Chapter 844: Trouble

At the same time, Li Zhuang, covered in blood and with a cold expression, was holding a knife and walking towards the small white building where the only team lived. The blood dripping from the blade dripped all over the ground along the road he walked.

Next to him was Zhou He's team, and on the other side was Fang Tang with red eyes. The young boy had a dazed look on his face, but his hands were shaking unconsciously.

"Li Zhuang? You...when did you come back?" Normal guarding had been restored at the entrance of the villa. Xi Shi was sitting alone on the steps at the entrance. When he saw someone coming back, he immediately stood up and ran out. He ran so fast that he staggered two steps. Li Zhuang quickened his pace and helped him up, so he did not fall.

Without waiting for anyone to answer, his eyes turned red and he said, "I can't find my child."

"The children are missing."

"There are... a lot of traces left by animals here. Mingxu hasn't come back yet. Daxiong said he went to look for him, but there's still no news." Xi Shi pointed at the messy yard that hadn't been cleaned up yet, and couldn't hold back her tears. "It seems like there are a lot of mutant animals here. I..."

There was blood dripping everywhere, as well as human body parts and flesh. Xi Shi didn't dare to guess any of the possibilities.

"It's okay, Weiyi missed the child and took him away in the middle of the night," Li Zhuang comforted and calmed Xi Shi's emotions.

He turned his head to look at Zhou He, "Where is the head of the village?"

"Li Yan's team is following. News just came that the situation over there has stabilized." After Zhou He finished speaking, he noticed that Fang Tang's body beside him straightened unconsciously. He sighed in his heart and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Li Zhuang was not in the mood to comfort others. He helped Xi Shi into the room and said, "The situation is under control. Everyone is fine for now."

"Hey, Captain Li, when will the healing psychics at our base arrive? There are many injured people at the base this time..."

"They are trying their best to upgrade. Doesn't the base have a healing department?" Li Zhuang didn't say where the specific people went. Although everyone knew that they might have been taken away by Lu Weiyi, Li Zhuang felt somewhat fortunate when thinking of this accident. Fortunately, he took Xu Yi away at that time, otherwise, given his preciousness, he might have been the primary target.

"..."Zhou He.

He glanced at Fangtang beside him without saying anything, but Fangtang said directly without hesitation, "Tiantian's grandfather doesn't allow her to treat anyone else anymore."

Li Zhuang frowned. Zhou He was afraid that he didn't know the specific situation and said something inappropriate, which would make the already fragile boy even more collapsed. He shook his head at him calmly, hinting him not to say anything nonsense.

Li Zhuang took a look and didn't ask any more questions. "I'll contact them as soon as possible. Come on, tell me what's going on first."

When Taotao sent him out of the space, the passage he was in was already flooded with mutant animals. What he saw were densely packed mutant animals of all kinds, attacking aimlessly like crazy. There was not even a living person in his sight.

Li Zhuang was sent back to the base for surgery and rested for a few days. According to his old habit, he began to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment. According to his position, it can be said that he had walked around the restricted areas of the base. Even though he did not break in for safety reasons, he was clear about the hidden layout of the surrounding area.

The area around the space channel was a tightly controlled area. Originally, it was under the charge of Xiong Jie. But now it was showing signs of being breached by mutant animals, which made him feel heavy-hearted.

After he finished hunting the mutant animals in the passage and came out, he saw that the surrounding training ground had also become a paradise for mutant animals. Some of them were attacking the troops stationed at the base, while more of them were crashing into the mountain. Their huge sizes, coupled with their suicidal attacks, caused the entire mountain to shake.

Knowing the situation inside the mountain, Li Zhuang subconsciously felt that he must not let the mutant animals break through there, so he joined forces with the team he met and began to hunt the mutant animals like crazy.

As more and more teams came to support, the mutant animals were gradually killed by them. During this process, he didn't even know what was happening in the entire base.

"I'll go boil some water for you." Seeing that they were about to talk about business, Xi Shi raised his foot and prepared to go to the kitchen. Although he was not shy about the affairs of the base, he knew his situation and was afraid of becoming a tool for others to attack him. He never participated when he could avoid listening or contacting. In this way, if he was really caught, he would know nothing about anything.

