Zhang Min Again

"Ahem! Uh, someone gets Lei Dashan here, oh, and He Yongyi."

After sympathizing with Chu Haoling for one second, Yun Che cleared his throat. He emphasized the name Lei Dashan as if he was reminding the guys not to get other people here, just the two he mentioned. Everybody was on the same page because they knew how scary Zhang Min was. Ye Xingchen and Jiang Shang caught Chu Haoling up, Leng Yehan took Yun Cheng to keep up their pace as well, so did the Meng Brothers. They all showed reluctance to go to Loser Squad through their action. That was how traumatized these guys were because Zhang Min the Yaoi fangirl was horrifying.

"Che, I'll go, OK?"

Zhan Yafei volunteered because Shen Rui and the rest of the guys also hurriedly ran into the house.

"No, you can't. I'm sure she'll follow you here."

However, Yun Che refused without thinking. He noticed Zhou Zeyu was a bit slower than everybody else and called out, "Zeyu, you go."

"What? No, Che. I can't deal with her. I don't want to go."

Zhou Zeyu stumbled and turned around with a teary face. He overheard that Zhang Min called him a "nagging bottom", he was horrified. He wasn't gay, and even if he was, he would be a "top". "Bottom? What bottom? Which part of me makes me a bottom?"

"No?"

Yun Che squinted at Zhou Zeyu, who shivered and immediately changed his tone, "I'll go, I'll go. You happy?"

Why did Che look scarier than Zhang Min?

"That's my man."

Yun Che nodded with satisfaction. When he walked past him, he patted Zhou Zeyu on the shoulder. "Thanks, man. As the saying goes, sacrifice one, benefit all. Trust me, I'll mourn you with respect."

"Damn you!"

"Haha."

Zhou Zeyu slapped him away. Yun Che laughed. Xing Feng, Zhan Yafei, and Yang Huaien sniggered next to him. Soon, Zhou Zeyu was left alone at the door. After staring at the inside with his poor, spiteful eyes for a long time, Zhou Zeyu slowly moved toward the house of Loser Squad.

But…

"Oh, Captain Xing and Captain Yun are back, why don't you stop by our place? You've been away for 20 days, we miss you so much."

Yun Che could never have figured out how keen the Yaoi fangirls were on a couple of cute boys. When everybody was talking about the Coastal Base, Zhang Min's voice came in before she did. Chaoyang and Peak people were flustered and tensed up. Yun Che put on a wry smile on the face. "Hi, Dashan, Yongyi and, uh, Min."

As Yun Che said hello to them, he gave Zhou Zeyu a glare over their shoulders. Zhou Zeyu remained silent like a wussy. Zhang Min dragged Lei Dashan here in a hurry as soon as she heard Yun Che and Xing Feng were back, Zhou Zeyu couldn't stop her; it wasn't his fault, there was nothing he could have done.

"Hi, Min."

Peak and Chaoyang people all said hello. Zhang Min was a straightforward people person, she dragged Lei Dashan to sit down. "You're good captains, look at your boys, handsome, polite and sweet. Captain Yun, I heard you went to the sea?"

Zhang Min ignored Lei Dashan's nudge and gazed at them with her twinkling eyes. She was thrilled at the thought of naked dudes on the beach.

"Hmm? Oh, we went to give the Coastal Base a hand and have brought you some seafood."

Yun Che could read her mind but he was sure that she had dirty thoughts on her mind judging by the look on her face. Out of blue, polyfoam boxes cropped up in the middle of the room.

"Huge crabs!"

"And look at the oysters. Those are oysters, right? I've never seen an oyster bigger than the size of a bowl."

"Are these lobsters? They aren't models, right?"

"Shit, these are massive geoducks. One can feed several people."

"Are all tuna fish this big?"

Joy members opened the boxes, the strong smell of seafood struck them. Looking at the crabs and all the other seafood several times larger than they could remember, Joy people all exclaimed in astonishment. The king crabs that they saw before the doomsday were nothing. Most importantly, although these ones were dead, they were well preserved. They looked very fresh and salivating.

"The sea creatures had all mutated. We went to the Coastal Base and found out they mutated but weren't zombified. We brought some samples back for research, we may find some traces. Ask your space superfunction possessors to put them away, seafood will go bad quickly out here."

Chen Hua and Lei Dashan went ahead and asked their space superfunction possessors to take their boxes. Lei Dashan nudged his wife again in case she would cause more problems. "Look at all the good stuff that Captain Yun gives us. Go home with Yongyi and ask our people to process the seafood. We'll feast tonight."

Poor Lei Dashan. Chaoyang, Peak and Joy all felt sorry for him silently.

"All right, all right, I'll leave you be then. Captain Yun, Captain Xing, come visit us later, OK?"

