Chapter 755 Satellite Fragments
A circular underground space appeared before their eyes. The stairs from top to bottom were fixed in a circle on the surrounding walls and meandered downwards. From where they were, they could overlook the entire residential area. Every few dozen meters, they could see a booth, which seemed to have someone on duty.
"What you built here..." Li Zhuang clicked his tongue twice, "It's quite good."
"..." The golden eagle looked at Lu Weiyi speechlessly and said, "Our captain said that this is what his nephew wanted when he was a child...a cemetery."
It took Li Zhuang a while to realize who this nephew was, and he looked at Lu Weiyi with amusement.
"Well, tomb-raiding novels were popular at that time," Lu Weiyi said, still feeling embarrassed, "You guys are really ungentlemanly."
There is no electric lighting, and all the light here depends on fire, which makes the entire dungeon pitch black and eerie, not much different from a cemetery.
"They are just a bunch of materialists. What's so great about them?" said the Golden Eagle, pointing to the gatehouse in front that completely blocked the entire passage. "That's the first blockade, to prevent them from coming down."
"There are only two S-level ones?" Lu Weiyi was incredulous.
They were all on guard against each other. There were more than a dozen S-level psychics among the guards. When he saw them, he thought that the other party was underestimating them. But when he saw the people arranged by Lieyan here, he suddenly felt that the other party really valued them.
“Can two of them stop the people above from forcing their way in?” Li Zhuang also disagreed with them forcing their way in.
"We have been guarding this place before," Golden Eagle smiled bitterly, "This is the most powerful psychic we have at the moment.
"How could it be?" Although Li Zhuang had never explored the combat readiness of Lieyan, he knew that the three major forces in Kyoto relied on more than just the support of Yuebanwan. Their own abilities should not be underestimated. It didn't make sense for them to be so weak now.
"when……"
"The person in front, stop and don't go any further."
Just as the golden eagle opened his mouth, they heard someone in the gatehouse shouting at them.
"Xiao Zhao, it's me." The golden eagle greeted the other party first, and then whispered to Lu Weiyi, "This is the son of Brigade Commander Zhao. He is not very old, and has some decent supernatural powers. His father intends to push him to a higher position, so he sent him out for some training."
"He's a relative of his own," Lu Weiyi explained based on his own understanding.
"……"The golden eagle was choked and speechless, "The child is not bad."
As he was talking, a guy in his early twenties came out with a gun. He was surprised to see the golden eagle and the people standing behind him, "Golden eagle? When did you go out? How come I didn't know?"
When the Golden Eagle saw that his attention was on them and he did not ask Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi, he knew that these two people probably did not want to be seen by others.
"There's something for us to do, so I'm going out for a while." The golden eagle asked a few people a few simple questions, and then walked towards the dungeon on the pretext of needing to respond to orders.
"Why is your team so weak?" While passing through, Lu Weiyi took a quick look at the abilities of several people and felt that they were shockingly low.
The golden eagle wiped his face with a sad expression, "Did you know that the first large-scale solar storm also triggered a short-term earthquake?"
"I heard something." When the first solar storm occurred, the scientific research team of Yuebanwan had successfully predicted it. During that time, all members in the base had already hidden underground. Li Zhuang only took a look through some monitoring electronic equipment, and then the equipment was damaged, so he couldn't see it all. Later, he only heard from some bases that a small-scale earthquake occurred in Yuci at the same time.
"In fact, those cannot be called earthquakes. The high-intensity electric charges of the magnetic storm affected the satellites, causing many satellites to burn out. The magnetic field changed, triggering the fall. The meteor showers that appeared at the time were caused by the fall of those burnt parts."
"A large number of components fell, causing a small local earthquake, and we..." When the Golden Eagle said this, his voice trembled unconsciously and he couldn't say the rest.
Han Fei added in a hoarse voice, "One of them hit our team's living area and killed... many comrades."
The golden eagle let out a sigh of relief and said, "The Major General wanted to ask you for help, but when he knew you had a tsunami, he didn't say anything."
"What happened next? Why did my uncle disappear?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"During the time when Zheng Yi was missing, Zhao Qiang had already seized all the forces he could from the other party. When the flames happened to coincide with the natural disaster, he turned his attention to us. Fortunately, the radiation problem broke out at that time, so he was busy building an underground shelter and had no time to spare."
"Many members of our team were seriously injured when the satellite crashed, and some were disabled and had internal organs damaged. Our team's healing capabilities are insufficient, and the Major General doesn't want to see his team members die like this, so he thought of taking the opportunity to secretly go to your base and bring a healing psychic to help."
The golden eagle paused for a long time, "After he left, he never came back!"
As they were talking, several people had already passed through the layers of supernatural blockade areas constructed by earth-type supernatural users and reached the ground.
The whole city was empty, and the people on the road looked like they were having a very bad time. Some of them were so thin that only bones were left, and their cheeks were sunken.
