Chapter 161 A sudden drop in temperature

"You are all women?" Lu Weiyi had never heard of such a team in his previous life. When he saw it with his own eyes, he was a little surprised for a moment.

"Yes, it's just the opposite of your team. The women in our team all have special abilities. They can do housework and cook, fight zombies and collect supplies. If your team is short of girlfriends, we can hold a social gathering?" A short-haired woman next to Song Li said generously.

The half-joking remark immediately dissipated the somewhat confrontational atmosphere, and the men all laughed and started chatting. With the map in hand, Lu Weiyi led a few people in without having to explore the way.

This small food wholesale market is located in an area that is not considered central in Qingyuan City. It is somewhat backward compared to the central circle, covering an area of ​​several thousand square meters. It is composed entirely of small rooms on the first floor, each with an area of ​​no more than 100 square meters. It is a place where some small business owners in the entire city wholesale snacks. Although the supplies are scattered, they are all kinds of food. It is very far-sighted for the Ji family to occupy this place for themselves.

Lin Yimu drove the truck and Lu Weiyi led his men in. Every time they passed a place, they transferred all the supplies to the truck. There was no need for manpower and the speed was dozens of times faster. The rest of the people who followed were mainly to defend against unexpected situations.

Outside the door, the people led by Song Li started chatting lively with the only team left behind, which made Ji Jin and the dozen or so people behind him look like they were excluded. However, Ji Jin's confident look made the others feel relieved.

Before he could relax, he heard a sudden scream from inside. Wu Yue raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Could it be yours?"

"How is that possible?" Song Li smiled and glanced at Ji Jin.

Then someone behind Ji Jin said to him, "Captain, it's Lao Li's voice. He is inside with five people. We..."

Ji Jin took a few steps forward and prepared to lead people in, but Antonio, who was standing casually at the door, waved his hand and a row of flying knives appeared, with the tips pointing at the people who wanted to get closer. As long as they continued to get closer, the knives would mercilessly stab them into sieves.

The air was silent for a moment. The people on Song Li's side were thankful that they did not confront them head-on, while Ji Jin was startled and started to curse, "Do you know who I am? I'm telling you, hurry up..."

Before he could finish his words, Ji Jin was kicked back several steps with a loud bang and fell to the ground. Antonio picked his ears and retracted his foot as if nothing had happened.

Song Li was completely relieved now. With such a commotion, Lu Weiyi would definitely not share the supplies with Ji Jin. Not to mention that none of the people under him looked easy to get along with. Even if so many supplies were shared, they would probably not accept it.

"team leader……"

"team leader……"

Several people came over and helped Ji Jin stand up. Seeing that he was not seriously injured, they began to worry about the supplies. "You...brother, will you give us the supplies?"

"..." Ji Jin was in so much pain that she covered her stomach and wanted to scream, but Antonio looked at her coldly and she didn't say a word.

In less than an hour, Lu Weiyi drove out with a truck full of supplies.

"Lu Weiyi, where are my people? What did you do to my people?" Ji Jin asked.

From five in the morning till now, Lu Weiyi has consumed the most energy. After all, he was the one who was working when collecting supplies. Especially when it rained occasionally, he had to use his supernatural powers to explore the way. He was hungry and tired at this time. When he heard Ji Jin's shouting, he ignored her and went straight to the second floor.

"The young master is tired and needs to rest first. You guys take care of the rest. I'll go prepare the meal." After Lin Yimu finished speaking, he glanced coldly at Ji Jin, who was angry and wanted to continue shouting, "Don't let these disgusting things affect the young master's rest."

"Tsk." Antonio chuckled, looked at Ji Jin with one corner of his mouth raised, pressed his hands against each other, and the joints made a crackling sound. Ji Jin looked at him warily, took a few steps back, and spat out the words that had come out.

"We'll stay next door tonight. Please take good care of us, Brother Wu Yue." Song Li was relieved to see Ji Jin's expression. She didn't continue chatting with them. After she finished speaking, she took people to clean up a place for a temporary rest.

Ji Jin and his group waited until everyone had dispersed before they hurried back to the market to look for their missing people. More than half an hour later, they finally found five people in a corner who had obviously been beaten. Fortunately, they were not very cruel and only suffered minor injuries.

This was enough to make Ji Jin feel very uncomfortable. Seeing that the dozen people following him obviously had some opinions about him, he simply waved his hand and immediately took people back to the base to ask the old man to come forward.

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In the middle of the night, several people sleeping on the floor in the living room woke up first.

"Is the temperature dropping again?" Shen Xing got up sleepily wrapped in the quilt. He shivered and looked at Xu Sa and Liu Rui who were keeping watch at the window.

"Uh... I don't feel anything. It's been like this lately." The temperature in the middle of the night would drop to around below zero during this period. The people on night watch were all wrapped in down jackets, and the two psychics were not particularly sensitive to weather changes.

"Yes... the temperature has... dropped." Liu Rui exhaled a breath of white air and pointed to a low spot on the first floor where ice had accumulated after the rain. "It's... frozen."

