Chapter 446: Energy-Reducing Headband
After waiting for the people to leave, Su Yan asked tentatively, "Do you want to help him take action against the Xu family?"
Lu Weiyi shook his head, "I am only responsible for him now." The previous Xu Yi was not within his scope of responsibility. If he said that he was responsible for helping him in the past, then who should he seek revenge on for all the people he had hurt?
Su Yan nodded.
"Why, are you feeling disappointed?" Zhuang Mingxu smiled at him.
"Not really," Su Yan leaned on the sofa, "Do you want to deal with me? Of course I do. I go against you all day long and give me trouble for no reason. But if you want to talk about feelings, I still have some."
"It was not easy to establish the base in the beginning. We were short of everything at that time. We couldn't defeat the mutated animals outside, and there were too many zombies. We had to cooperate with each other to survive together." Su Yan still felt sad when he mentioned the hardships of the past few years.
After chatting for a while, Tang Bai also came over, and with him were members of the Ping An team.
Tao An still looked the same as before, with a fair and feminine face, but with a more solemn and murderous aura, and he looked like a gangster.
He was still accompanied by He Ping. Behind the charming Sister Ping was the youngest sister who was covered in metal studs and still had a non-mainstream style.
Peace Base and Hope Base are in the same area and you'll run into them from time to time, so there's nothing much to introduce.
After they sat down, they talked about what they had encountered along the way.
Compared to their mutated locusts, the other side was simply on a big adventure. They were chased by a pack of wolves, robbed by a tiger, and broke into the territory of a mutated mantis, but were finally rescued by a group of mutant chickens.
Lu Weiyi felt thrilled when he heard about it, not to mention what they had experienced personally.
"If Kyoto hadn't said that it had found a way to suppress the reproduction of mutant animals, we wouldn't have wanted to come all the way here," the youngest sister said with a dazed look on her face. "If this problem can't be solved, it will be a question whether we can go back or not."
"Base Captain Lu, you shouldn't worry. Major General Lu said that you have built an underground passage with the Kyoto base. You can drive directly through it and arrive in a few hours," said Tao Andao, who rarely spoke.
"No wonder you recruited earth-type mutants some time ago. You were really foresighted." The youngest sister did not hide her envy.
"If you want to build it, it's not too late. We use professional construction personnel, and will survey and map it in advance to ensure quality and quantity. Earth-type ability users will work quickly. You may not be able to make it in time this time, but it will definitely be convenient for traveling to Kyoto next year."
Zhuang Mingxu has quickly entered businessman mode, with no sense of harmony in his identity switch.
What he didn't expect was that after he finished speaking, the surroundings became quiet for a while, and no one responded at all. Lu Weiyi was surprised.
Su Yan was the first to laugh, "I thought I was the only one who was scared of being cheated? It turns out everyone is the same."
Tao An also laughed and talked about the supplies that were taken away by them. "As soon as Mr. Zhuang spoke, I knew there must be something else waiting for him."
"Come on, tell me what you need," Su Yan asked.
"Is there anything more straightforward than the crystal core? I have to pay salaries too." Zhuang Mingxu did not agree with what they said in the past. To him, one thing is one thing, and even if what happened in the past is in the past, there is no benefit in talking about it now.
"We are all troubled by the mutated animals and cannot leave the base. How can we have the ability to clean up the zombies? We are running out of crystal cores."
"Us too. Recently, the teams at the base have been considering transformation. They think that if they can't deal with the mutated animals in the future, they will just stay in the base and be self-sufficient."
"Aren't you afraid of zombies surrounding the city?" Zhuang Mingxu exposed the two men's self-deception. "Last year, the zombies were always in the northern base. Your base is right in the middle, so the distance can't be much far."
"If you don't hurry up and build a passage in the current situation, when you are surrounded, you won't be able to ask for help from the other side."
Now Tao An and Su Yan were both silent.
After a long while, Su Yan asked, "Have you ever seen a conscious zombie?"
Zhuang Mingxu thought of Cheng Chuan, wondering if that counted. He didn't say anything, and Tao An shook his head.
"I've seen it." Su Yan frowned.
Everyone in the hall looked over immediately.
Su Yan put one hand on his lips and was silent for a long time.
"That was the summer before last..."
At that time, he hoped that the situation at the base had just improved, but people who were used to electricity would always feel uncomfortable without electricity in their lives. Knowing that there was a science and technology park north of the base before the end of the world, which stored a large number of solar panels, he led a team there.
It wasn't that close to Hope Base, and it took them more than 20 days of driving to get there.
Some of the things there were damaged in the earthquake, but there were still a lot that could be used. They arrived a little late, so they decided to stay there for one night.
"I was so happy at the time that I didn't notice anything wrong around me. As a result, we were attacked by mutant plants in the middle of the night."
