Chapter 747 Negotiation
The two walked along the street and saw drainage systems dug throughout the base. The rainwater did not stay on the ground for too long and flowed into the sea through the drainage ditches.
This made the entire ground appear clean without any trace of mud. Lu Weiyi raised his foot and chopped twice and found that the ground was solid, as if it had been deliberately solidified.
"The entire base has been reinforced by earth-type psychics. The previous tsunami submerged both the Pingjin base and killed many people. Only part of our base's wall collapsed, and the houses and buildings inside are completely fine," Cheng Chuan said with a smile on his face. "If it were before the end of the world, our base's construction team would definitely be the best in the country, and would be the best in earthquake and disaster prevention."
"It's worth the salary they receive," Lu Weiyi commented, looking towards the government building in front of him. The once bustling place is now deserted.
"Everyone in Nakajima has moved here. Do you want to go and take a look?" Cheng Chuan said.
Lu Weiyi paused for a moment and quickly probed in with his mental power, but unfortunately there was no one inside.
"They should be living in the corresponding underground. Xia Xia told me that Ai Yi has always been in good health. He only caught a cold once after being caught in the rain during the last tsunami, and he has never been sick at other times. The base leaders protect him very well." Cheng Chuan saw that he did not stop walking, so he continued to move forward and told him the news he knew.
"Thank you." When Lu Weiyi heard that Aiyi was sick, he felt sad when he thought about how he was just a little child and his father was no longer by his side.
But the meaning of Xu Chu and his group's words just now was obviously that they were being targeted. The elite teams of the entire base were gathered in front, and there was no time for him to go back for a look. It was also a comfort to hear the news of his health from others.
As the two walked towards the base's bridge, more and more people gathered. The defense line surrounding the island was densely packed with well-armed teams. Judging from their attire, many of them should be the squad below, and it seemed that all members were involved.
"Should we go to the front?" Cheng Chuan looked at the orderly standing there and it didn't look like they could just go in casually. If they stayed on the periphery, they might not get any information.
"I'll go in. Your mission is completed. Go where you should go," Lu Weiyi said, and squeezed sideways. The people on both sides seemed to see him and acted as if nothing had happened, and even consciously made way to the sides.
Before Cheng Chuan could say anything, he had already walked into a section, and the separated flow of people was about to close together, so it was impossible to catch up.
Cheng Chuan stood there and thought about it, and still felt that it would be more useful to go back to find Xia Qiao. Such a large-scale battle was not something that a half-corpse like him could contend with. At this time, the villagers needed him more.
After taking a look at Lu Weiyi who seemed to be in an empty space, Cheng Chuan turned and walked towards where the villagers lived.
After passing through layer after layer, Lu Weiyi inside saw familiar figures. As he expected, the ones standing here were most of the base's superpower teams. They were responsible for various areas, and all the members of the only team were out, standing guard at the watchtower, guarding the first line of defense.
There are twelve psychics left in the only team. Except for Dean, all eleven are here, and even Lu Xi is standing at the front.
Standing not far from him was Bai Miao, who used to be afraid to use his supernatural powers to fight, but now his arms were wrapped with dense plants. He looked at the opposite side with a solemn face, wiping the rain off his face from time to time, and was waiting for the order to charge into battle.
Li Dongsheng was silent and wooden in the corner, with a huge mutant plant standing around him. Lu Weiyi recognized it as the mutant ivy from Xidao at a glance. It had become more powerful than before.
Further into the middle area, there gathered those with more powerful abilities. The brothers Xu Sa, Liu Rui and Gu Qingji were talking to several team captains, all with serious expressions on their faces.
Just as Lu Weiyi was about to step forward, he saw Ning Yuan angrily grabbing the neck of a man in front of him in the temporary rest room on the bridge, which was usually used to check people entering and leaving. His face was full of ferocity, as if he was ready to strangle him to death.
Li Zhuang and Antonio, who were standing next to him, quickly tried to stop him, but even so, the man who was thrown to the ground couldn't stand up for a while because of coughing.
Several people beside him helped him up and stood in opposition to Ning Yuan and his group. Lu Weiyi took a look from a distance and decided to go there to get more information.
The gate leading to the bridge was closed, and it was impossible to pass through directly. Lu Weiyi simply jumped off the city wall. When passing by Xu Sa, he wiped the other's face and muttered like a gangster, "Hey, Xu Ergou."
Xu Sa seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly turned his head and looked around, but didn't see anyone. He touched his cheek in a trance. When Liu Rui looked at him inquiringly, he shook his head in disappointment, indicating that nothing was wrong.
Lu Weiyi had already slid down the small green plants to the bridge.
In addition to the psychics on the city wall above, countless psychics also gathered on the solidified sea below. Those holding the front were Li Qing, Li Yan and several other base army squads.
Compared to their well-equipped appearance, the team standing opposite them was just a group of scumbags. The difference was so clear that it almost made it clear that they were not even a base.
