Chapter 775: Stirring up Muddy Waters

Wu Yue and Lu Xiao both had dark lines on their faces after reading it. Seeing Zheng Yi's expression was a little lonely and a little puzzled.

Then Zheng Yi said, "The fact that I'm offering a reward for both of you means someone must be looking for you two. At this price, it can only be that the other party's offer is more tempting."

They were speechless, but after Zheng Yi said that, they finally reacted and laughed at the same time.

"Yes, the team leader."

"It must be Xiaoyi."

"He's back to the base." Wu Yue's worries about the base finally eased. Since Lu Weiyi had already returned and still had the energy to look for them, it proved that the situation at the base was not too bad.

Lu Xiao also relaxed slightly. Since Lu Weiyi had returned safely, he would definitely come to find him. For his sake, he would help Lie Yan in some way when he saw his situation.

Wu Yue was in a good mood and patted Zheng Yi on the shoulder like a good brother, "Don't worry, if I can go back, I will definitely send you back to Kyoto."

"Thank you." Zheng Yi gave a fake smile and turned his face to the wall of the cave.

He didn't want others to see that he was a little envious. They were also people who tried their best to upgrade and manage the team, but he was schemed by his teammates and fell to this point, needing to ask his opponents for help, while someone was being cared for unconditionally at all costs.

The two men obviously did not take his feelings into consideration, especially since they did not have a very good relationship in the past. Wu Yue and Lu Xiao even exchanged and looked at each other's bounty orders.

"The printed photo of you doesn't look like them. I'm afraid they won't be able to recognize you even if you stand in front of them."

"It's obvious that this is the end of the world. I don't know in which year this photo was taken, and the owner doesn't know for sure. Your photo is better. You look young and energetic."

"That was a photo taken before the end of the world. It looked like she was in an interview with a successful person. She dressed up specially..."

"You have this experience? It seems..."

"That's enough," Zheng Yi interrupted the two people's shameless flattery and glanced at the man who was still unconscious. "Do you still want to interrogate him?"

When the "shen" talked about business, both of them regained their composure.

Lu Xiao knew the news about Lu Weiyi. He didn't feel tired at all. He walked forward and slapped the sleeping man twice to wake him up.

The man who woke up had a dazed look in his eyes. He immediately looked at the three people in front of him in shock, "Who are you? Where... where is this?"

Zheng Yi gathered a dagger in his hand and pressed it against the man's neck, "Answer whatever I ask you."

"..." The man carefully moved his eyes around, paused noticeably at Lu Xiao and Wu Yue, and quickly looked away.

The change was so quick that it revealed that he recognized the two people.

"What does the alarm sounding at the base mean?" Before the two of them could figure out what to ask, Lu Xiao had already spoken.

"It's the warning sound of a high-level psychic." The man spoke with his eyes unconsciously looking towards Lu Xiao, then quickly looking away. "Before, the base's material warehouse was destroyed, and the various teams in the base joined together to set up this alarm. Once a psychic above SS level enters, the alarm will sound immediately."

"..." Lu Xiao, "Aren't you afraid of your own people being touched?"

"There are no SS-level psychics in our base."

"..."Wu Yue.

I don’t know whether I should be happy or not.

So they didn't find us?

The three of them looked at each other, and all understood from each other's eyes what the other had not said.

"What's the matter with this thing?" Wu Yue unfolded the bounty he had just received in front of the man.

The man's lips trembled and his eyes avoided the question.

Zheng Yi was about to give a warning with the knife in his hand, but he saw Lu Xiao pinch the man's chin and said with a smile, "Master Lu, I'm in a good mood and won't fight with you. Anyway, you have recognized us, and you can go back and exchange this information for a reward. Why don't we cooperate happily? Tell us the information we want to know, and we will let you leave safely."

"You should know that if we want to kill you, you won't even have a chance to fight back, right?" Lu Xiao reminded him very kindly.

The man nodded. He was well aware of this, so he had no intention of taking action.

"Are you really going to let me go?" he asked.

"Of course," Lu Xiao nodded.

Since there is no grudge between them, Lu Xiao will not attack him, but after he returns, it is not certain that others will attack him.

The man thought for a moment before telling the three of them that Yuebanwan had posted a message at various bases looking for them.

"You said that Yuebanwan has developed a potion that releases zombie energy? Is that the release I was thinking of?" Zheng Yi stood up excitedly, and before he could put away the knife in his hand, he directly cut a bloody mark on the man's neck.

If he hadn't dodged in time, he would have been killed on the spot.

The man covered his neck and stepped back, putting some distance between them. He then nodded and said, "This is the news that has been spread. No one has seen the specific thing yet. They are using this as a bargaining chip to find someone..."

"But the quantity is limited. The people at the Changhong base don't want more people to know, so they kept the news secret and offered a reward with something else." Lu Xiao immediately understood what they were thinking. Looking at the high price on the bounty, he said, "If it's too low, we're afraid that people won't be dedicated, so we set it as high as possible."

