Chapter 317: Banker Reorganization

There were several people with special powers following behind Zhuang Mingbo, and they all looked respectful towards Zhuang Mingxu, a person without special powers.

After listening to his suggestion, Zhuang Mingxu asked, "Is this your opinion, or everyone's opinion?"

"Everyone," Zhuang Mingbo said, the first wife had already agreed with their opinion.

"Theoretically, this route avoids all towns and is the place with the least chance of zombies. If you decide to take the main road, there will definitely be a lot of zombies in many places along the way. Are you sure?"

Zhuang Mingxu was a little unhappy. If it were only the people in their team, they would definitely drive the off-road vehicle at full speed. In order to take their team into consideration, Zhuang Mingxu planned this route in advance. During this period, he had to take a detour in order for the team to replenish crystal cores. He didn't expect that they wanted to change now.

"We can't defeat the mutated animals nowadays," said a man following Zhuang Mingbo with a haggard look on his face. "There are too many ordinary people in the team, and the level of the psychics is too low, and we don't even know how to use them."

Many of the psychics here are the Zhuang family's confidants. When they left, they took that little friendship into consideration. However, when they finally saw the Zhuang family's attitude along the way, they all regretted it.

Zhuang Mingxu was speechless.

Zombies began to evolve at the beginning of the apocalypse, while mutated plants and animals mutated slowly during the late snowy period. In comparison, zombies are of a higher level, but the mutated animals have changed in size, so they seem a little more difficult to deal with.

Zhuang Mingxu didn’t know how they, who couldn’t even fight the mutated animals, could think of fighting against the mutated zombies with special powers.

Zhuang Mingbo shared the result of everyone's discussion and proposed to give more protection to Zhuang Mingxu's people. "You know the situation at home. Grandpa was frightened and just had a fever."

Zhuang Mingxu didn't say anything. He saw clearly what Zhuang Mingbo was thinking. He just hoped that Zhuang Mingbo could take better care of the situation along the way and try to avoid casualties so that he would have enough manpower to start over when he arrived in Cangbei.

"Even if you travel overnight with so many cars, you will become a big target if you encounter a zombie attack. You can't escape. What will you do then? Expect someone to drop from the sky to protect you?" Zhuang Mingxu exposed him expressionlessly, "Be realistic, this is the end of the world."

"If you want to change the route, you can, but don't expect anyone to protect you. It's absolutely impossible." Zhuang Mingxu waved his hand at him, "If you really can't accept it, just return to Kyoto base. It's closer here and it won't be dangerous on the way back."

"Young Master Zhuang, you..." Someone was about to complain, but was interrupted by Zhuang Mingxu's wave of his hand.

"I'm just an ordinary person without any special powers. I won't let my teammates do anything dangerous, and..." He looked at Zhuang Mingbo, "I don't have the nerve to do so."

"You guys go back and discuss it. If you want to change the route, we can do so tomorrow. But I hope you are aware that when you are in danger, only you can save yourself."

After Zhuang Mingxu finished speaking, he ignored the others.

As night fell, the mutant wolves had been dealt with, the bloodstains were burned by the fire, and the smell was covered up by the pungent plants that Gu Qingji had grown. After assigning the night watches, everyone in the team went to sleep.

Zhuang Mingxu sat alone in the yard for a long time, and finally stood up and walked towards the direction of the Zhuang family's main house.

The three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment of 100 square meters accommodates all the people living in the Zhuang family's main house. When they saw him come in, no one said a word.

"Where is grandpa?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.

The elders remained silent, and no one from the younger generations answered. Finally, Zhuang Mingwu pointed to the innermost room.

Zhuang Mingxu knocked on the door and entered.

Mr. Zhuang had already gone to bed and there was no sign of illness, but Zhuang Mingxu remembered that he was in poor health.

This was the first time they met since the incident.

Zhuang Mingxu sat silently beside the bed, unable to understand how they had come to this point.

"Ming...Mingxu," Mr. Zhuang called out uncertainly with a hoarse voice.

"...Grandpa" Zhuang Mingxu wanted to put a pillow under him, but after looking around, he found that there was only a thin quilt on the bed, so he could only help him lean against the head of the bed, "Zhuang Mingbo said you were sick."

"He said I'm not sick, so why don't you come to see me?" asked Mr. Zhuang.

Zhuang Mingxu didn't say anything, and the two of them remained silent.

"bright……"

"Grandpa," before Grandpa Zhuang could speak, Zhuang Mingxu interrupted him and said, "Zhuang Mingbo wants to go through the city and travel overnight. You know the abilities of the people in the team. It's impossible for even half of them to survive."

"I'll ask you one last time, do you want to take them to our base? It's just you few."

"These are all your uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters!" Old Master Zhuang's chest heaved violently with anger.

"You don't have to put it in such nice words, Grandpa. You have lived for the banker all your life. You can't bear to see it decline, so you want to kidnap someone to live for the banker with you." Zhuang Mingxu looked at him calmly.

"From your marriage to my grandmother, to my uncle's father, and then to Zhuang Mingwen, was there any one whose marriage was not directed by you? Each one is the cornerstone of the Zhuang family, and they have dedicated everything to this family."

