Zhan Xi, although he would often dote on the little child, sometimes he would find him too infuriating, and it’s just impossible not to discipline him.
Being spoiled, the little child had been spanked since he was young.
Lele, following Dad Ningning’s words, reflexively touched his own bottom with his little hand.
Although Mom always locked him in the room and sometimes said things that made him sad when she’s not in a good mood, even smashing things in the room, she had never hit him.
Lele had never been spanked until now.
With a serious expression on his chubby face, Ningning didn’t neglect Lele at all, even though time was pressing.
One time, he stuck his hand into the socket that his dad had plugged in, his dad noticed, and in his urgency, he didn’t even bother with making dinner. He picked him up and gave him a thorough spanking.
Even before getting shocked, the little child, who was first spanked by his dad and cried, alarmed the neighbors with his crying.
The neighbors always felt sorry for the little child and rushed over to speak up for him when they saw this.
But when Zhan Xi pointed at the electricity and explained the reason for spanking the little child, the adults who were originally feeling sorry for the child all turned to Dad’s side.
Even Uncle Ling Qi cut off his snacks for several days because of this incident.
Now Lele wanted to run back to the forest to feed those bugs. It’s a similar situation to when he stuck his hand in the electrical socket back then.
“Since your Grandpa Zhan Xi is not here, I’ll spank you on behalf of Grandpa Zhan Xi.”
The little child said, and then he spanked Lele’s bottom several times.
After the spanking, Lele buried his face in Wagner’s arms with sobs, and this time he didn’t say anything about wanting to go back to find bugs.
Savi originally wanted to stop it, but seeing how effective spanking was, he shut up on the spot.
Having resolved the serious issue of Lele wanting to run back, several children started to think of ways to shake off the bugs.
“We need to make a call!”
The children had just sat down to rest. They regained some strength and then continued to run towards the spaceship that brought them here.
The teachers kept their star devices before entering the forest today, and now that the teachers hadn’t come out, they couldn’t get their star devices back.
But there was communication equipment on the spaceship, so as long as they returned to the spaceship that brought them, they could contact the adults outside.
After running for who knew how long, Lele raised his finger and pointed the way, “There.”
Following Lele’s direction, several children indeed found the spaceship.
Upon seeing the spaceship, all the children were stunned.
Their spaceship was enveloped in a layer of fine white cocoon. Ningning, who had studied about the Zerg race early on, along with Wagner and Savi, recognized what this cocoon was.
It was the cocoon of the Zerg race.
Such a large cocoon could only be produced by a massive Zerg queen.
Savi’s face turned grim. “If there’s a queen here, there will be many, many Zergs.”
While the children were not always attentive in other classes, they took the Zerg race classes seriously. For some reason, Dad and Uncle Lu Lu always insisted on him attending numerous lessons about Zergs.
“This is different from the Zerg queen we learned about in class.”
The little child keenly observed that something was amiss. He felt that this cocoon was different from those they had studied.
“Wagner, the Zergs here are not the same species as those outside.”
Ningning’s brain was spinning rapidly. He knew these Zergs were different from those outside, but the current situation wasn’t the time for him to analyze.
“Wagner, let’s go.”
Since they couldn’t enter the spaceship, they needed to find another place.
With no spaceship, the children, carrying only small backpacks, were dirty and exhausted.
“Ningning, we need to find a place to sleep.”
It was getting dark, and it would be dangerous for them to stay outside.
The once-loved ancient Earth environment had now become a frightening place for the children.
“Let’s find a place to sleep together.”
With a strong sense of crisis, the alert children, leading Lele, began searching for a place to take refuge.
No teachers were around, no other children, and no adults to be found.
They could only rely on themselves now. Lele held onto Dad Ningning’s hand tightly and followed him in search of a safe place.
The sky grew darker.
After searching for a while, the children only found an abandoned basement. Due to its dilapidation and being upwind, no one, and no Zergs, had entered.
All the children squeezed inside.
A group of children, who hadn’t changed clothes, huddled together tightly.
“Lele, are you hungry?”
The little child in front, pulling his backpack, spoke in a lowered tone to Lele, “I found something for you to eat!”
Although Lele had a small appetite, after a big scare and skipping dinner, he was a bit hungry now.
Finally, hearing Lele admitting hunger, the little child joyfully opened his backpack, revealing small fish, shrimp, and some visibly fat insects that had met their demise. Lele was shocked on the spot.
“Lele, these insects aren’t from the Zerg race. They’re quite tasty, crunchy!”
The little child had roasted these insects during the day and found them delicious, so he specially saved some for Lele.
Seeing the contents of the backpack, Savi couldn’t hide his disappointment. “Forget about the fish and shrimp. Can you really eat these insects?!”
“Absolutely.”
The little child proudly puffed his chest. “Wagner and I tried them; we didn’t die!”
They ate them and survived, indicating that the insects weren’t poisonous.
“Wagner, keep an eye on Lele.”
After saying this, the child patted Savi on the shoulder. “Come with me to gather firewood.”
It was too cold here, and even if the four children huddled together, they might freeze to death. The top priority now was to discreetly create some warmth.
Savi, despite his bad temper, obediently followed.
The two children quietly approached the surroundings, picked up some burnable items, filled their backpacks, and then returned.
Upon their return, Ningning crawled to a leaky spot and personally sealed it with the paper they had found.
After completing all this, Ningning, now even dirtier, climbed back to cook and roast insects for everyone.
The little food in his backpack became even scarcer after roasting. In the past, this amount would barely qualify as a snack for him.
However, the starving little child, after dividing the food into four portions, tore off half of his roasted insects and fed them to Lele.
Lele was afraid of insects and initially hesitated to open his mouth and eat.
The little child, fearing he would starve, had him close his eyes and then fed him the bugs by placing them in his mouth.
Lele: “...”
Lele held back tears, and he didn’t dare to chew, so he directly swallowed the bug.
Seeing him swallow the bug, the dirty little faces of the children broke into smiles.
The four children moved to another place in the middle of the night.
Except for Lele, the other three children took turns keeping watch.
When it was midnight, the keen Ningning sensed an unusual situation and decisively led the other children to run away.
The entire night, they played hide and seek from east to west.
From late night until daytime.
