Chapter 828: The Abandoned Researcher
After walking to the door and expressing his feelings, Ning Yuan turned around and sat back down.
Xu Sa asked worriedly, "If Wen Xing's character is really like that, will he cause trouble?"
"Not now," Lu Weiyi said with a serious look. Seeing that Xu Sa wanted to hear an explanation, he continued, "He came here in such a hurry and brought the experimental subject with him. Either this person is very important, or there is an important person in their team who needs him and is anxious to see the results. Otherwise, Wen Xing has not shown up for nearly ten years before and after the end of the world. It is impossible for him to suddenly appear at this time."
"Now that you mention it, I really remember that he and the infected person... were very close." Ning Yuan recalled that gentle scene and had a guess in his mind.
"Isn't that a man?" After Xu Sa asked, he found that the remaining three people in the hall were looking at him with strange eyes. He immediately realized that their team was also full of homosexuals, and immediately made a zipper gesture towards his mouth.
"That means there is some relationship between them."
"It's unlikely, it's probably just a trick." Gu Qingyue was interrupted by Lu Weiyi before he could finish his words.
"How do you know?" Ning Yuan expressed his doubt. He had never met anyone from the Wen family, so it should be impossible for him to know so much.
"..." Lu Weiyi waved the handwritten message in his hand, "Zhuang Mingxu said."
Ning Yuan raised his eyebrows, Xu Sa lowered his eyes and smiled secretly, but Gu Qingyue pretended not to hear and tolerated him to continue pretending to be deep.
Although the three of them tried their best to cover it up, Lu Weiyi still felt embarrassed. He gestured to Ning Yuan to communicate, and he got up and walked towards the salt field as if nothing had happened, using the excuse of transporting supplies.
With Zhuang Mingxu's request, Ning Yuan once again recalled the man he had met before. He had his head down, his face was covered in dirt, and the angle at which he was curled up just avoided his sight. Only then did he realize that he had not seen what the other person looked like at all.
This made him begin to doubt, and while discussing, he asked others to inquire about the news. On the other side, Lu Weiyi was more direct. He probed his mental thread into the area where the Mengbei base was located and found the room where the Wen brothers were.
Unexpectedly, the cage holding the infected person was placed directly in their room. Wen Xing leaned on a recliner, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking. The window screens with small holes on the translucent window were woven with ice. The wind blew in, bringing cool air, which greatly alleviated the hot weather.
Wen Jing squatted beside the cage, holding a plate in his hand. On the plate were fried, half-cooked pieces of meat, which were cut into bite-sized pieces with a knife and fork. You could vaguely see traces of blood oozing out of it. He took out a piece with the fork and reached into the cage.
Wen Xing took a glance and reminded, "Be careful, don't get bitten by him."
"Will it get infected if bitten?" Wen Jing frowned, his worry evident in his words.
"If you're not sure, it's better to be careful." Wen Xing spoke hesitantly, but he didn't sound indecisive. Instead, he sounded very charming.
Wen Jing's behavior in front of him was completely different from the aggressive one he showed outside. He had a completely restrained aura and looked like a younger brother, only a little older.
He listened to Wen Xing and just pushed the fork in. The man in the cage smelled the blood and his quiet appearance suddenly became ferocious. He struggled and opened his mouth towards the fork. His strength was so great that the whole cage trembled. The clanging sound echoed throughout the small room. Wen Jing's eyes were full of worry and distress.
Wen Xing didn't say anything when he saw it, but turned to look out the window. The wind that leaked in blew him and he started coughing violently.
"Brother, don't let the cold air blow you like that. Your body can't take it."
"Fortunately." Wen Xing looked much weaker than his previous appearance, and his face was pale, which really lived up to his reputation as a sickly person.
Wen Jing put away the clean dishes, took a thick coat and put it on his shoulders, then looked around and asked, "Do you think they will find out that Big Brother..."
Wen Xingmeng turned his head to look at him, and Wen Jing stopped talking immediately and looked around vigilantly. Lu Weiyi's scattered mental threads noticed that a dense mental network was woven around them, covering the room they were in.
The intensity was obviously not comparable to that of ordinary mental power. At least among the psychics that Lu Weiyi had seen, even the strongest Lu Xi might not be able to hide his mental power in such a barrier.
This made him look at Wen Xing again, and he cut off the mental connection silently. Wen Xing under the window seemed to sense something and glanced around the room.
Lu Weiyi recalled everything he had seen in his mind, and combined with what they said, an incredible idea came to his mind. He told Zhuang Mingxu what he had seen. A moment later, Zhuang Mingxu sent a message confirming his guess.
[If so, he will definitely let you take action as soon as possible.] Zhuang Mingxu habitually calculated the possible benefits, but when he thought that they were about to leave, nothing would be more reassuring than the safe evacuation of all personnel, so he sent another message immediately.
[Don't pay too much attention to their identities. It has little to do with us. Whether we can meet again in the future is another matter. Just pretend that we don't know how to cooperate with each other].
[Got it] Lu Weiyi had no interest in this. He himself did not focus on the intrigues of human beings.
