Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies

Chapter 202: Dragon and phoenix among men

Chapter 202: Dragon and phoenix among men

So they moved in just like that.

Su Yinhe even placed two pots of green plants for some mental comfort.

Lin Murong looked at those two pots of green plants with eyes full of envy.

“What well-behaved plants, so green, so obedient, and no tentacles either,” Lin Murong exclaimed, amazed.

Though he had already seen non-mutant Caicai, he was still astonished to see normal plants.

“Do you like them? They’re yours,” Su Yinhe said grandly, waving her hand. She had plenty of plants.

Succulents, devil’s ivy, and all sorts of quirky herbs.

“You’re really giving them to me?” Lin Murong’s eyes widened.

“If you want them, they’re yours,” she didn’t lack any.

“Then… could I have something else?”

“Something else? What do you want? I don’t have everything, you know.”

“I’d like a cactus. Do you have one?” Lin Murong asked, his eyes twinkling.

Su Yinhe did have them and immediately gave him three pots of cactus.

She thought he liked cacti and would take good care of them.

But the next day, she saw Lin Murong holding a pot of cactus, carefully snapping off one spine at a time with his fingernails.

One after the other, a surefire way to pass time.

Su Yinhe: “…”

A misjudgment.

“You asked me for cacti just to pluck their spines?” Su Yinhe asked in disbelief.

“No, I’m just giving them a trim. This one had eight more spines than the other two.”

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A family should be uniform, of course he wanted to keep the three consistent.

That’s what makes them look like a family.

Su Yinhe: “…”

Not understanding, utterly shocked.

Lin Murong said he was just trimming, that this pot had eight spines more than the others.

She believed him.

Then, in the afternoon, she found him with the other two pots, plucking their spines.

These three pots were different in color and pattern, so Su Yinhe could easily tell them apart.

“What are you doing…?”

“Ah, this… I was trimming the cactus this morning, the one that had eight more spines than these two. And I accidentally trimmed too much; now these two have ten more spines than that one. I need to trim them again.”

Su Yinhe: “…”

She had the feeling that these three cacti would end up bald.

Su Yinhe was right.

Within a couple of days, the cacti she had given to Lin Murong were bald, stripped of their spines.

Having removed all the spines, Lin Murong grew fond of watering them.

The water, of course, he sought from Chi Yan.

And then, very successfully, he tortured those three pots of cacti to death, beyond any hope of recovery.

In the end, he even came to Su Yinhe with the lifeless plants, asking if she had any solutions.

Su Yinhe: “…”

She didn’t have any, absolutely nothing.

Don’t come to her for anything.

“Then, Galaxy… do you still have succulents…?”

“I don’t have anything, not anymore. That was the last of the plants,” Su Yinhe said, scared enough to move all the plants from her room back into her space.

She was worried that Lin Murong would eventually target the plants in her room.

Not that she particularly loved or enjoyed growing plants.

It was just plain fear of Lin Murong’s inadvertently destructive hands.

The key was, he was oblivious to it.

He still thought he was doing quite well, except for a minor hiccup in the process.

But he would never feel that he had been wrong from the start.

Unable to succeed in plant care, Lin Murong shifted his focus to Hope Base. Unable to pluck the thorns from a cactus, his only way to kill time was to hang out and acknowledge big brothers every day.

Just for a few days.

Lin Murong was a social butterfly, lively and cheerful, and generous too. In just a few days, he had gotten chummy with several big brothers and started calling them “bro.”

His big brothers even wanted to take him out to relax a bit.

That scared Lin Murong to death.

Seeing this, his big brothers made fun of him.

“Little Lin, how old are you? Tell me you haven’t crossed the line yet. No way, right? Really?! Hahaha! Come on, big brother here will take you for some fun today. I guarantee that once you’ve tried it, you’ll want to experience it again… that taste…”

“No, no, no, I don’t want to. I… I have someone in my heart. I must remain pure for her,” Lin Murong was freaking out. He wanted to be a pure and innocent big boy and couldn’t expose himself to such odd stuff.

To bluff his big brothers, he blurted out a lie on the spot.

Hearing Lin Murong’s words, his big brother patted him on the shoulder with a grave tone.

“Man must learn to look forward. In this world, you can’t be too devoted…”

Being patted on the shoulder by several big brothers until he felt like a quail, Lin Murong looked completely baffled.

What was all this about?

He knew every word individually, but strung together, they didn’t seem to make sense.

Just like those what-do-you-call-it English words.

Only 26 letters, and he knew each one, but put together in a word, who knew what they meant?

Possibly out of consideration for Lin Murong’s gloominess, the big brothers eventually didn’t go out to relax.

In order to compensate them, Lin Murong took them out to eat.

The big brothers thought they had been especially lucky lately, stumbling upon an easy mark who was naive and very generous.

After encountering this easy mark, their lives had been easier than before.

The easy mark would sometimes bring them food and invite them to eat.

Stuffing their mouths more than usual, they could solve the day’s meals.

During the meal, if there was anything left, they could take it home.

However, this situation was rare.

When the big brothers ate, they would do so with the intention of stuffing themselves to death.

The big brothers, with no effort at all, wiped out a whole table of food.

Hope Base had food stalls.

But in these stalls, people had to bring their own food for the employees to help process, and they would charge a “symbolic” processing fee.

This processing fee…

When the food Lin Murong brought was processed and served, it had already shrunk by half.

The server, looking at Lin Murong with eager eyes, didn’t want to leave even after serving all the dishes, instead choosing to stand right by Lin Murong.

“Do you have anything else you need our help with?”

“You must be a very powerful superpower user to be able to casually provide all this…”

The big brothers took advantage of the moment Lin Murong was entangled and devoured everything like a storm.

After Lin Murong managed to send the person away, he turned back around only to see spotlessly clean plates.

They didn’t even need washing; they were already reflecting light.

Dammit.

He hadn’t even eaten yet.

He was still hungry!

That was awful.

Lin Murong had no choice but to summon the person who had bothered him just a moment ago and have them make more food.

After it was made, the big brothers, who had been bursting at the seams, felt hungry again.

And they continued to eat.

Lin Murong, who thought he was going to eat by himself, was forced to join the fray of snatching food.

In the end, most of it went into the big brothers’ stomachs, with only a small portion ending up eaten by Lin Murong.

Lin Murong looked at his chopsticks and was slightly dazed.

He had thought he was quite skilled at snatching food, but as it turned out, each of these big brothers was one of the great and good, snatching food even faster than he could.