By the time Keke woke up, it was already the middle of the night.
Keke abruptly sat up and checked the wrist.
Qingling is back! Even if you're only a tiny seedling now, what matters is that you're back. You always protected me before. Now it's my turn to protect you!
Qingling could sense Keke's feelings and gently swayed its little leaves in response.
Keke stroked Qingling gently, then drifted back to sleep.
"Sister Yao, I forgot to ask. What did Chen Yixuan want with us yesterday? Is there a new mission?"
Over breakfast the next morning, Monkey suddenly remembered. Wondering whether this meant another chance to go out and have some fun, he hurried to ask Sister Yao.
"There was a mission, but I didn't take it.
"They found another underground human experimentation lab, about the same size as the one we encountered last time, but things blew up in their faces.
"Forty or fifty monsters all escaped. They wanted us to clean up their mess and catch the monsters." Bai Yaoyao curled her lip as she explained the mission to everyone.
Dada Juan blurted out, "Holy shit, we definitely can't take that! Monsters don't even have Crystal Cores. What a loss! A total loss!"
"Exactly. Even Dada Juan knows that mission is a terrible deal. No wonder Yaoyao refused." Lulu nodded.
"Why does that sound so weird coming from you?" Dada Juan rolled his eyes furiously. If anyone but Sister Lu had said it, he would have snapped right back. I'm not a coward like Monkey!
Fat Brother frowned slightly. "This is nasty. Those Blue-Dot Zombies are the hardest to deal with. Their lethal wounds are so hard to spot. Once they get into a crowd, the infection will spread through whole groups."
Bai Yaoyao nodded. "There's