Yu Lan's broken voice didn't sound very good, but in Mo Wen's ears it sounded like music from heaven.
He was always calm, but at this moment he suddenly felt at a loss for what to do. Trembling, he held Yu Lan's face in his hands. His cold eyes welled up with tears, as if something was about to come gushing out.
He had dreamed of that cry of 'Wen' countless times in the middle of the night, but it was the first time he had heard it so clearly.
'Lanlan, you can speak?'
He asked hoarsely, his face a mixture of laughter and tears, looking foolish.
'Huh?' Yu Lan tilted her head, smiling and narrowing her eyes.
Seeing her like this, Mo Wen was so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly. With his heart pounding wildly, he rubbed Yu Lan's cheek and cooed in a voice that was sickeningly sweet, 'Lanlan, can you call me again?'
'Ooh.' Yu Lan didn't listen to Mo Wen's words, but just rubbed his shoulder, then reached out his hand and looked at him expectantly, making a 'gurgling' sound in his throat.
Seeing that Yu Lan never called his name again, Mo Wen felt a little lost. He looked at Yu Lan with the same pleading gaze, and after looking for a long time with his head down in frustration, he still didn't find a crystal core.
He then remembered that the crystal cores he had brought had already been eaten by Yu Lan. Helpless, he had to hug Yu Lan in his arms and coax her in a low voice, with a tenderness that seemed to melt the water. 'There are no more crystal cores now, but I will find some for you when we go back up, okay?'
However, Yu Lan still didn't understand what Mo Wen was saying. She saw that Mo Wen didn't take out the crystal nucleus, so she pouted immediately, pulling on his sleeve like a grumpy child, whining and acting spoiled.
She's hungry, she wants her toy to feed her.
Her eyes were watery as she looked at Mo Wen. After acting spoiled for half a day, she simply used her trump card—opening her mouth and calling out Mo Wen's name again.
'Ah, Wen...'
Give me something to eat.
At this point, Yu Lan's throat had already lost the rotten flesh of a first-level zombie, and her tongue had also undergone some slight morphological changes. Apart from her unpleasant voice, she could now clearly pronounce Mo Wen's name.
As soon as this sound came out, Mo Wen's sanity snapped. He took Yu Lan in his arms and turned back to drunkenly yell at Drunken Night, 'Drunken Night!'
Drunken Night, who had already stabbed himself in the eyes, was startled by the shout. He got up and ran towards Mo Wen, confused, "Boss, what's wrong?'
'Do you have a crystal core?" Mo Wen's voice was cold.
'Yes.' Drunken Night nodded, and when he arrived, he put all the crystal nuclei obtained from killing the zombies in his backpack.
'Give it to me!'
'Huh?' With a dumbfounded look on his face, he took out all the crystal nuclei in his backpack and handed them over. Before he could even ask why, he saw Mo Wen grab all the crystal nuclei in his hands with disgust and then turn his back to start wiping the stains on the crystal nuclei.
??? What's going on? Drunken Night continued to be confused.
During this period, Yu Lan glanced at him. His watery eyes looked pitiful, rolling around in a cute way.
He was clearly a zombie, but he had such clear eyes.
Drunken Night was a little distracted. He wanted to reach out and touch these eyes, but unexpectedly, the next second, he was locked in a gaze full of murderous intent.
He laughed nervously and quickly withdrew his hand.
'What are you doing?' Mo Wen asked calmly, looking at him as if he didn't care.
But this glance made Drunken Night's hair stand on end, and his instincts were telling him frantically to stay away from Mo Wen, stay away from Mo Wen, stay away from Mo Wen...
'Cough, boss, I'm fine, I'm just stretching,' Drunken Night took two steps back, stretching his arms and legs for his own amusement.
Xiu Qi, who had a clear view of everything, looked at him with contempt. Perhaps he felt ashamed, because he turned his head and walked over to the pile of corpses to make sure no one was pretending to be dead.
'Cough,' Drunken Night admitted defeat, distancing himself from Mo Wen. He walked over to Xiu Qi's side before letting out a long sigh. He had inexplicably contributed a crystal core and still wasn't happy.
After grumbling a few times in his heart, he saw Jiang Luo, who was covered in blood, in the corner.
Jiang Luo was leaning against the wall, his breath gone. He was staring blankly ahead, looking as if he was unwilling to die.
It was true that it was sad to see someone who wanted to live so badly die so helplessly.
'Poor guy,' Drunken Night said with regret. "You still haven't returned my water.'
'Why don't you go screw yourself," Xiu Qi said with a dark face, giving him a glare. He found a spot on the floor that hadn't been splashed with blood, sat down, and started eating.
He had used up too many of his supernatural powers before, and after taking a few steps, he felt a buzzing in his ears and felt a little dizzy.
'Boss, do you want some?' While eating, Xiu Qi did not forget to ask Mo Wen.
Mo Wen shook his head without even blinking his eyelids. He took a broken compressed biscuit out of his pocket and stuffed it in his mouth, basically focusing all his attention on feeding Yu Lan the crystal core.
Once he saw that Mo Wen had food, he was relieved and started eating.
Drunken Night still looked at Yu Lan curiously, and was kicked by the seated Xiuzhi before he calmed down.
Here, Yu Lan seemed to be satisfied after eating the crystal core and licked her lips. She looked back at her long tail behind her and frowned a little.
Reaching out, she grabbed the base of her tailbone and gritted her teeth as she pulled both tails out by the roots. The moment she tore off her tails, the long bones on her back retracted into her spine, while her bruised skin gradually returned to a pale grey.
'Lanlan!' Mo Wen shouted at her as he saw the bloody joints in her hands, and held her hand, not understanding why she had "self-harmed".
He picked up Yu Lan and turned her over. Mo Wen pulled her tattered clothes aside and frowned at the series of holes on her back.
Yu Lan's spine had a series of empty holes, which should be the marks left by the joints. Her entire body was supported by only a layer of spinal bone, and there was no doubt that if he applied a little more pressure, Yu Lan would break in half in his hands.
Patting Mo Wen's arm reassuringly, Yu Lan did not see the complex expression in Mo Wen's eyes. She stared at her tail made of bones, which she had directly stuffed into her mouth.
Just like she normally chewed on crystal nuclei, she chewed with gusto, and the two-metre-long tail was swallowed whole.
During this time, Mo Wen just watched Yu Lan eat her own bones, his mood changing from panic and surprise at first to later on to one of adoration. He did not stop Yu Lan's actions, because he noticed that after Yu Lan had eaten her tail, the vertebrae were actually filling up the hollows at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He would never stand in the way of something that would benefit Yu Lan.