Five years into the apocalypse, Zhuang Mingxu, the strongest ability user in the safe zone, was killed by his so-called “family.”
Lu Weiyi, who had been indifferent to everything for over...
Chapter 239 Granary
Lu Weiyi climbed onto the roof.
Not far away, a row of cars were speeding over. Various types of cars were loaded with people and supplies, regardless of gender. The last few cars were caught up and surrounded by zombies and were forced to stop. The screams of the crowd, the roars of the zombies, and the stimulation of the blood all increased the number of zombies.
Zombies came from all directions when they heard the sound. This was the only situation where the team had been hunting for a day and the number of zombies around had obviously decreased.
"They will come to us." Ning Yuan had just finished speaking when the leading car had already stopped not far from the gate. Then several men and women got out of the car and shouted at the people in the car behind to enter the yard.
The other people looked at Ning Yuan silently.
Ning Yuan jumped up and down, "We are the only high-rise building nearby, and it's late at night, and the lights in our house are on, which is almost telling everyone that there are people here, come and help us."
"Brother upstairs, can you help us? We will reward you," someone in the yard below shouted towards the roof.
Everyone in the team looked at Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi looked at the long queue of cars. The zombies were still trying their best to pull at the windows and even shook the car bodies.
"1000 crystal cores" Lu Weiyi casually said the price.
"Deal" is humane.
"There's an A-level one, be careful." Lu Weiyi raised his chin, and all the people in the room came out. They all jumped from the building, landed after a few jumps, and headed towards the convoy outside.
This made Xu Sa seem very steady and quite different from others as he walked.
Rescuing people and killing zombies at the same time, wave after wave of rescued people rushed into the yard. Xu Sa immediately asked about their well-being in a familiar manner. After nearly an hour, the zombies that were surrounding them were eliminated. When the large group returned, Xu Sa had almost grasped the intelligence.
The other party came from a small county town in Pingjin City. Before the apocalypse, it was a grain storage area of China Reserve Corporation. After the apocalypse, there was no shortage of food for the time being, so a small base was temporarily formed.
However, the people in the base generally do not have high superpowers. As the level of zombies becomes higher and higher, the base is attacked more and more frequently. The person in charge of the base contacted the Pingjin City Base and handed over some food in exchange for protection from the Pingjin City Base.
"Then why are you escaping in the middle of the night?" Ning Yuan asked.
Thousands of people were crowded on the third floor of the broken building, each with a dazed look as if they had just survived a calamity and had not yet reacted.
"The Pingjin base agreed, but before anyone arrived, the zombies came first." The person in charge was a middle-aged man named Chen Xiang, with a distressed look on his face. According to him, he was the leader in charge of the planting base before the end of the world.
After the end of the world, everyone had enough food and less intrigue, and he had always been the leader.
As they were talking, Liu Rui and Gu Qingji collected the crystal cores outside and handed them all to Lu Weiyi. Lu Weiyi put them away, looked at Chen Xiang and stretched out his hand.
"I..." Chen Xiang said embarrassedly.
"You won't default on your debt, will you?" Ning Yuan's face, which had just been gentle, sank slightly. He seemed to be still smiling, but he felt an unknown pressure.
"No, no," Chen Xiang waved his hand, "It's just that, we don't have the crystal core."
Without waiting for more words, Chen Xiang immediately said, "We have supplies in our base. Our granary is not damaged much, and we have a lot of food stored." With no shortage of food, fewer people will face the zombies, and crystal cores are even rarer.
"You have a good plan. We rescued people, and we are going to the zombie den to get supplies. Maybe we can even have a conflict with the people from the Pingjin base. Whether you can get it or not depends on your own ability. It seems that you are getting something for nothing." Ning Yuan wiped a bloody machete in his hand, and said in a light tone.
"We...we really don't have anything," Chen Xiang burst into tears, "The zombies came too suddenly, and when everyone evacuated, they only took the important things and left nothing else."
"We only brought these things. If you want them, just take them all." A man following Chen Xiang pointed at the things in the car outside. He was carrying an imitation Guan Gong sword on his back with a long wooden handle. The crescent-shaped machete was constantly dripping with rotten blood and flesh. "If you want it back, you can't. Leave your contact information and I will return it to you slowly."
He is the person who responded to the question before. He is Chen Xiang’s son, named Chen Xing, a metal-type mutant. This is one of the reasons why people always listen to Chen Xiang, an ordinary person.
Lu Weiyi took out a piece of paper from the space and quietly handed it to the calm Xu Sa. On it was written the total amount of materials in several large-scale grain reserve bases in the country.
COFCO is in the middle, and the ones at the front are all in the west, far away from them.
When Xu Sa saw the 100,000 tons of reserve grain, his breathing became noticeably tighter. He tried to calm down and handed it to Ning Yuan as if nothing had happened.
Ning Yuan glanced and looked away, "Where are you going now? The base in Pingjin City?"
Chen Xiang shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The Pingjin base does not accept ordinary people. I originally wanted to use food to exchange for a protected road for everyone, but now... Alas..."
They really don't know this.
Xu Sa immediately asked the group about the news in Pingjin City.
