Lin Qiao raised a finger, and as she expected, the vine slowly reached the lakeside as it crawled toward her. Seeing this, she squatted and reached her fingers toward it, which instantly coiled around one of her fingers, as if it knew what she wanted.
The vine plant sounded like a peevish child. It was worried that Lin Qiao might not admit that it was her child, so it wouldn’t stop crying in her head.
Lin Qiao wanted to cry but failed to shed any tears.
She always felt helpless when she was with children, and the vine was like a stubborn child. Right now, Lin Qiao really needed to talk to it about something else, so she decided to put aside the whole ‘Mama’ thing for now. Later on when she got time, she would come in and ask it for more details.
Fortunately, the vine was quite obedient. As Lin Qiao told it to quiet down, it quieted down immediately, but didn’t stop poking her palm as if it was having fun.
Looking at the leafless vine, Lin Qiao thought about how to convince it to heal her zombie friends. Meanwhile, she asked the vine about its name. Since it was intelligent, it should have a name.
Hearing that question, the vine paused for two seconds, then continued poking her.
It was soft and elastic, unlike how she felt down in the lake.
Hearing Viney agreeing to help, Lin Qiao was delighted. She didn’t expect it to be so willing to help. She knew that by sources of energy, Viney meant the nuclei of zombies, human beings, and mutant plants.
As Viney mentioned ‘upgrade’, Lin Qiao remembered the kernel of the vine plant from the outside. She didn’t know which level that vine plant was at, but its kernel had enlarged the space by quite a lot.
Sensing the puzzlement in Lin Qiao’s head, Viney waved its vine, as if showing off. ‘Em, I have upgraded, I have upgraded! Little Viney’s energy nucleus is growing bigger.’
Thinking of iron cage, she thought of Long Qingying as well. The latter had the metal power, so she wondered if she could make a large metal cage for these turtles.
With this idea, she turned and exited her space.
Once out, she saw Junjun and Xie Dong quietly sitting in the room. Junjun was sitting on the bed by the door with Tongtong in her arms, while Xie Dong was sitting on the single couch near the window. He wasn’t looking at Junjun, just facing the window.
Junjun had been looking at him the whole time, and Tontong had fallen in sleep in her arms.
Once Lin Qiao showed up, both Junjun and Xie Dong turned toward her. Xie Dong looked at her expectantly while Junjun sighed in relief and finally relaxed her vigilance.
Lin Qiao turned to look at Junjun and found that she seemed to dislike Xie Dong in particular. Then, she turned toward the other.
Xie Dong looked the same as before, covered in wounds, wearing ragged clothes, and seeming quite miserable. However, the look on his face and his vibe were no longer the same as before when he had just become a zombie.
Lin Qiao didn’t carefully sense his vibe before, but after some observation now, she found something strange.
“Do…you…eat…humans?” She asked expressionlessly.
