The Absolute Favorite in the Apocalyptic Rebirth

After entering April, the weather suddenly changed from the cold winter to the scorching summer, which was really unbearable.

Under the scorching sun, there was an endless road. The asphalt road seemed to be scorched, almost smelling of asphalt. The surrounding fields and forests seemed to be shrouded in this heat. The emerald green under the scorching sun turned dark green.

"It's so hot…"

Lou Ling slumped in the back seat, wiping the sweat from her face, then pushed away the hand around her waist and said angrily, "It's hot, can you stay away from me?"

Although the car had air conditioning, in order to save gasoline, the air conditioning was not always on. Once the air conditioning was turned off and the window was opened, the oncoming hot wind, and the faint smell of decay in the wind, were a kind of torture. If winter tested people's ability to withstand the cold, then summer tested the high temperature and stench.

Lou Dian took out a bottle of mineral water and said, "Drink some water to quench your thirst."

When Lou Ling took it, she found that the water was actually iced - iced? Lou Ling used the mineral water bottle to cool her face while looking at him curiously. She looked at Lin Baobao who was driving in the front seat, Grandpa Mo and Xiao Mo Yingying who was being held by Grandpa Mo in the passenger seat, then she leaned close to his ear and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"

Lou Dian smiled very gently and hugged his sister, who automatically threw herself into his arms. Lou Ling endured it for the sake of the bottle of water just now, and then she heard him say, "I collected it in winter, just in time to use it." After that, he took out a plastic bottle filled with ice and put it in the space next to him.

During the six-month long winter, every time Lou Dian took Lou Ling out of the base for training, he would take the time to fill several huge containers with water and put them outside to freeze, then directly put the ice back into the space. After the end of the world, the climate was disordered for the first five years. There was no spring and autumn, only winter and summer. The extreme cold in winter and the extreme heat in summer caused many people to die.

Lou Dian knew this, so how could he not be prepared? The ice collected in the space was directly frozen by him with clean water, unlike in his previous life, where he had to use crystal nuclei to find an ice-type power user to exchange it. Of course, with Chen Kaiwei around, it was convenient to use ice, but Lou Dian didn't like Lou Ling using things that belonged to other men.

Hearing Lou Dian's words, Lou Ling happily unscrewed the bottle and drank water, and also gave each of the three people in front of her a bottle of frozen water.

Lou Dian only let her drink a few sips, then changed to other water for her, and said, "It's not good for girls to drink ice water, just drink some to relieve the heat." Seeing her staring at him, he smiled even more gently, kissed her on the corner of her lips, and said softly, "Good girl~"

Lou Ling was defeated.

Because the daytime was getting hotter and hotter, a few days ago, everyone discussed it and decided to change the travel time to the time from early morning to sunrise, and from evening to dark, and to rest and collect supplies at other times. Although Xi Mufeng and the others were anxious to rush back to the capital, they knew that they couldn't rush in the face of reality, so they had to do so. Because of this, it originally only took a few hours to fly, but they were forced to extend it indefinitely. After driving for more than ten days, they hadn't even traveled half the way.

The reason why it was so slow, in addition to the weather, there was also the reason for the road. The previous snow disasters, floods, etc., had caused serious damage to the road, and no one had specially maintained the highway after the end of the world, and the highway could no longer be used. Therefore, they could only move forward at a speed of turtle speed, and they had to find a place to rest almost every night.

Like them, it seemed that many people were rushing to the capital, but they did not go with those people. First, they had to be wary of others, and second, some people looked really malicious, so when someone struck up a conversation, they politely refused.

Seeing the sun was high in the sky, Lin Baobao, who was driving in front, was already choosing a place to rest at noon.

Lou Dian took out a map from the space. This map was very detailed, so detailed that even villages and towns were marked. Lou Dian quickly found a nearby town and said, "There is a town three kilometers ahead, we can go there to rest."

When Lin Baobao heard this, she immediately cheered up as if she had been beaten with chicken blood. After speaking to the car behind her through the walkie-talkie, she accelerated the car.

Soon, they entered the town. This town looked very decadent, giving people the feeling of a dead town. Like all cities after the end of the world, there were only a few zombies wandering the streets.

After the car stopped, the zombies who smelled fresh flesh and blood had already rushed towards them. These zombies were all first-order zombies, and their speed was slightly faster than that of ordinary people. Except for Grandpa Mo who was protecting the two children in the car, everyone else got out of the car to clean up the zombies. In addition to the men who used their abilities, although the girls only used knives, their fighting ability was not weak. After these days of actual combat, their skills in dealing with zombies had improved, and killing zombies was faster than using abilities.

