Chapter 895 Cruel
As soon as Lu Weiyi saw his expression, he knew he had said the wrong thing. He immediately raised his hands in surrender and said, "I'm used to it. I'll leave it to you here."
Li Zhuang waved his hand and said nothing.
Sitting on the back of the phoenix, Lu Weiyi climbed over to the other side again. The higher distance meant that he didn't feel such a strong suction this time. Only a colder wind slapped on his face. With the acceleration of the phoenix, if he hadn't held on tightly, he would have been blown away.
After returning safely, Qin Jin was still waiting at the same place with his small group of zombies. Seeing them return safely, Qin Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Not going well?" It took much longer than they expected.
"The past tense is not high enough."
"We should have found mutant animals for an experiment." Qin Jin's expression was filled with regret. In the previous battle, he had seen Lu Weiyi's fighting ability, which made him not treat him as an ordinary person most of the time, but ignore these small details.
He waited until the people came back, and then he felt that they overestimated him and became a little anxious.
"I forgot too," Lu Weiyi changed the subject, "I'll let Li Zhuang try digging from underground over there, and we'll go around and take a look at the base here."
"Okay, I've asked Cheng Qi to find out. The former Hope Base is fifty kilometers away from here."
"Then let's hurry over there," Lu Weiyi said, his eyes looking at the eight zombies that had followed them all the way. They still had no obvious thinking ability. Two of them were S-level psychics, and now only showed dull emotions and would not attack humans completely out of control, but the others could not do it yet.
Taking them over there would undoubtedly add a lot of unnecessary trouble.
"Let Cheng Qi take them here and I will go with you to take a look at the situation in other bases."
"It's very tempting for a zombie like you to say such things," Lu Weiyi joked.
"Then you can think about it more," Qin Jin said, and gave Cheng Qi a few instructions, asked about the route, and took Lu Weiyi towards the explored road.
Lu Weiyi was in a hurry, and with his SSS level, his figure almost became a shadow as he shuttled through the woods. Qin Jin, who was following closely behind him, felt his urgency and thought he had reached the door. He was eager to return home, so he quickened his pace to cooperate.
At dusk that evening, they finally arrived at Hope Base.
If Qin Jin had not confirmed it, Lu Weiyi would definitely not believe that the walled city in front of him, whose walls were less than four meters high, was the location of the Hope Base.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, their base was not built like this. Unexpectedly, in a few years it became worse and worse.
The three-meter-high city gate only had a small door for one person to enter and exit. The guards at the gate were just decorations, sleeping on a table. There were no people coming in and out around, and the scene was desolate everywhere. After Lu Weiyi used his special powers to bring Qin Jin in, he saw a bare street.
Even the houses on the street have not been repaired and are in a dilapidated state. From time to time, beggars and men and women who sell their bodies can be seen lying or standing sickly on the road. They all have the same dead expression on their faces, but it seems that it has become a habit for them to force a smile at passers-by.
"Cheng Qi said that most of the residents live in the underground city, and those who live above are all sick and have no way to survive, waiting here to die." Qin Jin had just finished speaking when he saw a young girl leaning against the wall fall straight to the ground. The people standing on both sides looked at her numbly and turned their eyes away, without even taking a closer look.
Just as Lu Weiyi was about to step forward, he was grabbed by Qin Jin and said, "It's obvious that you have radiation sickness. How are you going to explain why you suddenly appeared inside someone else's base?"
If the base commander of a base quietly appears inside another base, anyone would think that he is plotting something bad.
"Do they have anything that I can use to get what I want?" Lu Weiyi still wanted to go over and take a look. Their base lacked materials for various experiments, which made him develop the habit of exploring all kinds of strange things.
"That's not appropriate either. Or we can just reveal our identities at the door and enter openly." Qin Jin felt that he was being stupid again when he said this. They were clearly doing a good deed, but Lu Weiyi's actions instantly made it seem less upright and even a little shameful.
Thinking of this, regardless of Lu Weiyi's objection, he led his men directly back to the entrance of the base.