"Don't do that yet." Li Zhuang straightened the overturned sofa in the living room, motioned for everyone to sit down, took out an energy detector from the space and handed it to Yun Bai, "Confirm that there are no mutant creatures left around."

"Received." Yun Bai stood up and checked the surroundings.

Zhou He then talked about the situation at the base.

In addition to the original base forces, the entire Yuebanwan base now also has members from the Shanshen base and captives from the Panshui base.

The former is to integrate peacefully through negotiating conditions, while the latter is to not dare to resist under pressure. However, both the former and the latter are based on the premise of Lu Weiyi.

The superpowers at the Mountain God Base are waiting for Lu Weiyi to return and help them remove the plant seeds planted in their bodies, while the members of the Death Squad are terrified of the death that would come from rebellion.

This fear and desire provided a rare buffer for Yueban Bay, which was in the midst of chaos during the relocation. It gave them time to stabilize and allowed everyone a chance to integrate with each other.

However, as people in the suicide squad began to die while going out on missions, this apparent calm began to be broken.

"There are now less than 150 members of the suicide squad left out of the 200 or so people the base commander brought back at the beginning. However, their combat effectiveness is definitely not something that ordinary people can match."

Zhuang Mingxu did not dare to underestimate those people who fought to the death. Except for the group transferred to Yueban Bay by Lu Weiyi, the rest were basically out hunting zombies or helping the research institute find research resources, and they were rarely allowed to return to the base.

“At first, they thought the deaths of the people around them were due to some uneasy thoughts, and that they were dealt with by the hints the base commander had put in their heads, but…”.

The more they fought, the faster their abilities grew, and some people who were already facing upgrades began to show signs of upgrades.

"There was a problem with this upgrade," Zhou He let out a long sigh.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and even when he went out, he could see the corpses of mutant animals lying on the ground. In this environment, Li Zhuang did not urge him and let him calm down.

After Yun Bai checked the surroundings and caught a few small animals and brought them back, and after making sure there was nothing unusual around, Xi Shi immediately prepared to clean up the house.

"I'll go help," said Guan Wei.

Zhou He waved at him, indicating that it was up to him.

He waved and called away the other team members in the hall, thinking about restoring the collapsed courtyard wall. Fang Tang also wanted to get up, but he pushed him back on the sofa and said, "You should follow the captain and rest for a while."

Fangtang sat back on the sofa, but his back, which had always been straight, curled up into a ball, looking particularly uneasy.

Zhou He organized his words, "None of their upgrades succeeded, they were all blown into pieces."

Seeing that Li Zhuang had a normal look on his face, Zhou He explained, "They... are all people who have upgraded using the psychic crystal cores. In this case, the base commander once said that if they continue to ascend, they may die at any time."

"Zhao Gang, who has been following the captain, and several people in their team were originally the highest-level people in Panshui Base. However, they have been at the top S-level for a long time and have no intention of upgrading." Zhou He didn't quite understand it before, until he saw the people who had died recently, then he began to think about it.

"I don't know how they suppressed it, but the other members of the suicide squad obviously couldn't. They are S-level psychics. As the name says, they have always been doing the most frontline missions, which also accelerated their...death."

"In fact, the base commander told them from the beginning that they could either die immediately or follow him until death. Naturally, no one wants to die if they can live, so these people chose to join the suicide squad."

Even if there was a machete hanging over their heads, they could ignore it as long as it didn't come down. However, watching the people around them enter the countdown, how could they accept it, especially -

They are a group of demons who are willing to eat humans in order to survive.

Since one cannot avoid one's own death, then on what basis can others, who are also sinners, be saved?

"Are they starting a suicidal revenge?" Li Zhuang asked.

Zhou He shook his head, "It is said that the mental hints given to them by the base commander included a lot of things, which prevented them from taking action against the people around them, but they began to instigate the people around them."

