Chapter 664: Heading to the Small Town

"Can I bring my family with me?"

Hua Rui felt a little anxious after she spoke. She pursed her lips and looked at Zhuang Mingxu expectantly. At this moment, she was no longer the person who was desperate to survive, but just a poor person who was looking for a way out for her family.

"It will be reviewed later." Zhuang Mingxu did not give a definite answer.

Even so, Hua Rui whispered thank you and returned to the team.

In contrast, Wang Bing was more cautious. He glanced at Zhao Gang who was still in a daze, sighed at his fate, and asked, "What do we need to do?"

Zhuang Mingxu smiled at him, making several people feel a chill on their backs, "Everything I need you to do."

"Do you want to send us to death? Do we have to go too?" The fire-type mutant who had just broken both arms looked up at Zhuang Mingxu with resentment in his eyes.

Zhuang Mingxu chuckled and asked, "You can also choose to die now."

He turned his eyes to the few people who had been silent, "After all, countless people have died at your hands. Killing you is considered to be doing justice."

"Make your own choice." Zhuang Mingxu didn't listen to them and walked towards Lu Weiyi after giving the notice.

He was clearly walking in a straight line, but he seemed to be pushed by something and suddenly took a big step to the side.

Zhuang Mingxu, who had just finished showing off, staggered and barely stood firm. He glanced helplessly at the air next to him. He couldn't see what was there, but the touch was obviously exactly the same as the thing that had inexplicably brought him into the air before.

Not wanting to have that experience again, Zhuang Mingxu quietly moved aside a little, putting some distance between him and the thing.

Over there, Lu Weiyi had already taken out several tracked vehicles from the space in full view of everyone. Guan Wei was stunned and tried to stay calm and arrange the remaining personnel.

"Is it okay for me to group them like this?" Guan Wei reported to Zhuang Mingxu and asked.

"Just make the arrangements. Don't let our wounded get more seriously injured." Zhuang Mingxu watched as some people carried people who had difficulty moving into the car, while others looked at the bodies on the ground with sadness.

"Base commander, can we take their bodies back?" A man who looked to be in his forties or fifties asked in a low voice, with a guilty look on his face. "This place... is far away from the base, they..."

"They definitely...can't find the way back." The man's voice was hoarse, trying his best to control his emotions. After he finished speaking, he seemed to regret it and waved his hands, trying to maintain a decent expression, but unfortunately he failed. He covered his face and said, "I'm sorry, if it's difficult for me..."

"Take them back," Zhuang Mingxu bent down and tidied the clothes of the bodies that were neatly placed on the ground. "They should sleep in the Martyrs' Cemetery in our base."

He spoke, and Lu Weiyi naturally would not refute, especially at this moment everyone was looking at him expectantly.

"I'll take you... home!" Lu Weiyi said, and stretched out his hand to put all the corpses into the space.

"There are...there are a few more people...I know where they are buried, can...can we go with them?"

"Very quickly."

Someone thought of his comrades who died in the last attack on the base and asked hesitantly.

"Hurry up," Zhuang Mingxu asked them to wait for the others. He pulled Lu Weiyi aside and whispered, "Did you see the corpse of a mutant animal where you woke up?"

Zhuang Mingxu roughly described the mutant pangolin that was vomited out by the mutant snake. "The mutant animal is not of a low level. I saw it digested by the snake's gastric juice on the mountain before, but there were no other wounds. The crystal core should still be in its body. You..."

Lu Weiyi's eyes lit up, and his mental power immediately probed in the direction he said. A gray ball came into view, and he decisively put it into the space, then dug towards the location of the crystal core.

A colorless crystal core appeared in Lu Weiyi's hand, as big as a fist, like a crystal clear gem.

"So big? How much energy does it have to have?" Zhuang Mingxu was very happy to have picked up a high-level crystal core for free.

While absorbing, Lu Weiyi shook his head and said, "It's about the same as the energy of a mid-S-class energy. It should be the size of the animal that determines the size of the crystal core and the low energy density."

“Something is better than nothing,” he concluded.

Just from this one sentence, Zhuang Mingxu knew how much energy he was lacking.

Someone had already brought over the bodies of their comrades who had been frozen for a whole winter. Each coffin contained the bodies of them in the same condition they were in when they died. This was the greatest respect that could be given at the time.

Zhuang Mingxu signaled Lu Weiyi to put it away, and the two of them walked towards the tracked vehicle in the middle, seemingly forgetting the existence of Wang Bing and the others.

"Lu...Base Commander, we..." Hua Rui asked anxiously in the end.

"Go ahead and lead the way," Lu Weiyi said lightly and closed the car door.

Zhao Gang took a look at the car where Zhao Lei was, gave a few instructions to the people who were taking care of him, and then took the lead to walk towards the car in front. He looked back at the other five people and said, "Yang Zhiguang, Hua Rui, Fei Mo, you go to the car in front."

"The earth element is used to pave the road, and the wood and metal elements are used to kill the mutant animals encountered."

