Chapter 595: Long-pointed Leaf Rose
The mutant plant named Long-pointed Leaf Rose has leaves only the size of a fingernail, which makes it look pitiful among the surrounding plants whose leaves are as big as lotus leaves after mutation. However, its stems are covered with barbs and can even extend in length as it attacks. Any small animal that approaches it becomes prey to its roots.
Taotao beat it several times before it finally calmed down. Finally, Zhuang Mingxu forced it to tie a heavenly punishment circle at the location of the crystal core. After scaring it and feeding it the crystal core for a while, it reluctantly adapted to the "guarding job".
With human intervention, the entire mutant plant formed a circle, tightly wrapping up Lu Weiyi who was sleeping in the middle. It would only be opened with Taotao's command if someone wanted to enter, which made Zhuang Mingxu feel a lot more at ease.
As the fog around them grew thicker, their connection with the outside world was completely cut off. Even though Lu Weiyi had a lot of supplies in his space, Zhuang Mingxu still began to make long-term preparations.
"Although our signal was poor in winter in the past two years, we never had a situation where we couldn't be contacted. We don't know what the situation will be like in the spring. We can't rely entirely on the base and need to make long-term plans."
On the small earthen kang, Zhuang Mingxu, Wu Yue and team four captain Zhou He sat together, discussing what to do next by the dim fire.
"That's what I thought. I recently asked someone to contact the nearest Panshui base, but there was no news at all. I'm still considering whether to send someone to Panshui base to check?"
Zhou He held a homemade cigarette in his hand and lit it on the stove. A cool breeze wafted over him, causing Wu Yue to look at him more. "Mint? Did you go to Taotao to get some money again?"
In order to let Lu Weiyi eat some fresh vegetables in the winter, Zhuang Mingxu planted some vegetables himself. Taotao saw it and took them. They grew exceptionally well. But Taotao was young, so they went over to coax her and play with her for a while before she agreed to give some away.
Fortunately, everyone knows who it belongs to and no one is trying to cheat.
After Zhou He heard that mint could be used to roll tobacco, he tried it twice and gradually became addicted to it.
"I got this in exchange for currying favor with the young master. How can it be considered as taking advantage of him?" Zhou He glanced at Zhuang Mingxu, and seeing that he had no reaction, he confronted Wu Yue righteously.
Wu Yue glanced at him with disdain.
"Don't go for now. We don't know if Kyoto is under siege by zombies. Let's first stabilize and improve our own strength." Zhuang Mingxu looked at Wu Yue, "The environment we are in now is relatively safe. From now on, you two can take turns leading the team to go out and improve our superpowers."
Wu Yue nodded.
Zhou He was surprised, "Isn't winter the time to hibernate?"
"With your level barely taking a step towards S-level, are you embarrassed to stay here for the winter?" Wu Yue looked down on him.
"Why should I be embarrassed? There are only a little over a hundred S-level psychics in the base. I am already on the list. What's there to be embarrassed about?"
"Are you really that shameless?"
“It’s just so-so”
Zhuang Mingxu waited for the two to complain for a while before he spoke, "There are fewer things that need to be guarded against in an underground residence. You two will be responsible for what happens from now on. When you go out, take turns and don't go out all at once."
When Wu Yue heard what he said, his brows furrowed, "What about you? What do you want to do?"
"..."Zhuang Mingxu glanced in the direction of Lu Weiyi and said, "I seemed to have entered his illusion that day. I need to go check again and try to wake him up. Lying down like this is not a solution."
Especially since he didn't leave any healing psychics here at the beginning, problems like muscle atrophy caused by lying down for a long time cannot be alleviated. If he doesn't find a way to wake him up, it may be a problem for him to move in the future.
After hearing this, Wu Yue just sighed deeply and said nothing to dissuade him.
Zhou He scratched his head, feeling that their relationship wasn't that close yet, and didn't know what to say.
Zhuang Mingxu just greeted the two of them. All matters of the temporary base had been arranged by the two of them. There was no need for him to intervene. It made no difference whether he was there or not.
The next day, Zhou He and Wu Yue reorganized the personnel, and Zhuang Mingxu did not hesitate at all and immediately started the experiment again.
"I will let a psychic awaken you once every five days. Don't fall into it yourself," Wu Yue said as he looked at the man with a determined look.
Zhuang Mingxu nodded, patted Wu Yue on the shoulder, and looked at Taotao, who was holding him, "Taotao, do you remember what your father said?"
"I've got it remembered," Taotao said in a baby voice, looking serious.
"Then let's go," he said, taking off the mental shielding helmet on his head and lying down next to Lu Weiyi.
As Wu Yue left, the entire cocoon made of plant thorns instantly formed a circle.
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There was nothing in sight in the vast white surroundings. Zhuang Mingxu felt as if he was floating in the air. Without feet to support himself, he couldn't find any solid ground.
He looked around, but there was nothing around.
"Xiao Yi——"
"Lu Weiyi!"
No one responded.
"Taotao? Where are you?"
Still unable to hear any sound, he seemed to be isolated in a separate world.
