Chapter 18

From start to finish, Shen Shanwu didn't sleep at all. The person watching the night tonight is the deputy team, but in this wilderness, Shen Shanwu can't rest assured that he will be awake alone.

Because he was in Jiang Huan's arms, Shen Shanwu was always in a state of dozing. Around one or two o'clock in the morning, he felt the arms around him tightening, and he could vaguely hear Jiang Huan muttering something. What, the sound is like a mosquito, almost inaudible.

Shen Shanwu also has no hobby of listening to people talking in his sleep, and now his wholehearted attention is focused on the outside of the temple——

It was so quiet, terribly quiet, that the rain had completely stopped half an hour ago, and what followed was a dead silence.

It was as if this small temple was cut off from the whole world, isolated in a pure white and silent space.

The deputy rubbed his stiff neck, and the protective suit made a slight rubbing sound with the movement. He didn't seem to notice anything wrong. After all, it was normal for his ears to be quiet in the middle of the night after the rain.

But if the mutant's ear can't hear anything, it's very abnormal.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, Shen Shanwu decided that he had to go out and have a look. He slowly raised his head from Jiang Huan's arms and touched the hand that was clasping his lower abdomen from behind.

Jiang Huan woke up instantly, "What's wrong?"

"...I want to go to the toilet." Shen Shanwu only found out the reason for going to the toilet after he finished speaking. He really used it for a few days, but he never took off his pants once.

The deputy team also noticed the movement of the two, Jiang Huan made a reassuring gesture towards him, got up first, then pulled Shen Shanwu up from the ground, put on a helmet, "I'll accompany you."

Naturally, Shen Shanwu couldn't refuse, he nodded, and even took the initiative to take Jiang Huan's hand and rushed outside. At this time, Jiang Huan was thoughtful. He held down Shen Shanwu, bent down and took out a tube of radiation protection cream from the outer pocket of the backpack beside Xiaowen, "Apply it."

"Ah?" Shen Shanwu looked at his face with his mask, hood, helmet, and gloves on, and said embarrassingly, "No need, I'm young, I'll be fine soon."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Huan used his index finger to draw a virtual circle below Shen Shanwu's waist, "The skin will be exposed outside, remember to apply it before and after."

Shen Shanwu: "..."

Jiang Huan sent the anti-radiation cream forward again and urged, "Hurry up."

"..." Shen Shanwu took off his gloves with humiliation, squeezed a little into the palm of his hand, and then pulled open the waistband of his trousers and put his hand in and smeared it, then gave Jiang Huan an angry look, "Okay?"

Jiang Huan felt a little helpless for the child's rebelliousness and disobedience: "I'm doing it for your own good."

"I know, but I just like to make trouble out of nowhere." Shen Shanwu raised his eyebrows, unable to hide the arrogance and arrogance in his words. If Yao Wuque was here, he would definitely not want to beat him, but Jiang Huan, as the leader of the team, had a stable personality and didn't care about little kids. Holding the lamp in one hand and Shen Shanwu's hand in the other, he led people around the back of the lonely temple, picked a hill with lush vegetation, and said, "Just here."

Shen Shanwu didn't take off his trousers immediately. From the very beginning, he never took his eyes off the wall outside the ruined temple. Every corner of the wall was covered with green creepers from the front to the back. Facing down, the leaves are neatly arranged in layers, like a thick and huge vine gown, which cages the entire temple under his body.

The detectives in the team first reported the existence of ivy, and also suggested that the wall in disrepair might shatter and collapse due to too many ivy.

It is normal for abandoned human buildings to be occupied by wild plants. It is not surprising that there are creeping tigers in the ruined temple. Shen Shanwu didn't care about these at first, but now he is skeptical about everything. The creeping tiger, which is pervasive among the stone cracks and tiles, becomes more suspicious the more you look at it.

Jiang Huan followed Shen Shanwu's line of sight and looked at the wall. He raised the night light, apparently misunderstanding the reason why the other party's gaze stayed for a long time, "This plant is called a creeper, it loves temperature and is resistant to cold, and its vitality is very tenacious."

"..." Shen Shanwu took two steps forward in silence. He was the one who was in a hurry to go to the toilet earlier, and he was the one who was still puzzled by his pants when he got there. Jiang Huan faced the wall, not noticing the flash of red light in the eyes of the people behind him. Suddenly, Shen Shanwu asked, "Climbing Tiger... Are there any flowers?"

"Yes." Jiang Huan replied quickly, he looked at Shen Shanwu again, the other's eyes didn't look a bit strange, he just stared at the wall of the small temple without blinking.

Shen Shanwu stood a little closer to Jiang Huan, "...Is it that big?"

"Huh?" Jiang Huan frowned. He followed Shen Shanwu's line of sight and looked back at him. In the dark corner close to the ground, two yellow flowers the size of a basketball were blooming. The core was facing the direction of the two, and at a glance, there was an illusion that there were green vines looking at them with two eyes, staring straight at them.

Or maybe it's not an illusion at all.

Suddenly, a third 'eye' was drilled out of the ivy's leaves. It stretched its delicate petals against the wind, and slowly lowered the center of the flower, just like a drooping eyeball, aimed directly at the two uninvited guests.

"No..." Jiang Huan lowered his voice, he slowly grabbed Shen Shanwu's arm, "This is not the flower of an ivy, there is something wrong with this plant."