"It's just a little past one and the temperature is so high..." Xiong Jie yawned, crawled up wrapped in the quilt, took two steps towards the window, sneezed, and shrank back, "Why does it feel so cold like winter?"

"It's almost December, isn't it winter?" Wu Yue was also woken up by the cold, and stood up and said, "I'll go see if Lu Weiyi is awake and get two quilts."

There is no glass in the windows here, so people will notice the drop in temperature immediately, but it is not so good in the base.

Zhuang Mingxu didn't realize something was wrong until Lu Xi came and knocked on the door to ask for a thick quilt. His body temperature was low after he was injured, and Lu Weiyi always gave him a thick quilt at night, so the change in temperature was not particularly obvious to him.

"Is it cold outside?" Zhuang Mingxu asked while sitting on the bed and letting Lu Xi get a thick quilt from the cabinet.

"It's so cold that I feel like someone could be frozen to death." Lu Xi was awakened by Zhuang Aiyi's icy body temperature and only then did he notice the change in the weather.

So cold? Zhuang Mingxu hesitated for a moment, put on his clothes, got out of bed, pushed his wheelchair out of the room, and as soon as he left the bedroom, he could smell the cold air in the living room.

"Brother Mingxu?" Lu Xi saw him pushing the wheelchair and preparing to go out and asked, "What do you want? I'll get it."

"I'll just take a look." As Zhuang Mingxu opened the door, a gust of cold air hit him in the face. He coughed twice in irritation and turned around and said, "Wake up everyone at home and put on thick clothes. We have to harvest the potatoes and sweet potatoes planted in the field as soon as possible."

"Now?" Lu Xi glanced at the still dark sky outside.

"Yes." Zhuang Mingxu even postponed his leg treatment for this batch of things. Naturally, he was concerned about it and found out that one could freeze to death if the temperature was too low. He had been fiddling with it for almost three months and was unwilling to leave it alone.

Although they can still be eaten after being frozen, these are for seeds, and they don't have much, so they can't afford to waste them.

"Okay." Lu Xi didn't ask any more questions and ran to call for help.

There were only Xishi Baimiao, Dean and Zhuang Aiyi at home. After Lu Xi took a look around, he called the three adults up and wrapped Zhuang Aiyi tightly and brought him down.

When they heard that they had to harvest the potatoes overnight, no one said anything. Dean drove and several people hurried to the green community. After calling up all the psychics and ordinary people who were attached to the team, Zhuang Mingxu also borrowed a few earth-type psychics from the military.

With the presence of several earth-related mutants, the soil turning process was sped up several times. The others were only responsible for picking up the turned-out potatoes and carrying them back to the room.

Dozens of people worked until morning and finally got everything back, and the temperature had risen by then.

"Try using your supernatural powers to see if any of the potatoes are frozen." When Zhuang Mingxu arrived, he had already seen a thin layer of ice on the potato stems and leaves. Now that the ice had melted, some of the tender leaves had already shown obvious signs of being frozen.

Bai Miao nodded, walked forward and glanced at a few potatoes, pursed his lips and nodded, "They are frozen... a lot of them." At least half of the dozen or so he checked were rotten. It doesn't affect their eating, but they definitely can't be planted again.

"Take someone to check, carefully pick out the ones that are not spoiled and keep them, and use the others for cooking." Zhuang Mingxu pinched his brows, feeling a little powerless for a moment.

Failure is very common in the business world, and Zhuang Mingxu has experienced it more than once. However, this was the first time he had to manage logistics after his leg injury. Zhuang Mingxu wanted to gain a foothold in the team through this, but the sudden weather completely disrupted his plans.

With the help of the wood-type mutant, the potato harvest from one acre of land is at least double that of normal land. In such a small space, at least tens of thousands of kilograms of potatoes are harvested and piled up in a large area under the greenhouse.

Bai Miao and a few people with special abilities checked one by one, and a few ordinary people followed behind them with baskets, picking out frozen potatoes from time to time.

After an hour, everything was processed. The taste of the frozen ones was more than three times that of the intact ones. Looking at the two clearly separated portions of potatoes, Zhuang Mingxu was speechless for a moment.

When Zhuang Mingxu was planting potatoes, someone asked him about it. He clearly told everyone that they were used to preserve seeds. At this time, most people knew what was happening, but since they were hired, they naturally would not express their opinions. There were only one or two people who felt that they were different.

Yun Lu carried a small basket and went to pick potatoes for cooking. She said to herself, "So many potatoes are frozen. They definitely can't be planted. If they had been harvested earlier, this wouldn't have happened."

What she said was the truth. Even if it was one day earlier, there might not be any problem. At that time, Zhuang Mingxu was only thinking about what Lu Weiyi said that the growth cycle needed half of the normal one, and thought of planting a few more days to be safe. But no one expected the sudden drop in temperature without any warning.

In theory, this is a natural disaster and no one can be blamed, but when it really happens, the person in charge will inevitably suffer undue consequences.

Zhuang Mingxu felt tired and didn't want to say a word. He asked Bai Miao to pack up and prepared to go back.