Chapter 338 Midnight Thief

Ning Yuan was half leaning against a tree, facing sideways to him. Qi Lin was facing the other direction. He didn't turn his head, but waved at him when he looked over, as if to say hello.

Zhuang Mingxu nodded, not noticing anything unusual, and walked quietly about ten meters to a nearby spot. Along with the sound of dripping water, he seemed to smell an elegant floral fragrance, a refreshing scent that made him unable to help but take a deep breath.

Then he felt something was wrong, and he nimbly dodged to avoid the original position. When he turned around, he saw a green snake-like thing as thick as an arm attacking the place where he had just stood.

"Li... um..." Before he could finish his words, countless vines came from all directions and tied him up tightly. Then a strong floral fragrance seemed to hit his nostrils directly, and Zhuang Mingxu, who was struggling violently, softened.

Then, the people near the truck were quietly transferred away.

Before dawn, Zhuang Aiyi got up from the bed and looked around. He didn't find Zhuang Mingxu, but woke up Taotao who was sleeping with him.

"Brother?" Taotao asked, rubbing her eyes.

"Shh." Zhuang Aiyi glanced at the sleeping Lu Weiyi and whispered, "Brother is going to the bathroom."

He got out of bed and put on his shoes. Seeing Taotao jump down and walk barefoot on the ground, she bent over and put them on for him again. Then they walked out of the truck hand in hand.

As soon as I got out of the car, I saw a dozen humanoid creatures moving the kitchen utensils they had placed around. The bonfire that was about to go out stretched the shadows around them like ghosts in the dark night.

"Ah——" Zhuang Aiyi hugged Taotao and shouted loudly.

"Ai Yi?" Gu Qingyue in the car covered his head and sat up slowly.

Lu Weiyi's situation was not much better than his. He grabbed the blocker and stuck it on himself, got out of bed and prepared to go out, but his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

However, Li Zhuang, who was on the roof of the carriage, reacted quickly and jumped down, just in time to see Zhuang Aiyi and Taotao being carried into the jungle by a huge humanoid creature.

Only then did he realize that the area around the carriage was in chaos. Groups of monkeys were silently attacking each other, some were moving the kitchen utensils and food that they had made for dinner and had not yet put away, and some were tying up their sleeping teammates with things of unknown types and sizes.

Li Zhuang's behavior alarmed all the creatures. They no longer concealed their voices and started to attack in all directions, screaming and squeaking. The surroundings suddenly became noisy.

Li Zhuang stomped his foot on the ground suddenly, and countless knives flew up from the ground and slashed in all directions.

The invisible sharp blades were also helping. Soon the monkeys were covered with wounds and they squeaked as they fled towards the woods.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and plants. Li Zhuang called out to the remaining teammates a few times and found that they did not seem to be sleeping normally. In desperation, he stabbed each of them a few times and finally woke them up.

"What happened?" Gu Qingyue supported the powerless Lu Weiyi as he got out of the car, followed by the equally listless Xu Yi. Seeing the remaining few people outside, he looked around but didn't find Gu Qingji, and his face turned pale instantly, "Brother Li?"

"I only saw groups of monkeys and..." Li Zhuang picked up a piece of something he had cut off from the ground and separated it from the main body. The originally flexible branches became stiff. Upon closer inspection, he could see a large red flower like a peony growing on it at a distance, blooming luxuriantly.

"This should be a mutated plant," Li Zhuang covered his nose and didn't get close to the flower, "The smell from this thing can make people fall into a deep sleep."

"They...?" Gu Qingyue's voice trembled. He looked around, but all he saw was darkness. There was no trace of the people who had been taken away.

On the other hand, Lu Weiyi's mental power spread out like a vast ocean, and he soon discovered a group of monkeys carrying various tools, jumping in one direction as if they were organized, and the person walking in front of them was obviously a person.

"Someone is in command," Lu Weiyi said, looking away. He could only see a huge monkey running flexibly towards the distance, like a snake-like branch running in all directions. It soon went out of the range of mental power coverage and disappeared.

"Have you found the person?" Huang Rui's wounds were healed by Xu Yi. He splashed some cold water on his face, quickly buried the broken flowers on the ground, and asked Lu Weiyi.

Lu Weiyi shook his head.

He took the cold towel Liu Yang handed over and covered his face, then asked, "How many of us were taken away?"

"I, Huang Rui, Lin Tian and Li Zhuang are the only ones living outside the carriage." Liu Yang added some firewood to the dying fire, illuminating the surroundings even brighter. "Are you the only three in the carriage?"

"Dean is still asleep," Gu Qingyue looked around, "there are only eight of us left."

The sky in the distance was turning pale, and daybreak was approaching.

Lu Weiyi pinched his brows, looked in the direction of Zhuang Aiyi again, and said to the others, "I saw someone leading that group of monkeys. Let's chase them first, maybe we can get some news."

Li Zhuang nodded, and Gu Qingyue immediately turned around and said, "I'll go take Dean."

Dean was obviously badly tortured. Although his healing ability left no marks on his body, he could not hide the fatigue on his face. He was woken up with a hoarse voice. Even though he was panicked when he heard what happened, he had no strength and was finally carried out of the car by Lin Tian.

