Chapter 178 Mutated Python

Lu Weiyi felt as if his worldview collapsed in an instant, and he just stood there in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.

The people in front immediately turned around in alert, and saw that Lu Weiyi's usually expressionless face had an expression similar to that of being frightened.

"No, nothing..." Lu Weiyi lowered his eyes and walked away. When they were a little further away, he asked Zhuang Mingxu, "Xu Sa and Liu Rui?"

"Well, maybe they all have some ambiguous feelings towards each other." There are only a dozen people in the team, and Zhuang Mingxu pays more attention than Lu Weiyi. All these things are happening under his nose.

This was not so difficult for him to accept. After all, Xu Sa and Liu Rui always thought of each other no matter what they did. He did not quite believe that there was nothing going on, but...

"Aren't Gu Qingyue and Gu Qingji brothers?" Being able to accept homosexuality doesn't mean he has no reservations about orthopedics.

"Oh," Zhuang Mingxu was helpless. Fortunately, the team members were very upright, otherwise, if they encountered such a powerful material storage warehouse that didn't care about anything, they would definitely eat him up without leaving anything. "They are a second-marriage family and have no blood relationship."

"Ah" Lu Weiyi thought they were relatives just by hearing their names?

"Besides, they are probably not together yet. Gu Qingji has that idea, but Gu Qingyue probably doesn't know it yet. They are close only because their parents died early, and they depend on each other and are used to being close." Zhuang Mingxu told Lu Weiyi the information he knew in detail.

"You should pay more attention to the situation of your team members and what happens in the future. When you leave Qingyuan City, they all recognize you and assume that you are half the captain. You must learn to be responsible for everyone's choices." Zhuang Mingxu whispered to Lu Weiyi and told him some experience in managing a team.

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More than ten minutes later, Lin Yimu caught up with the main force, and the group slowed down and left the Qingyuan city base.

Zhuang Mingxu has never left the base since he entered it. Looking at it now, the city wall that was several people high had blocked the zombies but failed to block the flood. The refugee camp outside the gate was now only mud washed over by the water, without even any trace of its existence. The collapsed city wall allowed a glimpse into the interior of the base, and the bustling crowd seemed to be just like yesterday.

Nothing works as planned.

Zhuang Mingxu sighed softly, put his arms around Lu Weiyi's neck, and looked towards the future.

Going upwards along the direction of the flood is not a road that everyone has taken, but anyone who leaves the base chooses to go directly away from the range of the flood.

This road was even more muddy and difficult to walk on, plus zombies kept running from the corners. At first, the few people would talk and communicate from time to time, but gradually they became numb in dealing with the zombies that came up to them. The only sounds left between them were the sound of stepping on the mud and the heavy breathing of a few ordinary people.

They seemed like the only survivors, wandering in this broken world. The atmosphere alone was extremely depressing.

In order to avoid encountering too many zombies, they took a route towards the suburbs. It was almost noon, and after six hours of non-stop travel, they had not yet left the urban area of ​​Qingyuan City. During this period, zombies kept coming, and they were even attacked by two groups of zombies. The competition of superpowers left most of the people present injured.

"Let's find a place to rest and eat?" Zhuang Mingxu said as he wiped the sweat off Lu Weiyi's forehead.

"Yeah." Lu Weiyi controlled the little green branch to strangle the necks of several zombies that surrounded him, and collected the crystal cores. He looked around, pointed to a second floor and said, "Let's go over there to rest."

Ordinary people were surrounded in the middle, those with special abilities were outside, and the team moved in an orderly manner. After cleaning up the zombies inside, Xi Shi and Lin Yimu were the first to sit down on the ground.

"Brother Damu, how are you?" Lu Weiyi put Zhuang Mingxu down, handed them a bottle of water, and asked Lin Yimu.

Both of them were ordinary people. After every hour, Xiong Jie would carry Xi Shi on his back for a while to let him relax. As for the other Dean, he almost grew on Antonio's back and didn't feel embarrassed at all. Lin Yimu, on the other hand, managed to hold on by himself.

It is easy to imagine how tiring it is for an ordinary person to keep up with a group of people with special powers.

"It's OK." Lin Yimu took a sip of water. He looked tired but had a smile on his face. He was full of energy. "It feels like I'm hiking cross-country in the army."

"I'm glad you're okay," Lu Weiyi said, taking out a box of water for the others to drink, and he and Li Zhuang went to patrol the surroundings.

After going back and forth between the upper and lower floors, Lu Weiyi took out the food that he had prepared in advance from the space.

After washing his hands, Li Zhuang sat down, gulped down a bottle of water, held a bun in his hand, and said, "We can't go on like this. Not only will it take too much time on the road, but if we encounter hundreds of zombies blocking us, we won't even be able to run away."

"That's what I was going to say," Zhuang Mingxu replied as he took out a map from his body. "Let's go west. There should be a road we can drive on after crossing this mountain. Let's turn around and take the road in front back to the Xiangning City base. Although it seems far, it will definitely be much faster than walking all the way like this. We will also have more energy, and even if we encounter a large-scale zombie, we will be able to deal with it. At worst, we can drive away."

