Chapter 190 Xu Yi disappears
The base is so small, and everyone is busy coming in and out, so Xu Sen's itinerary is not difficult to get. Wang Ming asked along the way, and soon confirmed that he was in the newly built government management office at the base.
"Is the Xu family in charge of the base now?" Lu Weiyi asked as they walked towards the office.
"No, we, the Xu family, and two other teams manage it together. We just set up an office space temporarily, and we haven't had time to distribute the affairs. Now everyone is scrambling for supplies." After all, this determines the size of the team and its future development. These are things that everyone knows, and Wang Ming did not hide them.
After they walked for a while, they arrived at the place where the government was originally located. No one went in, but Xu Sen came out first while talking to someone.
"Master Lu... Young Master Lu?" Xu Sen saw Lu Weiyi's eyes full of surprise. He had always thought that he would not come.
After saying a few words to the person next to him and letting him go, he walked towards Lu Weiyi and sized up the man's complexion and expression. He did not look as sad and depressed as one would expect from someone who had experienced a disaster. Instead, he looked less cold and there was a hint of toughness between his brows.
He smiled and walked up to the man, shook his hand and said, "You are late, Xu Yi is gone."
"Dead? Or?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Xu Sen made a gesture of invitation, and the three people walked out. Xu Sen said, "I don't know. The flood came too suddenly. When we escaped and went to look for people, Xu Yi was gone, and the two psychics who were guarding him were also missing."
"Could it be..." Lu Weiyi didn't finish his words.
However, Xu Sen understood what he meant and said, "No, those two people are my confidants, and their families are still in the base."
Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "In that case, I'll leave first."
"Just...that's it?" Xu Sen was surprised.
Lu Weiyi didn't feel that the two of them were familiar enough to have anything to talk about.
Xu Sen felt that relying on this person to pry into the details would probably make him angry to death. "Don't you have any latest news or practical discoveries from your Qingyuan base?"
The various bases are not well-informed nowadays. If there is any discovery, they are basically kept secret. Relying on Lu Weiyi's relationship with the military, Xu Sen felt that Lu Weiyi must know some of the hidden information of the Qingyuan City base. Xu Sen did not want to miss this rare opportunity to share information with each other.
"Yes," Lu Weiyi said, and then asked in Xu Sen's expectant eyes, "Crystal core?"
Wang Ming burst out laughing, but when Xu Sen turned to look at him, he held it back as if nothing had happened.
Xu Sen didn't know why the little prince who used to be aloof from the world had become so materialistic now. "We can keep in touch with each other."
"You definitely don't know as much as we do." The apocalypse has only been going on for more than half a year. How come someone who has lived in the apocalypse for several years like him knows more than him? They are also interconnected, isn't this obviously taking advantage?
"Master Lu, we can't continue the conversation if you say this." Xu Sen thought that he was a man with a good temper and character. In addition, he had received an elite education since childhood, which cultivated the calmness of a superior. But at this moment, he was so angry at Lu Weiyi who did not play by the rules that he felt he could no longer hold it back.
"Okay, I'll give you a friendly price, five thousand crystal cores, and sell you a piece of information, or supplies," Lu Weiyi said directly. Plant crystal cores are helpful for upgrading. As the number of mutated plants increases, the different feeling after absorption can be easily detected by people. It is better to exchange them for money now.
Xu Sen stared at Lu Weiyi and took a breath. His good character prevented him from saying "Why don't you go and rob?"
"About how to improve the survival rate after upgrading," Lu Weiyi said lightly.
Xu Sen and Wang Ming's expressions became serious.
"Are you serious?" Xu Sen asked.
Lu Weiyi raised his eyebrows.
This is news that every team cannot miss. Xu Sen was silent for a moment. "How do you prove it?"
"All the psychics in our team have been upgraded," Lu Weiyi said lightly.
Wang Ming took a deep breath. The three B-level psychics in his team could now stand firmly in the base. Then what about Lu Weiyi's team... He thought about the number of people and silently closed his mouth. He wondered if it was too late to hug their thighs now...
Xu Sen was also very surprised, but he managed his expression well and didn't show any.
"Where are you now? I'll go back and think about it and then come find you," Xu Sen asked.
"Outside the base," Lu Weiyi said, "We may leave soon, we are in a hurry."
"Since you're here, how about staying a few more days?" Xu Sen hoped to have enough time to think about this matter. After all, five thousand crystal cores were not a small number nowadays.
"I'm going to find a healing psychic. Zhuang Mingxu's leg can't be delayed any longer." Lu Weiyi said the truth but ignored the location.
This reason made it impossible to dissuade him, so Xu Sen just said, "I'll come to see you in the afternoon."
"Okay," Lu Weiyi nodded, and reminded at the end, "This was discovered by our team, and no one else has told you about it." He smiled at Xu Sen, interrupting Xu Sen's plan to ask other people about the situation, and returned to the hospital with Wang Ming.
Along the way, Wang Ming changed his enthusiasm when he came and remained silent. It was not until they were almost at the hospital that he asked, "Is what you just said to Xu Sen true?"
