Even the Abyss Wants a Wife 16

Chapter 16

“What kind of love is that?”

The Abyss really didn’t know, so he looked at Little Flower’s eyes questioningly, trying to get an answer, but Little Flower, having laughed enough, guiltily looked away.

“Oh, I don’t know either.”

Lin Ling’s face was flushed. He buried his face in Shi Changyuan’s arms, rolling around and acting spoiled, as if he wouldn’t say anything even if asked again.

If the Abyss knew about these things, Little Flower would change from a small white flower to a small yellow flower in the Abyss’s eyes.

Shi Changyuan looked at Lin Ling lying on his lap, reached out to block the dazzling sunlight for Little Flower, his lips moved, as if he still wanted to say something, but the domineering Little Flower grabbed Shi Changyuan’s collar and covered his mouth.

“It’s all useless knowledge, you’re not allowed to ask anymore!”

The domineering Little Flower said fiercely.

Ever since Lin Ling learned that he was the Abyss’s seed, not only had the Abyss become unscrupulous, hugging and clinging whenever he wanted, but Little Flower had also become more spoiled and learned to be unreasonable.

Little Flower thought to himself for a while, then analyzed their relationship based on human social relationships, and finally picked and chose from human relationships, finding one that could apply to him and the Abyss.

Lin Ling moved the Abyss from the initial position of “neighbor” to “good friend,” and now to “older brother.”

Living in the same pit, weren’t they family?

Faced with Little Flower’s bold behavior, Shi Changyuan just looked down quietly and waited for Little Flower to retract his hand.

Sure enough, under Shi Changyuan’s gaze, Little Flower always couldn’t resist. He hesitantly withdrew his hand, hiding it behind his back and unconsciously curling it up.

“Anyway, I won’t harm you!” Little Flower said seriously, “Once the evil knowledge of humans enters the brain, both Little Flower and the Abyss will become strange!”

“So you must not ask again, and don’t mention it again!”

Although Shi Changyuan didn’t understand, seeing Lin Ling’s serious attitude, he nodded solemnly.

Seeing the Abyss agree, Little Flower laid back down with peace of mind, basking in the sun with him.

But the sun only appeared for less than two hours before dark clouds gathered again, and it looked like another rainstorm was coming.

“Okay, let’s go home!” Lin Ling stood up, watching Shi Changyuan pick up the little flower’s main body again, then looked at the information and mechanical equipment airdropped by the humans.

“Do we need to take these back too?” Lin Ling looked at the device that was said to be able to simulate the sun in the Abyss, allowing Little Flower to photosynthesize, and felt a little tempted.

Most plants liked to bask in the sun; it made them feel warm all over, replenished their energy, and made them stronger.

“If Ling Ling likes it, let’s take it back,” Shi Changyuan answered almost without thinking.

“Yay!” Little Flower immediately carried the device back and almost immediately turned it on to try it out.

The device could not only simulate sunlight, allowing Little Flower to photosynthesize, but it also had different seasonal adjustments. Whether it was the warm spring sun or the scorching summer sun, it could simulate them all.

He had to admit, human creativity was truly powerful.

Little Flower, enjoying the sunbath created for him by humans, suddenly remembered an old saying, “One doesn’t bite the hand that feeds them.” He thought for a moment and decided to give the humans some gifts in return.

“Do you think there’s a faster way for humans to get through this rainy season?”

“Hm?” The Abyss, hearing Little Flower’s words, immediately understood what he meant. He said thoughtfully, “The rainy season can’t be shortened, but it’s almost halfway over.”

“After the rainy season ends, the time humans spend on post-disaster reconstruction will be even longer.”

Lin Ling didn’t quite understand this and couldn’t think of a better way. After all, in the face of disaster, he was just a pitiful, weak, and helpless flower. He sighed, “Okay…”

But before Little Flower could finish, he heard the Abyss continue, “But there is a way if Ling Ling wants to help them, but the little white flowers will be submerged.”

