Chapter 825 Wasted Energy
"Don't come over here."
Lu Weiyi said.
Li Zhuang paused, and Zhao Gang and Wang Bing took a step back together.
"You guys retreat, I'll take charge. I'll also gather water-based ability users to block off the surrounding sea areas." Lu Weiyi tried his best to stay calm.
"Okay, be careful." Li Zhuang decisively turned around with the two of them. Not long after they left, Li Zhuang vaguely felt that there seemed to be an extra breath in the trench.
He glanced sideways calmly and found that there was indeed someone standing next to Lu Weiyi. It was a figure he had never seen before - probably someone who was transferred from the base in a hurry.
He put his arms around the shoulders of the two people beside him to prevent them from looking back, and at the same time attracted their attention and asked, "I heard that Brother Zhao and Zhao Lei are brothers?"
"Yes, he is my brother." Zhao Lei had been out for so long and no one knew about Zhao Lei's situation. When he heard someone mention it, he immediately asked about Zhao Lei's situation.
"It's very good. After the hospital moved there, Director Zhuang Ji immediately organized an expert consultation. They said that several organs in his body had minor injuries due to the energy shock, and there was some blood congestion in his brain. He had been undergoing minor congestion removal. He just had a major operation last night, and I heard it was very successful."
"Really? Did the doctor say...when will he wake up?" Zhao Gang was very excited, and Wang Bing also looked over curiously.
"I don't know about that. My wife is an assisting therapist. The operation had just been completed before I came here this morning. She said it was a success." After walking a far enough distance, Li Zhuang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Zhou He is watching, and the base will not give up."
Zhao Gang kept nodding and expressing his gratitude. ,
"We are all brothers, no need to be so polite. Please stay here and I will arrange other personnel."
"Don't worry, there will be no problem." Zhao Gang received the news from his brother at this time. He would not say a word if he was asked to face the abyss mushrooms directly, let alone just stand guard here, so he immediately guaranteed.
Li Zhuang nodded, thinking about the water-based psychics in the team, and also thinking about how to use those people's abilities to clean up the mess after something went wrong.
On the other side, Lu Weiyi had already suppressed Qi Le, who had been temporarily pulled over to vent his anger.
The other party himself has no special powers, and his abilities are completely dependent on those small instruments. Now the situation outside is that various electronic equipment has been scrapped one after another, and it is not even worth studying.
In addition, the entire biological fusion laboratory was recently moved back, and Qi Le lived with a group of semi-finished products all day long, including his former colleagues and naturally the experimental subjects in his hands. After experiencing the quarrels and ridicules in the beginning, they were finally able to face each other peacefully, but then they were dragged here.
"You think I'm just a brick and can be moved wherever it's useful, right?" Qi Le crossed his arms, not caring at all about the clusters of small mushrooms swaying beside him.
As an ordinary person, he could not feel the energy emitted by high-level mutant animals, and thought that they had seen the value of the abyss mushrooms and wanted to re-create a mass grave for cultivation.
"It's good that you have this awareness." Seeing him like this, Lu Weiyi felt that there should still be room for redemption, otherwise this person would have run away on his own and there would be no time to argue here.
He also breathed a sigh of relief and pointed to the circle in front of him, "I made this by accident. Try to prevent it from releasing spores."
The hyphae hunt for creatures everywhere, and their range of exploration is limited. The flesh and energy they absorb can promote their growth, and instead achieve the role of protecting the base as he envisioned. The dangerous thing is the spores floating everywhere. Considering their ability to adapt to life in the sea without being affected at all, who knows if the spores will float everywhere with the sea water.
When Lu Weiyi thought about the fact that the entire sea was infested by parasitic creatures, cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Mushrooms can reproduce asexually." Qi Le is the man who can play with the two bases at his fingertips. Even if he has no superpowers, he is not afraid of Lu Weiyi at all and he is not at all reserved when confronting him.
He laughed first after he finished speaking, and asked with a gloating look on his face, "Are you afraid? Are you afraid that you might accidentally cause another mass extinction?"
Lu Weiyi looked at him quietly without answering. After a while, he said, "I heard that you don't want to continue your current research. Why don't you transfer to another place? How about instrument development? I'm quite interested in your thing that extracts energy for ordinary people to use."
Qi Le's pupils shrank and he said nonchalantly, "Okay, if you're not afraid of wasting time and resources, I don't mind."
That was a project that the heads of the base research institute voted to postpone, and Qi Le felt that Lu Weiyi would not be able to restart it.
"Then let Bai Lu go with you, it's convenient for us to be together," Lu Weiyi said as he was about to send Qi Le back, "The mushrooms here are probably not mature yet. It would be a big loss if we kill them directly, but compared to the damage caused, it can be ignored."
"I will tell Director Zhuang that you are not satisfied with the current arrangement. After all, you are a useful researcher, and your opinion can be considered if necessary."
