funbook-pk Chapter 176 Was he, this zombie, excluded?
Chapter 176 Was he, this zombie, excluded?
The timid mushroom clearly heard the little vine call its mother, but Pei Sinian only heard a "chirp". He felt that this might be a conspiracy by the plants!
Under Meng Xiaoyou's watchful gaze, he tried to reveal the "mouth" of the little vine, but... he couldn't find the vine's mouth.
While he hesitated, the mushroom grew impatient and hurriedly pried at his hand with its mushroom claws. Its two little hands were not much stronger than a kitten's, and they left an itchy feeling on his skin. Mr. Zombie moved his hand away, refusing to let her pry at him.
Mushroom sat there staring blankly, her delicate little face puffed up, her lips so thick they could hold a small oil bottle.
Mr. Zombie said helplessly, "Don't worry, this thing might be dangerous. I'll hold it for you. You can ask it anything."
He removed the superpower from the little vine, and as soon as it thawed, it began to sway unruly, chattering incessantly, not a single word of which Mr. Zombie could understand.
Unfortunately, Meng Xiaoyou understood.
The little vine is explaining its origin.
It was originally just an ordinary ivy, but being born in the apocalypse meant it was destined to be extraordinary. In the rotten, zombie-infested environment, its genes mutated, and it became the most promising member of the family!
It took root under the nourishment of blood, then absorbed the "nutrients" from the rotting flesh of the zombies, and took root in the zombie's crystal core, thus awakening its consciousness and superpowers.
Driven by instinct, it strangles its prey and gradually establishes itself.
This place is full of zombies, and the zombie crystal cores contain powerful energy, which has successfully made it "strong and healthy"!
But that wasn't the end of it. Being a plant, it needed nutrients from the soil, so it burrowed underground and parasitized a giant tree. In just a few months, it hollowed out the entire underground of Gong County and even built its own underground palace.
Meng Xiaoyou listened attentively to the plants' story.
She survived alone in the apocalypse for a long time, encountering all sorts of humans, and with Pei Sinian by her side. But she still longed for plants. There's a saying among humans: fallen leaves return to their roots.
Mushrooms have no roots, stems, or leaves. In fact, in this human world, mushrooms are not even plants, but a type of fungus.
In Plants vs. Zombies, mushrooms are classified as plants, so she is a plant.
The cheerful mushroom deliberately ignored her inner desires and confusion upon arriving in this world. In reality, she had many hidden problems. She dared not think about what would happen if she died in the apocalypse, thus burying this strange world, without even seeing the familiar plants before she died.
I dare not even think about the plant friends in that world.
Pei Sinian was a good person, but she always felt that her relationship with Pei Sinian was different from her relationship with those plants.
Humans are social animals, and relationships like love and friendship are essential. Her relationship with the plants was one of friendship and kinship, and with Pei Sinian…
Oh dear, mushrooms can't think that far ahead. All they know is that they still miss those plants. The plants in the human world are cold and indifferent, and they don't talk to mushrooms at all.
It was a rare treat to encounter a talking plant. The mushroom was very friendly, and if Pei Sinian hadn't deliberately kept his distance, she would have loved to hold the plant and chatter on and on. Its black pupils were sparkling, like twinkling stars in the night sky, extremely beautiful.
Pei Sinian watched, suppressing his petty jealousy, telling himself that he was a mature zombie, and brought the thing he was holding closer to Meng Xiaoyou's eyes.
Meng Xiaoyou moved even closer, straightening her back and propping herself up, resting her head on his shoulder, holding his arm with both hands, and talking to the little vine in his hand.
"And then, why are you following me?"
"Chirp, chirp, chirp~"
Having been underground for so long, the little vine originally had no intention of going out, but it keenly sensed the presence of its kind, a scent that was sweet and comforting.
It could sense that there were many humans and zombies on the ground, but it wasn't sure which ones, so it simply dragged them all in.
As soon as Meng Xiaoyou fell, it knew who it was, so before Meng Xiaoyou could react, it sneakily approached her.
"Choo Choo Choo!"
As a result, the vines it controlled injured Meng Xiaoyou while pulling on her.
It's like a child who's made a mistake, hiding away secretly and then, without any sense of reason, looking for other food to bully to vent its anger.
It's all their fault. If these humans and zombies hadn't insisted on staying with their kind, why would it have used such a brutal method to drag its kind in?
That's right, the plant with the new idea is unreasonable and doesn't have human thinking. It just doesn't engage in internal conflict, and it always blames others for everything. So it avoids Meng Xiaoyou and secretly teaches her a lesson.
As he said this, the little vine jumped wildly in Pei Sinian's palm, acting as if it were something else, and then stretched out the little red hat at the very top, pointing and gesturing at Pei Sinian.
"Chirp!"
It's all this good-for-nothing's fault! It has a nose like a dog's, and when it smelled something, it brought its kind to its side, where its kind saw its crimes!
Mr. Zombie couldn't understand what the little vine was saying, but judging from its angry appearance, he knew it was swearing filthyly. He pinched its little red hat with his slender fingers.
Little vine: Guji~!
The world finally quieted down. Pei Sinian rubbed his temples. "It was a bit noisy."
Mushroom blinked, looked at him with a puzzled expression, hesitated for a long time, and finally muttered softly, "Actually... I'm like this all the time."
She always had countless things to say when she was by Pei Sinian's side, and sometimes she was quite disrespectful and chattered on and on...
Thinking of this, the mushroom began to well up with tears, looking aggrieved: "Am I annoying too?"
Pei Sinian immediately released the small vine and changed his words, saying, "No, this is fine."
As soon as the little vine was released, it immediately started chattering away, its little mouth spewing out all sorts of bad things about Pei Sinian.
It said: He must dislike us plants for being noisy and doesn't want to play with us!
It said: He hit the plants so hard, look how he hit me, he hit the tree, but it hurts my heart.
It also said: This human isn't smart enough to be easily distracted by me, so he definitely can't protect you.
The tree was merely its host, which was smashed to pieces by Pei Sinian. It used the host to attract Pei Sinian's attention, and then sneaked up to Meng Xiaoyou's side. While she was playing with the ice mushroom, it climbed up her back and secretly crawled into her space, thus managing to slip through the cracks.
Before leaving, it flew into a rage and threw all the humans up there.
Without its parasite, the tree "died," so when Meng Xiaoyou and the others went down into the tunnel again, they saw a dead, mutated plant.
That plant, which it had painstakingly nurtured to adulthood, was extremely reluctant to leave. As it spoke, it twisted its short, uniformly thick waist with a sorrowful expression and said to Meng Xiaoyou, "Chirp~"
You give me a very warm feeling, can I call you Mom?
Sacrificing a host in exchange for a mother—it's a good deal. The little vine doesn't understand anything, but it vaguely knows that in this world, humans often say that the greatest and most tender love is that of parents.
The one of its kind was born earlier and is larger than it, so it should be its mother.
Mushrooms can be trained to be useful again. Since there's already a zombie child, and this vine is a plant, what's wrong with calling her "Mom"?
She nodded repeatedly, her eyes crinkling into a smile: "Say it again!"
Oh dear, someone of her own kind calls her "Mom"!
Happy!
Little vine: "Chirp chirp!"
mother!
A mushroom and a vine called out affectionately, and the zombie next to them twitched its eyelids.
No, this is what it's called?
And why does it seem like the little fool and the little vine are a family, while he, the zombie, is excluded?
This thought made him grind his fangs slightly in annoyance, and he suddenly said, "It bit you."
The originally lively and cheerful atmosphere of the large-scale family reunion suddenly came to a standstill...