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Chapter 524: Chapter 524: Preparing for the New Year
"There’s no backing out now,"
Lu Hao said. He hadn’t planned to retreat anyway. This was the Heart Talk Team’s first mission as an SS-level team. If they refused it now, who would come to them for missions in the future?
Seeing Su Jin still looking calm and composed, Nie Qing felt somewhat puzzled and asked, "Girl, didn’t you say it’s best to stay as far away as possible from those zombie cockroaches?"
To everyone’s surprise, Su Jin smiled and said, "Uncle Nie, I might have been scared before, but now I think this mission is worth a try."
"Why?"
Even Li Xiuying couldn’t help but come over and ask along with everyone else.
Su Jin took out a metal box, the same one she had received from Xie Hengrui, containing mutated moss.
"I want to use it,"
Su Jin said, smiling. This mutated moss could devour anything except metal and could infiltrate all kinds of tiny cracks. If controlled by Xiao Cui, she believed it could completely eat away at the zombie cockroaches.
Although she wasn’t certain this method would work, if it didn’t, they could still think of other ways.
"I get it now! Fight fire with fire!"
Nie Qing immediately understood; they had never thought to use mutated plants before.
With their next steps planned, Su Jin found an empty plot in the Space during the next few days, attempting to control and promote as much growth of the mutated moss as possible.
Xiao Cui was quite domineering. The parent organism of the mutated moss in the metal box still retained some consciousness, but it was quickly swallowed by Xiao Cui. Afterwards, under Su Jin’s encouragement through her wood element ability, an entire plot of land was covered with the mutated moss.
It was done.
Su Jin retrieved the mutated moss and sighed. One hundred thousand crystal cores were at stake, but they had not taken on the task just for those cores, but mainly to sell more supplies along the way.
The production capacity of the Wood Spirit Space for supplies was still very grand, and even the second floor of the Lu Residence in the Space had been filled with some supplies.
Recalling that it was almost New Year outside the Space, Su Jin and her grandmother went to the supermarket area of the Space to pick out some festive Spring Festival couplets. Of course, these were meant to be placed on the Lu Residence in the Space; they didn’t plan to decorate the villa in such a festive manner.
This year was not one to celebrate.
But still, the family in the Space planned to gather together with the two elderly people for a celebration.
Nie Qing hadn’t realized how much he had fallen behind in society, but was surprised that the tradition of celebrating New Year had continued from ancient times to the present.
"Looks like we are going to have the New Year’s Eve dinner twice this year,"
As soon as Su Xiangzhe entered the Space, he saw Lin Xiuyuan standing on a stool hanging Spring Festival couplets, with Su Jin beside him checking if they were symmetrical.
He couldn’t help but laugh; this scene was something he almost saw every New Year when they were in H City. It truly made him nostalgic.
"A harmonious door brings a hundred blessings, the word ’peace’ is worth a thousand gold, everything is renewed, what a nice couplet,"
Su Xiangzhe read the couplets on both sides of the doorframe.
Once the Spring Festival couplets were up, it really felt like the atmosphere of the New Year had arrived, much like the old times when they welcomed New Year’s Eve.
"It’s just that there’s no Spring Festival Gala anymore, although that show was never any good,"
Su Jin said. In the past, they would gather every year to watch the not-so-good Spring Festival Gala, and it felt quite lost without it this year.
"No worries, each of us performing a show can be the gala,"
Lin Xiuyuan said, jumping down from the stool.
Su Jin just smiled; none of their family really had any talent for performing.
...
On the day before New Year’s Eve, Mao Qiqi got up in the morning and found that Lian Jiyue had disappeared.
She furrowed her brows; there was no need to search, as there was not even a little blue dot representing Lian Jiyue in the villa or even in the entire base.
"Not even in the base? Could he have recovered his memory and gone back to E city?"
Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help thinking this.
Thinking about Lian Jiyue, who hadn’t been smiling much these past two days, Mao Qiqi also couldn’t help but wonder if Xiao Yue had really recovered his memory. He used to always give her a silly smile or watch her with a grin. These past two days, Lian Jiyue seemed more and more like Lu Hao with his poker face.
"But he was fine last night,"
Mao Qiqi pouted unhappily, saying, even if he had recovered his memory and returned to E city, he could have at least said goodbye. She had considered him a good friend.
"One car is missing from the garage."
Lu Hao said as he pushed the door open.
"Looks like he really did leave."
Lu Guanhai looked carefully at Mao Qiqi, who was on the verge of tears.
"Qiqi, don’t be sad. I think he’ll come back. Let’s wait a bit longer,"
Su Jin sat down beside Mao Qiqi to comfort her, feeling that Lian Jiyue wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye after regaining his memory.
"Yeah, Sister Xiao Jin, I also feel that Xiao Yue wouldn’t,"
Mao Qiqi said firmly. Xiao Yue wasn’t that kind of person.
Luckily, Mao Zhihang and Lin Tianzhen had gone to the shop early; otherwise, seeing their daughter so distraught might have broken their hearts again.
"Su Jin, have you leveled up?"
Liao Yifan had been meaning to ask the moment he saw Su Jin.
"Yes, I succeeded last night, but everyone was asleep at that time,"
Su Jin answered with a smile.
"Oh my God, Level Seven Wood Element."
Yin Chengtian exclaimed dramatically. If the fans of Su Jin from Wood Element Counterattack Squad knew about this, they’d probably scream for a long time, right?
...
Because the day after tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, the base had not arranged for anyone to go out and clear the area around the base in the last two days. Many idle Special Ability Users were spontaneously using their abilities to clear the snow in front of their doors or in the middle of the road.
The snow showed no signs of stopping, as Liang Jiuhui stood atop the city wall of the base watching the vast expanse of whiteness. The snowflakes quickly covered his head and the dark blue coat he was wearing.
Inside the tower, Sheng Jing opened a large black umbrella, sheltering Liang Jiuhui from the still falling snowflakes.
"Let’s go back; they are about to change the guard here,"
Sheng Jing said.
"Alright, let’s go,"
Liang Jiuhui looked at the quickly darkening sky, the endless white bringing an immense tranquility outside the base.
Tonight, Father Liang had also invited Xing Taining over to his house for a couple of drinks. Remembering his sister, who finally had the chance to get married, lightened Liang Jiuhui’s mood a bit.
At least his family was still here.
Right after the two descended from the city wall, a small car drove towards the base through the snow.
The registration staff did not expect anyone to arrive at the base gate at this hour.
The small sedan, covered in dark blood and scratches, stopped at the base’s registration area, and a tall man got out of the car.
"He looks somewhat familiar?"
One person muttered softly.
"Seen him around the base, I think,"
Another staff member, watching the man pull out a points card from S city base, whispered to his colleague.