Lu Weiyi took a look around and actually recognized a few teams. The ones near the middle were obviously from Kyoto. Su Wei from the Menglang team had a scar on his head and was just standing there in the rain. Standing not far from him was Sun Laiqian from the madman. The fat Maitreya Buddha was still the same, even his body shape had not changed. Mei Jie from the Amazon was holding an umbrella, hiding most of her body. The other teams were in different forms, revealing a nonchalant look of being determined to win.
The team dispersed to both sides, and people from other bases showed up more or less, which made Lu Weiyi upset - they were able to meet up smoothly, but he and Wu Yue had to get lost.
Walking along the bridge, people were hurriedly passing messages back and forth. Lu Weiyi entered the temporary inspection room without any hindrance. This place used to be together with the lounge for the staff on duty, but now it has been integrated into a place similar to a negotiation room.
Ning Yuan was held down by Li Zhuang and his men. He stopped attacking but still had anger on his face. Li Zhuang looked at the people opposite him with a cold face and asked, "What do you want?"
"We just hope that everyone..." The person who spoke to the dozen people opposite was an ordinary person. He wore glasses and had a folder under his arm, like a negotiation expert before the end of the world.
It’s a pity that none of them are polite and don’t want to listen to his high-sounding words. Li Zhuang interrupted him bluntly and said, "Speak to the point."
"..." The man choked, took out the document from under his arm and handed it to Li Zhuang.
Li Zhuang turned to the first page, which clearly stated that the Yuebanwan base was required to consider the interests of all mankind and hand over the core technology of simulating magnetic fields to help mankind overcome the difficulties together.
Li Zhuang sneered and flipped through the book, reading from the core technology of the energy converter to the crystal core purification technology, until he finally asked them to hand over the hidden scientific researchers, which made the people even more angry.
"You can obviously just rob it, but you insist on using the name of righteousness," the head of the base government Kong Zhen shouted angrily. He threw the price inquiry back, and when it was about to hit several people in the face, a young and stern psychic quickly grabbed it back in his hand.
He smiled at them sinisterly, with hatred in his eyes, "I just want to rob it, what can you do?"
"Lu Weiyi built this base all by himself. Now that he is gone, are you going to watch his only uncle die?" The man grinned, and became more and more excited when he saw that their expressions changed smoothly.
"Pang Xinghuo, I've said it countless times, your uncle committed suicide... It has nothing to do with us, you..."
Before Ning Yuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by the man named Pang Xinghuo, "You are the ones who forced him to death!"
"You forced Brother Jin to death," Pang Xinghuo said angrily, gritting his teeth, "No one will have an easy life."
He glanced at his watch and suddenly burst into laughter, as if saying, "Let's watch a show."
He pointed outside the glass window, and looking in the direction he pointed, we saw flames breaking through the rain and flying towards the base.
"It's a shell - notify the people in the base to take shelter," Ning Yuan shouted and wanted to leave, but the shell fire was already flying towards their base and it was too late to get out.
Ning Yuan rushed towards Pang Xinghuo regardless of anything, but before he could make a move, he was stopped by a video in Pang Xinghuo's hand.
The video shows Lu Xiao who is tied up. His naked upper body is covered with bloodstains. It is obvious that he has been severely tortured. His head is hanging down and he is silent.
Ning Yuan clenched his fists, howled angrily, turned his head to look in the direction of the artillery fire, and saw that the artillery shells that were supposed to land at the foundation of the base were turned at the last moment and headed towards the team that besieged the entire base.
Ning Yuan's colleague breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to look at the people beside him. He saw that Antonio had stood out at some point and was in the crowd, working with the metal-based psychics in the base to manipulate metal to forcibly change the attack direction of the artillery shells.
Everyone else was stunned by this sudden situation and asked each other why the sound of artillery shells was heard without any concealment, but Pang Xinghuo ignored them at all.
He calmly let the metal-type mutant act. At the moment when the shell changed direction, the second shell attacked the base again, and some crystal core guns fired towards the direction of Yuebanwan base.
Coincidentally, they had no intention of attacking anyone, but instead agreed to shoot towards the ice on the ground.
The ice layer solidified again and again under the help of a group of water-based psychics, and did not cause any damage at all, which made everyone a little confused about the other party's purpose.
At this moment, the door of the negotiation room was pushed open, and Lu Xi ran in panting, his hair still dripping with water. He looked around and was about to ask Ning Yuan what he wanted him to do, when he saw the person appear on the electronic screen in Pang Xinghuo's hand.
"Dad——!" Lu Xi rushed forward and snatched the phone, glaring at Pang Xinghuo, "What did you do to my dad?"
"Guess...hahaha..." Pang Xinghuo saw that his eyes turned red with anger, and the smile on his face became even more undisguised.
