The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer

Chapter 1: Rebirth

Xie Sen ate vegetables and fruits all day long. He hadn’t eaten meat for a long time.

This was no good! Xie Sen finished eating a baked potato and looked out through the door with a face of vegetables. Outside the door, it was so quiet that he could only hear his own breathing.

He lay on the backside of the door from dawn to dusk. The quiet outside the door gave him a great sense of security, so the next morning he strengthened his heart, opened the door, and with the fastest speed, he ran to the pond two hundred meters away.

It took him a long time to catch a fish. But when he was walking back with it, a pale, bloodless humanoid zombie and a giant zombie dog suddenly flashed out of the grove on his right. He was so scared that he held the fish tightly.

Then, he began to run frantically. As he ran he used his System’s Plant to attack, but he hadn’t encountered a real human for a long time. He was low on energy, and the System was soon out of action.

A fishy smell came over him. He stared at the bloodied maw of the zombie dog that held his fingertips, and was unable to restrain himself from shouting out.

“Ah!”

“Beep, beep, beep…”

The mournful scream activated the quiet alarms in the room. Xie Sen, dizzy from the sound of his own voice, sat up in the hospital bed like a spring.

Xie Sen held his head, full of heavy vertigo. His eyebrows wrinkled into a Chinese character, and his body stiffened as his eyes swept across the ward.

Where was this place? Wasn’t he eaten by a zombie dog? The dream he just had was exactly the same as the real situation. He took his hand off his head and repeatedly looked at his palm, which was white and slender and beautiful. Where did the wound he got two days ago while planting go?

The room’s door, located on the left-hand side, was pushed open and a man in white came in. He asked as he turned off the alarm that kept ringing at the head of the bed. “Hey, you’re awake! How are you feeling? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?” 

Seeing the man’s dress, and the style of the room, Xie Sen was sure that this was a hospital ward.

The sound of the machine stopped. He felt a lot more comfortable. He smiled at the doctor, and asked the question at the top of his mind, “Is this the new base? The situation was so dangerous, I thought I would die for sure. Who saved me? I must thank him properly.”

He couldn’t hide the surprise in his eyes, since he knew that the environment was extremely harsh for human survival after the end of the world. This ward was even bigger than the ward before the apocalypse, and the equipment looked very advanced, so he could just imagine how powerful this base was.

The doctor handed Xie Sen a headset-type measuring device. He was surprised by his words, “Didn’t you try to kill yourself on purpose?”

Xie Sen, “Nonsense. I just wanted to eat fish.”

The doctor gazed at him with a complicated face, and shook his head with compassionate eyes. “What a good boy. Looking at you, you’ve never told a lie, right?”

Xie Sen, “…I’m telling the truth.”

The doctor looked at him with amusement. “No one will believe that explanation.”

He saw that Xie Sen hadn’t taken the measuring device, so the doctor simply reached out, and put it on him. Xie Sen subconsciously ducked. “What is this?”

“You fell from a high place. Although you didn’t endanger your life by landing in the water, your brain suffered a strong concussion. This is a brain meter.” The doctor said. With a slight force he put the instrument on him, and flipped the switch.