The Abyss only mentioned it, but Lin Ling seemed to be seriously considering the feasibility. He hesitated and struggled, then finally said hesitantly, “Sh-should we help them?”

After saying this, Lin Ling immediately grabbed Shi Changyuan’s sleeve and said coquettishly, “Let’s help them, and then they can clean up quickly and set up their stalls sooner.”

“Then we can go buy batteries and light up the star lights!”

Shi Changyuan looked at Little Flower holding his hand, and finally said, “Okay.”

…

Then, the humans suddenly discovered that the floodwaters were receding much faster, almost at a speed visible to the naked eye every hour.

As long as the rainfall couldn’t keep up with the drainage speed, then this rainy season would only be a rainy season, not a flood or waterlogging disaster.

Helicopters searched around, hoping to find the savior who had suddenly appeared to resolve this disaster. They followed the flow of the floodwaters, and to their astonishment, they found it was the Abyss.

The Abyss was now submerged by the floodwaters, the black land covered with small white flowers completely submerged. As the helicopter passed by, they didn’t even notice that they had flown into the Abyss’s territory until they saw a giant sinkhole, constantly devouring the incoming floodwaters.

The water surged and fell into the giant pit of the Abyss, without a single echo.

It was like a drain that would never clog. With a little time, it could drain everything.

“What’s going on?”

The base’s top management watched the video sent back by the helicopter, all feeling incredulous, “Team Leader Mo, what did you do again?!”

Mo Cheng hadn’t expected the Abyss to help out so much. She had never thought that the Abyss would give up its own interests.

After all, the basis of their cooperation with the Abyss was that there was no conflict of interest. Mo Cheng guessed that it was probably because the conflict had been resolved, and the relationship with Little Flower had further developed, that this happened.

Mo Cheng didn’t know what had happened, but it was right to thank Little Flower.

“Ah, I finally feel like a rainy season disaster is happening—” Little Flower looked up, watching the floodwaters cascading down from the mouth of the Abyss, plunging into its depths.

During the previous heatwave, Lin Ling had felt the impact of high temperatures on plants, but since the Abyss found him during this rainy season, he had been completely unaffected.

“Is this what humans mean by a leaky roof?”

Little Flower sat on the bed, looking at the column of water, larger than the world’s largest waterfall, surrounding the edge of the Abyss sinkhole like a giant water curtain, forming a ring, dividing the Abyss into two parts.

At first, some strange debris would occasionally fall from outside the water curtain, but when Shi Changyuan realized it almost hit Little Flower, he used the black shadow to actively entangle and devour the debris before it fell.

So, when the water fell, it had become clear and clean, creating a rather spectacular and pleasing sight.

But only if this wasn’t Little Flower’s home.

Besides Monkey King, who would want to live in a Water Curtain Cave?! And the grass outside was completely submerged, covered with water. Little Flower didn’t even have a place to stand to bask in the sun.

“I’m a little bored.” Little Flower blinked, sat cross-legged on the bed, then clasped his hands together and prayed sincerely, “So please let the rainy season pass quickly! Please.”

Lin Ling seemed to feel that just praying wasn’t grand enough, so he rummaged through the Abyss space for some materials and handcrafted hundreds of teru teru bozu dolls.

“Okay, maybe I’m a little too bored.” Little Flower drew a cute smile on each teru teru bozu doll and even made a small broom for each of them to sweep away the rain.

Little Flower felt that he was truly full of sincerity!

Perhaps Little Flower’s prayers worked, the dark clouds in the sky soon dispersed, and then there were a few more heavy rains lasting about ten minutes each, but the intervals between them became longer and longer, until finally, there was no rain for two days.

Then the humans also returned to the base from the high mountains where they had taken shelter, cleaned up the base, and prepared to resume their normal lives.

“When can you accompany me to the city to find batteries?”

Lin Ling had also restored the Abyss to its original layout and replanted the grass outside.

The sea of white flowers had definitely been destroyed in the flood. To prevent Little Flower from feeling sad seeing the damage, Shi Changyuan simply devoured everything on the surface.