"Go into the city to buy two taels of rice, go to the management center to pay taxes for business, and apply for a temporary residence permit for short-term residence..." The person at the door noticed someone was there, and without even raising his head, the words had already flowed out of his mouth.
After he finished speaking, he found that the other party did not respond, so he looked up, stood up immediately and smiled flatteringly, "Where are you from, you two? Do you want to enter the base?"
Qin Jin originally thought that they would recognize Lu Weiyi, but they looked as if they were people they could not afford to offend. However, thinking about the situation of the residents in the city, it seemed understandable.
"We came from Yuebanwan Base and have something to do with Captain Su Yan. Please let him know." After Qin Jin replied on behalf of Lu Weiyi, he took out a one-pound bag of sealed rice from the space and handed it over.
"Hey, you two, wait a moment. I'll ask Captain Su to come over." The man on duty said this, pushed open the rest hall next to him, asked the two to go in and sit down, then turned around and ran quickly into the city.
The two were left staring at each other in bewilderment at the half-open city gate.
"Their management... isn't that good." It was the first time Lu Weiyi had seen such a thing, and his tone was filled with uncertainty.
"That's definitely not possible," Qin Jin said, flipping through the registration book on the other party's desk. Seeing that the last person entering and leaving was ten days ago, he understood the other party's behavior.
This door, it seems meaningless to look at it or not.
The two men were too different from the others. Not long after they stood at the gate, many people came near them. Some wanted to inquire about their news, and some begged them for some food. Most people did not dare to approach them at all, but just looked at them with timid eyes from a distance.
The two waited for more than ten minutes, and Su Yan came out with his men, with a few familiar people standing beside him. The gatekeeper was not careful with his mouth, and while informing other teams along the way, he also bribed other teams with information, which led to people from several teams wanting to come and watch the fun.
I thought it was someone delivering a letter, but I didn't expect it to be Lu Weiyi. There was obvious surprise on his face, followed by joy.
"Captain Lu, long time no see. What brings you here?" Tao An still looked sickly as before. Sister Ping, who was following him, was still curvy as always. Apart from some traces of weathering on her face, there seemed to be no change.
"Long time no see." Lu Weiyi greeted a few people and was led towards the base by them. Few of these people had seen Qin Jin before, and those who recognized him did not dare to say a word. Qin Jin followed Lu Weiyi openly, showing a very arrogant attitude.
Compared to the surprise of the other small teams when they saw Lu Weiyi, the big teams like Su Yan and Tao An seemed a lot more concerned after greeting each other. Along the way, Su Yan kept trying to find excuses to push the others away, but several of them pretended not to hear him.
The entrance to the underground city of the Hope Base is similar to an elevator room. You need to register to enter the door. After you go forward, there is a box like an elevator. After you stand firmly, you can hear the clicking sound of the equipment operating. It really shakes them underground like an elevator.
Following the sound, you can see huge gears not far away. A tall and strong man with bare chest is turning the slot hard until it returns to normal. The "elevator" falls to the ground with a clang.
This primitive operation that does not rely on electricity relies entirely on gear slots, just like the mechanical technology of ancient times. Lu Weiyi was amazed and said, "Your base is full of talented people."
"Just looking for an easy life." Su Yan took the man down the elevator and introduced the situation here to him. "I received your reminder before, and I sent a message to the base to ask them to expand the underground city to a deeper depth of several dozen meters. Now it is nearly 150 meters here."
"Is it enough?" Lu Weiyi expressed his doubt.
"Not enough," Su Yan smiled bitterly, "The radiation value detected underground is still increasing. We recently planned to gather earth-type ability users to artificially create a mountain. The people below have been settled with great difficulty, and it will be even more difficult to find a new place."
"That's fine, but have you completely given up on the ground? I don't see any defenses." Lu Weiyi looked around. The underground city here seemed more advanced than the other cities he had seen. It also had an arc-shaped dome, and they were all wrapped in heavy metal, so there was no possibility of any roof collapse.
This also prevents people with earth-related abilities from sneaking into the underground from other places, so safety is guaranteed.
