The two of them enjoyed a hearty meal by the lake and, as the sun was setting, they held hands and headed back home.
As for the table and the leftover dishes… it was their special day, so they felt justified in leaving it for later. The unfinished chores could wait until after they had enjoyed their time together.
Once they returned home, they each changed their clothes and took a shower.
Jiang Miaomiao carefully hung her wedding dress on a hanger and placed it in the wardrobe. It was her first wedding dress in her life, and unless something unexpected happened, it would also be her last. It was a dress she made with her own hands, and it held so much significance for her.
She stood in front of the wardrobe, cherishing the moment, while Lu Qiming sat on the bed looking somewhat resentful.
“Aren’t you going to sleep? Are you planning to hold it every day from now on? Is it your husband?”
On their wedding night, instead of holding him, she went to hold a piece of clothing. He was somewhat upset.
Jiang Miaomiao was a bit exasperated, so she let go and closed the wardrobe door, saying, “Alright, alright, you talk too much, old man.”
When she approached him, Lu Qiming pulled her into his arms, grinding his teeth in a threatening manner.
“Old man?”
“Well, you said it yourself. A nearly fifty-year-old little old man, eats more than me, and will die earlier than me. I didn’t wrongly accuse you.”
She pretended to be innocent and blinked her eyes.
Looking at her chubby cheeks, Lu Qiming really wanted to take a bite out of her, but he was afraid of transmitting the virus to her, so he just patted her bottom.
“Sleep!”
After taking off her wedding dress, Jiang Miaomiao was only wearing a small strap dress, and the hem barely covered her thighs.
Her skin was as dark as a loach, and her body was as agile as a loach. With a gentle twist, she slipped into his arms.
“It’s the bridal chamber tonight, hehehe.”
Lu Qiming was speechless and pinched her cheeks.
“Are you possessed? Why are you laughing foolishly?”
“It’s nothing, I just can’t help but feel excited when I think about it.”
Saying this, she clenched her fist as if to prove that she was indeed excited.
Lu Qiming smelled the faint scent of shower gel on her body and suddenly felt guilty.
On their wedding night, they should be enjoying themselves. But because of him, they couldn’t do anything.
The wedding was already simple enough; they couldn’t do any better given the limitations of the post-apocalyptic world. But this part was entirely his fault.
The image of the box of contraceptives and the little expectant look she had once had flashed through his mind. Lu Qiming felt conflicted and suddenly said, “Let me help you.”
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t react at first.
“Help with what?”
“I can… use my hand. My hands don’t have any wounds, so I shouldn’t transmit the virus.”
Lu Qiming tried to sound calm, but his cheeks couldn’t help but blush.
Jiang Miaomiao suddenly realized, her eyes widening.
“You mean…”
“Mhmm.”
“No, no, no, no…”
She was taken aback and kept refusing, backing out of his embrace.
Lu Qiming felt extremely embarrassed. “Do you find it disgusting?”
“Of course not, it’s just…”
She was too shy!
She married him not because of his sexual performance. Although that was a plus, it wasn’t something she was fixated on.
Jiang Miaomiao held his hand and said seriously, “I don’t mind not doing that.”
“Really?”
“Think about it. If it were me who got infected and couldn’t do such things, would you force me?”
Lu Qiming didn’t hesitate, “Of course not.”
Forcing an injured person to do such things would be inhumane.
She smiled and said, “So, I won’t either. Don’t worry.”
Lu Qiming felt a mix of emotions, unable to express his gratitude, and he hugged her tightly.
“Miaomiao…”
Then a self-muttered sentence came from his chest.
“Well, I already prepared myself for not having a sex life when marrying someone so much older.”
“…”
“Hehe, just kidding. I love you.”
Jiang Miaomiao lifted her head and kissed his chin before burying her face in his chest, saying sweetly, “Let’s sleep.”
Lu Qiming took a deep breath, deciding not to think about unnecessary things and cherish every day he could spend with her.
There was rice in the pot, water in the bucket, and she was in his arms.
Could he be any happier?
While he was overwhelmed with emotions, the other party remained as innocent as a piece of wood.
