"Aunt Yang Mei!"
Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly stood up and greeted them politely.
It quickly dawned on me that Yang Mei had sent this delicious fruit yogurt dessert.
Looking at Yang Mei's gentle smiling face, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt that something was off.
Aunt Yang Mei seemed to have suddenly become a different person, showing her great care.
Not getting a reply from Zhao Xiaoxiu, Yang Mei asked her again, "Don't you like this yogurt soup?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu looked down at the food container in her hand. There was only a small portion of yogurt left; the rest had already been eaten.
Whether someone likes it or not, it's obvious without them saying a word.
Yang Mei had obviously also noticed the nearly empty yogurt container and said with a smile, "Auntie has a lot of delicious snacks over there. If you like, you can go and find Auntie."
Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled shyly, "Thank you, Aunt Yang Mei, but you're so busy, so I won't bother you any longer."
Yang Mei looked slightly disappointed, but didn't say anything. She stood up and repeated to Zhao Gang what she had just said to Zhao Xiaoxiu, telling Zhao Gang that he could bring the child to see her at any time.
"Then everyone should get some rest. There's another tough battle to fight tomorrow." Yang Mei smiled encouragingly at everyone before leading the guards away.
As everyone watched her leave, their gazes shifted when they turned back to look at Zhao Gang and his daughter. Their expressions changed; they became inquisitive, curious, and now even politely obsequious.
Yang Mei made a special trip, which surprised even Mo Shigui.
When Yang Mei specifically asked about Zhao Gang and his daughter, he found this sudden attention strange.
Now that Yang Mei has made this special trip in front of everyone, and even showed concern for the father and daughter, it's hard not to suspect that Zhao Gang and his daughter actually have other identities.
Are they relatives?
Mo Shigui glanced at the father and daughter who were continuing to eat as if nothing had happened, and thought to himself, "They don't even look alike!"
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. He, who only does manual labor, can't possibly guess what those leaders are thinking.
Mo Shigui clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention in the camp. After informing them of the current situation in Jiangcheng, he announced:
"Tomorrow, we'll follow the second home team and dig trenches!"
Aji asked, puzzled, "Why dig a trench instead of dealing with that S-class mutated hallucinogenic mushroom first?"
Mo Shigui put on a stern face: "What we need to do is carry out the orders issued above. Don't ask anything else."
"Have you all understood your tasks for tomorrow?"
Everyone: "Understood!"
Mo Shigui waved his hand: "Five people come with me to get the digging tools, the rest of you stay put and wait for the next instructions."
Zhao Gang and Zhao Xiaoxiu looked at the empty food container and decided to return it to the logistics department.
All I saw along the way were soldiers resting and adjusting their equipment. One group was testing reconnaissance drones in an open area, seemingly preparing to launch them all to investigate the situation inside Jiangcheng.
After returning the food containers, Zhao Xiaoxiu pulled her father aside to watch for a while. Seeing that the drones flew away and never returned, she whispered in amazement, "The purple mushrooms in the city are amazing."
Zhao Gang licked his lips: "I'll eat it in one bite."
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "......"
The father and daughter looked up at the sky and sighed in unison, "Why isn't it dark yet?"
The two stood there for another hour watching the drone take off, disappear, take off, disappear.
It finally got dark.
Lights came on at the camp, and patrol convoys moved intensively around the camp. Occasionally, bursts of artillery fire could be heard, which would then subside after a few minutes.
Gradually, the camp quieted down, and everyone except the soldiers who had missions to perform fell asleep.
Zhao Xiaoxiu lay in her sleeping bag with her father and secretly glanced at the time on her phone: 11:30 p.m.
The entire 528 team was staying in a military tent, and everyone was already asleep.
After all, the military has strict discipline; once a time is set for bedtime, that time must be followed, and no noise can be made.
Zhao Gang couldn't wait any longer and unconsciously muttered "hungry" several times.
Seeing that everyone had fallen asleep, the father and daughter sneaked out of their sleeping bags.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was afraid of waking the others in the tent, so she moved quietly and furtively.
Zhao Gang couldn't stand the dawdling any longer, so he picked up the cub and held it in his arms without making a sound, then slipped out of the tent like a ghost.
The camp was surrounded by vehicle-mounted towers, and the bright beams of searchlights swept across the camp, which Zhao Gang was always able to dodge in advance.
As she slipped out of the camp's cordon, Zhao Xiaoxiu barely dared to breathe loudly, feeling both tense and excited.
Twenty miles from Jiangcheng, out of human sight, Zhao Gang no longer concealed himself. His tentacles extended out, enveloping Zhao Xiaoxiu in the center, and then shot forward.
Unable to perceive any information from the outside world while wrapped up, Zhao Xiaoxiu only knew that her living father was extremely excited and happy.
As the flesh and blood before her eyes revealed a crack, the dreamlike forest city she had passed through came into view, and Zhao Xiaoxiu was once again awestruck by the magnificent and dreamlike scenery.
She slid down from the enormous tentacles. On the former city streets, now overgrown with mutated plants, several malfunctioning drones could still be seen.
Once you reach this point, you'll be in the territory of the mutated umbrella mushrooms, where all electronic devices will become ineffective.
A strange fragrance wafted into the air, and the surrounding mutated plants were unusually quiet.
Looking down, the ground was covered with a spiderweb of white mycelium connecting the roots of all the mutated plants, greedily absorbing all the nutrients.
A flock of mutated birds flew over Zhao Xiaoxiu's head, as if a pause button had been pressed, their flapping wings suddenly stopped, and they fell to the ground.
The white mycelium immediately lit up with silver-blue lightning, covering the mutated bird flock.
The whole process looks slow, but it's actually very fast.
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Xiaoxiu discovered that her shoes were covered with shimmering, electric-like mycelium.
The massive, blood-red fleshy body standing behind her extended a tentacle, the tip of which gently swept across the surface of her shoe. The mycelium that was trying to devour the cubs retreated as quickly as a mouse seeing a cat!
The other tentacles turned in all directions, their eyes wide open, searching for a place to house the cubs.
Finally, they placed her on the rooftop of the tallest building in Jiangcheng.
[Sweetie, Daddy's going to eat. He'll be right back. Take good care of yourself.]
As soon as Zhao Xiaoxiu's feet touched the moss-covered rooftop, this message entered her mind.
She opened her eyes slightly, surprised for a moment, and tentatively answered in her mind: "Mmm."
I received feedback immediately.
[The weapons and yogurt are behind you; Dad's gone.]
The moment the words fell, the enormous, blood-red body appeared like lightning directly above the giant umbrella-shaped mushroom cluster in the center of the city.
The main mushroom seemed to sense something, and a bright silver-blue light suddenly burst forth, illuminating the entire city as if it were daytime.
The light flickered for a full ten seconds before being completely covered and swallowed by the expanding, blood-red fleshy tentacles, and then disappeared.
At the same time, the machines at the monitoring stations outside the city collectively emitted sharp alarm whistles and their red lights flashed wildly!
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