Despsite her hobby, Zhang Min wasn't a dumb woman. She stood up after looking back and forth from Yun Che to Xing Feng.

"No, no, maybe some other day, OK? We'll have to head back quickly after the conversation with Chen Hua and Dashan. We've been away from home for 20 days, my sister is worried about us."

Yun Che tried to decline her offer as calmly as possible. He would be crazy if he went to her den. From his last experience, he was sure that all women in Loser were affected by Zhang Min's enthusiasm for Yaoi.

"Right. Yao has been mumbling about you every day. I won't push you then."

Zhang Min nodded as she empathized with Yun Yao. She switched her predatory eyes from Yun Che and Xing Feng to Ye Xingchen and Jiang Shang to Leng Yehan and Yun Cheng then to Lu Haixuan and Chu Haoling. Even the single guys like Shen Rui was scanned.

"Did you often visit my sister?"

Yun Che wouldn't speak to her if he could but the thought of her being a potential bad influence on his sister, he couldn't help but ask the question. The last thing he would want was a bunch of fujoshi in his house.

"Yeah, Yao and I are besties. And we also have a group with the teachers from Chaoyang Kindergarten. Yafei, remember to join us when you're home. Yao said she had invited you but only Chaoyang Community has Internet, I can only chat with them in the group when I pick up the kids."

Zhang Min wore a sorry face. Yun Che and the other guys got the jitters. "Do those teachers happen to be those Yaoi fangirls? Has Yao been poisoned?"

"All right, don't bother Captain Yun with woman stuff. Just go home."

Lei Dashan knew the boys were scared judging by the looks on their faces. He immediately stood up and pushed his wife out. He Yongyi followed them after giving them an apologetic smile. Yang Huaien whispered to Zhan Yafei, "You can't be poisoned by her."

Yang Huaien wasn't gay and wouldn't enjoy being gay in any of their fantasies.

"Hehe, I think she's quite nice. I like her."

Zhan Yafei knew what they were afraid of but she genuinely liked Zhang Min. She was straightforward and easy-going. She saw Zhang Min as a nice sister, and the novels that Zhang Min shared with her were good for killing time.

"Ahem, Yehan, you lead the guys to quests starting tomorrow. We'll be doing quests every day."

Yun Che cleared his throat and gave the order in a serious tone. Everybody knew why he emphasized "every day", even Joy people snickered. "It looks like being a good-looker can cause problems. Look at them, they're awesome dudes but they are afraid of the chicks."

"Sorry, Captain Yun, my wife…"

"No, no, Dashan. It's OK!"

Lei Dashan said sorry when he came back. Before he finished, Yun Che patted him heavily on the shoulder. Men knew men. Zhang Min might not be that crazy to match her own husband with some dude but she must have poisoned the poor man a lot.

"Ahem."

Lei Dashan nearly coughed his lungs out when being stared by those compassionate eyes. His life with a fujoshi wife had been difficult.

"You must have gotten other stuff during the journeys, right?"

Chen Hua couldn't bear to watch this anymore. He rescued Lei Dashan with his loud voice. Chen Hua's wife walked into the room with a large bowl of Chilly Jelly, followed by other women in Joy. Chu Haoling broke loose of Lu Haixuan. He got a bowl of Chilly Jelly for Xing Feng, Yun Che, Lu Haixuan and himself each and put extra ice cubes in his own bowl.

"Yeah, kind of. Did you make the Chilly Jelly on your own?"

Yun Che tasted the Chilly Jelly and nodded. He was surprised at the shoo-fly plant seeds in the Chilly Jelly. These seeds were hard to come by now.

"Right. The Base encourages us to cultivate lands. I found shoo-fly plants when I took my men on a field trip and we collected the seeds. The weather is crazy. We were wearing cotton jackets 20 days ago and now we're living in an oven. Making the Chilly Jelly costs quite some sugar but it cools us down. It's a luxury nowadays."

Chen Hua was right about that. Not many people got to eat Chilly Jelly in the doomsday. Joy could afford it because they could be considered a rich squad.

"What luxury? We risk our lives doing quests for what? For having a good life, right? But I didn't expect the Base to encourage the cultivation, are they planning to have superfunction squads to conquer the forest?"

Due to the local terrains, Yun Che almost immediately figured out what the authorities were trying to do.

"Right? They said we could get free seeds for doing this but the lands available for cultivation are in the mountain forest. Who knows if there are mutant beasts? People are cultivating a small area down the mountains, no one dares to venture into the forest."

Lei Dashan gave off a helpless sigh. Every top-3 squad got 20 acres of land, top-10 got 10, top-20 got 5, the rest got 3. And there was not much left for civilians. Who wouldn't want more acres and a better harvest? But the cultivation was a big headache. Even Joy Squad didn't have the nerve to carry out a major operation, much less Loser Squad.