Metal brackets can be seen almost everywhere in the city below, and there are various gears in many places that look like some mysterious machinery. Lu Weiyi doesn't know much about this and can't recognize what they are used for, but at first glance, it gives people the feeling of a steel city, which makes people feel safer.
"No one has given up, it's just that no one wants to go to the ground. Everyone is afraid of death." He said this calmly, and Lu Weiyi thought it was normal. "Those who stay up there have no way to make a living and are just trying to get a meal."
"Then you have to be on guard and be careful not to be attacked by mutant rodents. After the destruction of the previous Changhong base, there is not even a zombie in the city. It has become the world of mutant rats. There is an SSS rat king-level rat king there. When he stands up, he is twice as tall as me and can communicate with humans." In this situation that concerns survival, Lu Weiyi did not show his true colors and told them what he had seen.
"Then...the zombies inside?" someone asked in surprise.
"After being eaten by mutated rats, the rats there will cooperate to hunt down the superpower team that comes there. The mutated rats under the Rat King are also divided into levels." At this point, he suddenly felt that this seemed similar to the system between zombies. He turned his head and glanced at Qin Jin, wanting to ask if it was instinct or something else, but felt it was not appropriate at this time, and finally said nothing.
"Changhong Base, it's not far from us."
"It's not far, but you haven't forgotten the thunderstorm belt in the middle. With that thing there, nothing can get through."
"That's right. From this perspective, we are still safe. However, the Moon Bay Base..."
Someone was muttering behind him, and Su Yan, who heard it, looked at Lu Weiyi with some concern.
"It has been resolved. I just want you to be more vigilant. The IQ of high-level mutant creatures is no different from that of humans, so you have to be vigilant."
"I'll have someone pay attention." Su Yan introduced the distribution of the underground city to him.
"It must be difficult to build a place like this, and it would be a pity to abandon it," Lu Weiyi commented. He saw that except for the dim light, people's lives were no different from those on the ground. It seemed that the scenes he had seen on the streets before were still rare.
"Indeed, and...where can we move to?" Su Yan smiled bitterly and asked why Lu Weiyi appeared here.
"The base needs to collect some data. I was heading towards Laoshan from the base. When we arrived at the Mengdi area north of Jin Province, we discovered a zombie kingdom established by SSS-level zombies. We went over to take a look and found out some situations. So I came back to the base to remind you." Now that he is a leader, Lu Weiyi also knows that some news is not suitable for all people to know and will cause panic, so he didn't say it clearly.
But even so, Tao An, who followed him, frowned, "Have the zombies already built a systematic kingdom?"
"It's gone now."
"..." Tao An.
"..."Su Yan.
Now both of them understood that it was over. They looked at each other and no longer had any intention of forcing the other to leave.
The place where Su Yan lives still maintains his usual style. Even in the basement, the police station sign can still be seen on the door, which is very personal.
But this time, Wang Ming was not there to warmly welcome them. Standing at the door, Lu Weiyi could think of the man who spoke with a slurred Northeastern dialect, who was cheerful and enthusiastic.
"You must not have eaten at this time, so I asked someone to prepare some food. Don't mind its simplicity." Su Yan invited a few people in. Several team leaders who had hurried over also squeezed in with Su Yan, chatting and laughing.
Whenever men talk about something, they always seem to like to put a few bottles of wine on the table. Su Yan is no exception and he even took out his collection.
"Brother Su, don't open it. I'm in a hurry. I'll just eat something and tell you about the situation and then leave." Lu Weiyi hurriedly stopped him from opening the bottle of wine.
"You stay here for one night. The storm belt I told you about is about 20 to 30 kilometers away from here. You must pass through the storm belt to return to the base. I will bring people with you tomorrow to see if I can help," Su Yan said.
"I've been there. The altitude of more than 1,500 meters can resist some of the suction. If we can tame some mutant birds in the future, perhaps we can communicate with each other. Li Zhuang is already leading his team over there to find a solution underground."