Just when Zhuang Mingxu was trying to control himself to look around, he seemed to hear the sound of a car running in front of him, and then there seemed to be an invisible force pulling him forward.
As the fog in front of me gradually dissipated, the scene in front of me gradually became clearer.
The road was muddy after the heavy rain, and the huge convoy passed through at high speed, splashing mud and water everywhere.
Zhuang Mingxu recognized his former car in the convoy at a glance. With a thought, he felt himself floating over.
As expected, "Zhuang Mingxu" and "Lu Weiyi" were both in the car.
In the seven-seater car, "Zhuang Mingxu" was sitting in the middle holding "Lu Weiyi", taking up only one seat. The other seat seemed to be vacated intentionally. His Xiaoyi was sitting there with his arms folded, staring silently outside the car.
Ning Yuan, who was driving in the front, was concentrating on paying attention to the road conditions, while Wu Yue, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was using the intercom to communicate with the people in front and behind him from time to time, asking about the situation.
In the last three-person seat, Antonio was coaxing Dean into feeding him. The two of them only occupied half of the spacious seat, sitting very close to each other.
Seeing that this person was here safely, Zhuang Mingxu's heart, which had been tense for several months, finally settled down a little. He let him get closer, and even though he had no hands or siblings, he still tried his best to hug him.
Lu Weiyi, who had been looking out the window, seemed to sense something. He withdrew his gaze and looked blankly at the air.
"Xiao Yi?"
"Xiaoyi," Zhuang Mingxu's voice just came out when he called him, and it overlapped with a similar voice. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw "Zhuang Mingxu" saying gently to the person in his arms, "I think the world may be dangerous like this in the short term. I will do my best to protect you, but I also hope you can learn the skills to survive independently."
"So, during this journey, when we rest, I will teach you some basic things. Do you want to try to learn them?" "Zhuang Mingxu" turned the face of the man in his arms towards him, pressed his forehead against his, looked closely into his eyes and asked.
"Lu Weiyi" did not respond.
Just when Zhuang Mingxu thought Xiaoyi was going to get excited again, he saw the person next to him just glanced at him and then looked away indifferently.
"Zhuang Mingxu" didn't get a response, but he didn't get discouraged. He kept muttering to himself and took out the plan book he had written to show him. Zhuang Mingxu took a closer look and saw that it was a plan of the cities that they would pass through along the way. Even the water and land routes were clearly marked, and there were also some large supply points.
But every time we passed a place, there were a few unique words marked next to it, first it was a car, then a truck, and finally even a motorboat.
Combined with what "Zhuang Mingxu" said just now, he seemed to understand what he was thinking.
If you put yourself in his shoes, it is indeed what he would do. In this dangerous world, complete protection is the least reliable way. What you really care about is to teach him that he can live well without anyone.
Of course, there may be a little selfishness - even if he dies one day, his lover will always have the traces of himself left on him.
This trace is integrated into every corner of his life, just like his secret possessiveness of this person.
Zhuang Mingxu didn’t know if this person thought the same as he did, but he had to say that the self in Lu Weiyi’s fantasy was very similar to him - they were indeed people who grew up together and he knew him very well.
When Zhuang Mingxu was feeling relieved, the convoy had already stopped to rest.
"Zhuang Mingxu" got off the car to arrange for rest and the next journey. Antonio was reluctant to leave and repeatedly told Dean to go and inspect the surroundings. Only "Lu Weiyi" and Dean were left in the car.
Lu Weiyi still sat in his seat looking out the window, with no intention of following.
The noisy surroundings formed a sharp contrast with the silence in the car.
Zhuang Mingxu followed Lu Weiyi's gaze and looked out the window. There was a surging crowd, and there were dozens of cars in the huge convoy alone. There was so much green around that it was impossible to tell the location.
All I could gather from sporadic conversations was that they were on their way to Kyoto.
So many people?
Zhuang Mingxu frowned and looked carefully, some of them were familiar, some were unfamiliar.
To his surprise, there were actually Li Mingli's brothers in the team. They were clearly killed by Lu Weiyi and his team after they betrayed him and followed Li Ji.
His leg was a thorn in Lu Weiyi's heart. He couldn't even bear being looked at with a special look. Zhuang Mingxu felt that he would not lie to him about such a thing.
Then how come they are in the team here?
and……
Zhuang Mingxu saw Li Mingli talking to him warmly, and he even patted him on the shoulder with appreciation.
After realizing something was wrong, Zhuang Mingxu finally had time to observe the team carefully.
It is also called the Only Team, and many of its members were employees of his company before the apocalypse, but in reality there are only a few members of the Only Team.
None of Xu Sa, Liu Rui and Li Zhuang were there, but Qin Jin, whom they had been unable to find, was in the team.
However, the Antonio and Dean he was familiar with were completely different from what he remembered. Compared with the optimistic and heartless Dean who was like a little sun all day long, the man who was hugging him tightly and huddled in a corner of the seat was like a frightened little animal. Any loud noise around him would make him tremble unconsciously.
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