Chapter 75
In the comfortable morning with a gentle breeze, Mi Lele woke up early, holding a book and a cup of tears, and went to knock on the broken door opposite.
Yesterday, she had seen that Xia Weishuang was in a bad mood and had no energy, so she had made an appointment with her to read together tomorrow, hoping that her company would help her sister forget the unpleasant things.
Her sister didn’t really want her to get close, but Lele had insisted. She said, “I will ask for Sister Sang Lu’s opinion properly. And, I’m here to heal sister. Even if I don’t come, Sister Sang Lu will grab me.”
Her sister still didn’t quite agree. Lele knew that she was afraid of being hurt by the big demon king.
But…
Mi Lele was worried. She always felt that if she didn’t show her face in front of Xia Weishuang more often, it would be difficult for Xia Weishuang to cheer up.
So she had used the reason that her tears were useful, so the big demon king would not easily kill her, to persuade Xia Weishuang. Xia Weishuang had patted her head and couldn’t help but laugh, and then she had agreed.
As soon as she knocked on the door, it opened. Mi Lele thought that Xia Weishuang had also woken up early and was waiting for her company. She felt very happy.
She had always been the one being protected. Even with her healing ability, the adults (except for Sang Lu) were reluctant to let her use it often.
Now, she could also do something for her sister. This made the child’s heart fill with the joy of being affirmed and needed.
It was just that it was a little uncomfortable to face the big demon king’s cold gaze.
Mi Lele quietly glanced at Sang Lu and saw that the corners of her lips were curved into a smile, as if she were in a very good mood, and she was also so rarely approachable.
Before her sister had woken up, Sang Lu had never smiled at her and little brother Wolf. Could it be that they had made up?
This guess was both a relief and a fear.
Mi Lele had not seen what had happened on Green Mountain with her own eyes, but had only heard others’ accounts. Later, when she was found by Sang Lu, besides being scared and forced to cry, she had not encountered anything too terrible.
Even when Sang Lu had initially wanted to eat her, she had been blocked by Sister Shuangshuang.
In the child’s eyes, although the big demon king was terrifying, as long as Sister Shuangshuang was around, nothing would happen.
But, to be able to make up like this… oh my god, was the big demon king a vixen?
Mi Lele pouted, a little worried. When she reached the door of the second bedroom, she composed her expression again, making herself look happy and lively, so that she could make the adult laugh.
She knocked on the door politely, and Sang Lu stood behind her and opened it for her.
As soon as Mi Lele walked in with her book and cup, she found a very conspicuous drawer by Xia Weishuang’s pillow. She walked forward two steps and couldn’t help but let out a “wow.”
There was a fluffy little orange kitten sleeping in the drawer!
The drawer was padded with cotton from a pillow, and then a towel was laid on top. The little kitten was sleeping in the middle, curled up into a small ball, its belly rising and falling as it slept sweetly.
It was so cute!
Mi Lele’s eyes were glued to it and she couldn’t leave. She ran to Xia Weishuang’s side and asked, “Sister, where did the kitty come from?”
Xia Weishuang took the cup from her hand, drank it, and said, “Sang Lu gave it to me.”
Mi Lele looked at Sang Lu in surprise. She didn’t expect it to be a gift from the petty and domineering big demon king.
“Is sister going to keep it?” Mi Lele looked at Xia Weishuang with the pitiful and expectant eyes of a puppy.
Xia Weishuang sat up, her gaze sweeping over Sang Lu, and then quickly withdrew it. She smiled gently at Mi Lele and said, “I’ll keep it. It left its mother because of me. Now its body is stained with a human’s scent and an even more dangerous scent. Even if I return it, the mother cat won’t accept it. I have to take care of it, take good care of it, and let it grow up smoothly.”
The kitten was too small. There was still a blue film in its eyes, and it had not yet been weaned. It needed to be fed by hand.
This was not a powerful mutated cat like Coal Ball, but just an ordinary kitten. If she didn’t take care of it, it wouldn’t live for long.
But now, it was obvious that there was no pet milk powder here, and feeding the kitten had become a problem.
Because she was worried about this, Xia Weishuang was a little more energetic today, and even had the idea of going out—to find goat milk powder for the kitten.
She asked Mi Lele if there was any soft, light, and easy-to-digest food. Mi Lele thought for a moment and asked if steamed rice cake was okay.
Xia Weishuang nodded, gently patted Mi Lele’s head, and seriously gave her a task.
