A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

At the base entrance, the base commander roared, a sound as loud as a zombie entering the territory, startling the birds in the trees into fluttering their wings and scattering in all directions.

The culprit had completely lost his previous composure, and seemed to have reverted to his teenage self, nervously rubbing his hands together.

"Where are my brother and sister?"

He was a year or two younger than Meng Xiaoyou, and had just come of age after this winter. After the ravages of the base, his features were more weathered than before.

Xiao Moqiong looked around and repeated, "Why don't I see my sister?"

"Squeak?" Are they talking about me?

A mischievous purple mushroom popped out of Pei Sinian's pocket, yawned, and produced a string of bubbles.

Pei Sinian accepted it all without question. His hand continued to caress her umbrella, and he gestured with his chin towards Xiao Moqiong: "Let's talk about it when we get back."

With people coming and going, it was definitely not a good place to talk. Xiao Moqiong had a bad feeling and led a few people to their office.

To make room, the base leaders squeezed into one office, and Wang Chipeng buried himself in his work, dealing with all sorts of trivial matters at the base.

The advantage of becoming a zombie is that you can work 24 hours a day without rest, constantly serving as a beast of burden for the base.

Xiao Moqiong felt no remorse for exploiting his elder brother. He usually did nothing but slack off and drift along. After the base stabilized, he didn't do much serious work.

Even dogs hate him, and zombies would shake their heads and spit at him, afraid that eating his brain would cause ADHD.

"What did you say? Mushrooms? My sister?"

Wang Chipeng, who was dealing with who was causing trouble at the base, silently watched Xiao Moqiong's animated gestures.

Xiao Moqiong pointed at the small mushroom on his desk: "You guys aren't lying to me, are you? How did a perfectly normal person turn into a mushroom?"

In the office, only familiar faces were present. Yu Xiuzhu arranged rooms for everyone, and Zhou Ziming conscientiously took the annoying Luo Qingxue to rest.

Meng Xiaoyou bounced around on the desk, noticing that all the eyes of humans and zombies were on her. She obediently tilted her umbrella and blinked her big, round, watery eyes: "Pop?"

What's wrong?

If humans can turn into zombies, is it strange that they can turn into mutated plants?

Tang Shengnan leaned against the door with his arms crossed. "You're supposed to be the head of the base now, and you're making a fuss over something so small. When will you ever be able to be a little more composed?"

Xiao Mo was speechless. No, who could remain calm after seeing a living person turn into a mushroom?

He glanced at Meng Xiaoyou, his eyes often filled with tears, and said in a deep voice, "You've become so small, how about I call you my sister?"

The mushroom was unhappy. "That won't do! As long as I live, you'll always be my brother!"

"Alright, we still have important business to attend to. We'll take Little Pretty to see the mushrooms she's growing later, then rest at the base for the night before heading to T City early tomorrow morning."

It takes two to three hours to get from the base to T city.

"Are you leaving just like that?" Xiao Moqiong was a little reluctant. He and Meng Xiaoyou had been close friends in the hospital, and if Pei Sinian hadn't interfered later, their friendship might have been even stronger.

Pei Sinian was too lazy to talk to the silly roe deer, so Tang Shengnan did everything for him. She shrugged and said, "There's nothing I can do. Your sister's poison hasn't been cleared yet. She's counting on those people in City B to develop an antidote. Those two or three healing ability users in your lousy base are useless."

Currently, most of humanity's research resources are located in City B and City S. Other bases may have some resources, but they cannot compare to those in City B.

Xiao Moqiong was somewhat frustrated, feeling that the gap between him and Meng Xiaoyou and the others was widening. There were three people in charge of the base, and he was the only human; he couldn't act recklessly...

Even though he was reluctant, he didn't want to delay important matters. He had someone arrange lunch, and in the afternoon, Pei Sinian and Meng Xiaoyou went to the villa alone, led by Tang Shengnan.

“Your mushrooms are multiplying very quickly. I told the people at the resort that no one is allowed to touch the mushrooms unless absolutely necessary, as long as you’re not back.”

Actually, Tang Shengnan wanted to eat...

Back then, the mountain villa was dilapidated, and there were hardly any superhumans. Everyone was barely surviving, and if there wasn't enough food, they would definitely eat mushrooms.

Fortunately, things took a turn for the better, and everyone went to the base, which was used to store their belongings.

Mushroom spores number in the hundreds of millions and can grow in just one or two nights. Now, the entire house has been converted into a heated pavilion to grow white mushrooms.

Tang Shengnan pushed open the door and said to the small mushrooms in Pei Sinian's hand, "Look at them, they're all plump and white, much bigger than you, little one... Where are the mushrooms?"

The little mushroom that Pei Sinian had just been holding had suddenly disappeared. Tang Shengnan was shocked: "Pei Sinian, what were you doing with the mushroom? How did it go?"

Pei Sinian pointed in a direction with his fingers.

Tang Shengnan looked in the direction he was pointing and fell silent.

There was almost no room to put your feet inside. The densely packed "white steamed buns" were extremely unfriendly to people with trypophobia. The white mushrooms were indeed well taken care of, just as Tang Shengnan had said. The stems were even the size of a palm, white and tender, and the stems were also very thick.

Among these large mushroom clusters, there is a very conspicuous small mushroom, almost half the size of the other white mushrooms, which is sneaking around and jumping up and down in the mushroom cluster.

"Pop!" Hello!

"Pop!" You're so plump!

"Pop!" You're so plump!

The purple mushroom greeted each other excitedly, whispering secrets inside the mushrooms. Purple bubbles bubbled and floated in the air, passing over the white mushrooms and popping lightly.

Tang Shengnan hesitated: "Do mushroom spores...pollinate like plants?"

Tang Shengnan has forgotten all of her biology.

They didn't know what the bubbles were, but... what if they were spores?

Pei Sinian's expression suddenly changed: "Xiao You, come back!"

His voice was cold and serious, startling the timid mushroom that was playing with its kind. It turned its head with a pitiful look and asked, "Pop?" Why are you being so fierce?

The man spoke again, extending his hand to her, "Should you come back by yourself, or should I come in?"

The timid mushroom is small enough to weave through the gaps between the white mushrooms, but Pei Sinian is different. With his large size, one stomp from him is enough to kill the white mushroom.

Meng Xiaoyou was startled by his cold and hard attitude. Afraid that he would step in, she seemed to have springs under her mushroom stems and jumped a few times from the pile of mushrooms to the man's feet.

Realizing belatedly that she had been yelled at, she retaliated by jumping up and down and stomping on the man's feet twice.

She's quite heavy now, but Mr. Zombie has poor pain receptors and used to have no pain at all, so this little pain is negligible. He bent down and offered her his hand: "Come on up."

If you just come up here like that, wouldn't the mushrooms lose face?

Meng Xiaoyou turned her head away, protesting with her actions.

However, at that moment, an unexpected event occurred: the white mushrooms in the room grew purple veins and began to bubble transparently.

Pei Sinian's expression changed; the thing he had feared had come to pass.