Chapter 281: Plea

But at this moment, when everyone around him fell down and he had to hold on, his son's childish concern made him feel that his rebirth was still meaningful.

Lu Weiyi reached out and rubbed Zhuang Aiyi's fluffy hair, "Dad is fine, you just go and take care of your brother."

Zhuang Aiyi looked back at Taotao who was staggering towards him and asked for help, "Uncle Xu, can you help Aiyi take care of my little daddy? Aiyi gives you a big kiss."

"Tsk, who cares?" Xu Yi said with his arms crossed. He walked over quickly as if his legs were out of control, and he didn't give in at all. "You made my face full of saliva, it's so dirty."

"Aiyi brushed her teeth." Zhuang Aiyi was shocked when he said they were dirty. She covered her mouth and blew a breath. "It's not stinky. Is Aiyi really dirty?"

"Well, it's okay, I don't dislike you," Xu Yi said nonchalantly, and walked to Lu Weiyi's side with his chin held high, "Let's go, Master Lu, I'm not someone who can serve everyone."

Lu Weiyi ignored his awkward look and walked upstairs slowly. Xu Yi followed him half a step behind to prevent him from falling.

The forced upgrade did put a certain burden on his body. The painkillers only made the pain he felt less severe, but the damage was not gone.

After just climbing one flight of stairs, Lu Weiyi broke out in a sweat again.

After greeting the person on guard upstairs, Lu Weiyi was the first to enter Antonio's room.

Xu Yi stood at the door very consciously and considerately helped them close the door.

Even though Antonio had been tortured for several days, he was still alert in his bones. As soon as Lu Weiyi approached the bed, he tightened his arms around Dean and looked over with sharp eyes.

Even though he had just woken up, there was still no trace of sleepiness in his eyes. His dark eyes carried a coldness that seemed to devour everything, but after he saw that it was Lu Weiyi, the coldness slowly faded away.

"He hasn't woken up yet?" Lu Weiyi asked in a low voice.

Dean was like an octopus, with his arms and legs wrapped around Antonio, half of his body pressing on him, his forehead hot and wet, but he refused to let go at all.

Antonio shook his head.

"How about I ask the dealer for fourteen people with special abilities and let them go through what you've gone through?" Lu Weiyi didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.

Antonio didn't say anything, but his eyes obviously turned colder.

"Dean's father chased you countless times, and you could have fought back. Why didn't you?" Lu Weiyi asked.

This is what Dean told him in his previous life when he and Dean were bored staying in the trading hall day and night. Dean told him about the past.

Antonio raised an eyebrow, "Dean told you?"

Lu Weiyi did not answer, but directly stated his bottom line, "I can't let you kill them. Or do you want something else? You can ask."

Perhaps his question gave Antonio a moment of empathy, and his eyes were not so cold anymore.

"Leave the people in the laboratory to me." When he was tied to the test table, he had sworn countless times that he would make them die in the most painful way.

Lu Weiyi shook his head and without waiting for Antonio to speak, explained, "I want to take them back to the base. Our base needs talents."

The defense of their base is not inferior to any other base, but they are still at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, so they need more talents in all aspects.

The fact that Zhuang Mobai was able to research a method for superpower transplantation within a year shows how professional he is. It would be a loss if such a person died.

Antonio is also a member of the base. Lu Weiyi's arrangement does not show any favoritism, so he can't say anything.

But just let it go so lightly...

Antonio looked at Dean, who was hugging him tightly even in his sleep, and felt unwilling to accept this.

"However, if they fail to complete the task, I can hand them over to you... to supervise them." Lu Weiyi thought of a more implicit word.

Antonio's interest immediately piqued. No one knew what he was thinking of, but the corners of his mouth curled up in a sinister smile, "Deal."

"However, I will not show mercy to the people with special abilities who come to me. Their life and death all depends on their fate," Antonio reminded.

They had just been released, and there had been no time to communicate in detail what had happened inside. Antonio guessed that Lu Weiyi only knew a rough idea.

Compared to others, he was injected with larger doses of drugs, and he believed that not everyone could bear it.

If I die because I can't bear it...

That has nothing to do with him.

Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "Thank you very much."

"No need, you've saved us again." Antonio also saw that he was weak at the moment, and thought that he might have paid a price to save them, so he refused to let go.

After all, if he hadn't come, he and Dean might have really died there.

Thinking of this, Antonio unconsciously hugged the person in his arms tighter. After thinking about it, he was still unhappy, and said to the person who was about to open the door, "I will still fight with Zhuang Mingxu."

Lu Weiyi didn't say yes or no. He opened the door and left, then walked towards Li Zhuang's room next door.