Su Yan didn't expect him to move so quickly. He didn't bother to be polite with him. He put down the bottle and said, "We have tried it underground before. There is a strong electric current in the soil within about three hundred meters."
"Then dig deeper. If a hundred meters isn't enough, then a thousand meters. If that doesn't work, then keep going down. It's impossible that the entire earth is cut off." Lu Weiyi had seen the situation in the air and was more convinced that this thing couldn't last forever.
"I don't have that ability anymore, so I'll just have to rely on you from now on. This is the nearest base, so feel free to have someone come to me if you need anything."
Tao An also responded immediately, and the others sitting here complimented him and introduced themselves.
Only then did Lu Weiyi realize that the current Hope Base was an integration of several original bases, and even many of the teams there were ones he had seen before.
Liu Dong from the Rich Base of Jade Space who had been cheated by them, Li Xiao, who was originally the head of the Li family in the Qingyuan base, and Gu Tao from the Gu family also came. The two sworn enemies now seem to be much more harmonious. They no longer look like they want to kill each other at the first sight of each other like they did a few years ago. And following behind them seems to be Jiang Mo, who is a relative of theirs.
If he hadn't seen the other person's face, Lu Weiyi would have almost forgotten their existence, but now that he has a happy life, the hatred he once felt has become irrelevant.
Perhaps because he knew that what he had done to Li Qing was not right, Li Xiao did not move forward. When he saw Lu Weiyi looking at Jiang Mo, he immediately bumped into Jiang Mo without making a sound. Jiang Mo just nodded from a distance, without any intention of trying to establish a relationship with him.
Of course, there is no connection between them.
Lu Weiyi retracted his gaze and saw that Su Yan was interested in the zombie kingdom. He brought the topic back to the topic, briefly explained what had happened, and took out a few portraits of An He from the space.
"He carries a lot of strange little things, especially a hallucinogenic instrument. The frequency of its emissions can make people fall into hallucinations unknowingly. You'd better be on guard."
Lu Weiyi asked a few people to pass the photo around and deliberately spoke more seriously, "He likes to study zombies, and the zombies that follow him are all under his control. We infer that he may also want to control the zombies to achieve ulterior motives. If you see him, you'd better pay attention."
"Is there any way to boycott?" Su Yan looked at the old man's photo carefully, with deep wrinkles on his brows.
"Not yet. I have asked people to study it as soon as possible." Lu Weiyi shook his head. "The laboratory we visited before was also related to him. After investigation, we found that they belonged to Yue country, that country... you know..."
"We will never be soft on our people. I hope all bases will unite on this matter and not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains."
"Don't worry. No one is ignorant of the seriousness of national hatred and family feuds. Besides, Wen Jing at the Mengbei base will not allow threats to stay around. Zheng Yi is now at the helm of Kyoto, and he will not be involved with people from Yue country. There is no problem here either." After Su Yan listed the major bases now, he suddenly said, "Do you know the news about Zhao Qiang?"
Lu Weiyi shook his head, "What's wrong with him?"
"He has returned to Kyoto and reorganized his guard team, but his power is not as strong as before and his stance is much more low-key. In addition..." Su Yan looked at Lu Weiyi, as if he had something to ask, but in the end he did not ask in front of so many people.
After the dinner was over and the rest of the people had left, Su Yan brought up the topic again, "He was planning to lead the team to migrate here. He said that his son followed you and he wanted to find his son. Is that true?"
"..."Lu Weiyi.
He laughed, "Brother Su, do you think I have the time to pay attention to such a small matter?"
Su Yan waved his hand and said, "Everyone has heard some gossip. It is said that he personally ordered people to burn his wife and son to death, and then he plotted against Zheng Miao. Even if he doesn't leave, it will be difficult for him to stay in the Kyoto base. Many people think this is an excuse to join you."
"Speaking of which, if I surrender to you, will you accept me?"
As soon as Lu Weiyi heard it, he knew that this was the key point he wanted to ask. He thought about it and laughed, "There is no such thing as surrendering. We are just looking for a way to survive together. Besides, Laoshan area is not our territory. Whoever wants to survive there does not need my permission."
