Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 183 - You like humans more than trees?

XG 183 - You like humans more than trees?

Despite wanting to find someone to talk to about her problems, Kang Xunsu needed rest and should not be bothered. As for her parents, they were not active in the family chat group at all. Other than her, only her mother responded and asked her questions about how she was doing.

Other than that, there was no enthusiasm for sharing what they were doing with their daughter. The most Suzie Yap did was assure her daughter that they were fine and would come back to Korea soon.

With cloudy eyes, Wong Xue Guo's thumb lightly rubbed her cellphone. Her mother was back to her old habits of keeping her ignorant in the name of protection, while her father, from start to the end, does not care about telling her anything if it was unimportant.

If it was before her 'unknown for how long' soul trip, it would have hurt her quite a bit, but now she only feels disappointed with her mother. The moment she put a name to this familiar emotion with a new twist into it, she was shocked at how rude she was to be feeling this way to her mother. But as she was given more time to digest that emotion in that timeless space, the degree of shock slowly lessen.

Time and distance were pretty scary with how they could change a person.

Now she was much calmer and less yearning for her parents' affection, especially after discovering she could have gotten the love she wanted from someone else that was valued her equally.

It was the love she could get if Chen Yibo finally agree to date her.

"Is something bothering you?" Chen Yibo's self-taught 101 ways to understand Wong Xue Guo once again provided to be useful.

Hidden in the darkness of the car, Wong Xue Guo did not restrain the smile from making its appearance. Now she has one more person that she could talk to.

Not shy of unloading her worry, she leaned close to Chen Yibo and talk softly. "There are too few zombies around for me to absorb energy from. I can absorb energy from the trees, but I prefer harming zombies than Mother Nature."

Chen Yibo was not very sure of her ability's full use, especially now that she learned more tricks from the demon. "If you can absorb energy from trees, why not absorb from the weeds? They are the ones that people would cut off first."

Although the new era allowed the trees to grow well and healthy, if Wong Xue Guo does not want to harm the trees, Chen Yibo would not go against her wish. He also agreed that zombies were the much-preferred target over Mother nature, but he had some concerns that the zombie's energy would harm her.

Her warm breath tickled his ears as her mouth leaned closer to his ear. "You don't see it, but after I absorb their life force, they tend to dry out and turn brownish yellow. Like how normal plants that died would look. If you stumble over a green area with an entire patch of dead grass, do you think it's normal?"

"I see. You are worried that someone would investigate why it happen. Then what if you absorb only half of each tree's life force? That way, they won't die and no one will catch onto the strangeness."

Wong Xue Guo retracted her head and stared at him oddly. "... Wow, you just made me realize I'm a glutton."

"How so?"

Sighing sadly, she admitted an embarrassing part of herself. "I always absorb everything and never leave any behind." But she was relieved that Chen Yibo had thought up a good way.

Chen Yibo laughed softly, tickling Wong Xue Guo's heart but also catching Max's eyes from the rearview mirror. Max was then scolded by L.L. for not paying attention to the road, not that Max understood English, but he certainly understand the censure glare.