Chapter 673 Qi Le's Thoughts
"Tuanjie Village exchanged seeds with them yesterday. I heard that it can induce several births."
“Is it the original seed?”
"Not entirely. There are original seeds and induced seeds mixed in there. It is said that someone used one pound of corn seeds to produce more than 500 pounds of corn."
"Oh, is that true? Then can we also exchange some? We can sow seeds now and wait until the season comes..." Just thinking about it, the person who was speaking couldn't help but laugh.
Everyone was very enthusiastic and there was a feeling of prosperity.
At this moment, a childish voice interrupted the discussion with a condescending tone, "Master, I think the people in Yueban Bay have bad intentions."
Everyone looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a chubby little fat boy with his chest crossed and his chin held high, with a look of arrogance on his face.
"Xiao Zhou, why do you say that?" Qi Le was not unhappy at all because he interrupted their conversation.
"We were on patrol last night and found signs of people staying at the junction of the city and the village," Xiao Zhou said to himself, not noticing Qi Le's sudden change in expression.
Sha Peng, who had always been indifferent to everything, glanced at it and seemed to have noticed nothing, and then focused his attention back on the crystal core gun in his hand.
"Oh? What did you find?" Qi Le asked slowly, lowering his eyes and picking up the cup on the table to blew on it, looking calm and composed. If his fingers were not holding the cup so tightly that they turned white, one might have been deceived by his calmness.
Sitting not far from the fat boy was a boy who was slightly older than him. He was tall and thin, but his clothes were patched all over. When the two of them stood together, their living conditions were clearly visible.
He frowned and gently pulled the little fat boy, as if he wanted him to shut up, but the little fat boy didn't appreciate it at all, and even slapped his hand impatiently. After a crisp slap, the little fat boy accused, "Didn't you say you saw someone?"
"I...I..." The boy's cheeks quickly turned red as he was stared at by everyone.
Qi Le had to comfort him with a few words before he whispered, "When I was patrolling yesterday, I only saw a figure, and when I passed by, there was nothing there."
"Nonsense, didn't you say you felt someone was there?" the fat man said dissatisfiedly.
"Didn't you also say that you might have seen it wrong and you were in a hurry to go back to sleep?" the boy retorted.
This was tantamount to saying that they were lazy during their patrol. The fat boy's face turned pale instantly. He carefully glanced in Qi Le's direction and hurriedly said, "Master, I didn't think there might be someone there at the time. After dawn, I went to check with Brother Fang Tang, and there were indeed footprints left over there."
Qi Le pinched his fingers and looked at the sugar cube.
"There are indeed footprints," Fang Tang pondered, "but the messenger Shapeng said that it looked like they were left by a few of them walking around nearby last night."
"Those are children's footprints," Shapong confirmed.
Qi Le nodded, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the fat man say, "I felt some traces of earth-related supernatural powers remaining nearby."
"Earth-related superpowers?" Qi Le looked at him with amusement and joked, "Could it be that you used your superpowers to investigate in the middle of the night and forgot about it after you slept?"
"Who knows? It might be possible. You yawn the most." Another boy sitting next to the fat boy complained dissatisfiedly, "If you weren't late, we wouldn't have come for inspection until after one o'clock."
"You noticed someone around one o'clock?" Qi Le's tone suddenly changed, attracting everyone's attention.
The fixed patrol time points for each city were carefully calculated and arranged by him. There was a very short time difference between the two teams, which was also to make it easier for him to travel between the Shanshen Base and Panshui Base without being discovered.
If it was their normal patrol time, then there was a high chance that they would find it was him, but if it was delayed...
Qi Le had a bad feeling in his heart. He had already entered the underground passage at that time, so... who would be discovered by them?
The little fat boy stammered and didn't dare to say anything. It was the tall and thin boy who led the team, biting his lip and admitting his mistake, "...Yes, we were delayed for half an hour."
"...be punctual next time." Qi Le squeezed out these words from between his teeth and looked at Fang Tang's team. "Take Sun Tao with you to see if there really is any residual energy left by the earth-type mutant."
"Yes" the sugar cube should.
"It is said that the captain who came this time has earth-related abilities." Tan Yun frowned and said, "Master Qi Le, do you think it will happen..."
"Let the facts speak for themselves," Qi Le said, but the kindness in his eyes had disappeared.
A few hours ago, he promised the woman that he would start over. He worked hard all night and finally convinced himself, but now it seemed that everything was just empty talk.
If he was really followed last night...
Qi Le lowered his eyes slightly, and chuckled after a moment. His gentle aura suddenly took on a bit of evil, making Tan Yun, who was closest to him, feel an indescribable chill.
"Master Qi Le?" There was a tremor in her voice that she herself did not notice.
"It's okay." Qi Le smiled at her. It was no different from before, but it made people feel that something had changed.
Tan Yun turned her head to look at Sha Peng beside her, hoping to get some information from him, but the man was only interested in the gun in his hand.
