Chapter 343: Finding a Child
After Xia Qiao led the others into the village, they walked towards the center. From time to time, they could see little monkeys playing with children in the village. There were even monkeys as tall as humans carrying children on their shoulders, having a lot of fun.
"Qiao Qiao?" Several young men who had been defending together before came over. One of them was a burly man over two meters tall and strode beside Xia Qiao, looking at them fiercely.
"It's okay, Brother Erwa, they are here to rescue the people from the research institute in the mountains. They are all soldiers and will not hurt us." Xia Qiao patted Erwa on the back.
"Soldiers?" Erwa looked at the weapons on them, as if he was sure of it, and a silly smile appeared on his face. The honest thug touched his head and opened his mouth for a long time. After a while, he said, "Welcome."
"Thank you." Li Zhuang noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with this man's brain. He glanced at the others and gave him a look.
When they heard that they were soldiers, the people around them immediately became lively. Several young men came over to greet them. Some of them who were not shy even asked Li Zhuang about their special powers, "Did you use special powers just now? That's amazing."
"Yes, our superpowers are very weak, and even the most powerful Erwa has no room to resist."
"Cheng Chuan too"
"What kind of superpowers do you have?"
"Is there an upgrade? What level?"
Everyone started asking questions at once, without any sign of their previous defensiveness.
Xia Qiao explained, "The soldiers from the research institute nearby used to help our village drive away some wild beasts from time to time. Everyone has a different feeling towards the soldiers."
The few of them understood, and while they were talking they arrived at a bamboo building in the center of the village. This building looked more spacious than other places, and an old man came out shakily, leaning on a cane.
Xia Qiao immediately trotted over, supported him, and shouted, "Grandpa, why did you come out?"
"I heard some noise and came out to see what was going on," the old man said with a kind face and a completely white beard on his chin. "Welcome to our village. I am the village chief here."
Li Zhuang nodded and looked around.
Gu Qingyue stepped forward and communicated with the old man, "Hello, grandpa, we are here to rescue people, but we were attacked by mutant plants and got separated from our teammates. We came to bother you a little bit."
He is a doctor with a gentle temperament and he is not easily on guard. With him is the young Dean, who tilted his tender little face and said in a clumsy way, "Hello, Grandpa."
"Hello," said Old Man Xia, and asked Xia Qiao where Cheng Chuan had gone.
"The children in their team were captured by monkeys, and Brother Chuan took them to look for them," Xia Qiao explained with a blush.
"It shouldn't be a problem," Grandpa Xia comforted them. "The monkey has lived here for a long time and won't hurt people for no reason. When Qiao Qiao was little, he was caught by human traffickers and was rescued by the monkey on the way. The monkey placed him in its own cave and raised him for a long time."
A few people found it curious and asked a few more questions. Then they followed Old Man Xia into the house and gradually started talking about the situation here.
Before the end of the world, this was a remote village. All the young and middle-aged people in the village went out to work. When the end of the world came, the surrounding terrain changed severely, blocking the road connecting the entire village to the outside world.
Then zombies arrived along with mutated plants and animals, and they began to live a self-sufficient life.
"Since you can command monkeys, your life won't be too difficult." Gu Qingyue could see a big tree outside through the back window of his house. On the tree squatted a huge monkey with a circle of white hair on its head. Its eyes were fixed on here, as if it was on guard against them. Judging from his appearance, he must be at least three meters tall when standing up.
Xia Qiao followed his gaze and called out, "Little monkey."
"Squeak," the monkey responded.
"They didn't obey our command at the beginning," Xia Qiao sighed. "We are close to the mountains and there are many monkeys around us. Although the village has always lived in harmony with the monkeys, there were always small fights. Either we were stolen by them or we were hurt by the traps."
"After the apocalypse, their qualities improved and their conflicts became more obvious. The little monkey is now the Monkey King. He looks big, but he is actually only a year old. Before the apocalypse, he was born not long ago and got injured, so I took him home to take care of him. After the apocalypse, he mutated and grew very big. He also gained special abilities, oh, superpowers."
"Then one day, it disappeared, and it was three months later when it came back. By then, it had become the monkey king. From then on, the surrounding monkeys began to live in peace with us." Xia Qiao poured each person a cup of water soaked with some unknown leaves. "Usually we are self-sufficient in the village, but some daily necessities are scarce. Occasionally, I take them outside to rob some things from passers-by, but we have never hurt anyone."
"I, an old man, will vouch for him... cough cough..." Xia Qiao brought back some things in the morning. Old Man Xia guessed that they must have been obtained from these people. He was worried about causing misunderstanding, so he started coughing violently halfway through his words.
Xia Qiao half-knelt in front of him worriedly, stroking his back continuously.
"It's okay. Those things are nothing to us. Just take them away." Gu Qingyue looked at the old man's expression and said, "You seem to be sick. I'm a doctor. Do you need help?"
