Chapter 137 Departure to Zhoujia County
"Mutated plant? What kind?" This thing caught Lu Weiyi's attention.
"It was an ivy, and the vines spread everywhere, blocking the road completely," Li Qing continued, "We were careless at the time. There were frozen dead plants everywhere, and only the mountains there were green."
"No one expected that plants would mutate, so I led the team over there. The vines didn't react at first, until all three trucks entered the range of the vines. All the vines seemed to come alive, surrounding us tightly and starting to attack directly. Many soldiers were tied up tightly, and some even had their necks strangled instantly."
"It was only then that I noticed that under the tightly covered vines, there were corpses of animals and plants everywhere. There have been no people coming to the south for refuge recently, so I guess they all died there."
"Don't you have anyone with fire-related abilities? Plants should be afraid of fire, right?" Gu Qingji asked. The plants he nurtured could not withstand Liu Rui's fire, even with the continuous input of his abilities.
"We used it, but it could only scare it, not cause much harm. In the end, we lost seven or eight people and finally escaped." Li Qing's face looked a little grim when he mentioned this. "Later, I found out that the plants induced by B-level wood-type mutants would not be burned by C-level fire-type mutants. I thought that the mutated plant might be already B-level, so the fire-type mutants in our team could not cause any harm to it."
"It's possible" Lu Weiyi actually wanted to say with certainty, after all, there is a level limit.
"I've seen Liu Rui use a fireball before," Li Qing paused, "...I was thinking whether you would like to go to Zhoujia County with us, so that you can have a share of what we get."
While others were still considering it, Lu Weiyi readily agreed, "Okay, we will deal with the mutated plants, and the crystal cores will also belong to us."
Zhuang Mingxu looked at him in surprise and immediately made a condition, "Although we are few in number, we have many level one psychics and naturally have stronger abilities. If you want to support more people, I will let you have some and all the supplies we get will be divided among you."
Li Qing felt that this ratio was a bit too high, so he calculated it again and finally decided on 82.
"Deal." Although Li Qing didn't know how many level one psychics they had, he thought there would be quite a few. After all, when most people hadn't awakened yet, there were already five psychics in their team. After such a long time, even if not all of them had upgraded, they would definitely be almost there.
After seeing Li Qing off, Zhuang Mingxu asked Lu Weiyi how he could go safely. After all, they were few in number and consumed little salt, so they would not be short of food for two years.
"I want to see if the mutant plant can be used for my own purposes, just like this," Lu Weiyi manipulated the small green branch and shook it. "Gu Qingji uses the stimulated sweet potato vines in daily battles, and they have to be stimulated at any time every day."
"If I could have a mutant plant, I could wrap it around my hand like this and use it at any time. It would have strong combat power, and maybe it would have some of the plant's special characteristics and abilities." Lu Weiyi shook a bracelet-like plant on his wrist.
"Is this a mutant plant? I always thought it was some kind of jewelry." Wu Yue looked at it curiously and flicked the leaves with his hand. "Is it alive?"
"Yeah." Lu Weiyi nodded, but didn't say whether he was answering the first or second question.
"...Give it to me?" Gu Qingji was surprised.
Lu Weiyi nodded, looked around, and asked, "Liu Rui wants to go together, who else wants to go?"
"I asked about the way to Zhoujia County before," Zhuang Mingxu took out a hand-drawn map, "Zhoujia County does not belong to Qingyuan City. It was originally not far from here, but now the road has changed, and it needs to go around the neighboring Xiangning City. It is estimated that it will take at least seven days to go back and forth, not counting unexpected situations on the road. You should all think it through."
"I'll go, brother. I want to go and take a look." Lu Xi has been following them to kill zombies recently and has been very active in practicing his superpowers.
"I'll go too," said Gu Qingji. After all, it was given to him, so he had to go no matter what the situation was.
Li Zhuang raised his hand, counting as one.
Antonio glanced at Dean, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to go.
"I……"
"Let's just have the six of them. Quality is more important than quantity." Before Xu Sa could finish his words, Zhuang Mingxu said, "We also need to have some people left behind in the base to prevent anyone from causing trouble."
Having said this, no one else said anything.
After eating and drinking, everyone huddled together to digest the food. Usually at this time, everyone would go back to their rooms to absorb crystal cores to improve their abilities. But today, when Li Qing said that, all the people with special abilities held the crystal cores in their hands, not knowing for a moment whether they should absorb them all.
Lu Weiyi didn't have any ideas. After telling Zhuang Aiyi to go to bed early, he planned to go back to his room to absorb today's crystal cores.
"Wei Yi, Li Qing said that we can absorb a maximum of five crystal cores every day. Do we dare to absorb all of them?" Wu Yue asked first.
"Not sure." Although Lu Weiyi could feel that the crystal core soaked in heavy snow reduced some of the restless energy, he couldn't guarantee whether it was harmful or not. "You guys decide for yourselves."
"What do you think?" Wu Yue asked the rest of the people.
