Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 216 Liuli's Abnormality

Just as Bai Li had guessed, before dawn the next day, those who were used to waking up early noticed that the indoor temperature was a bit off as soon as they opened their eyes. When they got up and opened the door, it wasn't exactly a wave of heat that hit them, but the warm air carried by the wind and blown onto their faces still made them startled.

This is quite different from yesterday's temperature of minus ten degrees Celsius.

It must be around 20 degrees Celsius, right?
Because she had promised Song Huanyan that she would accompany her to find wood today, Bai Li did not break her promise despite the rising temperature.

Fortunately, she was slim, and although she ate more during her pregnancy, she didn't gain much weight.

There's nothing she can do; she's the type who can eat whatever she wants and never gain weight.

But precisely because she's not fat, her belly becomes very noticeable when she wears thin clothes in hot weather.

I changed out of my cotton-padded jacket and put on a loose gray hooded sweatshirt underneath, and then a black mid-length down vest on top. It was neither too hot nor too cold, and it covered my stomach perfectly.

She usually wears loose and dark-colored clothes, so this outfit is quite ordinary and won't attract attention.

Xu Bo wanted Kang Erbao to come with her, but Bai Li refused. They wouldn't go far; they would just go to the back mountain and cut down a few usable trees.

The weather suddenly warmed up, and the originally yellowish-brown back mountain turned green overnight.

However, the unconventional green must be eliminated.

The ivy on the wall closest to the back mountain had been stirring around midnight last night, but Bai Li was too sleepy to pay any more attention to it.

Even if she didn't agree to Song Huanyan's request today, she still had to go and take a look around.

Perhaps because she possesses the wood element, she can generally sense and accurately locate those unfriendly mutated trees that are not too far away.

"Auntie, I promise I won't cause any trouble. I'll be obedient and help you keep watch with Liuli. Really, I'm very useful."

Song Xiaoxiao was so bored. They were both from the same water system, but Jiang Qi could go on missions with Uncle Qiao and the others. Why did she have to stay in the village and not be able to do anything?
The little girl disagreed.

So when she heard her aunt say she was going to find wood this morning, she wanted to go with her.

Song Huanyan didn't want to bring her along. The weather had suddenly warmed up, and who knew what might come out outside? Although the little girl had special abilities, she lacked experience, and her physical fitness and other aspects were no match for Qiqi and Jiji. After all, she had only been inconsistent with her morning training.

Unlike those two children, who have almost never fallen on hard times.

"It's alright, let's take her with us. She and Liuli might actually be able to help."

"Yay, thank you Aunt Bai, thank you Aunt Bai."

So the three women, along with their child and dog, carrying axes and saws, set off on their electric tricycle right after finishing breakfast.

However, as they passed through the gate, Xiao Heng and Xiao Ha still remembered yesterday's embarrassment, and the two tall and strong dogs bared their teeth and threatened Liuli on the tricycle.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Liuli wasn't afraid at all. Standing on the tricycle, it barked arrogantly at them, even wanting to breathe fire. But its owner, Song Xiaoxiao, grabbed its muzzle and scolded, "Still want to breathe? You think you're so great? Do you want me to throw you off and fight them?"

Upon hearing this, Liuli immediately lay down obediently and remained silent.

"Humph!"

Song Xiaoxiao snorted and released its mouth.

Having witnessed the dog's cunning yesterday, Bai Li didn't pay much attention. Song Huanyan seemed to have known all along, not even glancing at it. Cheng Siyun was driving ahead and didn't see what happened behind them at all, only hearing a few barks, but she didn't care.

The tricycle left the village, got on the road, turned a corner, and headed towards the back mountain.

boom!
Before they reached their destination, a gunshot rang out. Cheng Siyun reflexively released the throttle and stepped on the brake, then she, Bai Li, and Song Huanyan crouched down together.

"litchi."

"At the top of the mountain."

There are two mountains behind the mountain, separated by a highway, and the gunshot just now came from the other mountain north of the highway.

After the gunshot, loose rocks rolled down the mountain, so she guessed that either someone or something had been there.

The one who fired the shot was Xi Yu.

A short while later, he arrived quickly with Kang Erbao and a few others on electric bikes. Upon seeing them, he immediately said, "Sisters, you should go back. Someone was spying on us on the mountaintop and I shot him in the arm. We're going to find him. You should go back to the village first."

At times like this, Bai Li naturally does whatever they say. She won't show off, nor does she have any competitive spirit.

"Sigh, we can't chop the wood again."

Song Huanyan sighed; she didn't know how such a coincidence could have happened.

The last time I wanted to work on the wood and prepare to paint the walls, the temperature suddenly dropped and it snowed, so I had to put it on hold.