Compared to Antonio, Li Zhuang was more direct when he saw him come in. He looked at Xu Yi who was looking at him with a half-smile, "Healer Xu, we have guests coming to our room. Can't we move a stool for them?"

Seeing that he was awake, Xu Yi, who was about to leave quickly, moved the stool beside his bed without saying a word when he heard him talking, and trotted out of the room with light steps, looking like a wolfhound following behind him.

"What did you do to him?" Lu Weiyi didn't let him get to that point even with a single stab of his knife, and he would come over from time to time to show his attitude.

"What can I do? I need to unite and be friendly with my teammates," Li Zhuang said with a smile, and handed the cup of water beside the bed to Lu Weiyi, "I haven't drunk it."

"Thank you." Lu Weiyi took it, took a sip, and didn't know how to start the conversation.

Li Zhuang has always been a very reliable person in the team. He is easy to get along with and is usually righteous. Along the way, he silently supported and dealt with the aftermath of many of Lu Weiyi's impulsive and irrational decisions.

Although the two of them are usually busy with their own things, compared to Gu Qingyue and the others, Lu Weiyi is more casual with him.

Before Lu Weiyi could even speak, Li Zhuang smiled and took the initiative to give him a way out, "Didn't you come here to beg for mercy? Why don't you say anything?"

"..." Lu Weiyi didn't know what to say anymore.

He was like a little kid who had made a mistake, holding the water cup in both hands, with his head down and not saying a word.

Li Zhuang wanted to reach out and tap his forehead, but when he moved, he realized that he had used up all the strength he had accumulated while trying to hold the water cup.

"I've always wanted to ask, do you love Zhuang Mingxu?" Li Zhuang asked.

Lu Weiyi looked up with his deer eyes, his clear pupils filled with confusion, as if he didn't understand what this question had to do with.

"You may say you don't love him, but you never gave up helping him with his treatment no matter how difficult it was. But if you say you love him, it seems that there is nothing special about it at ordinary times." Li Zhuang expressed the thoughts of most people in the team.

Zhuang Mingxu is a man who is not stingy with his words. His eyes are almost always on Lu Weiyi, and even Zhuang Aiyi receives less attention than him.

He calmly guarded against anyone who might take Lu Weiyi away, and even tried to bow his head and speak softly in an unskilled manner. He was a man who seemed to be in a high position and was used to giving orders, and he could actually put down his face without hesitation.

That only proves that this person is more important to him than what everyone sees.

But Lu Weiyi is completely different, he talks less, has even less emotions, and the indulgence he shows is more like indifference. He has never taken any initiative in intimate behavior, and rather than being a lover, he behaves more like a responsibility.

"..." Lu Weiyi blinked twice and shook his head, "I don't know."

He is a very passive person. When he was young and imprisoned himself in his own world, Zhuang Mingxu took him by his side as a lover. He defined their relationship, and this relationship was like an invisible cage, trapping Lu Weiyi, who had no desire to go to the outside world.

He did not have much desire to explore, so the cage seemed very spacious. He lived very comfortably in it and was even more unwilling to look at people outside the cage.

"Then what is the relationship between you two?" Li Zhuang remembered that what he told everyone at the beginning was... the financial sponsor.

That is a really ironic word.

Lu Weiyi fell into thought again. After a long while, he still shook his head and said inadvertently, "It should be a lover, or... a family member?"

He didn't like thinking about these vague things. It would be better for him to think about what would happen next.

Retracting his thoughts, which were already not very contemplative, Lu Weiyi looked at Li Zhuang, "My previous world was too small, so I can't give you a definite answer. If you must have a definition..."

Lu Weiyi paused and continued, "I am willing to live with him in today's world, no matter if it will become more difficult in the future."

Li Zhuang looked at him for a long time, then said, "Even if he drugged us and colluded with others to plot against us?"

"He won't drug you," Lu Weiyi said with certainty.

Ever since Xu Yi drugged him once before, Zhuang Mingxu hated it most when someone drugged him. Anyone who violated this taboo, no matter if it was a partner or someone around him, would have a bad ending.

Zhuang Mingxu might do this to other people, but he would never do that when he knew he was there!

Li Zhuang shrugged his shoulders and waited for him to answer the question.

"If..." Lu Weiyi did not make any guarantees on behalf of Zhuang Mingxu as to whether he did it or not, but directly informed him of the trial result, "If he is really involved, I will not let him participate in anything in the team in the future."

Along the way, it was with Lu Weiyi's consent that Zhuang Mingxu, who had no fighting ability at the beginning, was able to go from being in charge of logistics to becoming the team's military strategist without any obstruction from the team.

If he really attacks them for his own sake this time, then in today's world, he will no longer have the trust of the team, and leaving the team is the best option.