Chapter 714: Nanzuo Base
The farther away from the border of Laoshan, the more mutant animals appeared around. When passing through the woods, the startled birds began to fly in groups, giving people a feeling of entering an uninhabited world.
As they got closer to the Nanzuo base, Wu Yue's brows gradually furrowed. After Lu Weiyi easily killed a bird that tried to sneak attack them, he bent over, held his knees and panted, "Did you find anything wrong?"
"Are there many mutated animals?" Lu Weiyi used a knife to scratch the bird with its head chopped off that had fallen to the ground. The bird was not very big but had beautiful and colorful feathers. Its beak was hooked like a parrot's, and its sharp beak could peck off a piece of meat. When the knife accidentally cut open the parrot's beak, densely packed sharp teeth could be seen in its mouth, like a miniature version of shark teeth.
Lu Weiyi had never seen what was inside a bird's mouth, so he thought it was nothing unusual. Wu Yue, who was standing next to him, became more and more frightened as he watched. "Their number has not increased, but their level is higher than at the beginning, and..."
Wu Yue followed his force and pinched the bird's mouth open, "Birds have no teeth. They are evolving in a direction that is better adapted to survival."
"Isn't this normal? Aren't superpowers a kind of evolution? Besides, don't you think ordinary people are also evolving?" Lu Weiyi didn't find it strange, but he didn't notice that the number didn't increase. "How do you know they haven't reproduced?"
This place is no longer within the range of Kyoto's spraying of pesticides, so there should be no external suppression.
"If it continues to reproduce at the previous rate, the density will definitely not be this high," Wu Yue said affirmatively.
"It may also be that winter is not suitable for reproduction."
"..." Wu Yue, "It's possible, but it is undeniable that they are much higher than the initial levels. I don't know if it's the same outside."
"We'll know soon enough."
As they talked, they moved forward quickly, and before long they arrived at the Nanzuo base.
Just as Lu Weiyi said, from a distance the Nanzuo base looked densely packed with zombies. The towering walls were dilapidated, and the blood had turned into black marks under the ravages of time, engraved deep in the walls, telling the stories that had happened here.
Zombies were coming and going in a bustling crowd, and countless crows were circling in the sky, flying with their huge wings to cover the sky. The sound of crows filled the whole city with a strong sense of foreboding.
The difference is that the zombies here are completely different from those in the previous small town. The cries of crows will attract them to chase and run. From time to time, you can see crows being torn to the ground and eaten by zombies. There are also cases where crows carry zombies to high altitudes and throw them to the ground, and peck at the crystal cores while they are struggling with broken bones.
This makes them very active, so naturally both the mutated crows and the zombies are at a higher level than imagined.
On the huge tree canopy a little further away, Wu Yue turned his head to look at Lu Weiyi, "In this situation, do we need to re-plan? The ones on the ground are easy to deal with, but the ones in the sky are probably..."
No matter how powerful a psychic is, he cannot fly.
And this group of mutated crows can actually soar hundreds of meters into the sky.
Lu Weiyi glanced at the time and estimated the distance they would need to travel to Panshui Base, and said, "Let's try it first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phoenix flew out of his consciousness, first flying gracefully in the air for a circle, and then flew towards the mutant crow not far away.
"You... released what?" Wu Yue couldn't see the phoenix, but his sensitivity to energy at this level was already very subtle. He sensitively sensed something, especially the mutant crow that seemed to be hunted by something even though there was nothing in his field of vision in the distance. It struggled with a hole pecked in its head and fell to the ground.
"An energy body" Lu Weiyi did not hide anything and told him roughly what happened after upgrading to SSS.
"That's great," Wu Yue said with envy in his tone.
Lu Weiyi then remembered that if he upgraded to SSS level, the crystal cores of the superpowers that he had absorbed into his body might become bombs at any time, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Instead, Wu Yue smiled calmly and asked in an affirmative tone, "You know."
Lu Weiyi did not answer. Wu Yue shrugged and said, "We were attacked by a giant mutant snake at that time. I had no choice but to upgrade. Now that I think about it, I have no regrets."
If they hadn't upgraded to lure away the mutated giant snake, they might not have survived at all. If Wu Yue was given another chance, he would still do the same.
but……
Whenever he thought of the energy of his comrades in his body, he became unable to sleep or eat.
"Then why should you feel guilty?" Lu Weiyi said bluntly without giving him any face.
Wu Yue was speechless. He opened his mouth for a long time, then smiled helplessly and sighed, "Didn't you say you've grown up?"
"Sorry." Lu Weiyi's face showed no apology, only confusion. He asked in a way that was not euphemistic, "Then why are you torturing yourself?"
Wu Yue choked again and waved his hand at him, "Captain, let's see how to solve the problem right now?"
Lu Weiyi didn't expect him to have a late-night talk with him. He nodded and looked at the dilapidated base, but still expressed his superficial understanding, "I don't quite understand your thoughts, but..."
He looked at Wu Yue with a serious look in his eyes, "If one day, I die, I hope that you can take my crystal core to solve your urgent needs."
