Chapter 390: Walking Out of the Lotus Pond

The plum rain continued, and the patter of raindrops hit the lotus leaves and rolled down from the wide leaves. The lotus leaves were washed by the rain and were fresh and refined, swaying with the breeze. The houses with white walls and green tiles were hidden in the bamboo forest by the lotus pond. The mountains in the distance were surrounded by the drizzle like a paradise, and the thick mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River were beautiful.

Quack~

A big frog jumped onto the lotus leaf, croaking with a big mouth, and seemed to enjoy the drizzle very much.

The frog jumped up again and landed on a black and gray object exposed on the water surface and continued to croak. The carp in the water swam around. Everything looked so peaceful and leisurely. Suddenly! The black and gray object under the frog's feet shook slightly, rolling up a circle of ripples and swinging to the shore. Maybe the shaking was not strong, and the frog did not react. The lotus pond, which was silent and only heard the sound of rain, fell into silence again...

The sun set and rose, and a night passed.

Today is a rare good weather. The rain that has been falling for more than half a month has finally stopped. Before the sun rises, there is rising mist everywhere. The bamboo forest and houses are looming. The delicate lotus flowers in the lotus pond stand above the lotus leaves, fresh, unworldly, charming, and beautiful.

A family is eating breakfast in the courtyard with white walls and green tiles.

"Mom~ My sister and I will go to the pond to catch carp later~"

"Go, don't go too far outside. It's not safe. Don't get wet. Just stand by and watch." A young woman in coarse cloth clothes warned.

"Well~ I will definitely take good care of my brother."

The little girl said seriously, and then she held the hand of her brother who was probably only seven or eight years old tightly. The young woman looked at her little appearance and shook her head and smiled. She wiped the rice grains from the corner of the little girl's mouth and pinched her little face lovingly.

The two children ran out of the courtyard happily and ran straight to the lotus pond, while the woman began to clean up the table.

Life is so ordinary. Maybe the world has turned upside down and there are zombies eating people and various mutant animals everywhere, but this remote little corner has maintained a rare quietness and indifference. Dense bamboo forests and mountains tightly surround this paradise. Many vegetarian mutant animals isolate it from the world. There are no zombies, no survivors eating people, and no worries about food. Whether it is the lotus roots in the nearby rice fields or the lotus ponds or the bamboo shoots that grow endlessly in the bamboo forests, they can feed the two children.

If you want to eat meat, you can also eat carp and frogs everywhere. The young woman is very satisfied.

By the lotus pond.

As the older brother, the boy struggled to reach a lotus pod on the shore and broke it off and handed it to his sister. These things are delicious. When there was no food, the two children survived by these things.

"Brother, you eat it too."

"You eat it, I'll get another one."

The boy ran to the side to find a bamboo pole. The girl ate it and looked at the beautiful lotus flowers in the lotus pond happily. The lotus flowers were beautiful, so beautiful that the girl hoped that she could be as beautiful as the lotus flowers.

While eating, the little girl seemed to see something flash, and looked around curiously. There was nothing except her brother picking up bamboo poles behind her. When she looked at the lotus pond again, she seemed to see ripples on the water surface. What was it? Unconsciously, the little girl walked step by step to the stone beside the lotus pond.

Suddenly!

A blue light flashed in the lotus pond, and at the same time, two blue lights lit up in the water...

In the yard, the young woman was washing rice.

"Ah..."

The young woman paused suddenly, and a girl screamed outside the door. The young woman didn't care about the rice in the wooden basin and knocked over the chair and ran out of the door desperately. When passing by the door, she picked up a hatchet!

"Xiao Yun!"

"Mom...!"

The young woman ran to the little girl quickly, hugged the little girl and the boy, raised the hatchet in her hand, and looked around in panic, but saw nothing. The less she saw, the more nervous she felt, because many people died because a very fast zombie was not discovered in time, so the young woman was particularly afraid of encountering that kind of monster zombie.

"Where is the zombie! Tell mom!" The young woman shouted anxiously.

"No... no zombies..."

"No zombies?"

"There's something in the pond... in the pond..." the little girl cried.

Swish! The hatchet that had just been put down when she heard there were no zombies was picked up again by the young woman. Her hand holding the hatchet so hard that her knuckles turned white. Holding the hatchet, the young woman protected the two children behind her and walked nervously to the pond. People who have experienced the end of the world know that it's not just zombies that are dangerous in the world, but also many inexplicably mutated creatures.

After walking slowly to the stone by the pond, the young woman looked into the lotus pond.

After looking around but seeing nothing, just when she was about to ask the little girl if there was anything, the bottom of the lotus pond suddenly flashed, as if a light was shaking at the bottom of the lotus pond. What was that?

Two seconds later, two blue lights lit up at the bottom of the water and were quickly approaching the surface of the water. The frogs on the lotus leaves jumped into the water, and the dragonflies that had landed on the lotus flowers also flew up to the sky quickly. The originally cheerful bird calls and frog calls around fell into silence as if something was appearing...

Hua La La...! !

Suddenly, a huge metal machine appeared in the lotus pond, with water constantly flowing down. One could barely see the blue light that was its eyes, nose and mouth. A fan-shaped red beam swept across the terrified young woman and two children, and then a huge monster slowly stood up from the mud...

Bang~ The hatchet in the young woman's hand fell on the stone, her little mouth opened wide and trembling, she used her hands to protect the two children standing behind her, and looked at the huge steel monster in the lotus pond in horror.

Bang... Bang... Bang!

The sound of heavy metal machinery falling to the ground sounded around them. The huge steel robot's big feet had landed next to a family of three. The young woman could even see clearly the various complex machines that were constantly rotating and stretching on the huge mechanical feet. The water in the pond was still there. The water flowed out from the gaps in the machinery and fell to the ground, passing overhead like rain. Every time it landed, the sound of machinery could be heard.

"It's so peaceful here. I never thought there could be such a beautiful place." Rubik's Cube walked over the three of them to the open space and muttered to himself, with a frightened family of three behind him.

The bamboo forest in the distance shook, and suddenly a licker with various wounds all over his body rushed out. He looked around and found a family of three running over without hesitation to eat meat and drink blood!

"ah……"

The little girl screamed. If the Rubik's Cube only brought shock and fear to the three of them, then this licker who looked like the devil was the God of Death. The two children had watched their father being eaten alive by this thing, so The impression was particularly profound. After seeing the licker this time, I couldn't help but bring out the fear hidden in my heart.

Apparently this licker had committed many crimes in the forest before escaping, and was in urgent need of eating people to increase nutrition and repair his wounds.