"Really?" Xia Qiao's eyes lit up, and he immediately held Gu Qingyue's hands tightly with both hands, and said in a clear voice, "Thank you, brother."
There was no strong threat in the village, and they might need to stay longer as they had to rescue people. Gu Qingyue did not hesitate and took Dean and Xu Yi to help check the health of the people in the village.
On the other side, Lu Weiyi and Cheng Chuan hurried all the way.
Without Li Zhuang using his supernatural powers to pave the way, Lu Weiyi, who was not good at sports, found it extremely difficult to walk in the mountains and forests. Fortunately, Cheng Chuan, who led the way, was a good person. He chose a road that was as easy to travel as possible and helped him from time to time.
During the trip, Lu Weiyi did not hide his strength when he encountered a mutant animal. He quickly killed it and continued on his way. Cheng Chuan became more and more frightened watching from the side.
"Do you know about my situation?" Cheng Chuan originally planned to wait for Lu Weiyi to speak, but this man had no intention of asking after asking for directions. Seeing that they were almost at the cave, he could only ask on his own initiative.
"What's going on?" Lu Weiyi had a blank expression.
Cheng Chuan, who was walking in front, stopped and turned around. The mask covering one of his eyes was taken off, revealing the white of the eye underneath - that was the eye that only zombies had.
Seeing that Lu Weiyi did not attack him without any surprise, Cheng Chuan knew that he had found the right person, "Have you ever seen someone like me?"
"How did you do it?" Lu Weiyi was now certain that he was the person he had heard of in his previous life.
"I was sent out to look for food, and was captured by that mutant plant. One of the people I was captured with turned into a zombie and bit me. Later, a series of things happened, and I became like this." Cheng Chuan's tone was flat, as if he was not the one who was tortured by the zombie energy and was living a life worse than death.
Lu Weiyi looked at him. His skin looked a little grayer than that of a normal person, but there was nothing else unusual. He couldn't tell the difference if he covered his eyes.
"Oh." Lu Weiyi obviously didn't want to say more to him. He swept his mental power towards the place he said, frowning, "There's no one inside."
"Are you sure?" Cheng Chuan was surprised.
"affim"
Cheng Chuan put the eye patch back on his eyes and his face became serious, "Is the monkey here?"
“Not there”
"…Then let's look for it along the way." Cheng Chuan turned around and looked around, then pointed in a direction, "It might be this way."
"Let's go." This time, Lu Weiyi released his mental power to the extreme, and the two of them moved quickly all the way. After a few hours, Lu Weiyi's mental power finally detected the traces of the two children.
He paused, not knowing how to describe it.
At this time, Zhuang Aiyi and Taotao were sitting on the trunk of a tall mutant tree. Zhuang Aiyi held an apple as big as half his face in both hands. He took a bite and passed it to Taotao next to him to take a bite. His sun protection jacket was tied into a pocket and hung on the trunk, with some unfamiliar fruits scattered inside.
Not far away, an animal about three or four meters tall was waving its arms towards the tree, constantly breaking off branches, but was blocked by new branches and could not touch the center at all.
"Beat him!" Taotao bit the fruit in her mouth and waved her little fist while muttering.
The branches that were blocking the monkey from approaching moved part of the trunk over, blocking the monkey further away.
Lu Weiyi looked down at his clothes, which were covered in dew and mud from his haste to get on the road, and suddenly felt that he might have underestimated these two children.
It should be said that Taotao was underestimated.
His spiritual power was hovering nearby. Tao Tao seemed to sense something and looked up and called out, "Father?"
"Little daddy?" Zhuang Aiyi also looked around following his gaze.
The distance was too far, and Lu Weiyi couldn't control too many things. He could only use his mental power to touch Zhuang Aiyi to remind him.
"Little daddy, are you here to see Aiyi?" Zhuang Aiyi's eyes lit up and he asked happily.
Lu Weiyi poked him again and withdrew his mental strength. ""
Cheng Chuan, who was beside him, also heard the roar of the apes in the distance. His face changed and he quickened his pace.
Even if the two of them sped up, it still took them almost two hours to reach the vicinity.
Cheng Chuan was surprised when he saw this scene, "Are the psychics out there so powerful? They can control mutated plants at such a young age?"
"...good genes" Lu Weiyi is rarely shameless.
Cheng Chuan was speechless and stepped forward to calm the monkey, while Lu Weiyi walked towards the mutated plants.
"Father"
"Little Daddy"
The two children shouted happily, and Taotao patted the branches under her, and the branches sent them down directly.
The two of them trotted over to Lu Weiyi and hugged his thighs, then as Lu Weiyi leaned over, they rubbed his face affectionately.
"Are you scared?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Zhuang Aiyi shook his head and said, "I knew that little dad would come to see Aiyi."
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