Chapter 34
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Shao Qing also absorbed some crystals, included among these was a piece of the wooden elemental power source. She could feel that she was very close to breaking through into rank three. However, it was like a partition, a membrane that was extremely tough and durable. No matter how you poke at it, it just won’t break.
Feeling slightly crushed, Shao Qing opened her eyes and saw a pair of faces, one big and one small, gathered in front of her eyes. The smaller one was blinking his eyes acting cute, while the bigger one was expressionless. Unable to resist, Shao Qing kissed Xiao Baozi. Er Dai immediately exploited the opportunity. Pushing his face closer to Shao Qing’s for a special purpose, Shao Qing had no choice but to give his cheek a kiss. Er Dai completely satisfied, then finally willingly rolled away off the bed.
Shao Qing pushed open the door. The Gu siblings were still within their rooms emitting the fluctuations of their powers. It appears that they still haven’t finished advancing ranks. Yan Hanqing was standing in front of the door, within his hand was a cigarette, a rather cheap and old type of cigarette called ‘Eight Happiness’, that had already stopped production.
He held it between his fingers, yet he didn’t smoke it. With his firm face with no expression at all, he was simply looking out the window with a gaze that seemed to be at a loss.
Shao Qing walked over to him, but he didn’t discover. Although it might have been because how Shao Qing doesn’t make any sounds during her footsteps, Shao Qing could tell that something wasn’t right with Yan Hanqing’s state of mind.
Taking the cigarette from Yan Hanqing’s hand, Shao Qing lit the cigarette and took a puff. Afterwards she crouched against the wall coughing. Yan Hanqing pursed his lips and took back the cigarette. “If you don’t know how to smoke a cigarette, don’t smoke it. You’ll feel unwell.”
“When I recently entered the special unit not long ago, the sergeant was a heavy smoker. At that time I was a new student, skinny and weak, every time after practice I would secretly hide and cry. The sergeant slipped me a cigarette and told me that if I chose this road then I would have to bite down on my teeth and continue on. If you were chosen then that would mean you are gifted, don’t look down on yourself.” Shao Qing continued to cough for a little while then extended her hand to take the cigarette in Yan Hanqing’s hand. Keeping silent, Yan Hanqing put it in his mouth, Shao Qing stared at him blankly. Then looked at Yan Hanqing with a smirk. “Does this count as an indirect kiss?”
Yan Hanqing was speechless. Within the smoke, his pair of eyes seemed to be extra hazy. Shao Qing kicked his leg, then lowered her voice. “ Why are you making yourself feel so inferior?”
“I was the squad’s trump card. During the competition between different military camps, I was able to help my camp win first place two times in a row. If they mentioned Yan Hanqing, they would all say that was SD’s siberian tiger. But now?” Yan Hanqing laughed at himself. “Local ruffians who I used to look down upon, now if they developed superpowers would all be stronger than me.”
The originally smiling expression on Shao Qing’s face began to cool down, then she suddenly stood up slamming her fist towards Yan Hanqing’s face. Yan Hanqing subconsciously lifted his hand up and blocked Shao Qing’s fist. However the strength from her fist, still transmitted over causing Yan Hanqing’s fist to become numb.
This wasn’t over yet, it was just the beginning. Shao Qing was expressionless as she approached Yan Hanqing and repeatedly attacked him. At the beginning, Yan Hanqing was simply responding and didn’t retaliate, although not knowing why Shao Qing was attacking him, but he continued to consistently dodge her attacks.
“SD’s siberian tiger? All I see is a sick kitten. Let me take a closer look and see if this tiger would still be able to bite humans Make a move!”
Yan Hanqing wanted to say something, but welcoming him was Shao Qing’s ruthless fists. He stared at Shao Qing’s serious ice-cold eyes, then abruptly remembered something. Originally hiding, it was his first time to meet Shao Qing’s fist face to face.
He was SD’s siberian tiger. She was BJ’s undefeatable eagle. Fate has always been fickle, letting two people retire due to injuries. Finally in this kind of environment, they would meet.
They were different from the average person in the military. Every time they made a move, it would be directed towards the opponent’s vitals or places where the opponent would lose their ability to fight back. This kind of habit was instilled into their bodies.
Just from looking at the two people’s combat, it really seemed as if they were really enemies. They fought from the corridor to the courtyard, finally exhausted, they both lied down on the ground gasping for breath.
Shao Qing tilted her head to look at Yan Hanqing who had the corner of his eyes slightly bruised and extended her finger. “Just now, you had nearly struck at my throat six times. Three times you almost threatened my pair of eyes. Once it was only a few centimeters off from my spine. Tell me, if I were to give you a dagger and allowed you to kill a rank 1 physique based superhuman, how certain are you in defeating him?”