The people around him didn't reply to him, but a hand grabbed his wrist tightly. Shen Shanwu was like a child who was frightened and lost his voice, and couldn't help but seek the protection of adults.

But in fact Shen Shanwu was thinking, if the mutant creeping tiger suddenly attacked, how should he protect Jiang Huan without revealing his identity.

The thing that mutants hate most in their lives: mutant plants.

The zombies most feared and hated by human beings, in the eyes of mutants, they are rather clever and can 'communicate'. They smell the breath of mutants from afar, and know that they are ruthless characters.

The same is true for mutant animals, even with a better sense of smell and better skills, and to run faster.

There is only a mutated plant, a foolish idiot who doesn't understand anything, doesn't care about anything, and doesn't care about any living thing he sees. The weak point of mutant plants lies in their roots and stems. If they want to lift their ashes, they have to dig soil first. Lazy mutants are really annoying about this.

"Don't make a sound." Jiang Huan held Shen Shanwu's hand, he took out the knife in the umbrella around his waist, and said softly, "Hide behind me and don't run around."

"They have to come out quickly, the house is very dangerous." Shen Shanwu raised his head, his voice was so calm that he didn't look like a child at all.

Jiang Huan had no choice but to let go of Shen Shanwu's hand, he clicked the communication button and lowered his voice: "Deputy team, wake up everyone carefully, keep quiet after waking up, and one by one in the shortest time possible. Get out of the house in an orderly manner."

He only said it once, the action and execution of the Shanhai team never required the captain to repeat the order a second time.

In less than three seconds, the first team member walked outside the house. He had a light source pinned to his chest. Judging from his body shape, it was Yao Wuque. Two people standing behind the temple like sculptures.

He remembered the gesture that the deputy team asked to keep quiet, so he just asked Jiang Huan in the distance if he could pass.

Jiang Huan's hand holding the knife slowly hooked, and Yao Wuque immediately walked towards the two of them.

During this period, Shen Shanwu had been observing the movements of the creeping tiger. Just when Yao Wuque left the room, he keenly noticed that two more yellow flowers were blooming, but this time the direction of the stamens was not towards them, but towards them. To Yao Wuque.

Following Yao Wuque's footsteps, Ruixin also slowly turned the direction, as if it were a pair of eyes peeping at the prey.

"It noticed." Shen Shanwu said, needless to say, Jiang Huan naturally knew who it was referring to.

Another team member appeared in the field of vision. He turned his face and pointed the direction of the other teammates behind him, but Shen Shanwu tightened his fingers and grabbed Jiang Huan's left hand tightly.

The creeping tiger didn't bloom with two yellow flowers like before. It drilled out countless stamens from under the leaves in an instant, and all of them bloomed in the blink of an eye. The walls that were green a few milliseconds ago instantly turned golden yellow, and Shen Shanwu scolded badly. , and Jiang Huan's voice was already ringing in his ears: "Disperse! Pay attention to the creeping tiger!"

Yao Wuque's reaction was swift and violent. Before Jiang Huan's voice could be heard, he was already walking and jumping, and he left his original position in an instant. His body was still in mid-air and did not fall to the ground. There was a chilling sound of corrosion in his ears, and he turned back. Look, saw a turquoise mucus appeared where he had just set foot, and the mucus quickly sank into the soil, corroding a deep pit the size of a human face.

If Yao Wuque's reaction was slower, it wasn't the dirt pit that disappeared at this time, but his head.

"Damn it!" He rushed to Jiang Huan's side with lingering fears, and when he turned around, he saw the huge yellow flowers covering the four walls and the roof, dazzling and disgusting. open.

Suddenly, all the flowers quivered their petals at the same time, and at the same time they shuddered, as well as the entire dilapidated temple.

Years of erosion, the mutant creeping tiger has filled every crevice of this temple, and at this time, it will undoubtedly destroy this temple completely.

There were several shouts in the distance, and Shen Shanwu could tell that it was Xiaowen's voice. It seemed that there were still people who stayed in the house and didn't have time to escape.

"Oops!" Yao Wuque pulled out his umbrella knife and was about to rush back, but before he could take a step, something was forced into his arms.

Shen Shanwu only felt his eyes flicker, and Jiang Huan was thrown into Yao Wuque's arms, and Jiang Huan's cold and tough order came from above his head: "Protect him here."

"Captain!" Of course Yao Wuque was reluctant to stand by and watch outside the battlefield, and he had to take care of a nasty bear child, but Jiang Huan didn't give him a chance to object at all. As soon as he finished speaking, he was already five meters away.

Yao Wuque's hand holding the knife was trembling with anxiety, and the veins under the glove must be full of blue veins, but he couldn't really abandon Jiang Tong, so in the end he could only hold Jiang Tong's hand bitterly and protect him by himself. within the scope of protection.

The author has something to say: Creeper: shivering

Looking at the comments are all tangled, here is the timeline:

In the first year of the apocalypse, human 35 died; in the third year, 35 mutated and resurrected; in the fourth year, 35 met Huan for the first time; in the fifth and sixth year, Huan followed 35;Eleventh year.

Therefore, the ring has always known that 35 is a mutant, and the reason for the misunderstanding of 35's death is not due to this.