Chapter 48: Departure
That night, Li Zhuang heard about this and his face looked a little ugly, but he didn't say anything. He just went out for a while and came back to hand a fully equipped Desert Eagle to Lu Weiyi.
I originally wanted to confirm with him whether he knew how to use it, but I saw Lu Weiyi unload the magazine, take a look at it, and put it back in without any hesitation.
Li Zhuang was waiting for him to ask how this thing came about, but he saw the man put it into his pocket without any hesitation and walked away without hesitation.
Going around him -
Not a word.
Li Zhuang was so angry that he laughed, but he was also relieved in his heart. If he was really asked, he would find it difficult to answer.
The next day, just after the few people went out for a while, the corridor became lively. This time there was no need to clear the way. Several men in their thirties and forties started banging on the door.
Dean was startled by the noise, and hurried back to his room to get his pistol. Then he looked at Lu Weiyi and asked, "Lu, what should we do?"
Lu Weiyi put the pistol on his body, picked up the knife he used to chop zombies, and went out. Before they could cut the lock buckle, he opened the lock first, "What are you doing?"
They came with hammers and knives, and naturally they didn't think about being polite. The leading man looked Lu Weiyi up and down, then glanced at Dean behind him, licked his lips, and said, "Little brother, we haven't eaten for a long time. I heard that you have some surplus food here. Do you have any interest in treating us to a meal?"
"Do you want to eat bullets?" Lu Weiyi glanced at him. He obviously needed to look up at people, but his tone made him sound condescending.
However, considering his frail figure, these words were not threatening at all.
The man touched his head, laughed, and asked the people around him, "What did this little beauty ask me? Bullets? Hahahaha..."
Several people around him also laughed together. Lu Weiyi didn't know what they were laughing at and was completely dumbfounded.
"Then it depends on which gun it is. If it's the one on the little beauty, I might really want to..."
The man's gaze downward was extremely obscene, and when Lu Weiyi pointed a gun at his forehead, he stopped talking, raised his hand, and took a step back, "Little brother, let's talk it over nicely."
The men stopped laughing and took a step back in silence.
A man following the leading man said in a flattering manner, "Don't shoot, don't shoot, little brother. We don't recognize the real man. We just came to this community and have been hungry for several days. We were instigated by others and came here. We will leave immediately, leave immediately... You must not..."
The man was talking when he suddenly bumped into the leading man next to him. The leading man immediately dodged his head and reached out to grab the gun in Lu Weiyi's hand. At this moment, a gunshot rang out in his ear, accompanied by a wailing sound. The man who was speaking fell to the ground, covering his bleeding leg.
Before everyone could react, another gunshot rang out and the leading man fell backwards in a daze. Everyone immediately stepped back and saw the man lying on the ground with his eyes wide open. There was a bullet wound between his eyebrows and blood was gushing out, staining the area red in a moment.
Lu Weiyi looked at everyone calmly. All of them changed their expressions and retreated together, as if they wished they could squeeze out of the narrow corridor. Even the last few people in line at the stairs went down quietly, and then the sound of frantic running could be heard throughout the staircase.
"Lu, are you okay?" Dean didn't expect Lu Weiyi to be so direct. Although he had come into contact with firearms a lot due to his family reasons, he really couldn't do it if he was asked to shoot someone in the head, otherwise he wouldn't have shot the person in the leg.
It seems easy to just shoot like this, but actually seeing yourself kill someone will leave a psychological shadow. Dean looked at Lu Weiyi with some concern.
Lu Weiyi shook his head. He had long gotten rid of the psychological trauma. When Zhuang Mingxu took him back to Kyoto, he had seen all kinds of disgusting people and disgusting things. Compared to those things, being able to die quickly was a relief.
He looked at the injured man sitting on the ground, this time he was really condescending, "What did you just say?"
The man covered the wound on his leg and looked at Lu Weiyi's calm face. He was so frightened that he couldn't say a word.
After a long while, someone murmured, "...you killed someone."
"Murder...Murder is against the law..."
"Oh, then let the police arrest me," Lu Weiyi replied, put away the gun, turned around, closed the door and went home, and said by the way, "Clean the floor before leaving."
While Lu Weiyi was fighting against the evil forces with ease, Li Zhuang and his companions were having a very hard time outside.
In just a few days, the number of zombies seemed to have increased several times, and the roads were densely packed with them. The purpose of their trip was a small commodity wholesale market near the east. Within an hour, they saw more than a dozen vehicles coming in this direction, including two trucks full of supplies.
As they passed by each other, Li Zhuang recognized with his sharp eyes that the person sitting inside was Zhou Jie, who had exchanged supplies for a truck.
"Hey, brother," Li Zhuang opened the car window and shouted, "Where are you going?" He remembered that they said they were going to a large safe zone in the north of the city.
Zhou Jie glanced at it, opened the car window and ran for his life.
Li Zhuang raised his eyebrows and threw a cigarette in the air, "Where are you escaping to instead of staying in a safe base?"
"Safe base" Zhou Jie sneered, "Only those people who stay in the base all day and don't come out feel safe."