"The mutated plants have all upgraded. My level is so low. If I don't absorb the crystal cores well, I might be killed when I go out in the future. Fortune and wealth must be sought in danger." Xu Sa took his ten crystal cores and dragged Liu Rui back to the room.
Those who have already upgraded definitely have nothing to be afraid of for the time being. The others looked at each other and finally decided that they would rather die because of their strength than be bullied because of their weakness.
**
A few days later, Li Qing told me that I could leave.
Li Qing brought more than 30 people this time and drove three trucks. Seeing that Lu Weiyi only brought six people, he was a little surprised, "Aren't you bringing all the team members with you? My dad will take care of us at the base."
"No need, it's enough." If the few of them who are already level one can't handle it, then others will just be sending themselves to waste. Besides, he has explosives in his space, so if he really can't defeat them, he can just blow them up. This was also what Zhuang Mingxu had reminded him before.
"If you can't win, run away. Safety is the most important thing." Zhuang Mingxu brought others out to see them off. He held Lu Weiyi's hand, feeling extremely reluctant to let go. In the end, he only said one sentence, "I'll wait for you to come back."
"Well, you should be careful at the base." Lu Weiyi felt a little regretful when he saw Zhuang Mingxu's legs.
"Don't worry, we will take care of the base and wait for you to come back safely," Ning Yuan assured the others who were reluctant to leave.
Six people got on a military truck with Li Qing's team. They were all acquaintances. Compared with a group of rough men who were poorly clothed and poorly fed, Lu Weiyi and his six companions were so clean and tidy that people felt embarrassed to let them sit on the ground.
Li Qing took out a few pieces of paper from the corner and handed them to the six people, saying with a smile, "I even suspect that we are not experiencing the same apocalypse."
The six people were not squeamish and they just sat down. Giving them some cushion was considered a high-level treatment. They took the seats and waved to the people who were seeing them off outside.
"Your team has such a good relationship." Li Qing himself is in the army. Although there are many scheming people around him, after all, they have the friendship of comrades and will not have conflicts over trivial matters.
Now in the base, deep in the crowd, and accustomed to the intrigues among various teams, and even using people around them to block zombies, they become extremely precious.
"Feelings are mutual. We have been together for a long time, and in today's world, teammates are your backs, so you have to be nice to your backs." There were six people in the group. Lu Weiyi rarely argued with others. Antonio and Li Zhuang were the kind of people who would not take the initiative to chat unless there was something to do. Gu Qingji and Liu Rui had an even lower sense of presence. Instead, diplomacy became the job of Lu Xi, a half-grown kid.
"Brother Li Qing, have you figured out the way to Zhoujia County? Where are the mutant plants?"
"We have walked this section of the road before. Apart from some zombies on the road, there is not much danger. We can just wait in the truck and drive over. There is no need to do anything. The mutant plants are in a village near Xiangning City. We will arrive there in about two days," Li Qing replied.
"In the village? Isn't it in the wild?" Lu Xi asked.
"No, it was in a village. Its range spread across the entire village. I don't know if there are still living people in the village. However, some trees within its range are growing particularly well, especially the fruit trees. Not only are there no signs of freezing to death, but they are still bearing fruits." Li Qing recalled the situation of the mutated plants and still felt that he had been careless.
"What fruit?" Lu Weiyi was interested in this. After a heavy snowfall, there were basically no ordinary fruits in the wild, unless they were mutated fruits.
As for the mutated fruits, Zhuang Aiyi and Zhuang Mingxu can take them back and eat more of them. The mild energy of the plants is very good for ordinary people's bodies.
"...I saw two trees," Li Qing thought for a while and said, "You may not believe it, but one of them was a peach tree, with red-skinned nectarines as big as fists, which looked especially delicious. The other one...I don't recognize it."
Li Qing thought about it and tried to describe it, "The fruit on it is about the size of a small ball, green in color, and bulging. I have never seen it, so I'm not sure if it is edible."
"Nectarine... should be a fruit from May or June, right?" Gu Qingji looked at others uncertainly.
Liu Rui nodded and said, "Yes."
"When I returned to the base and told a lot of people about it, they didn't believe it, but what we saw was indeed true," Lei Jun shrugged. Several other people nodded, indicating that they were right.
Out-of-season fruits are obviously mutant fruits. Lu Weiyi was very happy. "How many people did you bring?"
"Thirty-six, without you," Li Qing replied.
"We will deal with the mutated plants, you don't have to do anything. All the fruits and mutated plants belong to us," Lu Weiyi stated.
"...That mutant plant is quite powerful." Lei Jun was not reluctant to part with it, but was worried that Lu Weiyi's greed would cause them harm. After all, he had saved their lives.
"Well, if anything goes wrong, we will take responsibility ourselves," said Lu Weiyi.
Lei Jun glanced at Li Qing, then turned to look at the other five people. He saw that the five people had no intention of refutation. They opened their mouths and said, "Okay." He thought that when help was needed, they would definitely not stand idly by.
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