A few minutes later, she kicked him away, half of her body rolling out of the covers as she complained drowsily, “It’s too hot.”
Lu Qiming: “…”
There was a book on the bedside table. He used it as a makeshift fan and gently fanned her.
Jiang Miaomiao slept soundly the whole night.
The next morning, bright sunlight filled the room.
Jiang Miaomiao woke up from her dream and found the bed beside her empty.
Where was Lu Qiming? Had he gone to cook breakfast?
She went downstairs to the kitchen, but the stove and pots were cold; it was evident that no one had been there. Jiang RouRou had been playing in the yard for quite a while and ran back when she heard footsteps, bounding around Jiang Miaomiao’s side. Jiang Miaomiao patted the dog’s head and continued upstairs to search.
As she pushed open the bathroom door, she ran into Lu Qiming injecting medicine into his arm. Both of them froze for a moment, feeling a bit awkward. Jiang Miaomiao pretended to come in to brush her teeth and asked while squeezing toothpaste onto her toothbrush, “How many syringes are left?”
“Six syringes,” Lu Qiming replied, breaking the used syringe and throwing it into the trash can.
“Is that so? It seems there are still six months left, haha.”
She forced a bitter smile and put the toothbrush in her mouth.
Lu Qiming splashed water on his face and stood behind her, using his wet hands to wrap around her waist and gently kiss her neck.
With a mouth full of foam, Jiang Miaomiao said, “#$%…”
It tickled so much!
Lu Qiming looked up and saw the two of them with one white and one dark face in the mirror, unable to hold back his laughter. “Haha, two Africans.”
Jiang Miaomiao spat out the foam and could finally speak clearly. “You’re the African, not me. I’m the one with white skin.”
He casually grabbed a bottle of brown shampoo and put it beside her face for comparison.
“White? You’ll be invisible at night if you get any darker.”
In the dark, the whitest thing on both of them would be their teeth. White teeth against white teeth; the image was comical.
“Get out if you have nothing better to do. Go, go, go.”
Jiang Miaomiao prepared to continue brushing her teeth but heard him say, “Let’s go on a honeymoon.”
Honeymoon? That sounded nice.
But the island was so small, where could they go for a honeymoon?
Lu Qiming explained, “Originally, I wanted to take you out to sea for some fun. The weather has been good these past two days, and there’s enough fuel on the boat. We might be able to go out into the deep sea and, if we’re lucky, see whales. But your seasickness is too severe, so we’ll stay on the island. There’s a bicycle on the street; let’s take a tour around the island.”
A tour around the island… It sounded good, but the island was so tiny. Even walking would only take half a day. Was it really considered a tour?
Jiang Miaomiao was amused and exasperated. “Forget it; I might as well sleep in instead.”
Lu Qiming had no choice but to give up. “Alright, you brush your teeth, and I’ll cook. After eating, we can start doing some work: bring the table back, wash the dishes, and clean up the grass on the lawn…”
As soon as she heard the words “do some work,” her head began to ache, and she quickly changed her mind. “Let’s go on a tour instead.”
“But didn’t you say it’s not interesting…”
“Together with you, even daydreaming is interesting. Hurry up and cook; once we’re full, we’ll set off.”
Jiang Miaomiao pushed him out of the bathroom, and Lu Qiming went downstairs with a smile. She continued brushing her teeth but couldn’t produce any foam, so she squeezed more toothpaste onto her toothbrush. As she lowered her head, her gaze swept over the syringes in the trash can, hesitated for two seconds, pretended not to see them, and tossed them aside.
Breakfast was tomato clam noodles with homemade thick-cut fries.
After eating their fill, Lu Qiming changed into a T-shirt and a pair of flashy shorts, while Jiang Miaomiao wore a skirt and flip-flops. They brought a bag of tomatoes for lunch and called Jiang RouRou before leaving the house together, creating a lively scene as they embarked on their journey around the island.
The first stop was the dock where they had landed a few months ago. After countless washes by the sea, the remains and burn marks had disappeared without a trace. Various seashells, crabs, and algae had retaken the rocks, and the sand was silver-white and soft. The seawater was crystal clear, revealing the ocean floor.