"What do you mean?"
"As you can see, there are obviously more zombies in the past two days. The place where we live was attacked in the middle of the night yesterday, and hundreds of zombies were eliminated before dawn. The base does not have a large-scale wall defense, and the little shelter built by natural collapse is useless at the critical moment. If this happens two more times, I'm afraid the whole base will be gone. I'm going to take my brothers to see if there is a larger safe area. You guys should pay attention too." After Zhou Jie finished speaking, he quickened his pace and walked away. In the breeze, accompanied by the roar of zombies, a voice came, "See you later."
In the middle of the afternoon, they went back.
Although the people in the corridor had left, the marks on the door and the bloodstains on the ground were still there.
Antonio banged on the door hard and shouted, "Dean! Dean, it's me, open the door."
Dean heard the noise and ran out like a joyful bird. He opened the door slickly and was held in Antonio's arms. Antonio touched him up and down and asked anxiously, "Honey, what happened? Are you hurt?"
The few people behind him who were still holding things were already used to it. Gu Qingji said "make way" expressionlessly, and walked into the door sideways, leaving the two of them alone in the corridor, talking sweetly for a while about how much they missed each other after not seeing each other for the whole morning.
Li Zhuang was silent all the way. At this time, he called a few people from the community and hired them to move all the things upstairs for the price of a pack of instant noodles.
"Brother Damu, why are you back so early today?" Even though Lu Weiyi had not been out in the past two days, he saw that they were coming back later and later, but the supplies were becoming less. He knew that there must be more zombies outside. Now that he saw them coming back so early, he thought everything was going well.
"I'll come back early to pack up the things we took with us." It was the fourteenth day and Zhuang Mingxu had not arrived yet. They had agreed to return to Qingyuan tomorrow morning. Lu Weiyi was still waiting in his heart before this moment, but when Lin Yimu said that he wanted to pack up, he truly faced the reality.
"I understand," Lu Weiyi nodded, "I need to go out for a while."
"Do you want to take anything with you? There are a lot of zombies outside now. I'll go with you," Lin Yimu said, putting down the box in his hand and preparing to follow the man.
"No need, I'll go ask Little Green Hair for the jade ornaments he collected for me," Lu Weiyi said and walked out.
Lin Yimu was about to follow when Li Zhuang patted him on the shoulder and said, "When the kid grows up, he should learn to let go. Before you came, he was the first person to leave the community to find food, and he killed the zombies cleanly and efficiently."
"I'm just a little worried that he's in a bad mood." Lin Yimu had gone out with Lu Weiyi once, so how could he not know how enthusiastic Lu Weiyi was about killing zombies? But knowing that didn't mean he didn't feel bad for him. After all, if there was someone protecting him, he wouldn't need to be like this. Lin Yimu always felt that he had failed to protect him, but he was also happy for his rapid growth.
All the supplies that the seven people had obtained in the past few days were piled up in this house and the next door. Lin Yimu took the boxes and went back and forth between the two rooms to sort them out. The Gu Qingyue brothers returned to their own homes, and Li Zhuang sat on the sofa and smoked.
Antonio and Dean talked in the room for a while, then came out and stopped Lin Yimu, "Lin, is the place you are going to bigger than this city?"
Lin Yimu nodded. Qingyuan is the provincial capital and is more than twice as large as Wutong City.
"Dean and I want to go with you, is that okay?" Antonio went straight to the point.
"Of course, welcome. There will be someone to take care of us on the way." Lin Yimu stretched out his hand. Antonio high-fived him and looked at Li Zhuang. "Li, do you want to come with us?"
Li Zhuang stared at them for a while, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and said, "If I had known, I wouldn't have looked for so many things that I can't take away."
"It's the same if we go there and look for it later," Lin Yimu replied with a smile, "Do you want to ask the two people in Gu Qingyue's family?"
"What do you want to ask us?" Gu Qingyue's voice came from the door, and then he looked at Lin Yimu and said, "Brother Lin, we two brothers want to go to Qingyuan with you. We hope you can take care of us on the way."
"Haha...I was just about to ask you about this," said Lin Yimu.
"What are you doing..." Gu Qingyue was surprised.
"All ready to go," Antonio shrugged. "That's what it means, great minds think alike."
So, after Lu Weiyi came back from his trip, he found that one of the two trucks parked downstairs was already full, and Lin Yimu was still piling things onto the other one. "Did we bring too much?" At first, he put all the things he was looking for into the space, and only took out a little after the two people from Antonio's family came over. Later, the supplies he searched for were shared by several people. Although it was not a lot, it was good enough to fill up a truck.
"Let's... go together." Dean carried two boxes of mineral water and handed them to Lin Yimu in the car, and said happily to Lu Weiyi, "Let's go."
Lu Weiyi looked around and saw Gu Qingyue and his brother also helping, "Are you going too?" Antonio's family is not here, so it's normal for him to go. Li Zhuang looks like a casual person, but the two people from Gu Qingyue's family are real locals.
