Chapter 134: Xiao Mu, you're back

After Liu Mu escaped, the vines and foliage on the ground also rapidly retracted.

Good news, the Scrap Station is still here!

Bad news, the ground of the storage yard is almost entirely destroyed.

The concrete ground looks as if it had been plowed, turned over into pits and mounds.

As the Master of this place, Liu Mu had no extra thoughts at the moment; she found a piece of ground nearby that was still relatively intact, sat down, and took out a roasted lamb to gnaw on.

She once received a bundle of waste paper from the widower of a middle school Chinese teacher, and inside was a book—"Things have come to this, let's eat first."

She didn't read the book, but the title was quite good, so she decided to fill her stomach first before thinking of a way.

Halfway through gnawing on a lamb, Li Gang brought a few people running toward this side.

A step ahead of them was the tall and long-legged Niu Boyi; Gouzi lowered its head and let out two whimpers, obtaining the remainder of the lamb in its Master's hand.

Just then, Li Gang panted heavily and shouted, "Where is she? Boss, where is she?"

Annoyed by the shouting, Liu Mu lowered her eyelids and pointed toward the direction of the Scrap Station, "It's fine, don't go over there yet; she needs to adapt to her new body."

"... A new body," Li Gang's complexion instantly turned ugly; he remembered the Mountain Rat leader outside Yang Family Town and Yang Pingqiong. Could it be that Xu Xiaofeng had also turned into that kind of monster?

No, Li Gang shook his head slightly, finding it somewhat hard to accept, "She is with the plants..."

He couldn't bring himself to say the word "merged."

Hearing his tone, Liu Mu paused with the big burger in her hand and gave a cold snort, "Big Sister has her own choices. Clear out the Food Street and arrange for a portion of the people to go there first."

Li Gang had some feelings for the original Xu Xiaofeng, but if he couldn't even accept this bit of change, it showed that this "feeling" was just so-so.

It is not important.

In Liu Mu's view, no matter what Xu Xiaofeng has turned into, as long as she has her own independent consciousness and still considers her and Zhang Xiaoyong as family, then they are family.

Moreover, whether it is the later Xu Xiaofeng or the former human Xu Xiaofeng, she belongs to herself; she does not need to compromise or belittle the value of her own existence just for anyone's concern.

The man in the rain sensed the chill in Liu Mu's tone and wanted to say something, but after glancing at the huge plants piled up in the distance, he closed his mouth.

After Li Gang left, Zhang Xiaoyong crawled out from under Niu Boyi's Raincoat and approached Liu Mu while shivering.

"Don't be afraid, come to Second Sister," Liu Mu held the brother who was on the verge of a breakdown in her arms, covering his trembling body with her own wide Raincoat.

"Sister, Big Sister she..." Zhang Xiaoyong had only regained consciousness a short while ago; originally, Hong wanted him to stay on the ship for treatment, but once the scrap appeared, the little boy who was worried about his sisters simply couldn't stay put.

"Did Big Sister undergo Mutation?"

"Yes," Liu Mu nodded. After the Fourth Upgrade, her physique was even taller; even while sitting, the nine-year-old child in her arms still seemed a bit thin and small, "Xiao Yong, Big Sister is the same as me and Niu Boyi. Rather than calling it Mutation, it is more accurate to describe it as Evolution. You also see that the plants and animals outside are all undergoing Mutation. For us humans to survive, Evolution is necessary, and it will also be a very common thing. Can you understand?"

She tried her best to make the child understand this principle, and she also hoped that he would not fear Xu Xiaofeng, otherwise the result that the latter fought so hard to achieve would likely become a reason to hurt her.

Strangers or these people who could barely be called friends could not hurt Xu Xiaofeng, but family could, and very easily at that.

Xu Xiaofeng had always shown a carefree and straightforward appearance before, but in fact, she was not as indifferent as she looked on the surface; on the contrary, she was very careful and considerate. Such a person is actually quite fragile inside.

"I understand, and I'm not afraid," Zhang Xiaoyong wanted to show his strength with a smile, but tears were swirling in his eyes, "No matter what you turn into, you are all my sisters. If Big Sister can only be a plant in the future, I will water her every day, let her live well, and bloom the most beautiful flowers. Big Sister likes flowers the most!"

"That's right, our Big Sister is the most beautiful flower!" Liu Mu was a bit moved, and her heavy mood lightened a little because of Zhang Xiaoyong's innocent words; she felt a bit exhausted.

There have been too many things recently, and coupled with the current situation of the Scrap Station, she needs to reorganize the things she needs to do later.

"Let's eat our fill first and wait for Big Sister here. When she gets hungry too, she will see that we have good food and will come out to find us on her own."

Liu Mu took out another big burger and added a large piece of braised beef into it for Zhang Xiaoyong.

Holding the burger that was about the same size as his head, the little child finally revealed a trace of confusion on his face, "Second Sister, can you make it hot? I probably can't eat frozen food right now, I'm a little cold."

This was still something brought from the cold storage of the ship, and the sauce inside had turned into ice.

Liu Mu had no problem eating anything, but if she let Zhang Xiaoyong eat it, he would likely get diarrhea immediately.

"Alright, let me show you Second Sister's superpower."

She opened her large hand, and deep blue flames faintly appeared on her palm, "Put it on quickly."

Zhang Xiaoyong immediately felt a wave of warmth and hurriedly used both hands to carefully place the burger into Liu Mu's palm, then watched nervously as the ice shards on the burger melted rapidly.

In just over ten seconds, the cold food began to steam, warming Zhang Xiaoyong so much that he stopped shivering.

Watching him hold the steaming burger and gnaw on it, Liu Mu also heated up the last bucket of Dog Food and a large pile of frozen food for Niu Boyi.

Food piled up like a small mountain beside her, and she also casually took some cooked meat from it to gnaw on. Of course, with Liu Mu's current physical fitness, eating raw meat was also no burden, even the meat of a Mutated Animal, but as a habit of a civilized human, she still didn't really want to live a life of drinking blood and eating raw meat.

When the two and the dog were full, the Great Master Flower that had shrunk into a ball over there finally had some movement.

The originally plump vines and foliage fell away like a blooming flower, revealing the person standing in the middle.

"Big Sister!"

As soon as Zhang Xiaoyong saw Xu Xiaofeng, he didn't even wipe the tomato sauce off his mouth and rushed out like a little whirlwind.

He shouted as he ran, almost tripping over the wet mud.

Liu Mu also followed; she was excited too, but more worried that Xu Xiaofeng had not regained consciousness and would attack the approaching Zhang Xiaoyong out of instinct.

But fortunately, her worry did not happen.

Zhang Xiaoyong pounced over, the vines scattered to avoid him, and Xu Xiaofeng in the middle opened her arms, catching the child steadily.

"Be careful, didn't I tell you not to run so fast on a rainy day!"

Saying words of blame, yet every word was full of concern.

Liu Mu felt relieved and walked over with large strides, "He has been talking for a long time about wanting to see this most beautiful flower of a Big Sister. Why did you only come out now? My ears were almost calloused from listening."

Xu Xiaofeng hugged Zhang Xiaoyong tightly, and when she looked up at Liu Mu, tears slid down from her pupils, which had turned into green eyes, "Liu Mu, you're back."

Just like countless times after a disaster, when Liu Mu returned, the two people guarding the home would always say the same words.

—"Liu Mu/Sister, you're back."

Liu Mu nodded slightly and smiled, "Yes, I'm back. This trip out, the harvest was not small either, Big Sister."