Chapter 774: Reward
The three of them walked underground for nearly twenty minutes. The space in front of them suddenly became wider and a faint light shone through them. Wu Yue, who was walking in front, even stopped.
The two people behind were afraid of alarming others and did not dare to ask. Lu Xiao leaned over to take a look and was also a little stunned.
The so-called spacious room in front of him was only about 100 square meters, no different from a basement. It was filled with toiletries and some kitchen utensils in the corner, including pots, pans, and bowls. There was a door on each of the four walls.
It would be more accurate to describe this place as a basement rather than a dungeon.
Zheng Yi looked at Lu Xiao inquiringly. After all, he had never seen the underground city of Kyoto, and he heard all the news from Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao looked directly at Wu Yue. Wu Yue nodded and looked at the three doors, gesturing with his fingers, [One per person, gather here at the end].
Lu Xiao gestured OK, and he and Zheng Yi chose the remaining two doors.
More than ten minutes later, the three of them gathered here again. Wu Yue opened up a new path and quietly left from the direction they came in.
After walking several meters, he spoke first, "Here I am, in a place similar to a dormitory, with twelve rooms. The big one is over 50 square meters, and the small one is 30 square meters. Most of them have bunk beds. There are only a few women and children sleeping in them. Judging from the bedding, there are probably about 40 people sleeping in them."
Zheng Yi nodded and said, "My side is also a dormitory. It has eighteen rooms and is a little more spacious."
"This side of me is a warehouse with various supplies, and the other side is a staircase that leads directly to the ground." Lu Xiao was also a little confused after he finished speaking. He asked Wu Yue, "Are there other areas underground?"
"There are a lot of them, all about this size. They don't look like underground cities, but more like basements built based on ground residences." The first time Wu Yue saw it, he remembered the basement they dug at the station when they returned to Kyoto to survive the cold winter. The layout there was not much different from here.
"Is there no underground city here?" Lu Xiao was puzzled. "That shouldn't be the case. Normally, every base should know that there is radiation on the ground. Everyone is building underground cities. How can this place be unique?"
"The basement...isn't it also considered a kind of dungeon?" Wu Yue suddenly said.
"What do you mean?" Lu Xiao asked.
"Not all earth-type ability users can control the hardness of the mud roof. If the technique is not good, expanding the area will easily cause collapse." This was also the reason why the place they lived in was very narrow in the beginning. Their abilities were not strong at that time, and they would carefully check the corners of the basement every day to avoid the possibility of collapse. Wu Yue was quite knowledgeable about this.
"That's also possible," Zheng Yi said, "Earth-type mutants generally don't have special training in this area." After he finished speaking, he saw Wu Yue and immediately changed the subject, "Of course your base is an exception."
Wu Yue shrugged his shoulders and said nothing, but asked them what to do next.
"We have to go in. We finally found a base and we have to figure out which base it is. Only then can I determine our current location," Lu Xiao analyzed seriously. "As for the method..."
"Kidnap someone out and ask him questions" Zheng Yi went straight to the point.
Lu Xiao and Wu Yue looked at him at the same time.
"Isn't this the simplest way? Besides... as long as they are not a big team, they should not be able to recognize us." Zheng Yi touched his nose, a little uncertain.
After all, he is the leader of the three major teams. If he is really recognized, especially when he is kidnapping someone, the scene...
Lu Xiao and Wu Yue were silent for a moment.
They both felt they couldn't afford to lose this person.
But there is no better way now, and even with limited supplies, it is difficult to disguise.
"This is the only way," said Lu Xiao.
Wu Yue nodded and said, "But the candidates need to be screened. Ordinary people don't know much information. Low-level teams may not even have heard of the magnetic field corrector."
"It is best to choose middle-level personnel from a large team."
Lu Xiao and Zheng Yi looked at each other in bewilderment. "Don't you think your request is a bit high?"
"Brother, with our three special abilities, it should be no problem for us to grab a magnetic field corrector, right?" Zheng Yi asked.
"Definitely no problem," Wu Yue answered seriously, "I'm afraid of being embarrassed after being exposed."
And the people lost were from the base.
“……”Lu Xiao.
“……”Zheng Yi.
"Otherwise... act separately?" Zheng Yi said.
As soon as Lu Xiao and Wu Yue nodded, Zheng Yi looked at them suspiciously, "Uncle Lu, you won't abandon your nephew and run away, right?"
When Lu Xiao heard this title, he gritted his teeth and glared at Zheng Yi. Zheng Yi smiled awkwardly and said, "I was just joking. We are all brothers who share weal and woe..."
"Hurry up," Wu Yue interrupted his flattery, "You're such a bootlicker that I'm ashamed of yourself."
“That’s because you don’t know how kind Uncle Lu is to me.” Zheng Yi didn’t mind at all. It seemed that after experiencing life and death, he let go of everything he had been holding on to before. He felt relaxed and free all over. Of course, the way he showed it was a bit... shameless.