It was not convenient for her to move now, and she still needed to recuperate. Lele’s tears had a healing effect, but they would not heal everything in an instant.
Mi Lele didn’t have time to read with her sister. She put the book on the bedside table and let Xia Weishuang read it if she wanted to. This book was from the hotel, and its title was “Les Misérables.” Lele didn’t know what it was about, but as the name suggested, it was very miserable.
She was completely thinking of letting her sister see how miserable others were, and then feel happy by comparison.
Mi Lele glanced at the sleeping kitten and said, “Then I’ll go and prepare some food!”
Xia Weishuang gave her an encouraging smile, and Mi Lele also gave her a bright smile. But as she was smiling, she suddenly remembered something. She looked back and saw Sang Lu leaning lazily against the door, also smiling at her.
It was just that Sang Lu’s smile was a little sinister and a little stiff, and it looked extremely ill-intentioned.
Mi Lele’s survival instinct exploded. She subconsciously flattered the big demon king. “Sister Shuangshuang is still so gentle, and Sister Sang Lu is also, ahem, also… becoming more and more gentle!”
After she finished speaking, she gave a fawning smile and quickly ran out on her two short legs.
The smile on Sang Lu’s face became more and more obvious. Ah, I’m so gentle. You’re so right.
Of course, only she herself knew what the reality was.
Sang Lu was indeed in a good mood today, because Xia Weishuang had smiled at her many times yesterday, although it was a cold smile. She had also cried for a long time. In the middle of the night, she had opened the closed clam shell, and Sang Lu had once again touched Xia Weishuang’s soft core, which was undoubtedly wonderful. So she could temporarily restrain the impulse to possess all of Xia Weishuang’s smiles.
She even had a feeling that she had never had before after her rebirth, which was close to pride and satisfaction, but not entirely the same.
Sang Lu licked her red lips, her throat a little dry. She had not yet realized that her thoughts were slowly changing.
In the past, Sang Lu had thought that it was only natural for Xia Weishuang to smile at her, be good to her, be gentle and considerate, and like her. But after losing her, she realized how much she wanted to hold on to all of this.
Xia Weishuang sighed softly, leaned against the bed, and began to read. In fact, she couldn’t really get into it, because Sang Lu’s presence was too strong.
Even if she just leaned against the door frame, silent and quiet, her gaze was still so hot that it was about to burn her.
Almost just like this, Xia Weishuang was enveloped and violated by Sang Lu’s aura.
This made Xia Weishuang unable to help but recall the embarrassment of last night. She couldn’t help but turn her head and pinch the bridge of her nose. At that time, she was too excited, her emotions had completely collapsed, and her thoughts were in a mess. What had she said to Sang Lu…
But what was done was done. Xia Weishuang could not erase Sang Lu’s memory.
She pressed her eyebrows and continued to look at the words on the book that she couldn’t get into, so that Sang Lu wouldn’t see that she was minding her presence.
She wants my attention and love. After losing it, she is so thirsty for it that she even gave up killing to get it again. Alright, I won’t let her get it easily, so that she won’t turn her back on me again after she gets it.
Of course, Xia Weishuang did not think that she would go back to the past with Sang Lu, whether it was the distant three years ago, or a month ago.
She… she would not be so cheap as to love her again. She would be clear-headed and only treat her as a greedy monster, and from a rational and safe perspective, she would protect everything she cared about to the greatest extent.
But last night, because she was excited, she had said a lot of things. She was actually retorting and satirizing, but Sang Lu seemed to have really taken it literally…
Xia Weishuang pressed her wound. It didn’t hurt much anymore.
She looked at the kitten by her pillow again and thought about what to name it. It seemed that Lele also liked cats, so she might as well let her name it.
So Xia Weishuang withdrew her gaze and did not pay too much attention to the kitten.
Because now, she did not have a bottom line for Sang Lu’s tolerance, and she could not grasp her thoughts well. So for safety’s sake, she tried to keep a distance from other life.
In fact, after she woke up, she had thought of asking Sang Lu to go out and find milk powder. Why should she be the only one responsible for the cat she had brought? But Sang Lu had seriously calculated an account for her.
Because Mi Lele was not clinging to Xia Weishuang all day, she could briefly let her be alone with Xia Weishuang = the kitten was very fragile now and needed Xia Weishuang to watch over it all the time, so she could not let it be alone with Xia Weishuang and steal her affection.
This was a shrewd and calculating rule of Sang Lu’s.