So when Lin Ling poked his head out of the Abyss, what he saw was the very familiar, bare black land. He just needed to plant it again.

“Ling Ling can go anytime.” Shi Changyuan looked at Lin Ling poking at the soil beside him, constantly planting small flowers, reached out, and picked him up.

“But you won’t go.” Even though he was picked up, he still looked unhappy.

Little Flower had discovered that the Abyss didn’t want to go to the human base, he would only wait for him outside the base, but he just wanted the Abyss to accompany him!

“There’s nothing for a flower like me to see, human bases all look the same.” Lin Ling said, then looked at Shi Changyuan, and said in a whiny tone,

“The first two times, there were only Sister Mo and the others in the Seventh Base, so it was okay for you to let me go alone, but now we’re going to other human bases. There are many people there, are you really going to let me go alone?”

Little Flower deliberately said, “Aren’t you afraid I’ll be abducted by bad humans?”

Lin Ling looked at the Abyss in front of him, stood up, and was about to imitate how bad humans could be for the unsuspecting Abyss, but before he could speak, the Abyss, who seemed to have imagined something in his mind, suddenly interrupted him.

“I’ll go with you.”

Hearing these words, Lin Ling’s eyes immediately curved into a smile.

“Yay! Let’s go together!” Little Flower jumped and wrapped his arms around Shi Changyuan’s neck. Shi Changyuan, afraid that Little Flower would fall, quickly reached out to support Little Flower’s thighs, one hand also supporting his waist.

This time, when Shi Changyuan and Lin Ling appeared at the gate of the Sixth Base, the base’s top brass froze, at a loss for what to do, not knowing whether to give a grand welcome or find a reason to pass the buck and let another base deal with the headache.

After all, that was the Abyss. If he wasn’t happy in the base, the more than 100,000 people in the Sixth Base might not be enough for him to swallow in one bite.

“Team Leader Mo, what should we do?” The base’s top brass thought for a moment, and finally decided to ask Mo Cheng, who understood the Abyss and the little flower demon best, for help.

“You don’t need to worry about them, just treat them as ordinary people, you can even pretend you don’t know,” Mo Cheng replied through the communicator, “They know their limits.”

“And, isn’t this a good opportunity? It depends on whether your base can seize it.”

As soon as Mo Cheng said that, the base’s top brass thought of the various plans they had made for the Abyss.

The top brass gritted their teeth and made up their minds: “…Okay! I’ll give it a try!”

Little Flower didn’t know about the base manager’s struggles and anxiety. He just thought that since the humans were cooperating with them, they definitely wouldn’t sound the alarm and drive them away again!

So Lin Ling, holding Shi Changyuan’s hand, tentatively stood at the gate of the base. The Sixth Base indeed didn’t react.

“Hey! You two at the back, move forward, don’t block the way, are you entering the city or not?” The human maintaining order at the city gate shouted.

“Yes! We’re entering the city, sorry.” Little Flower skillfully pulled Shi Changyuan to go through the various registration procedures, successfully blending into the Sixth Base.

After the rainy season, the human base seemed exceptionally prosperous, probably because the abundant water resources had relieved everyone who had endured the heatwave.

“Cupcakes! Freshly baked cupcakes—”

Little Flower, who had never been to the Sixth Base before, was looking around curiously when he heard a shout from the roadside. Following the sound, Lin Ling saw rows of pink, cute strawberry cupcakes.

“You can still make cakes now?” someone nearby asked.

“New product! Made with mutated wild mountain eggs and wild wheat flour, would you like to try some?”

As soon as the person spoke, the surrounding humans immediately dispersed.

It was a joke. After the wild chickens and wild wheat mutated, their eggs were as big as two footballs. No wonder they could make so many cakes, but humans still didn’t dare to eat these mutated things, for fear of turning into monsters themselves.

Humans didn’t dare to eat them, but Little Flower and the Abyss might.

Little Flower originally only liked fertilizer, because most of the food in the apocalypse was hard bread or bland millet porridge. This was the first time he had seen cupcakes, and their beautiful appearance alone made Lin Ling unable to move.

