Chapter 603: Death of a Captive
The smell of blood poured into everyone's nostrils along with the cold wind, bringing a chill that made people feel cold from the inside out. I don't know if it was the weather at that time that caused the feeling, or the man in front of me who began to wipe the knife calmly.
The smell of blood awakened their precarious sanity. Several of them couldn't help but shrink away from Zhuang Mingxu, while also trying to distance themselves from the dead.
Even though the few psychics on duty could see that these people might have sensed the psychics in their bodies and treated them as prime food, they felt disgusted but did not think of taking action. They did not expect that Zhuang Mingxu, who usually looked mild-tempered, could be so deadly with just one move, and they were all stunned.
Seeing the man being so decisive, Guan Wei laughed at himself. How could a person who could firmly hold the power of a base in his hands as an ordinary person be a useless person who only relied on others for support?
After all, he had underestimated him. Guan Wei retracted his raised foot and spoke again with an unconscious respect in his tone, "Captain Zhuang, I will go to help Captain Wu."
"Go ahead." Zhuang Mingxu didn't even turn his head, as if he didn't notice his previous hesitation.
"Where is my baby? What did you do to my baby?" The first one to speak was a young boy. He looked fiercely at Zhuang Mingxu who was not far away from him, baring his teeth and roaring at him like a wild beast.
Zhuang Mingxu smiled at him calmly and asked, "Can't you sense it?"
Wood-type mutants have a unique sense of the contracted plants. Zhuang Mingxu knew that he already knew what happened, but he was just unwilling to accept it.
"I'm going to kill you..."
"I'm going to chop you into minced meat and feed it to the rats..."
The boy stood up angrily and rushed towards Zhuang Mingxu, but was kicked to the ground by Zhuang Mingxu without any mercy. He struggled for a long time but couldn't get up.
"Tell me, who are you? Where are you from? What is your purpose here?" Zhuang Mingxu didn't even look at the people on the ground. He calmly wiped the blood off the knife with a rag. His voice had a slow and gentle rhythm, and if you listened carefully, it had a tone that could not be refused.
The young boy was still shouting, while the rest of the people lowered their heads and said nothing.
Zhuang Mingxu looked down at the few people and smiled, "I admire people with principles."
"It's a pity that you apply your principles in the wrong place."
He looked up at the several psychics who stayed to assist him and said, "You guys go out, and please prepare some hot water for me."
Because of his previous action, no psychic questioned his words and they quickly left the makeshift interrogation room.
The person guarding the door did not have to wait long. After about half an hour, Zhuang Mingxu came out refreshed. There was no trace of fighting on his body. Even the bloody smell from the previous attack had dissipated during this period of time.
The guard handed him the hot towel he had prepared and kept glancing inside - in order to avoid suspicion, he did not dare to use his special ability to listen, and now he didn't even know whether the people inside were still alive.
"Go and keep them under strict guard." Zhuang Mingxu didn't need him to guess any more. He wiped his hands and strode away.
The unconscious person had not yet woken up. Zhuang Mingxu asked around and found Wu Yue.
As the current user with the highest earth-related superpower, Wu Yue has already led his men to repair a small part of the underground residence and is now leading them to rest and drink water.
The consumption of their superpowers and the lack of crystal cores made them look pale. When they saw Zhuang Mingxu coming over, they asked, "Did you get the results from the interrogation?"
"Yeah." Zhuang Mingxu took out a handful of crystal cores from his pocket and handed them to him, but Wu Yue stuffed them back to him, "No need. Let's take a break and recover slowly. Save them for the team leader."
If he doesn't accept it, it's even more impossible for the people below him to accept it.
The surrounding natural disasters trapped them here, and they indeed had no income. Zhuang Mingxu didn't be polite with him and said, "Don't worry."
Wu Yue nodded and said to the person next to him, "Guan Wei, take everyone to eat and rest for two hours."
Guan Wei gave him an OK gesture and left with the others. After everyone had gone far away, Zhuang Mingxu sat down next to Wu Yue and then talked about the results of the interrogation.
"They are from the Panshui base," Zhuang Mingxu added in the look of surprise in Wu Yue's eyes, "To be precise, they are the Panshui base after it was split."
At the Superpower Conference several months ago, Kyoto launched a drug that controls the reproduction of mutant animals. Panshui Base could have gotten a piece of the pie, but for various reasons they attacked Yuebanwan, causing Lu Weiyi's accident.
Lu Xiao turned hostile on the spot. The power in Kyoto was in turmoil, and no one paid attention to a base thousands of miles away. This also led to the rampant reproduction of mutant animals around the Panshui base, and within a few months it was completely out of control.
The Panshui base was originally a sick base. The powerful psychics had left long ago because of the influence of Gu Sheng. The remaining psychics exploited ordinary people until ordinary people began to believe in the so-called "Lord Mountain God". Their circumstances changed and the status of psychics began to decline.
