Chapter 851 Meeting
"It's true. On the one hand, we do hope that they can research it and promote it," Lu Weiyi did not hide it. "More importantly, the research institute has always believed in the meeting that this research direction has reached its end and there can be no further progress. Our base has restarted other directions."
"As for him hinting at everyone to return the goods," Lu Weiyi said with a laugh, "he wanted to increase the quantity, but they were out of stock."
If others withdraw, it will be his.
“……”Lu Xiao.
"I just don't want to deal with these people with eight hundred schemes."
Lu Xiao rubbed Lu Weiyi's head as he spoke. He was originally worried that this man would be wronged, but he didn't expect that he was also one of the eight hundred people with a kind heart. "I was worried that you would really suffer a loss."
"No." Lu Weiyi knew his own capabilities and rarely made decisions without discussing with others. "Uncle, are you not full? Let's go back and have a meal."
"I'm afraid..." Lu Xiao looked in one direction. It seemed like there was a dispute there. A group of people were chasing a small team towards this side. During the process, people from other bases avoided them and watched the excitement. When people came closer, he recognized that the person in the front covered in blood was Tang Bai. "No."
Lu Weiyi also noticed the entanglement over there. The team of more than 20 people seemed to be being chased by someone. They all had injuries on their bodies, and the people chasing them were still using their supernatural powers on them. Tang Bai, who was at the front, was carrying a man in thick protective clothing on his back. After seeing him, he shouted at him, "Captain Lu, help."
As his voice fell, the sound of a child breaking down and crying was heard. Tang Bai could no longer stand steadily and fell to the ground. The man in protective clothing pulled him hard, but he pushed him in the direction of Lu Weiyi. He turned around and confronted the people who were blocking the pursuit.
"Stop!" Lu Weiyi's voice came out with his mental power, directly pressing all the people who were still using superpowers to the spot.
He took two steps forward and saw a person wearing thick protective clothing standing in front of him, constantly gesturing at him with his hands. Without needing to identify, Lu Weiyi knew that this should be Tang Bai's wife Liu Wan - she was a mute.
Tang Tingting should be in the same protective suit with her, held in her chest. She looked like she was eight months pregnant, and there were constant crying sounds coming from her chest.
They were all ordinary people, and it was impossible for Lu Weiyi to carry them out. He gestured to him to comfort the child first and walked towards the two parties in confrontation.
"What's going on?" Lu Weiyi glanced at Tang Bai. There were about twenty people following him. They all looked like people with special abilities, but they all had some injuries on their bodies.
The noise was so loud that it alarmed quite a few people who were watching the fun, especially some who recognized that this was Tang Bai, one of the former leaders of the Pingjin base. Seeing him so embarrassed, they were all keen to watch the fun.
"They... they rebelled." Tang Bai was very angry. If Lu Weiyi had not received the news of his departure in advance, he would have believed it.
Just after watching Wen Jing perform a set of performances, there was another one. Lu Weiyi suddenly felt that those who could become the team leader must have done Oscar training.
"Captain Lu, this is our base's own business, please don't interfere." Before Tang Baiduo could say anything, someone from the other side immediately spoke up.
The person who spoke was a middle-aged man with a sinister look in his eyes. At first glance, Lu Weiyi felt that he was not a good person.
"The matter of your base..." Lu Weiyi murmured in a low voice, and at the same time he suddenly raised his head and kicked the man several meters away. With the help of his supernatural power, the man immediately vomited blood.
He had just acted like a saint at the dinner, and no one expected him to suddenly take action. The surroundings were instantly silent, and then he asked, "Is this the location of your Pingjin base?"
He took two steps forward and stepped on the man's chest. "The people from Yueban Bay haven't left yet, and you dare to act wild here? Who gave you the courage?"
The man who was already vomiting blood was stepped on by him and spit out two more mouthfuls of blood. Someone beside him hurriedly stepped forward to apologize and pulled the man to the back, carefully apologizing, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Captain Lu, we didn't mean to offend you, it's just..."
"That's it..." He looked at Tang Bai and his group who were hiding not far behind Lu Weiyi, with a bit of unwillingness on his face.
Receiving the other party's gaze, Tang Bai said for him, "You just want to be the boss, so it's just right for you to kill me."
"That's also because of your inaction."
"That's right. The team members didn't plan to migrate in the first place, but you insisted on moving the base for your own selfish desires. You even went to the trouble of building an underground city, which not only wasted most of the team's supplies, but is now of no use at all."
"Is it useless?" Tang Bai looked seriously injured and barely stood up with the help of people around him. "Ask the ordinary people in the base if it's useless?"
"We are not ordinary people, why should we care about their life or death."
