Ch36 - Survivors?

The two fell on the hard asphalt ground from a slightly higher green belt, and Wei Xuan was almost suffocated by Du Hang’s arms around his waist. Still, he had no time to bother with this, and immediately raised his head to look at the green field, he saw that the mutated plant that had been pretending to be dead was currently thrashing almost all of its branches, waving its barbed body around.

Wei Xuan took a deep breath, fortunately, Du Hang reacted quickly enough, otherwise, a large piece of his flesh would be torn off! Even if he has a stronger physique because he is an ability user, he wouldn’t be able to move freely after such a blow!

Because the distance the two fell was beyond the hunting range of the plant, it just swung ferociously and showed its astonishing strength, then regained its composure and pretended to be a harmless dead plant to humans and animals. It looks like it’s quietly waiting for something to go into its vicinity before it can attack again.

Rubbing his bruised waist, Wei Xuan pushed Du Hang’s shoulders to stand up, and then pulled him up, and then looked at the plant again. The green belt separates the left and right traffic lanes from south to north. In addition to the common shrubs used for general greening, there are also some bonsai-like plants in different shapes.

At a glance, these plants are no different from the plants in other places. Some have long since dried up, some have fallen to the ground, some have been completely arched from the soil, and the whole plant has turned over by the roadside. Some plants were messed up by the vehicles that rushed into the green belt when the end of the world just arrived.

There are a lot of plants on this road, but I don’t know if I just ran into the only mutated plant among them because of my luck. It’s okay if there are no other plants nearby that have mutated, but if there are others…

Looking at the green shrubs on this street that are obviously of the same type, Wei Xuan feels a bit sick to his stomach… If these kinds of plants mutate, then the whole area here will be ruined. And I’m afraid I won’t even dare to pass by this street in the future, otherwise what if I walk closer to the green belt and am caught by them as fertilizer? And no one can tell whether the mutated plants will continue to grow. Do they also eat zombies that pass by?

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan felt that it would be better to just get rid of it once and for all—otherwise, too many zombies in the city would be eaten by plants, which would be a very troublesome thing for him.

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Thick smoke rose, and as most of the plants were dry and dead, they were easily ignited. The green belt is a long one, but it is not connected to the shops on both sides of the road, so although the fire in the green belt is lively, it will not burn anywhere else at all.

Even if a few cars were lying on the green belt, Wei Xuan tied them up with ropes and asked his powerful zombie Du Hang to pull them to the middle of the road one by one, so as not to burn the fire to the cars. Just in case the remaining gasoline in the car made it explode.

The fire spread in the middle of this street. Fortunately, the trees on both sides of the road were newly planted after the road was built a few years ago, and they hadn’t matured at all. Otherwise, Wei Xuan would never dare to stay here like this carelessly setting fire to the green belt, if all the surrounding trees were set on fire, he might become the biggest arsonist in the post-apocalyptic world.

When the red flames were blowing, Wei Xuan saw with his own eyes that the plant that had attacked him before was dancing its branches ferociously in the fire, as if it wanted to blow those flames out. And those zombies who were wandering on the road, as if they felt something when the fire just started, they ran to both sides of the road early, and none of them crowded around the green belt, as if they knew those flames are a threat to them.

Wei Xuan checked carefully and saw that although these fires were not small, they should not burn to other places and cause any serious problems, so he took Du Hang and turned along another street, on the sidewalk where he could see the fire. He went to plant potatoes in areas where the cement has lifted, exposing the earth. As the fire is still burning he can’t plant things on the green belt for a while. Especially in those places where there are still mutated plants, the roots must be dug out and completely burned to prevent future troubles. Otherwise, maybe those horrible mutant plants will grow in the future.