"But I don't want to. I repaid the money the banker invested in me when I left. Now you owe me. Don't think of tying me down with any excuse. You are my grandfather. If you leave, I will take you to enjoy your old age. If you still care about the entire banker..."

Zhuang Mingxu didn't say the next words, but I could guess what he was going to say.

"Grandpa, open your eyes and look at these children and grandchildren below you. Who are you relying on to revive the banker? Is it me, a person without superpowers, or a few people who can only hide in the base to eat, drink, play and watch the fun, or Mingwu, that stubborn person?"

"We've been on the road for a few days. Can't you see the situation clearly? How many people in the family can do practical work? Besides being lazy, they just order Mingwu around." Zhuang Mingxu snorted, "How long can he last?"

"Get out, get out, get out of here!" Old Master Zhuang roared breathlessly, "How could my family give birth to a selfish thing like you?"

Zhuang Mingxu stood up and looked at him coldly, "Yes, I shouldn't have come out of that laboratory alive. Becoming a stepping stone for Zhuang's experiment is selfless dedication!"

He clenched his fists tightly, feeling that he had come here in vain.

When I returned to the yard, the anger in my chest still hadn't dissipated.

He got into the car quietly, and regardless of the surging heat, he held Lu Weiyi tightly in his arms.

"Are you upset?" Lu Weiyi's voice was devoid of sleepiness. He moved aside to make some space for Zhuang Mingxu, allowing him to move up.

Zhuang Mingxu didn't expect that he was still awake and felt a little embarrassed. Between the two of them, he had always been the one who handled everything maturely and steadily. When he was found to be unstable, he didn't know how to react for a moment.

After a long while, he sighed and said, "Since I came out of the laboratory alive, I have no feelings for my family at all."

"They blamed me for ruining the banker's position, and I resented being treated like this..."

"It was me who ruined the dealer," Lu Weiyi said in a flat tone, "They just didn't dare to confront me, so they picked on the weak."

After Lu Weiyi finished speaking, he felt that it was not very pleasant to hear, and comforted her in an unskilled way, "I'm not saying you are soft."

"...Puchi" a laugh came from outside, which was followed by a series of laughs.

“It’s actually pretty hard.”

"Where is it hard?"

"You'll know after you touch it."

Several different voices spoke delicately.

Zhuang Mingxu looked up at Lu Weiyi slowly in confusion, and saw Lu Weiyi say awkwardly in the dim light, "I forgot."

Normally when the two of them were talking, he would use his mental power to build a barrier to prevent others from eavesdropping. Ever since the problem with the crystal core, he had consciously reduced the use of his mental power, and he was even more negligent just now.

"Well, hurry up and get some sleep. We have a lot of things to do tomorrow." Zhuang Mingxu coughed lightly.

After being disturbed by this, his anger dissipated a lot, and he just fell asleep with the person in his arms. Before going to bed, he did not forget to remind her that it was time to install the air conditioner tomorrow.

In the Zhuang family courtyard not far away, Old Man Zhuang sat in the room in a daze for a long time, and finally shouted outside, "Mingwu, go call your third grandfather over and tell him that I have something to discuss with him."

…

The next day, just after dawn, Zhuang Mingbo brought them news, and he still insisted on taking the main road.

Perhaps it was because Zhuang Mingxu and Mr. Zhuang did not hide their argument from others yesterday, and the psychics in the team no longer took it for granted that they should be taken care of by him.

Zhuang Mingxu looked through Zhuang Mingbo at Zhuang Mingwu and others who were helping to pack up at the back.

Zhuang Mingbo followed his gaze and said calmly, "Yesterday I suggested that all power of the first house be transferred to me and managed as a whole, but my uncle refused."

He turned his head and sneered at Zhuang Mingxu, "They let Song Xin follow a metal-type mutant in the team." He paused and added, "and they had their wedding night."

Under Zhuang Mingxu's incredulous gaze, he raised his chin towards a middle-aged man opposite Zhuang Mingwu, "Fang Feng, 42, Gold A-level, his wife is dead and he has an eleven-year-old child. He is the one with the strongest superpowers in the team except Zhuang Mingwu."

Zhuang Mingxu was so angry that he laughed, "Song Xin is only eighteen, and he is already as old as my aunt."

"They originally wanted my aunt to go, but the other party didn't like her," said Zhuang Mingbo.

"Song Xin has no objection?" Zhuang Mingxu's perception was once again refreshed by his family.

"What can she do?" Zhuang Mingbo turned his head to look at Zhuang Mingxu, "Didn't my family arrange a marriage for me too? Not everyone has the heart to give up everything like you did. Sometimes I envy you."

Zhuang Mingxu didn't say anything. He stared at the opposite side for a moment and compromised for the last time, "I won't let anyone help you on the road, but if you take out the supplies that you don't need for the time being, I will collect them for you and return them to you when we get to Cangbei."

"Thank you," Zhuang Mingbo said without hesitation. He turned around and asked someone to count the supplies.

Zhuang Mingxu said nothing when he returned. Lu Weiyi, who had heard all the news, did not let him lower his head to speak. He nodded directly and said to the others, "Take a day off today to replenish your needs, and start traveling overnight tomorrow. As usual, everyone will be divided into two teams. Pay attention to hunting as many zombies as possible along the way. I require that everyone will be promoted to A-level in two months."