Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 126: Inquiry, Mosquito Prevention
The little girl held by Cheng Siyun's hand was none other than Youyou.

The little girl hadn't said a word since she arrived here yesterday. She didn't even dare to raise her head when she saw them, let alone talk to them. She even held her father's clothes with one hand when she was eating, and she was the same when she fell asleep.

Even this morning when Qiqi and Jiji brought the Zhou brothers and sisters to play with her, she didn't say a word. The same was true when she was coaxed to go see the lambs and chickens. She followed her father closely no matter what, and refused to even look at others.

Now that a whole morning has passed, I didn't expect that I would become close to Cheng Siyun.

Bai Li looked at her friend in confusion, "What did you do?"

Cheng Siyun was even more confused than her, but she couldn't say much in front of the little girl, so she just said, "Maybe I'm more approachable, so Youyou likes me."

Bai Li: “.” Hehe!
Don't be in a hurry, wait until you have time in the evening to ask.

On the other side, Li Nan led his men back to the government building that they had tidied and controlled. Now, except for the water and electricity, everything else had been cleaned and tidied. At first glance, it was not much different from before the end of the world.

Jiang Minglang and Du Qiuyan came here secretly to investigate yesterday. They found it very funny. It was just an empty building. He thought that by controlling this place he could rebuild the government and make himself the top leader?

It is important to have the ambition, but more importantly, it is necessary to have the ability to match the ambition, otherwise you are seeking death.

At this time, Li Nan, with a dark face, did not think about whether he was seeking death. He thought that he was careless and underestimated Jiang Minglang.

When he first arrived in Pengcheng, he explored around. The survivors in other places were not a concern. Only the Yunxi Village surrounded by high walls made him a little wary.

However, after investigating for a period of time, it was discovered that Jiang Minglang did not seem to care about what was happening outside. His focus seemed to be only on his own little piece of land.

It's not that he hadn't thought about getting him to work with him. As the founder of a company before the end of the world, discovering talents and winning them over were what he was best at.

But Jiang Minglang was different. Although he had only met him twice in total, the feeling he gave him each time could only be described as unfathomable.

He would definitely not use it on someone he is not sure he can control.

What's more, he had a more suitable candidate in mind at that time: Qiao Fei!

Although Qiao Fei has not yet accepted his invitation, he believes that as long as his sister and her family are willing to stay in Pengcheng, which is safe and has no danger, he will definitely not refuse.

He just didn't expect that his partner Du Qiuyan would choose to separate from him and go to Jiang Minglang.

To Li Nan, this was really unexpected.

After all, what soldiers like them value most is comradeship. What's more, the two of them are comrades who have shared life and death for more than ten years. It's the kind of relationship where Jiao is inseparable from Meng and Meng is inseparable from Jiao.

He never expected that they would separate so easily the next day after arriving here, which really caught him off guard.

But this is of course not important at the moment. What is important is that when he faced Jiang Minglang today, he was completely suppressed and did not even have the strength to resist.

Are they incredibly strong, or is he not as strong as he thinks?

After staying in the government building for a while and taking the things that had been sorted out over the past few days, Li Nan led his men back to the greenhouse area in the west of the city.

He had a question he wanted to ask Qiao Fei, which was about the woman with the short hair tied up with vines today, that Mu Xi, was she Jiang Minglang's wife or someone else?

The most important thing is, why is her wood type different from the several wood types under their command?
Although this ability is quite popular nowadays, he is also trying his best to find wood-related ones, but the ones he finds are collected for farming. Apart from that, he has never thought of any other uses.

But today that woman gave him a completely different feeling.

Qiao Fei now lives alone in the house that Du Qiuyan left and has not moved back to the yard next door where his sister lives. No matter what they say, he just wants to live alone.

After sending Du Qiyan away, he was not in a hurry to find another place to live. After all, he was a lifesaver to Li Nan. He did not agree to cooperate with him, but he did not break up with him. There are houses and land here. From the perspective of long-term development, it is very suitable for settlement.

Anyway, Li Nan originally wanted to develop this place into a farm. His sister's family are all ordinary people, and it would be nice for them to just farm the land in peace and stability.

So he has been wandering around the greenhouse area these past two days, trying to decide which piece of land he wants so that the three adults in his sister's family can have something to do quickly.

Unexpectedly, the project was confirmed, but trouble arose before work even started.

"What did you say? You and Jiang Minglang are in conflict?"

Qiao Fei frowned and looked at Li Nan, saying incredulously, "Didn't I tell you not to provoke him?"

