Chapter 20

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“Don’t—!” Yao Wuque’s broken roar echoed in the dark forest, and his hands were suddenly free. He immediately tore off the rattan that bound his body with the strength of scratching his skin. Regardless of the scars full of burns and corrosion, he hugged Jiang Tong tightly and reflexively pressed him under his body.

“Hmm,” Shen Shanwu was slammed into a strong man’s body, and his lungs were almost squeezed out. Yao Wuque protected his head with one hand and hugged his back with the other. His head was tightly buried, and his whole body was taut to the extreme.

Shen Shanwu looked at his fleshy back, and quickly hooked out the protective clothing left in the green vine pupa and put it on him. Yao Wuque’s ability to move meant that the green vine was dead. It seemed that Jiang Huan had finally ended the battle, having found and destroyed the roots of the mutant creeper. Shen Shanwu breathed a sigh of relief. Finally it was over…

Several footsteps approached quickly, and Shen Shanwu heard Xiaowen’s panicked call, as well as a man’s familiar gasp.

The first one to appear was Jiang Huan, but he paused slightly when he saw the scene in front of him. Instead, Zhong Yin, who was following closely behind, rushed to the front. She quickly knelt down beside Yao Wuque, poking away the dead rattan strips, cautiously trying to get up to help him.

The exposed skin outside the protective clothing was slowly corroded. At first glance, there was no good piece of meat. For a while, Zhong Yin didn’t even know how to start.

Shen Shanwu clearly saw that this girl, who was always serious and cold, kept trembling her hands, and she took off her coat twice before she succeeded, and the movement on Yao Wuque’s body was extremely soft, and even her voice was gentle and trembling, “Wuque…Wuque is fine. Wuque is okay…”

Yao Wuque still didn’t let go of the person in his arms. He lowered his head and wrapped his arms around Shen Shanwu like two iron hoops. No matter how Zhong Yin comforted him, he refused to let go.

“Yao Wuque,” Jiang Huan finally opened his mouth, “The mutant creeper has been confirmed dead, and you are safe now.”

At the moment Jiang Huan made a sound, Yao Wuque suddenly trembled all over, and the hand protecting Shen Shanwu’s head was also tightly clenched.

“…I’m sorry.” It took a while before he gritted his teeth and said, with obvious tears in his voice, “I’m sorry, captain. I didn’t complete the task.”

Seeing that Yao Wuque was still able to speak, Zhong Yin let go of her heart, but Shen Shanwu faintly felt a moist feeling on his shoulders.

Yao Wuqu still buried his head, as if he didn’t want to see anyone again, “You entrusted Jiang Tong to me, but I… I… he was trying to protect me…”

Hearing this, Shen Shanwu finally couldn’t help but move his legs, “I’m still alive.”

“……”

Yao Wuque repented and raised his head in a daze. He saw the boy in his arms with his eyes open, and his eyes were quite helpless. He quickly raised his body and glanced up and down for a while. Jiang Tong was intact from head to toe, even his inner shirt and trousers were not much broken.

“Why are you…” Yao Wuque widened his eyes in a daze. He reacted to something, and then turned to look at the location of the yellow flower. There was only a half-hanging wilted flower holder left, and on the edge two meters away, an umbrella knife was firmly nailed to the body of the petal on the trunk, and there was a terrible scorched black hole under the thick trunk of the human body, still smoking black smoke.

The scene was very embarrassing at one point.

Jiang Huan was finally able to pull Shen Shanwu out of Yao Wuque’s arms. He untied his cloak and wrapped Shen Shanwu into a roll, revealing only a mask on the outside, and then picked him up with one hand.

Shen Shanwu’s head was resting on his shoulder by Jiang Huan, holding the back of his head with one palm, rubbing gently. He heard Jiang Huan repeating softly in his ear, “It’s okay…Jiang Tong, it’s okay…”

After the danger was lifted, the invincible mutant Shen Shanwu finally realized that he was too calm, contrary to the appearance of his ten-year-old child.

On the other side, Yao Wuque confirmed that Jiang Tong was in good health and saw that his limbs were intact. Although all the team members suffered minor injuries, their lives were unhindered. Finally, his nerves relaxed and he fainted in Zhong Yin’s arms.

Shen Shanwu felt that there was no value in acting. He couldn’t faint or cry, but it was still very simple to pretend to be pitiful.

So he gently rubbed his cheek on Jiang Huan’s shoulder, “…Captain.”

“Hmm?”

“Just now… I was so scared.” He was afraid that the broken flower would cover him with a mouthful of phlegm in its stomach, but he was still alive and kicking. How should he explain it?

“…” Jiang Huan put his chin on Jiang Tong’s head in silence, and sighed deeply.

“I’m scared too.”

I’m afraid that you will get hurt, I’m afraid that you will die, and I’m afraid that you will never open your eyes again. It evokes the most terrifying nightmare in my heart.

Shen Shanwu rubbed coquettishly again, “My gloves are corroded by that strange plant. The skin of my palm is broken, and it bleeds. It hurts so much.”

“Go back and give you medicine.”

“I want to drink the orange water before.”

“Good.”

“I still want to…”

“All right.”

Shen Shanwu clenched his lips silently under the mask. Dad Jiang Huan was too spoiling. He was going to be too proud with this kind of spoil… An hour later, he was already proud of this and drank Jiang Huan’s own orange sparkling water.

After the rain stopped, the stagnant water on the ground quickly dissipated, and everyone was able to return to the off-road vehicle to repair it. The seriously injured were treated for their injuries, while the team members who were not injured were exhausted and went back to the wreckage of the broken temple to rescue everyone’s luggage.

