Chapter 157: Ji Heng Arrives
In the afternoon, Zhuang Mingxu was checking the production records of potatoes and sweet potatoes with Bai Miao and planning tomorrow's production when the gatekeeper outside said that someone came to see Zhuang Mingxu.
"Do you know who it is?" Zhuang Mingxu pushed the wheelchair forward a few steps and looked at the person in charge of guarding the door.
"He said he was Lu Weiyi's younger brother," the gatekeeper replied.
Lu Weiyi's younger brother...Ji Jin...
Only he could disgust Lu Weiyi like this.
Zhuang Mingxu estimated the time and thought that they should come to ask for food. He had a lot on his mind during this period and forgot about the affairs of the Ji family. He never mentioned it to Lu Weiyi again. Lu Weiyi had been in the Qingyuan City base for several months and had not even asked about the people of the Ji family. This made Zhuang Mingxu more inclined to believe what Ning Yuan said that day.
He selfishly did not want Lu Weiyi to contact anyone from the Ji family, as that would be tantamount to reopening the scar, but that was his blood relative, and Zhuang Mingxu could not make the decision for him.
"Brother Mingxu, how about I have someone chase him away?" Bai Miao asked when he saw Zhuang Mingxu hesitating.
"......Hmm." This was the only way for now. Zhuang Mingxu thought that he must mention it to Lu Weiyi when he returned. It would be best if the Ji family's issue could be resolved once and for all.
Ji Heng is old and has been pampered for many years. He has not gone out since he was injured. The burden of the family fell on Ji Jin, and even Ji Lin was forced to please the illegitimate son of the Li family.
It's hard to imagine how a big family could live if he had to rely on himself. Ji Jin repeatedly instigated Jiang Fu to go to Ji Heng and instigate her to ask Lu Weiyi for supplies, but was severely stopped by Ji Zhong.
Although Ji Heng was a worthless person, his only virtue was that he was filial and he was really good to Ji Zhong. Although his life was hard, it was not so bad that he couldn't survive, so he didn't listen to Jiang Fu.
Ji Jin was extremely dissatisfied with this. He went to Zhuang Mingxu again to ask for supplies in private, but failed. He then thought about going to Longmen Villa to stop Lu Weiyi directly. After all, in his impression, Lu Weiyi was very filial as he was willing to be sold for money, especially since the old man in his family was really good to him.
As soon as she arrived at the door, she saw Yun Lu who also chose to "wait and see" - Lu Weiyi was nowhere to be found in the Greenland Community, and the people in the team were obviously unwilling to help her, so Yun Lu simply waited at the door of Longmen Villa.
Ji Jin's attention to Lu Weiyi made him recognize Yun Lu at the first moment. He stared at her from a distance for a while, and finally turned around and went back to look for Ji Lin.
"Why do you want me to get close to her?" Ji Lin was already dissatisfied with being used to please others, so naturally she would not have a good attitude towards Ji Jin at this time.
"Maybe she will be Lu Weiyi's wife in the future. If you coax her well, you can get Lu Weiyi's supplies from her. Once you have the supplies, do you still need to please that illegitimate son of the Li family?" Lu Weiyi has been indifferent to Zhuang Mingxu for many years, and almost no one believes that he has feelings for Zhuang Mingxu. This is also the reason why when a woman suddenly appears, everyone is waiting to see Zhuang Mingxu make a fool of himself.
Ji Lin remained silent.
"It's spreading around the base right now that the person who's really in charge of the team is Lu Weiyi, and all the supplies are in his hands. You can see the situation of our family right now. We're using up our capital every day. How long can we last?"
"Our only solution now is to quickly capture Lu Weiyi. As long as we have him, the entire team will be serving us. Are you still worried about not having supplies? With supplies, do you still need to please others?" Ji Jin thought he saw everything and analyzed the situation in detail to Ji Lin.
"How do you control him?" Ji Lin asked.
"Grandpa has always been brooding over the fact that Lu Weiyi and Zhuang Mingxu were together. He even refused to recognize Zhuang Aiyi and thought she was a monster. Now a woman has finally appeared. Do you think he can be calm?" Ji Jin chuckled and urged Ji Lin, "Hurry up and find a way to get to know Yun Lu, and inadvertently tell her about the things that Zhuang Mingxu forced Lu Weiyi into doing."
Ji Lin hesitated for a moment and finally said, "You'd better convince grandpa."
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Just when Ji Jin was planning how to plot against Lu Weiyi, Lu Weiyi outside the base was facing the siege of zombies.
The weather has been bad recently, with rain in the afternoon. Some of the teams that went out of the base have started to spend the night outside. They go out to hunt zombies, and they don't need to go too far, so they go out early and come back early without resting.
We were busy until four in the afternoon today. The weather looked like it was going to be cloudy, so we drove back immediately. Usually they traveled in a truck, and except for the driver, everyone else sat in the covered compartment, so they would not get wet in the rain and could rest. Since they would occasionally travel in the rain, Lu Weiyi was always the one driving or giving directions, and this time was no exception.
So the moment the zombies approached, Lu Weiyi noticed it. It was raining, which was not friendly to them. Lu Weiyi originally wanted to take a detour, but a group of zombies ran directly towards them.
"There is a group of zombies approaching, heading towards us, let's fight quickly and decisively." The distance of several hundred meters is just a matter of seconds for both sides, and it is basically impossible to dodge, Lu Weiyi said to the people in the car through the intercom.
