The Forgotten Heart of Trees

Mmmh!

You gotta be careful with certain jokes, or things would end up like what was happening in Xing Feng's bedroom where strong erotism suffused. As Xing Feng gave out a moan of pleasure, Yun Che got slime all over his mouth and face between Xing Feng's thighs because the ejaculation was so abrupt. Yun Che looked up at Xing Feng who just had an orgasm and swallowed the sticky substance into his tummy. He then got himself up and took some wet wipes to clean his face.

"You look better with it on your face."

The joy of the orgasm lingered. Xing Feng sat up and took over the wet wipes to carefully erase the milky stain on Yun Che's face. "You swallow all the rest?"

While Xing Feng was had an orgasm, he still saw every little move that Yun Che did.

"Yeah."

Yun Che spontaneously swallowed the sperm. He didn't feel ashamed or anything at all. He leaned in Xing Feng's arms naked while fiddling with Xing Feng's flaccid dick. He replied insouciantly because he knew the pleasure was more spiritual than physical. Xing Feng was clearly more excited. He leaned in and bit Yun Che's earlobe. "How does it taste?" Asked Xing Feng in a low, hoarse voice.

"Not good. Kind of fishy. Can you give me a heads-up when you're about to come? I don't want to drink it again."

After looking askance at Xing Feng, Yun Che pushed him away and reached for the lighter on the bedside cabinet. Kiss marks were all over his snow-white body, and of course, his most private part wasn't missed. Needless to say, they had had long, crazy fun.

PA! PA!

After inflicting two punitive slaps on Yun Che's ass, Xing Fend lay down on the bed. "Light one for me."

"Do it yourself."

"Asking for service after slapping my ass? In your dreams!" Yun Che lit up a cigarette for himself and tossed the lighter and the pack of cigarettes to Xing Feng. As Yun Che smoked, he opened and closed his mouth to relax his jaw. Xing Feng's member was long and thick and endurable. Yun Che now felt like his mouth wasn't his anymore. He swore he wouldn't give him a blowjob ever again.

"Need my massage?"

Xing Feng wasn't upset. He just took a glance at Yun Che and took the cigarette from his mouth. He started touching Yun Che's sexy abs with the other hand.

Slap!

"My mouth is sore, not my belly. Where are you touching?"

After slapping Xing Feng's hand away, Yun Che got himself another cigarette and lit it up. He lay there, puffing the cigarette totally relaxed. They didn't go all the way. They had done pretty much everything else apart from the actual intercourse. They both knew that it would only last until they came back from this quest at most. They were both adult men and sex impulse was in every adult male, the humping was inevitable. Yes, love wasn't all about sex, but sex could nourish love.

"Use another part to suck it the next time."

He made it sound like he felt bad for Yun Che but come on, what part of a body could suck a dick other than the mouth?

"Why is it so big?"

Yun Che muttered as he shot a sideways glance at Xing Feng through the ring of smoke. It was lucky for Xing Feng to have a bold, impudent boyfriend, or he would never be given a chance to have sex. Yun Che would risk having his asshole permanently damaged for having sex with Xing Feng.

"To screw you!"

Xing Feng was blunt. Yun Che just ignored him by playing possum. Soon, a cigarette was finished. Yun Che drank half a bottle of water to rinse his mouth and gave the remaining half to Xing Feng. "I think we'll soon meet level-4 zombies, so there'll be level-4 mutant creatures as well. You gotta push the capital to ship whatever you want here, soon, even planes will be vulnerable, too."

Many thought that L2 to L3 was difficult but in fact, the breakthrough to level 4 was the most difficult. The power of a level 4 creature, whether it was a zombie or a mutant beast, would be much greater than that of a level 3 one. And large-sized beasts were born stronger than humans.

"Are you worried that there might be flying mutant beasts?"

Xing Feng wasn't an idiot, he understood what Yun Che implied right away. Yun Che nodded. "The beasts will become much larger than they used to be after the mutation. The large flying mutant beasts are able to destroy any plane. And don't forget the zombie birds. The communication between bases will become harder and harder. Just do what we gotta we when it's still convenient."

"Yes, I do have stuff that needs to be done. I'll discuss it with Mingxuan tomorrow. You won't do any quests these days, will you?"

"No, I won't in case I meet someone that I shouldn't meet."

There were lots of people out there waiting to meet Yun Che. Now that they'd decided to counter the military, Yun Che sure wasn't supposed to go out prior to the upcoming major quest and of course, not many people could come into Chaoyang Community, either.

"Well, you'll have to talk with Yao more often then."

Xing Feng was sure that Yun Che knew what to talk about with his sister better than he did.

"Got it. Time to sleep, don't you think?"

Yun Che knew Xing Feng was insistent on that matter. He covered the two of them with the sheet and voluntarily laid his head on Xing Feng's arm. Xing Feng adjusted the position of his arm to make Yun Che feel more comfortable before he closed his eyes. "We'd better think of a way to control Cheng's thirst for blood."

Countless people bled every day in the doomsday. Things would easily go wrong if Yun Cheng would always rampage every time he saw blood.

"I wish I could. He just doesn't have enough energy in him. He's in an energy deficit for now because low-level crystal nuclei provide too little and level-3 crystal nuclei are hard to come by."