As soon as they stopped the bicycles, Jiang Miaomiao jumped off the backseat and dropped the tomatoes on the ground, running into the sea with the dog by her side.
“Wait for me!”
Lu Qiming shouted, parked the bicycle properly, and followed her footprints, rushing into the azure sea.
In another scene, the city was covered in snow, wrapped in a silver-white coat. An airplane landed on the roof of a building in the suburbs. Gu Changzhou led his team members to rush down and skillfully set up a line of fire, preparing to deal with the surrounding zombies.
The weather was getting colder, and the reserve supplies in the base were not enough to support so many survivors through the winter. This place was a warehouse of a large chain supermarket. If they could transport the supplies from here to the base, it would greatly alleviate the survival pressure.
However, the zombies’ intelligence had increased, and they began to specifically target such locations and attack those who came to transport the supplies. Originally, transporting the supplies only required ordinary soldiers, but over the past two months, there had been numerous incidents where more than two hundred people died. As a result, the teams that transported supplies now had to be equipped with firepower.
This special forces team had to temporarily set aside their rescue missions and help with the transportation.
This factory area covered more than 20,000 square meters but gathered nearly 30,000 zombies. As soon as the plane landed, they swarmed over, attempting to engulf the team using their sheer numbers.
In the midst of the intensive gunfire, one of his subordinates ran up to him and informed him that someone wanted to contact him urgently and asked him to answer the call immediately.
All the team members’ lives were resting on his shoulders. At this time, he couldn’t leave.
Gu Changzhou roared without turning his head, “Tell them to wait!”
“Captain, it’s the deputy team calling. They’ve found the person you were looking for.”
“What?”
“They’ve found Lu Qiming you were looking for!”
In that instant, the gunshots, explosions, zombie roars, and the chilling wind all disappeared. In his ears, there was only that one sentence.
They found Lu Qiming!
Gu Changzhou handed over the command to an experienced senior team member, hurried back to the plane, and pressed the communicator.
“I’m Gu Changzhou, speak.”
“Captain, we are on a small island in the South Atlantic at 37°5′ S, 12°16′ W. We have found traces of their activities.”
“They? Are those two still together?”
“Yes, and there’s a dog with them,” the person on the other end asked eagerly, “We’ve been searching for months, and finally found them. Shall we capture them now?”
Gu Changzhou almost agreed, but after some thought, he ordered, “No, you monitor them first. I’ll go by myself to avoid alerting them.”
Both sides were already at odds, and once Lu Qiming was brought back, he would undoubtedly be taken to the laboratory. If things didn’t go well and he resorted to desperate measures, he might take them down with him… With his abilities, he was fully capable of doing such a thing, and the losses would be too great.
He needed a well-thought-out plan that would leave the other party powerless to retaliate.
“Okay, please come as soon as possible.”
The deputy team leader sent the specific location and hung up the phone.
Gu Changzhou picked up his gun and stepped out of the plane, looking at the densely packed zombies before him, his gaze becoming even more determined.
He had to lead all his team members safely back to the base and then go capture Lu Qiming.
And the one who had deceived him, taking advantage of his kindness, and might very well be his daughter – Jiang Miaomiao.
They spent the next half-day to complete their island tour.
They swam in the sea near the dock.
They swam in the sea near the farmland.
They swam in the sea near the small hill.
When they reached the lake… Jiang Miaomiao decided not to swim; they needed to drink the lake water. Instead, she shook out a blanket and lay down with Lu Qiming, basking in the sun, and eating tomatoes for lunch.
Jiang RouRou didn’t like tomatoes, and coincidentally, there was still half a piece of pickled salmon left from last night on the nearby table.
Jiang Miaomiao sniffed it, and it hadn’t gone bad, so she stuffed it into her mouth.
Under the blue sky and white clouds, with a gentle breeze blowing, she raised her hand and couldn’t help but complain.
“My fingers are all wrinkled from being in the water for so long.”
Lu Qiming lazily shook his feet, touching her toes with his.
