Chapter 187 Meeting Wang Ming Again
As the five vehicles left the base gate, they immediately attracted everyone's attention, especially the other party who was heading straight towards the tent where the group was camping.
"It's Ning Yuan and the others," Li Zhuang said after taking a look from a distance.
Zhuang Mingxu quickly turned around and shouted to others, "Pack your things quickly, we're leaving immediately."
The others paused and looked at Lu Weiyi. It was almost dark now, and judging from the mutant animals they had encountered along the way, traveling at night was not a good idea.
Lu Weiyi glanced at Zhuang Mingxu, paused for a moment, and said, "Let's go."
The others immediately started to move.
"Captain, I have bought all the things we were missing. This was all paid for by Brother Tao and Sister Ping. If I had known earlier, I should have taken the crystal core with me when I left," Ning Yuan shouted to Lu Weiyi from a distance.
He turned around and spoke righteously, "Brother Tao, please calculate how many crystal cores this cost. I'll ask the captain for it. Don't worry, I guarantee that not a penny will be less."
Lu Weiyi's eyes swept around the five trucks and finally fell on Tao An's expression of being about to vomit blood. He finally understood why Zhuang Mingxu asked him to pack up quickly. What were he waiting for if he didn't run away in this situation?
"No need, it's just a small thing. I'm giving it to you as a token of our friendship." Tao An had forgotten the last time he felt so aggrieved. He tried his best to calm down.
"I'm so sorry," Ning Yuan said.
"It's okay." Tao An asked the people who followed him to unload the goods and asked, "Is it the crystal core you mentioned before...?"
"That crystal core? There is no problem with that crystal core. You used it yourself yesterday, Brother Tao. We didn't use any tricks. Brother Tao, you are talking about this now. Are you trying to destroy the bridge after crossing it?" Ning Yuan looked surprised and alert.
"That's not the case. I just want to ask, what kind of crystal core is that? I won't miss it if I see it next time." Tao An knew that Ning Yuan was pretending to be stupid, but he couldn't confront him.
"Oh, this?" Ning Yuan said as if he suddenly realized something. "It's a small matter. Wait a minute, I'll go ask our captain."
Tao An gritted his teeth.
Ning Yuan ran to Lu Weiyi and said anxiously in a low voice, "Pack your things, we're leaving now."
"How much did you cheat him of to scare you like this?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"A truckload of mutant meat, a truckload of mutant fish, alive ones, and a truckload of condiments and medicines, and half a truckload of potatoes and sweet potato seeds." Ning Yuan said this and suddenly felt a little guilty, "Hey, did I get too much?"
Lu Weiyi gave him a look that was hard to describe.
"He asked what the crystal core was. I said I would come over to ask you. After they unload the goods, I will go over and tell him. Then you collect the things and we will run away immediately." Ning Yuan was terrified. "You said, they won't chase us with arms, right?"
"We have it too, at worst we can just hurt each other," Lu Weiyi said.
"You have to protect me, I'm doing this for the organization," Ning Yuan muttered.
He waited until all the goods were unloaded before he walked up to Tao An with a look of accomplished mission on his face, and said, "This was discovered by our team ourselves. The base didn't tell anyone else before, and the captain was reluctant to say it. But, Brother Tao, you are different. You knew we were short of supplies and immediately took me to buy them. It's just a piece of news, it's nothing."
"Actually, it's not that rare. Brother Tao, have you ever heard of mutant plants?"
"Mutated plants? Is that the crystal core of the mutated plant?" Tao An asked.
"Yes, the crystal cores of various mutated plants are different, but their effectiveness is similar. We got a few of them by chance, which allowed our team to upgrade successfully," Ning Yuan said.
"I guess no one knows this news yet. Brother Tao, you should go back to the base and find out where the mutant plants are. Make more preparations in advance. By the time more people in your team are successfully upgraded, the location of the base will naturally be needless to say." Ning Yuan used both deception and dream-making to coax Tao An away in a short while.
There were several truckloads of supplies piled up outside, and everything was attracting everyone's covetousness. If the team hadn't shown their strength from time to time in the past few days, someone would have snatched them up by now.
A large number of people gathered around, including those from all major forces in the base, and of course Tao An's people. After all, he had spent so much supplies on just a sentence that was hard to tell whether it was true or not, so he had to keep an eye on it before confirming it to avoid wasting it.
Putting all the supplies on the ground was also meant to delay time. After all, they only had two trucks filled with a lot of supplies. If they wanted to take so many things away, they had to find a way to get a vehicle first. The fastest way was naturally to exchange them at the base. As long as he kept an eye on them, he could give himself enough time to verify.
He was destined to be disappointed. While Zhuang Mingxu ordered people to pack up their own supplies, he also had people set up several spacious tents around the camp. Then he had people move the supplies into the tents, where Lu Weiyi was collecting the supplies out of boredom.
