Chapter 189 Eat it
What they meant by making extra money was picking up living people, looting them of all their belongings, and then dumping them on scavengers.
The Scavengers are a recently formed organization comprised of homeless people who lack identification and are therefore unable to enter the Huaxia Base.
They lacked fixed residences and sources of supplies, but possessed a considerable amount of crystal cores, which they could use for underground transactions with the people inside the base.
This was the first time Lu Zhi had heard of this group, and he was quite curious.
But that was not his purpose.
"Take me to the seaside city, and I'll let you go."
Hearing him say that, Zhou Qiang and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
The boy hesitated for a moment, then mustered his courage and tugged at Lu Zhi's sleeve, whispering, "Can I go with you to... to the seaside city?"
Lu Zhi slightly raised her hand and pulled her sleeve out of his grasp. Instead of immediately agreeing, she asked, "What can you do?"
The boy looked troubled, his fingers fidgeting restlessly as he cautiously observed Lu Zhi's expression, trying to discern something.
"I can do anything, but you... you still have injuries, right?"
As soon as the boy finished speaking, Zhou Qiang glanced at Lu Zhi through the rearview mirror, his eyes filled with a scrutinizing look.
Neither of them noticed that the lawyer had any injuries.
The woman looked at the bandage on Lu Zhi's hand again, narrowed her eyes slightly, and said, "I didn't expect you to be injured."
Lu Zhi scoffed and said, "That doesn't stop me from killing you. Don't try anything funny, or you'll be dead before you even get to Haibin City."
At this moment, Zhou Qiang and his group saw him as a spent force, and he deliberately said these harsh words to make them wary.
Feeling the vehicle slowing down, Lu Zhi looked out the window and lazily yawned.
In the blink of an eye, a silver light flashed before his eyes.
"Ah!" the boy cried out in fear, instinctively closing his eyes as he thought he would see blood. ×|
But what I imagined didn't happen.
A strong gust of wind rushed in, even messing up Lü Zhi's hairstyle.
The boy opened his eyes and saw that the car door had been opened at some point, and the man next to him had rolled out of the car.
Zhou Qiang quickly stopped the car, and he and the woman simultaneously opened the car door and jumped out.
They had just landed when they threw a bomb at the car. Before it even hit the car, it was caught by a vine and crushed to pieces.
The smell of gunpowder was somewhat pungent, and the vines shook it off in disgust.
Zhou Qiang and his team were dumbfounded.
"Tsk, I already told you, sending me there will save your lives, why don't you believe me?" Lu Zhi was still sitting in the car, his arm lazily resting on the window, his fingertips lightly tapping outside.
He turned to the boy and asked, "Can you drive?"
The boy nodded quickly, afraid that he would change his mind, and hurriedly climbed into the driver's seat and restarted the car.
Zhou Qiang and his team still had supplies in the vehicle; why would they just watch them drive away?
The bullet struck the car window, easily shattering the glass. Shards flew everywhere, and the bullet headed towards Lu Zhi, who raised his hand and easily caught it between his fingers.
The bandage snapped, revealing skin as bare as withered branches.
The boy was still getting used to the car, driving erratically, which made Lu Zhi doubt whether he really knew how to drive.
Noticing Ritsuji's gaze, he replied in a panic, "I really can drive!"
Not long after he said that, the car finally became much more stable.
Curious, he looked back through the rearview mirror and saw that Zhou Qiang and the others were caught in the suddenly appearing vines, their terrified screams being muffled by something.
Sweat beaded on the boy's palms as he looked incredulously at Lu Zhi, who had closed his eyes and was dozing off in the back seat.
"Drive faster." Lu Zhi's expression didn't look good.
"Okay," the boy answered tremblingly, then silently quickened his pace.
On the sea.
They had already arrived at the sea area where the Federation base was located.
The vine on his wrist twitched, and Sui Cheng, thinking that Lu Zhi had woken up, gently pinched the leaves on the vine.
The vines climbed up his neck, brushed against his cheek, and touched his lips with their leaves.
"Can you see anything?" The attendant didn't stop him and asked him in a low voice.
Upon entering this sea area, Sui Cheng could sense a powerful aura.
He didn't detect any reaction from the other people's faces, as if he hadn't noticed anything yet.
That's why I thought of asking the legal expert.
The vines hooked around his fingertips and wrote two words, "space," on his palm.
It was only after being reminded by him that Sui Cheng realized that the aura here was similar to that when Wenwen used his superpower.
Because Wenwen's abilities have been suppressed, apart from Lu Zhi, no one knows the extent of his spatial abilities.
"Waaah!"
There was a sound outside.
The passenger quickly stood up, looked out the window, and saw that the seawater had begun to ripple, and the waves had become more rapid.
"We're almost there." Yu Shuang hadn't closed his eyes the whole way, with dark circles under his eyes, afraid that if he fell asleep, the Suicheng would go on a vicious attack on him.
One of Yang Xie's men used binoculars to observe the sea and whispered, "There are no islands out there."
“We definitely won’t let you find us so easily,” Yu Shuang said. “The Federation base is completely hidden on the sea.”
"Completely hidden? Is it because of that alien species?" the attendant asked.
"Would you like to see?" Yu Shuang pointed outside, as if deliberately luring them out.
Those who were traveling with them weren't stupid, and they shook their heads slightly.
Yu Shuang sighed and said, "That's a real pity. You won't be able to see how they provide food for the aliens."
Sui Cheng's eyelids twitched, but he couldn't help but walk a little outside.
There were no patrols in the cabin where Yu Shuang was located, and the only camera in the corridor had been destroyed by them.
"You stay here and watch over him," Yang Xie gestured.
Everyone else stayed behind, while he and his entourage went out to take a look.
The two concealed their presence, dressed in federal base patrol uniforms, to better blend in the chaos.
"Bang!"
They saw people on deck throwing sacks into the sea one after another.
It can be seen that the sack contained people, and living people at that.
Sui Cheng felt a chill in his heart, never expecting these people to be so ruthless.
The sack sank continuously after being thrown into the sea until it was caught by a tentacle. With just a little force, blood flowed out of the sack, as if the person inside had been crushed.
The seawater was quickly dyed red.
Huge waves surged on the sea, crashing wildly against the aircraft carrier. The people on the deck sensed something and quickly retreated until they were back in their cabins.
At this moment, no one noticed that Suicheng and Yangxie had mingled into the crowd.
The energy fluctuations in the air caused a huge island to suddenly appear on the sea, as if a door to some other dimension had been opened.
Sui Cheng and Yang Xie exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with shock.
Just as Yu Shuang said, the Federation base was concealed by the aliens using space, so their presence could not be detected on the sea surface.
Sui Cheng noticed that the vines on his wrist were not quite still, so he reached out and grabbed them.
Ye Zi scratched his palm and wrote a line of words.
"I want to eat it."
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