In fact, in the past, when she was pretending to be docile and disguising herself, she would often leave Xia Weishuang with others. At that time, she had thought that pretending to be generous would make Shuangshuang like her more. In addition, at that time, she had not yet completely sorted out what her greedy desires were, so she had not considered so much.
Now, she was more and more able to think about complex things, and some things naturally had clear rules.
But this had made Xia Weishuang very angry. Seeing the hateful smile that Sang Lu showed after she had finished her calculations, Xia Weishuang gave her a cold look and closed her eyes to pretend to be asleep.
I can’t look at her anymore. I’m afraid I’ll get angry and faint.
Now… forget it, calm down. Since Sang Lu was jealous of the little cat and was unwilling to go out and find milk powder herself, then she would wait until her own injuries were healed and go out with her.
For now, let the little cat eat something else to fill its stomach.
About twenty minutes after Mi Lele had left, she ran over again. Not only had she prepared food for the little cat, but she had also brought food for Xia Weishuang.
She and Wei Yunlang had boiled water, then crushed the steamed rice cake and mixed it with hot water to make a paste. They had also added a little bit of salted egg yolk.
This was not healthy food, but there was no choice under the current conditions. At least let the cat not be hungry, and then consider its health.
The aroma of the food immediately woke up the little kitten. It meowed loudly and, encouraged by its appetite, it chased after the small dish of paste.
Mi Lele put the small dish in the drawer, and the little kitten immediately began to lick it.
“Lele, give it a name.”
“Hmm… let’s call it Diandian! The ‘dian’ in ‘xiao bu dian’!”
“Okay, let’s call it Diandian.”
In the afternoon, Xia Weishuang felt that her wound had healed, and there was not much pain when she moved. It was said that it took a hundred days for a broken bone to heal. Fortunately, it had healed so quickly with Lele’s help, although this injury was also caused by Lele.
She temporarily handed Diandian over to Lele to take care of, then changed into a set of clothes that were easy to move in, and set out to find goat milk powder for Diandian.
Before she went out, Xia Weishuang looked in the mirror once. This was the first time she had observed herself since she had woken up.
The woman in the mirror had long hair that was almost to her waist, her cheeks were pale and thin, and her lips were pale. Her beautiful face was always shrouded in a layer of melancholy.
No wonder Lele was always worried. Xia Weishuang raised the corners of her lips and smiled at herself in the mirror, but she couldn’t really smile.
When she walked out of the hotel, Xia Weishuang actually had a feeling of seeing the light of day again.
It’s already September… She had asked Wei Yunlang the specific date. It was September 20th.
It was only September 20th, but she felt that she had already lived a lifetime.
Xia Weishuang ran out, feeling that her body was lighter and her speed was a little faster. She was a little surprised by her change, but she didn’t show it.
In fact, after she woke up, she had felt that her body had changed. All the scars on her body had disappeared, and her strength had also become greater. But she had been staying in the room all this time and hadn’t felt much.
Now that she was out, she realized that she seemed to have been completely transformed.
Sang Lu followed beside her, leisurely and at ease, as if she were strolling in a back garden. Now that she understood the taste of fear, she not only did not want Xia Weishuang to leave her, but she was also afraid of her leaving, so this time she did not leave her side.
Guessing Sang Lu’s thoughts, Xia Weishuang felt a little ridiculous. In the past, she had been elusive, appearing and disappearing as she pleased. Now, she was following her closely.
With Sang Lu by her side, Xia Weishuang found a maternal and infant products store smoothly. The infant goat milk powder was on the top shelf. Just as Xia Weishuang was about to stand on her toes to get it, Sang Lu beside her took the initiative to take it down.
“You…” Xia Weishuang turned to look at Sang Lu.
Sang Lu tilted her head. “Me?”
“Nothing,” Xia Weishuang shook her head gently and decided not to ask.
After she woke up, she had always felt that Sang Lu had become a little shorter and a little thinner, but at that time, she was lying in bed and had not carefully compared. Later, after she got used to it, she no longer felt it.
Just now, she had this feeling again, but it was not as obvious as before. These few days, Sang Lu had slowly grown back.
Xia Weishuang put a few more cans of milk powder in a bag. A large can of goat milk powder was enough for little Diandian to drink until it was weaned. The rest was for people to eat.
The two of them walked out of the maternal and infant products store and decided to go back to the hotel to rest first. She didn’t know if it was because she hadn’t been in the sun for too long, but Xia Weishuang’s skin was a little red and stinging.
But on the way, Xia Weishuang suddenly felt as if someone was staring at her from a distance.
