Chapter 874 The Culprit

[Salty... cough cough...] The little monkey had a bitter look on his face, making his huge monkey face look a little hideous. He pointed at his own mouth, motioning Lu Weiyi to look, while not forgetting to convey the message in his mind, "...very salty...".

Now Lu Weiyi knew what those small white particles were.

Poor little monkey, he can’t even describe the word “choke”, he suffers from his lack of education.

Lu Weiyi took out a few bottles of water from the space and handed them to the little monkey, indicating that he should rinse his mouth. In his mind, he had already imagined the scene of the giant monkey going to school with human children. Maybe at that time, they would face the dilemma of doing homework after class.

You know what, that scene is quite funny when you think about it.

He chuckled twice, and was almost knocked down by the big head of Zhuang Wukong next to him. He quickly turned around to comfort them and squatted down to check the culprit who caused their injuries.

[Does it hurt?] 】 Lu Weiyi asked, pulling aside its hair and seeing that the pads on the soles of its feet had turned white due to excessive blood loss. They probably didn't want to stay on the ground, but their four feet had lost too much blood and couldn't stand up.

"What's wrong?" Qin Jin, who had absorbed the crystal core, looked much more normal, except that his voice was abnormally hoarse. When he approached them to speak, Lu Weiyi saw his Adam's apple rolling as he swallowed.

"Hey, control yourself, don't bite us," Lu Weiyi warned vigilantly, in return Qin Jin glared at him, looking a lot more rational than before.

"You did a good thing," Qin Jin stretched out his hand to him, "Give me another crystal core you just had."

"There are only a few in total, so use them sparingly." Lu Weiyi took another one from the space and handed it over.

Qin Jin immediately absorbed it and said, "The zombie energy here is very strong, it doesn't seem to exist in nature."

"Technology and hard work".

This was an idea that Lu Weiyi brought up when he was chatting with Zhuang Mingxu after he learned that zombies could only absorb zombie energy from crystal cores. By concentrating the zombie energy that they didn't need to eliminate before, could they artificially create crystal cores that were more conducive to zombie absorption?

His original idea was that if that was not possible, perhaps he could try to utilize the zombie energy as much as possible. After all, energy itself has a wide range of uses and cannot be completely eliminated just because humans cannot absorb it.

Who would have thought that they actually made a few, even though the output was a bit low, the energy was real. Lu Weiyi saw that one could help Qin Jin recover a lot, and said nonchalantly, "This one was extracted from a lot of S-level zombie crystal cores..."

Qin Jin glanced at him, ignored his hint, and instead asked about the injuries of the four.

Lu Weiyi's attention was immediately diverted, "He's lost too much blood. If this continues, his foot might become necrotic."

He glanced in Xu Xiao's direction and felt that the zombie could hardly save itself, let alone help them with treatment.

"I'll ask the base to send a healing psychic over here." Lu Weiyi sat cross-legged on the smooth ground, messaging Zhuang Mingxu while saying, "I suspect you haven't received any treatment since yesterday, and everything you experienced may have been an illusion."

Qin Jin didn't show any surprise on his face. He raised his eyebrows and said, "So you're using me as an experiment?"

At first he thought that even if the zombies' eyes were blocked, it would not be affected, but he ignored Lu Weiyi's supernatural powers. He did not notice when the surroundings changed at all. He just felt that there was an extremely powerful danger coming from all directions. He subconsciously felt that if he did not mobilize his supernatural powers and fight desperately, he would most likely be in trouble. This is why his supernatural powers were depleted in one blow.

After thinking about it, he knew that Lu Weiyi had unconsciously used his supernatural powers to influence his five senses, causing him to act subconsciously.

Fortunately, he did not do anything dangerous, otherwise Qin Jin felt that something might happen to him without him realizing it. This made him more vigilant about psychic powers.

"It's mainly because I saw some plants around here before, and I wanted to use your ability to break them open." Lu Weiyi said this, but he took out the skewers of meat that he had specially stored in the space before, and asked curiously, "Does your special forces have barbecue like this?"

"..." Qin Jin.

Qin Jin looked at the corn stalks that were running away into the distance, "Are they them?"

"Not sure," Lu Weiyi said, and stood up and walked away, out of Jisang's sight, and then entered the space. Antonio and Dean were already waiting in the space, and Gu Qingji and Gu Qingyue were also with them.

It was obvious that these four people were transferred here in a hurry. Antonio had blood on his hands, and Dean and Gu Qingyue were both wearing white coats, which was their unique attire to show professionalism when they were working.

"What's going on?" Lu Weiyi frowned and asked, thinking of the situation of the base that Zhuang Mingxu had not mentioned yet.

Antonio spread his hands and said, "Go ask the farm captain."

Gu Qingji and Gu Qingyue also turned their heads to avoid his sight. Dean was heartless and even though he was clear-headed, he would pretend to be stupid at the critical moment.

Lu Weiyi's brows turned cold, and he was about to speak, but he heard Antonio immediately raise his hand and said, "Don't involve irrelevant people in your problems. I am innocent."

Gu Qingyue and Gu Qingji raised their hands together in a gesture of surrender.

"..."Lu Weiyi.

He led the four people out of the space and hinted to ask, "Are there other forces that are not honest?"

"... Let's take precautions." Antonio looked around, stroked his chin and thought before replying.

"Did we start this?"