Wu Yue led the two of them directly into the base from underground. The ground here was no different from an ordinary base, but the surrounding houses did not look like they existed before the apocalypse. At first glance, they were built by earth-type mutants using their supernatural powers. They were covered with yellow soil and did not feel like a city at all.
The residents on the street sat everywhere in a daze, in tattered clothes. Some of them looked like ordinary people. They didn't care about the possible impact of the radiation in the air and searched for food as much as possible.
Groups of people with special abilities passed by, neatly dressed, chatting and laughing.
The contrast between the rich and the poor is always stark.
After the three of them observed quietly, they each changed into the clothes of their choice, gestured, and walked in different directions.
Zheng Yi was the last one to come along. He was still somewhat worried about the two of them, until he saw that they really didn't get along, and then he felt at ease and walked towards the destination he had chosen.
Lu Xiao agreed with what Wu Yue said and wanted to get it done in one go, so he directly chose the rooftop that looked the most well-manicured in the base.
The clothes he chose looked ordinary, no different from those worn by ordinary psychics, which allowed him to walk openly on the street. Street vendors and ordinary people would even shy away when they saw him.
Wu Yue, on the other hand, was dressed very low-key and walked towards a medium-sized building in the base.
On the other side, Zheng Yi, after referring to the outfits of the two men, finally chose the set of revealing clothes that he had just been washed out of the underground river. The captain of one of the three major teams in Kyoto base dressed up as a beggar. He thought no one would recognize him.
What he chose was the bulletin board in the central area of the base, which was the core of information communication for each base. Perhaps he could see news from other bases on it.
However, just as the three of them were walking confidently towards their respective goals, an alarm suddenly sounded at the base - exactly the same as the siren of a police car before the end of the world.
The three of them didn't realize what was happening until they saw everyone around them starting to run away without caring about anything as if they had received some kind of order. Soon there was no one left on the street.
The consistent action made the three people who had no idea what was happening look extremely awkward. Everyone looked at them at the same time. Even after a slight reaction, the three chose to flee with them, but were still avoided by pedestrians.
The three of them immediately realized that something was wrong. If the person they met at first saw their hesitation, then no one they met later would have seen it, and it would be impossible for everyone to act in unison to avoid them.
Lu Xiao and Wu Yue stopped at the same time, searched themselves and looked around. They soon found that on the roof of the tallest small building that Lu Xiao had locked onto, a hidden instrument shot out a red searchlight, which directly locked onto the two of them.
They were discovered.
Even though they hadn't figured out what was going on, the three decided to leave immediately. Lu Xiao turned around and ran towards their respective places, while Wu Yue sank into the ground in an instant.
When Zheng Yi saw that no one came to stop him, he strode towards the bulletin board.
On the bulletin board that looked like a blackboard, there were countless handwritten messages, including sales, advertisements, and job recruitment. In the center were two printed reward notices.
It was posted in the name of the base, with photos of the two people who had just separated from him on it. It was clearly written at the bottom that anyone who provided clues could get food or even tens of thousands of crystal cores as rewards.
Zheng Yi took a deep breath, and when he saw the psychics gathered in an orderly manner not far away, he reached out and tore off the two pieces of paper, then turned around and prepared to leave.
At this moment, the ground beneath his feet softened and he fell into it without any preparation.
"It's us, let's go," Wu Yue's voice rang out, and Zheng Yi retracted the knife in his hand. When the hole above his head was about to be closed, a middle-aged man's head popped over.
Before he could even think, the knife in his hand turned into a long metal wire when he swung it out, strangling the man's neck and dragging half of him into the cave.
Wu Yue immediately understood what he meant, controlled the speed of the hole closing, and dragged the man down.
"You are...uh..." The man didn't finish his questioning before Lu Xiao struck him unconscious with a knife and carried him on his shoulder.
Wu Yue cleared a path in front, and the four of them quickly left the base.
After waiting to make sure that there were no pursuers coming from the ground, the three of them did not return to the ground. Instead, they sat down on the ground, panting.
"Take a break, take a break." Lu Xiao felt that he might really be old. He was a little out of breath after carrying a person for such a long distance.
He threw the person on his shoulder aside, looked at him for a few seconds, and asked the other two, "Do you know him?"
Wu Yue shook his head.
Zheng Yi...was distracted.
"What information did you see? Which base is this?" Wu Yue glanced at the bulletin board at the entrance of the cave and knew where he was, but in his hurry, he couldn't see clearly what was written on it.
"Yes... Changhong Base" Zheng Yi came back to his senses.
"Unlucky" Wu Yue complained.
Lu Xiao also had a look of astonishment on his face. He saw Zheng Yi looking at the two of them with strange eyes and handed over the paper he was holding tightly in his hand. "Did you offend anyone?"
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