Chapter 470: Anyway, I Just Know
Chapter 470: Anyway, I Just Know
Zhan Lian, who has his back to An Ran, turns around, looks at her face, frowns, and asks, "What's wrong?"
"I know where the mutant flowers in Xiangcheng come from." An Ran’s face is pale. She pulls her woolen coat tighter around herself, walks over, pulls out the chair beside Zhan Lian, sits down, and says faintly, “Their flower core is in the Jiahe Supermarket. Back then… I didn’t know what to do. One of the lilies mutated, and I didn’t take it seriously. I didn’t eliminate it completely.”
Then, An Ran looks at Yun Tao, who wears a thoughtful expression.
She nods and confirms, “That’s right. It’s the Jiahe Supermarket where we stayed.”
They face life and death there. Liu Yuan died there. Hengheng loses his mother there. And it’s there that An Ran learns how to properly use her ability.
It’s that Jiahe Supermarket.
“So it really does have something to do with you after all,” Yun Tao says in realization.
He suddenly remembers how, when they leave, the supermarket is full of lilies. No wonder the red flowers growing from the vines look so much like lotus blossoms and lilies—because they are. They’re the mutated lilies from Jiahe Supermarket.
According to An Ran, the entire underground of the Star District is filled with the roots of this mutant lily. While it can separate smaller flower balls, compared to the massive central flower ball, the ones An Ran and the others encounter are merely its offshoots.
Based on their experience fighting mutant vines along the way, mutant plants aren’t particularly hard to deal with. As long as you destroy the crystal core in the flower ball, the roots, stems, leaves, and everything else connected to it dies.
But this massive mutant lily, with its roots and stems spread across the entire Star District, is another matter. Getting close to the flower ball is already a challenge—never mind actually retrieving its crystal core.
Zhan Lian and the others fall silent.
Then Luo Feifan suddenly asks, "How do you know all this?"
An Ran looks up at him, her eyes a little dazed, and shrugs. "I don’t know. I just knew. I had a dream, and I saw it in the dream."
It sounds mysterious, but none of the three men doubt her. In the apocalypse, things are already strange enough. If An Ran says she sees it in a dream, they believe her.
"Alright, then what should we do next?" Luo Feifan looks at Zhan Lian, then at An Ran. There’s a map of Xiangcheng spread out on the table. He points to a spot on it and continues, "We’re here now. According to Zhang Boxun, not far ahead is where Uncle Tang is trapped—Jiahe Supermarket."
Zhan Lian, who has been staring at the map, reaches out and points to a spot in the southern part of the Star District. "Here. I didn't go into the supermarket at the time, so I don’t know what it’s like inside. But I got stuck outside for a long time."
Back then, because An Ran puts one of Doll’s diapers on a sensory zombie’s head, that zombie just spins in place howling, and it keeps Zhan Lian from moving an inch. It’s right there that he once again watches helplessly as An Ran and Doll pass right by him.
An Ran tilts her head and looks at Zhan Lian. "You never told me you followed us all the way to Jiahe Supermarket."