Chapter 710 Wu Yue Awakens
"Base commander, please take it quickly. We are doing this for ourselves."
"Yes, yes, we all got a great deal."
The people around him laughed and tried to persuade him, but what they said made Lu Weiyi a little slow to react. It was only after being reminded by others that he remembered that Zhuang Mingxu had said he would return ten times the amount when he requisitioned everyone's crystal cores underground.
"Base commander, you don't want us to take advantage of this, do you?" a young man who looked about the same age as Lu Weiyi asked in an exaggerated and funny tone.
"No, if I say ten times, it means ten times." Lu Weiyi took the crystal core and absorbed it.
"Hurry, hurry, brothers, the base commander has spoken, the opportunity to make a fortune has come."
"If anyone has crystal cores, please hand them over quickly. I will return you ten times the amount. If you miss out, you will never have another chance."
The crowd was noisy and cheerful, and the warm atmosphere made everyone feel better. Looking into the distance, the residents who originally belonged to the Mountain God Base were now gathered together in groups, talking in low voices, and occasionally glancing in their direction with a look of confusion about the future.
This should be the result of hard work. They know where home is, and even though it is turbulent now, their hearts are at peace.
At this moment, Lu Weiyi suddenly understood why someone asked them to bring the dead bodies back to the base, because that was where their souls could rest in peace.
In a room not far away, with the door half open, Zhuang Mingxu was sitting on a short stool with a cigarette in his mouth. His long legs were curled up, and he kept writing and drawing using his knees as a table. As he occasionally tilted his head to speak, the cigarette in his mouth swayed from time to time, and he looked casual and ruffian, a completely different side of him from what Lu Weiyi remembered.
Before long, Zhuang Mingxu got the news he wanted and the food was ready.
Zhuang Mingxu called Lu Weiyi to eat, carefully stuffed the paper into his pocket without any ceremony, and reached out to take a bowl of stewed mutant tiger meat and a large bowl of white noodles from the cook beside him.
He turned around and looked at the group of people drooling. He reminded them, "This is an SS-level mutant tiger. You all should pay attention to your level and don't eat more than you can handle."
"Don't worry, Captain Zhuang, I'm watching." Qu Zhu poked his head out and stood by to help. When he saw him carrying something, he asked if he needed something else to eat.
"No, I'll just have a bite and eat it properly later." Zhuang Mingxu pulled Lu Weiyi back to the room, mixed the noodles with the broth, and whispered to him the news he had just heard.
"I calculated the direction of the earth's movement in my mind, and it's probably similar to what they said. It should be bordering our country's inland. We have to remind the bases in the southwest to pay attention. In addition..."
Halfway through his words, he saw Lu Weiyi suddenly stand up. Zhuang Mingxu was so shocked that he quickly looked around with his pistol in hand.
"It's okay, it's... Wu Yue who woke up." Lu Weiyi looked embarrassed.
Before Zhuang Mingxu could ask what was going on, the person had already been transferred into the space by Lu Weiyi.
Wu Yue was still naked, half-sitting on the ground with his hands covering his private parts, gritting his teeth and unable to utter a word.
In front of him, the grown-up Taotao had crawled out of the tree house at some point, with saliva dripping from the corners of his mouth all over Wu Yue's body. Half of his body was crawling on Wu Yue's thigh, and he was giggling at him with his innocent big eyes.
"Is this your unique way of waking up?" Wu Yue saw Zhuang Mingxu appearing out of nowhere and didn't even ask where this was. He just asked through gritted teeth.
Zhuang Mingxu hurried forward to pick up Taotao, wiped his saliva, and saw the sparse marks left by the child's teeth on Wu Yue's chest. He asked tentatively, "Was it... smashed?"
"What else?" Wu Yue glared at him, "Do you have any clothes?"
"Wait for me to find it for you." Zhuang Mingxu hugged Taotao and ran to the clothes room, not forgetting to ask about Taotao's recovery in a low voice.
The little guy didn't seem to recognize Zhuang Mingxu, but just felt friendly and gave him saliva-covered kisses on the face.
Fortunately, I became much more lively now, Zhuang Mingxu comforted himself.
While Wu Yue was getting dressed, Zhuang Mingxu asked about his health.
"…I don't feel anything now. The instrument they use is for external use. It gives me a feeling of forcing the energy around the body to gather." The feeling of peeling off from the cells made Wu Yue shudder when he thought about it.
"Qile was arrested?"
"Well, he confessed a lot of things," Zhuang Mingxu told him a brief account of the situation, "You go inside and take care of Sun Cheng and the others. I'll let you out after things outside are dealt with."
Wu Yue looked around, and when Taotao reached out her little hand to touch him, he pinched it patiently, but did not ask what place this was, or even the reason for the changes in Taotao's body.
"Let's find a military doctor to take care of them. I'm not a professional and can't see anything. Besides, I have SS-level superpowers now, so I should be more useful outside." The fatigue on Wu Yue's face was obvious, but he was firm.
Zhuang Mingxu couldn't refute, so he could only use the excuse of eating to let him rest for a while.
While eating, the two discussed what happened later, and Wu Yue was in a hurry to leave.
Lu Weiyi could only place the person somewhere far away from them and pretend that he had returned from somewhere else.
"Captain Wu, are you okay? How do you feel?"
"Did they do anything to you?"
"Are you hurt? Is your superpower okay?"