Lu Weiyi nodded, "You want to know too?"
"How could there be anyone who doesn't want to know?" Wang Ming said loudly, and quickly looked around, as if he had done something shameful.
"Take out the money," Lu Weiyi said.
Wang Ming took a deep breath, stretched out his index finger and tapped Lu Weiyi's shoulder in a very artificial way, and said in a pinched voice, "Hate, hate", then ran away with his butt twisted.
That look really did not do justice to his gentlemanly face.
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We hope that the base will be newly built and all the people will be mobilized. There is no so-called refugee camp at the gate of the base. Their only visible sight is their two bare trucks. There is a tent hiding a kitchen where lunch is being prepared busily.
When brothers Lu Weiyi and Gu Qingyue returned, the table was already full of dishes. Perhaps it was because it was a rare occasion to come across something special, Xi Shi was invited to kill a one-meter-long fish and directly prepared a home-style fish feast, including sauerkraut fish, sour soup fish, sweet and sour fish, chopped pepper fish head, steamed fish, and finally a pot of braised fish bones. Just the smell was enough to make one's mouth water.
"You're finally back. If you didn't come back soon, we would have to start eating." Xu Sa anxiously pulled the three people in, stuffed chopsticks into their hands, ran hurriedly to the table, and shouted, "Let's eat."
"Dinner is ready," Lu Xi shouted childishly.
A group of people acted quickly, leaving afterimages on the entire table. Even the usually elegant Lu Weiyi was affected and started to eat without mercy. After picking up a small bowl and turning around, he saw Gu Qingyue and Lu Xi sitting on both sides of him.
He looked around before he saw another smaller table on the other side of the tent. Zhuang Mingxu, Zhuang Aiyi, Lin Yimu, Xi Shi and Dean were eating rice with the dishes on the table.
The beef brisket stewed with tomatoes, braised pork and a few light stir-fried dishes did not look shabby, but compared to the liveliness over there, the other side seemed to be artificially isolated, especially for the adults. The young Zhuang Aiyi did not understand what was going on. He just looked over from time to time and secretly swallowed his saliva.
The air was filled with a spicy and stimulating smell, which must have been very tempting to Zhuang Mingxu, who loved spicy food. As he could not move, he had problems with his stomach and intestines and began to suffer from constipation. Even eating more mutant fruits every day was of no help. Zhuang Mingxu, who cared about his reputation, always secretly swallowed some laxatives.
He never said anything about it, and Lu Weiyi tacitly pretended not to know, but he quietly limited the number of times he ate spicy food. Although Zhuang Mingxu never expressed dissatisfaction, Lu Weiyi knew clearly that his appetite had decreased.
Lu Weiyi suddenly felt distressed and lost his appetite for the food in the bowl.
He had hoped before that Zhuang Mingxu still had a powerful superpower like in his previous life. Now he just hoped that he could become a superpower user, even one that was difficult to upgrade and was completely useless, at least that would make his body less fragile and allow him to not have to be so cautious when eating.
Lu Weiyi took a palm-sized bowl and filled several bowls of fish soup, handed one bowl to each of the people, and then put a little of each dish on their table. "It's okay to eat less," he lowered his voice so as not to affect others' mood, and said it as casually as possible.
But the people in front of him, one of them had experience, and the other two had been with him for many years, how could they not see the discomfort he was hiding.
"Okay," Zhuang Mingxu replied softly with a smile. He picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of fish. Just after tasting it, he choked and coughed. After a long time, he laughed with a hoarse voice, "It seems that I can't eat spicy food in the future."
"Then eat less. Eating too much of that will cause you to get a sore throat. Then you can drink some pear soup to reduce the heat," Xi Shi responded.
Zhuang Aiyi was ignorant. He held the fish soup and drank it with his eyes narrowed into slits.
Dean didn't have so many thoughts. He stared at the table over there with envy, pouting his nose and inhaling deeply, "I really want to eat it. It smells so good."
“Maybe we’ll come across fish that haven’t mutated in the future, and then we won’t let them eat them,” Lin Yimu coaxed Dean like he was coaxing a child.
"Yes, not a single bite," said Dean, and took a big bite of the braised pork viciously, then focused his eyes on his own table with great satisfaction.
Several adults made jokes to ease Lu Weiyi's mood, but it still didn't make him feel at ease.
He remembered that in the few years after the end of the world in his previous life, there were more and more mutated animals, and ordinary animals became almost rare. People without special powers could not absorb the energy of mutated animals and could only eat vegetarian food.
This led to people with special abilities starting to spread the message that ordinary people were evolutionary failures and symbols of genetic inferiority. Some people in power at the bases also accepted this tacitly, causing the status of ordinary people to become extremely low.
If Lu Weiyi used to think that he was just listening when Zhuang Mingxu said he wanted to build a base, then at this moment, he suddenly felt that it was imperative. Relying on other bases and sharing the right to speak with others could not completely control public opinion. Only when everything was in their own hands, would they not become inferior to others in the future driven by the general environment.
Five months into the apocalypse, Lu Weiyi, who had been pursuing a life of poverty, suddenly had a new dream.
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