Qi Le seemed to have noticed her little move and looked at Sha Peng and asked, "How many guns did they prepay?"
"Twenty." Sha Peng didn't wait for Qi Le to continue, and said, "Lord Mountain God, let me keep all of them. When needed, I will distribute them to everyone for use."
After all, this is still the base of the mountain god. They had pushed the white deer too high from the beginning, and now Sha Peng was using it as an excuse. Qi Le was unable to ask them to hand it over in front of everyone. He could only nod and ask him to pay attention to collecting the rest.
Not long after the short meeting ended, Fang Tang brought Sun Tao back and said that they had indeed found signs of residual earth energy.
"It's impossible to determine whose supernatural powers are left," Fang Tang said pertinently, "Only the footprints of Xiaozhou and his group appeared on the ground, and the remaining energy is only nearby, and nothing is detected farther away."
"What did Xiaozhou say?" Qi Le's face was calm.
"..." The fat man knew that Qi Le knew about his delay in patrol, and his mind was full of worries about punishment. He couldn't even say clearly whether he had used his supernatural powers in the middle of the night. "He forgot."
"Waste!" Qi Le suddenly turned hostile and threw the teacup in his hand to the ground. The scalding hot tea splashed all over Tang Cube. He seemed not to feel it and did not even move to step back.
Qi Le took a deep breath to ease the depression in his heart, "I'm sorry, Master was worried that the other party was doing something bad, so he lost his temper. You go change your clothes and go to the temporary residence in Yueban Bay later."
"I understand, Master," Fang Tang said respectfully.
Qi Le went back to his room, walked around, and came out with a palm-sized instrument and handed it to Fang Tang, "This is an instrument for detecting the level of a psychic. Try your best to find out the other person's level of ability."
"Okay," Fangtang took it, not wanting to ask any more questions.
"Do a good job. Tan Yun is too kind and idealistic, Sha Peng doesn't care about anything, and Tiantian is too young. The base will still rely on you in the future." Qi Le patted the other person's shoulder and made a big promise.
Fang Tang took it calmly, and asked Tan Yun to pick up Mo Tiantian and go to the temporary residence in Yueban Bay openly.
Among the people who came this time, only Sun Cheng had met Fang Tang a few times before. When he saw him coming from afar, he thought he was looking for him, so he walked out first and greeted him.
"Tangtang, aren't you busy today?" Sun Cheng wiped the blood from his hands from bandaging someone's wound.
"Fortunately, the messenger of God asked me to come and pick up Tiantian. Brother Sun, have you finished your treatment today?" Fang Tang looked towards the rooms.
Sun Cheng thought he was looking for Mo Tiantian's current room, so he pointed to one place and said, "Her power has just been used up. She needs to slowly absorb the crystal core. She is undergoing the second round of treatment. Do you want to go over and take a look?"
Fang Tang nodded and followed him inside. He casually asked about Zhou He and his group's recent situation and their training of supernatural powers, but his eyes were inadvertently looking around.
Sun Cheng praised their training methods as effective, and many people in the base benefited greatly from them, and they had new ideas. When he looked at the patrol personnel not far away, he saw the other party quietly making gestures to him and nodded slightly.
Not finding the person he wanted to meet, Fang Tang was thinking about when to use the testing equipment. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Mo Tiantian comfortably curled up on the kang, watching a tablet computer, on which was playing a pre-apocalyptic comedy variety show. In front of her were dried meats of various flavors, each the size of a fingernail, emitting a fragrant smell. She was laughing so hard that she fell backwards. Suddenly, she saw Fang Tang appear and was frightened, and started to cough violently.
"Eat slowly. No one is going to snatch it from you," Sun Cheng said in a coaxing tone. He grabbed a handful and handed it to Tangtang, "Tangtang, try it too. It's a little snack that I made when I was free in the kitchen."
"Brother Sun, I..."
"Take it. It's sweet. It's smeared with mutant honey. Ordinary people can eat it too. It's used to coax the child of our base chief. Now he's in poor health and can't eat it. It can't be kept for a long time. Take some back to coax your sister." Sun Cheng said, and casually picked up a dried leaf of an unknown plant, turned it over a few times like wrapping Chinese medicine, and stuffed the square bag into Fangtang's arms.
Fang Tang lives alone with his sister. Naturally, he lacks the youthfulness of the past. He is calm and taciturn. If he is offered the opportunity, he will definitely refuse. But when he thinks of his skinny sister...
"Thank you, Brother Sun." He held the sugar cube in his hand and felt that he didn't know how to take out the testing equipment on his body.
"Don't be polite, kid." Sun Cheng rubbed his head and pushed him towards Mo Tiantian. "We have some other flavors. You and Tiantian can try them together."
"I have some wounded soldiers who need dressing changes, so I won't stay with you two. Please do as you please." Sun Cheng said as he walked out of the room and glanced at the comrade who had just reminded him.
The comrade pointed towards the room in the middle and said two words silently, "Captain Wu."
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