Chapter 38 038 Petting Cats
Chen Junyun sent someone to deliver a message to Chi Yingdong and Meng Qinghe.
Two weeks later, there was a flight from Shanghai to Kyoto.
Half a month is neither a long nor a short time.
Meng Qinghe spent his days watching TV dramas that Chi Yingdong had downloaded before the apocalypse, living a life of utter boredom, almost to the point of mold.
"or……"
She suddenly turned her head and looked at Chi Yingdong.
Chi Yingdong: "?"
Meng Qinghe scratched his cheek, his eyes darting around, his voice so low it was almost inaudible: "How about... we go kill some zombies?"
As soon as she said it, she was prepared to be rejected.
After all, her special ability is rather useless against zombies.
Unexpectedly—
Chi Yingdong smiled and patted her head. "Okay, let's go to the mission hall and take a mission."
Meng Qinghe's heart skipped a beat.
She covered her head with both hands, her already large eyes widening even more. "I'm not a kitten anymore, don't touch me like that."
"Oh?" Chi Yingdong asked, "Then can you turn back into a cat?"
She felt a little nostalgic!
Meng Qinghe's heart trembled. "What do you want to do?!"
"What can I do?" Chi Yingdong asked back. "I want to pet a cat."
Meng Qinghe could hardly believe his ears.
She looked up and met Chi Yingdong's smiling eyes, a blush creeping onto her cheeks.
"I...I'll go change my shoes."
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After they finished packing, the two left their residence and headed towards the mission hall.
They met many people along the way.
Regardless of height, weight, or appearance, everyone's expression is becoming increasingly numb.
The base has been attacked repeatedly, and ordinary residents have long accepted that death is only a matter of time, perhaps even tomorrow. As for this apocalypse, no one knows when it will end.
Upon arriving at the mission lobby, the white walls were covered with a dense array of mission sheets.
Each card has a red stamp in the lower left corner, with A, B, and C indicating the danger level of the mission.
Level A missions are high-risk, so most of the posts on the wall are Level B missions. The content is similar, mostly involving going out to collect rare supplies, such as high blood pressure medicine and children's cold medicine.
Chi Yingdong has all these things in his space, so there's no need to make a special trip.
Meng Qinghe picked and chose, but couldn't find a satisfactory task, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned down.
She felt she absolutely had to take on a task today, but none of them were things she liked.
"How about this mission?"
Upon hearing Chi Yingdong's voice, Meng Qinghe immediately moved closer.
The next second, she looked at Chi Yingdong in shock.
Chi Yingdong chose an A-level mission!
The mission is to search the factory of a large pharmaceutical company in Jiangsu Province and bring back the medicines and experimental data from the warehouse.
Below the red stamp is an explanation of why the task was rated A.
1. The factory is filled with zombies.
2. Failure to retrieve experimental data is considered a mission failure.
3. The laboratory has multiple identity verification methods. You must accompany a non-supernatural codebreaker and ensure their safe return.
After reading the official explanation, Meng Qinghe immediately felt that even an A grade for this task was too low!
Taking someone who has absolutely no ability to protect themselves on a mission, and ensuring that she is unharmed, is an extremely difficult task.
Because no one has accepted the task for a long time, the task reward keeps accumulating.
The rewards included not only canned goods and instant noodles, but also a large amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, and even a basket of strawberries.
In the apocalypse, having a bite of fresh, green fruit and vegetables is a luxury, let alone the delicate and difficult-to-grow strawberries.
Two days ago, they went to the base's black market, where an ordinary cabbage had been sold for a sky-high price of 100 crystals.
If it weren't for the apocalypse, who would have thought that cabbage, which used to cost a few cents a pound in the market, would one day become prohibitively expensive?
Meng Qinghe wasn't very interested in fruits and vegetables because Chi Yingdong already had too many in his space.
She glanced sideways and saw that Chi Yingdong was staring intently at the task list, seemingly intending to accept it.
If I really have to take on this task.
Meng Qinghe began to think seriously: Could a team have two burdens?