Having said that, he glanced at Fang Tang beside him, and Li Zhuang immediately knew that it might be related to these people.

Considering their relationship, Li Zhuang had an idea in his mind - the members of the Death Squad did grow up relying on the crystal cores of the psychics, but these psychics in the Mountain God Base directly dug out their crystal cores and transferred them to themselves.

They are all intercepted fruits of other people's labor, and no one is necessarily nobler than the other. They are executioners to the dead superpowers, but they are victims to people like Fang Tang.

Even though everyone is just a chess piece on someone else's chessboard, when it comes to life and death, who will care about anyone else's innocence?

Many people thought they deserved their death when they first learned about it. However, suddenly one day, a piece of news spread in Shanshen Village (a village formed by members of the original Shanshen Base) that these people were not born with superpowers, and they were able to have superpowers entirely because they had robbed others of their superpowers through inferior means. However, their ordinary people's bodies could not withstand the powerful superpowers, and every time they used their superpowers, they were consuming their own lives.

Li Zhuang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that what they said sounded quite reasonable. He felt that it made sense and it was understandable that these children believed that they were bewitched.

"Are the people from Shanshen Village also starting to make trouble?" Li Zhuang asked.

"Not at first, but then..."

"Later, Aunt Tan died," Fang Tang said in a hoarse voice. The tough child showed a little vulnerability at this moment, but even so, he tried his best to stay calm.

Afraid that Li Zhuang didn't know who he was, Zhou He explained at the right time, "Tan Yun was one of the three great messengers of the Mountain God Base, and was also one of the first people with special abilities to be enlightened."

Fang Tang took a deep breath and continued Zhou He's words, "This so-called rumor was actually first said by the base commander Lu."

"?" Li Zhuang was surprised.

Zhou He also looked over and heard Fang Tang say, "When he saw me for the first time, he said that we wouldn't live long and using superpowers would be equivalent to wasting our own lives. Tiantian and Xiao Tao and several others were there at the time, and they all heard it. Maybe the situation was urgent at the time and no one thought much about it."

"But as soon as the rumor came out, they came to me to inquire about it. I asked the base director, and he confirmed it. He said..." Fang Tang's voice was hoarse and choked with sobs, "He said that we are all innocent and he will let the researchers find a way to deal with it as much as possible, but we need to wait until the entire base is relocated and stabilized."

"Auntie Tan tried to comfort us after she found out, but... she exploded in front of everyone on the plantation."

Fangtang has heard of countless cases of upgrade explosions. Their superpowers have been fixed since they were "enlightened". At the beginning, Bai Lu lied to them that they needed a long time to adapt, and they would only upgrade after their bodies adapted to the superpowers.

Later, Lu Weiyi exposed the lie and told them that what they had seized was someone else's superpowers, and the crystal core was fixed from the beginning and there was no possibility of upgrading at all.

This resulted in Fangtang never seeing a failed upgrade. Those who failed to be "enlightened" from the beginning had already been dealt with secretly and had not appeared in front of everyone.

Tan Yun's explosion happened in public and was seen by too many people, many of whom were young. This caused the entire Shanshen Village to fall into panic.

Combined with the rumors that were circulating, all the "enlightened" people with special abilities in the entire Mountain God Village began to become confused.

Mo Tiantian, Li Jing, Sun Tao and others were young and could not resist the adults' questioning. In just a few words, they told the adults what Lu Weiyi had been told.

People at the bottom will not think of solutions alone. They will always contact as many people as possible, thinking of uniting everyone to put pressure and seek solutions from the upper level.

"The head of the village has been quite busy recently. Plus, we just moved here, and the integration of the management systems on both sides has not been completed yet. There was really no solution for the time being, so they held a parade."

In order to control these people with special abilities, Qi Le had already planted seeds that could be controlled in the bodies of their family members. Zhuang Mingxu usually reminded them that there were many people with special abilities in the base, and in order to prevent the special abilities from stimulating the growth of the seeds in their bodies, they should try their best to keep them in the designated living area.

Now that the young superpowers need protection, these family members stepped forward, and something went wrong during this trip.

