I'm speechless! You want me to drive a baby stroller on the highway to survive?

While cooking, Lu Youyou put the portable bathroom into use, first pouring a 300L bucket of tap water into the bathroom's water storage tank in batches.

Lu Youyou hadn't yet figured out how to use the empty water storage tank.

Breaking it down into plastic is easy, but plastic is easy to find, while buckets this big are hard to find.

If you discover the bucket has another use only after you've finished dismantling it, you'll regret it terribly.

Since there were enough backpack slots, Lu Youyou simply put it in one of them for storage.

After putting away the water bucket, Lu Youyou quickly took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and put away the portable bathroom.

By this time, the steamed buns and eggs were cooked.

The food was still too hot to eat right away, so Lu Youyou left the lid open and went to rummage through the refrigerator.

I need to feed Da Rui chicken breast tomorrow, so I'll move the chicken breast from the freezer to the refrigerator now.

When we get up tomorrow, we only need to put the meat in the room for a short while to allow it to return to room temperature, unlike today when we had to wait so long to thaw it.

I tidied up the messy refrigerator again, and the temperature of the steamed buns and eggs dropped.

At least she can now hold eggs with her hands, peel them, break them open, and put them into Xiao Hei's special food bowl.

The eggs were still a bit hot, so Lu Youyou stood there and ate her steamed bun.

After eating two steamed buns, the broken egg was no longer too hot to handle, making it suitable for Xiao Hei to eat.

As soon as Xiao Hei saw its food bowl, it jumped off the bed and circled around Lu Youyou's feet, wagging its tail happily and licking its lips incessantly.

"Little Black, sit down."

"Woof."

Little Black sat on its hind legs, supporting itself with its front legs, tilting its head to await Lu Youyou's next instruction.

Lu Youyou placed the food bowl in front of it, and Xiao Hei's saliva dripped down, but it didn't reach for the food bowl.

It just kept humming through its nose, as if signaling Lu Youyou to give the order to eat.

"Good dog, time to eat."

"Wang!"

Little Black barked and buried its head in the food bowl to eat.

Lu Youyou sat on the edge of the bed, looking at it with a gentle expression.

hum-

The watch suddenly started vibrating continuously, something Lu Youyou had never encountered before.

It turned out someone had made a phone call.

The caller was number 78910, Xiao Hei's former owner.

Lu Youyou didn't want to answer, so she clicked the red "Reject Call" button.

Then I opened the private chat page with number 78910, and it was still the same chat history. It wasn't because she didn't reply to my private message in time that the other party called.

I was about to type to tell number 78910 that I needed to speak, but as soon as I pressed the second pinyin, the phone rang again.

Lu Youyou raised her hand too late and landed right on the green answer button.

"Hello? Is this number 88666?"

A tentative female voice came from the other end of the phone; she didn't have a strange accent and spoke standard Mandarin.

"Are you alright?"

Lu Youyou lowered her voice; she didn't want to speak to someone she didn't trust in her natural tone.

Survival in this world is fraught with danger.

She prefers to be overly cautious rather than overly relaxed.

"Here's the thing, didn't I exchange Little Black for seven bottles of nutrient solution from you this morning? I killed someone, so I have plenty of supplies now. I want to exchange Little Black for you. Can I give you ten bottles of nutrient solution in return?"

Lu Youyou's heart skipped a beat. Her gaze fell on Xiao Hei's tail wagging because it heard the familiar voice of its former owner, and she felt even more annoyed.

“You… there’s no reason to return something you’ve already traded. You can’t take it back just because Xiao Hei isn’t a consumable.”

“I have no objection to the previous transaction order, and I don’t want to return the goods. I just want to start a new transaction with you and exchange Xiao Hei for ten bottles of nutrient solution.”

Lu Youyou didn't speak; she was looking at Xiao Hei.

Little Black's eyes were wide open, shining brightly as it looked at people, and its little tail thrashed wildly like a propeller.

Standing on its hind legs, it bows slowly towards the road with its forelegs, as if making a request.

Is it begging to return it?

Little Black probably liked its original owner... even though the original owner traded it away.

The voice from the watch continued.

"Xiao Hei, do you love your mother? Listen to your mother, the situation was critical this morning. Didn't I explain the situation to you and ask you to stay with a friend for a while? Didn't you promise me that?"

"Wang Woo!"

Little Black raised its head and barked, responding to something to number 78910.

Lu Youyou noticed that Xiao Hei's tail was wagging less and less, and was even starting to droop.

“Number 88666, Xiao Hei is everything to me. We’re all in the same small group, so let’s not make this scene so ugly, okay? I’ll give you ten bottles of nutrient solution and a blueberry cake. You won’t lose out.”

Lu Youyou took a deep breath and then exhaled heavily.

"First, Xiao Hei is mine. Second, I can leave the group and hang up."

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Upon hearing that the call had ended, Xiao Hei started frantically digging at the ground, appearing quite agitated.

After being well-behaved all afternoon, Xiao Hei started clinging to Lu Youyou's legs, seemingly wanting to get closer to the watch.

"Number 88666, let me tell you, my patience has its limits! Little Black is mine! Didn't you hear Little Black's pitiful cries? This is abuse, not true love!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

As if to confirm what the woman had said, Xiao Hei yelled at the watch, his voice even louder, and he also let out a low growl at Lu Youyou.

This scene clearly resembles the way Xiao Hei used to deal with enemies, only his eyes aren't as sharp now.

Lu Youyou immediately felt a chill in her heart.

In Xiao Hei's heart, the original owner still holds a bigger place.

“Number 88666, did you hear that? I know Xiao Hei too well. I raised Xiao Hei before it opened its eyes. It still wants to come back to me. If you really care about it, give Xiao Hei back to me.”

Lu Youyou fell silent.

At this moment, Xiao Hei was whimpering pitifully, and she really couldn't bring herself to say that she wanted to keep Xiao Hei by her side.

How could she not love Xiao Hei?

Little Blackie saved her life.

She had it all planned out: from now on, Xiao Hei, Da Rui, and she would be a happy family of three, but…

She wanted to make Xiao Hei happy, otherwise wouldn't that be repaying Xiao Hei's kindness with enmity?

Seven vials of nutrient solution, in exchange for ten vials of nutrient solution, a blueberry cake, and a life—it was worth it.

"I agree."

"Wang!"

Xiao Hei suddenly bit Lu Youyou's ankle.

There was no bleeding; it was just slowly grinding with its little canines, without even leaving a tooth mark.

Its sudden reaction interrupted Lu Youyou's words.

Lu Youyou lowered her head: "What's wrong?"

"Woo--Woo--"

Little Black's eyes welled up with tears, and it whimpered softly.

An unbelievable thought arose in Lu Youyou's mind.

Could it be that... Xiao Hei's behavior just now was all because he didn't want to leave me?

Because Xiao Hei stopped her from saying yes, Lu Youyou felt much more confident.