The Pingjin City base is now in a situation of two opposing parties. One side is the original political and police force of Pingjin City, and the other side is the later rising force.
In the early days of the apocalypse, the political police were powerful and continued to help the people. As the superpowers grew stronger, the political police's voice decreased. The infighting alone was enough to consume energy, and the lives of ordinary people became increasingly difficult, until later ordinary people were expelled from the base.
"What about the family members? Not all of them are psychics, right?"
Chen Xiang didn't say anything. Chen Xing said, "...kill him."
"What?" Ning Yuan couldn't believe it.
"Anyone who wants to enter the base must kill their ordinary family members, saying that they are defective products of failed evolution. The superpower team wants to use this to provoke conflicts with the political police. I don't know if the political police think so too, or they are helpless, anyway... kill them all..." Chen Xing sat next to Chen Xiang, holding a knife in his hand, "There is not a single ordinary person in the Pingjin base nowadays."
"What about ordinary people?" Wu Yue frowned.
"At the beginning, we built the base, but later on, the collected supplies were often intercepted by the enemy. In addition, the zombies became more and more powerful. Now most ordinary people are on the outskirts of the base, providing entertainment for those with special abilities and getting something to survive."
After Chen Xing finished speaking, no one spoke. There were many young men and women, as well as underage children in the hall. Everyone looked confused, not knowing whether they were concerned about the current environment or the unknown tomorrow.
"I haven't asked you yet, which base are you from? Do you accept ordinary people? What are the conditions for entering the base?" Chen Xiang leaned over and said in a humble manner.
"We?" Xu Sa glanced at Ning Yuan.
Although the base has plans to accept outsiders, it is obviously not the right time. They are about to go to Kyoto and are short of staff. Taking in too many people can easily cause trouble.
"Our base has just been established, and there are only people from our team. It may not be very convenient." Xu Sa looked at this group of people who had no ability to protect themselves. He felt sympathy for them and was more concerned about the future of the base.
Lu Weiyi had no idea about the receiving population and did not express any opinion at this time.
After everyone asked clearly, a few people stayed to ask about the surrounding map, and the rest returned to the top floor again.
"Do you want to go there?" Xu Sa stepped forward first and asked in a low voice.
Ning Yuan handed the paper to a few people who didn't understand what was going on, and everyone looked at Lu Weiyi excitedly.
No matter how much food their base has stored, it is not as much as the reserves here. It is impossible for Lu Weiyi not to be tempted, especially since there may be a base in Pingjin City eyeing it covetously and no one knows when it will be taken away. He doesn't want to delay any further.
"I will take a few people and set off overnight. You continue to hunt zombies and return to the base on your own when the time is up."
"Okay," Li Qing replied.
"Five A-level people, follow me. We should go and come back quickly and try not to cause any conflict."
"Hey, aren't you taking me with you?" Usually when there are five of them, Lu Weiyi would take them one by one according to the five elements. A team of five with the strongest five elements' abilities would spontaneously stand behind him. Xu Sa looked at both sides and asked.
"Take another look and see if you have any other information to share." Lu Weiyi patted his shoulder. After the map was drawn, the five people disappeared into the night.
**
The COFCO base was not far from where they were, and with the map there was no need to take a detour. The six of them drove a car and arrived at daybreak.
"Have the people in Pingjin City been fighting among themselves to the point of losing their minds?" Ning Yuan suppressed his excitement and asked when he saw the grain storage warehouse standing not far away.
The earthquake did not cause much damage to the granary. Except for a few that were obviously tilted, the others were still standing intact. After Lu Weiyi explored, he found that it was full of grain.
"Fortunately, they have no brains," Antonio responded excitedly. The car drove at the speed of an airplane and went straight to the granary. The zombies running on the road were directly knocked away by him.
"How many are there?" Gu Qingji got out of the car, waved the transformed spring ivy in his hand, strangled several zombies that were rushing up, his eyes burning.
"The single warehouse reserve of Shallow Circular Warehouse is 5,000 tons," Ning Yuan answered professionally.
"1, 2, 3..." Liu Rui began to count very honestly.
"Who cares how much it is? Go and collect it. Take as much as you can." Ning Yuan laughed and looked at Lu Weiyi.
"Captain, let's go ahead." Li Zhuang found a new title.
After Lu Weiyi's exploration, he was very satisfied with the reserves here. He took a few steps forward and directly put the granary and the land into the space.
“I’ll go!”
"Awesome"
A man screamed in surprise when he saw this scene, killed several zombies that approached him, got in the car and shouted loudly as he drove around the entire foundation, taking away everything that had not been taken away yet.
They were cheering and jumping for joy. It was obvious that they had gained a lot. They didn't calm down until they returned and kept muttering to themselves.
The journey was safe. When we returned to the base beach at midnight, we found that the residents who were supposed to leave were now gathered on the beach. Many of them went to the ship channel and occupied half of the space.
"Are they going to surrender to our base?" Ning Yuan opened the window and looked out. With the moonlight and the bonfire that the other side had lit, he could see an outline.
"Our soldiers are kind-hearted." Li Zhuang's words always sound a bit ironic.