"During the parade, the seeds in someone's body were stimulated, and he died on the spot. This made the already frightened little psychics even more terrified, and almost the entire Mountain God Village was in turmoil."

No one can accept that they are so busy, especially when they are surrounded by people who are thriving and welcoming a new life - their base has been occupied, and they have no choice but to shrink into a small area; their superpowers are a lie that they have lied about at the cost of their lives; even their families have become bargaining chips in this lie.

All the problems that had been hidden before broke out at this moment. In their excitement, people no longer thought about solutions, but instead directed their attacks at the residents of Yueban Bay.

"You know the people here... " Zhou He said this with difficulty, and it was hard to tell whether he was praising or criticizing them.

You can imagine the degree of unity they have when they were able to go through the zombie siege together and form a joint base to attack the surviving base.

Zhuang Mingxu was originally worried about conflicts. People living near Shanshen Village were ordinary people from the base. Most of them worked in plantations. The crops in the fields had just been planted, and it was the time to hire people. Most of them were busy in the plantations, so there were not many deaths when Shanshen Village was attacked.

However, after them, other teams from the base began to arrive one after another, the first of which was the Frost Society.

"Ye Jia just came back. He has always felt that the construction of their base was not to his liking. Recently, he was leading the team to modify the layout. The cry for help from someone nearby immediately attracted his attention. As soon as they met, the two sides started fighting. Ye Jia was worried that their team would be punished by the base, so he simply pulled several teams living nearby over."

Now the original disturbance turned into a siege, and injuries and deaths were inevitable in the process.

Li Zhuang sighed, "Someone from the same base...killed?"

This did not exist at all in their original base. The laws in Yueban Bay were strict. No matter whether they were ordinary people or those with special abilities, they would rather suffer a loss than make mistakes, because the punishment for making mistakes would only be more severe.

"Not really." Ever since Tan Yun's accident, the people with superpowers in Shanshen Village have been prohibited from using their superpowers. As for the remaining residents, most of them are ordinary people. The tools they have are hoes and shovels, and their attack power is not strong. It's just that these people's desperate posture when they are excited makes them more difficult to deal with.

"Ye Jia had originally controlled the people, but a wood-type psychic in the team took action. After the action, the seeds in these people's bodies were implicated, and several of them died at that time. The psychics who heard the news..." Zhou He sighed and said nothing more.

Speaking of which, the original Mountain God Base was also a rather peculiar base. They were composed of families. Qi Le would use the family as a unit to distinguish between those with special abilities and ordinary people, making them each other's weaknesses and restraining each other.

Now this constraint is showing its results.

"The superpowers who discovered that something had happened to their families began to resist."

Li Zhuang calculated the combat effectiveness of the base in his mind, and weighed the superpowers of the original Mountain God Base, but still felt something was wrong.

Even if they are indeed strong, their base still has the advantage in numbers, not to mention that there are various teams nearby, so it is not that when he comes back, the defenders around Xiaobailou are so few.

"Did something happen somewhere else?" Li Zhuang only thought of this possibility.

Zhou He waved his hand, motioning him to listen to him, "If we kill them all, there is no need for the base army to take action. The teams in our base alone are enough. Don't you think the problem can still be solved?"

Li Zhuang made a "tsk" sound and didn't comment.

Sensing his silent disapproval, Fang Tang explained, "Not all people with superpowers in the village have been 'enlightened'. Some people already have superpowers, and they don't agree with these actions, so they didn't let their family members show up."

"After the incident, Uncle Ji went to Base Captain Zhuang hoping that he would show leniency." After all, they had occupied someone else's base, and the problems they had promised to help them solve had not yet been improved. Zhuang Mingxu felt that there were also some shortcomings in their base, so he agreed with Ji Zheng's words and detained the troublemakers in an attempt to appease them first.

But no one expected that the families of the deceased could not bear the shock and would hide and attack Zhuang Mingxu while he was trying to calm people down.

"Something happened to Zhuang Mingxu?" Li Zhuang stood up, an expression of disbelief on his originally calm face.