Chapter 695: Glowing Mushrooms
Sun City?
It sounded a little familiar. Lu Weiyi stopped moving upwards and looked back at the ground.
Originally, the cave was glowing with a faint orchid, and things were only vaguely visible. Now, under the illumination of Zhuang Mingxu's ceiling lamp, a ray of light was emitted from the cave entrance above his head, making the place hidden under the floating mushroom's umbrella become obvious.
Densely packed people and animals were hiding in it as if they were sleeping. Some of them could still be seen breathing slightly, while others had already melted, leaving only half of their bloody bodies.
A layer of mushrooms attached to the surface slowly transitions from black and red to pink from bottom to top like a gradient, with clear veins like the capillaries distributed in the human body, which is creepy.
"Xiao Yi, is this a mutated plant?" Zhuang Mingxu did not ask Lu Weiyi to rescue people directly. He had no idea about the details of the thing in front of him. While speaking, he took out the energy detector, wanting to see the specific level of this thing.
"Yes." Lu Weiyi saw that most of the people sleeping below were wearing the uniforms of the Yuebanwan Base Army, and he immediately knew which team they were from.
Not long after waking up, Zhuang Mingxu had already introduced the general situation of the temporary base to him. Except for Zhou He's part, the rest were taken by Wu Yue to the Mountain God Base to find healing psychics.
These people were the ones who followed Wu Yue, but——
Lu Weiyi looked around as he descended, but he did not find Wu Yue among them. Most of the people were strangers to him.
"Go up, I'll call you when I've dealt with it," Lu Weiyi said to Zhuang Mingxu.
"It shows that this area is full of energy balls, and their level may be quite high. You take Phoenix with you, so be careful. They look like they have been anesthetized by something." Otherwise, with such a big commotion, it is impossible that they have no intention of waking up.
As soon as Lu Weiyi responded, he felt the phoenix flapping its wings and falling down, directly breaking the mushroom fan that was dozens of meters high into two sections. The umbrella cap that was separated from the mushroom umbrella handle scattered a pool of water in mid-air, and only a layer of skin was left when it landed on the ground.
Before Lu Weiyi could curse, a fresh scent of grass filled the air. Lu Weiyi immediately held his breath and used the small green branch to take the two people above into the space.
After the Phoenix's attack, the small mushrooms attached to the ground began to rustle and wriggle around. It was at this moment that Lu Weiyi saw that the dark red things in his sight were not the mushrooms themselves, but a kind of insects densely covering the surface of the mushrooms. They were as long as fingers and it was impossible to tell what species they were. They did not wriggle very fast, but they were like layers of waves, which looked disgusting.
Before Lu Weiyi even landed on the ground, he felt a physiological itch all over his body. He simply stopped in mid-air, leaned against a small green branch to collect a young mushroom and the insects growing on it, and ordered Phoenix to move the people on the ground to one side, and then burned the remaining mushrooms and the insects together with a neat fire.
A sour and foul smell filled the entire cave. The jungle was already poorly ventilated, and it was impossible to stay there any longer. Lu Weiyi could only put all the unconscious people into the space and return to the ground.
"Only ninety-seven are still alive, but they are just breathing. We don't know their exact situation yet." Zhuang Mingxu has checked everyone. Some of them only have external injuries, while some have been partially corroded. It is conceivable that if they hadn't been touched, these people would probably have become a pool of nutrients for mushrooms in the end. "What's going on down there?"
Lu Weiyi roughly explained to him what he saw and showed him the remaining ones.
In the transparent glass dish, a small mushroom on the little finger was swaying, and the small insects on its body were also mini ones, and there was no sign of any danger.
Zhuang Mingxu asked uncertainly, "It's like a symbiotic relationship between plants and animals. The energy detector shows that the positive film is full of energy. Are you sure it's safe?"
"It's a mutated plant, but the level is very low, and it's not entirely the energy of the plant, but more of the energy of the insects attached to it, just like..." Lu Weiyi thought for a while, "The animals that reproduced rapidly during the previous period were large in number, but their levels were very low."
When they are gathered together, what is displayed on the instrument is not just a whole piece.
"Have you taken the crystal core?" Zhuang Mingxu knew there was no danger and immediately leaned towards diligence and thrift.
Of course Lu Weiyi didn't have any. The worm was as long as a finger and its crystal core was as big as a millet grain. How could he take it out?
Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhuang Mingxu knew the answer, "Otherwise you can dig up the entire piece of land, and wait until you meet up with the main force, and let them do it. You may not need it, but they may. At worst, it can be used as energy.
In Lu Weiyi's memory, the wealthy Zhuang Mingxu was so careful with his budgeting. Hearing this, he was amazed. "Have we... become so poor?"
“Haha… We’re not that poor, but we still try to save money if we can.”
Lu Weiyi never refuted Zhuang Mingxu's words. He put the entire piece of land into the space and sent Zhuang Mingxu in.
"I'll go check their wounds. Is it convenient for you to take Taotao with you? Otherwise, send him to the tree house and let him sleep by yourself." Zhuang Mingxu said to the air while wearing an integrated isolation suit in the space.
