Chapter 32
Seeing clearly that it was a green ball, Wen Xin was slightly startled and called it: “Alu?”
“Meow.”
After the green ball responded, it rubbed against his arm again, looking even clingier than before.
Wen Xin subconsciously rubbed Green Ball’s head.
Immediately afterward, a sharp pain came from his temple, and he couldn’t help but raise his hand and press hard.
Gunshots, roars, screams…
Scenes emerged in Wen Xin’s mind, all of which were scenes of the fierce battle with zombies last night.
He frowned while enduring the headache.
Why are there so many zombies here, and where does that giant zombie come from?
They were almost…wait!
Wen Xin immediately looked up and asked, “How is everyone?”
Before he finished speaking, Canary came over with a basin of warm water.
The blood scab on his neck had fallen off, leaving only a faint mark.
“Everyone is fine.”
The boy put down the basin: “Number One… Xiao Hei is outside investigating the situation, Lan Lan is resting in the sink, and Ah Zi is making a fire at the door to cook.”
“As for the others, they are all here.”
Canary pointed to the ground and Wen Xin looked over.
The others were worried that Wen Xin wouldn’t sleep well, so they tucked him in and adjusted his sleeping position. They were also concerned that his wound couldn’t breathe, so they would pull up the quilt for a while from time to time.
Xu Qiang and his friends don’t receive such good treatment.
They were still in the same condition as they had been thrown to the ground last night.
Some people hit the ground with their heads, some people bent into a knot, and some people kicked another person in the face.
The shoe prints are very clear.
The corner of Wen Xin’s mouth twitched.
I don’t know what happened last night, but it was not very nice to lie on the bed alone while letting others lie on the floor.
He quickly got out of bed and checked on the crew-haired guy and the others.
Wen Xin found that there were no teeth marks or scratches from zombies on the bodies of the men and their breathing was still normal. He instantly breathed a sigh of relief, helped them up and put them on the bed.
Fortunately, the bed is big enough, so there is no need to worry about being crowded even if you put it sideways.
Just in the process of helping one of them up, Wen Xin’s overly slow brain suddenly moved and he became a little more sober.
He noticed that Canary had omitted the word “Dumpling” in her words, and her voice was flat when she spoke, and she was in a very depressed mood.
Looking back, it was not only the canary that was behaving abnormally, the usually talkative green ball was even more silent.
Except for the few minutes when he just woke up and called out a few times, Green Ball squatted beside the bed and looked at him quietly for the rest of the time.
Those shining animal eyes had lost their usual arrogance and confidence, staring straight at his every move, revealing an indescribable paranoia and sadness.
Wen Xin curled his fingers subconsciously.
When he retracted his hand, he felt the softness of the pink hair and the hardness of the green scales at the same time.
Somehow, a bad guess flashed through my mind.
Wen Xin took a deep breath.
He tried to move everyone to bed as calmly as possible, took the wet towel handed to him by Canary, and washed his face.
After doing all this, he calmed down the violent fluctuations in his heart and returned to a relatively calm state.
Wen Xin picked up the green ball that was caught off guard, in a state that would not irritate anyone else.
He reached out his hand again and pinched the green ball’s furry cheek lightly.
The green ball suddenly felt pain and growled.
When it looked up at Wen Xin’s expression of unable to hold back his laughter, it immediately got angry: “Meow!”
What are you doing!
“Nothing.”
Wen Xin seemed to understand Lu Tuanzi’s complaints. His eyes curved slightly and he smiled innocently and brightly: “It’s not easy to see our Ah Lu in such a deep state. I found it quite strange and couldn’t help but take action.”
“…”
After hearing the explanation, the green group became even angrier: “Meow meow!”
Wen Xin, you big bastard!
Stimulated by this, the sadness on Green Ball’s face disappeared completely.
Wen Xin waited until it had grumbled a few times before he smiled and coaxed it softly.
“It’s my fault. Lord A-Lu is magnanimous. Please forgive me, okay?”
As he spoke, he rubbed Green Ball’s head and scratched Green Ball’s cheek.
He placed his entire palm on the back of Tuanzi’s neck, and moved his hand down along the spine, gently but firmly.
The hair smoothing effect is immediate.
Under Wen Xin’s touch, the angry green ball soon forgot the unpleasantness just now, collapsed softly, rested his chin on his thigh, squinted his eyes and snored.
It has an amazing recovery ability. The marks left by the bullets last night could not even be called wounds. They disappeared in just a few hours, so Wen Xin could touch it without any worries.
Seeing that Lu Tuan was so comfortable, Wen Xin couldn’t help but soften his gaze. He stroked his head to the tip of his tail, and even touched the pads of his retracted claws twice.
After comforting the green ball, he turned around and looked at the canary next to him.
Facing those warm and clear eyes, the canary pursed her lips, thinking about how to tell the young man that the little fox had left last night.
Unexpectedly, the other party’s words were shocking as soon as they opened their mouths.
“Xiao Qi left, right?”
Canary couldn’t help but ask, “How did you know?”
