Chapter 229 Going out to sea
"Please report in advance what supplies the other teams may need. In addition, the first batch of supplies cleared from the ruins will be counted as their personal expenses," Zhuang Mingxu said, without even raising his head. He quickly wrote and drew on the notebook on his lap. He tapped his forehead with the tip of his pen and said, "And wages... wages——"
He muttered to himself, put one hand on the armrest of the wheelchair, and the wheelchair made a graceful arc and took him back to the room.
From beginning to end, this man never raised his head to look at the people in the hall.
"Lu Xiaoyi, did Brother Mingxu work like this before?" Xu Sa took the map, looked at the densely packed annotations, and said with a sigh, "Is this the life of CEOs?"
Lu Weiyi said he didn't want to move.
"I'm the captain, I..."
"The captain has to work too!" Xu Sa quickly threw the map to Lu Weiyi and pulled Liu Rui out of the living room quickly.
Xiong Jie added a little more to his own wine glass and quickly went to find Xi. Ning Yuan and Wu Yue looked at each other, walked towards the bedroom with their arms around each other's shoulders and talked about tomorrow's plans. Antonio and Dean were so attached to each other that they almost wanted to stick together. They didn't pay any attention to the things around them at all. In the end, only Li Zhuang was left in the corner.
He smiled and raised his glass towards Lu Weiyi, "Beg me."
Lu Weiyi opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he heard him continue, "It's no use begging me."
This dog man.
Lu Weiyi stood up, picked up the map and decided to find the culprit.
Zhuang Mingxu was still busy in the study, his desk was full of documents. The base was just being built, and all kinds of things needed to be dealt with. Integrating a group of soldiers meant not only an increase in numbers, but also the need to be responsible for everyone and to control their future direction. Lu Weiyi did not have this awareness, so someone needed to take on these responsibilities.
This person cannot have any second thoughts about Lu Weiyi, otherwise, once bad intentions arise, Lu Weiyi is innocent and unguarded, and who knows what will happen to him.
Zhuang Mingxu didn't say a word and took care of everything silently.
Lu Weiyi came in with the intention of showing off, and saw Zhuang Mingxu sitting in a wheelchair. The desk was one section higher, so he had to straighten his body to write. For a moment, he didn't want to say a word of the little routine he had thought of.
He has been slacking off recently. He knows it himself, but he ignores the fact that if he doesn't take responsibility, someone else will have to.
If I were in another position and became disabled, Zhuang Mingxu would definitely not let me busy myself with these things. I would only get all-round care and I wouldn't have to worry about anything.
Zhuang Mingxu is different from himself. If he were completely idle, he would feel that he is worthless, but necessary sharing is still indispensable.
"Is there anything you need?" Zhuang Mingxu calculated the workload and value of ordinary people and measured their current supplies. He thought that a few responsible persons came to ask for things, so he asked.
Lu Weiyi exhaled and shook his head, "When will I leave?"
"Xiaoyi?" Zhuang Mingxu looked up and saw Lu Weiyi. His resolute face remained the same, and the smile in his eyes did not change. He stretched out his hand towards Lu Weiyi, "As soon as possible."
Lu Weiyi walked forward and was pulled by him to sit on his lap.
"Let them change to a suitable desk," said Lu Weiyi.
"I've asked someone to change the altitude." Zhuang Mingxu opened the map and explained the route and how to get there in detail. Then he asked, "Who do you want to go with you?"
"Xu Sa and Liu Rui are enough." Taking care of too many people would be a burden. "Li Qing's people asked them to help with the construction on the island first and communicate with the various people with special abilities in the team."
This is also fine, Zhuang Mingxu nodded.
"The ship needs fuel, what are we looking for this for?" Lu Weiyi didn't quite understand some of Zhuang Mingxu's arrangements. If it were in the past, he would definitely not ask, but now something is different.
Zhuang Mingxu flipped through the documents on the table and found a map with the distance between the island and the land marked on it. "I estimated that we are about 3,000 meters away from the land. It is impossible for the outbound team to rely on you to transport vehicles every time. We still need to establish routes suitable for vehicles to travel."
"It's unrealistic to simply build a bridge. I plan to use existing ships to connect a bridge on the sea," said Zhuang Mingxu, and roughly drew a proportion. "Nowadays, there is a shortage of fuel, and ships are equivalent to scrap. No one will take them except to dismantle them. Assuming that the usable length of a ship is 100 meters, more than 30 ships will be enough."
What's more, some large cargo ships and cruise ships can reach two or three hundred meters, so they need even less.
Lu Weiyi thought about the cruise ship he remembered and thought this idea was not bad. "What if we can't get enough?"
"If we can't get enough, we can think of other ways," Zhuang Mingxu said, "It's just a preliminary idea, it may not be usable, so we should prepare in advance. Even if it can't be used, we can still use it as supplies after disassembling it."
"Then I will go with Xu Sa and Liu Rui tomorrow." Lu Weiyi estimated the possible time for the journey, "I will leave some of the weapons and supplies for you. Also, do we need to be responsible for Li Qing and the others' upgrades?"
Each person's upgrade is the accumulation of crystal cores. If the team is not responsible and it relies solely on individuals, it will be very difficult.
