Even the Abyss Wants a Wife 1

Chapter 1

“Emergency Notice from the Seventh Human Base: Due to the continuous expansion of the Abyss, the Seventh Homeland is facing a survival crisis. The higher-ups have decided to implement the city relocation plan.”

The relocation plan had been in preparation for a long time. Overnight, the Seventh Base became an empty city. Only a small flower demon in the corner outside the city wall was unaware, still waiting for his human friends to come and water and fertilize him every day.

But today, the little flower demon was wilting under the scorching sun, without a single drop of water.

“This is going to be the death of me.”

The wilted little white flower on the ground couldn’t bear it any longer. It transformed into a human form, pitifully hiding in the corner, weaving a small grass hat for itself, trying to block the scorching sun.

After the apocalypse arrived, in addition to the sudden mutation of animals and plants, the weather also became extremely extreme, making it even more difficult for normal flora and fauna, as well as ordinary humans, to survive.

Lin Ling had become a spirit by chance, but his essence was still an ordinary small flower. His roots were here, and even in human form, he could only move within a radius of one kilometer. He couldn’t even go to the nearest lake to water himself.

Wearing his grass hat, he climbed the high wall, trying to see what was going on in the city. The empty human base shocked him.

Lin Ling, who had previously relied entirely on humans to survive: …My heart is broken.

“What happened?”

As the little flower demon was wondering, a mutated three-headed parrot also landed on the city wall. It looked at Lin Ling, trying to answer the little beauty in front of it.

So, one head muttered the word “Abyss” in human language, the other head said “Devour,” and the middle head flapped its wings and screamed, “Run!!!”

The sudden rise in pitch startled the little flower demon.

“Abyss?”

This wasn’t the first time Lin Ling had heard this word, but at that time, he had just begun to learn human language and didn’t know what it meant.

But he instinctively felt that a new mutated creature must have moved in, a very scary one, that not only made his human friends evacuate the city overnight but also caused many other mutated creatures to flee.

Plants always received news the slowest, but now that survival was at stake, he had to go and see what was going on!

Day after day, is a flower even allowed to live?

When Lin Ling reached his one-kilometer limit, he could only see a huge, pitch-black hole in the distance.

The hole was still very far away, but it was so big that he couldn’t see the other side. Like the ocean, it connected with the horizon, so even from a distance, it was clearly visible.

Instantly, even though Lin Ling was just a small flower, he had a concrete concept of the word “Abyss.”

Limited by distance, Lin Ling couldn’t get any closer. He could only circle the Abyss, observing it from multiple angles, until he suddenly noticed a human figure appearing in the very center of the Abyss.

…A human?!

Was that a person living in the Abyss? So this was his new neighbor!

So this Abyss was just his neighbor’s house? How grand!

Lin Ling’s eyes lit up with envy. He waved and shouted at the figure, trying to get their attention.

“Hello—”

“Can you hear me?!”

The figure seemed to pause for a moment, then walked straight towards Lin Ling. In just a few blinks of an eye, the figure, as if teleporting, arrived in front of Lin Ling.

Mysterious, cold, and full of pressure, Lin Ling subconsciously took half a step back. However, he didn’t feel any malice from the man. On the contrary, there seemed to be a familiar feeling about him.

Especially that gaze, which seemed devoid of emotion when looking at anything else, showed a ripple when it landed on Lin Ling, emboldening him to approach and ask in human language, his eyes sparkling, “Are you the new neighbor who moved in? My name is Lin Ling.”

Seeing that the other party didn’t speak, but had a very tolerant attitude, Lin Ling went straight to the point. He stretched out his finger in front of the other party and said aggrievedly, “I don’t mean to drive you away, it’s just… since you moved in, no one has watered or fertilized me…”

“Look, my leaves are turning yellow.”

The man living in the Abyss wore a black robe. He lowered his eyes to look at the pale fingertips extended towards him. It was really hard to see the “yellowing,” but he knew Lin Ling should have leaves.

Shi Changyuan was silent for a moment, then turned around, faced the Abyss, and stretched out a hand. His fingertips moved slightly, as if searching for something in the air. Then, his wrist turned, palm up, and a small jar suddenly appeared in his hand.

He handed the small jar to Lin Ling.

Lin Ling didn’t quite understand, but obediently took the jar with both hands. There were no labels on the porcelain jar, but even before opening it, Lin Ling smelled the aroma of high-quality fertilizer.

Much, much, much better than any fertilizer any human had ever given him!