Seeing that the young man did not refute, Wen Xin probably had an idea in his mind.
In an instant, his mind seemed to be in turmoil.
Many thoughts mixed together, half of which were great worry about the little fox leaving home alone, and half of which were confusion about why the little fox wanted to leave.
These thoughts took less than half a breath.
Wen Xin calmed down and continued to ask, “Xiao Qi left because it suddenly attacked everyone last night, right?”
Canary was so shocked that she forgot to answer for a moment.
But he showed all his surprise on his face.
Wen Xin’s guess was confirmed and he closed his eyes.
He suppressed his worry and tried to recall the details that he had never noticed or paid attention to in the past.
As Xiaoqi entered his growth period, he felt unwell and began to become sleepy.
Xiao Qi suddenly attacked the people around him without any warning. Xiao Qi left overnight without even saying goodbye to him.
…
Wen Xin pieced these messy clues together and came up with a cruel and bizarre truth.
——During the growth period, Xiaoqi will lose control. This kind of loss of control cannot be suppressed and is extremely unstable, so serious that it will endanger everyone’s lives, so it has to leave immediately.
However, knowing the situation is one thing and accepting it is another.
Wen Xin tried his best to take this unexpected incident calmly, but it was difficult to be completely calm.
He asked: “Did Xiaoqi tell me where he would go in the end when he left?”
Canary was silent for a moment and shook his head: “It just said to find a place where there are no people, so that it won’t hurt anyone.”
Hearing this, Wen Xin’s chest heaved.
This stupid fox.
There is no one to take care of you, what should you do if something happens?
This is not something a young fox cub should have to endure.
Thinking of this, Wen Xin reflexively took a step forward and walked towards the door.
But after taking a few steps, he was forced to stop.
Now a whole night has passed, and with the little fox’s speed, it would have disappeared long ago.
He had no idea where to find this silly little fox.
Rub the area between the eyebrows with warmth and warmth.
He pressed his skin almost red before he could finally suppress his anxiety.
He could only comfort himself.
——Xiao Qi can use illusions, and ordinary people can’t beat it or hurt it. Moreover, Xiao Qi wandered with A Jiu for a while before coming to this family, so he shouldn’t be stupid enough to believe in someone unconditionally.
Wen Xin was so anxious that he didn’t notice that the green ball in his arms raised its head and was secretly looking at him.
Originally, Green Group was still a little bit bothered by the fact that he was leaving.
But now, its irritability and anxiety were suddenly relieved by Wen Xin’s anxious eyes.
‘ thought the Scaly Tree Viper.
The fact that humans can be so anxious means that they take these things very seriously.
Even if one day they can’t come back, humans should not forget them.
Of course, humans’ memory isn’t as good as mutants’, and the scaly tree viper knows that.
As long as Wen Xin can remember them for twenty years, ten years, five years…
Even if it was only for a short year, the scaly tree viper felt very satisfied.
After all, these are the humans it wants to protect, so we can’t be too harsh on them.
“Meow~”
Wen Xin came back to his senses when the green ball stretched out its head and rubbed his chin.
While he was anxious, he remembered that he was holding something in his hand, so he slowly opened his palm.
The pink hair was a souvenir the little fox left for him before leaving.
So what does the other green scale mean?
Wen Xin bit his cheek, feeling that the green ball in his arms suddenly weighed a thousand pounds, making it a little difficult for him to hold it steadily.
Green Ball didn’t want to move either, as it was afraid of saying goodbye to Wen Xin.
But when it found that Wen Xin’s eyes were always on its scales, it couldn’t help but perk up, turned its head and meowed twice at the canary.
Canary’s eyes were full of complexity.
Finally, he followed the scaly tree viper’s meaning and said, “Alu found this scale on the slope early in the morning. He thought it was very beautiful, so he brought it back for you as a souvenir.”
Before she finished speaking, Canary herself felt a little ridiculous.
I’ve only heard of snakes shedding their skins, but I’ve never heard of snakes shedding their scales.
Moreover, this area is extremely desolate. Where on earth can one find a complete snake scale?
Who knew that the young man in front of him was slightly startled, and then laughed out loud in understanding: “So that’s how it is.”
Canary: …Did you really believe it? ?
This statement is full of loopholes, how could Wen Xin believe it?
He just saw Lu Tuan’s anxious look and couldn’t help but say it.
After saying that, I noticed that the green cat had a wrinkled face and didn’t look satisfied at all.
Wen Xin blinked his eyes, put aside all those messy worries and sadness, and carefully reviewed what Canary said.
Soon, he found the key sentence in that passage.
——Alu thinks it looks very beautiful.
Wen Xin lowered his head and looked at the scales in his hand more carefully than before.
He did not immediately follow Green Ball’s thoughts and praise him, because that kind of perfunctory attitude was not what Green Ball wanted.
With just a quick glance, he discovered the extraordinary nature of this scale.
Every corner seems to have been carefully polished, smooth yet sharp. The scales are moderately thick and thin, with no particular part standing out.
The most important thing is color.