"Let's cooperate for a few days first, and then I'll decide based on the situation." Zhuang Mingxu hadn't made up his mind yet, "How many crystal cores do you have?"
"A lot" Apart from the cheating and deception along the way, what they got from the Daixi base was enough for everyone to use. During the one month of winter, they killed most of the zombies in that small county town and got countless crystal cores.
"I informed my subordinates that they would work for free for a month. This month would be used to make up for the previous supplies and provide food and drink. After a month, I would need to pay them according to our production capacity. I would make some assessments," Zhuang Mingxu explained.
Lu Weiyi looked at the space, kept 20,000 high-level ones, and gave the rest to Zhuang Mingxu, "You can see it after you count it."
**
The lines in the basement had not been restored yet. Lu Weiyi piled most of the supplies into the space. After clearing out part of it, he discovered that the place where the space had been restored seemed to have cracked again.
Thinking of the sudden sound when it was put into the basement, Lu Weiyi was a little worried that it might be swollen.
But there was no other reaction to the storage of supplies, so Lu Weiyi thought about it and put the remaining few small pieces of space jade pendants in his hand into it.
As the ground shook, only the outermost circle was left in the space, which was still uneven and seemed to be missing. However, when combined with the area of another circle, it seemed to be larger.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
Lu Weiyi told him, "I feel like I won't be able to wait until the day when it's repaired."
"Once we get back to Kyoto, there must be a lot of jade there." Now everyone knows that jade is a good thing, and Zhuang Mingxu had no other choice for the time being.
Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "We can take the motorboat and go directly by water. It won't take much time. Please be careful on the island."
"You have to be more careful about the mutated aquatic creatures. We haven't fully come into contact with them yet, so we don't know much about them. You have to pay more attention to the water along the way. If something goes wrong, go ashore immediately. Water routes are not convenient, so don't bother with it." Zhuang Mingxu pushed the wheelchair and sent the person out. "I thought about it last night. We don't need to go to other small ports for now. Let's go directly to Pingjin Port. It used to be a very large port, circulating all over the world. Whether it's cargo ships, cruise ships or various cargo containers, you can take whatever you can."
After sending the person out of the hospital, there is a beach ahead, which is difficult for a wheelchair to drive on.
After saying goodbye, Lu Weiyi took Xu Sa and Liu Rui out of the island quietly.
It is called leaving the island, but in fact it is just a motorboat heading to the place marked on the map.
"Is this... easy... to drive?" Liu Rui sat aside, looking at the new means of transportation curiously.
"You want to try it?" Lu Weiyi looked at him.
Liu Rui was eager to make a move, "But...can I?"
"It's very simple." Lu Weiyi slowed down and taught him a few steps. Just a few operations and two sentences were enough, and Liu Rui got the hang of it immediately.
Xu Sa instantly grabbed the edge of the boat and pulled Lu Weiyi, and then the motorboat whooshed out. If it weren't for Xu Sa, Lu Weiyi felt that he could fly into the water.
"...very experienced?" Lu Weiyi sat down with lingering fear.
"If you accompany me to learn how to drive a few times, it will definitely form muscle memory." The memory did not seem to be very wonderful. Xu Sa looked around from time to time and reminded Lu Weiyi, "Pay attention to the water."
"Hmm." Lu Weiyi released his mental power to make sure there was no danger, and reminded Liu Rui, "Turn left, don't go too far from the coastline. The deep sea is not safe, be careful not to get lost."
"Okay!" Liu Rui responded loudly, looking very excited, like a young man full of vigor and vitality.
Lu Weiyi no longer had that mood. Seeing such a young man, his curiosity suddenly surged. He pushed the person next to him and asked in a low voice, "What's going on between you two?"
Xu Sa looked at him in horror and even touched his forehead with her hand, "When did you become so gossipy? I thought you had a fever."
Lu Weiyi ignored him and tried to change the subject, staring at him and demanding a result.
"Well...it's just some young grass, what's the big deal?" Xu Sa said nonchalantly, his ears turned red, his slightly long hair scattered on his neck, the wind blew his hair up, revealing everything.
"When? How come I don't know?" Lu Weiyi thought about it and felt that he didn't have a very clear impression of the private lives of the people in the team.
"...What do you know? Qingji and Qingyue are so ambiguous, do you know that?"
It seemed that when leaving, Zhuang Mingxu did mention their situation. At that time, Lu Weiyi was only thinking about ensuring the safety of the rest of the journey and didn't take it to heart at all. Now that he has settled down, he has to consider these things.
He frowned and pursed his lips to look at Xu Sa. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Xu Sa stand up and point to the distance and ask, "Then why is there a cargo ship?"
In the distance, a hundred-meter-long cargo ship was floating alone on the sea. As the waves came closer, the ship's driving platform was destroyed and disappeared, and the containers were piled up in a mess and tilted. As it got closer, one section of the ship was shaking and could fall into the water at any time.
"Should we go over and take a look? That's an ocean-going cargo ship, right? It feels so long." Liu Rui had already stopped, and Xu Sa lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that the container would be scared by him, "Guess what's in that container?"
The distance was too far, beyond Lu Weiyi's mental strength. He estimated the length and said, "Let's go and take a look. Xu Sa is driving. If there is something wrong, let's leave immediately."
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