Chapter 697: Mountain Space

"We don't know where Captain Wu was taken either," Zhong Ye frowned and talked about what happened afterwards.

After being surrounded by Qi Le, all the people patrolling outside had fallen down, and it was impossible for the few people left in the room to leave. Wu Yue simply went out to face Qi Le directly.

"We planned to take the fallen brothers and escape while Captain Wu was distracted. However, not long after Captain Wu went out, we heard the sound of someone falling to the ground." Zhong Ye still felt a little puzzled when talking about the situation at that time. "I wanted to see what happened, but he had lost consciousness before I even went out."

"Did no one notice anything wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu asked the other team members while looking at Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng shook his head and asked anxiously, "Are you just unconscious and have no consciousness?"

"Yes," Zhong Ye replied, "After we wake up..."

He turned around and pointed to the place where he had just come out, "It's right in here."

"Most of the injuries on his body were from being dragged."

"It was just an inexplicable coma..." Ji Zheng thought about the situation around his residential area. The sound of fighting was so loud, and there was no one around. The only possibility was that they had an accident.

Ji Zheng had never dared to think too much about the possible situation before, but after hearing what they said, he felt that the possibility of coma was greater.

"What kind of plant could it be?" Wang Bao asked, looking at Zhuang Mingxu, wanting to hear his guess.

"I feel..." A man standing behind Zhong Ye spoke, and when everyone looked over, he hesitated again.

"Tell me about it."

"Could it be gas?"

"It's impossible for such a large-scale attack to go unnoticed by us," someone objected.

"I mean controlling it with supernatural powers."

"The ability to control gas, is it so magical?"

“Fuck, can you please let me finish?” After being interrupted twice, the man cursed, and the people around him waved their hands, motioning him to continue.

"The gas I'm talking about is not the ability to control gas, but the method of gasifying it," the man said, spreading his five fingers and making a condensing motion. A bubble of water suddenly appeared in the palm of his hand, and then the water turned into a wet white smoke in his hand and disappeared from his sight again.

"I noticed subtle water-based abilities operating before and after Qi Le's team arrived, but everyone was preparing for battle at the time and didn't take it seriously," the man described the scene in detail.

"When Captain Wu fainted and Zhong Ye went out to check, I felt that the humidity of the air in the room had changed." Seeing that everyone was confused, the man looked around and pointed at another person and said, "We are all water-based mutants. You should be able to feel the amount of water molecules in the air, right?"

"Yes," another person said, and made a handshake gesture around several people. A subtle supernatural power floated past him, making Lu Weiyi want to resist reflexively. Even though his reason suppressed it, he still used his mental power to block the approach of the other party's supernatural power.

As the water ball in his hand grew larger, he asked, "You should all be able to feel the dryness in the air now, right?"

Several people nodded and gestured to continue.

"I didn't think so at the time, but when you mentioned the means of attack just now, I felt something was wrong. If... if Qi Le has some means to limit the gasified area, does it mean that he can control the objects implicated?" The man said, looking around at his comrades around him, "Moreover, we will be on guard against aggressive superpowers, but we will not resist the air."

"There is such a possibility." Zhuang Mingxu saw that they were ready to go. After asking them and confirming that there was nothing wrong with their bodies, he looked at Lu Weiyi and said, "Do I have a complete set of equipment? Give them one first."

Lu Weiyi took the standard equipment of the base army from the space.

While they were putting on their equipment, Zhuang Mingxu asked Wang Bao, "You said before that you knew where Wu Yue was taken?"

"Qi Le asked his men to take him to the central area of ​​the Mountain God Base," Wang Bao said immediately.

"Yes, and his men too." Zhong Ye seemed to have remembered something urgent and said to Lu Weiyi in astonishment, "He...they..."

"They are all dead," Ji Zheng added.

"Dead person? What does that mean?" Zhuang Mingxu was surprised.

"Literally, it means someone who is already dead," Ji Zheng replied.

After sending him out, Wang Bao immediately saw that the temporary residence in Yueban Bay was surrounded. He was about to go to help, but was stopped by Ji Zheng who used the excuse of finding an opportunity.

After seeing a group of psychics being knocked down in an instant, Wang Bao calmed down and immediately used his psychic powers to explore the place where they were taken away, trying to find possible opportunities.

Ji Zheng, who was following along, saw the person following Qi Le.

"That was the person who was announced dead in the Panshui base a long time ago." Ji Zheng saw Zhuang Mingxu's face as if he was seeing things, and continued, "There was one person I saw with my own eyes being bitten by a zombie. He already had symptoms of zombie transformation, but appeared behind Qi Le and had no intention of attacking anyone at all."