Seeing Little Flower, the person smiled, “Want a free taste? Guaranteed delicious! It’s just mutated ingredients, the experts haven’t said we can’t eat mutated things!”

Under the human’s persuasive words, Little Flower really took a small bite, and his eyes immediately lit up. Seeing that the sale was promising, the cake vendor promoted it even more vigorously.

But unfortunately, Little Flower didn’t have any Alliance currency, and the Abyss only had “waste paper” from before the apocalypse.

Lin Ling regretfully declined the cake vendor’s offer and continued walking, but after a few steps, this time it was the Abyss’s attention that was caught.

It was a tailor shop, with many beautiful design drafts posted in front, from clothes and pants to shoes and all kinds of skirts. It looked like a place for custom-made clothes.

“Hm? Do you want to buy clothes?” Little Flower glanced briefly and didn’t see anything wrong with the design drafts.

But he felt that this shop looked like a shady business. Not only was the lighting dim, making it look dark, but the design drafts and the actual items in the shop seemed to be somewhat inferior in quality.

Little Flower looked left and right, then retracted his gaze, not interested, and just quietly tugged at Shi Changyuan, whispering to the Abyss, who had never seen human trickery, not to be scammed.

“What can I get for you, customer?” The owner of the tailor shop came out to greet them.

But Shi Changyuan didn’t answer, just glanced around the small shop, then turned to leave.

“Don’t go, don’t go, you want custom-made clothes, right? If you’re not satisfied with those outside, I have other design drafts! Those outside are all censored, designs that have long lost their soul—”

The owner stopped the Abyss and Little Flower, looked at their faces and figures, and said excitedly, “I have a few other design drafts here, guaranteed to be suitable for you two!”

As he spoke, he rummaged around and muttered, “My most satisfying design drafts can’t be posted outside. It’s the apocalypse, and they’re still clinging to those old-fashioned rules.”

He took out a stack of his most prized design drafts and spread them out in front of the Abyss.

These drafts weren’t the flat drawings displayed outside, but colored ones, as if worn on models for a three-dimensional display.

But strangely, the models seemed to have been erased. There were no lines, no faces, not even outlines. Only the clothes, posed in various ways, with detailed wrinkles, remained on the drafts. But it was precisely this that sparked the imagination, tempting one to picture someone’s face on them.

Especially when those design drafts incorporated many animal elements, fluffy ears, tails, and various chains… the details of the clothing were displayed in some strange poses.

Those drawings stunned the Abyss in place, and he didn’t even notice Little Flower sneaking away.

“These are all my masterpieces!” The owner continued to promote his work, “You can imagine the wearer and see at a glance if the style suits them!”

As soon as the owner’s voice sounded, Shi Changyuan subconsciously filled in the missing figures in the design drafts with Lin Ling’s image…

With a “boom,” a new world opened up.

The Abyss’s ears burned, and he almost fled the shop in a panic.

A few seconds after the Abyss left, the tailor shop owner received a phone call. A roar came from the other end, “How did this pass the plan review?”

“Is this how you complete your mission?”

The owner was also angry, but very righteous, “What’s wrong with being sexy? Sexy is a treasure of humanity, a collection of wisdom, the essence of craftsmanship! No species is better at being sexy than humans. Isn’t this where humans are irreplaceable?”

While the Abyss was still in a daze, trying to shake those images out of his head, Little Flower had already returned from wandering around elsewhere.

He didn’t know what he had done, but he had gotten his hands on the cake from before and was happily eating a strawberry cupcake.

Shi Changyuan walked towards Little Flower, wanting to take him away from here, but now, whenever he saw Little Flower’s face, he couldn’t help but recall the design draft, that outfit.

He even uncontrollably thought that his Little Flower would look very beautiful in those clothes…

The Abyss paused, almost instantly averting his gaze in a panic.

He suddenly felt that Little Flower was right.

Once the evil knowledge of humans entered the brain, it was over—