Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 40: Relationship with Plants
After lunch, Bai Li started packing her luggage.

Not only was the electricity out today, but even the turbid, undrinkable water was cut off.

Although the water cannot be used, it can be used to flush the toilet.

Now even this most basic function has disappeared.

Of course Bai Li doesn’t need to worry about this, after all, she has a walking faucet at home.

But without gas and electricity, they have to eat dry food all the time and can’t even boil hot water. How can this be possible?
Although it is already May, the temperature is still around ten degrees, with no sign of warming up. In this kind of weather, your body will definitely not be able to withstand it if you don't drink hot water.

"Mom, should we cook in the hallway? We can go pick up some branches, put down our iron stool, and put the pot on it. Just like that," he said while gesturing excitedly, "I used to go to the fields with my grandfather to dig sweet potatoes. He taught me that."

The grandfather that Qiqi mentioned is Bai Li's father. Because Jiang Minglang severed ties with his family many years ago, he asked his son to call him grandpa after he had him.

He himself truly treats his father-in-law as his own father.

When talking about making a fire with branches to cook outside, there was obvious excitement and anticipation in the little guy's eyes.

Bai Li chuckled. Look, the disasters and inconveniences for adults are completely different for children. He is neither anxious nor uneasy. Instead, he regards this as a new life experience and wants to explore it himself immediately.

Of course, the premise is that you feel safe enough.

For example, his mother has always been with him, and he firmly believes that his father will come back sooner or later.

"Okay, let's cook pork ribs rice outside for dinner."

If there is a power outage, the frozen food in the refrigerator must be dealt with first.

However, it is not easy to find dead branches in the city. Fortunately, there are a lot of leftover wood scraps when the kitchen and dining cabinets were renovated before. He originally wanted to wait for Jiang Minglang to come back to build a nest for Fengbao. He had already drawn the blueprint, but when he was about to start, he received a call asking him to go on a task immediately.

In the end, this matter was delayed and the wood was put into the utility room by Bai Li.

At 5:30 in the evening, while there was still light outside and it was not completely dark yet, Bai Li and Qiqi used an iron triangle stool to prop up a pot in the corridor outside their home.

She placed a thin strip of wood under the pot and took a stack of Qiqi's discarded test papers from last semester to start the fire.

But before she could light the paper with the lighter, Qiqi reached out to stop her, "Mom, wait a minute."

He looked down at Xiao Wu beside him and whispered, "Wu, spit some fire on me, here, just a little bit, just a little bit will do."

Xiaowu looked at him with his mouth open, wagging his tail and laughing, but he didn't spit fire.

Qiqi had no choice but to lie on the ground and demonstrate it herself, pouting her little mouth and blowing at the wood under the pot.

This time Xiaowu understood, and without waiting for Qiqi to withdraw his head, he opened his mouth and spit out a ball of red light.

The red light touched the test paper and the wood, and immediately turned into a ball of fire. The flames spread in all directions, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt hair.

Bai Li looked at her son. The little guy's originally neat bangs were missing a piece, revealing his fair and tender forehead. With his dazed look at this moment, he looked both funny and funny.

Bai Li chuckled and reached out to touch his forehead. Fortunately, he was only burned by the fire and was not hurt.

Qiqi also realized that a small piece of his hair was missing. He pretended to be angry and tapped Xiaowu's head with his fingers, scolding, "What's wrong with you, you dog? Can't you see that my head is still here? Can't you wait for me to step back before vomiting? You have no manners at all."

Xiaowu blinked his puppy eyes, seemed to realize that he was in trouble, hummed like a spoiled child, and rubbed his head against his legs again and again.

"Since you succeeded in starting the fire, I'll spare you this time."

After saying that, the little guy looked at Bai Li proudly, "Mom, am I smart? I saved you a lighter."

The two lighters at home were left by Jiang Minglang. There was not much gas left, and it was estimated that they could only be used five or six times. Bai Li felt even more amused when she saw his expression. She suppressed her laughter and nodded, "Well, my son is smart, much smarter than his mother."

"No, mom is also very smart, she just didn't think of it at the moment."

With the help of Xiaowu's fire, the pork ribs rice in the pot was quickly heated up.

After all, the rice and ribs are already cooked and can be eaten as long as they are heated through.

The corridor was suddenly filled with the irresistible aroma of pork ribs, which attracted the attention of the door of Room 402.

I could faintly hear a child crying from inside the door. “I want meat, I want ribs, I want chicken legs, I don’t want bread, I don’t want biscuits.”

Bai Li turned a deaf ear to him, heated up the meal and took it home, then took the iron stool back with her and the unburned wood as well.

At seven o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on Bai Li's door.

She opened the door and let He Meng in.

"Sister, Brother Gao and Junyu haven't come back yet, are they okay?"

He Meng spent the entire afternoon keeping an eye on the outside, hoping that the father and son could return home safely.

Unfortunately, there is still no sign of it until now.

Bai Li couldn't answer this question, so she asked He Meng, "Would you like some hot water?"

Without waiting for her to answer, he poured her a full cup and said, "Sit down."

He Meng thanked him gratefully, then sat at the dining table and drank from the cup in small sips.

After drinking a cup of hot water, my stomach and entire abdomen feel warm and comfortable.

This feeling of comfort calmed her mood, and she no longer felt anxious and uneasy.

"To be honest, when I heard yesterday that Brother Gao and his family's hometown is the same place as mine, I was so happy. Because although I have been thinking about going home these days, I was alone and had no idea what the situation was on the road, so I didn't dare to go at all. But yesterday was different. I could go with Brother Gao and Junyu, and I had already made arrangements with them, but now..."

It is still unknown whether the father and son can come back.

He Meng stayed at Bai Li's house for half an hour and then went back. Because there was no electricity, he decided to go to bed first to save batteries.

Before going to bed, Bai Li placed a pot of green ivy at the gate as she did last night, with the growing vines right next to the bottom of the door.

At 4:30 this morning, she was able to detect someone at the door through her connection with Green Rose.

This feeling is very mysterious. When someone approaches her plants, the plants will shake, and then she will feel it, as if the person is approaching her.

So, she is closely connected to the plants she brings into being?

Plants are part of her?

But what about the garlic sprouts that were eaten by the mother and son?
She can't be eating herself.

Bai Li still doesn’t quite understand it at the moment, and she needs to explore this ability slowly.

After arranging everything, she laid on the bed with her son, telling him a story while he slowly fell asleep.
At 12:40 in the middle of the night, a white Cruze drove into the residential area at a very fast speed and then stopped in the parking space downstairs of Building No. 1.

(End of this chapter)