Their method of hunting zombies allows them not to panic when facing hordes of zombies. As they become more proficient and improve their superpowers, they can attract hundreds of zombies at a time. This makes the group of people who heard Lu Weiyi's words immediately enter combat mode - those with superpowers are outside, and ordinary people are among them.
As they were talking, the zombies had already surrounded them. The group had just removed the carport, thinking of starting the fight in the car in the rain. Faced with the zombies that surrounded them, they didn't have time to use their special powers before the rain on their heads turned into ice balls and ice needles and hit their heads.
"There are zombies with water-related abilities." Ning Yuan was the one with the highest water-related ability among all of them. He noticed it at the first moment and shouted quickly, releasing his abilities at the same time, trying to change the raindrops that had changed around them back to normal. Unfortunately, he was obviously not as skilled as others, and could only barely make the changes above everyone's heads. As for those higher up, there was no change at all.
Seeing his behavior, Gu Qingyue quickly offered help. He awakened late and his abilities were weaker, so his help could not alleviate the situation much.
"Attack quickly, find the water zombies and kill them, I can't hold on for long," Ning Yuan said.
"Try your best," Antonio replied.
Ordinary people can only attack at close range, which is useless on a moving vehicle; but what about those with special powers? The fireball released by the fire-type mutant was poured down by the heavy rain, and when it hit the zombies, it had the ability to extinguish fire.
The earth spikes condensed by the earth-type ability users with weak abilities were wetted by raindrops, which seriously affected their hardness and reduced their attack power, causing them to consume a lot more energy than usual to use one earth spike; as for the gold-type, it also affected their speed to some extent, especially the collision of ice beads around their bodies, which also reduced the accuracy of the flying knives a lot.
The only element that was not affected was probably the wood element. The transformed spring ivy could not directly penetrate the body and harvest crystal cores like Lu Weiyi's small green branches. Gu Qingji borrowed Lu Weiyi's initial attack method and directly controlled the transformed spring ivy to strangle his neck.
But his own ability was less than B level, and the level of the Transformed Ivy had been damaged after being attacked and subdued. At this time, the extended length was only more than 30 meters, which was barely enough to deal with the zombies in front of him.
"Oh my god, ice needle--" As Xu Sa shouted, a bolt of lightning quickly hit an extremely thin ice needle that was attacking his forehead. If Lu Weiyi had not reminded them to pay attention to all kinds of extremely subtle superpowers rushing towards them, he might not have noticed it at all with all kinds of superpowers flying around him.
It was like a transparent embroidery needle, hard to detect with the naked eye. If it was inserted directly into the forehead, the person would be a corpse in the next moment. Xu Sa couldn't help but feel a little scared.
As he finished speaking, countless ice needles rushed towards everyone as if launched by machines.
"Heavy rain of pear blossom needles--" Wu Yue shouted, and quickly condensed an earth shield wall around him. Xiong Jie beside him then extended a part of it, and the rest was completed by Li Zhuang, giving everyone a chance to catch their breath temporarily.
"This zombie was a martial arts master before he died, right?" Xu Sa said, turning around to look at everyone, and finally stopped at the two ordinary people in the middle, "Is he seriously injured?" Even if he was blocked in time, it was inevitable that someone would get injured, but the physical fitness of people with special powers was much better than that of ordinary people.
"Not bad." Shen Xing checked Chen Zhong and saw that none of the stab wounds were in vital areas, so he replied.
"Have you seen zombies have other superpowers?" Antonio frowned.
"...No," Gu Qingyue said, "They can't all be...water zombies, right?"
"I can't hold on any longer," Xiong Jie suddenly said. After his earth wall solidified, all attacks came in torrents from all directions. The earth wall couldn't hold on for long under this impact, especially since his ability was not very strong.
"Lu Weiyi, crystal core, my supernatural power is about to be overdrawn," Ning Yuan said into the intercom while taking advantage of the last moment.
Lu Weiyi, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was directing Lin Yimu in the driving seat to drive while manipulating the small green branches to harvest the crystal cores of the zombies blocking the road ahead. As the zombies' abilities grew stronger, the small green branches were obviously not as fast at harvesting as before, and for a moment Lu Weiyi was unaware of the situation behind him.
After hearing Ning Yuan's words, he asked Xiao Luzhi to throw a hundred crystal cores over and said to the people behind him, "This section of the road is a bit bumpy, so you better be careful and stand firm."
The moment the earth wall collapsed, ice cones and spikes of various sizes stabbed in from all directions at the same time, densely surrounding the people in the car, as if they were ready to pierce them into a sieve at any time. Everyone was trying their best to resist, but the opponent seemed to be endless. Just when Li Zhuang was thinking of creating a circle of earth wall and letting Lu Weiyi break through.
Ning Yuan, who was trying his best to absorb the crystal core, had a powerful energy burst out from his body, which directly knocked several people around him to the ground in the carriage. Even Liu Rui, who was leaning against the edge of the carriage, almost fell off. He was only able to stand firm because of Xu Sa's quick eyes and hands.
As this energy surged in all directions, a circle of endless ice seemed to be frozen for a moment, then changed direction and went back in the direction it came from, piercing through a circle of ordinary zombies surrounding the car, and continued to move towards the mutant zombies a little further away.
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