met free Chapter 213 Nest
Chapter 213 Nest
After returning from outside, Miao Yin, who had seemed in a hurry to go out, reverted to her previous leisurely demeanor, sitting on the swing and swaying, looking at the new shoots of the small manor, as if waiting for something.
As usual, Yan Shuzhou brewed her a cup of tea and placed it on the small table next to her. He stayed quietly with her, while hundreds of nine-tasseled rabbits frolicked in every corner of the manor.
Miao Yin looked at the rabbit lying on its white belly on the ground, pondered for a while, and then asked, "Xiao Zhou, has your superpower changed recently?"
"There haven't been any major changes, but I've absorbed a lot of crystal cores recently, so I feel like I can summon more small animals, and I can use their power for longer periods of time," Yan Shuzhou said honestly.
Have you tried to push yourself to your limits again?
"No, my sister said it's dangerous and I can't touch it."
Miao Yin reached out her hand to him, and Yan Shuzhou readily obliged, letting her touch his head, as docile as a domesticated animal.
"Well done," Miao Yin praised.
"boom!"
Just as Yan Shuzhou was about to say something, a sudden explosion interrupted them.
Yan Shuzhou's face immediately darkened: "It's Song Qiming again. How many times has this happened? Sister, can't we just gouge his eyes out?"
From the very first day they returned to the small manor, Song Qiming, who possessed explosive abilities, would cause objects to explode every few days, disturbing their peace.
“He won’t be useful if we gouge out his eyes.” Miao Yin put down her hand. “Go see what excuse he has this time.”
Pulling along the sullen boy, Miao Yin followed the sound and found Song Qiming.
The red-haired boy squatted on a tree like a monkey, an apple dangling from his mouth, with a huge crater below him and a group of nine-tasseled rabbits watching him.
"What are you doing?"
"Hey, you've arrived? I was just about to build a burrow for the rabbits. Look, the foundation's already done!"
He pointed to the bare hole in the ground and said.
Yan Shuzhou: "..."
“My rabbit doesn’t need a burrow,” he said coldly.
"Ah—" he drawled, sounding quite disappointed.
Miao Yin walked around the crater a few steps and said, "This time, the blast was carried out using the land as a reference point?"
"Yeah, dealing with these big objects is really tough. It took me ages to activate my superpower." Song Qiming crunched on an apple, swinging his legs in the tree.
"If you could detonate the land like a bomb, you'd be an S-class ability user by now."
"Really? All it takes is reaching S-rank?" His puppy-dog eyes lit up. "Then I'm going to work hard!"
Yan Shuzhou said disdainfully, "Get out of here now and kill the mutants, and don't come back."
"That won't do. Brother Bai said he's making braised pork tonight, and I can't be absent."
"..."
"Pfft." Seeing him get flustered, Miao Yin couldn't help but laugh.
"Xiao Zhou, give up. He's not someone you can just talk to."
"I hate him." Yan Shuzhou looked up at Miao Yin, his tone tinged with grievance.
So Miao Yin took a doll out of her spatial storage and put it in his hand.
"Hold it."
Yan Shuzhou was immediately appeased after receiving the small gift. He held the little dinosaur doll and snuggled up to Miao Yin, while the rabbits came over and rolled around affectionately at his feet.
"Looks like someone can empathize with me." Tan Ling appeared out of nowhere.
As a victim of Song Qiming's "natural" approach, Tan Ling has a lot to say.
She was still dressed in her usual cool style, with her short hair tucked behind silver earrings and water stains still remaining on her black studded shoes.
"Are you also practicing superpowers?" Miao Yin asked.
“Since we’re just idling around anyway, we might as well hone our skills,” Tan Ling said, hands on her hips.
As a natural-type ability user, Tan Ling is undoubtedly a person with potential.
On the surface, her superpower appears to be attacking by creating ice, but in essence, she can summon water out of thin air and then change its form by controlling its temperature, which is why her ice is so versatile.
As long as the level of one's special ability increases, freezing thousands of miles of land or creating snow-capped mountains with bare hands is not impossible.
If she hadn't died at the Sunrise Shopping Mall, the combination of water and ice would have been the most sought-after item in the future, hot and arid post-apocalyptic world.
In a sense, she and Ji Yuanzhou are quite comparable.
"Hey Tan Ling, you're here too." Song Qiming waved to her.
"Look what you've done now, you idiot! All that noise, and my ice has cracked," she said sarcastically.
"I'm building a burrow for the rabbits! But Yan Shuzhou said rabbits don't need burrows. Sigh, I'm so sad." The young man sighed in disappointment.
"This is someone else's summoned creature. Why are you building a nest for it? You might as well bury yourself. It's embarrassing." Tan Ling said with a look of disgust.
Song Qiming then pointed to the hole in the ground and shook his head, saying, "It's too small; it can't bury me."
Tan Ling: "..."
Miao Yin watched the two of them working together and asked, "How did you two meet?"
Song Qiming said, "Speaking of this, I have to tell you a good story. Among the four of us, Tan Ling and I were the first to meet. Back then, I was buying spicy strips at the university convenience store when suddenly everyone around me turned into monsters. It was terrifying! Luckily, I was smart and immediately hid in the warehouse."
"The storeroom has everything, but the space is too small. I can't get out, it's so stuffy, I'm about to suffocate."
"Since you have superpowers, why don't you leave?"
"That's because I didn't realize I had superpowers at first!" he said matter-of-factly.
"I stayed inside for a few days, but I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took apart a shelf leg and prepared to go out and fight to the death. Who knew there were so many mutated people outside? Just when I was being besieged, Tan Ling appeared. She froze all the monsters around me in one go, and that's how I survived."
Song Qiming recalled the scene at that time.
The iron shelf rods were easily broken and thrown to the ground. He was surrounded by several mutated humans on the grass outside the shop and was nearly devoured alive.
Just when he was in despair, the temperature around him suddenly dropped, and the next moment, the monsters were frozen by transparent ice crystals.
Amidst the swirling chill, Tan Ling, dressed in a black and red punk jacket, appeared before him. Holding a fire axe, she swiftly chopped the ice sculpture to pieces.
Beneath the shattered ice crystals, he could hear his own heart pounding wildly.
"After that, we stayed together. Later, on the way to the base, we met Brother Bai and Xia Tang. Everyone needed to go to the base for refuge, so we formed a team, and that's how we are now."
Tan Ling: "I regret it very much."
Song Qiming: ?
She said expressionlessly, "If I had known you were this kind of scoundrel, I should have just walked right past you."
Song Qiming: QAQ
Miao Yin silently took everything in.
So that's what you were thinking?
I don't know if he himself is clear about it.