After Lu Weiyi finished speaking, he reached out to grab Qi Le, but Qi Le dodged sideways, suppressing the mockery on his face and remained silent.
Lu Weiyi said this, but he didn't want to really kill so many mushrooms. After all, they absorbed so much energy, and if they died, the energy would be wasted.
Not wanting to waste time any more, he said bluntly, "You are worried about Bai Lu's condition and are eager to join the Gene Fusion Department. Then be calm. The base will give corresponding preferential treatment to valuable researchers and will consider your situation as much as possible, but——"
"If you gain benefits and still come back to me... then don't blame me for turning my back on you. Yueban Bay is different from all the current bases. This is a base I built myself. Not to mention starting a project and wasting some things, even if I want to attack a base now, it's just a matter of a word."
Qi Le was silent for a while because of the strong attitude. He digested it for a while before speaking, "You want to get the most out of it, but you don't want any harm?"
Lu Weiyi nodded.
"It's okay to press it for a short time. The growth of abyss mushrooms requires huge energy as a carrier, and spores will fall off only after they mature. Now the immature bodies are no different from ordinary mutant mushrooms, and their usability is zero."
Lu Weiyi raised his eyebrows, "SSS mid-to-late stage energy?"
Qi Le looked at the parasitic creature again this time. In just a short while, the mushroom's physique had changed again. He looked at Lu Weiyi with complicated eyes, "At this growth rate, it will probably mature in about five hours."
"As for how long it will take to emit spores after maturity, this needs to be calculated in combination with the energy abundance at the time. The more sufficient the energy, the faster the speed."
Lu Weiyi looked at the mushroom that he had specially placed on the island for a week and asked, "When does it secrete mucus?"
"…After the first release of spores, it means that it has entered the maturity stage. The amount of secretion is also related to the abundance of energy." Qi Le also has such a good opportunity. It would be a waste if all of them died.
"The lifespan of normal mushrooms is only a few days to a few months, but the abyss mushroom is a product of near-perfect evolution." Qi Le took a closer look at the mushroom in front of him, then turned sideways to look at the mushroom in the water wall next to him. He found that there were already shadows of symbiotic slugs on it, and it was not affected by the sea water at all.
"It can continuously produce spores, and mucus is what is secreted in the gaps between the spores. It was previously cultivated inside the laboratory and can be controlled. Such a large area in the wild..." Qi Le just shook his head and found that the mushrooms were growing at a speed almost visible to the naked eye. He reminded, "You'd better make a choice as soon as possible."
The result is already known, and Lu Weiyi cannot gamble so many things for the sake of profit. After sending Qi Le back, he informed Zhuang Mingxu of the situation here and decided to eradicate it as soon as possible.
[No need] Zhuang Mingxu started thinking about a solution the moment he received his message. Compared to Lu Weiyi's indifference, he knew more about this matter and replied immediately.
[I have set aside an entire laboratory specifically for cultivating abyss mushrooms. You can transfer them directly here and destroy the rest].
It’s not a complete waste if you can keep some of it. Li Zhuang brought some water-based mutants over, and Lu Weiyi immediately started to implement it.
But space was limited, and less than one-fifth of the abyss mushrooms around the island were transferred, and the rest were completely destroyed by wood-type mutants.
Looking at the few remaining parts of the mutant squid's body, Lu Weiyi felt that it would be better to extract all of it from the beginning. Now most of the energy was wasted and no purpose was achieved. Out of sight, out of mind. He placed all of them in the lounge on the island, indicating that they could stay there for a while longer. It would be useful if they could improve their supernatural powers.
When Li Zhuang saw this, he hurried forward and said what he had not made clear in the morning, "Let our doctor Xu come over and have a rest. He stayed up late last night to perform surgery on Zhao Lei."
The overly delicate operation had severely depleted his supernatural powers. It was Li Zhuang who carried him back in the morning. He felt that the energy inside should be able to alleviate his discomfort to a great extent and also enhance his supernatural powers a lot.
Lu Weiyi was in a bad mood and said expressionlessly, "I've been up for three days and two nights."
I also wanted him to run errands.
Even though it wouldn't matter much for a psychic of his level to endure for a few days, Li Zhuang still said something teasing to him.
"I'll go pick him up. Can you please use some of your mental strength, young master?" He took out a pack of small cookies that he had made to coax children from his childhood and handed it to him.
Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth and waved his hands, opened the oil paper bag and threw a piece into his mouth, chewing it with a crunch, and lowered his head to send a message into the space. Li Zhuang said thank you, turned and walked towards the covered passage, and soon brought Xu Yi out and walked towards the island.
Lu Weiyi was angry and frustrated after wasting a day's labor. Fortunately, Lu Xiao returned that night and brought him good news - he decided to take the team to Laoshan.
Just as Lu Weiyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, Qin Jin woke up as night fell.
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