"Yes," Gu Qingyue simply told him about what happened with Zhou Jie today, "It's not safe there anymore, and it's even more impossible for us to survive. Let's find another way out. And I heard from Brother Lin that there are troops stationed near Qingyuan. If a safe zone is established, it will definitely be much better than here."
Lu Weiyi nodded. Qingyuan's safety zone was indeed much better than here, but...
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After cutting down on the belongings of several people, they filled up two large trucks. Li Zhuang volunteered to keep watch, and the others did not argue.
The next morning, Gu Qingyue got up early, boiled all the eggs he had brought back, and made a pot of porridge. He also cooked all the vegetables that could not be taken away, packed some for eating on the road, and shared the rest among the people.
There were still a lot of daily necessities piled up in the house, including soap, toothpaste and shampoo, which was a pity. Perhaps because of the shock from the shot yesterday, they were packing up their things in full swing and were leaving in a big way. Fang Ke didn't seem to want to stop them, but they just had to leave the things they couldn't take away because no one wanted to exchange them with them, so they had to leave them behind.
Gu Qingyue said with some regret, "If I had known I was leaving, I wouldn't have taken so much. I don't know who got the benefit."
"There will be more in the future," Gu Qingji comforted him.
"Young Master, let's go," Lin Yimu said to Lu Weiyi who was standing at the window looking out.
"...Okay!" Lu Weiyi responded, and took out a bucket of paint from the space while returning to the room. He had filled it up at that store when he went to collect gas tanks before. He had used two buckets yesterday. He opened a bucket of bright red paint, dipped the brush in it, and wrote directly on the wall facing the door, "Lu Weiyi returns to Qingyuan" followed by a date, which was this morning, accurate to the time.
Lin Yimu knew that his heart was still waiting.
After going out, Lu Weiyi took advantage of the time left to lock the door to put all the things in the house into the space, even the sofas and stools were not spared, not to mention the supplies they had worked hard to find over the past few days.
As soon as they went downstairs, Li Zhuang handed a few jade ornaments to Lu Weiyi, "Green Hair brought people to deliver them. They said you asked me to collect them before, and they gave me half a box of compressed biscuits." After saying that, he didn't forget to mock, "Why do you like jewelry like a little girl?"
Lu Weiyi was in a really bad mood and ignored him. He took the food and put it in his pocket and threw it directly into the space, then got on the off-road vehicle.
Seven people drove two trucks, one off-road vehicle, and drove out of the community into the early morning sun.
With Lu Weiyi's shock yesterday, a row of people stood at the gate but no one dared to stop them. Little Green Hair still enthusiastically opened the fence and asked familiarly, "Brother Lu, where are you going?"
"Qingyuan," Lu Weiyi replied, taking out a few bottles of water from the back seat and handing them to him, "If anyone comes to look for me, please tell him that I'm back in Qingyuan."
"Hey, don't worry, Brother Lu. If I come across any, I will tell you about it." The little green-haired boy happily took it.
Lu Weiyi started the car and left. Gu Qingyue, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked back with red eyes. Gu Qingji, who was sitting in the back seat, stepped forward and grabbed his hand. He smiled and said, "This is the house you gave me. I don't know if I can get it back in the future."
"When you go to Qingyuan, I'll give you another one," said Gu Qingji.
"Okay, I'm waiting."
Li Zhuang, who was sleeping in the truck behind him, looked back after leaving the community and saw the big green words painted on the community wall at a glance, "Lu Weiyi returns to Qingyuan" and the date that followed. It should have been done when he went out yesterday. He asked Lin Yimu, who was driving, "Will the person he is waiting for come?"
"I would definitely come if nothing happened." Zhuang Mingxu's personality was a bit paranoid, and Lin Yimu had never questioned his feelings for Lu Weiyi.
Li Zhuang raised his eyebrows, said nothing, and curled up in the narrow berth at the back of the truck.
Qingyuan is east of Wutong City. To go back to Qingyuan, one has to pass through the east of the city. In view of the large amount of supplies, they can only drive all the way. They decided to go to the gas station first and if possible, it would be best to get some gas to take away. This means we can't go around the city. There are a lot more zombies in the city than yesterday, and there are obviously more people leaving the city. There are cars driving hurriedly everywhere.
The city that was bustling with lights and wine half a month ago has now become a ruin, with a desolate scene everywhere, which makes people feel depressed.
The few of them made two turns, filled up their tanks, and then headed out of the city. Lin Yimu was the leader. The group did not need to search for supplies and walked on the country roads. Naturally, they encountered few zombies along the way. The trucks leading the way in front ran over them, and the off-road vehicles in the middle did not have to make any effort. When it was time for the shift change in the afternoon, Lu Weiyi lay directly on the back seat to practice his supernatural powers.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yimu, who was leading the way, slowed down the car. Gu Qingji, who was driving in the middle, quickly overtook the car. Li Zhuang opened the window and said, "There is a village about one kilometer ahead. We will spend the night there. It's a bit far from the next village. If we go any further we will have to spend the night on the road. You guys go and check out the situation first."
Gu Qingji nodded and drove over faster.
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