“Who told you to keep jumping into the water?”
“What else can I do if I don’t swim? Sigh, if I knew, I should have fought to get a few mobile phones here.”
Even if there were only Tetris in them, it would be better than having no entertainment at all.
Lu Qiming thought for a moment and suggested, “I remember there’s a small library on the island. How about going to read in the afternoon?”
Swimming in the ocean of words is also a kind of journey.
Jiang Miaomiao shook her head. “No, I don’t want to read.”
“Why not?”
She refused to say, and after thinking for a while, Lu Qiming suddenly laughed.
“You can’t read, can you?”
“…You’re the one who can’t read! My Chinese is better than yours, hmph!”
Jiang Miaomiao punched him and then turned away, ignoring him.
Lu Qiming leaned over and hooked her shoulder, smiling, “Little illiterate, let me teach you English.”
“I don’t want to learn.”
“Why not? If you learn, you can read English books.”
She was too lazy to study when she was in school, and now she was supposed to learn? No way.
Jiang Miaomiao turned around and said, “If you really want to help me with something, then…”
“Hmm?”
“Go get bird eggs!”
On the southern coast, there was a group of seagulls with large wingspans, almost like eagles, always coming to steal her salted fish.
She couldn’t catch them, but she had been eyeing their eggs for a long time.
Even though fish was delicious, eating it every day for two months was getting tiresome.
Lu Qiming didn’t agree. “I won’t go.”
Jiang Miaomiao grabbed his arm and shook it. “Go, go! If you get them, I’ll pickle the eggs for you. My grandmother used to pickle them; it’s straightforward.”
Lu Qiming lifted his beautifully contoured chin. “I’ll get you bird eggs, but what will you do for me?”
“I’ll help you…”
She thought for a while but couldn’t come up with anything, so she stammered and asked, “What do you want me to do?”
He smiled cunningly. “We’re already married.”
“Yes.”
“Although we don’t have a marriage certificate, there’s no place to register nowadays.”
“So?”
“We are legally married, so why don’t you try calling me ‘husband’ and see how it sounds?”
Lu Qiming finally revealed his true purpose and eagerly awaited her response.
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t argue; after all, they were already married, and it was normal to use such terms of endearment. She wasn’t a shy person most of the time.
However, at this moment, her mouth felt like it was glued shut. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t say a word.
After struggling for a long time, her face turned red, but she still couldn’t utter a single word.
Lu Qiming was puzzled. “Is it that difficult?”
She replied irritably, “If you have the guts, then you say it.”
“Call you ‘husband’? I’ll change the title.”
He shamelessly moved closer, his forehead against hers, and whispered intimately.
“Wife.”
The red flush on Jiang Miaomiao’s face spread to her ears instantly.
Lu Qiming seemed to have discovered something fun and kept changing his tone as he called her, “Wife, wife? Wife…”
She couldn’t resist and fled, getting up from the blanket to run away.
Lu Qiming pulled her back, kissed her forehead loudly, and said with a smile, “Lie down, wife, I’ll go get bird eggs for you.”
After saying that, he let go of her and put on his slippers, then went inside the house to get a basket and a harpoon, and ran towards the southern coast.
As he ran, he waved to her, but accidentally tripped over a stone and fell flat on his face.
Jiang Miaomiao burst into laughter, “Fool.”
Lu Qiming got up, embarrassed, scratching his head, and quickly ran away.
Jiang Miaomiao was left alone to enjoy the scenery. Thinking about the way he addressed her just now, her cheeks remained hot, and the blush wouldn’t go away.
She was married now.
Yesterday, she didn’t feel much, just thought it was fun.
But when he called her just now, she suddenly realized that she was no longer alone.
They were a small family, loving each other and relying on each other.
Although this family might not exist for a long time, the fact that it had existed in this world was enough.
She lay on the blanket, touching the wildflowers on the grass beside her, occasionally glancing in the direction of the coast, with a constant smile on her lips.
Lu Qiming did not disappoint her expectations. He spent the whole afternoon and returned with a dozen bird eggs and a particularly plump seagull.
