Chapter 841: Getting there first
Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang's departure did not alarm anyone. According to the address obtained by Xu Sa during the interrogation, Li Zhuang adjusted the direction along the way and they arrived at their destination in the early morning.
According to the two's plan, they were going to go back to the space to rest for a while and replenish Lu Weiyi's supernatural powers as much as possible. However, when they arrived, they found that the place that should have been bustling was dead silent.
Li Zhuang, who went to investigate the environment, noticed something was wrong and did not approach, but returned first to meet Lu Weiyi, who was resting in a cave. "There are traces of people living around here for a long time, but no one was found, and it was quiet inside."
"Everyone should be sleeping at this time, right?" Even when living underground, people still follow their usual schedule. What's more, these arrogant psychics have never gone underground. They live in self-built houses hidden deep in the jungle.
Li Zhuang shook his head, picked up a branch from the ground and drew something for Lu Weiyi, "Inside is a ring-shaped layout radiating from the inside to the outside. The innermost ones should be inhabited by high-rise buildings. The circle of tall trees outside are arranged as patrol points, alerting the surroundings."
"Under normal circumstances, even if we rest at night, there will be night watches. I didn't see any figures around. Inside..." Li Zhuang paused, "I vaguely smelled blood."
If it were in the past, Li Zhuang would definitely go in to check the situation in detail. However, Lu Weiyi had been controlling the phoenix to fly for several hours, and his energy was seriously consumed. Li Zhuang was worried about leaving him alone outside, so he thought about coming back to tell him first.
"I'll go deeper, and you go directly into the space and come out every hour. If I come back, I'll wait for you here," said Li Zhuang.
Lu Weiyi shook his head. Just by looking at the conditions of those captured people, he could imagine that these people's abilities would not be low. Even though Li Zhuang had become an SS-level ability user, he was only one person after all. If Lu Weiyi entered the space, he would miss the time for rescue in case of any accident. "Let's go together. If there is any accident, we can hide in the space together."
"No, the consequences would be disastrous if someone saw us," Li Zhuang flatly refused.
If we just keep waiting, who knows how long it will take for those who return to report the news to come back? If our journey is delayed because of this, it would be a huge loss.
Just when the two were in a stalemate, Lu Weiyi sensitively noticed that there was a mental force outside exploring aimlessly. He immediately pulled Li Zhuang to his side and hid the two's tracks.
"There is a psychic, and his level... is not low." Lu Xi's psychic ability has only reached S level now thanks to Lu Weiyi's private supplement. Lu Weiyi feels that the mental power he exudes at this moment is at least at the top S level, and it is very likely that he is only one step away from the SS level.
This kind of meticulous investigation is totally unlike someone like Lu Xi who rarely uses his supernatural powers. If Lu Weiyi was not sensitive, this hair-like mental power might have been overlooked. This is something that only people who are extremely proficient in mental power can do.
It turns out that we can't let our guard down anywhere.
Perhaps it was because of the successful upgrade, the originally invisible supernatural fluctuations appeared in his sight like energy threads. Lu Weiyi avoided the spiritual threads that were probing him as much as possible, and also extended his mental power in the direction he was coming from.
He didn't have enough superpowers at the moment, so in order to avoid being discovered accidentally, he could only be as careful as possible.
Li Zhuang was unsure of the surrounding situation. Seeing Lu Weiyi focusing his attention in one direction, he also controlled the soil on the ground to move away, and then -
At the same time, they both noticed that at the end of their sight were two familiar figures. One of them was holding a dagger and bloodily digging out the crystal core of a mutant. On one side of him was a mutant lying like a corpse, hundreds of them piled up randomly, and on the other side were crystal cores of different colors with blood on them.
Not far away from him, there was a person who was looking around leisurely. He didn't feel uncomfortable with the scene at all. He had a comfortable expression on his face. While using his mental power to search the surroundings, he could also control and drag out the psychics in different rooms at the same time.
He is not affected at all by multitasking and can even scold others with disgust, "David, after all these years you are still so bloody. I don't know how your little cutie tolerates you."
"Does he know that you don't even spare the dead?"
"Are you not tempted by the crystal core of a superpower?"
"So many crystal cores, are they enough to buy your potion?"
"Send it over. Would your captain be willing to sell me a few more?"
Eric was like a chatterbox, chattering non-stop, while Antonio, with blood splattered on his face, was as quiet as a killing machine. The two of them showed each other a completely different scene from that in front of others.
Seeing this scene, Lu Weiyi suddenly withdrew his mental strength, but he didn't notice that at this moment, the leisurely Eric suddenly tensed up and looked accurately in his direction.
Lu Weiyi turned to Li Zhuang beside him and was about to speak when he saw the man chuckle twice. It seemed that he had also noticed the situation over there.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have come here," Lu Weiyi said.
