novelClean The Sweet Potato Field
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Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Lin Qiao followed the zombie dog through the sweet potato field. There was a small hill nearby, covered in vines and thorns, with no path to take. However, in the eyes of the zombie dog, that was not a problem. It easily got through by lowering its head and darting into the woods, or leaping high. Soon, it disappeared without a trace.
Lin Qiao followed behind it, watching it excitedly lunge into the woods. She didn't get in, but stayed around the sweet potato field and observed.
After spending a while watching, she hopped onto a meter-tall stone nearby, then waved a hand to release a stream of dark mist. The mist divided into a few wisps and scattered before sinking into different parts of the sweet potato field.
Each wisp of dark mist immediately created a hole in the sweet potato field, which slowly expanded. Maybe because Lin Qiao didn't release enough dark mist, the sweet potato plants had been vanishing quite slowly. The further those holes expanded, the slower those sweet potato plants disappeared.
Soon, a few two-meters-wide holes appeared in the mutated sweet potato filed. The sweet potato plants in the hole areas had been devoured, and the soil was exposed.
All this while, Lin Qiao didn't let the smoke touch any sweetcorn plant.
As those devoured areas were about two-meters in diameter, she started making a more detailed plan.
At first, she cleaned out all the sweet potato plants in other parts of the sweet potato field, then cleaned the ones near the stone that she was standing on bit by bit. She did it with extra care to avoid those sweetcorn plants and healthy sweet potato plants.
Before long, all the thriving mutated sweet potato plants were swept out by Lin Qiao, including the vines; the large, clean earth was exposed.
However, the soil wasn't good enough, which was something Lin Qiao could tell by smelling it.
A while later, some noises were heard from the woods in the behind. Following the noises, the zombie dog darted out.
It was holding something in its mouth. Seeing the bared soil, it was puzzled for a moment, and its' dog face was filled with confusion.
It remembered that this place had lots of plants, and it had leaped through them. Why were those plants suddenly gone?
The zombie dog confusedly stopped by the stone that Lin Qiao was standing on. Lin Qiao lowered her head to look at it, and found that the thing in its mouth was struggling.
Squeak!
Lin Qiao felt a little speechless upon seeing the rabbit-sized squirrel in the dog's mouth.
What happened to the animals after the apocalypse? Had they been taking growth hormones? Why were they all so large?
The squirrel was large indeed, but not too large for the zombie dog's mouth. The dog's teeth sank deeply into its body and held it firmly.
No matter how hard the large squirrel struggled and how quickly its fluffy big tail wagget, it wasn't able to free itself from the dog's mouth.
"Whooo..." The zombie dog held the squirrel in its mouththen, reared up its head to look at Lin Qiao. However, it didn't seem to offer the squirrel to Lin Qiao, but instead, it was asking for Lin Qiao's permission.
"Alright, that's your prey, you eat it alone. I won't fight you over it, " Lin Qiao glanced at it and said impatiently.
After getting her permission, the zombie dog happily brought the squirrel to a clearing, then lied down and pressed the squirrel with its forepaws before relaxing its bite.
After that, it gave a few glances at the squirrel which was struggling desperately under its claw, then suddenly opened its mouth and bite on its fist-sized head.
Crack! The squirrel's neck bone was bitten broken by the zombie dog. The dog held the squirrel's head in its mouth and pressed the squirrel body with its paws, then pulled the head off.
The dead squirrel's skin and muscles were stretched long before breaking off, and then its blood gushed out.
The zombie dog chewed up the squirrel's head loudly.
Its teeth were sharp and strong. Chewing that squirrel head up only took the dog a few seconds. After that, it swallowed the squirrel head and licked its teeth. Then, it lowered its head to eat the squirrel's body.
The cute red squirrel which had watery eyes and big fluffy tail became a meal for the zombie dog just like that.
As the dog was enjoying its food, Lin Qiao glanced back at the woods behind and found that quite a lot rodents were living there. She guessed that those animals were all living on those mutated sweet potato plants in this area.
She had erased the parts of those sweet potato plants which were exposed in the air with her black mist. That was as easy as wiping out foam. However, the sweet potatoes in the soil hadn't been cleaned out. Those needed to be dug out, or some earth-powered people might be able to turn up the soil to dig out those sweet potatoes and throw them away.
Those were mutated, not edible anyway.
Maybe because this sweet potato field was thriving, the rodents in this area were living a good life. Most of them were as huge as that dead squirrel.
Also, Lin Qiao felt that the rodents here were a little... overpopulated.
The zombie dog should eat more of them.
After those sweet potato plants were cleaned out, the soil was exposed, and so were some holes on the ground. The larger holes were as wide as a human head. Lin Qiao believed that under those holes were the tunnels created by rodents.
That was why she figured that the zombie dog should go and catch more of those rodents.
"Bowwow, go and catch more when you are finished, " Lin Qiao lowered her head to talk to the zombie dog. She was too lazy to come up with a serious name for the dog, so she just called it Bowwow.
The dog didn't respond to her, but kept eating the squirrel.
'Eh? It actually ignored me!'
Lin Qiao felt a little annoyed, so she raised a hand and released a wisp of black mist that quickly drifted toward the dead squirrel which was in the zombie dog's mouth.
While eating, the zombie dog suddenly saw a wisp of black mist coming at it.
"Owooo..." It sprung up with fright and hurriedly drew back, even leaving the half-eaten squirrel on the ground.
After that, it raised its head to look at Lin Qiao with discontentment, then turned to the black mist with fear.
"Bowwow, I called your name, but you wouldn't answer! That's what you'll get when you don't answer me. Next time, respond to me! Do you understand?" Lin Qiao pointed at the dog and said.
The zombie dog had no idea what Bowwow meant.
Lin Qiao squatted and kept pointing at the dog as she continued, "From now on, your name is Bowwow. Do you understand?"
"Er?" the zombie dog was bewildered.
Lin Qiao pointed at the remains of the squirrel, then at the woods behind her, and said, "Finish this quickly, and then catch more. I want you to catch all rats and squirrels in that hill. Do you understand me?"
"Ow?" The zombie dog looked at Lin Qiao. ?'Why do I need to catch them all?'
Lin Qiao responded, "Cut the crap! Just eat it. Don't leave it here. It looks so disgusting!"
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