Lu Weiyi had only seen this situation in ordinary people who were short of food in the early days of the apocalypse.
"you……"
"A lot of our supplies have been destroyed, and now we are relying on the little that is left," Golden Eagle frowned. "We can't farm in the spring this year, and in the future... we don't know what the situation will be."
When Lu Weiyi heard him say this, he thought of Ning Yuan's suggestion again. There was no way to farm on this island, and he couldn't just sit there and eat up all the land. Could it be that...
Are they really going to relocate the base?
When Lu Weiyi thought of the clear water, blue sky, sandy beach and coast of Yueban Bay, he felt reluctant to leave.
That was the first base they built, carrying their hopes for the future.
Just as he was distracted, Li Zhuang asked a crucial question, "How can you be sure that Major General Lu was not captured by Zhao Qiang's men?"
"Cong Qing said that the major general received a letter asking for help from Zheng Yi the day before he left, and our spies around Zhao Qiang reported that the guard team had no idea that the major general had left."
"At first they said the major general was captured by them. They were just spreading rumors to cause internal strife. We did not refute it because they wanted to clean out the corrupt officials in the team. Later, when they saw that we did not react, they began to imply that the major general was in their hands. They wanted to use the major general's safety to threaten us to obey."
"After discussion, the team leaders felt that the current strength of the team did not allow for a head-on confrontation and that they could only delay time as much as possible. So they pretended to be obedient and were locked up in the dungeon by them. Fortunately, apart from locking us up, they did not attack any of us."
After saying this, Golden Eagle looked at Li Zhuang apologetically and said, "Sorry, we know that they may threaten you with the threat of major general, but we really don't have the energy to remind you."
Li Zhuang waved his hands, feeling that they were having a really hard time.
The streets in the underground city are not wide, and are entirely residential areas. Apart from a few public material exchange points, there are no other shops to be seen. It looks like entering the alleys of a town in the 1970s or 1980s.
Sparse torches burned on the street, illuminating an area. Many people did not light fires at home and lived by the flames on the streets. The dim light illuminated their lifeless faces, numb and desperate.
Lu Weiyi's mental power covered the entire area, and he roughly estimated it, frowning, "More than 40,000 people?"
"Some stayed in other teams to make a living." The golden eagle pointed to a deep cave entrance in the distance, where many people seemed to be on duty. "That is another passage, connecting to other underground cities in the Kyoto base, but it is also closely guarded. It is more prosperous over there. We will go there to buy the supplies we need, but unfortunately there are not many crystal cores left."
"The guards have sealed us off very tightly. We are staying here, and they won't do anything to us. If we try to go out or cause trouble, they will restrict our supplies. The prices of the things we buy have tripled..."
The Golden Eagle sighed for the umpteenth time, "Our strength has been greatly reduced, and there are too many wounded. We dare not gamble with the lives of the majority."
"What about you this time?" Li Zhuang asked.
"..." Han Fei had tears in his eyes, "They can't hold on any longer."
As they were talking, they walked to a three-story building. Before the golden eagle went in, Cong Qing came out in a hurry. When he looked up, he was startled for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Why are you back? Have you been discovered?"
He looked around nervously, but didn't see any guards. He asked with difficulty, "What are they planning to do this time? How many times have prices increased?"
As someone who had followed Lu Xiao for several years, Cong Qingren was just as his name gave people the impression of being calm and composed without being arrogant or impatient. However, after only half a year, deep wrinkles appeared on his brows, and a closer look revealed that his hair had turned a lot whiter.
The golden eagle shook his head, suddenly stepped forward and hugged Cong Qing, "Young Master Lu is back."
"He upgraded successfully and came back."
Cong Qing's eyes were dull for a moment. He turned his head and saw Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang hiding in the crowd, and his eyes became moist.
"The major general said that you would definitely wake up." Cong Qing stepped forward and grabbed Lu Weiyi's hand tightly. He was so excited that he couldn't speak for a while.
Along the way, Lu Weiyi had already roughly understood Lie Yan's current situation. Without reminiscing too much, he asked him directly how he knew that Zheng Yi was asking for help.
"The major general told me," Cong Qing replied.
This statement is tantamount to pushing all the possible inquiries completely onto Lu Xiao, leaving no possibility for verification.
As the only person who knew the truth, if he spoke nonsense, it would lead them astray and might even delay their search for Lu Xiao.
Lu Weiyi frowned, and Li Zhuang looked around at the people around him calmly. Not seeing anything unusual in them, he turned his gaze back to Cong Qing.
It was unclear whether Lu Weiyi had any suspicions, so he couldn't ask directly. He could only ask under the pretext of understanding the situation, "Who else knows about this?"
Cong Qing shook his head, as if he didn't notice Li Zhuang's thoughts, and replied, "Only me."
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