She is still self-aware.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Meng Qinghe, and he quickly grasped the key information.
Hidden in this factory is the golden finger she left for the original female lead, Ye Rourou: gene serum.
In the original text, Ye Rourou did not awaken any superpowers, so the gene serum had no effect on her.
However, she gave half of the gene serum to Qiao Ying, which greatly enhanced Qiao Ying's superpowers, and their relationship also warmed up as a result.
In this life, although Ye Rourou has not yet met Qiao Ying, there is no such thing as too much good stuff, especially since both she and Chi Yingdong can use this gene serum.
"Let's take this mission!"
Meng Qinghe was determined to succeed.
However, this mission is only available to teams of five or more, and they currently only have two of them.
Just as they were struggling with how to solve the problem, the staff in the mission hall noticed them and told them that the base offered temporary team-up services.
As soon as Chi Yingdong finished filling out the recruitment notice and released it, several people with supernatural abilities immediately volunteered.
Meng Qinghe couldn't help but sigh inwardly: the allure of Level 3 ability users is indeed not to be underestimated.
The staff handed the application list to Chi Yingdong. Chi Yingdong glanced at it and said, "You can arrange it. Only three people are needed."
Faced with the strongest individual with the highest level of superpower at the base, the staff dared not be negligent and quickly arranged three team members who were impeccable in terms of character, personality, and superpower level.
Departure time is set for the following day.
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The next morning, Meng Qinghe was doing a final inventory of supplies, while Chi Yingdong leaned against the door, a hint of a smile in his eyes.
"These things are all in the space; just take whatever you need whenever you need it."
Meng Qinghe retorted, "This time it's not just the two of us. What if we get exposed by taking things from the space?"
"I'll listen to you," Chi Yingdong chuckled.
After learning about the base's strength, Chi Yingdong didn't care whether her space was exposed, as it could be considered one of her special abilities. Nowadays, there are dual-type ability users.
But the girl's thoughtfulness towards her still made her feel happy.
After they were ready, they arrived at the entrance of the base.
The other members of the temporary team have arrived, only the codebreaker is missing.
While waiting, the five people introduced themselves.
Meng Qinghe learned that the other three were Qiu Yi, an earth-type ability user; Luo Zhiyin, a fire-type ability user; and Han Li, a dark-type ability user.
Special ability users always attract attention, and Meng Qinghe couldn't help but glance at Han Li a few more times.
Han Li has a mature and sophisticated look, with captivating fox-like eyes.
Qiu Yi was also sizing up Han Li when she suddenly exclaimed "Oh!" Her look of sudden realization drew everyone's attention.
She scratched her head sheepishly and asked Han Li, "Did you play the evil concubine in 'The Snowfall'?"
"It's me."
Han Li was slightly taken aback, his expression somewhat dazed.
She looked down at the hem of her clothes, which were creased and stained with blood.
Although she has awakened her superpowers, the fear and anxiety of the apocalypse still make her feel that her illustrious acting career seems like something from a past life.
"You're an actor!"
Meng Qinghe looked at Han Li with curiosity; acting was a profession she had never imagined she would be involved in.
Han Li's smile was bitter: "That's all in the past."
Meng Qinghe gazed at her, this character outside the original plot, whose every move was vivid and lively.
She clearly realized that this was a complete world, and that everyone was independent, flesh and blood, not just a thin symbol in her writing.
Suddenly, my palm was pinched lightly, and a tingling, stinging sensation spread through it.
Meng Qinghe looked at Chi Yingdong with dissatisfaction, but the other party looked away, leaving her only with a full back of his head.
However, the grip on her wrist did not loosen at all.
Is he jealous?
Meng Qinghe looked at the two clasped hands, then at the back of Chi Yingdong's head.
At this moment, the decipherer, who was surrounded by staff, broke the delicate atmosphere.
She carried a toolbox, and her baby face made her look exceptionally young.
As the sun rose higher, the weather became increasingly hot.
Luo Zhiyin urged, "Everyone's here, how do we set off?"