"Wang Xi, Wang Bing, you guys fall behind and shake off those people following you."

Zhao Gang got into the role very quickly. From beginning to end, Zhuang Mingxu never asked him if he was capable of doing the role, and he never refused by saying he couldn't do it.

The psychics in the two cars in front and behind looked at the few people with murderous eyes, but after hearing what Zhuang Mingxu said before, they knew that they were more useful, so no one said anything.

Without waiting for their opinion, Zhao Gang simply got on the front car without asking whether they were coming or not.

Zhuang Mingxu was talking to Lu Weiyi in a low voice, as if he didn't care about the situation outside, but his eyes were paying attention. When he saw Hua Rui running quickly towards the front vehicle, the others also started moving.

Next came Wang Bing and the escaping metal-type mutant Fei Mo. The two were one behind and one in front, with no intention of resisting at all.

Although Wang Bing had made the choice first, Fei Mo dared to escape and was so obedient at this time, making everyone curious about what he had experienced.

Seeing that the remaining two people had no intention of moving, Zhuang Mingxu ignored them, stuck his head out with the loudspeaker and shouted, "Let's set off——".

The car in front started immediately, and a road was instantly opened up on the uneven ground in the mountains, extending into the distance like a guide.

"Not waiting for them?" Lu Weiyi glanced at the two people who were still motionless.

"They will catch up," Zhuang Mingxu said with certainty. As the first car accelerated, several cars drove away quickly. Just when the two were about to disappear from sight, they ran towards different cars at the same time.

Zhuang Mingxu shook his head slightly and smiled, "People who can break through the bottom line and climb up are all people who are afraid of death. No matter if they have concerns or weaknesses, they all want to - or can only - survive."

After saying that, he looked at Lu Weiyi, "But you, what did you do to that person?"

"I let him 'see' the process of his own death as he continued to escape." Seeing that Zhuang Mingxu didn't understand, Lu Weiyi pointed to the location of the brain and explained in detail, "I constructed an empathetic picture in the cerebral cortex, allowing him to experience his own death firsthand."

Zhuang Mingxu nodded thoughtfully and frowned, "In this way... we can only scare him, but we can't make them completely obey."

Lu Weiyi shook his head and said, "I put my spiritual mark on his crystal core. This is a mark that belongs to me alone. As long as I want, I can detonate their crystal core or take out their crystal core at any time."

"Is there any other use?" Zhuang Mingxu became interested.

"Would it be okay to let them experience the feeling of the crystal core being detonated at any time?" Lu Weiyi asked.

"Okay, haha..." Zhuang Mingxu gave him a thumbs up without hesitation, "Smart."

In fact, this was the direction that Zhuang Mingxu had asked him to train in his previous life, but his level was not high enough, so what he could do was limited.

But Lu Weiyi didn't want to talk about his previous life at all at this time. He accepted his compliment, looked out the window, and asked about what happened later.

Following the intercom's voice of Zhao Gang coordinating the team members, Zhuang Mingxu told the other party in detail what happened later. When he talked about how he entered the illusion through Taotao, Zhuang Mingxu suddenly remembered that there was a little kid he had ignored.

"Where are he? He has suffered so much following me," Zhuang Mingxu felt full of guilt.

"..." Lu Weiyi didn't say anything for a moment.

Seeing his evasive eyes, Zhuang Mingxu's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling, "He...he..."

"No," Lu Weiyi stretched out his hand and pried open his tightly clenched fist, "It's just a little... not so good."

"Can I... take a look?" Zhuang Mingxu rarely had such an apologetic look on his face.

Lu Weiyi glanced at the person driving in front, put up a mental barrier, and carefully carried Taotao out of the space.

The little ball was so fragile that it seemed like it would die with just a little force. Zhuang Mingxu's eyes were red and his raised hand was trembling all the time and he never touched her. After a while, he leaned over and buried his head in the swaddling clothes wrapped around Taotao, and said in a muffled voice, "Dad is sorry."

"It's okay. Isn't Taoist Tianning still in our base? Let's go back and let him take a look. I'm sure everything will be fine." Lu Weiyi held the child carefully and comforted him.

The originally lively child now had dry and yellow hair, as if he was malnourished, and his face was pale without a trace of blood. The jade stone he was holding in his little hand took so long to absorb the little bit that was pinched in his fingers. Lu Weiyi felt worried and guilty.

He had always suspected that his rebirth had something to do with this piece of jade. He had been living day by day and didn't think much of it before, but now he wanted to start over again and was extremely grateful to him.

Especially this time he became like this because of himself, Lu Weiyi said something very arrogant and unreasonable, "I will take all the jade space in Panshui base from him."

Zhuang Mingxu did not stop him and added, "By the way, return Wu Yue and Li Zhuang's. I need them urgently, so I'll take Wu Yue's. Li Zhuang..."

"He must have guessed it and took the initiative to dig it out for me."

Lu Weiyi nodded, and the two talked warmly about how to raise the baby in the future. A few kilometers away at the Mountain God Base, Wu Yue was in dire straits.