Wu Yue stammered for a long time without saying anything, and then he heard Lu Weiyi ask, "If you died and your crystal core was taken by your comrade to save others, would you still blame him?"
"Of course not," Wu Yue answered quickly, "Once a person is dead, the crystal core is useless. I think it is very valuable to be able to bring life to my comrades."
"Then why do you think they wouldn't think so?"
Wu Yue was speechless after hearing his question.
"Most members of our base army are aware that the crystal cores of the dead will be recycled for base construction or weapons and equipment. This is something that everyone has long accepted, whether it is the enemy or each other," Lu Weiyi concluded, reaching out to take the dozens of crystal cores covered with brain matter and blood thrown down from the sky.
Seeing that there was an S-level crystal core inside, Lu Weiyi praised the Phoenix a few times, causing it to make a continuous arrogant cawing sound and fly towards the mutant crow that was tracking it more fiercely.
"The dead don't care, but what about the living?" Wu Yue said, looking at Lu Weiyi, "Did you find out that there are fewer psychic cores in the team and thought of me, or did Zhao Gang tell you?"
"I can tell from the energy distribution in your body," Lu Weiyi did not hide it from him. "The crystal core of a superpower is actually a crystal core that uses the human body to filter out the zombie energy in the crystal core. It may be no different from using the purified one, but..."
"Humans themselves are very magical creatures. The crystal core of each mutant is different. In my eyes, people who have absorbed the crystal core of a mutant are like a complete circulatory system with chaos and disharmony. There may not be any problems in the short term, but the root of the problem exists."
"It's just a matter of when it will break out," Wu Yue added.
Lu Weiyi nodded, and then said, "The SSS level will definitely explode. The energy operation of the SSS level and below is different."
After he said this, he realized that this might have cut off Wu Yue's chance of upgrading, so he immediately said, "I'll try my best to think of a solution."
"It's okay," Wu Yue said, as if he didn't care, and asked, "Does Mingxu... know?"
Lu Weiyi shook his head and said, "I took their bodies away." He took the crystal cores of the remaining people himself, so no one would know about it.
However, Lu Weiyi still felt that Wu Yue was being too cautious, "You are different from those people. If one day someone really finds out and looks at you with tinted glasses, it only proves that they don't know you well enough."
Wu Yue smiled and did not refute him. He just said, "Thank you for believing in me, captain. Also, you don't have to feel guilty. People who get into trouble are because they are not strong enough. It's not your responsibility. It's the same here. My choice has nothing to do with you."
Lu Weiyi pursed his lips and said nothing. He could see Wu Yue's guilt, and Wu Yue could also see his self-blame.
"Let's go, they have discovered us," Wu Yue reminded the group of mutant crows flying towards them from a distance, sorted out his weapons, and said thank you again.
Without waiting for anyone to answer, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, if there ever comes a day when you...sacrifice yourself, I will make your crystal core more valuable."
Lu Weiyi, who had already jumped under the tree, was choked with anger by his curse-like words. He looked up at him, and seeing the smile on his face, he retorted, "Then you may be disappointed. You can't even find the crystal core of an SSS-level psychic."
"You told me before that it's distributed all over the body!" Wu Yue said as he followed Lu Weiyi's footsteps, condensing countless earth-thorn flying swords and attacking the group of mutant crows coming towards him.
Wu Yue didn't get a response, only saw the frustrated and angry face of their young base commander, and he burst into laughter.
Even with the help of Phoenix, Lu Weiyi and Wu Yue still had a hard time moving around the city - they ignored the fact that there were not only the original zombies here, but also zombies transformed from the psychics at the original base.
They have become more skilled in the use of their supernatural powers, and some even hold on to their obsessions from their previous lives, defending the city walls and blocking any enemies who want to enter.
Zombies used to be their second biggest enemy, but now their enemies are humans and mutated plants and animals.
Lu Weiyi didn't know what to say for a moment, especially when he saw the mess everywhere in the city. Occasionally, he could see drivers who were unable to leave safely, and zombies who were still holding the steering wheel and stepping on the brakes. The young children in the cars had become little zombies and were trapped in the closed cars and could not get out. They could only stretch their claws out through the broken windows again and again.
The sky above was blocked by the mutant crows and was dark, with ominous signs everywhere.
"This is a real uninhabited place," said Lu Weiyi.
“There are so many places like this in the whole country,” Wu Yue also agreed. In this shocking scene, the little emotions in his heart became insignificant.
Lu Weiyi felt a surge of fear in his heart when he heard what he said, "I hope our base is okay."
"It'll be fine. Li Zhuang and Liu Rui have both successfully upgraded before winter. With two SS-level psychics keeping them in place, nothing will happen. What's more, the differences in the abilities of the others aren't that big. Maybe by the time we go back, they'll all have successfully upgraded." Wu Yue's eyes were filled with longing, and he was also silently praying that the paradise they had built would not suffer such a situation.
The two walked around the base, cleared out the zombies and mutated crows that were too high in level, then turned around and ran towards the agreed place.
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