Li Nan's face was not looking good either. He said in a deep voice, "In fact, it was not a confrontation. They blocked the Pingjiang Bridge. Xiao Hai couldn't stand it, so he said a few words to them. No, not even a few words. He was killed before he could finish two words."

What this means is that Jiang Minglang and his people are selfish. Blocking the bridge is equivalent to blocking the way for the survivors in the south.

"Why are you blocking it? Did anything happen today?"

Because the greenhouse area is located in the northwest, far away from Pingjiang Bridge, he was unaware that a wave of mutant rats had broken out at noon.

However, with his keen intuition over the years, he knew that Jiang Minglang would not do this for no reason. Something must have happened that forced him to block the bridge.

".It's just some rats. When we went over, we saw that they had completely controlled the area. There was nothing under the bridge bordering Peace City. If that's the case, why block the bridge?"

Just some mice?

It must be a mutant mouse.

Qiao Fei narrowed his eyes at Li Nan and asked intuitively, "So when the mutant rats appeared, it was Jiang Minglang and his men who tried to stop them, and none of your people got involved?"

Li Nan's face froze. He had said so much, but he didn't expect that Qiao Fei's point was this.

He was unhappy in his heart, but he looked annoyed. "Xiao Hai led only two people under the bridge at that time. You have met Lao Wu. He has strong organizational skills, but no fighting ability. He is just an ordinary person. So Xiao Hai wanted to send Lao Wu back first and notify me by the way. Later, I didn't waste time and took people over immediately."

immediately?

Qiao Fei sneered in his heart. Was it "immediately" two hours after the mutant rat appeared?
He was too lazy to argue with him about words, but could not help but sigh in his heart: Old Du is a very sharp-eyed guy. He has long seen that Li Nan is just a pretty face and his ability cannot support his ambition, so he simply refuses to deal with him.

Qiao Fei understood that he could no longer stay here.

No matter what the reason was that Li Nan offended Jiang Minglang, he didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.

Seeing Qiao Fei not speaking, Li Nan was a little unhappy, but he still didn't show anything on his face and led the topic to what he wanted to ask, "Old Qiao, you and Jiang Minglang are comrades-in-arms, so have you met his wife?"

Qiao Fei shook his head without hesitation, "I haven't seen it, what's wrong?"

"One of the people who killed Xiao Hai today was a young woman, a wood type, who looked to be less than 30 years old, very fair and pretty, with big, dark eyes, tall and thin, and short hair. Do you have any impression of her?"

As soon as Qiao Fei heard it, he knew he was talking about Bai Li, but he still shook his head and asked calmly, "No, but how do you know she is a wood element?"

Is it possible to help a rice plant grow right in front of your opponent when you are fighting?
Of course, Qiao Fei didn't think Bai Li would do this, but he was still very happy knowing that she had super powers.

After all, she was the calmest, most self-sufficient and self-reliant woman he had met since the end of the world. Jiang Minglang was really lucky.

"This woman's Wood Element is different from the ones we've seen before. She can control the vines remotely, tying up Xiao Hai and hanging him up. You know what I mean, her Wood Element is a combat type."

Oh I see.

Qiao Fei shook his head, "I've never seen it, I can't imagine it."

".I understand. After all, I couldn't imagine it before."

Seeing that Qiao Fei really knew nothing about that woman, Li Nan lost the desire to continue chatting. He said a few more words casually and left.

After Li Nan left, Qiao Fei stood at the door for more than ten minutes, then turned around and went to his sister's house.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai"

They sent away the mutant rats and blocked the Pingjiang Bridge, but not long after they returned to the village, Jiang Minglang heard Zhou Lei's soul calling.

His face darkened, and he waved his son over, "Go, help your uncle Lei find Xiaobai and make him shut up."

After seeing Xiaobai eating a big rat last time, Qiqi temporarily gave up his plan to keep Xiaobai, but he forgot about it in just two days. Now, when he heard Uncle Lei looking for Xiaobai, he was itching to get the palm-sized kitten over.

He readily agreed to his father's request and ran into Yunxi Village with Gigi and Xiaowu.

As soon as Qiqi left, Du Qiuyan suddenly came back to the ginkgo garden excitedly with a pot of peonies.

"Hey, Coach Du, I didn't expect you to be so interesting. Did you steal this or did you want it?"

Ren Bin was eating a piece of watermelon with satisfaction. He looked up and saw the gorgeous peony in Du Qiuyan's hand, and smiled in his heart.