Several people took a look at the map, and finally looked at Lu Weiyi in unison, as if to confirm what Zhuang Mingxu said, that since the moment they left the Qingyuan City base, everyone had vaguely regarded him as the leader.

Lu Weiyi had an indescribable feeling for a moment, as if there was an invisible pressure on his body. He carefully looked at Zhuang Mingxu's route, and finally nodded, "Then let's go directly after dinner, and try to cross this hill before night and spend the night in this village."

In December, the daytime temperature is like that of late winter and early spring, and at night it can drop to minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. Not to mention other threats, the temperature alone makes people afraid to spend the night outside.

Due to the unstable climate and the large temperature difference, most of the original trees could no longer adapt and completely dried up. What remained were either new buds that had grown in time or mutated plants.

Li Zhuang was exploring the way ahead. At least he didn't let everyone climb the mountain at a rapid pace. Instead, he found a small path in the mountains. It was rugged and difficult to walk on, but safer than the unclear dead trees and weeds.

In the jungle, there are fewer people and zombies, so naturally there are more of some things.

As the group was carefully watching their steps, Dean screamed, as if he was tripped by something. Antonio, who was following closely beside him, hurried to help him, but failed to catch him. Dean moved one meter away in a flash and stood in the air.

"What?"

"It's... a snake."

The person who answered had a tone of disbelief in his voice. He looked up and saw a snake as thick as a child's arm wrapped around Dean, strangling him tightly, but fortunately it didn't strangle his neck directly.

Dean was so scared that he looked at Antonio with horror. He wanted to say something, but was afraid of disturbing him, so he could only shed tears silently. Beside him, a snake head as big as a football was staring at them fiercely.

The dry grass around them seemed to come alive in an instant, and with a rustling sound, the group quickly formed a circle of defense.

"There's one here too," Xu Sa said in a low voice.

"Also" is Li Zhuang's voice.

"Yes" Wu Yue's voice.

…

After reporting one by one, there were nine snakeheads that were seen, not including those that might have been seen in the field.

"This is a fucking snake's den," Ning Yuan cursed in a low voice.

"Vipers are extremely poisonous. They will only become stronger after mutation. Be careful and don't get bitten." Li Zhuang's voice sounded again.

"Dean can't hold on any longer, I'm going to take action," Antonio reminded, calmly and coolly, a look that was more in line with his image.

Lu Weiyi was focused on protecting the surroundings while carrying Zhuang Mingxu on his back. In addition, because he recognized Li Zhuang's strength, he forgot to use his mental power to explore the environment.

He regretted his carelessness, and at the same time, he spread out his mental power and said, "There is another one behind Lu Xi that has not been exposed. Put up the mental power barrier. The others will face the ones in front of them. If you can't win, just delay time."

As Lu Weiyi gave the order, he tied the small green branch to the snake in front of him. At the same time, invisible mental blades chopped the tied snake into several forearm-long pieces from all directions.

Antonio's throwing knives also immediately attacked the snake that tied up Dean. When some of the throwing knives approached the snake's body, they instantly turned into invisible shields to separate Dean from the snake's head to prevent him from being bitten.

The other few swords cut towards the snake's head swiftly from all directions, making sure to cut off the snake's head with one strike.

At the moment the snake's head was attacked, the snake body that bound Dean suddenly loosened. Seeing that Dean was about to fall into the unknown bushes again, Lu Weiyi's little green branch directly dragged him over and placed him next to Lu Xi, where Lu Xi used his mental power to create a barrier of about one meter to protect Zhuang Aiyi from attack.

Then Lu Weiyi and Antonio quickly helped Bai Miao and Li Dongsheng, whose attack power was not strong, to deal with the ones in front of them, and the other people also dealt with the mutant snakes in front of them.

The surroundings returned to silence for a while, and a dozen people still remained vigilant.

"The severed snake head can still bite people, so be careful," said Zhuang Mingxu.

"Yes," Lu Weiyi responded, "Liu Rui, burn this patch of vegetation."

A fire dragon quickly emerged and formed a wall of water around Ning Yuan to protect the group of people. The raging fire burned the weeds around them, revealing the three-meter-long khaki mutant snake body that was hunted underneath.

As the burning weeds spread, Liu Rui retracted his supernatural power, and Ningyuan's rain curtain fell at the right time. A cloud of green smoke covered the ground, and the flames were completely extinguished along with a slight smell of meat.

"Dean, how are you? Are you hurt anywhere?" Lu Weiyi looked at Dean who was held in Antonio's arms.

Dean shook his head and wiped away his tears embarrassedly, "No, I was scared."

After saying that, he patted Antonio, who was also frightened and hugged him tightly, and said, "David, I'm fine. Um, I smell meat. Can I eat this?"

Although it was a deliberate change of subject, it helped Antonio to ease his emotions a little.