She had planned to go out today, and luckily the temperature had risen. She had already decided how thick and what kind of tree trunk to choose, but she never expected this unexpected event to happen.

The tricycle turned around and drove back. Song Xiaoxiao muttered under her breath, "Why do we have to move? We're doing just fine as we are now. Always making a fuss!"

"Song Xiaoxiao!"

Song Huanyan poked her head with her index finger, "Do you want me to give you to your Uncle Qiao?"

Song Xiaoxiao opened her big, innocent eyes and said, "Why should we give it to him? Wouldn't it be better if we were family with Uncle Qiao?"

Song Huanyan:
She chuckled in exasperation, but before she could speak again, the little girl started counting the advantages on her fingers, "Look, Auntie, Uncle Qiao's house has two floors. He lives on the second floor, and the first floor is just the two of us and Liuli. It's not even full yet. If we leave, he'll be so lonely and pitiful. Not to mention he's often away from home, the house will be so cold and empty, it won't be good. Uncle Qiao said that even if he can't become my uncle, he can still be my roommate. There's really no need to move, right?"

Song Huanyan's face darkened. "Qiao Fei told you we could be roommates?"

Song Xiaoxiao blinked. "He didn't say that, but I think that's what he meant."

"You're thinking about it? Then tell me, what were his exact words?"

"Here's the thing: I don't think your aunt has any feelings for me. I even touched her hand the other day, but her expression remained unchanged, she didn't even blush. Do you know what that means? Either she doesn't see me as a guy, or she's not interested in me. Xiaoxiao, you can't force things. Don't keep trying to get me to be your uncle. If I can't be your uncle, I can be your dad. He's dreaming big, but I don't want him to be my dad. However, if he's my dad, he'll have to take care of me. Isn't that the same as being my roommate? Right, Auntie?"

What the hell!
Song Huanyan's face darkened completely. That scoundrel really doesn't keep his mouth shut, he says everything. And he even calls himself Xiaoxiao's father? Why doesn't he just fly to the moon?
Bai Li and Cheng Siyun both burst into laughter, but after a few laughs, Cheng Siyun reminded Bai Li, "Take it easy."

Bai Li forced a smile, grasped the key point of the joke, and asked Song Huanyan, "You two even held hands? You really don't have any feelings for him?"

Song Huanyan was speechless. She didn't remember anything like this, and he even touched her hand. When did he...? Suddenly her face stiffened. It seemed that there really was such a thing.

Once, when she was cooking, she took the wood out of the stove to put it out near the end, and accidentally got burned on her hand by a spark, which caused a large blister. At that time, he went to Xi Shuang to get a box of medicine, and he held her hand while applying the medicine.

I've long forgotten whether I felt anything or not, because when the medicine was first applied to my hand it hurt terribly, so I didn't care about feeling anything at all.

"Oh, is that really true?"

Bai Li understood immediately from her expression and teased, "You really don't think of him as a boy?" Song Huanyan secretly resented that jerk for saying all sorts of things to a child, but she pouted and said, "He's so childish, how can I think of him as a boy?"

Cheng Siyun objectively commented earlier, "Aside from trying to match up Xiao Wu and Liu Li, Qiao Fei is actually quite a man at other times."

There was no way to deny it, so Song Huanyan remained silent.

As they approached the village, Liuli suddenly jumped off the tricycle and ran south.

Song Xiaoxiao was startled and hurriedly shouted, "Liuli, Liuli, what are you doing? Come back! Aunt Cheng, stop the car quickly, Liuli has run away."

Cheng Siyun was startled and quickly stepped on the brakes. After coming to a stop, she turned around to look back.

"Don't go down. Tell your Aunt Cheng to turn around and chase after them."

Seeing that Song Xiaoxiao was about to jump out of the car, Song Huanyan was so frightened that she quickly grabbed her and shouted at the dog that was running away, "Liuli, come back here!"

Bai Li threw out a piece of green vine and swiftly chased after Liu Li in the direction she had run off to.

The little dog, for reasons unknown, ran all the way to Pingjiang Bridge, climbed onto the bridge, ran to the middle, and barked loudly at the high wall separating Pingcheng from the city.

The soldiers guarding the bridge were all puzzled, but they all knew that Captain Jiang's son had a fire-type Shiba Inu, and later rescued another one from Pingcheng, which, coincidentally, was also a fire-type.

Their guards were so envious, they were just waiting for that Shiba Inu couple to have puppies.

I don't know if this one belonged to Jiang's son or if it was rescued later. But whichever it is, we have to cherish it and not touch it.

They looked in the direction the dog had run from and glanced toward Yunxi Village. They could vaguely make out an electric tricycle heading this way.

