Chapter 636 Privacy
"My father went to the fields early in the morning. I'm going to bring him some food." Li Jing took off the backpack and lifted the lid, revealing a wooden bowl underneath. Inside were a few steamed buns that were as black as stones, and a few plates of cold dishes.
She handed it to Qi Le and said, "Master, do you want some? Sister Qinqin harvested some sugarcane a few days ago and made some sugar. My father mixed it into the steamed buns. It's sweet and delicious."
"Pang Qin gave birth to something again?" Qi Le frowned, his tone suddenly becoming cold.
It was as if the displeased aura of a superior was rushing towards him. Even though Qi Le noticed that Li Jing's shrinking movements were restrained instantly, they were still caught by Zhou He. His eyes suddenly froze, and he pretended to look away as if nothing had happened, sighing in his heart. Sure enough, everyone in this small base had secrets.
"Master, I was greedy. Please don't punish Sister Qinqin. It's all my fault." Li Jing had tears in his eyes and pursed his lips, feeling aggrieved.
"Oh, forget it, you're just acting like a child all day long."
"Thank you, Master." Li Jing thought he had passed this level and instantly smiled happily. However, Yun Bai, who was standing behind him, happened to catch a flash of hostility in his eyes.
He secretly glanced at Zhou He, wanting to give him a hint, but Zhou He signaled him to be quiet.
"Uncle Zhou, hello, are your team members feeling better?" Li Jing, feeling that he had passed a test, greeted Zhou He happily.
"I'm fine now. I haven't thanked you for your help yet."
"No need, it was my master who said that. So I should thank my master."
"Captain Zhou has already said it, so don't be polite anymore," Qi Le said, introducing the situation of the Mountain God Base to them again.
After several thousand meters, the number of residential houses gradually decreased, some cultivated fields began to appear, and the number of pedestrians coming and going increased.
Li Jing said goodbye to them and ran towards the distant fields, calling his father like a bird out of a cage.
Zhou He was no longer surprised at this point, and pointed at a well-proportioned and slender man in the crowd, "Is that her father?"
Unlike other old, weak and disabled people, this man looked elegant like a scholar, with no signs of injury on his body, but... he smiled in a silly way, as if there was something wrong with his brain.
"Not really..."
Qi Le's answer made Zhou He and Yun Bai look at him.
"In terms of blood relationship, he should be my uncle." Qi Le kept walking, responding to the greetings of people along the way, and said, "Li Jing's parents favored boys over girls. They took their son away from here at the beginning of the end of the world. Because there was not enough food to sustain them on the road, they left her at home."
Just as Zhou He thought, Li Jing's uncle was indeed a little stupid. He was only eight or nine years old mentally. Before the end of the world, he had enough food and drink and plenty of strength in the village. Except for the difficulty in finding a wife, his life was pretty good.
He would deliver the vegetables grown at home to his brother's house every half a month. Even when an earthquake occurred, he had no sense of danger and still went to his brother's house on time. Unexpectedly, he met his little niece who had fainted from hunger.
The fool didn't know much, but he was aware of the danger. Seeing that everyone around him had turned into zombies, he relied on his recklessness to carry Li Jing back to the village.
There was enough food for the two of them to live on until a person with special powers appeared, the village was robbed and merged, and finally the two of them arrived at the Panshui base.
"He didn't suffer any external injuries. He's just a fool who looks like that. It's not surprising that he's coveted by others." Qi Le didn't have the slightest awareness of exposing other people's pain. He spoke of these private matters as a bystander, not as compassionate as he looked.
Zhou He felt that he was not suitable to listen to these things, but as Li Jing's master, he had no intention of keeping secrets for his apprentice.
This made Zhou He feel that this person was not as he appeared to be.
A fool who had no sense of propriety and honor only cared about getting food to keep his niece alive, so he moved between several men. However, as the status of ordinary people became lower and lower, the price he paid to get food became higher and higher.
"Later, he followed a psychic with a special fetish. He was a pervert. It is said that the worst time he played with him was when he was hung naked in the square for half a month for the psychic's "like-minded" friends to play with..."
Yun Bai didn't want to listen any more after hearing this. He felt that these things were not suitable to be discussed, especially since little girl Li Jing had been very friendly to them along the way, calling them uncle here and uncle there. As an elder, there was really no need for him to gossip about them.
Just as he was about to speak, Zhou He next to him glared at him. He swallowed the words back, took a deep breath, turned his eyes away, and stopped listening.
"But do you know what happened to that psychic in the end?" Qi Le suddenly asked.
"Don't kill him?" Zhou He cooperated.
"Haha, no, he was bitten by a zombie while trying to save him," Qi Le sneered in confusion, "When the Panshui base was destroyed, some zombies sneaked into the underground city. He was still tied up at the time. That man could have left, but he went back to find him. As a result, he was bitten by a zombie while trying to save him."