"We should plant some flowers with aphrodisiac properties, which will be metabolized after a while." Seeing that Dean was obviously sleepy and unable to wake up, but pinched his arm to force himself, Gu Qingyue explained to him.

"You are weak and intolerant, so it may take you a while to recover," Gu Qingyue said to Lu Weiyi, who could barely stand, hesitating whether they should wait for him to recover or go find someone now in the dark.

"Let's go now." The situation was still unclear, and no one knew what would happen if they were separated for too long. Lu Weiyi gave the order decisively.

"Lin Tian carries Lu Weiyi on his back, Huang Rui carries Dean on his back, and Brother Liu carries the radio. Keep them in touch with the people in the R&D center at any time. I'll defend. Are you two okay?" Lin Tian and Huang Rui, one is water and the other is wood. Their offensiveness is not as good as Liu Yang, who is fire-type. As for Xu Yi and Gu Qingyue, their physical fitness is obviously not good, so Li Zhuang gave the orders.

"Okay." Gu Qingyue's expression became firm after his initial panic, and Xu Yi also nodded.

The area itself is at the foot of a mountain, and is surrounded by mountains. No human habitation has taken place in a year, and vegetation is so lush that there is no trace of a road at all.

What's more, following the direction of the monkeys would require going deeper into the jungle, so we had to pack up the car and go on foot.

Lin Tian was carrying Lu Weiyi in front, Liu Yang was following behind him, and behind them were Gu Qingyue and Xu Yi, as well as Huang Rui who was carrying Dean who had fainted and couldn't hold on any longer, and Li Zhuang who stayed behind to cover their retreat.

Although the sky was already bright, the surroundings were still hazy. A few people relied on the spotlights above their heads to illuminate the road ahead. With Lu Weiyi's mental power to alert everyone, they did not encounter any danger.

Unfortunately, compared to people living in the jungle, their speed was really slow. Before long, the monkey group was beyond the range of Lu Weiyi's mental power and lost track.

It took them almost two hours to reach the place where the monkeys last disappeared, and this was even after Li Zhuang used his supernatural powers to move the land and pave the way from time to time.

Dean and Lu Weiyi have recovered, and Li Zhuang follows the trail to find the trail. They stop to eat and replenish their energy.

The surrounding trees were towering, with trunks as thick as arms everywhere, and unknown flowers blooming. Fist-sized butterflies and bees flew by from time to time, and occasionally a clear gurgling stream could be seen. They felt like they had strayed into a paradise.

"Do you think these things have special powers?" Lin Tian bit a biscuit and drank water, watching the earthworms wriggling on the ground like snakes with caution.

"Whether they have superpowers or not, we should try not to provoke them," Liu Yang looked around.

"It should be in this direction. There are traces of creatures wandering in the forest here," Li Zhuang said, pointing ahead. He took the ice water handed to him by Gu Qingyue, poured some on his head to relieve the stuffiness, and turned to look at Liu Yang, "Have you contacted the other party?"

"No, there has been no signal," Liu Yang replied.

"Keep staring at it." Li Zhuang ate something and asked Lu Weiyi with his eyes if it was okay.

The rest of the people are all people with superpowers, and their bodies have been strengthened by their superpowers. However, Lu Weiyi has been in poor health recently, and now that he is using his superpowers, he is probably having a headache again.

"Okay." Lu Weiyi gasped, his face looking even paler.

"If you can't hold on, I'll carry you," said Li Zhuang.

Lu Weiyi nodded, and the few of them hurriedly set off. This time, Li Zhuang was in front, and from time to time he used his supernatural powers to create a small path for people to walk safely, thus preventing them from stepping into the deep pit of dead trees.

Half an hour later, Lu Weiyi, who had been using his supernatural powers to explore the front, made a new discovery, "There is a village ahead."

"Village? A place like this?" Liu Yang was surprised.

"Yes, I saw the monkey group I tracked this morning."

Lu Weiyi's words made everyone energetic, and they moved faster and faster. In less than an hour, they arrived near the village.

This place is more like a stockade than a village, with quaint wooden houses on stilts, people coming and going in the village, children playing in the yard, and there is no sign of the end of the world.

Li Zhuang looked around with a telescope and saw the group of monkeys playing in a tree not far away. "It's them. There are traps around."

"The two of us..."

Before Lu Weiyi finished speaking, Gu Qingyue spoke up, "It's not safe to separate."

"Then we'll have two teams. I'll take Xu Yi and Dean, and you five will be the others."

Liu Yang shook his head and said, "You and Li Zhuang, and the remaining six of us, will go in from different directions."

Lu Weiyi glanced at everyone else and saw that no one had any objections. After discussing each other's routes, he left some weapons and set off quickly.

"Did you find our people in there?" Li Zhuang asked after everyone had left.

Lu Weiyi shook his head.

"I don't think this place is the same mutant plant that took them away."

"He must have known the news," Lu Weiyi said with a cold look on his face. After avoiding a trap that Li Zhuang had warned him about, the two of them walked in quietly.