While planting potatoes and carrots, he watched the fire over there from time to time. Wei Xuan didn’t expect the fire to burn several of those mutated plants! It seems that the mutation rate of this kind of shrub is very high, or this section of the green belt has a BUFF that is easy for plants to mutate. As far as Wei Xuan can see at a glance, at least five plants on the left rear of this section of the green belt are ignited by the fire. After which they struggled ferociously.

When no one approached them before, they looked very well-behaved, as if they were no different from the half-dead plants around them, but once the fire burned them, they could be seen from a long distance, whipping the branches around like crazy. 

Wei Xuan didn’t even have to deliberately turn this street to check, he could roughly hear where mutated plants were writhing, and when he returned to this street after the area was completely burned. 

By the time the fire was completely over and the smoke had gradually dissipated, the sky had already darkened. Wei Xuan originally wanted to dig out the roots of those mutated plants before it was completely dark, but he didn’t expect that the fire would last for such a long time, and the ground hadn’t cooled down yet. So he decided to rest overnight in an office building in this area, and continue after dawn tomorrow.

This is an office building, the bottom of the building is a shop, there is an M Donald’s that was very common before the end of the world, and its old rival K Kiki is diagonally opposite the street. There are several fast food restaurants, banks, and so on. The body of this building is very strong, and after that weird earthquake, there is not even a single crack in the wall.

Wei Xuan dragged Du Hang up to the seventh or eighth floor in one breath and then found an office to tidy up and get ready to rest. The floor he is currently on is neither high nor low, and the view is nice. Before going downstairs the next day, he can see the surrounding situation and he can see in advance if there are any suitable places around for him to continue his potato planting.

“Today we will just spend the night outside. We can return after planting all these things and walking around to confirm the situation…” Wei Xuan took out the thin blanket from his backpack as he spoke. The weather is already very hot, so even if he didn’t bring this thing with him when he went out this time, and just wore a piece of clothing when he slept, it would be fine, but anyway, Du Hang has great strength, so it wouldn’t hurt to put an extra thin blanket in his backpack. 

He randomly found a clean place against the wall and sat down, and covered himself with a blanket. Du Hang immediately sat beside Wei Xuan, lay down, and offered one of his arms to Wei Xuan to be a pillow. 

On this midsummer night, when the temperature is already approaching sweltering heat, it is a great blessing in life to have a big cold pillow.

Du Hang’s embrace is very comfortable.

It wasn’t until the next morning, when gunshots were faintly heard from the street outside, that he got his head out of Du Hang’s arms with a blank expression—although yesterday was really hard work on the road and digging holes to plant potatoes, he is very tired and wanted to sleep until near noon. This is all because someone is cold and comfortable to hold, and he can completely bury his face in someone’s arms after the sun rises to avoid the call of the sun, plus someone’s cooling effect is better than air conditioning. It was only because of the function that he was able to sleep until now.

“What’s the situation? Gunshots?” After waking up, Wei Xuan was stunned for a while before realizing what he heard. 

The movement coming in from the window and the smell of humans had already made Du Hang ravenous, if it wasn’t for Wei Xuan still in his arms, if it wasn’t for this person being around him all the time, holding him back, maybe Du Hang would rush out of the building and into the street like the other zombies looking for the delicious food.

Wei Xuan got up in a hurry and tightened the ropes that were already tied around the waists of the two of them—for fear that Du Hang would run out uncontrollably and he would not be able to catch up. Only then did he pull out the binoculars placed on the top layer of the backpack, rush to the window, and carefully looked out.

The location where the gunshots sounded was still some distance away from where Wei Xuan and Du Hang were resting, but they could already faintly see something from the window. All the zombies on the nearby streets were attracted by the sound, and rushed there, howling and shaking their arms in great excitement.

Seeing those zombies who were wandering around in a daze just yesterday, running towards the place where people are, for some reason, Wei Xuan felt his heart tense up, subconsciously grabbing Du Hang’s arm beside him, holding tightly. It seemed that he was afraid that Du Hang would rush downstairs like those zombies and run in the direction of those people.