After all the supplies were put into the tents and the onlookers dispersed, the group ate a meal slowly, and then as night fell, they quickly packed up all the tents. Lu Weiyi, holding up his mental barrier, drove away from Ping An Base smoothly.
"Should we go directly to the Xiangning City base, or find a place to rest?" Li Zhuang asked after the car drove out of Ping'an Distance for an hour.
"..." Their hasty departure could easily make Tao An think that the news was wrong. If he sent someone to chase them, it would be troublesome to explain. Lu Weiyi thought for a moment and asked, "How many kilometers are we from the new base in Xiangning City?"
"We said we were heading north to Kyoto, which is different from the direction of the new base in Xiangning City. They probably wouldn't have thought that we were going to the Xiangning City base," said Li Zhuang.
"…Then let's find a place to rest." It is indeed unsafe to travel at night. The appearance of small mutant animals in the dark can easily wipe out their entire army.
The group walked a little further and finally decided to rest in a town.
At first glance, in the center of the dark and ghostly town, in the small government building, there were a few lights on, illuminating the entire government doorway unusually brightly.
"Someone," said Li Zhuang.
"Well, let's go somewhere else," Lu Weiyi said, looking around and choosing an address not far away. It's not that he didn't want to be a little farther away, but the quality of the houses in this town is not as good as that in the small village. Most of the houses near the roadside have collapsed to some extent. The only one that seems to have no problems is not far from them.
It’s quite taboo to have strangers get close to you late at night, especially in the end times when people are snatching supplies everywhere.
Before the car stopped, someone came out with a gun in hand, fired the first shot and shouted, "Hey guys in the front, we've taken this place, you guys find another place."
This particularly prominent tone immediately reminded Lu Weiyi of the Northeastern "receptionist" Su Yan at the Xiangning City base.
Lu Weiyi stopped the car and looked out at the door in the distance. There were five people standing there, all looking at this side. The distance was too far, so he couldn't recognize who it was, so he simply shouted, "Wang Ming?"
"Hey!...Hey? Who are you?" Wang Ming responded reflexively, then asked after a moment's reaction.
"It's Su Yan's people, Li Qing's comrade," Lu Weiyi said to Zhuang Mingxu in the carriage using the intercom, "Li Zhuang and I will go over to take a look."
"Be careful, and retreat immediately if anything goes wrong," said Zhuang Mingxu.
"Yeah," Lu Weiyi responded, and got out of the car with Li Zhuang, who was sitting in the passenger seat. At the same time, he signaled Ning Yuan, who was sitting in the back, to take the driving seat.
"I'm Lu Weiyi, from the Qingyuan City base," Lu Weiyi shouted over there, and the two of them slowly approached.
After a moment, Wang Ming seemed to remember, "Lu Weiyi, the people brought by Li Qing? Why are you here?" Then a long-range flashlight shone over.
Lu Weiyi covered his eyes and said, "Li Zhuang and I will go to find your base."
Wang Ming identified the people and shone the light on the ground to light the way for them, "Looking for our base? Oh, yes, you said at that time that you wanted to take your lover for treatment. But you were too late, and our base was washed away by the flood."
"I know, so I'm going to go to your current base to check. Are the Xu family members still there? Where is Xu Yi?" Lu Weiyi walked up to them and glanced at the other four people. He had never seen them before.
"The Xu family is still at the current base, but Xu Yi is missing," said Wang Ming.
"Missing? How could he disappear?" Lu Weiyi frowned.
"Who knows? Anyway, the person is gone. The Xu family didn't say whether he died or what." Wang Ming saw that it was not easy for Lu Weiyi to come all the way here, so he comforted him, "It's okay. I heard that there are healing psychics in other bases. You will definitely have a chance to meet them in the future."
They were already preparing to go to Kyoto, and Lu Weiyi was not too disappointed about the disappearance of Xu Yi.
"Why are you outside so late? I remember you don't have any superpowers? Where's Su Yan? Is he okay?" Li Zhuang didn't expect Lu Weiyi to find out the news, so when he saw that he didn't say anything, he asked.
“……”Wang Ming was silent for a moment.
Then a woman's scream was heard from inside. Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang's faces immediately turned unhappy. In the wilderness, a group of men and a woman's scream, no matter how they were combined, it didn't sound like anything good was going to happen.
After all, they were several levels apart from Wang Ming and could not be considered familiar with him, let alone understand him. Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang took a step back together and looked at the five people in front of them calmly.
Wang Ming frowned and said to Lu Weiyi, "Since we know each other, you can take a rest. We don't have anything to rob, so don't try to do anything. I have something else to do, so I won't say hello."
"...Okay, OK." Lu Weiyi nodded, turned around and said goodbye.
The moment Wang Ming turned to leave, he told the others to keep watch and trotted into the yard.
On the way back, Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi didn't say much. No matter what happened in the end of the world, it was not surprising. They directed the group to get off at the designated location, and the two of them patrolled the surroundings again.
The house on the roadside had no yard and looked like a convenience store or something like that. All the things inside were gone, leaving only the bare shelves.
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