Soon, the nearby zombies were cleared, and everyone chose a house that looked clean to go in and rest.

Lin Baobao put down two buckets of water, then propped her cheeks and squatted in front of the electric fan with Lou Ling to blow the cool breeze. Huang Zhiling and Mo Yingying next to them wiped their sweat with wet towels. After wiping themselves clean, they went to help Grandpa Mo cook lunch. The men gathered around the map again to discuss the route.

Suddenly, Lou Dian's gentle and clean voice sounded, "Xiaoling, we'll have lunch later, don't eat too much ice."

Lou Ling, who was holding the ice cubes soaked in milk with her claws and Lin Baobao, froze. Under everyone's attention, she took the box of ice cubes soaked in milk and rushed to the kitchen to help Grandpa Mo prepare lunch. Lou Dian ignored everyone's strange eyes, pointed at City S on the map and said, "City S is a coastal city, and the radio said that the entire City S has been submerged by sea water. I don't know how much the sea level has risen. We have to take another route when the time comes…"

After entering the kitchen, Lou Ling distributed the milk to Grandpa Mo and the other three. Lin Baobao put her arm around her shoulder and said sympathetically, "I didn't know that Dianxia would be so…nanny, it's really hard work." Lin Baobao really liked gentle and considerate men, but she liked men to be considerate to her, not to be like a mother to her. Therefore, now her impression of Lou Dian had completely changed. She felt that such a man was really difficult to deal with, so it was better to leave it to her good sister with strong nerves.

Lunch was cold noodles and cold dishes. It was estimated that in this kind of weather, no one would be able to eat hot meals and dishes, so the food that Grandpa Mo made now was mainly cold and refreshing.

After lunch, Xi Mufeng, Wei Xian and others discussed to see if there were any supplies nearby, and planned to collect some and put them in Wei Xian's space. Although they went to the capital together and ate together, they were still very clear. The food in Lou Dian's space was only responsible for the Mo family's grandparents and grandchildren, and Chen Kaiwei's uncle and nephew. If others joined in, they had to provide their own food. Lou Dian didn't care about the amount of food, he just didn't want to develop their dependence and habit, so let them understand that only by working hard can they have food.

Xi Mufeng, Wei Xian, Chen Kaiwei, Lin Baobao and others left together, while the others stayed in the house. Lou Ling was even forced to take a nap by Lou Dian.

"It's too hot, I don't want to sleep." Lou Ling said weakly.

Except for the power users, the ones who suffered the most were ordinary people like them. Without the protection of their abilities, the severe cold and heat had a more direct impact on them, which was why ordinary people in the last days were more likely to live harder than power users.

Lou Dian touched her face and said, "After we settle down, we will install air conditioners in the future."

Lou Ling was still weak, and was about to get up to wash her face when she suddenly heard screams in the distance.

Several people were so frightened that they jumped up. Just as they were panicking, Lou Dian suddenly got up, pulled Lou Ling and said to Grandpa Mo and the others, "Get out of here quickly."

At the moment, everyone didn't speak, they directly picked up their luggage bags and ran out. When Lou Dian stuffed them into the car, he found that it was too late to leave, so he said to them, "Remember, no matter what happens, don't come out!"

As he spoke, he pushed his palm, and the car slid out as if it were weightless, and didn't stop until it had slid a long way. And Lou Dian had turned around, a Tang sword appeared in his hand, his dark eyes were full of inorganic coldness, and the end of his eyes were slightly red, which was a manifestation of his approaching madness.

In just a moment, countless green vines appeared from the corners of the street and behind the houses, surging towards them like a tide. They looked like Boston ivy, but their leaves were countless times larger than those of Boston ivy, and each leaf was as large as a lotus leaf. Every vine was strong and powerful, looking like steel bars.

It was a mutated plant. They didn't expect that they had actually broken into the territory of the mutated plant. Lou Dian's eyes darkened slightly. Compared with mutated animals, mutated plants were more troublesome. As long as they remained dormant, it was difficult to find their traces even with mental power.

The vines attacked Lou Dian in the middle of the road with their teeth and claws. Lou Dian jumped up, jumped directly to the balcony on the second floor of a house beside the road, then leaned forward, jumped over with the force, and stepped on a vine that was waving in mid-air. With a wave of the Tang sword and the space blade, a large number of vines and branches were cut off.

The mutated Boston ivy seemed to be enraged, and more vines attacked from all directions. Lou Dian used the houses on both sides of the street to jump in mid-air, using the force to cut off the attacking vines.