That night, they plucked the seagull, cleaned it, marinated it with seasoning, and roasted it over the fire, enjoying a delicious meal.
They ate three of the bird eggs, and the rest were washed clean by Jiang Miaomiao with a wet cloth.
She found a glass jar, poured in half a bottle of water, added a lot of edible salt and high-concentration white wine, mixed it evenly, and put the clean bird eggs inside, then closed the lid.
According to her memory, they only needed to wait for about a month to have salted eggs.
She carried the jar to a cool place in the kitchen and patted her hands contentedly.
Lu Qiming leaned against the door frame, giving her a thumbs-up. “My wife is amazing!”
“Hmph, of course.”
Jiang Miaomiao straightened her chest, feeling very proud.
Lu Qiming reached out to her and said, “Impressive wife, can we go to bed now?”
She put her hands on her hips. “I’m so amazing that I don’t want to walk anymore. Carry me.”
He looked pitiful. “I climbed up and down for several hours this afternoon, I’m very tired.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Fine.”
Jiang Miaomiao walked upstairs by herself, passing by him.
When he took advantage of her distraction and suddenly scooped her up horizontally, she let out a surprised cry as he rushed into the bedroom.
The dog Jiang Rou Rou was a step behind and didn’t catch up. When it finally went upstairs to greet them, it was met with a closed bedroom door.
It held onto the stair railing for a while, feeling quite bored, and then found a corner in the hallway to lie down, where a faint snoring sound soon filled the air.
Lu Qiming got addicted to collecting bird eggs. The next morning, he carried the basket and went to the shore again.
Jiang Miaomiao had nothing to do, so she washed the long-unused bedsheets, blankets, and pillowcases and hung them on the clothesline in the yard. Then she brought a chair and sat beside it, flipping through a picture book.
She couldn’t understand English books, but she could still enjoy picture books.
The artist’s style was quite bold and rough, with all the men muscular and the women curvy.
After looking through a few pages, she recognized that it seemed to be a story about a cowboy in the Wild West. Feeling uninterested, she was about to change to another book when she almost sprayed blood at the large explicit image on the next page.
This… this was adult content!
She quickly covered the picture book and looked around, making sure that Lu Qiming hadn’t returned yet before continuing to look at it.
The sea breeze blew, and the clean bedsheets fluttered above her head, bringing the scent of laundry detergent.
Jiang Rou Rou, who had been napping by her feet, suddenly lifted its head, its ears perked up straight, staring intently in one direction.
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t notice until it started barking, and she stood up in confusion and looked in the direction it was focused on.
Thanks to the small size of the island, she could see the coast at a glance.
On the empty beach, a small plane had landed at some unknown time.
The cabin door opened, and someone walked out from inside.
Jiang Miaomiao: “!!!”
Someone had arrived?!
Were they here to capture them?
She put down the picture book, took out her weapon from the house, and was about to find Lu Qiming.
But the other person was faster than her. She had just run out of the yard when the person had already appeared in front of her, blocking her way.
The newcomer was tall, wearing the signature black uniform of a rescue team, and exuding a heroic aura. It was none other than Yuan Mubing, whom she had met before.
Only her?
Jiang Miaomiao glanced at the plane, and there were clearly a few other men there, but she didn’t know why they hadn’t come over.
She had prepared herself for resistance, but the other party’s posture was strange, leaving her a little puzzled.
Yuan Mubing glanced at the gun in her hand and smiled.
“Long time no see.”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
Jiang Rou Rou barked furiously, seemingly wanting to rush up and bite her.
Jiang Miaomiao knew Yuan Mubing’s strength very well; she could definitely kick her beloved dog to death with one foot. So she quickly hugged it and asked warily:
“Why are you here?”
“To be honest, ever since you and Lu Qiming took off with Captain Gu’s plane, the base has been searching for you.”
“So, you’re here to catch us and bring us back?”
Yuan Mubing shook her head.
“No, on the contrary, I admire you both. Especially Lu Qiming. Being able to overpower so many professional soldiers despite being weak is quite impressive.”
Proud that her man was being praised, Jiang Miaomiao’s tone softened.
