Chapter 391: Restlessness
Worried about Tang Bai's condition, she gestured with her hands to ask Lu Weiyi something.
Unfortunately, Lu Weiyi couldn't understand sign language. After a while of irrelevant communication, Lu Weiyi left the space.
In addition to Tang Bai, the second person they chose was a woman named Zhou Xue, who was the wife of Zhang Tong, the captain of the Storm Team.
Compared to their hidden relatives, Zhou Xue and Zhang Tong have a feud over the murder of their son.
The two were husband and wife before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, Zhang Tong and Zhou Xue awakened at almost the same time. Needless to say, they supported each other all the way. Even Zhang Tong and his team were named after Zhou Xue.
Afterwards, the two of them brought the few people around them all the way to the Pingjin base, but due to Jiangning's regulations, ordinary people could not integrate.
Everyone lived outside the base at first, but it was the peak period of mutation. Almost every day, ordinary people would mutate into zombies or people with special powers. Once a person did not discover it in time, a lot of people around him would be scratched. Zhang Tong finally couldn't bear the fear every day.
They entered Pingjin all the way from the surrounding counties. There were not many ordinary people in the team. He found an opportunity to assign a group of people who might not agree, and together with a few wavering teammates, he infected an ordinary person in the team and turned him into a zombie.
The people around him mutated, and it was almost inevitable. All ordinary people were scratched, including his own biological son. When Zhou Xue, who was assigned to go away, came back, she saw the infected corpses and Zhang Tong crying.
Afterwards, they successfully entered the base. Zhou Xue blamed Jiang Ning for her son's death and resented that he should not have such a rule. She tried her best to upgrade again and again, hoping to take action against Jiang Ning one day.
However, there are limited plant-type crystal cores in the team that can allow people to upgrade safely. Zhang Tong repeatedly persuaded her to consider the overall situation, but never used it on her once. However, she accidentally learned the truth.
Their superpowers were at a different level, so it was impossible to kill them to avenge her son. Zhou Xue could only grit her teeth and pretend she knew nothing, while waiting for an opportunity.
The olive branch extended by the only team was undoubtedly just the right one.
Ning Yuan just passed the message quietly, and Zhou Xue agreed without hesitation.
"She didn't make any demands, she just said that she would pay any price if they could die," Ning Yuan sighed.
"Are you sure you don't need to control her? Women are easily soft-hearted, so don't let her down again," Wu Yue asked.
"Zhang Tong plotted to kill her son, and after entering the base, he suppressed her. After he successfully upgraded to A-level and the difference in their abilities widened, he began to live a carefree life. People kept coming to him, and he even brought people to their homes several times without caring about Zhou Xue's face."
Ning Yuan investigated the news very clearly, "It has come to this point, if she is still soft-hearted, then I really think she deserves how she is treated."
"It's good that you know what's going on. Is there any news from Mingxu?"
"Yes, tell us to follow the team back this time. He has set up several sentries in the area between the Pingjin base and directly connected a communication channel with the walkie-talkie for us to pass on the message. Tell the channel number to a few people who cooperate with us. We don't need to worry about what happens next for the time being."
Ning Yuan responded, with white steam coming out of his mouth, "Has the temperature dropped below zero? Why do I feel so cold?"
"The lowest temperature was 12 degrees Celsius at midnight the day before yesterday, and it was minus 8 degrees Celsius the day before yesterday. It only dropped by two or three degrees during the day today, which is not obvious. But I heard that many ordinary people outside the base did not wake up in the morning. The temperature must be dropping significantly soon. Didn't the temperature drop suddenly last year?"
"This damn weather..."
Ning Yuan complained a few words, then turned around and saw Lu Weiyi on the bed, preparing to get out of bed. He said speechlessly, "Master, can you put on more clothes? Have you forgotten how hard it was for you to recover from your cold a few days ago?"
"I will wear thick clothes." Lu Weiyi brought up what happened a few days ago in an annoying way.
"The instructor's cotton-padded jacket is made of new cotton and is very thick and warm," Li Qing said, handing over his military coat.
Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth, finally took it forcefully, and ran to the toilet, leaving behind the sound of Wu Yue and others covering their mouths and laughing.
Before they left, Tang Bai's friend Xu Wen had quietly organized everyone in the team and set off for Yueban Bay one after another.
Tang Bai secretly helped him get a large amount of supplies for the winter, and those who didn't know would have thought that he was going to settle down in Yueban Bay.
Xu Sa and Liu Rui led the team without wasting any time. After returning, they brought seafood and salt overnight. This time, with the cooperation of Tang Bai and Zhou Xue, they not only exchanged for a lot of food, but also got a large number of crystal cores, and even a few A-level ones.
The gesture of goodwill was too obvious, so Lu Weiyi politely gave him a handwritten letter from Liu Wan.
After hurriedly trading the things they brought, Lu Weiyi and everyone started their journey back overnight. Even though they worked day and night, by the time they returned to the base, the daytime temperature had dropped to minus 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, and was even dropping at a cliff-like rate every day.