Wen Xin has petted the cat so many times that he is very familiar with Green Ball’s body.
In his impression, only the hair close to the heart can gather three different levels of colors at the same time.
Wen Xin thought about it and came to the window with the green ball in his arms.
The sun was bright and warm. He laid his scales flat in the sun, and they immediately reflected a gorgeous luster.
Despite their inherent physical defects, most mutants have normal color vision, including the scaly tree viper.
It saw the colorful lights clearly and was stunned.
In the days of escape, it could not appear in the sun, otherwise it would easily expose itself.
Later, when it arrived at Wen Xin’s house, it wanted to sleep while basking in the sun, having never looked at its scales in such a scene.
The green group looked a little dazed.
The next second, it heard Wen Xin, who was also in a trance, sighing to it from the bottom of his heart.
“This scale is really beautiful.”
In an instant, the green ball shook all over and became excited!
What Wen Xin didn’t know was that in order to select this perfect scale, Green Ball had spent most of the day picking and choosing on his body.
He thought that this was a souvenir left by the Green Group in preparation for their departure, and a feeling of discomfort suddenly filled his heart.
As a result, the next moment, the excited green ball jumped up and hit his chin with a bang.
“hiss!”
Wen Xin couldn’t bear the impact and took several steps back, gasping in pain.
He suspected that this was the green ball’s revenge on him, for pinching its face just now.
Until a series of joyful cat calls sounded in his ears.
“Meow, meow!”
I told you, my scales are so beautiful, how could you not like them!
The green ball rubbed Wen Xin’s cheek and chin, with its tail raised upwards. It was so excited that the volume of its voice suddenly increased by several decibels: “Meow meow meow!”
Wen Xin, Wen Xin, you are the most discerning human being I have ever seen!
Wen Xin didn’t know why Green Dumpling was so excited, but he was very happy that the other party had recovered his mood.
He just let Green Ball pamper him like this, leaving several cat paw marks on his chest.
When Green Ball calmed down a little, he hugged his own ball and kissed the other’s forehead reluctantly.
“When can you come back?”
The green group stopped moving.
Wen Xin held its head, not allowing Tuanzi to evade the answer, and said softly, “I have missed saying goodbye to Xiao Qi, A Lu.”
“If you want to leave, you can’t leave me without even giving me this thought.”
“If it’s inconvenient for you to come back, I can go find you.”
The young man smiled and said, “Even if what we find is a corpse.”
When Wen Xin said this, his tone was very calm.
But his pupils couldn’t stop trembling.
When Green Ball looked into Wen Xin’s eyes, which were filled with suppressed grief, he realized that being too smart was not a good thing for humans.
After a while, it lowered its head.
The scaly tree viper doesn’t think it can survive the pain of evolution.
However, when facing caring humans, the proud and conceited snakes will become cautious.
It licked Wen Xin’s forehead gently, as if it was an unspoken promise.
“Meow.”
You don’t have to come looking for me, I will come back to find you.
“Meow.”
I promise you that by that time, no creature, no thing, no danger will be able to harm you.
“Meow.”
You will become the safest human being in the world.
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Around noon, the green group disappeared.
Before it left, it imitated the little fox and tore off a large piece of cloth from Wen Xin’s clothes.
In front of Wen Xin, very openly.
Wen Xin finally understood why there was a piece missing from his sleeve.
He felt helpless and amused, yet also felt so sad that he wanted to sigh.
Finally, I simply dug out two sets of my own clothes from the suitcase I picked up.
“Isn’t this already available?”
The green group suddenly realized: Hey, that’s right!
In the end, it took Wen Xin’s spare clothes and was unwilling to throw away the piece of cloth that was torn off.
After it left, Wen Xin stared silently at the place where the green ball had last stayed for a long time.
He turned around and looked at the other dumplings with different expressions. He didn’t say a word about when they would leave. He just smiled and said, “Let’s eat.”
Xu Qiang and others woke up two hours ago.
They tried to recount what happened last night, but before leaving, the little fox had hinted to them to forget in order not to reveal their identities.
So Xu Qiang and the others finally failed to remember the scaly tree viper.
They could only analyze the clues at the scene, such as some strangulation marks on the giant zombies, and conclude that a huge mutant python or mutant earthworm passed by here and saved them.
Xu Qiang and others: “…”
It must be said that this analysis only highlights two words: outrageous.
Because they were too unrealistic, they didn’t dare to tell Wen Xin about these speculations.
Let’s review what happened along the way.
The rescue came too late, their whereabouts were exposed, they were ambushed, and the car broke down.
Xu Qiang and his friends suffered a heart attack and felt that their careers had suffered a disastrous defeat.
If he doesn’t take any remedial action, he will be fired by Wen Jinfeng in a matter of minutes after returning to City A.
They retrieved the map they had seen before: “This place is a long way from City A. It’s impossible to walk back there.”
“Now we can only take the risk of going to the nearby city Z to see if we can find a car that has not been scrapped, or find an official rescue organization and ask them to give us a ride.”