"We still have to come, otherwise it won't be our turn to get the supplies." Li Zhuang had just finished speaking when he noticed someone approaching outside. His eyes flashed, and he reacted quickly, pulling Lu Weiyi to the side to dodge. A sound of breaking through the air was heard, and it chopped straight in the direction where Lu Weiyi had just stood, inserted into the wall, and was controlled to attack the two of them.
Li Zhuang immediately controlled the earth shield to block them. At the same time, invisible mental power also pressed towards the two of them.
The combination of these two superpowers gave Lu Weiyi a guess, but the two people were obviously still a thousand meters away, and he arrived in front of them precisely in the time it took to say a word, which was still quite surprising.
The entrance of the cave where they were hiding was open to the side, just blocking the prying eyes from outside. Lu Weiyi was not sure who was coming, and did not want to reveal his identity by making a sound. He used his mental barrier to block the attack while pulling Li Zhuang out of the cave.
Under the moonlight, Antonio, with blood on his body, had a gaze as cold as ice, holding a scimitar in each hand, and blood dripping from his hands could be seen on the cold blade. Eric beside him was clean, with his hands in his pockets, leisurely planning his strategy, but the smile on his face gave people an evil feeling.
The moment they looked at each other, they were obviously stunned for a moment.
"Why are you here?" Antonio returned to his normal state, with obvious surprise on his face.
"Should we ask you?" Li Zhuang asked.
Eric put away his mental power and greeted Lu Weiyi with a smile, as if the person who had just used mental power to kill someone was not him.
After Antonio left the base with the potion, he was worried about Dean and did not dare to hesitate along the way. He quickly moved towards the hunting team where Eric was. He avoided any mutant creatures that might waste time along the way, which greatly speeded up his arrival time. Even so, it still took him two days and two nights.
The hunting team of mutants formed by Eric is no different from other hunting teams. The difference is that they will not engage in low-level burning, killing and looting, but only undertake killing projects, and their role is more like that of killers before the end of the world.
The frequent need to deal with various bases has kept their team very sensitive to news, and the people in the team have very strong abilities.
But Eric is not an arrogant person. After knowing that the solar storm brought radiation, he asked people to build hidden residences. Unlike some bases that had to extend underground, Eric directly took people to hide in the mountains.
The residence was built by hollowing out half of a mountain. It is convenient to enter and exit, and it is also extremely easy to guard the surroundings.
Before Antonio came, Eric had heard the news that Lu Weiyi of Yueban Bay had returned successfully and had developed a zombie energy-releasing potion. He was considering whether to go and "connect" with him when he received the news that their base had been attacked and destroyed by giant mutant creatures.
Eric was just thinking about going over to take a look when Antonio arrived.
Although Antonio did not say that the potion was for him, Eric still took the potion out of self-importance. As expected, even after knowing Antonio's words about the future, Eric still had no intention of leaving with him.
His team was used to freedom. They said they would not burn, kill or loot, but they did not explicitly prohibit it. The blood of innocent people was on their hands. Not only would they not be able to adapt after entering Moon Bay, Eric felt that he might not be able to hide among normal humans for long.
Antonio didn't ask the reason, but only informed them that the base would organize some clarification on the upgrade to SSS level.
Eric would naturally not refuse.
After Antonio, who had been traveling all night, told the story, he turned around and chose a place to rest, ready to return immediately after waking up.
However, when he woke up, it was true that Eric and he were on their return journey, but they took a detour to the free people's residence on the way.
"He said they attacked our base?" Antonio wiped the blood off his face, trying his best not to look so ferocious in front of the young base commander.
Even though everyone knows each other's background, it is still necessary to pretend to be harmonious on the surface.
"...Not really, they attacked our space channel," Lu Weiyi said.
"The team leader was angry and decided to bring me out to kill a chicken," Li Zhuang smiled.
As they were talking, the four of them returned to the free people's residence.
It was quiet here, and the smell of blood in the air was even stronger, making people feel like they had just experienced a massacre.
There were piles of people lying on the ground, some of them only had a wound between their eyebrows where a crystal core had been dug out, while some were still clearly breathing heavily.
"What does this do?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Antonio glanced at Eric and said, "Drugged."
"..."Lu Weiyi.
"It's like this. When we came over, they were discussing how to seize your supplies and enslave your people after they arrived at the new base in Moon Bay. They were quite angry," Eric explained in detail. "I helped them calm down."
Lu Weiyi looked at the person on the ground who had no reaction after his crystal core was dug out, and felt that this calm method was not something that everyone could bear.
"David is quite thrifty. He said that nothing can be wasted." Eric spread his hands and defended Antonio's bloody action of digging for the crystal core.
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