270: Chapter 27 Acid Rain

When Ye Qingqing said this, there was indeed a hint of joking in her tone.

But more than that, Ye Qingqing was considering Huo Siyan.

Huo Siyan and Ye Qingqing looked at each other, a flicker of emotion that only the two of them understood rising between their gazes.

Huo Siyan gave Ye Qingqing a long, deep look, his lips parting slightly, but in the end, he said nothing.

However, Ye Qingqing could sense Huo Siyan's reluctance from the look in his eyes.

After Huo Siyan left, Ye Qingqing finally emerged from the bathroom.

She walked to the window to look at the scene outside.

At this moment, a few drops of Acid Rain carrying dust were floating in the sky.

Just by looking at it, Ye Qingqing could sense the corrosive smell contained within the rain.

Deng Jiayu walked to Ye Qingqing's side and gently patted her shoulder.

"Qingqing, don't worry, it'll be alright."

Deng Jiayu's words did little to comfort Ye Qingqing.

On the contrary, they caused a trace of chill to rise between Ye Qingqing's brows.

Originally, in Ye Qingqing's estimation, with the appearance of those black bugs and mutated flora and fauna, the apocalypse would soon be over.

She had even prepared herself for things to continue like this.

But Ye Qingqing hadn't expected the natural disasters to persist.

They were even more severe than before.

If it were just the previous floods and droughts, humans could still overcome them.

But this Acid Rain...

Ye Qingqing had no confidence in her heart.

Because the Ye Qingqing from her past life had experienced Acid Rain.

When that Acid Rain fell to a certain extent, it truly could consume people.

The Ye Qingqing of that time had personally witnessed a living person being devoured by Acid Rain right in front of her.

Standing right in front of Ye Qingqing, each drop of Acid Rain that fell would cause the person's skin to suffer corrosion.

If they ran even a step too slow, they would be trapped in the Acid Rain.

Because once their feet were corroded, they simply couldn't walk.

Therefore, a person would be trapped alive in the Acid Rain.

Then they could only wait for death to come.

However, the process of death by being devoured by Acid Rain was extremely painful.

The rain seemed to have eyes, burrowing directly into the body.

It seeped in from the skin, reaching the flesh and blood, then the bones, until finally, when not a single patch of intact skin remained, the human devoured by the Acid Rain would die.

So, in Ye Qingqing's memory, dying in Acid Rain was worse than being carved to death piece by piece.

Ye Qingqing dared not think about it anymore, and she simply couldn't bring herself to continue.

The more she thought, the more she felt the scent of blood filling her nostrils.

As if the mangled, acid-corroded corpses were right before her eyes.

Her stomach, which had just finished vomiting, now churned violently again.

Looking at Ye Qingqing's state, Deng Jiayu frowned slightly. She felt something was quite off about Ye Qingqing's condition.

But on second thought, some women do have stronger pregnancy symptoms in the early stages.

Thinking this, Deng Jiayu simply went to fetch Ye Qingqing a cup of warm water.

For now, all Deng Jiayu could do was take good care of Ye Qingqing's food and daily needs.

After taking the water Deng Jiayu handed her, Ye Qingqing wanted to rest.

For convenience, Ye Qingqing simply took out a screen from her space, partitioning off a small room in the living room.

This way, she could avoid having to go up and down the stairs.

Moreover, Ye Qingqing had a feeling they wouldn't be able to stay in this place much longer.

Judging by the rate at which this Acid Rain was falling.

Ye Qingqing estimated that the place Xiao Lü and Xiao Ye discovered earlier could now be put to use.

It's just that Ye Qingqing hadn't had time to tell Huo Siyan this news yet.

The Acid Rain came so suddenly, catching everyone off guard.

Some people had originally been busy planting today's leafy greens.

The wood-ability users' sole daily task was to provide sufficient vegetables; these greens could be an entire base's food supply for a whole day.

But no one expected the sky to suddenly start raining.

Initially, when they saw the raindrops, everyone was happy.

But soon, people realized something was wrong.

"Not good!"

"Quick, get these vegetables into the house!"

"It's Acid Rain!"

Once one person realized the rain falling from the sky was Acid Rain, the others gradually caught on.

Everyone frantically worked to gather all the leafy greens in front of them into the houses.

But the Acid Rain fell extremely fast, and the speed of harvesting couldn't keep up with the rain.

In an instant, any plant that came into contact with the Acid Rain had already withered.

And these greens weren't withering from the surface leaves first.

Instead, it started from the roots, gradually spreading to the plant's surface.

This also meant.

These leafy greens and the water, after contacting the Acid Rain, were all being corroded.

And the corrosion was extremely fast.

Moreover, as time passed and the Acid Rain fell more heavily, more and more people felt a stinging itch on their skin.

"Ah!"

"My skin!"

"My face!"

"Hiss!"

"It hurts so much!"

For a moment, waves of screams spread across the mountaintop.

"This Acid Rain! The corrosion is strong!"

"Quick, get inside!"

"Wooden houses won't work!"

"You have to get into the metal houses!"

Even if some realized the stinging on their skin was due to the Acid Rain, not many were willing to go inside at this point.

After all, these green leafy vegetables before them were the entire base's food supply.

If this food was gone, forget the Acid Rain, they might not even survive the next few days.

So, on the mountaintop now, one could see people constantly braving the rain, screaming.

Even if their bodies were already being burned by the Acid Rain, they didn't give up in the slightest.

They continued carrying the leafy greens into the houses.

No one was willing to.

By the time Kong Ziyi and Lu Huan discovered it, it was already very late.

Kong Ziyi immediately called for Mo Wangchuan, instructing him to check on the injured.

As for himself, he hurried off to find Huo Siyan to take charge of the situation.

When Huo Siyan arrived at the scene, the first thing to assault his nostrils was a strong smell of blood.

That bloody smell was mixed with a faint, corrosive odor.

Assaulting his nose, it involuntarily caused a tingling sourness in his nostrils.

"Boss... this..."

Kong Ziyi was already stunned.

Because lying before them were people with blurred, unrecognizable faces.

If not for the slight rising and falling motions on those people's chests.

Kong Ziyi would have truly thought they were already dead.

Huo Siyan immediately made a decision, saying in a deep voice, "Quick! Save them first!"

A faint golden halo enveloped Huo Siyan's body.

It was an energy shield conjured using his ability, capable of wrapping his entire body inside to avoid the assault of the Acid Rain.