Even though he and Lao Sheng had only been here for two days, they had already explored the surrounding area that day. Naturally, they got to know their outgoing neighbor Ning An, and learned that he, like his sister-in-law, was of the Wood element.

However, his wood element is far inferior to that of my sister-in-law.

What the hell is this? It can only help peonies bloom. It almost made him die of laughter.

"Stop eating. I asked Ning An for a few pots of peonies, and he said they could be moved. Quick, call Lao Sheng and Da Zi, drive the electric tricycle over there, and move all the ones outside the wall here."

Move everyone here?
How many were there? Ning An imitated Bai Li, but the walls outside their village were filled with them. At first glance, you would think it was a peony kingdom.

Oh, now everyone has renamed their village to Mudan Village.

"No, Instructor Du, Brother Du, this stuff is not worth eating or drinking, why did we move all of it here? Is it pleasing to the eyes? I think the rice in the fields is pleasing to the eyes, there is no need for this, really!"

You like to just move two pots and have a look, but is it necessary to move all of them?

Jiang Minglang walked out from the backyard, pointed at the peony flowers and asked Du Qiyan, "What did you find?"

He didn't think that Lao Du had nothing better to do than to enjoy the peony flowers.

Du Qiyan put the flower on the ground, raised his hand to push up his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile, "Mosquito repellent!"

Then he said, "Come here, I'll show you."

There was a vegetable field behind the Bai family's villa, where tomatoes and cabbages were planted. Because manure had just been applied in the morning, there were many small flying insects buzzing in the field, and there were also quite a few mosquitoes.

Du Qiyan placed the pot of peony flowers in the middle of the cabbages, then left and returned to the field. He pointed at it and whispered to the others, "Look carefully."

The peonies grown by Ning An are larger than ordinary flowers. This pot of peonies is different from the white peonies Bai Li had seen before. It is pink with white in color, and looks so tender and charming that it seems as if water can be squeezed out of it.

Several people squatted in a row at the edge of the field, all looking at the pot of flowers curiously.

Anti-mosquito?

How to prevent?
Not long after, a few small flying insects buzzed blindly past the peony flowers. In just a moment, the petals suddenly trembled, and then the flying insects disappeared.

There was silence at the scene, and everyone stared at the flower in amazement.

It was not until Du Qiyan calmly pushed his glasses and coughed that he drew everyone's attention back, "Ning An didn't know his flowers had this effect, so when I said I wanted two pots of flowers, he generously said he could move them anywhere. Since he said so, it's fine."

"Then it would be awkward if we were too polite."

"That's right, let's go, let's go quickly."

"I'll go drive a tricycle."

Lao Sheng drove over the tricycle that Bai Xiangtian used to transport fruit, and took Ren Bin and Zhang Shaoda excitedly to the next-door neighbor's house.

After a few trips back and forth, all the peonies outside the Peony Village disappeared.

In the evening, Ning An opened the small door next to the iron gate and went out to the vegetable garden to pick some cabbages.

When he finished pulling and turned back, one foot had already stepped over the threshold, then suddenly stopped, retracted his foot, and then took a few steps back, first looking to the left, then to the right, then to the left again, and then to the right again.

Suddenly he put down the basket in his hand, strode to the west wall, looked along the base of his own wall, and was stunned.

Damn, where are my flowers?
The one with the flowerpot was gone, and the one he had buried in the soil to stimulate growth was also gone, leaving only pits after pits to remind him that this was not a dream, his flowers were really stolen!
Damn, flowers are not meant to be eaten or drunk, why would someone steal them?

Perverted?

"Xiao Mao? Xiao Mao"

Hearing Ning An's shout, a tall and thin young man in his early twenties quickly ran out from the iron gate and asked, "What's wrong, Brother An?"

"What's wrong? Shouldn't I be the one asking you this?"

Ning An angrily pointed at the wall and asked him, "Were you lazy on duty today? You didn't even know that so many flowers were moved away?"

"Ah?" Xiao Mao blinked and asked in confusion, "Brother Zhang and his friends from next door moved here. Didn't you promise to give it to Brother Du?"

"I promise"

Before Ning An finished speaking, he remembered that there seemed to be such a thing. At that time, the new brother Du from next door came to visit and praised the peonies he had grown, saying that they were much more beautiful than those before the end of the world.

He was very happy when he heard that. He waved his hand and told him to move whichever pot he liked, and it was okay to move them all back.

but
Wasn't it just a polite remark? Why did he take it seriously?
　good night!
　　(End of this chapter)