Yun Che's eyes dimmed as soon as he started talking about Yun Cheng. No doubt, a level-3 zombie was fiercer than a human. After all, zombies couldn't feel the pain and didn't care about getting injured. Being zombified had greatly strengthened them physically whereas humans just got a smart head. Also, humans had one fatal weak point which was one might turn into a zombie when badly injured. In a one-on-one fight, scarcely could a level-3 superfunction possessor be brave enough to confront a level-3 zombie.

"I think we can get quite a lot from this quest to the provincial capital. How about I invite a research team here from the capital. We can run our own little lab to study zombies."

Suggested Xing Feng who suddenly looked down at Yun Che.

"Hmm."

Yun Che was lost in thought. He nodded after quite a while. "If you can, I do have quite a lot of researching equipment. Even if we don't have enough, we can always try to collect more."

He couldn't say no to Xing Feng's offer. He, too, eagerly wanted to learn more about zombies in order to help Yun Cheng overcome his thirst for flesh and blood. Yun Che didn't idealistically dream that his brother's zombie instinct would just disappear, he just hoped that Yun Cheng was more resistant to blood.

"No problem. I'll handle it."

Xing Feng saw Yun Che's brother as his own, so he was very happy to take the responsibility. Another reason was he didn't want to see someone who looked exactly like Yun Che went crazy just because of the carve for flesh and blood. "But we can't stop the crystal nuclei collecting. Keeping leveling him up is the only cure."

"I know that. Everyone in Peak knows that, or else they wouldn't tirelessly collect crystal nuclei for Cheng."

Most people would tirelessly collect supplies but only Peak did everything they could to collect crystal nuclei. Supplies weren't that important to Peak, they wouldn't specially spend time on supplies collecting when doing quests. One reason was that there wasn't much space for them to carry a lot, another reason was, they just didn't want to waste their valuable time.

"But the thing is, everybody needs level-3 crystal nuclei, otherwise…"

"Damn, I almost forgot this."

Before Xing Feng finished, Yun Che suddenly sat up. A pink, egg-shaped thing appeared in his palm. Xing Feng sat up as well. "Is this the heart of that tree?"

Many saw Yun Che put the tree heart away back in Tongyang. Afterward, Xing Feng asked him about the effect of the heart but because he got a more important thing to talk to Yun Che back then, he didn't mention it again. Xing Feng would have forgotten it as well if Yun Che hadn't taken it out.

"Yes. The heart of tree is just like a zombie's crystal nucleus but they work slightly differently. A crystal nucleus only provides energy while a tree heart provides additional vitality, which is an excellent supplement for humans or zombies or mutant beasts. This is a level-2 tree heart that doesn't contain too much energy and vitality, but it perfectly meets Cheng's need."

Yun Che could remember that in his previous life, a high-level tree heart could even bring a skeleton back to life, that it was more powerful than the healing of light. Due to the scarcity of the tree hearts, they were as valuable as premium diamonds. Only the top squads or the military got to acquire some.

"Let Cheng have it then. It looks like we'll be killing all the mutant trees we come across."

It couldn't be helped because the mutant trees had the things that they needed.

Xing Feng chuckled. Sometimes, he felt like he was skint.

"Sure. Let's try it on Cheng. If it works well, I'm afraid we'll have to go into the mountains after we're back from the quest. We find those mutant trees before their levels become too high."

Yun Che was willing to risk everything for his brother.

"Don't know what to do with you."

Xing Feng had already accepted the fact that he wasn't the most important person to Yun Che. After he helplessly pinched the tip of Yun Che's nose, he pulled him down. "Time to sleep. We'll do it tomorrow."

"OK."

Even the slightest hope was better than nothing. The two of them stopped talking. They held each other and fell asleep soon.

The next morning, Peak guys got up early for morning exercise after a day off. Chenchen, our diligent kindergarten boy, was an early bird as well. He dressed himself up and started boxing with air in a squatting position at the front yard. The chubby boy had chubby arms and legs, every time he clenched his fists, there were small dimples on the back of his hand. His soft punching looked super cute.

"Chenchen, come inside and wash your hands for breakfast."

Yun Yao called her son in the room. Generally, they'd feed Chenchen first because when everybody had breakfast, Chenchen would have to feed his pet. Wang Suhua or Yun Yao would take him to kindergarten after everybody finished eating breakfast.

"OK!"

Chenchen withdrew his fists and answered.

Thud!

Maybe he squatted for too long or maybe he turned around too fast, Chenchen flopped right to the ground. He was startled by a shake under his butt. Immediately, he got to his feet to check the ground, which was still intact.

"I'm not fat."

After shaking the fat on his own body, Chenchen was still in denial. His uncle said, it was baby fat, not real fat!

After cheering himself up with the self-delusion, Chenchen dusted off his butt and ran inside the room.

"Chenchen."

"Uncle Cheng!"

Chenchen left all the displeasure behind the moment he saw Yun Cheng coming downstairs again. Chenchen jumped on his uncle and Yun Cheng bent down to pick him up. "I miss you."

"Yeah, I miss you, too."

Chenchen opened up his chubby arms to hug and kiss Yun Cheng. Yun Cheng imitated by kissing back on his chubby face. Yun Yao happened to see this and smiled. "Won't you two get bored? Cheng, take Chenchen to wash his hands."

"Heehee!"

The uncle and the nephew grinned at Yun Yao after making eye contact. Leng Yehan who went down together with Yun Cheng looked at them with loving eyes as if Yun Cheng had their son in his arms. Another busy, warm day began.