Chapter 62 Ready to Depart
He seemed to be in a bad mood when he returned from the ride.
"What's wrong? Did something go wrong?" Lu Zhi quickly went over and asked with concern.
Sui Cheng shook his head: "No, it went very smoothly. They have already made preliminary progress in figuring out how to use the crystal core."
"Then why do you look so unwell?"
"The instructions from above have come down, and they've approved my investigation into the looting." Sui Cheng paused, looked at Lu Zhi, and said with a somewhat ambiguous tone, "I think the Party is starting to suspect your identity."
He repeated what Dang Hongyuan had told him.
"Okay, I understand." Lü Zhi didn't seem worried at all.
Instead, the passenger frowned with some concern and asked, "Aren't you worried?"
“Actually, there’s nothing to worry about.” Lu Zhi waved his hand, then looked at his furrowed brows, smoothed them with his hand, and said in a somewhat lazy tone, “If you find out, just hand me over.”
"Law Master, can you please stop joking around at a time like this?" The attendant was genuinely a little angry, but more than that, he was worried.
"Trust me, I was prepared from the moment I arrived at the human base." Lu Zhi kissed the corner of his lips, his tone heavy, and said, word by word, "When I appear by your side, I will definitely pay a heavy price. I know clearly what these prices are from beginning to end, and even what I will face in the future."
He leaned close to the passenger's ear and whispered, "Do you really think I came to you unprepared?"
His short sentence startled the passenger.
Yes, Ritsu is currently only in a human body; his true form may still be somewhere else.
"You..." His lips moved, the words were already on the tip of his tongue, but then he seemed to remember something and stopped talking.
"Why don't you ask me what I've prepared?" Lu Zhi asked with a smile.
Sui Cheng shook his head and said, "You'd better keep this kind of thing to yourself."
"But what can we do? I want to tell you," Lu Zhi couldn't help but tease him.
"I won't listen." Sui Cheng forcefully pushed him away and went into the bedroom to pack her luggage.
The lawyer quickly followed, asking, "Aren't you planning to take me with you on this investigation into the looting?"
The attendant retorted coldly, "When have I ever not taken you along?"
Moreover, even if he didn't want to bring him along, Lu Zhi would probably shamelessly insist on following along.
"I've really decided to go alone, without bringing any teammates."
"Um."
Lu Zhi immediately became happy, especially at the thought of getting rid of those third wheels.
Sui Cheng silently rolled his eyes, telling him to hurry up and pack his things, or else he shouldn't travel with him.
Their first stop in investigating the plunder was the Azure Dragon Base. They didn't choose Base 1 because Zhong Ling and her group were there, and they didn't yet know what their purpose was. But if they went there so easily, it would be like lambs to the slaughter.
The plundering organization is scattered across the Azure Dragon Base and Base One, but not at the China Base. It's hard not to suspect that they are wary of this place, or that they are afraid of being discovered.
Neither of them carried anything related to the China base during this operation.
Sui Cheng spent some time contacting Shan Qiu, wanting her to arrange an identity for the two of them at the Qinglong Base, so that outsiders wouldn't suspect anything, and no one except her could know.
Shan Qiu was naturally happy to agree, after all, they still had a cooperative relationship.
They did not meet directly at the Qinglong base, but instead decided to meet in Pajiang, a city near Qinglong.
Shan Qiu had previously mentioned that she was also a manipulated mutant she encountered in Pajang.
Upon arriving in Pajiang, Shan Qiu was somewhat surprised that he had only brought one lawyer with him.
The passenger didn't offer her much of an explanation.
Just as they were about to exchange a few pleasantries, Shan Qiu suddenly dropped a bombshell.
"You know Leng Tianrui from Base One, right?"
Sui Cheng knew, of course, that Leng Tianrui had become a dual-elemental ability user earlier than him, when the Calamity Day had just begun.
When they went to the southwest, Leng Tianrui led the other superhumans to the coastal areas.
When he set off yesterday, the minister was telling him that there was no news from the coastal areas.
Hearing Shan Qiu's serious tone again, he wondered if there was a problem on the coast.
As it turned out, Shan Qiu's next sentence confirmed this idea.
"Leng Tianrui has gone missing, and the main force has quickly dispersed. Our base personnel have returned first to report the news, and you probably haven't received it yet."
The passenger asked, "What happened over there?"
"Deep-sea alien species".
"What? "
Shan Qiu only uttered these four words, and Lu Zhi's reaction was even stronger than that of Sui Cheng.
About six months ago, I heard people talking about deep-sea aliens. Everyone described them as incredibly terrifying, enormous, and impossible to approach.
"They encountered a deep-sea creature. Could it be that they went to the sea?" Lu Zhi scoffed.
“I don’t know either,” Shan Qiu explained. “The people who came back said that Leng Tianrui went out to sea alone with his team, and no one knows how far they went.”
Lu Zhi snorted, "Since we've already encountered a deep-sea creature, it must have gone to the sea. These things never come ashore."
Hearing him speak so definitively, Shan Qiu couldn't help but ask curiously, "How do you know they won't go ashore?"
Lu Zhi rolled his eyes speechlessly and said, "Have you ever seen any sea creature that survives long on land? Even alien species are no exception; they are too dependent on the ocean."
Sui Cheng nodded in agreement, saying, "Lu Zhi is right. Deep-sea aliens generally don't come to the island easily."
"Alright, let's not talk about that now. I'll take you to the base first." Shan Qiu took out two ID cards from her bag and handed them to them. "These are your credentials to enter the base. This must be your first time here, right?"
Both the attendant and the master of the law nodded simultaneously.
Looking at the ID card, which seemed to contain a chip, Lu Zhi casually remarked, "This looks even more advanced than our base."
"This is incomparable," Shan Qiu quickly explained. "We're just small-scale operations; we dare not compare ourselves to official organizations."
These identification cards were developed by tech enthusiasts themselves, and they can simply be swiped when entering the base.
However, the Huaxia base is different. Although they do not need to swipe their ID cards to enter, the testing machines placed at the entrance can detect any infected person.
Moreover, they only allow people with Chinese ID numbers to enter.
People from other places can only choose either Base One or their Azure Dragon Base.
...
Pajiang is about an hour's drive from Qinglong Base.
With the identities prepared for them by Shan Qiu, they easily entered the base.
The Azure Dragon Base also has very high walls, and the buildings inside are all remnants of the original city, giving it a feeling of returning to the pre-apocalyptic world.
"Sister Qiu, you're back so soon! And who are these two?" Someone recognized Shan Qiu at a glance and greeted her warmly.
"We picked up two new people," Shan Qiu explained simply.
"Great, Sister Qiu, these two newcomers are really good-looking," a female superhuman joked from the side.
"Don't say that," Shan Qiu shrugged. "These two are obviously a couple, so what do we have to do with it?"
"Oh dear, what's wrong with this world? All the good men are reserved for other good men, can't I have one too?"
After Shan Qiu said those words, even more people started scrutinizing them.
Sui Cheng kept his head down, his ear tips were slightly red, but his face had a cold and aloof expression.
Lu Zhi loved hearing this kind of talk. He hooked his arm around the shoulder of the servant and said with a smile, "Ladies, make sure you recognize him. He's mine. From now on, just don't focus your attention on him."
Although it was said in a teasing tone, one could vaguely detect a strong possessiveness.
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