Are there survivors nearby?
Before Xia Weishuang could look around, Sang Lu suddenly extended a tentacle from behind her shoulder, rolled up a stone from the ground, and with a whoosh, it shot out with a sound of breaking wind, and hit a high floor of a tall building.
“What is it?”
Sang Lu thought for a moment and said, “A monster.”
**
In a beautiful park in A City, under an ancient tree with blooming flowers.
A gentle and beautiful woman was snuggling with a large cat. They were sitting on the ground, quietly mourning in front of a small stone tablet.
The stone tablet was carved by herself from a stone she had picked up. Because it was not a perfect square, it was a bit simple and a little ugly. On it were the three words “Xia Weishuang.” It was carved by Bai Qian, holding Coal Ball’s paw, stroke by stroke.
Behind the stone tablet was a small cenotaph. It was enough to make one sad.
That day, after Bai Qian had sobered up from her drunkenness, she had realized that she had been tricked by Xia Weishuang. Coal Ball had already run far away and was temporarily resting to avoid the rain.
The silly Coal Ball still didn’t know that Xia Weishuang had no intention of catching up at all, and was still happy that it could run fast and jump high and could perfectly complete the mission.
Bai Qian held her head, which was aching from a hangover, hugged Coal Ball’s neck, and cried for a while, then told it to take her back in the rain.
Coal Ball realized that Little Sister Shuang was in danger, so it ran and ran with all its might. At the same time, to prevent Bai Qian from getting wet, it fluffed up its tail to cover her from the rain.
But when they returned to that soap factory, Xia Weishuang was long gone, and so was Sang Lu.
The factory was a mess. Just by looking at it, Bai Qian could imagine what kind of melee had taken place here not long ago.
On the ground, there were only fragments of Xia Weishuang’s broken clothes, and not even a body… without a doubt, that monster had won, and had eaten Xia Weishuang.
Having lost her good friend, Bai Qian was heartbroken. And in a state of hangover, she had been exposed to the wind and rain. Even though Coal Ball had tried its best to cover her from the rain, it had not been able to completely cover her—so she had fallen ill.
Coal Ball had also fallen ill.
Perhaps this heartache was even worse than the fever after being drenched in the rain. The person and the cat had snuggled together and rested for a few days. Slowly, they had walked out of the pain and sadness of losing Xia Weishuang.
They could not let down the life that their dear friend had exchanged for her own. They had to live well, and then…
If one day, Coal Ball became stronger and met that monster again. Bai Qian thought, I must avenge Little Shuang!
Bai Qian found a beautiful place to set up a cenotaph for Xia Weishuang. She herself also settled down in a sparsely populated park. She would often come and talk to Xia Weishuang.
“Little Shuang, recently there have been more and more mutated plants, mutated animals, and evolved zombies. No, I should say they’ve become stronger. Those who had been hiding because they were weak have all come out after they became stronger.”
“I don’t know if the progress of human espers has kept up. I can’t do it. My ability doesn’t have much combat power.”
“I wish this disaster had never happened. Although I used to want to communicate with small animals like in a fairy tale, if everything could return to normal, I would be willing to give up this ability.”
“What about you? I think you would be too.”
As she was talking, Bai Qian shook her head and placed a bouquet of small wild flowers in front of Xia Weishuang’s cenotaph.
“Little Shuang, don’t fall in love in your next life,” Bai Qian said with a bitter smile.
“Meow! Meow, meow, meow!”
Just at this moment, a few meows came from behind. After it was safe, and after confirming that she was not being watched by anyone (especially Sang Lu), Bai Qian had gradually gathered her cats again.
She turned her head, crouched down, and was about to play with her babies, but she saw a strange orange cat at a glance.
Bai Qian was very familiar with her cats. There were also orange cats in the cat group, but she could still tell at a glance that this was a strange stray cat.
“What’s wrong?” Bai Qian asked patiently.
This orange cat was the most ordinary cat. Its intelligence had not changed much, but under Bai Qian’s ability, it could still communicate vaguely.
After listening for a while, Bai Qian understood.
“You lost a child and want me to help you find it?”
“Meow~!”
That’s right. The poor mother cat had just gone out to hunt, and when she came back to her nest, she found that one of her kittens was missing.
It was simply outrageous!
She had heard from other cats that there was a cat lover who was very good to cats, so she had come to her.
This person was indeed very good to cats. She agreed without hesitation and said, “Don’t worry, I will help you find it.”