She looked around but saw no means of transportation, and finally looked at Chi Yingdong with a puzzled expression.
Chi Yingdong frowned slightly.
She has a car in her space, but it's not big enough for so many people, and she doesn't want outsiders to touch her things.
Just as they were about to spend two crystal cores to rent a car, Chen Junyun's people drove up to them.
Looking at the brand-new pickup truck in front of him, Meng Qinghe couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Chen Junyun, the base leader, really knew how to handle things.
The six people officially set off.
Apart from Qiu Yi, everyone else could drive, so Qiu Yi took the initiative to cook, while the others took turns driving.
Chi Yingdong drove the first section of the road, and everyone tacitly pushed Meng Qinghe into the passenger seat.
The zombies near the base have been cleared, but the roads are still bumpy and uneven after the heavy rain, so driving speed is not fast.
They were all young women in their early twenties and not yet thirty, and they quickly became acquainted, chatting away non-stop.
Qiu Yi leaned back in her chair, her eyes sparkling, and asked gossipily, "Qinghe, Yingdong, are you two a couple?"
She's a total looks-obsessed person, and the contrasting pairing of Meng Qinghe and Chi Yingdong—a high-value, soft-girl Alpha and a cool, aloof Omega—is absolutely irresistible to her.
Meng Qinghe was taken aback.
Are she and Chi Yingdong... considered a couple?
Before she could even sort out her thoughts, she heard Chi Yingdong's soft "hmm" in her ear.
"Wow!"
A chorus of cheers erupted from the back row.
How did you two meet?
How long have you been together?
Who confessed first?
Gossip questions came one after another. Meng Qinghe looked down at the hand resting on her leg, her cheeks flushing slightly.
In his ear, Chi Yingdong patiently answered each question.
Her pronunciation was clear, and her tone seemed calm, but upon closer listening, a subtle hint of doting affection was hidden.
Meng Qinghe nervously picked at his fingers.
Fortunately, the conversation didn't last long; everyone gradually became drowsy, conserving their energy for the unknown dangers ahead.
Once the steady breathing of the person in the back row was heard, Meng Qinghe quietly looked at Chi Yingdong and asked, "Were you jealous just now?"
"Um?"
Meng Qinghe subconsciously curled his fingers.
"Um."
Meng Qinghe glanced at Chi Yingdong out of the corner of her eye, unable to figure out what those two "hmm" sounds meant.
After a long while, she heard Chi Yingdong ask, "Am I not pretty?"
Meng Qinghe nodded honestly: "It looks good."
Chi Yingdong pressed on: "You can't just look at me. I don't like you staring at other people."
"oh……"
Meng Qinghe remained outwardly calm, but inwardly she felt sweet and tender.
As the vehicle moved away from the base, the surrounding greenery gradually thickened.
Chi Yingdong stopped the car and looked at the ivy covering the entire road ahead, then asked Meng Qinghe to wake up the people in the back seat.
Luo Zhiyin was the first to open her eyes. After seeing the scene in front of her, she immediately understood why they had been woken up.
The larger the mutated plant, the more dangerous it is. She couldn't even imagine what level this overwhelming ivy was.
"Captain, how about... I try burning it with fire?"
Luo Zhiyin's voice lacked confidence.
Huo Ke Mu, in the past, when she encountered mutated plants on missions, she would burn them all.
But those before were not even in the same league as the mutated ivy before us!
"It hasn't attacked us yet, let's change routes. Everyone, watch your surroundings!"
As he spoke, Chi Yingdong gripped the steering wheel and began to turn around.
During the U-turn, the ivy on the ground remained completely still, but no one in the car dared to relax.
As soon as the car straightened, Meng Qinghe loosened her grip on the handrail slightly, her eyes still fixed on the road. She thought she saw the ivy move slightly!
Just as he was about to speak up to remind her, Qiu Yi in the back seat shouted, "Step on the gas!"
Chi Yingdong reacted extremely quickly, pressing the accelerator to the floor, but the car did not move an inch.
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