The man said nothing, which was considered as his agreement.

"But..." Wu Yue suddenly spoke up, looking at the man with a puzzled look, "How long has it been since the news that Yuebanwan has developed a lost energy release potion spread?"

"…three days."

Wu Yue's expression calmed down visibly. In the dark passage, he looked a little serious. "What happened in the base? Or, did someone do something to the Yuebanwan base?"

Lu Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and Zheng Yi also had a bad feeling.

"What do you mean?" Lu Xiao asked.

"Based on my understanding of the base, if this kind of thing had been developed earlier, it would have been rigorously experimented with internally and implemented within the base first before other bases would have a share."

When Zheng Yi heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Then Wu Yue continued, "And Lu Weiyi... he has always advocated that all bases unite, maybe in exchange for benefits, but he won't just send out a few for people to fight over."

"There is only one possibility in this situation, that is..." Wu Yue looked at the man, "the news about the potion was leaked in advance, and something happened in Yueban Bay, forcing him to take out the most tempting chip and find us as soon as possible."

Wu Yue knew more clearly what Yuebanwan had, and he could use other things as bargaining chips to find people.

After he said this, Lu Xiao also reacted and looked at the man with sharp eyes.

The man had already spoken, so he didn't think of hiding anything anymore and told everything he knew.

"So Zhao Qiang is disabled now?" Zheng Yi gritted his teeth in hatred.

"I'm just a team leader in the team. I don't know such specific things." The man hid himself a little further away from the others, even though there was no place to hide in the small cave.

Knowing that Yuebanwan had not suffered any loss, Lu Xiao and Wu Yue did not pay attention to anything else and immediately asked about the magnetic field corrector.

When they learned that they had all been taken away by people who participated in the war, the three were dumbfounded.

"So many were taken away?" Lu Xiao was suspicious. He remembered that when the thing was first developed, Zhao Qiang proposed to give it to various bases for trial use, and then find a way to sell it in exchange for crystal core materials.

"There are only ten. Anything beyond that will have to be exchanged for supplies," the man said with a wry smile. "After our base moved, there weren't many supplies left. We had no ability to exchange them. And now no one dares to go out hunting rashly. We didn't need those things, so we took them all away."

The two men questioned him again and again, making sure that the information he knew was indeed gone, and then they left him where he was and let him go back on his own.

After making a circle, the three returned to the Changhong base. This time they did not show up on the ground. Instead, Wu Yue took action from underground and kidnapped another person who seemed to be in a good position and interrogated him for the same information.

After leaving, the three did not go too far from the Changhong Base. Lu Xiao kept outlining the surrounding bases, trying to determine which direction they were heading to be more likely to encounter the next base.

"The Mengbei base, the Pingjin base, and the Ulan base are not far from each other."

"It would be great if we found Pingjin. Given the relationship between Yuebanwan Base and Pingjin Base, maybe we can directly reveal it." Zheng Yi has been away from the team for too long, and it is inevitable that he has some feelings in his heart. Even though he was betrayed by his teammates, there are still people in the team that he can't let go.

Lu Xiao and Wu Yue both looked at him with strange eyes, as if they were surprised that such words came out of his mouth.

"What's wrong? Tang Bai is like a person without his own opinion. He always follows your base. Am I wrong?" Zheng Yi asked Wu Yue in confusion.

"That's because there are benefits to following us. Do you think a man who hides his strength for several years and then takes action to become the boss is a coward?" Wu Yue was speechless, "He is just good at showing weakness because this can allow him to gain more benefits."

"Based on the reward Xiaoyi offered, what would you do if you were the person in charge of the base?" Lu Xiao asked Zheng Yi.

"I..." Zheng Yi's mind raced. If it were him, he would try every means to find the person, and then control him in exchange for greater benefits.

Lu Xiao knew that he had figured it out, and shook his head and sighed, "We have to be more careful on the road ahead. There are only three of us. We would rather not take any action than to reveal our whereabouts again."

It would be difficult for three people to gain an advantage against a base of people.

After sighing, Lu Xiao started planning the best route again, while Wu Yue and Zheng Yi were killing prey and chopping wood respectively. They had a clear division of labor and were busy preparing for their dinner.

On the other side, Lu Weiyi had no idea that the reward he had offered had already aroused concerns among people in various bases.

Antonio sent Qi Lin himself to deliver the message, informing them that Lieyan's predicament had been temporarily resolved, but that it would take time to treat the wounded, so they would need to stay for a few more days.

As for the escort team, they were indeed in complete chaos with the Zheng family army because of the trouble they had stirred up. Especially after the various teams in Kyoto returned, they found that the previous teams were more or less short of supplies, so they immediately quit.

With Antonio and his group backing Lieyan, no one dared to focus on Lieyan. The chaotic guards now became the target of their common attack.