“Then why are you here?”
Yuan Mubing calmly explained the reason for her visit.
“I ran into Captain Gu yesterday, and I learned that they had already pinpointed your coordinates and were planning to bring people to capture you, but I managed to persuade him otherwise. I believe that extreme measures shouldn’t be taken. After all, we need to cooperate in the future and work together to bring humanity back to the cities.”
Jiang Miaomiao frowned, “Cooperate? What for?”
One infected with the virus and the other powerless; they were more of a burden to the survivors.
Yuan Mubing pursed her lips and proceeded to explain the matter about the virus in detail.
Jiang Miaomiao was dumbfounded after hearing the whole story.
Lu Qiming still had that ability? She must have completely misread the book; the original text never mentioned it.
Those experts had spent more than a decade researching and finally developed a vaccine, allowing people to return to the cities with peace of mind.
Yuan Mubing said, “The city’s regression doesn’t wait for anyone. If we return a day later, we’ll need ten times or even a hundred times more time to rebuild it and return to the level of development before the apocalypse. Time is precious now, and with his assistance, we have hope of returning to the city. It will give the survivors in the bases fighting against the wind, snow, and zombies a chance to survive.”
Jiang Miaomiao looked troubled. “Why are you telling me all this? He’s the one who can help, not me.”
“He loves you. He won’t listen to us, but he will listen to you.”
Yuan Mubing looked at her, her resolute eyes showing a hint of pleading.
“Consider it a request from all the survivors. Can you persuade him to cooperate with the experiment?”
Lu Qiming’s involvement would speed up vaccine development and save more people, undoubtedly a good thing, a big one at that.
Even though this was a book, all the characters were virtual but real in this world. No one deserved to die.
However, Lu Qiming’s appearance when he described his past experiences was still vivid in her mind. The pain on his face, the torment from his memories, it was evident that even recalling them was agonizing.
He had been kept in the laboratory as a lab rat for over twenty years.
How many twenty years could one have in life?
That he was still alive now was a blessing, but if it happened again, would he survive?
She wanted to save the survivors, but she wanted to save him even more.
She loved him, and love was inherently selfish.
“I can’t promise you…”
“I promise you.”
Two sentences echoed simultaneously. The first was from Jiang Miaomiao, and the second from Lu Qiming.
Jiang Miaomiao turned her head and saw Lu Qiming returning with half a basket of bird eggs. He walked over to her, gently grasped her shoulder, and said to Yuan Mubing:
“I promise your request.”
Jiang Miaomiao exclaimed, “What are you talking about? They will take you for experiments!”
“I know.” He gave her a reassuring smile and looked at Yuan Mubing.
“But I have my own conditions.”
Yuan Mubing immediately said, “Just tell us, as long as we can do it, we won’t refuse.”
“First, I have the right to refuse surgery. I’m not that noble to self-sacrifice.”
“Sure, if there are high-risk surgeries, the experts can have a meeting with you beforehand and seek your opinion.”
Lu Qiming nodded and continued.
“The second condition is that you must let her live in the base and enjoy a safe and worry-free life.”
“At the moment, everyone in the base has the same living standard. What the officials eat, the common people eat. When attacked by zombies, the soldiers go first. If there are not enough soldiers, the men go, and if there are not enough men, the women go.”
“I can’t guarantee that she will be completely safe and have every meal, but as long as I’m alive, she will be fine.”
Lu Qiming nodded, lowered his gaze to look at Jiang Miaomiao, his eyes filled with tenderness, as he stated the last requirement.
“The third condition is that after the apocalypse ends, if I die, you must ensure she has a middle-class or higher standard of living. The state should cover her housing and expenses, ensuring she has no financial troubles and can enjoy the best medical treatment.”
Yuan Mubing asked with interest, “And what if you are still alive?”
He replied confidently, “If I’m still alive, then there would be no need for you to provide all that.”
Yuan Mubing’s gaze showed appreciation, but Jiang Miaomiao was anxious and couldn’t wait to speak.
Lu Qiming made a hushing gesture, leading her back to pack their belongings. When they were in an empty bedroom, he asked, “What did you want to say?”