“…”
There was silence for a moment, and everyone seemed to understand what was going on.
Although now with the increase in radiation intensity, many psychics do have this idea, but in the early days of the apocalypse, there were disputes among various bases due to evolutionary issues. Now, most of those who have stabilized are either psychics, or a balance has been maintained between psychics and ordinary people, which means that even ordinary people have enough self-protection ability and should not be underestimated.
This was the first time that someone had openly said something like this. Surrounding them were those at the top of each base or team. No matter what they thought in their hearts, they would never say it out loud as it would cause disputes.
The eyes turned towards the opponents with some strangeness. At this moment, Tang Bai said, "No need to be so high-sounding. You just feel that the team does not have enough supplies and do not want to provide living supplies to ordinary people in the team. Why bring up the past?"
"Ordinary people in the base can't stand this kind of radiation, but they are the ones doing all the work for everyone in the dungeon. You are people with special abilities, so what have you done? You can't beat the mutant animals, and the zombies don't dare to attack you. You just keep praising God for choosing you to survive, and then just eat and wait for death?"
"you……"
"I was wrong? If you don't agree with my leader, just say it directly. If you want to be the boss, just be straightforward. You chased me out of the base, and you still want to make a high-sounding excuse?" Tang Bai sneered, "For people like you, even if you really become the boss, what can you do?"
Without waiting for the others to answer, he turned to look at Lu Weiyi and said with a wry smile, "Captain Lu, can you save my life for the sake of our past friendship?"
Lu Weiyi didn't say anything. He vaguely felt that Tang Bai was using him and wanted to use his protection to completely stop the other party from chasing them.
But if you think about it carefully, it seems that apart from this, it is unlikely for them to live an upright life without being disturbed by these people.
Without waiting for Lu Weiyi's answer, Tang Bai gradually became nervous. He had already burned his boats and there was no turning back. If Lu Weiyi objected at this time, then once these twenty people left, they would definitely become the dead souls of others.
Just as the two sides were insisting, a small hand suddenly grabbed the corner of Lu Weiyi's clothes, and Liu Wan appeared beside them at some point. There was a big hole on the chest of her one-piece protective suit, revealing a pale little face with sweat-soaked hair.
The little girl's eyes were red and swollen, and her eyes were bright and fresh after the rain. She cried out, "Uncle Lu, they beat me."
The little girl showed the red and swollen marks on the back of her hand. They must have been accidentally left there while they were fleeing. It wasn't serious, but it was very obvious on the child's thin arms.
"Listen, don't show it." Tang Bai walked forward nervously and stuffed her back into the protective suit. He even tidied up Liu Wan to make sure she would not be exposed to the air.
Lu Weiyi exhaled, gritted his teeth, and looked at the person chasing him, "Did he take away the team's supplies?"
"No," Tang Bai said quickly, "They suddenly killed our entire family. I was only focused on taking my family away and didn't take anything from the house with me."
"Before I took charge of the team, I never let anyone down. After I took charge of the team, I also fulfilled my responsibilities seriously." Tang Bai looked at a man in the other team righteously, "Lao Ma, you want the position of the boss, I will give it to you. Why do you have to kill me?"
The man he called Lao Ma turned his eyes away and turned to the person next to him. He seemed to want to say something, but he was glared at by the other party and stopped talking. Then he heard the man who had just been beaten by Lu Weiyi say, "Who can guarantee that you will not come to retaliate against us one day?"
"There are only 20 of us. How can we retaliate against you?" Tang Bai chuckled. "If you still don't believe me, I promise in front of all the base leaders that I will never return to the Pingjin base, and I will never retaliate against any of you. Is that okay?"
Tang Bai lowered his attitude, "I just want to live well with my wife and children. Since you have already got what you wanted, can't you let us go? There is no deep hatred between you, right?"
Probably the leading teams of various bases were around, many of whom had some friendship with Tang Bai. Seeing him in such a miserable state, and occasionally hearing the suppressed sobs of little Tang Tingting.
Many people began to speak out to persuade them to reconcile.
"Yeah, you want to be the boss. The team has already got it. People have been chased here. Do you still want to kill them all?"
"That's enough. They didn't take anything with them, but they were able to escape so far with so many brothers. It's not their destiny. Let's spare them while we can."
"Yeah, man, why bother with this world?"
With everyone talking at once, the other party was left speechless. They would still have to live here in the future, and they would need to maintain relationships with the surrounding team bases. Since everyone had spoken, they couldn't be ungrateful and lose face for everyone else.
The group could only agree reluctantly and even had to ask Tang Bai for help, "Captain Tang, we have no choice. There are too many ordinary people in the base."
