Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 23 Nesting
The two men and the rat soon arrived at their destination, a small square about 100 meters away from the intersection.

There are several benches for people to rest. There is a forest area in front of the square. There is a road on the right side, but I don’t know where it leads to. There is a towering tree on the right side.

Although the trees next to them also looked huge in their eyes, they were still dwarfed by this tree.

However, their destination was not this tree, and the chipmunk stopped in front of the forest area.

"So, what exactly can I do to help you?" Lu Yuning looked at the dense forest in front of him and couldn't help but ask.

Xu Qi didn't keep the secret any longer and said, "The main thing is to help Xiao Jin's family build a new home."

"So that's how it is. Take me to see where its nest is first." Lu Yuning looked around.

"Yes~" Xu Qi pointed.

Lu Yuning followed the direction of her finger, and her expression gradually froze.

"Up there?!" He opened his mouth as he looked at the tree trunk that stretched straight to the sky.

"Well! Hold on tight, we're going up!" Xu Qi suddenly reminded him before he could react.

"Ah? Ah~" Lu Yuning's screams slowly disappeared into the sky.

It was the first time that Lu Yuning lost her composure like this. At Xu Qi's command, the chipmunk scurried up the tree.

Lu Yuning suddenly felt as if he was soaring into the sky, and his vision below quickly blurred, like a bottomless abyss!
His brain had already stopped working at this point, with only one thought in his mind: hold on!

He held the chipmunk's fur tightly with both hands, not daring to relax even a bit.

Fortunately, after a while, the dizzy feeling finally disappeared, and the chipmunk landed on a branch of the tree.

Lu Yuning slowly opened her eyes, but her hands were still tightly grasping the chipmunk's fur, and her palms were full of sweat.

He gasped for a long time, only to find Xu Qi looking at him with a smirk on his face.

"Hey, it's very dangerous, why are you still laughing?" Lu Yuning glared at her.

"No, Xiao Jin will catch you if you fall. Hehe, I thought you were always so emotionally stable and had a cool expression, but it turns out you can be scared sometimes." Xu Qi said with a smile, feeling a kind of malicious pleasure.

Lu Yuning wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling a little amused and helpless.

"chirp"

Lu Yuning was about to speak when he heard a few strange cries.

He looked past the chipmunk's body and followed the sound, and first saw a dark hole in the tree trunk.

Then I saw two chipmunk cubs in a tree hole.

The two looked about two or three times their size, and their fur had not yet fully grown. These must be Xiao Jin's cubs.

The two cubs knew that the rats had returned and were chirping.

"This family was attacked by something unknown before, and their nest was destroyed. Xiao Jin had to settle in this tree hole with its two cubs." Xu Qi explained.

"No wonder, this nest seems a little small." Lu Yuning nodded.

"Well, when I saw you making gauze before, it seemed like you could decompose objects. I wonder if you could help expand their home."

"Let's try it. This tree trunk is quite hard." Lu Yuning finally understood the whole story. He nodded and climbed down from the chipmunk.

He was still visibly nervous, though. From here, the depths seemed almost unfathomable. Lu Yuning's legs trembled as he gazed down at the scene below. Xu Qi, however, seemed accustomed to it, walking effortlessly on the tree branches.

The two of them followed the tree branches to the entrance of the cave. The two mice seemed to know that there were alien species. Their cries changed a little, and they seemed a little frightened.

The rat nudged them with its head, as if to comfort them.

Xu Qi lay quietly at the entrance of the cave, looking at the two baby mice in front of him, looking very fond of them.

Lu Yuning looked at their nest. The entrance looked very spacious, but the inside was a bit small.

A lot of leaves have been laid inside, and it looks warm and comfortable.

"Will it be enough to just expand it a little?" Lu Yuning asked.

"If possible, see if we can expand the nest to store food. This cave entrance is a little too big and can be easily discovered by natural enemies. It can be made narrower." Xu Qi stretched out his hand and gestured twice.

Well, it’s still a big job, Lu Yuning thought to himself.

He walked to the entrance of the cave, put his hand on the tree trunk, and with a slight thought, a piece of sawdust appeared in his hand.

The trunk is a bit hard. If it were a few days ago, there might not be anything we could do, but now it can be dealt with.

"Okay!" After trying it, Lu Yuning nodded to Xu Qi.

Xu Qi looked at his movements and opened her mouth slightly in surprise: "What kind of supernatural power do you have?"

Lu Yuning briefly explained his special abilities.

Since Xu Qi did not reveal the fact that they had superpowers to the people in the shelter, Lu Yuning had already trusted her more and simply did not hide it anymore.

"No wonder I thought the weapons and shields you were holding looked strange. It turns out you made them."

Lu Yuning nodded, but did not use the superpowers of the other people as well.

With Xu Qi's communication, the two of them successfully entered the cave. Rats are not that smart, and protecting their cubs is instinctive, so it is better to comfort them in advance.

The two of them watched in the cave for a while, and finally chose a location in the corner. Lu Yuning decided to dig out a storage room there.

An hour later, Lu Yuning frowned as he looked at the passage in front of him that was more than 10 centimeters long and slanted downward.

"What's wrong?" Xu Qi noticed his expression.

Lu Yuning shook his head and said, "This is a pretty large project. With my current abilities, I might not be able to finish it today. I'll probably have to come back tomorrow."

"I'm really sorry for taking up so much of your time. It's hard to survive these days, and I'm wasting your time doing this kind of thing." Xu Qi said apologetically.

"You have taken care of us for so long, these are nothing. I would feel bad if I didn't do something. I just hope that the beautiful lady will be polite when talking to me in the future. Ma Zhiqiang doesn't like me at all now." Lu Yuning touched his nose and reminded him.

Xu Qi was stunned. "Ah, you mean? No wonder he's like this. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I really didn't expect him to be so petty. He does have a weird personality, and I'm a little annoyed by him."

Xu Qi apologized sincerely.

Lu Yuning smiled and didn't mention it again.

"By the way, you said that there are five of you with awakened superpowers. I see four now, and there is still one left. Could it be that..." Lu Yuning suddenly remembered this and asked casually.

"Ah, no, no, she's still in the shelter. It's just that her abilities are rather strange and useless, so everyone just treats her as an ordinary person."

(End of this chapter)