Zhuang Mingxu looked at Zhong Ye, whose brows were furrowed so sharply that they could pinch a fly to death. "I didn't see it with my own eyes, but Fang Tang told me that the person who was confirmed dead was controlled by Qi Le. People like this... He has a team, but he doesn't know the exact number of people."

"They didn't even know these people existed before, they only appeared after this incident."

Zhuang Mingxu had never heard of such a thing. He turned to look at Lu Weiyi and saw that the other party nodded, indicating that this was a possibility.

There were so many people around, Lu Weiyi didn't explain much, but looked at the group of people who had already been equipped, "Now--!"

"We are going to break into this mysterious base."

"Are you ready?"

“I’m ready—!”

Amid the hushed voices, the group turned and headed towards the small door they had just come out of.

Wang Bao asked Zhong Ye what was inside, and Zhuang Mingxu took a step behind and whispered to Lu Weiyi about what he meant by controlling the dead.

Lu Weiyi isolated himself from the people in front of him and said, "Haven't you seen the scene of mental power controlling zombies? Moreover, I should have told you that when the level of mental power is high, it can control human thoughts."

At the beginning, they were influenced by Lu Weiyi's mental power and fell into an illusion, which is strictly speaking a form of being controlled.

"But... do the dead include zombies?" Zhuang Mingxu asked a more profound question.

"Doesn't it count?" Lu Weiyi was not sure either.

Zhuang Mingxu shook his head in confusion. The psychic in front had already opened the small door on the mountain wall and was waiting for them to enter.

As soon as he entered, the surrounding scenes came into view, and Zhuang Mingxu finally understood what Lu Weiyi meant by the laboratory.

This place is arranged like a classroom, with neat rows of things. The difference is that what are arranged here are not tables and chairs, but living people who are tied up.

Some of them were as soft as noodles, some had plants suddenly growing out of their skin somewhere, and some had half of their bodies shriveled up like mummies that had been drained of water, while the other half was swollen as if it was filled with too much water and would burst with a single poke.

Lu Weiyi and Zhuang Mingxu had seen all kinds of disgusting things in the end times, and they didn't look surprised at all. Instead, Ji Zhengyi and the other two who lived in the Panshui base were incredulous. After a while, he said, "I heard before that those who have been enlightened and awakened have to undergo a period of closed training."

"The training inside is for the ultimate use of their superpowers. Now it seems... this is the place."

Zhuang Mingxu had already judged Qi Le's way of training supernatural powers, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with them practicing directly on the human body. However, the breathing of some of the team members who came with him had obviously changed.

"If we hadn't left, would we have..."

"Are they... still alive?"

"Alive!" Lu Weiyi replied.

It's just that they may have experienced so much that they have lost all reaction to the things around them.

Escaping from danger did not make them relax. Instead, they remembered the people who had left earlier. Zhong Ye asked about the direction they came from and found out that they came from the hunting area. He immediately asked about the news of Sun Cheng and his group.

"They said there were dangerous things over there. I don't know if they are safe," Zhong Ye said worriedly. "Captain Wu felt something was wrong at the time, so he left us behind to divert attention, hoping that they would be safe."

Wang Bao had not had time to ask about this matter since they met, but when he heard the question, he immediately looked at the two of them.

Lu Weiyi looked at Zhuang Mingxu, not sure whether to say it now, and then heard Zhuang Mingxu say, "I saw them, they are still alive."

But—not all of them survived.

"That's good. At least I didn't mean well but did something bad."

Some people breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, but Zhong Ye obviously heard the unfinished meaning in Zhuang Mingxu's words. However, seeing the emotions of the people around him, he lowered his eyes and did not ask any more questions. Instead, he asked about the situation of the temporary base.

As the only participant at the scene, Zhuang Mingxu did not hide anything and told several people about Luo Qi's plan from the beginning to its implementation. When they heard that they had been plotted from the beginning to the end, they immediately became furious.

"When Qin Xiaoman disobeyed the orders of the base commander, I knew he was not a good person. I didn't expect that his brother was also a bad person and actually became their accomplice."

"They left on their own accord. Even if they died outside, they deserved it. Why should they implicate others?"

"That bastard, I will kill him with my own hands if I see him."

…

Amidst the buzz, no one dared to ask about the safety of Zhou He and his group for fear of hearing bad news.

Zhuang Mingxu saw that everyone was cursing but looking at the two of them eagerly. He wanted to ask but didn't dare to, so he took the initiative to say, "There were some casualties. Zhou He and the rest should be near the entrance of the Mountain God Base now."

"Are we here to destroy their base?" A high-spirited voice sounded, causing Lu Weiyi to glance sideways.

"They need someone with healing abilities," Zhuang Mingxu replied.

Hearing his words, we knew that the team members were seriously injured. Considering the character of those people in Panshui base, we can also imagine what will happen to the psychics who fall into their hands. Zhong Ye immediately stated, "I will take their healing psychics over."