In order to facilitate the care of the two wounded, Yao Wuque, who didn’t have a good piece of meat all over his body, also moved to the first car. Zhang Xiaowen wore plastic gloves and skillfully bandaged him with medicine, while Zhong Yin stayed on the left and right to send him blood and water.

At the same time, Shen Shanwu was spreading his hands out on the table. Across from his seat, Jiang Huan was seriously wiping his wound with iodine wine, with a serious expression for fear that he might accidentally become too strong and hurt Jiang Tong.

After lingering for a long time, Shen Shanwu was annoyed, “Captain, hurry up. It won’t hurt.”

Jiang Huan lowered his head and ignored him, then carefully raised his tweezers and took away a small piece of leaf debris stained with soil in his palm.

It was finally processed, but it was Shen Shanwu who was tired enough. Yao Wuque in the back seat of the car was wrapped like a mummy. His throat was almost dumb, and he looked at the roof of the car pitifully and gasped.

“Make Jiang Tong a cup of vitamins,” Jiang Huan said to Xiaowen, then narrowed his eyes and added, “Open another can for Yao Wuque.”

The bright sun rose, and Xiaowen also smiled brightly under the sun, “Yes, captain.” She took the order and put on her mask happily. Before she got out of the car, she didn’t forget to tease Yao Wuque, “Wuque, did you hear it? The captain wants to open a can for you.”

“Captain!” Yao Wuque was obviously also very excited, but when he saw Jiang Tong, who was sitting obediently in his seat and shaking his legs, he suddenly smiled again, “…Captain, I’d better reward Jiang Tong. If it weren’t for him, I would have been digested clean by the mutant plant.”

Shen Shanwu looked at Yao Wuque in surprise. Obviously, he didn’t expect that this person, who had disliked him from the first glance, would say something like this today. Shen Shanwu’s expression made Yao Wuque even more ashamed. He subconsciously wanted to scratch his hair, but his scalp was also corroded by acid. Half of his hair was shaved, and he gritted his teeth in pain when he touched it.

“…” Jiang Huan turned to look at Jiang Tong and gave him the right to choose. Of course, Shen Shanwu would not grab snacks from a minor who was fourteen or fifteen years younger than him, not to mention that the snacks were not delicious.

“No, thank you, Brother Wuque.” Shen Shanwu deliberately used his voice, which had not passed the voice-changing period, crisp and tender, “You are still alive, which is the biggest reward for me.”

Seeing Yao Wuque’s eyes flushed with emotion, Shen Shanwu secretly regretted that he hadn’t played well enough. Next time, he would change it to: You are still alive~ That is the best gift you can give to Tongtong.

Killing people with normal hearing with inspirational lotus fragrance!

The team members who had cleaned up the abandoned temple returned to the car one after another. The lieutenant came to return their luggage and belongings and stopped by to visit Yao Wuque. He returned Jiang Tong’s special short umbrella knife to its rightful owner, “Boy, it’s strong enough. I pulled it out for a long time. Nailed to the trunk of the tree.”

“…” Shen Shanwu thought for a few seconds, feeling that the reason that ‘A person can avoid 30 rifle bullets in extreme anger, and a long knife is naturally a cinch’ was not enough to win trust, so he simply pretended to be dazed and ignorant, and mixed it up with silence.

A box of canned food came and went humbly, but in the end, no one was willing to move. Jiang Huan clapped and distributed most of it to Yao Wuque, leaving the rest to Shen Shanwu. At this point, Shen Shanwu quietly handed it to Xiaowen.

It’s a waste to eat it. He doesn’t even like it.

Jiang Huan didn’t stop him after seeing it, and even helped Shen Shanwu speak when Xiaowen repeatedly refused. The feeling of eating canned food was tantamount to eating the dumplings that children from poor families could only eat during the New Year. Zhang Xiaowen was instantly moved to death. If it weren’t for the premise of recognizing Jiang Tong as a younger brother, she would recognize Jiang Huan as her father, and she would swear on the spot that Jiang Tong would be her half-brother from then on.

After lunch, the team took a break and set off immediately. The lieutenant originally proposed to arrive at the nearest suburban villa first, take a night off, and then continue on the road, but after the dangerous situation last night, Jiang Huan was worried that if there were any more mutated creatures in this villa with unknown internal conditions, the team would not rest all night for fear of a big problem, and finally let the co-pilots alternately drive to the rest stop in one breath.

The conditions of this former air-raid shelter, then an underground pipeline, and now a rest supply station were very simple. The exterior was overgrown with moss, the interior was mottled with mold, and the long, tube-shaped building was also small. Fortunately, there were few people. There were few permanent residents, and most of them were elderly.

They hadn’t lived well for a few years, and they didn’t care about the radiation content of the food they ate, but they were not thin. That was, their whole body was covered with skin diseases caused by radiation, either blisters or sarcomas. It’s like a monster running out of a biochemical laboratory.

One uncle even had protruding moles on his entire face, and there were one or two hairs on the moles. The ones on his eyelids made him unable to fully open his eyes, so he could only squint and look at people.

As soon as the stagnant water at night receded, the high temperature during the day wiped out the remaining water stains. The Shanhai team went to bed earlier than ever tonight. Everyone was tired, but he still needed a night watchman. This person was still Jiang Huan.

Xiaowen needed to take care of the patient, Yao Wuque, but she didn’t continue to force Shen Shanwu to sleep with her, so Shen Shanwu naturally got into Jiang Huan’s sleeping bag again.

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Wuque: Double cultivation of tea lotus, wonderful Brother Shanwu!