Chapter 56: Mutation (1/2)
Chapter 56: Mutation
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“Sister Huang, look! Brother Luo has also bought some new clothes.” Wang Shishi looked like an excited puppy. “Look how good he looks in them!”
Huang Jiahui shifted her gaze towards Luo Yuan. She would not have noticed if Wang Shishi hadn’t pointed it out. She was still distracted by the image of that mutated earthworm in the residential area earlier.
Black jacket, black pants, black shoes, a total black outfit. There were thousands of shades, but none of them could match the black color of the black owl’s feathers – a deep, mysterious, attractive shade of black. Combined with Luo Yuan’s fair, rosy complexion, his tall height and his laid-back yet edgy attitude, the black color further highlighted his handsome look and gave him a mysterious aura.
Huang Jiahui’s gaze wandered before focusing again after a while. Suddenly, she gave an unfriendly hum, “Shishi, can I sleep with you tonight?”
Wang Shishi blinked. “Sure, I love falling asleep hugging Sister Huang!”
Huang Jiahui turned her head and fumed silently. Clothes were very expensive in stores now that raw materials were in shortage. Plus, neither of them had a job. One million might have seemed like a lot at first, but it wasn’t going to last long. If they converted it all to food stamps, they would only have 70 – 80 thousand.
Luo Yuan was a meat lover, and their daily food expenses were already more than 30 catties of food stamps. Huang Jiahui had never bought any clothes in order to save money. She had even intended to sew patches on some of her old torn clothes. Who knew he would buy clothes for himself without batting an eye. She felt wronged just thinking about it.
Luo Yuan seemed to have noticed as he smiled wryly, “Would you both believe me if I said I didn’t buy these clothes either?”
“Sure, why not. They must have been dumped by someone else and you just happened to pick them up!” Huang Jiahui said in disdain while she side-eyed him.
She was thinking, “Do I look like an idiot to you? I’d have taken your word for the car. Lots of cars are being treated like junk these days anyway. But clothes, especially this new… People would never just throw them away.”
Luo Yuan thought for a bit. He felt that he had nothing to hide anymore. It would also be a great excuse for him. “Actually, I’m evolved!” he said.
His words struck them like a lightning. Wang Shishi screamed in ecstasy while Huang Jiahui was barely able to keep her cool.
After a while, Huang Jiahui regained her composure and realized that what Luo Yuan had said was completely irrelevant. “What does you being evolved have to do with you buying clothes?” she asked with a straight face.
“You know that evolved people have strange abilities. Some were completely useless so I felt too embarrassed to talk about it.” Luo Yuan kept talking nonsense, “My ability is useless, I can just synthesize different materials into things. You remember those black feathers, right? I synthesized them into my clothes so they couldn’t be penetrated by regular bullets. I still have some of those feathers left, I could synthesize some clothes for you guys, too.”
Huang Jiahui looked at his clothes suspiciously and realized that they were indeed the same clothes he had been wearing before. They only looked brand new because of their weird sense of beauty. Her suspicion went away at once as she exclaimed, “Why didn’t you say so earlier? This is not something bad. You don’t have to hide it from us, we won’t expose your secret.”
She didn’t look worried at all as she looked at Luo Yuan. She knew that while his ability could not help them in battle, he alone would still be more useful than 10 battle-gifted evolved humans put together. Once he was discovered by the government or the military, he would immediately be recruited. She wasn’t sure whether that would be good or bad.
She spoke to Wang Shishi seriously, “Shishi, you mustn’t tell anyone about this, okay?”
“I won’t!” Wang Shishi promised. She could differentiate between good and bad. She had already grown up.
Luo Yuan laughed, “You guys don’t have to be jealous. I was just luckier. Everyone has a chance to evolve.” As he said this, Luo Yuan took the Rampage Lizard’s meat and bloody innards out of his rucksack. “Wash these. We’ll eat them tonight!”
Huang Jiahui did not pay much attention at first. She thought that he’d just gone to the market on his way back. She was about to head to the kitchen with the meat when she asked, “Should I marinate them so we can have them tomorrow? I’ve already bought food for dinner.”
Luo Yuan stopped her instantly, “Don’t. That’s not normal meat. It’s like the green beetles we had last time. It could make you evolve. Wash it and slice it. We’ll try it out later.”
Huang Jiahui and Wang Shishi felt disgusted just hearing him.
Huang Jiahui gritted her teeth, “Okay, I’ll clean it up. Hopefully we’ll really evolve this time, because I’m not eating it ever again!”
She carried the meat into the kitchen, but came out soon after with a frown on her face. “This meat is too tough, I can’t cut it. Lend me your machete. And what’s that bloody lump? It’s already turned into goo.”
“That goo is liver. It’s the good stuff. If it were to be sold, people would probably buy it for 1,000 catties of food stamps per catty!” Luo Yuan said with a smile as he handed her his machete.
Huang Jiahui looked a little skeptical, “Really? That thing is that expensive?”
“How much does a catty of meat cost in the market now?” Luo Yuan directed the question back at her.
“About 5 – 6 dollars per catty, but it’s getting even cheaper these days,” Huang Jiahui replied.