"Hey, whose dog is this? It's quite fat."

A group of ten people arrived on bicycles. In the middle, a man was looking at Liuli with envy, almost drooling.

This dog looks normal, and if it looks normal, it means it can eat.

Meat, oh, this is dog meat.

"This dog is not something you can touch. If you know what's good for you, don't even think about messing with it."

This is a grassroots team that has only been in Shenzhen for less than a month.

A soldier came over and checked the group's passes. They had applied to cross the bridge to clear out zombies and mutated plants and animals in Pingcheng or Connecticut, and would be rewarded with points and supplies based on the number of zombies they cleared.

Liuli wasn't afraid of them; she just barked loudly at the high wall.

When Bai Li and the others arrived, it was still barking. Song Xiaoxiao was furious. She jumped off the tricycle and ran towards the bridge, shouting as she ran, "Liuli, you come back here to die!"

Because the glass was standing under the wall, the young soldier was afraid it would run away. So after checking the team's pass, he didn't dare open the gate for them, planning to wait for the people from Yunxi Village to come and take it away before opening it.

Song Xiaoxiao dashed up the bridge like a little cannonball, ran to Liuli, grabbed its ears and pulled it back.

Seeing that she had pulled the dog's ears out of shape, the young soldier felt sorry for her and pleaded, "Be gentle, be gentle!"

If their guards saw this, they would definitely tell the little girl: "If you don't want it, give it to me. You can't mistreat her."

Their boss is practically obsessed with getting a mutant animal.

When Bai Li and her group arrived, the soldiers on the bridge greeted her. Although they were curious as to why Gouzi had run over, they didn't ask any further questions.

Song Huanyan called to Xiaoxiao, "Quickly bring it over."

"I want to take it with me, but it doesn't want to go."

Bai Li thought for a moment and asked the soldier on the bridge, "Is there anything unusual on the other side?"

"No, sister-in-law, it looks the same as before."

She looked down at Liuli and wondered if it was because Xiao Wu had left from here that it had run over to look for Xiao Wu.

Is he really in heat?

"Huan Yan?"

Before she could continue guessing, a surprised shout rang out from the crowd near the high wall.

When Song Huanyan came over, she noticed several gazes glancing in their direction, but she didn't look up or pay attention. She just wanted to let Xiaoxiao take Liuli away first.

Hearing his name called, he looked up in surprise, then paused, momentarily stunned.

However, her stunned expression only lasted for a moment. She quickly regained her composure, nodded slightly to the person who called her, and then lowered her head to threaten Liuli, "If you don't leave, you can stay here by yourself. Xiao Wu might not come here to find you when he comes back."

I don't know which of these two sentences worked, but Liuli immediately stopped barking and obediently walked back with her little master pulling her ear.

Song Huanyan turned around and followed behind them.

"Huanyan, Song Huanyan."

The man who called her seemed to have not expected her to be so cold to him. He got anxious, stepped out of the group, and strode after Song Huanyan. He reached out to grab her arm, but Song Huanyan dodged him.

The man looked at her, a hint of hurt on his face. "Huanyan, don't you recognize me?"

Song Huanyan sneered, "Didn't you say that since we've broken up, we should pretend we don't know each other when we meet again? If that's the case, why are you greeting me at all?"

"Exactly, an authentic ex should act like they're dead. Auntie, let's go, don't pay any attention to this scumbag."

Song Xiaoxiao was so focused on the glass that she didn't even notice someone calling her aunt. Now that she saw the person, she was so angry that she wanted to smash him to death with ice.

Huh? Smash it with ice?
How come I didn't think of that!
I'm a kid, and I have superpowers. It's not illegal for me to hit him, and I can even have Liuli burn him to death.

The young girl acted without hesitation. Before the onlookers could even understand what was happening, a series of ice pucks suddenly rained down on the man, all the while shouting, "You scumbag! You're two-timing me! You're bullying my aunt! I'll smash you to death! I'll smash you to death!"

The man was shocked and dodged while shouting, "Xiaoxiao, you can't be so rude! Have you forgotten how much I used to love you? Huanyan, make her stop!"

Song Huanyan stepped back to make way, snorted coldly at the man, then turned to her niece and said, "Alright, don't waste your superpowers. Go home."

Song Xiaoxiao stopped, gave the man a cold snort, and suddenly asked, "What kind of superpower do you have?"

"Song Xiaoxiao!" Song Huanyan called out to her sharply.

"Alright, alright, you don't need to tell me. Anyway, no matter what kind of superpowers you have, my aunt doesn't care."

After saying that, he turned around and continued to pull Liuli's ear back.