The guards at the entrance of the base were all wearing the same cotton coats. They were dressed so thick and warm that they looked like a ball, with only a pair of eyes showing, making it difficult to distinguish them as humans.
After checking the personnel, the convoy entered quickly.
A lot of people gathered in the square in front of the government, shivering as they queued up to receive supplies. All employees serving at the base would be given a quilt and a cotton coat, which could be considered a welfare benefit for so-called civil servants.
"Master, if you don't come back, Mingxu will send someone to look for you." Lin Yimu wore a Lei Feng hat and a cotton coat that only showed his eyes. He pulled down his mask and spoke with a breath of white. "Did you have a smooth journey?"
"Instructor, we are all fine on the journey." Lu Weiyi didn't say anything, Li Qing had already answered.
He jumped out of the car so fast that people wondered if he had a tail behind him at that moment, he would definitely be able to make a flying shadow.
Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth, "Brother Damu, the weather is too cold, ask the psychics in the team to come and help, don't just stand outside."
"Okay, are you tired? Mingxu has notified all the collection teams in the base to hold a meeting at 11 o'clock, at the government building."
"Then I'll go over and tell him about the situation." Speaking of business, Lu Weiyi was not vague. He asked Xu Sa to take the supplies to the warehouse, and he and Wu Yue walked towards the government building.
Ordinary people and people with special abilities in the base can be distinguished at a glance. Anyone who is shivering from the cold must be an ordinary person. People with special abilities now only wear sweaters and down jackets, and some who don't care even wear windbreakers.
This caused Lu Weiyi to take a closer look and he found that it was an acquaintance. He turned around.
"Land Base Commander" Cheng Chuan greeted him.
A very tall man next to me looked over and smiled foolishly, "Leader."
The person who was sandwiched between the two people like a ball, with a pair of beautiful almond-shaped eyes, spoke clearly through the scarf, "Captain of the Land Base."
"Hello, are you used to life in the base?" After coming back, Lu Weiyi had too much to do and never met this group of people again. He didn't know how they were doing.
"It's all good. Captain Zhuang arranged for Xia Xia to go to the birthing garden to be Captain Bai's assistant. Erwa and I, along with other people in the village, will go out to sea to hunt. We have no shortage of daily necessities," said Cheng Chuan.
"Where's the old village chief? Is he okay?"
"That's great, but," Cheng Chuan paused here, "can we use the crystal core to exchange for another set of supplies?"
Cheng Chuan is a half-zombie who can control some low-level zombies and occasionally go out to hunt for some crystal cores. Their lives are quite easy, but the control of these thick supplies for the winter is very strict and they cannot exchange them even if they have the supplies.
"After the distribution, there should be some left over to be distributed to each team. You can just let people register and take them." After all, not all ordinary people serve in the base, so Zhuang Mingxu reserved places for ordinary people in each team.
"You...are you alright?" Lu Weiyi said meaningfully.
Cheng Chuan said nothing.
"If you feel uncomfortable at all, find the person in charge immediately. There are mostly ordinary people around you. You know the consequences if you let it go. I hope you don't let me down."
"...I feel more and more agitated," Cheng Chuan said after a long while.
"Come to me on the main island around 3pm now and I'll have someone check you up." Lu Weiyi glanced at the time and it was not appropriate to leave now.
In addition, Cheng Chuan's situation was special, so he was worried about handing it over to others, especially because he was worried that the news would leak out.
After confirming the time with him, Lu Weiyi left with Wu Yue.
Passing through the crowd of people collecting supplies, the government building was also bustling. Most of the people here were from the collection team. The captains and deputy captains I had seen before were all gathered here.
Lu Weiyi was greeting everyone. Yu Mengchu, the outgoing deputy captain of the Frost Club, handed him a cigarette. Lu Weiyi politely took it but did not smoke it.
"Base commander, there's a rumor that our base will remove the island bridge this winter, completely isolating the entire base on the sea. Is that true?" Even though Yu Mengchu lowered his voice, there were many psychics around him, and they all looked over without making a sound.
"Who told you that?" Lu Weiyi didn't know if there was such a rumor.
"It's being spread privately." Yu Mengchu glanced at the captains of the various teams behind him.
"Indeed, such news has been reported recently," said Du Ping, captain of the Ping An team.
"Yes, base commander, there are more than a hundred people in our team eating, you see..." said Chen Xing from the COFCO team.
"That's not happening for now, but our base's defenses won't be safe if there's an attack in the winter. In order to protect the people in the base, we'll take some corresponding measures. The base will notify you in advance, so don't panic."
As Lu Weiyi was talking, Zhuang Mingxu's assistant walked over through the crowd and said, "Captain Lu, Deputy Commander Zhuang wants to discuss something with you. Is it convenient for you now?"
"If you have any questions, we will have a meeting later and you can raise them. We can discuss and solve them together," Lu Weiyi said soothingly and left with his assistant.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