"I know," Tang Bai said with his head down, his voice desolate and full of the feeling of a helpless hero, "I can understand you, and I... I also hope that everyone in our team is well, but... my abilities are really limited."
With tears in his eyes, he looked at the group that had been chasing him just now and said, "I hope you can treat them as kindly as possible, and everyone... is fine."
After saying that, he staggered back and was helped away by someone.
Lu Weiyi looked at the people who were shouting and killing just now looking at him at this moment, with a complicated expression on his face, as if he really felt the helplessness after his struggle.
This is... a bit extreme.
After all, he had secretly stored a lot of the team's supplies in his private warehouse, and threw these people away like a burden, in exchange for his own survival, and he could also make the other party feel guilty.
This time, Lu Weiyi understood what Zhuang Mingxu had said before. This person was quite scheming and he had to be on guard.
Tang Bai didn't know yet that his style of handling things at this time had caused the wariness of the chief of the new base, and had completely cut off his chances of advancement in the new base.
Lu Weiyi stretched out his hand to call someone over, and whispered to him to check whether Tang Bai had any disputes over supplies with the team. He looked at the person who seemed to want to stay for the afternoon meeting and reminded him, "Don't make trouble here."
"I know, I know. Thank you, Captain Lu."
Several people came to thank them, supporting the injured and greeting other teams.
**
The lunch hour was spent in the noise and bustle of the crowd. Lu Weiyi felt like a spinning top. After spinning a few times, Xu Sa reminded him that it was almost time for the meeting.
The people who were going to attend the meeting in Laoshan were already ready. Lu Weiyi went back and brought more than 30 people over. Each team could only send one person, and the rest were people from various departments of the base army.
As an SS-level mutant, Li Zhuang, the person closest to the SSS level in the team, took up a spot.
"Hello, base manager."
"Long time no see, Base Commander."
People from various teams greeted Lu Weiyi. They all understood the theme of this meeting and were in high spirits.
Lu Weiyi nodded and looked at the notebooks in their hands in surprise, "Why are you still holding notebooks?"
"Of course I wrote it down. I'm the lucky one who drew the lot. If I dared to miss the news, I would probably be beaten to death by the people in the team when I go back."
"I also brought recording equipment, but I don't know if I can hold on."
"Haha, you guys are too low. I brought three cameras with me. Haha..."
The group laughed as they walked out of the passage. What they saw was the base that had been completely changed beyond recognition. This was the first time many people had returned after leaving, and they felt somewhat emotional when they saw this scene.
"What's the situation at the base?" Lu Weiyi asked Li Zhuang who was at the front of the team.
"It has resumed normal operations. Several people with special abilities were executed at the Panshui base. After Zhao Gang returned, he said that he could guide the remaining ones to learn how to temporarily suppress their special abilities. This can be considered as temporary control." But it sounded like it was only temporary.
"All the ordinary people from the original Shanshen base have been detained together, which can be regarded as isolation. There are special people responsible for controlling the growth of plants in their bodies, and the hospital has also come up with a scientific solution."
"?" Lu Weiyi had never heard of this and was a little curious.
"Actually, it's similar to the principle of your supernatural power, except that the plant is removed through surgery. Previously, there was a shortage of anesthetics for this kind of major surgery. This time, when I go back, I'll ask them to study the several types I got from Eric. It is said that they can achieve the effect of deep anesthesia."
Li Zhuang said this, but he still didn't agree in his heart. This major surgery required many other medicines besides these, and there was a great shortage of effective hemostatic drugs alone. This would completely test the coordination and cooperation ability between the healing psychic and the surgeon.
Thinking of the many people waiting for treatment at the original Shanshen base, Li Zhuang lost hope.
He did not tell Lu Weiyi about these things in detail. He simply informed him of Zhuang Mingxu's recovery and the arrangements for Lieyan's arrival, and then they all went to the meeting room.
The empty room, which looked like a crude workshop, was where drug trials were held in the morning, served as a trading floor at noon, and now became a classroom.
Only window frames were left on the walls on both sides, without any glass installed, so the sound of the waves outside could be clearly heard.
Crowded with people clinging to the windows, they looked just like students auditing a famous professor's lectures during school days, but their ages probably had nothing to do with those of the students.
There was a desk in front of the classroom that served as a makeshift podium. The matching stool was a bit low, and Lu Weiyi felt that if he sat on it, he might look more like a student than they did.
Two meters away from the podium, there were five rows of neatly arranged tables and chairs, which were already occupied by the heads of various bases.
Further back, some people brought their own stools, while others just stood.