It was a rare opportunity to come across another powerful psychic, which attracted his interest even more. However, according to Zhuang Mingxu, the person was ruthless and not suitable for him to contact.
[Don’t worry about the rumors outside. We don’t have much stuff. The situation was special at the time and we had to sell it publicly to increase the strength of the base. It’s not necessary to sell it.] To put it bluntly, it’s up to you whether you want it or not.
The most scarce thing at the moment is food. Not only they are short of it, but other bases are also short of it. When Zhuang Mingxu saw that there was no food in the statistics, he lost half of his interest in exchanging it. Otherwise, he would not have even thought of holding a drug trial meeting.
If it weren't for the jade and jade mines that Wen Jing brought that they needed to prepare for Taotao, they would not have accepted his conditions.
The two of them talked for a few more words when Ning Yuan hurried back. As expected, Wen Xing wanted their people to try the medicine first even if he didn't want the so-called discount.
"He met me in private, and was very humble, as if he was sure that we knew some news?" Ning Yuan looked at Lu Weiyi, wondering if he had done something. After all, it was not the first time that this man had used his mental power to secretly gather intelligence.
Lu Weiyi also thought of Wen Xing's previous vigilant gaze and suspected that he had been discovered.
"Anyway, no one has caught us in the act and there is no evidence, so we just didn't do anything," Ning Yuan said unceremoniously, and asked him if he still wanted to postpone the drug trial.
"There's no need for that. Zhuang Mingxu said that we'd be at a loss if we exchanged the things they brought. Let's finish the work quickly and go home early."
Thinking that others could go back through the space channel, while he still needed to investigate the nearby environment on the way back, Lu Weiyi felt like life was hopeless, "I think I need a raise."
"The entire base is yours, what else do you want to add?" Ning Yuan said with his eyes wide open in horror, "You're not going to deduct our wages, are you?"
"..." Lu Weiyi, "Your suggestion is very good, I will consider it."
"Hey, there's no need to be like this. It's not easy for everyone..."
Ning Yuan followed Lu Weiyi and walked towards the underground passage. Passing the basement, he saw a room surrounded by torches. Xu Yi, Dean and Gu Qingji were sitting in a circle, playing poker, looking as comfortable as if they were on vacation.
"What are you doing?" Lu Weiyi's sinister voice made the three of them pause. Gu Qingji, the one in the team who had not yet successfully upgraded, touched his nose and put down his cards awkwardly. Xu Yi crossed his arms and looked away without saying a word. Dean jumped up excitedly, trotted to Lu Weiyi and asked him to look at his cards. "Lu, look, I have good cards. How do you play them? Teach me quickly."
Ning Yuan, who was following behind him, didn't have time to stop him before he saw Lu Weiyi come forward without any self-awareness, cough lightly and give a few instructions with confidence. He watched Dean's winning cards in his hand being reduced to just one step away from failure because of his weird tricks.
He hurried forward and pulled Lu Weiyi, "They're still waiting upstairs, we have to go and pick them up quickly."
Lu Weiyi seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and tried to save his face as if nothing had happened, "It's right this way, I've been playing like this for many years."
“……” Ning Yuan covered his face.
I've been playing for years, but I've never won.
He pulled the people away quickly. The remaining two people must have sensed something. They looked over together and saw Ning Yuan mouthing the words to show mercy to them.
Gu Qingji nodded with amusement, and Xu Yi sneered.
Before he had walked out more than ten meters, he heard Dean's angry voice calling Lu Weiyi faintly from behind. Lu Weiyi paused and then started to jog.
Lu Weiyi originally thought that the so-called dispatched experts were just a few symbolic ones, but when he entered the channel connecting the space, he found that there were at least two hundred people led by Taotao. Among them was Sun Haicheng, the former director of the Joint Research Institute, and some people who had been sent from various bases and were finally forced to fake their death and taken away.
These were dead bodies in everyone's eyes. Going out at this time would be tantamount to telling everyone in the base that the explosion was directed and acted out by them.
Lu Weiyi thought that Zhuang Mingxu had made a mistake, but then he saw Zhuang Aiyi, who was holding Taotao's hand, pulling his arm and whispering in his ear, "Little daddy, big daddy is waiting for you outside."
Lu Weiyi raised his eyebrows and felt it, and felt Zhuang Mingxu waiting in the space.
That could only be something he arranged on purpose. Lu Weiyi nodded, touched Taotao's head, motioned him to take Zhuang Aiyi out, and he led the rest of the people out of the space.
Ning Yuan, who was unprepared, was a little surprised to see so many people. What's more important is that many of them are ordinary people. They have not rebuilt their underground homes at all. There are many mutant squid corpses buried around the only basement acting as an upgraded energy field. When so many people appeared, they could not find a suitable place for them to live for a while.
Ning Yuan asked Lu Weiyi silently, and Lu Weiyi shook his head slightly, "You take everyone to rest first, I will go to pick up the remaining experts."
Ning Yuan nodded and talked about the main direction and purpose of their visit this time.
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