"You fucking bastard, I'm going to kill you!" Lu Xi yelled, pulling out a gun from his waist and preparing to aim at Pang Xinghuo.
"Xiaoxi, calm down," Li Zhuang grabbed the man and said, "Go and identify if he is Major General Lu."
Lu Xi's teeth were grinding and his hand holding the phone was shaking. Li Zhuang patted his shoulder and said, "Hurry up, we don't know how long the phone will last."
Today's radiation has caused varying degrees of damage to all kinds of electronic equipment. It takes no time for an intact machine to be completely damaged if it is exposed to the air.
Lu Xi nodded vigorously, his eyes still fixed on Pang Xinghuo, as if stabbing a knife into his heart, "I was there the day before Jin Yu'an died. He said that he had been dragged down by you all his life and couldn't even die. Now he can finally be completely free."
The ferocious smile on Pang Xinghuo's face slowly disappeared stiffly. He seemed to have suffered a blow and whispered, "Impossible."
"He was the one who asked not to let anyone save him. Otherwise, do you think that with such a strong healing psychic in our base, we can't save a suicidal person?" Lu Xi was obviously not as tall as Pang Xinghuo, but he gave people an aura of looking down on others. "He was the one who wanted to die and begged us not to save him."
"You're talking nonsense!" Pang Xinghuo shouted and was about to attack Lu Xi, but was stopped by the people who came with them.
Lu Xi sneered and walked to the back of the crowd with his phone in hand.
The artillery fire outside was still going on. At first, one shell was blocked by Antonio and his men, and then the shells from the base were fired towards the opposite side. Compared with the shells coming one after another from the other side, the shells from Yueban Bay seemed to be worthless and flew towards the opposite side. After a few shells, the other side had no more shells fired.
At the same time, artillery shells began to appear from another direction and were fired towards the base. The unprepared base artillery had no time to change direction to meet the fire, so the metal-type psychics had to take action.
They changed directions from time to time, and Antonio gradually moved to the window, focusing all his attention on the direction where the shells came from.
With him, an SS-level metal-type mutant, in charge, even though the shells kept coming, not a single one fell.
Lu Xi was still identifying the video frame by frame. After being angry at the beginning, he had calmed down now. He couldn't help but shed tears when he saw the people in the video. He sobbed softly from time to time, wiped away his tears, and continued to stare at the video.
Ning Yuan had already started wasting time with Pang Xinghuo and his group again. Lu Weiyi was multitasking as he moved closer to Lu Xi to watch with him. However, he had only had less contact with Lu Xiao and had no way of knowing his characteristics, making it impossible for him to tell whether it was real or fake.
After some wrangling, his anger gradually grew, and Antonio's supernatural power had been exhausted at this time. He looked at the artillery fire coming from the surrounding areas, as if he had just realized something, and suddenly turned his head to look at Li Zhuang.
"They are consuming our superpowers."
The three most powerful superpowers in combat are metal, water, and fire. Today's weather naturally suppresses the fire power. The metal power is consumed by the continuous traditional artillery fire, and the water power is lost in the constantly melting and condensing ice. If this continues, even if their base has no shortage of crystal cores, the number of times they absorb crystal cores every day will eventually reach a limit.
Only then will they really start to make their move.
Li Zhuang immediately understood what he meant. He tried his best to remain indifferent and said, "It's okay. We have plenty of crystal cores."
However, Lu Weiyi found that his eyes were urging Hu Gang who was standing in the corner.
Hu Gang's forehead was covered with sweat. He tried his best to suppress his nervousness, but his eyes kept looking in one direction from time to time.
Lu Weiyi followed his gaze and saw that it was the passage through which he had entered the island before - they were evacuating in secret.
It’s a pity that the news was received too quickly and the other party acted too quickly, so even if we hurried, it would be too late.
Lu Weiyi didn't understand why the base didn't directly attack the psychics on the opposite side when it seemed to have no shortage of artillery fire. As far as he remembered, the base's weapons reserves were still good.
At the beginning, Zhuang Mingxu spent a lot of manpower and resources on weapon research and development and manufacturing in order to allow him to have someone to rely on without relying on super powers. Even if there are not enough people with super powers, weapons alone can be used to intimidate others.
But now it seems that others do not seem to take the military power of their base seriously, and even dare to attack the base with the idea of consuming their psychics.
Lu Weiyi was just wondering when to show up when he heard Antonio scream in surprise. Two shells were fired at the base from two directions at the same time. He released his supernatural powers in different directions, but he was only able to block one. His supernatural powers were overdrawn.
Ning Yuan knew the consequences of this artillery shell hitting the island, and immediately said to the negotiators, "I agree to your conditions, and have someone stop the artillery fire immediately."
The man who looked like an elite negotiator looked confused and said, "I didn't receive any order to launch an artillery attack."
"you--"
"Ning..." Antonio's weak voice fell, and another cannonball in the air just turned slightly.
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