However, after Lu Weiyi led his team to disintegrate Gu Sheng's power, ordinary people and people with special abilities entered a sensitive period.
Some of the people who had followed Gu Sheng escaped to the Panshui base, but they still couldn't change their habit of eating the flesh and blood of the psychics. However, without superpowers, they could only secretly attack some lone psychics, until someone began to lure the psychics to start eating them.
With Gu Sheng, the one who absorbed the psychic's crystal core to upgrade, it became less difficult to eat the psychic's flesh and blood.
In particular, they discovered that absorbing the crystal cores of mutants can help them upgrade faster, while eating the flesh and blood of mutants can strengthen their bodies. The higher the level, the better the effect.
This caused the entire Panshui base to enter a different situation. Ordinary people and those with special abilities all became frightened birds, fearing that they would become food by the people around them in the next moment. Two opposing forces gradually began to form.
Just when a war of three views was about to break out, rampant mutant animals attacked the Panshui base. The entire underground city fell. The two surviving teams left in different directions and formed new bases in their new residences.
"So are they... the team that eats human flesh?" Wu Yue asked.
Zhuang Mingxu nodded and said, "They still call themselves Panshui Base."
"What is their purpose of coming here this time?"
"For our psychics," Zhuang Mingxu said, a little confused, "I don't think it's that simple. I feel like they are more going for Gu Sheng's body."
But after interrogating these people, they all insisted that they came here just for the superpowers and had no idea what happened later.
“Will there be a different division of labor?”
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head.
"Who knocked us out?" Wu Yue asked a key question.
"The abilities that a mutant plant possesses," Zhuang Mingxu replied, "among the middle and high-level executives at the Panshui base are people who used to follow Gu Sheng. Among them, there are the most wood-type mutants, and each of them has a contract with a mutant plant," which makes it extremely easy for them to act without being discovered.
However, Zhuang Mingxu guessed that the other party's purpose this time was most likely to take Gu Sheng's body away.
When it comes to the flesh and blood of high-level psychics, no one can be more effective than Gu Sheng, the current highest psychic SSS.
"I don't think it makes sense either. If you want to take the mutant away, why did you detonate our ventilation duct? It doesn't make sense, and..."
"I checked the repaired areas and it doesn't look like the collapse was caused by a bomb blast. It's more like the entire stratum was subjected to a strong shock."
Wu Yue couldn't figure out what force could cause this situation and could only sigh, "It seems we have to wait until other people wake up before we can know what exactly happened."
Zhuang Mingxu did have some doubts, but he would not bring the matter upon himself when no one was paying attention. He just nodded in agreement with Wu Yue.
"By the way, will Gu Sheng's disappearance have any impact on us?"
"It shouldn't be. I asked Li Zhuang to check it at the beginning. The crystal core energy in Gu Sheng's body has disappeared. He is just an ordinary person who has been enhanced by energy. However..." Zhuang Mingxu said uncertainly, "After all, we have never come into contact with SSS level. No one can guarantee whether there will be any unexpected situations. We should still be vigilant."
"This end of the world has made people lose their bottom line more and more. Do you think the flesh and blood of people with special abilities can really strengthen the body?" Wu Yue looked at Zhuang Mingxu with suspicion.
"Who knows, but..."
Since they dared to reach out to them, it was hard to say that their target was only Gu Sheng. After all, except for him, everyone here was a mutant.
What’s more, there is Lu Weiyi who is about to become SSS-level.
Zhuang Mingxu didn't tell Wu Yue about this, but instead talked about the reconstruction and defense of the temporary base.
Previously, they thought there were no threats around. After building the base underground, the defense against the ground was reduced a lot. Now it seems that they were careless.
"Let the wood-type mutants weave a barrier with plants on the ground, so that we won't be aware of anyone invading from above without making any noise."
"That's what I planned too." Wu Yue explained his plan in detail, and Zhuang Mingxu supplemented it.
The imagination is grand, but unfortunately... Wu Yue sighed, "We have too few wood-type mutants now. If we want to cover the entire underground..."
He paused and turned to look at Zhuang Mingxu, "Can Taotao help plants grow?"
Ever since the internal strife in the base, Zhuang Mingxu had been protected by Taotao with a small green branch, and everyone outside had said that he was a wood-type mutant.
For some reason, the mutant plants were somewhat afraid of him, which allowed him to command a lot of mutant plants, but the induction of...
Zhuang Mingxu was a little uncertain, "It seems not possible."
After all, he is not a real wood-type mutant. "He prefers to control conscious mutated plants."
He thought about it and didn't say anything definite, "I'll go back and ask."
"OK".
After communicating the information, Zhuang Mingxu stood up and stretched his muscles. Just as he was about to say he was going back, he saw Guan Wei, who had left not long ago, running over in a hurry and shouting to them.
"Captain Zhuang, two unconscious prisoners are dead."
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