"It's convenient." Lu Weiyi's voice seemed to come from the sky, with a slight echo, "Be careful."
"Know".
In order to facilitate their living, a layer of villas were placed directly in the space. Although it is a bit crowded to accommodate so many people now, fortunately there is a cover so that people cannot see the supplies in the space at a glance.
Setting out again, Lu Weiyi moved much faster. He didn't have to worry about the harm that the branches hitting him might cause to humans. The phoenix ran in the forest like a gust of wind. It didn't take long for the man and the bird to reach the top of the mountain.
Lu Weiyi climbed to the top of the tree and looked down the mountain. All he could see was a thin cloud of mist, which completely obscured the situation at the base below.
Just when he was thinking of letting the phoenix take him directly down, the sound of a phoenix cackle was heard.
"Someone? What does that mean?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"Ha ha -- (that's two living people)".
"Catch him!"
The people who can appear here might be from the Mountain God Base.
Lu Weiyi slid down quickly from a tree that was dozens of meters high. Taotao, who woke up in his arms, felt like the real version of Fei Gaogao and thought she was playing with him, so she giggled.
The soft voice was still fragile, but at least it didn't sound so dying. Lu Weiyi's tense nerves finally relaxed a little.
"Are you hungry, Taotao? Do you want some milk?" Lu Weiyi asked in an unnatural voice, imitating Zhuang Mingxu's tone.
"Ah" Taotao opened her mouth, revealing a mouth full of incomplete teeth.
As soon as he finished talking to Zhuang Mingxu in the space, he was immediately told the location where the milk was warmed. So when the phoenix came over with the two struggling figures in its mouth, what he saw was Lu Weiyi holding the bottle in his hand and feeding the baby like a wife.
"What are you...ah, fuck..."
Before Lu Weiyi could speak, one of the men asked first. Before he could finish his words, the Phoenix let go of his mouth and he fell directly to the ground from a height of two or three meters. Even though he was urgently dragged by another wood-type mutant, he still gasped and cursed.
"you……"
"Base Commander?"
The man with the wood ability shouted uncertainly, and when he saw Lu Weiyi looking at him, he was about to get up with an excited expression, but was slammed back to the ground by the phoenix's claw.
"Base commander, I'm Wang Bao, a soldier under Captain Zhou He, from the 06th Squadron, the 4th Battalion of the Base Army." Wang Bao had met Lu Weiyi before. After all, the base was not that big, and he was considered their direct supervisor.
Lu Weiyi looked at him. He didn't have the uniforms of the Yuebanwan base army, and the patches on his clothes didn't look like someone from their base, but...
Lu Weiyi waved his hand and pulled the knife hanging on his waist directly over. The sharp blade flashed with cold light, and it was indeed a product of their base.
"This is my equipment, number 000324," Wang Bao said, without waiting for him to confirm his identity, and said quickly, "Base commander, please go and rescue Captain Wu. They have been captured by the people from the Shanshen Base."
"Tell me what happened in detail." Lu Weiyi's face showed no emotion, and he even leisurely adjusted the bottle of the child in his arms. But in fact, he was asking whether there was such a person as Zhuang Mingxu in the space.
"Yes, he's a wood-type mutant, early S-level, and his ability is slightly inferior to Qu Zhu's." Zhuang Mingxu still has a deep impression of this. At the beginning, he asked Zhou He to choose a wood-type mutant to form a contract with. This was another wood-type mutant who was recommended besides Qu Zhu. Zhou He emphasized the introduction to him.
Wang Bao recounted what they had experienced in the simplest terms, "Not long after I left with Ji Zheng, I saw Qi Le and his men surrounding the place where we lived. I wanted to go back to help, but..."
He saw how powerful those people were and felt that he was no match for them, so the best thing to do was to go back and seek help.
"Base Commander, I saw where Captain Wu and the others were captured. Should we go rescue them now? Or... should we go find Captain Zhou?"
"Let's go and take a look now." Lu Weiyi didn't tell him that Zhou He was already at the entrance of the base. He was patting Taotao's burp and walking down the mountain, his eyes looking towards Ji Zheng.
Ji Zheng, who was secretly eyeing him, was caught red-handed. He touched his big head and was not embarrassed. He greeted him directly, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen such a young base commander. Hello, my name is Ji Zheng, a fire-type mutant. Thanks to Captain Wu, I barely survived this time."
Lu Weiyi nodded and asked him about the specific situation of the Mountain God Base.
Wang Bao informed them in detail of everything that had happened after they arrived. Ji Zheng, who was standing next to him, said nothing, with a sincere look on his face but a subtle scrutiny in his eyes.
Lu Weiyi, who knew the general situation, withdrew his gaze and "translated" the situation to Zhuang Mingxu in the space. The two people behind him followed closely.
Ji Zheng, who was already injured, staggered and nearly fell down, but was supported by Wang Bao who was beside him, who took advantage of the close contact between the two.
Ji Zheng grabbed Wang Bao and quietly pointed at Lu Weiyi who was walking in front of him, and asked with his mouth, "Did you recognize the wrong person?"
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