Three o'clock in the afternoon was the hottest time of the day. Even though the water-based psychics had covered the surrounding walls with ice, people could still feel the heat radiating from this group of people. Moreover, in order to accommodate more people, the back was completely crowded.
Fortunately, the people maintaining order had requested that no one be allowed to stay near the podium in front, so it seemed relatively empty at this time. However, as the thirty or so people who followed Lu Weiyi in sat down on both sides, it suddenly became crowded.
Everyone was talking to each other in a low voice, but they instantly quieted down when they saw Lu Weiyi standing on the table.
Looking at the eyes that were looking at him one by one, and some of them even had a notebook in their hands, Lu Weiyi had a very strange feeling.
"Let's expand this place and let's all sit down." Lu Weiyi glanced at Li Zhuang.
Li Zhuang made an OK gesture, and then the surrounding fixed walls began to extend outwards. The roof also stretched with his movements, but there was no sign of it falling down, which showed how solid it was.
After Lu Weiyi finished looking at the questions that had been recounted on the table, Li Zhuang had also completed the temporary expansion. Not only had the area been expanded, but rows of stools and tables were directly made with the soil at the back, making it look more like a classroom.
Perhaps because they saw the expansion, some people outside wanted to come in, but were stopped outside the door by people maintaining order, thus avoiding the place being full again.
After everyone was in place, Lu Weiyi finally spoke. Perhaps it was a bit strange that he was standing in this position for the first time, so he made a rare joke, "I'm a poor student, and I never thought that there would be a day when I would stand here."
"Captain Lu is really humble."
"Yes, you are the only SSS-level psychic now. If you are a poor student, we will simply not be able to bear it."
"really".
There was an immediate burst of compliments from the audience. Lu Weiyi smiled and didn't take it seriously. Then he restrained his expression and got to the point, "First of all, this is not a meeting in the strict sense. At most, it can be regarded as an exchange."
"My superpowers are promoted faster, so I may have some different insights and understandings on superpowers. I share them with everyone so that we can exchange and learn together. But it is not guaranteed to be applicable to different superpowers and different people, so it is only for your reference, don't rely on it completely."
"When the time comes to upgrade, use it flexibly according to your own situation." Lu Weiyi tapped the various questions on the table with his fingertips, and finally answered them later.
He thought about what he originally wanted to say and got straight to the point from the beginning.
"The SSS psychic upgrade is completely different from all previous psychic upgrades."
"Before the SSS level, all upgrades are about the body's energy reaching a certain level and then starting to squeeze the crystal core in the body. After reaching a certain level, it causes it to expand in order to accommodate more energy. This means that even if there is a certain amount of zombie energy in our body, as long as it is not enough to cause an energy riot, nothing will happen."
"We can now use instruments to detect the amount of zombie energy in the body to ensure the safety of the upgrade."
"But the SSS upgrade is different, it is more like a kind of... strengthening, a process of strengthening the body with SSS-level energy, allowing our body's strength and toughness to reach another new level."
At this point Lu Weiyi paused, he took a look at his current physical condition, and became conflicted again. He was not even sure whether he could still be called a human being at the SSS level, or he felt that he was now an energy body, and the embodiment of the energy body was the human form. Perhaps if he wanted... he could change into any form.
However, this idea only popped up suddenly. Subconsciously, he was unwilling to accept this possibility, nor was he willing to try his supernatural powers in this direction.
Gathering his thoughts, Lu Weiyi returned to the meeting, "This makes the upgrade process completely different from before. It requires us to completely integrate the crystal core energy in our body into the body when upgrading."
After hearing this, there was a murmur of conversation from below. Even the few people who were closest to the front and had been keeping a straight face looked at each other to see if anyone understood.
After seeing the similar confusion from each other, as expected, someone more anxious asked, "Captain Lu, how do you integrate this?"
“What’s the process?”
Lu Weiyi thought about it silently, and suddenly said, "SSS-level psychics don't have crystal cores."
“…”
There was an uproar all around.
Everyone looked at him with surprise and confusion.
"For those with abilities below SSS level, all their energy is stored in the crystal core, while those above this level have their energy filled throughout the entire body."
These words made Li Zhuang, who knew something about the situation, frown. He quietly used his special ability to touch his legs under the desk.
Lu Weiyi, who noticed something strange, immediately locked onto Li Zhuang, the user of the supernatural power. He looked at him as if nothing had happened, and saw that the other party shook his head slightly.
Lu Weiyi understood and stopped talking, and described the upgrade process in detail, "It is equivalent to smashing the crystal core and mobilizing the energy to condense it in the body again. In this process, all the zombie energy in the body must be completely eliminated."
"So, SSS-level psychics don't have zombie energy in their bodies?"
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