Lou Ling lay on the car window and looked anxiously, while Huang Zhiling and the others saw the man stepping on the branches of the Boston ivy in mid-air and using the force to cut the Boston ivy. Their eyes were full of splendor. Huang Zhiling's hands were tightly clenched, and her nails were digging into her flesh. She knew that Lou Dian was very strong, the strongest of them all, but she didn't expect him to be so strong.

Suddenly, Lou Dian jumped forward, as if he had jumped into a trap set by Boston ivy. The dense branches and leaves and the dense steel-like vines surrounded him, forming an egg-shaped net in mid-air, making it impossible to see what was going on inside.

Seeing this scene, Lou Ling felt her heart stop. When she came back to her senses, she had already opened the car door and got out of the car, holding a Tang sword and running towards the mutated plant. Avoiding the vines it drew, she slashed forward with the Tang sword in her hand. The sword slashed on the vines, and her mouth went numb, but she found that it only left a mark, which made her stunned. Just now, Lou Dian easily cut it off, giving people the visual sense that it was extremely neat and tidy, making people think that these vines were just thicker.

"Lou Dian!"

Lou Ling dodged the vines that were drawn towards her, and shouted towards the spherical vine in the sky, her face full of anxiety and tension. She didn't notice the vines that were attacking her from behind. When she realized it, although she dodged in time, the force that rubbed her back still made her feel a little uncomfortable. Her throat was sweet, and blood flowed down the corner of her tightly pursed lips.

She still attacked the vines relentlessly, her purpose was to rescue Lou Dian who was trapped in the mutated plants. Huang Zhiling in the car finally came back to her senses and hurriedly followed her out of the car, holding a Tang sword in her hand. This Tang sword was given to her by Lou Ling. Since she got it, she had regarded it as her own weapon. She even put it within easy reach when she was sleeping. It had become something she couldn't live without except for clothes.

Just as Huang Zhiling ran over to help Lou Ling block the vines that were attacking her, the egg-shaped vine net that was imprisoning Lou Dian suddenly vibrated violently. The blue-purple veins seemed to be on fire, and the surrounding temperature became extremely high… No, it was really on fire. With a bang, the entire egg-shaped vine exploded, and the broken branches and leaves flew everywhere.

Huang Zhiling pulled Lou Ling down, and the two hurriedly rolled towards the barrier beside the street, avoiding the branches that were hitting them.

Among the exploding vines, flames shot up into the sky.

Ignoring the flying vines, Lou Ling stuck her head out and stared at the scene. She found that the mutated plant was burning fiercely in the fire, emitting a pungent smell, and the vines were dancing wildly, as if it was a struggle before death. But the fire was burning violently everywhere, and she couldn't find Lou Dian at all.

"Lou Dian…" She whimpered, trying to rush over again.

Huang Zhiling grabbed her and shouted, "Don't go, it's dangerous there!" The burning vines were dancing wildly everywhere. If they ran out at this time and were hit once, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Lou Ling's face was blank, the firelight reflected her face red, and she remembered the scene when she first met Lou Dian when she was ten years old, the scene when Lou Dian knelt in front of her parents' graves and cried when she was sixteen years old, and the smiling face Lou Dian showed when he returned from graduation when she was eighteen years old, saying that they would be together forever…

"Lou Dian—"

"I'm here."

A gentle and clean voice sounded in her ears, and the next moment, a pair of hands wrapped around her waist, pulling her into a warm embrace.

Lou Ling was stunned for a moment, then she hugged him tightly, and all the tears she didn't want others to see were imprinted on the clothes on his chest.

After an unknown amount of time, the mutated Boston ivy finally burned to ashes, and not far away, the voices of Lin Baobao and the others also sounded.

"Lingling, Dianxia? Were you attacked by mutated plants here too?"

Lin Baobao and the others returned in a sorry state, their bodies covered with torn marks and bloodstains, which showed that they had also fought hard. There was a bloodstain on Xi Mufeng's face, which added a bit of masculinity to his handsome face. He said urgently, "Let's get out of this town quickly, there are many mutated plants in the town."

Without saying a word, the others walked towards the car.

Lou Dian directly picked up Lou Ling. After getting into the car, Lin Baobao saw Lou Ling's flushed face from the rearview mirror, which looked very abnormal, and couldn't help being a little surprised, "Lingling, what's wrong with you?"

Lou Ling's head was a little dizzy, and her eyes were already blurred. She forced a smile, and then fainted in Lou Dian's arms.

The author has something to say:

Today's goal:

Lou Ling's goal: Never leave!

Lou Dian's goal: Be together forever!

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