"I was at the scene and saw it clearly. He was very unbelievable after being bitten and wanted to say something to Li Jing's uncle, but Li Jing's uncle was so scared when he saw the zombies that he ran away holding Li Jing."
"I really can't figure it out. Why? Did you develop feelings for me after being insulted for so long?" Qi Le asked with confusion in his tone.
"Can't it be that you like her?" Yun Bai looked away while speaking in order to prevent him from seeing his cold face.
"Haha..." Qi Le seemed to have heard a joke, "Do you think people like the animals in their hands?"
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Neither Zhou He nor Yun Bai said anything.
"Sorry, I said a lot of nonsense," Qi Le, who just realized that he had said too much, took the initiative to say, "I really feel confused, and there is no one to discuss with on weekdays, so please don't mind."
"No, people's thoughts and feelings are very complicated. Who knows what others are thinking?" Zhou He gave up and pointed to a towering wall woven with plants in the distance and asked, "Where is that?"
Following the direction of his finger, the wall woven by trees cut the entire canyon in half, forming a high wall that could not be crossed by human power. The thick black tree trunks were twisted and knotted, giving a full sense of security.
"Over there is our training ground." Qi Le led the two of them to an edge and signaled Zhou He to use his supernatural power in the air.
Zhou He sent a fire dragon rising into the air parallel to the plant wall, exploding like fireworks. In a moment, the plants in front of him began to wriggle as if they had life, and gradually a passage that was wide enough for one person to pass through appeared. Qi Le walked in first.
After passing through a passage formed by four or five meter long tree trunks, it seems as if you have entered another space. There are many people scattered here, training their supernatural powers on the things in front of them.
"Master, you are here." Standing at the entrance was Pang Qin, the plant-based mutant who had been seen before. After making sure that there was no one behind him, he closed the opened passage again.
"I want to see everyone's progress." Qi Le did not show displeasure as he did when he knew that she was promoting plant growth. He looked quite friendly. "By the way, I brought two friends here to visit and give me guidance, so that we can make progress together."
Pang Qin led them forward. There was a psychic standing every hundred meters or so, releasing their superpowers towards the open space in front of them. From time to time, one could see an earth-type psychic who couldn't control his strength well and would be knocked down by a pillar that suddenly protruded from the ground, or a fire-type psychic who would set his clothes on fire, or even a metal-type psychic who couldn't control his metal weapons well and hurt nearby psychics.
This is completely different from what Cube showed. However, looking at the strength of their abilities, they are definitely not low-level psychics who have just awakened.
Wailing and cursing could be heard from time to time. Qi Le covered his face as if he could not bear to look at it, and said, "Excuse me, these are people who have just been enlightened and have developed superpowers, and they are not able to adapt to the use of their superpowers yet."
Even though we knew it in advance, it still felt incredible to actually see it.
"We all groped our way here." Zhou He glanced at the five closest psychics and discovered that their superpowers were distributed completely according to the five elements, with only one of each kind, no more, no less.
Qi Le was like a bystander, without making any comments. He observed them and walked away. Zhou He and Yun Bai followed behind him.
As the distance from the plant barrier increases, the psychic becomes more proficient in using his abilities, and things that require practice begin to appear in front of him.
If the wet firewood placed in front of the fire-type mutant is to control the fineness of the mutant's ability, then the plants in front of the water-type mutant, the small animals in front of the wood-type mutant, and in front of the metal-type mutant... a pile of white powder?
This really made Zhou He confused.
"Is this also... training superpowers?" Zhou He asked without understanding.
Qi Le nodded, with a bit of complacency in his brows, "This is an idea that I came up with unintentionally. After verifying it with several people with special abilities, I found that it can better train their special abilities, so it has become the current training direction."
"What is he training?" Zhou He pointed at the water-type mutant closest to him, "Watering the plants?"
"No, I'm trying to drain the water out of the plants." Without waiting for anyone to answer, the girl in front of him took the initiative to explain, "The water content of each plant is different. I have to determine the amount of water it contains as quickly as possible so that I can use the most accurate supernatural power to quickly drain the water."
It sounds like it could work, but...
Is there any use for such means?
Zhou He thought so in his mind but did not ask. Instead, the girl said to Qi Le happily, "Master, I can now accurately extract the moisture from eggplants and beans. My mother said that what I make with my supernatural power is better than those dried in the sun. We no longer have to worry about the stored vegetables at home going bad due to lack of sunlight."
"Good, keep up the good work," Qi Le nodded approvingly.
Zhou He and Yun Bai both had a look of "that's it?" on their faces, but when they looked up at the sky above that was like a crack in the sky, they seemed to understand. After all, most of the people here were ordinary people, and not every family had the ability to grow plants. The plants grown at one time still needed to be effectively stored to ensure survival.
Maybe they did this on purpose. Doesn't their base also use supernatural powers to generate electricity and heat?
Thinking of this, Zhou He felt relieved again.
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