Su Yan still felt annoyed when he mentioned it, "A blood-red plant appeared in the Science and Technology Park. It sucked blood from people it saw. Its leaves seemed to be alive and could wrap people up directly. As soon as they unfolded, the blood was sucked dry. The entire leaf was covered in blood."
"I led my men to fight desperately, and at one point I thought we might die there. Then suddenly a large number of zombies came, and the mutated plants let us go and hid."
"Um?"
"Yes, it hid," Su Yan affirmed, "I couldn't figure it out at the time, but later I thought that the blood on the leaves of the mutated plants attracted the zombies. Zombies will attack things with blood, so they will attack it as well, so it hides."
After the mutated plants left, Su Yan and the rest of the people hid on the roof, waiting for the zombies to leave on their own.
"Zombies wander around unconsciously, so it would take a long time to wait for them to leave on their own. By that time, there would be very few of us alive. We couldn't fight them head-on, so we could only hide. I stared at the zombies outside every day, until one day..."
Su Yan paused, as if he was reorganizing his words, "I saw a... very strange zombie."
From the outside, the zombie looked just like a newly transformed zombie. There were no visible wounds on its face, and only the clothes it wore were stained with dirt and blood.
Compared to the other zombies who move quickly, he looks very clumsy, and even more often appears very dull.
Occasionally, a small animal is caught by a zombie and eaten. That zombie...
"He was very... conflicted, as if he was suppressing a feeling. He took two steps forward, then quickly took three steps back. I thought he was hit by the zombies around him, but then I realized that he was suppressing the desire to eat those things."
“Then one day, the zombies clashed while fighting for prey. One zombie’s head was smashed and the crystal core fell out. The surrounding zombies didn’t react, but that zombie stared at it for a long time... then picked it up and ate it.” Su Yan still thinks that scene is too horrifying.
"After that, I kept observing him and found that he spent most of his time sitting on the Science Park security guard's chair, with his arms on the table, his back straight and in a daze, as if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder. That scene..."
"If you don't look closely, they look exactly like a living person."
Noticing that Su Yan seemed a little nervous, Zhuang Mingxu lit a cigarette and handed it to him, "Thank you."
"He disappeared for a few days, and when he reappeared, he had already started digging crystal cores to eat."
"Dig the crystal core yourself?" Tao An frowned.
"Yes, if the zombies don't attack him, he will just go up and smash their heads with his fists." Su Yan took a deep puff of cigarette, "He uses..."
"Military combat skills".
Everyone who has served knows what this means.
Lu Weiyi glanced at Zhuang Mingxu, and seeing that he didn't react, he continued to listen to Su Yan.
At the beginning, the zombie was just using his fists. His bones were very stiff, so he couldn't swing his fists smoothly. In addition, his skull was hard to begin with, so he might not be able to break a zombie's skull even after several attempts.
But after eating the crystal cores several times, he learned to use bricks. He could eat a crystal core with one brick.
Until the zombies in the Science and Technology Park left and were killed by him, suddenly one day he was in a daze, got up and left, and never came back. Su Yan and his group also seized the opportunity and left quickly.
"This...can't be proved, right?" He Ping hesitated.
"The key is that I saw him again last year," Su Yan smiled bitterly.
At the beginning of last spring, Su Yan communicated with the Qingyuan base to exchange a batch of grain seeds. In the spring, before sowing, he hurried to the Qingyuan base. When passing by the center of Qingyuan city, he recognized the zombie at a glance.
"He was sitting on the rooftop of a 16-story office building, just... like someone who was about to jump off a building, with his legs dangling in the air."
"Qingyuan city center?" Zhuang Mingxu raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"No, I just think it's a coincidence." Zhuang Mingxu motioned for him to continue, and when he saw Lu Weiyi looking over, he explained in a low voice, "There are not many sixteen-story office buildings over there, and our company is one of them."
Lu Weiyi couldn’t remember clearly and nodded in agreement.
"I mistook him for a living person at the time, so I took a telescope to take a closer look. He was still wearing the same clothes as before, but his hair had grown longer, covering his face. He had a few crystal cores in his hand and would put one into his mouth every now and then."
No one was talking now.
It is impossible for a zombie to sit there obediently, and it is impossible for someone who eats the crystal core directly to be a mutant.
After a long while, Tao An whispered, "The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders."
Su Yan sighed and suddenly turned to look at Zhuang Mingxu, "How many crystal cores are needed to connect Kyoto Base to Hope Base?"
Zhuang Mingxu laughed and made an appointment to discuss the details in private.
As the conference got closer, more and more bases came. People from different bases visited each other and established relationships in advance. Zhuang Mingxu negotiated several deals, and they exchanged them for countless purification crystal cores.
Lu Weiyi didn't see the team he had met before. He thought that either they didn't come or they had disappeared.
Before the Superpower Conference began, Zhuang Mingxu found an opportunity to invite the three leaders of the Kyoto base to have a meal together. During the meal, he took out three black forehead protectors, which were exactly the same style as the one Dean had used in the base.
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