“A hundred percent.” Yan Hanqing bit his teeth.
Shao Qing continued to speak. “If I were to place you and a rank 1 superhuman at the same time into a city filled with zombies and gave you the same amount of food, tell me. who would be able to survive longer.”
Yan Hanqing quietly answered. “Me.”
“If you and a rank 1 superhuman were to go out for an investigation, if it was only counting the average zombie, would you kill more zombies or him?”
Yan Hanqing was choked with emotions for a bit then replied. “Me.”
“Then why are you feeling so inferior? God has always been fair. He wouldn’t just give some people superpowers and then leave the other portion with nothing at all.” Shao Qing sat up and softly said. “Before I was discharged from the military, I also heard that SD had a siberian tiger. I also heard that this siberian tiger was arrogant, tenacious, and had endurance. It wasn’t weak, inferior and had no self confidence. Don’t throw away your battle companions’ face and don’t lose the siberian tiger’s reputation.”
She leaned her head to see a man resembling a great mountain. Silent with his eyes closed, the corner of his eyes was a bit moist. After sitting there for a long while, it converted into a single tiny, tiny teardrop.
Volume 3 35 Big Harvests
From the beginning, she noticed that something was wrong. It was only because the illusion was too real that she fell into a trance for a moment.
The person who appeared in her illusion was actually Mulin. Mulin…… The two of them came out from the orphanage together. It can be said that they were dependent on each other. When the days were hard, the two would share a dried bun. They didn’t even have any pickled vegetables.
In their most difficult days, they stuck together. They were sad together and prospered together. To this day, Shao Qing could still remember what Mulin had said. If you were a man, I would marry you.
However, after the end of the world, she had traveled over half of China but she did not encounter Mulin. To be honest, Shao Qing had given up hope a bit.
After all, it was the apocalypse. No one would dare say that they can last until the present. Even Shao Qing who was very confident in Mulin did not dare say it.
She could only leave her worries in her heart. Unexpectedly, Mulin appeared in this environment.
When the vine pierced into her chest and tried to draw the blood, Shao Qing realized what was happening. However, she had not broken free. She just wanted to see Mullin once more.
A zombie…… where could they get the blood?
Shao Qing casually ripped off the vines piercing into her body, glanced around, and immediately found the unconscious group. They were all tied with a thin vine.
Others were fine, but Yan Qiyue couldn’t stand it. He was a normal person and if he lost too much blood, he would die.
Shao Qing hurriedly cut off the vines from Yan Qiyue’s body and covered the wounds that had been punctured by the vines. The wounds were very thin, but there was still a continuous flow of blood.
Yan Qiyue wrinkled his brows, his face pale. After the vines were cut off, he suddenly opened his eyes and hugged Shao Qing: “No!”
Shao Qing was startled and quickly asked: “What’s wrong? Sorry? It was my carelessness……”
Yan Qiyue’s eyes were a little disorganized. After concentrating his focus on Shao Qing, he was relieved and hugged Shao Qing tightly: “Don’t leave me……”
Shao Qing assumed he probably saw something similar in his illusion where they might have broken up.
After soothing Yan Qiyue, Shao Qing rescued everyone else. During this period, Yan Qiyue held his knees the whole time. He had encountered an illusion earlier. In the illusion, Shao Qing saved many, many people, but they wanted to kill Shao Qing due to her being a zombie.
Yan Qiyue couldn’t stop it. He vaguely remembered that he had been cut into a pile of flesh, only having a relatively complete hand left that was holding onto someone’s trouser leg.
He was obviously dead, but he was still able to look at those people hurting his beloved. Her pain, her despair, they were deeply imprinted in Yan Qiyue.
Yan Qiyue felt that even if he breathed out gently, he would be terribly heartbroken and in pain. This was because he knew that with Shao Qing’s character, if she really encountered a large disaster, she would really go save the people.
As for those inferior people, as long as Shao Qing’s identity is discovered, they will try to kill her.
Even though he knew that this kind of thing was unlikely to happen, Yan Qiyue still couldn’t help shaking. He couldn’t help being afraid, can’t help thinking.
What if?
With any matter relating to Shao Qing’s safety, Yan Qiyue did not want to face even the slightest of risks.
After Shao Qing rescued everyone, they were all awake. Everyone’s illusion was different. The only similarity was it was related to emotions.
Happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy.
After saving everyone, Shao Qing focused her attention on the flower in the center. It was stunning.
