Chapter 182: Zhou Qian Discharged from the Hospital
Since Chen Xing and the others had already woken up, there was no need for Uncle Zaozi and Huai Yu to continue helping with the care.
The medical pods were expensive, but the results were remarkable. They could barely walk now but still needed some time to recover.
Huai Yu sighed with relief after hearing the doctor’s explanation.
Chen Xing smiled and advised her:
“Go ahead and take care of your own things. As adventurers, injuries are a daily occurrence; we don’t need anyone to take care of us.”
“You don’t need to worry about my points now. I’ve had enough food and rest in the hospital. It’s easier to recover here. You don’t need to come see me again.”
If it were up to Uncle Zaozi, Chen Xing didn’t know how she would deal with it.
Thinking about this, she sincerely apologized: “Uncle Zaozi, if I had known we had this kind of fate, I wouldn’t have beaten you over those few points back then.”
Uncle Zaozi instinctively covered his face.
Then, he sighed deeply: “I really… I got beaten for no reason!”
There was simply no one more broad-minded than him in the world.
The three of them laughed, and they unknowingly grew closer emotionally.
Huai Yu took the opportunity to boldly invite: “Chen Xing, once you’re fully recovered, remember to come visit my house.”
Chen Xing put on a serious face: “That’s not necessary.”
Uncle Zaozi also politely declined: “A gentleman’s friendship should be as light as water; there’s no need to come to your house.”
The Rose Corridor, how terrifying!
They had barely escaped from the mutant plants, and now they couldn’t walk straight into a lion’s den, right?
Huai Yu: “…”
The next morning, when they woke up, the morning news was already on.
Huai Yu hadn’t woken up at this time for a long while. She stood at the door, gazing at the gray sky, and couldn’t help but feel a little dazed.
It was a rainy day!
The last rainstorm was at the end of March or the beginning of April, but in her memory, it seemed like half a year had passed. So many things had happened in May.
She changed her clothes and realized that the weather was getting warmer. She would need to buy some summer clothes.
But—was there something she had forgotten?
A while later, a sobbing voice came intermittently:
“I… I… Let… Let me go… Wuu… Wuu…”
That familiar stutter!
Huai Yu was suddenly alert and quickly rushed toward the treehouse, but when she arrived, the plump ginseng was nowhere to be seen, yet the crying sound seemed to be coming from farther away.
No way? Is someone else in the Rose Corridor?
Without thinking, Huai Yu followed the sound. She hadn’t run far before seeing a familiar figure standing at the edge of the restricted area of the Rose Corridor, holding a large white, plump water radish.
They exchanged glances. The ginseng’s leaves shook, its crying stuttered, yet the person holding it looked delighted, deep in thought.
“Zhou Qian!”
Huai Yu was delighted: “You’ve been discharged!”
She had been wondering what she had forgotten this morning—Zhou Qian was discharged from the hospital!
She had intended to pick him up, but she didn’t expect him to already be here, standing at the edge at just past 8 AM.
And…
She hesitated, looking at the plump ginseng.
When the ginseng saw her approach, its whiskers stretched forward, as if it were a child asking for help. It sobbed, stuttering, looking extremely pitiful:
“Save… Wuu save… save… Wuuuu…”
Zhou Qian pulled it, then raised an eyebrow when looking at Huai Yu, half-smiling.
Huai Yu immediately felt exhausted. She cleared her throat: “Uh, Zhou Qian, this is the ginseng I planted, it might have mutated a little…”
“But it’s okay, the ginseng tea I brought you before was made from its feet. You should have noticed, right? Besides the lack of effect, it’s still drinkable.”
Zhou Qian: “…”
The shock he felt in that moment was overwhelming. He wasn’t sure whether to be surprised by the stuttering ginseng that could speak, the fact that he had drunk its foot water, or whether he should tell her about the ginseng’s abilities…
But as his mind raced, he could only helplessly look at Huai Yu for a while before managing to speak:
“Tell it, don’t run around for no reason.”
“I caught it in my vegetable garden.”
The plump ginseng had probably never eaten anything good. When it saw the soft soil and abundant moisture in his vegetable garden, Zhou Qian had just placed his luggage down and stepped out of the yard when he saw it running around in the garden, its green leaves fluttering.
It would pop up for a moment, then run off, like a little groundhog.
Its ability to burrow underground was pretty fast, but he was a defense soldier! He waited for the right moment, stealthily reached out, and grabbed it.
To be honest, because it looked so deceptive, Zhou Qian didn’t immediately recognize it as ginseng or a radish.
In his mind, he thought it was a mutated radish. Since Huai Yu had some kind of secret for dealing with mutated plants, he planned to bring it over to make a delicious dish.
The plump ginseng stuttered: “I… I didn’t… run… I want… to grow… The soil… soil… soft!”
But after it said that, Zhou Qian sighed even louder.
“Pretty impressive, but you’re not good at running away at all… You have the ability to burrow, you might as well practice how to escape.”
“If that doesn’t work, you can also try disguising yourself.”
This remote area, it was dangerous to be careless.
He stood in place and handed the plump ginseng to Huai Yu: “Take it back and plant it well.”
“Don’t keep making tea from its feet for others. I suspect it has some special effect, but I’m not sure yet.”
“I… I… It’s useful! It’s… Special… Very… Useful!” The plump ginseng emphasized, its top leaves shaking again.
Zhou Qian was even more troubled: “Quick, take it to a hidden place and plant it properly.”
“Ginseng should stay in the ground. Don’t let it wander on the roadside. It’s too dangerous.”
It was dangerous for both the ginseng and Huai Yu.
Huai Yu thought for a long time but still couldn’t figure out what kind of effect the plump ginseng had, but—
“Zhou Qian, just come inside. I discussed it with the Rose Corridor last night, and it won’t harm friends who’ve visited.”
She had seriously discussed this and even gave a bunch of fertility abilities!
But Zhou Qian had experienced the ferocity of the Rose Corridor firsthand. Even with Huai Yu’s endorsement, he hesitated, testing the ground with his feet for a while before finally stepping inside.
Thank goodness the sky was dim, the wind blowing strongly, and everything seemed normal.
His eyes were sharp, and at that moment, he focused on the vegetable garden in the distance, his brows furrowing slowly.
“Little Yu, it looks like there are mutated plants sneaking into your vegetable garden.”
Huai Yu froze: “Huh?”
But Zhou Qian had already instinctively reached for his weapon: “It’s too far, and the grass is dense, so I can’t see clearly. But I’ve seen similar mutated characteristics in the wasteland before—normal plants wouldn’t gather and twist on the ground like towering trees, right?”
Huai Yu: “?!!!”
The health pack has been updated with a few more items, I’ll try not to stay up late tomorrow!
