to him, and asked, "Brother, there are so many cars here, how are we going to drive back?"

"Let's see if we can run into Baniu and the others tomorrow. If we do, have them send some people to drive the car back to the base. If we don't, your brother and I will lead the team to come over in two days and drive the car back."

Xia Lunong thought for a moment and said, "That's fine." Xia

Huoqu said, "There's nothing to do in winter anyway, so it doesn't matter if we run a few more times."

Xia Lunong glanced at Kong Zhi and said, "If there's nothing to do next, Kong Zhi and I want to go around and have a look."

Xia Huoqu knew he had this idea and didn't stop him. "Go if you want to, just be careful."

Xia Lunong was full of confidence. "It's okay. Kong Zhi can fly, so there won't be any danger. We will be careful outside."

Xia Huoqu didn't want to interfere too much because his younger brother had grown up. "Okay."

They didn't encounter anything special next.

The next day they went back to find the rose.

The rose made a deal with them readily.

Xia Lunong said, "We have something else to do, so we have to go back to the base first. We'll come to see you next time

when we're free." "When is the next time?" Yue Ji was reluctant to leave them, "Won't you exchange more petals with me?"

"Next time, we can't use up too many petals if we exchange too many petals at once." Xia Lunong said, "Then we'll take your original body back."

The part of Yue Ji's body that was separated also had consciousness, but after leaving the rose bush, the original body was not as lively and fell into a semi-dormant state.

In the past two days, they wrapped the original body of Yue Ji in a plastic bag and stuffed it into the back seat of the armored vehicle. It has not made any movement since then.

Xia Lunong and others took the original body of Yue Ji back to the base.

They did not encounter the other two cars along the way. Judging from the ruts, the other two cars may have returned to the base.

They did not arrive at the foot of the mountain until the afternoon of the next day.

Before returning to the base, Xia Lunong took the rose body to the honeysuckle body, planted the rose body, and injected a supernatural power into the wilted rose body.

Rose regained consciousness after sensing the scent of honeysuckle. It raised its branches to feel it, and asked Xia Lunong in a depressed tone, "Why is it so desolate here? Why is honeysuckle still unconscious? What's the difference between this and a mutant plant like me living here?"

Xia Lunong felt the frustration coming from it and couldn't help but smile, "I told you before, it's like this for now, maybe by next spring, the honeysuckle itself will be conscious."

"How long do we have to wait?" Rose was not used to it, and turned its branches, "It must be so boring for a mutant plant like me to be here?"

Xia Lunong touched its branches and leaves, "We will come down the mountain to check on you often, you should rest well here, and we'll see each other then."

"Hey!" Yueji stretched out her vines and grabbed the corner of his clothes, "Why don't you take me to your base?"

"Don't you want to go to our base?" Xia Lunong hesitated, "There are a lot of people in our base."

Yueji said without hesitation, "More is more! Didn't you say that there will be more people here in the future? What's wrong with me adapting in advance now?"

Xia Lunong was grabbed by Yueji's clothes and refused to leave.

Kong Zhi was planting roses with him, and when he saw this, he asked, "What's wrong?"

Xia Lunong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and told him about Yueji's plan, "Yueji also wants to go to our base." After

answering Kong Zhi's question, Xia Lunong said to Yueji, "If you go to our base, what about here? Aren't you planted with the honeysuckle?" Yueji said,

"Break off a branch of mine and stick it here. Give me some supernatural powers, and a new body of mine will grow here."

Xia Lunong felt something was wrong, "So, can't you reproduce infinitely?"

"Not really. If I have too many plants, my consciousness will collapse." Rose said, "I bred too many plants this summer. Then I felt something was wrong, and some of them froze to death in the winter. The situation has gradually improved."

Xia Lunong: "..."

He was just saying why he felt that this rose was weird, and it turned out that something really happened, and now it is the result of self-rescue.

Yueji didn't realize that she had let the cat out of the bag, and urged Xia Lunong, "What do you think? Is it okay? Take me up."