Everyone gathered around and talked at once. Lu Weiyi stared at his figure for a long time without moving. Zhuang Mingxu was a little puzzled and asked in a low voice what was wrong.
Lu Weiyi shook his head.
Wu Yue waved around and came over, looking him up and down and asked, "Are you recovered?"
"Eighty percent," Lu Weiyi said, "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's my duty." Wu Yue didn't even ask where Qi Le and the other man were going. He looked like he wanted to take revenge, and even offered to keep the two men back at the base for use.
"You can go and interrogate them yourself." After what happened to Zhou He in Xiaocheng, Lu Weiyi understood the importance of necessary venting for people. His suggestion was also to tell Wu Yue that he would not interfere with the possible means that might be used.
But Wu Yue just shook his head and smiled, "No need, Mingxu is more professional in interrogation than me. I will go talk to Zhou He. When you have thought of a solution, call me anytime."
"Okay." Lu Weiyi watched him turn around calmly, and hugged Zhou He who came over heartily. Both grown men had the joy of escaping a disaster on their faces, but they kept insulting each other.
"I feel guilty for him doing this," Lu Weiyi said softly, especially when he found out that Wu Yue's upgrade was based on the absorption of the psychic's crystal core. For a man with such a strong heart like him, how much pressure did he have to go through to make such a decision?
When Lu Weiyi thought of this, he felt more and more sorry for him.
"It's okay. He has always been like this. He is calm and has a sense of the overall situation. He cares more about the team than his own gains and losses." Zhuang Mingxu didn't know what was going on yet, and his tone was full of undisguised admiration for his friend.
Lu Weiyi didn't know how to tell him for a moment about the price Wu Yue had paid. He was thinking about how to make up for it. The moment he saw Qi Le, he had an idea.
"Send him a space," Lu Weiyi asked inexplicably.
Qi Le then realized that something was being peeled off from his body. Although he was an experimenter, he had conducted many experiments on himself in order to study the information he had taken away. His first reaction was that the side effects of one of the experiments had occurred.
The crisp "pop" sound not only attracted Qi Le's attention, but also made Zhuang Mingxu look over sensitively.
What catches the eye is a pile of jade.
The people standing guard were stunned. Others moved around in one space at a time, but he moved in a pile.
Qi Le's face changed and he reached out to take it, but Xiao Meng, who was guarding him, quickly restrained him and he didn't struggle at all.
"It seems that your research institute is quite wealthy." Zhuang Mingxu walked forward and carefully picked them up one by one, gathering a whole handful. "How big is this?"
"Two thousand...more than square meters." Lu Weiyi was surprised when he saw it. He ignored Qi Le's struggle, scanned them one by one with his mental power, and told Zhuang Mingxu in detail what was inside.
Instrument information, and even some large petri dishes. After hearing the last part, Zhuang Mingxu looked at Qi Le with a complicated expression, "Are you sure you are not being hunted down?"
Qi Le glared at the two of them fiercely without saying a word.
"Let's discuss a solution to this abyss mushroom." Zhuang Mingxu got the advantage and had a rare conscience. He did not poke at the two people's sore spots, but signaled Lu Weiyi to see if Bai Xue had any space jade on her.
He held a handful of jade and asked Lu Weiyi to transfer everything inside to his own space, and then sent himself in as well.
When he came out of the space holding Taotao with an expressionless face, he looked at Qi Le without any good expression.
"What's wrong?" Lu Weiyi waved the small pieces of jade space he took from Bai Xue in front of him, collected the things inside, and stuffed them into Taotao's hand who was looking for a hug from him.
"I just asked him about the information about the abyss mushrooms. He said he had no information and could only tell me orally. As a result..." Zhuang Mingxu gritted his teeth. The information in his jade space was so detailed that it changed at different stages. This made him look a little stupid when he wrote it by hand more than ten minutes ago.
"Maybe he wants to keep it for negotiation," Lu Weiyi said.
Seeing that he could see through the reason so clearly, Zhuang Mingxu patted his shoulder with relief, handed the child to Lu Weiyi to hold, and put his entire arm on his shoulder, as if putting the entire weight of his body on him, and whispered to him, "It seems like we really got a great bargain for nothing."
In the past, Zhuang Mingxu's way of expressing intimacy was to put his arms around his waist. Although there was no discrimination in it, it always gave people the visual feeling that a weak person was protected under his wings. However, this kind of arm-in-arms between comrades-in-arms was the first time, and it was a completely different and novel feeling.
"What bargain?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"This mushroom is something that Yue Guoben's research institute has spent a lot of effort to obtain. Many of their research projects are based on mushrooms," Zhuang Mingxu said to him, leading them to the room, "For example, the underground space we have seen before, that thing can indeed absorb the energy of people with special abilities. Yue Guoben uses this characteristic to absorb the energy of the crystal core and convert it into other energies, such as electrical energy."
"You can also use this characteristic to create items that can hinder the characteristics of people with special abilities. Even its spores and the liquid it discharges," Zhuang Mingxu said excitedly, "In short, this thing is really full of treasures."
"The key is that it needs the flesh and blood of mutant animals or people with special powers to cultivate and grow. It's so hard that we don't have to cultivate it ourselves, and we get such a plant directly, but we kill it so easily... It's really a waste."
"Then have you thought about how to take it away?" Lu Weiyi poured a basin of cold water on him.
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