"..." Antonio opened his mouth and chuckled twice, which was considered as his agreement.

Now Lu Weiyi had a clue in his mind. He guessed that Zhuang Mingxu felt that someone was not behaving himself and took the initiative to attack.

"Who is following Zhuang Mingxu?"

"Qi Lin" Antonio did not hide it this time, "Zhuangzhuang said, you should dispatch someone with speed ability to go over there. He is the only one you can trust temporarily, so let him go for now."

Lu Weiyi got goose bumps all over his body because of his foreign accent. He looked at him inexplicably, "Does Li Zhuang know that you call him that?"

Di Anle laughed heartily, looking very carefree, while Gu Qingyue and Gu Qingji could not help laughing.

Antonio seemed to be teasing him on purpose, "Of course, we are good friends now."

He then made a "good friends for life" gesture, which immediately made Dean laugh again. He just looked at him and smiled gently, with doting in his eyes.

Early in the morning, Lu Weiyi suddenly felt a little bloated.

Before the five people got close, Wanshida, who had his back to them, was the first to sense the breath of his master. He turned his head and looked over with a whimper of grievance. He wanted to get up, but stumbled and fell to the ground again.

"Oh, my little baby, what happened to you?" Dean saw this and strode towards Mastercard. He was not paying attention and was immediately slipped by the smooth glass floor under his feet and rushed towards them.

"Dean--!" Antonio was too far away to get close to him, and he didn't dare to use his supernatural powers on him.

Seeing that the other party was about to fall down, Gu Qingji's mutant plant immediately took action and dragged the man upside down to Antonio's side.

Antonio said words of thanks, then walked forward carefully holding the person in his arms, still feeling a lingering fear in his heart.

"We have encountered a situation here. You go and help take care of their injuries," Lu Weiyi said to Dean and Gu Qingyue, then glanced at Gu Qingji. Gu Qingji understood and followed him forward.

Antonio stood beside the three people, guarding against everything around him, and at the same time asked Lu Weiyi what happened here.

After understanding the situation, Antonio directly took out an instrument that was completely wrapped in a colorless transparent substance from the space, clicked it to open it, and scanned the surroundings.

Both Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin found that after opening this thing, there was no sign of damage, so they knew that this was a new development of the base, but no one took the initiative to ask.

After a while, Antonio kept tapping on the screen, and finally shook his head at them, "There are no high-level creatures."

Just as Lu Weiyi was thinking about what it might be, Gu Qingji came over. On the palm of his hand, wearing a white rubber glove, there were several white tentacles wriggling like little insects, "like the roots of a plant."

"Is it corn?" Qin Jin's eyes immediately turned to the mutant corn stalks that were circling in the distance as if watching them.

Under the stimulation of Gu Qingji's special ability, the plant in his hand grew rapidly and soon grew branches, but it didn't look like corn at all, but rather like some kind of tree.

The group looked for a while, and then a small tree as tall as an arm appeared in front of them.

"What kind of tree is this?" Someone asked what Lu Weiyi was thinking.

"It seems to be... a banyan tree," Qin Jin's voice was uncertain, "The trees I've seen are all dozens or hundreds of years old, and this one is so tiny... I'm not sure."

"Are there any around us?"

Everyone in the group shook their heads. There were trees all around and no one was sure if they had seen them before.

"If it really has the effect of paralyzing limbs as you said, you'd better be careful next time," Gu Qingji reminded. The plants he had seen before were either zombies with enhanced characteristics in certain aspects, or they had special abilities in certain directions. This was the first time he encountered one that had both. The key point was that they still couldn't figure out what caused them to be trapped in the illusion.

"I'll pay attention," Lu Weiyi said and looked at Dean. Gu Qingyue and Dean had already repaired the wounds of the four mutant animals, but the subsequent reactions caused by excessive blood loss could not be alleviated by treatment.

"Do they need it?" Lu Weiyi pointed at Cheng Qi and his group and asked Qin Jin.

"Let's go and take a look," Qin Jinwen said thank you to Dean in a low voice.

Antonio followed Dean closely as they walked towards the zombies. Their guard against each other was obvious. Only Dean was careless. When he was treating Cheng Qi, he even touched him a few more times out of curiosity and asked about how the zombie felt after losing too much blood. One could not help but sigh at his broad-mindedness.

"It seems that they are the ones who are injured, and you seem to be fine." Gu Qingji looked at the two of them and suddenly said.

Lu Weiyi thought he was curious about the reason, so he listened to him continue, "Is it possible that the creature that attacked you was an SS-level creature?"

Qin Jin and Lu Weiyi both thought of the changes in the body after reaching the SSS level, but ignored this possibility. Lu Weiyi immediately turned to Antonio and asked, "Have you found any SS-level creatures?"

"No, not even S-level."

Antonio answered straightforwardly. Lu Weiyi spread his hands. He also didn't notice that there were any high-level creatures around, so he lowered his vigilance. Who knew that the boat capsized.

"Forget it. Even if there is something here, it has nothing to do with our base. After the treatment, we will move to another place." Lu Weiyi looked at Qin Jin inquiringly. The other party nodded and agreed. After all, even if the high-level mutant creature had a crystal core, it would be useless to him. It didn't matter whether he found it or not.

After the two confirmed it, they directly sent the four injured mutant animals back to the base for recuperation. They walked in the expected direction, but they didn't expect that if they didn't go to find the other party, the other party would come to their door.