Anyone who saw everything would have probably thought the tree was the most suspicious. This tree was taller than Guang Guang. The pavilion was like a cover that had its branches extending out for the many small firefly-like creatures resting on it. This made the whole tree appear as if it was glowing.
But what caught Shao Qing’s first glance was the vines wrapped around the tree. The vines looked very thin and docile. Even with spikes, they seemed to have a certain softness to them. The vines extended into the crown of the tree where a beautiful flower stuck its head out of the canopy.
The soft petals were large and a gorgeous red. The part that was slightly darker, reflected its delicate flower heart, the contrast was like comparing blood from the vein and artery.
The stamens curled up like small tentacles, very harmless. However, Shao Qing looked at the flower and couldn’t move her eyes.
The hallucinogenic scent came from this flower. It can be said that it was this flower that had just led Shao Qing and the group into a hallucinated state.
The more delicate it looked, the more dangerous it felt to Shao Qing. It made Shao Qing feel that this flower was irrigated with blood to become its present colour.
As soon as Shao Qing threw off the effects of this flower, it immediately curled up consciously, showing a harmless look. It tried to bluff its way out, but was discovered by Shao Qing.
Shao Qing sneered and released Da Hua, her vines and Guang Guang to guard Er Dai and the rest. Only when they were out of harm’s way could she focus on dealing with this flower with peace of mind.
It’s relatively simple for her to suppress this flower. It was quite high rank, but still incomparable to Shao Qing and her group of ‘little brothers’.
But Shao Qing wanted to see what its capabilities were to decide whether to use it as her sixth plant.
After all, the space in her hand was limited. A precious quota needs to be determined through careful research, otherwise it will be troublesome to conquer it then find out it wasn’t a good choice and try to change it.
Then Shao Qing discovered that the greatest ability of this flower was hallucinations. If its hallucinations were superimposed with Guang Guang, the effect would be even better. Its vines can also assist Shao Qing’s vines. Once Guang Guang is released, this flower hidden within Guang Guang, vines released, whoever entered this field will die.
Shao Qing happily conquered the flower, then found that its most powerful ability was actually not hallucinations, but an ability similar to that of Xiao Baozi.
It can take root into humans, animals, and even plants, then when drawing blood and plant juice, it can convert it into energy to feed itself.
That is to say, as long as there are living creatures around it, when it has exhausted all its energy, coupled with its hallucinogenic ability and vine’s attack power, few were its opponents.
Especially relying on the tree with the strong vitality that it attached to, it was basically invincible.
Unfortunately, it was unlucky as he encountered Shao Qing. Shao Qing was simply his nemesis. For one thing, Shao Qing had no blood. She would not provide any energy to it. Second, it stretched out a vine and wanted to pierce the surrounding plants. Its body drew some energy, but as soon as the fine vines stretched out, they were interrupted by Shao Qing’s vines……
Silence for a second.
After following Shao Qing, Shao Qing has basically doubled her power. She was not afraid of fighting in groups. If she was in a crowd, she could release Guang Guang, plant this little red flower named Xiao Hong*, spread the dodder seeds, have vines in hand, Qiu Tang in ambush, and have Da Hua collecting heads. When her power was exhausted, Xiao Hong could absorb energy and feed it back to her. She was invincible.
* little red
Shao Qing was satisfied. She prepared to take the wounded family members away. Then Xiao Hong shrank around her wrist and suddenly extended its tentacles and pointed to the back of the big tree.
What’s in there?
Shao Qing ordered Er Dai to stay with Guang Guang and to take good care of everyone. Then she walked over. As soon as she went over, Shao Qing was dumbfounded. There was a deep hole behind the big tree.
The pit is deep, but you can see something under the pit as soon as you lower your head.
There was a huge thing like a bud at the bottom of the pit. Ignoring the outer coat, this bud looked more like a giant heart.
There were many bones hanging on the pit wall, as well as the bottom of the pit. It is estimated that many animals or humans were this hearts scraps.
Xiao Hong vaguely conveyed the information to Shao Qing that these prey were all thrown in by the surrounding plants to act as fertilizer.
This heart is a kind of plant and wasn’t a plant. It contains a lot of energy. Once it is mature, if you swallow it, you will have a chance to upgrade to rank 7 or even rank 8.
As the overlord of the surrounding area, Xiao Hong took this thing as something that belonged to it and was waiting for it to mature to eat it.
But it didn’t expect it to become something belonging to Shao Qing……So Xiao Hong couldn’t help offering its treasure. It was reluctant to abandon something it kept for so long and reluctant to offer it to other plants.
Rather than allowing others to take it easily, it is better to give it to its owner. The venture of dubious merit has set sail. Of course, the stronger Shao Qing was, the better it is for it……
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