Chapter 108 I can eat vegetarian food again.

Zhang Yuan used his fingers to tuck the stray hairs by Liu Ruyan's ear behind her ear. "Are you scared?"

Hearing this question, Liu Ruyan wasn't surprised at all.

Because before this, she had already asked herself the same question.

Things had changed in this life. Her foresight was no longer an advantage. So, was she scared?

Liu Ruyan looked into Zhang Yuan's eyes for a moment, then slowly shook her head. "I'm not scared."

Even without the advantage of foresight and even when facing all the unknowns, Liu Ruyan wasn't scared.

Compared with others, she already had so much.

These things gave her enough courage to face all the unknowns.

"It's good that you're not scared. Even if you were, it wouldn't matter. I'll be with you."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Liu Ruyan smiled brightly. "Scared? Even if you were scared, it wouldn't matter. I'll be with you."

Zhang Yuan pinched the tip of Liu Ruyan's nose. "Naughty!"

Although he said this, the smile in Zhang Yuan's eyes couldn't be hidden at all.

When he first met Liu Ruyan, she was cold and kept people at a distance.

Even later, when the two of them gradually got to know each other, Liu Ruyan was always mature and steady. Their relationship was based on give - and - take, and neither owed the other.

Zhang Yuan liked Liu Ruyan like that.

He also liked Liu Ruyan the way she was now.

The two of them were in the house. At first, it was relatively peaceful, but they couldn't sleep well at night.

This kind of brick house didn't have good sound - insulation.

Lying in bed at night, the screams of the neighbors on both sides and the sounds of them patting and cleaning up the bugs became even more obvious.

Liu Ruyan usually had a good sleep. She could fall asleep soon after lying down and closing her eyes.

But now, with the neighbors on both sides making such a commotion, she couldn't sleep peacefully either.

As soon as Liu Ruyan opened her eyes, she heard Zhang Yuan's voice. "Can't sleep?"

Probably because he was lying in bed, Zhang Yuan's voice was low and sounded a bit hoarse.

Liu Ruyan looked in the direction of the voice. By the dim yellow light of the night - light, she could clearly see that Zhang Yuan's eyes were shining.

Although they were lying on the same bed, they always slept separately.

Even at this moment, there was still a half - meter distance between them.

Liu Ruyan turned to her side, propped her head up with one hand, and looked at Zhang Yuan with interest. "How did you notice as soon as I opened my eyes?"

"Because every day I wait until you fall asleep before I go to sleep."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's answer, Liu Ruyan was a bit stunned.

Every day after lying down, she fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. She had no idea that Zhang Yuan beside her would wait until she fell asleep before going to sleep.

If it weren't for the fact that it was too noisy outside today, Liu Ruyan thought she probably still wouldn't know this.

Liu Ruyan didn't say anything for a while. Suddenly, Zhang Yuan leaned closer, and their faces were suddenly very close.

"Why aren't you talking? I watch over you every day until you fall asleep. Aren't you touched?"

Suddenly hearing this, Liu Ruyan couldn't help but burst out laughing. "I dare not move, I dare not move!"

It was so funny that Liu Ruyan's body shook with laughter, and she directly lay on Zhang Yuan's body.

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and gently patted Liu Ruyan's back. Feeling her body trembling slightly, he said seriously, "Even if you're touched, you don't need to cry. Be good!"

Liu Ruyan, "..."

Liu Ruyan reached out and tickled Zhang Yuan's armpit. "Stop talking nonsense."

She was clearly laughing. How could it be crying in his mouth?

But after Liu Ruyan tickled for a while, Zhang Yuan didn't show any reaction.

Just as she was wondering, she heard Zhang Yuan laughing softly. "It's you who's ticklish, not me."

Before Liu Ruyan could say anything, Zhang Yuan, who was being pressed down by her, turned over, put his arm around her shoulder, and made her lie flat on the bed.

"I remember you have earplugs. Take them out and put them on. I'll coax you to sleep."

Liu Ruyan took out the earplugs, put them on for herself and Zhang Yuan, smiled at Zhang Yuan, and then slowly closed her eyes.

The earplugs were quite expensive when she bought them. Unexpectedly, they really worked well.

After putting them on, not only could she not hear the noise from the neighbors on both sides, but she couldn't even hear Zhang Yuan's breathing, which was so close.

When Liu Ruyan opened her eyes again, it was already the next morning.

She was alone in bed. Zhang Yuan was nowhere to be seen.

As soon as Liu Ruyan sat up, she saw Zhang Yuan push the bedroom door open and come in.

"I just went to the courtyard to take a look. The ground hasn't completely solidified yet, and some bugs crawled out. I killed them all."

The situation Zhang Yuan described was something they had expected before.

Liu Ruyan also got out of bed. "There's still some sand and cement left. We'll fill the holes later."

After having breakfast, the two of them went to the courtyard together.

There were still quite a few holes on the cement floor, some big and some small.

If someone with trypophobia saw this, they probably couldn't stand it.

Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan expressionlessly repeated what they had done yesterday.

Sprinkle insecticide powder into the holes and fill the holes with cement.

By the time they finished everything, the whole morning had passed.

There were really a lot of holes, and it was too troublesome to fill them.

Just as Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan finished their work and returned to the house to wash their hands and faces, Zhang Yuan's phone rang.

Zhang Yuan picked up the phone, took a look, and then handed it to Liu Ruyan. "Take a look."

Liu Ruyan took the phone and saw that the screen showed the chat box with Kong Rui.

Kong Rui had sent quite a few pictures in a row. Just one glance could make people feel uncomfortable with trypophobia.

Each photo was taken in a different place. Some were of the ground in the base, some were of a dark cave, and some were of plants covered with bugs.

Liu Ruyan expressionlessly looked through these pictures and thought she could have a vegetarian meal again at noon.

Kong Rui also sent a paragraph of text below. The general idea was that there were bugs everywhere, both inside and outside the base.

No one knew how many insect eggs were hidden in the ground. Now that the temperature had risen, all these bugs had emerged from underground.

The loss in the plantation was heavy, and it was doomed to have no harvest.

Not only the plantation, but the orchard was the same.

Many bugs ate plants, and overnight, they had eaten up most of the two gardens.

The remaining ones were not worth saving, and they couldn't be saved either.

The situation in the breeding farm wasn't much better. The bugs crawled onto the poultry and gnawed at them. Some poultry died quickly, and the remaining ones were half - dead.

If it was just about death, it would be simple. But looking at the current situation, it was very likely to cause an epidemic.

After all, with so many types of bugs, no one knew what viruses they were carrying.

The insecticides in the base supermarket had been snapped up.

But even so, the number of bugs that could be killed was limited.

The researchers were already working on a new type of insecticide, but it wouldn't be developed and mass - produced in a day or two.