She wanted to scold him. How could he be so foolish?
But as soon as she opened her mouth, her voice choked, and tears started flowing.
“I don’t want you to be treated like a lab rat, wuwu…”
Jiang Miaomiao threw herself into his arms, wanting to stay close to him forever.
Lu Qiming smiled gently, his right hand caressing her back.
“Don’t be sad. This is the best choice for us, isn’t it?”
Staying on the island or fleeing would mean the suppressants would eventually run out. It would be better to seize the opportunity and give it a try.
Once the vaccine was available, the base wouldn’t possibly deny him its use.
He was saving the survivors, but he was also saving himself.
Jiang Miaomiao cried, gasping for breath. “But the experiment is dangerous… and painful…”
“I’m not afraid; I can endure it.” He lowered his head, touching his forehead to hers. “Because you’ll be waiting for me outside, right?”
Her tearful eyes asked, “Are you really determined to go back?”
Lu Qiming’s smile was tender. “Yes, I’m no longer the single man who can eat his fill while his family goes hungry. Now, I’m your husband, and I have to be responsible for you and our family.”
“I want to live through the apocalypse and have a baby with you. We’ll live in a beautiful villa, surrounded by mountains and water. If I want to work, I’ll work. If I don’t, I’ll just lie at home.”
“By then, we’ll have a TV to watch, games to play, and you’ll have to teach me many new games I don’t know. I want to try playing the online game ‘King of Glory’ and become a pro, dominating the battlefield with you.”
Jiang Miaomiao’s eyes turned red, and she bit her lip hard.
“If you don’t achieve all that, I won’t let you off, even if you become a ghost.”
“Deal. I swear, if I don’t achieve those things, then let me…”
He thought for a moment, then cunningly leaned in, whispering something only the two of them could hear.
Jiang Miaomiao burst into laughter, playfully punching him.
“You rascal! Get out of here.”
“Are you happy now? Call your husband to come and listen.”
“Husband? More like old man, smelly old man.”
Jiang Miaomiao turned to pack her luggage. As she folded the wedding dress, a few tears fell on it, so she quickly used other clothes to cover it up.
Since they had decided to go back, they should do so happily. Looking downcast and disheartened would only make others laugh at them.
Yuan Mubing had been waiting outside the courtyard for a full two hours and was starting to get impatient. Finally, she saw them coming out with a bunch of belongings.
She glanced at the items and frowned. “What’s all this mess?”
“How is it a mess? These are all our precious belongings.”
Jiang Miaomiao introduced each item one by one. “This is oyster meat, that’s dried scallop, and that cluster is kelp. This bag is filled with French fries, and this is tomato sauce. Oh, and there’s this!”
She picked up a glass jar and tapped it. “This has preserved bird eggs. The base probably doesn’t have these, right?”
“Fine, since there’s space on the plane, take everything with you.”
Jiang Miaomiao then affectionately patted the ever-watchful Jiang Rourou and said with a smile, “And this one, it’s meaty, don’t let anyone steal it and eat it.”
Yuan Mubing shrugged and called some subordinates to help carry the items.
The two of them followed their group onto the plane, took their seats, and fastened their seat belts.
As the plane ascended slowly, Jiang Miaomiao looked down at the small island through the window.
It was so beautiful, like a green gem hidden in the deep sea, containing her most cherished memories.
If there’s a chance in the future, she would definitely come back.
With a roar, the plane accelerated, heading towards the base without looking back.
The flight lasted twelve hours, with a mid-flight stop for refueling.
The next morning, they returned to the icy and snowy world once again.
At the entrance of the massive base made of steel, Chen Hong and a group of experts were already there to welcome them.
As soon as they saw Lu Qiming, they immediately helped him into isolation clothing, placed him on a hospital bed, and hurriedly pushed him to the laboratory.
Jiang Miaomiao wanted to follow, but was stopped and left standing alone among the pile of luggage and the dog.
After Yuan Mubing finished talking to the team members, she turned around and waved. “Come, let’s go and see the dormitory assigned to you.”
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