Xia Lunong thought for a moment, "It's okay to take you up, but we have to make an agreement first. You have to restrain yourself, not reproduce at will, and the toxicity of the thorns must be restrained, so as not to hurt the members of our base."

Yueji bargained, "What if they provoke me first?"

Xia Lunong said, "I will tell the people in the base not to provoke you. If they really do, try not to fight back, and wait for me to come back and deal with it."

Yueji was not convinced.

Xia Lunong added seriously, "Even if you really fight back, you can't leave irreversible damage to the people in the base."

He paused, "If you deliberately hurt the people in our base, then we are the enemy."

Yueji was silent for a moment.

Seeing its look, Xia Lunong felt that this guy was still wild and difficult to tame, so she suggested: "Why don't you think about it first, I'll come down to see you and Honeysuckle tomorrow. Then you decide whether you want to go to the base with me?"

Yueji got angry, "Why are you always urging me? Give me some time, can't I think about it today?"

Xia Lunong smiled and said, "Okay, okay, you think about it for a while, I'll go to the armored vehicle and talk to my brothers."

Xia Lunong told her two brothers about this.

Xia Huoqu said: "You have to ensure the safety of the rose and make sure it won't harm our base."

Xia Lunong said: "That should be fine. I will keep it small and prevent it from growing outside. As long as the people in the base don't come to our house and provoke the rose, nothing should happen."

Xia Huoqu nodded and said: "Just keep it in mind. It's okay to bring it into the base, but don't talk too much about the rose with the people in the base."

Xia Lunong knew that even if everyone was in the same base, some things should not be fully disclosed.

Their family had many secrets, and he knew that other people in the base also had many secrets.

For example, Old Liu, and some scientists in the White Building.

As long as these secrets do not cause harm to others, everyone will turn a blind eye and not pry too much.

Yan Xinian said, "Raising roses in the base is a double-edged sword. Xiao Nong, you should communicate more with roses to make sure that its thoughts are not dangerous. At least after entering the human gathering area, it needs to abide by some human customs."

Xia Lunong nodded, "No problem, I will talk to it and try to ensure that it is clear about some secular conventions of humans and not let it spread to a large scale. A plant will not cause any danger to us. After all, our advantage over plants is too great."

Xia Huoqu saw that he knew what was going on, so he didn't say much.

Rose trusted Xia Lunong quite a lot.

After thinking for a while, it decided to go to their base with Xia Lunong.

It had been chatting with Xia Lunong a lot recently, and it was no longer willing to wait alone here alone.

Xia Lunong had no objection, "Remember our agreement."

"Why are you so long-winded?" Rose said, "I know."

Xia Lunong touched the rose's leaves and smiled.

Seeing this, Xia Huajiao waved its branches unhappily, trying to squeeze the rose to cling to Xia Lunong's hand.

Xia Huajiao followed them all the way in a semi-hibernating posture, and now finally understood that if the rose wanted to go back with them, it would no longer be the only intelligent mutant plant in the family.

The IQ of the rose is much higher than that of the summer pepper. It is not afraid of the summer pepper which is much larger than it. It can pull the summer pepper apart by pulling its thin branches on its branches and leaves.

Xia Lunong was quick to act. He reached out and pinched the tender thorn on the top of the rose, "You can't bully Xia Huajiao!"

Xia Huajiao: "Swish!"

The thin and weak branches of the rose came up and accused him, "Why are you still partial?"

"I would be partial if I didn't care about you." Xia Lunong smiled, "You two should get along well, otherwise I won't give you the superpower."

The rose was not very satisfied, "I feel like your attitude changed as soon as I followed you back to your base."

"If you don't bully Xia Huajiao and other animals and plants, I will definitely not change." Xia Lunong gave it and Xia Huajiao a little superpower each, "You two should get along well and cooperate for mutual benefit."

The rose had a bad temper, but after all, she was not very experienced in the world, and Xia Lunong quickly took care of this guy.

After settling the dispute between the two plants, Xia Lunong whispered to Kong Zhi, "Why do I feel like we have a second child?"

Kong Zhi said, "Then this guy needs to change his name to Xia Yueji."