The little flower demon’s eyes immediately lit up. He held the jar of fertilizer and asked happily, “Is this a gift for me?!”

“You are such a nice person!”

“Thank you for the gift, new neighbor!”

In this era where most plants were mutated, nutrients in the soil were all about competition and plunder. Ordinary little flower demons couldn’t compete with those mutated monsters. Fortunately, the little flower was cute, and humans would fertilize him separately.

With this jar of high-quality fertilizer, he could definitely restore his tender green leaves!

Lin Ling held the jar of fertilizer in one arm and freed the other hand. Like magic, he flipped his wrist and, with a “whoosh,” conjured a small white flower.

Shi Changyuan looked at the thing in the young man’s hand. White petals, golden stamens, swaying in the wind, extremely cute.

“Here’s a little flower for you!” Lin Ling looked at him with curved eyebrows and eyes. He knew that for humans, giving flowers represented friendship.

Seeing that the man didn’t react for a long time, Lin Ling blinked, slightly retracting his outstretched hand, as if a little shy, “If… if you don’t like flowers, I don’t seem to have anything else to give you…”

After all, the other party had given him a jar of high-quality fertilizer, but he could only give back an ordinary, unknown flower, which didn’t even look as brightly colored as other flowers.

Before Lin Ling could finish his sentence, the man in front of him reached out and took the flower from his hand, his movements seeming very careful.

“I’m glad you like it~” Lin Ling immediately cheered up, feeling even more that his new neighbor was a very, very good person.

“Um… I have a small request, could you water me?”

Lin Ling’s voice was small, his face flushed, a little embarrassed as he explained, “I’m a little flower demon, but it hasn’t rained for many days, and my main body is almost withered.”

This small request seemed to stump the other party.

The little flower demon wanted water, but the Abyss had no water. Shi Changyuan thought for a moment, then fixed his gaze on the nearest lake to the west.

With a rustling sound, the large hole known as the Abyss came alive, rapidly expanding westward—

Wherever the pitch-black shadow passed, the mutated plants on the surface disappeared in an instant, the land becoming scorched as if corroded. Then, with a rumble, the surface collapsed downwards, becoming part of the Abyss.

In less than ten seconds, half of the nearest lake was swallowed, forming a neat break. But the water didn’t flow down this cliff to form a waterfall, as if someone had scooped out a piece of the land.

Lin Ling stared at the half-eaten lake, dumbfounded. The fertilizer in his hand fell to the ground. He quickly picked it up and turned to run—

Oh my god QAQ, my neighbor’s house seems to eat people!

No, he didn’t see it eating people, but it seemed to eat everything!!!

When Shi Changyuan turned around again with a pot of water in his hand, the little flower demon was gone. This made him a little confused, standing there at a loss.

Lin Ling hurriedly ran back to his little corner and hid. After all this commotion, he hadn’t had any water and had consumed a lot of energy.

He looked at the fertilizer in his hand, opened the lid. Inside was a transparent white paste with a fruity fragrance, very similar to the liquid nutrient solution developed by humans, convenient, practical, and more adapted to the apocalyptic environment.

So this is what the best fertilizer looks like!

Lin Ling meticulously dug out a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth to replenish energy and nutrients. His eyes immediately brightened—

What incredibly fragrant fertilizer!

It was a pity that the paste fertilizer couldn’t quench his thirst. The little flower demon felt his throat was still about to smoke.

It couldn’t quench his thirst, but it was a huge plus. Lin Ling decided to give a fair evaluation of his new neighbor. He thought the new neighbor was still very friendly, it was just that the house he lived in looked a little scary, and its destructive power was too great.

He had never seen any mutated creature that could cause such destruction.

No wonder his human friends were in such a hurry to move. After all, at the rate the Abyss was expanding, it would swallow the human base in just two days.

Should he also move as soon as possible?

As the little flower demon was worrying, he suddenly felt a coolness on his body.

He looked up. The scorching sun was still high in the sky, without a single cloud, but somehow, large drops of water were falling from the sky onto the earth.

Lin Ling was overjoyed and quickly controlled the roots of his main body, gulping down the moisture in the soil.

And he somehow found several small jars, quickly arranged them in a row on the ground to catch the water, and then “glug, glug, glug” poured it down his throat.

After drinking, the little flower demon held the jar, smacked his lips, and sighed, “I’m so lucky, but this rainwater tastes so familiar.”

How could it be exactly the same as the lake water humans used to water him with?

He looked up at the strange rain again, and suddenly thought of his new neighbor.

Lin Ling’s eyes widened.

…So, was his new neighbor watering him?