"However, there are SSS-level mutant creatures everywhere, not to mention other levels, so you have to be mentally prepared when you go there."
Su Yan sighed and stopped asking questions. Instead, he started talking about the current situation outside. These were the latest things that had happened to Lu Weiyi since he had been away from the crowd for almost a month. A lot of useful information made Lu Weiyi, who was about to leave, stop and stay for another night.
Su Yan also stayed up all night. He asked a lot of questions about the cultivation experience and prospects of the Yuebanwan base, which gave him a new judgment about the future. He looked full of energy.
After breakfast, Su Yan also wanted to go to the Storm Belt to check out the situation. When he was leaving with Lu Weiyi, they were blocked at the gate of the team. Lu Weiyi didn't even recognize the man standing at the gate and shouting.
It was not until I heard him pushing and shouting that he was Lu Weiyi's father that I recognized Ji Heng's shadow from his thin and sunken face.
Today, he is no longer the wealthy man with a big belly. He looks no different from the beggars he had seen on the ground before. His clothes are dirty and tattered, and there is no trace of his former arrogance. However, when he shouts, his eyes still have a hint of arrogance.
Seeing this, Lu Weiyi realized that he had made progress over the years. If he had just been reborn, he would definitely not have been able to see these subtle details.
Qin Jin had not been updated on the situation at his home yet. When he saw this scene, he thought they might have to bring a few more people with them on the trip. After all, there was a man and a woman following Ji's father, and they were obviously together.
"Well, they migrated here with the Qingyuan base. Jiang Mo is a metal-type mutant with pretty good abilities. He has his own team with medium strength, and he has been taking care of them." Su Yan had known about their existence for a long time and had inquired about them in detail. At first, he wondered whether they needed some care, but after knowing the situation, he ignored them. But who can guarantee that after so much time has passed, the missing father-son relationship can be reconnected.
Lu Weiyi nodded. While the two were talking, Ji's father's mother also looked over. Unlike the previous quarrel, the moment his eyes fixed on Lu Weiyi, he seemed as if he couldn't believe it, and then he burst into tears. If you didn't know, you would think they had a close relationship.
"When you see your enemy having a hard time, shouldn't a normal person go over and step on him?" Lu Weiyi muttered to himself, stroking his chin.
Qin Jin didn't think he had a good relationship with Lu Weiyi after hearing his words. It had been so long that he had forgotten about Lu Weiyi's family situation. He just looked at the crowd that had gathered to watch the fun and reminded them silently, "You are the base commander, don't let gossip come to your doorstep."
Lu Weiyi clicked his tongue and looked at the two people following him. The younger boy should be Ji Li, who was in his teens and as thin as a stick. The old-looking woman standing next to him seemed to be Ji Lin. She no longer had the arrogance she had before. She looked like she had suffered a blow and was dazed.
He turned his eyes around and asked Su Yan, "Where are Ji Jin and Jiang Fu?"
Even if the crystal core was crushed by him, his physical fitness should be stronger than that of ordinary people. It is impossible that Ji Li, an ordinary person, is still alive while he is gone.
"Dead." Seeing that he was interested, Su Yan told him a few words about what he had investigated.
After Lu Weiyi crushed Ji Jin's crystal core, their family was taken away by debt collectors. Lu Weiyi had said before that he didn't want them to live too comfortably, and they actually owed the debt, and the other party was not a merciful person, so Ji Lin and Jiang Fu didn't get any benefits from them.
It was not until the flood receded that Jiang Mo led the team to stabilize the situation and helped them pay off their debts, which allowed the family to escape from the other party's control. Unfortunately, Jiang Fu had been tortured to death at this time, and Ji Lin also had some mental problems.
"After that, Jiang Mo occasionally helped them, but Jiang Fu died not long after. It was said that she died of that kind of...disease." Su Yan, a man, found it difficult to explain, and pointed to the location of Xia Sanlu. "Nowadays, medical care is backward, and she didn't receive treatment. She suffered a lot before her death."
"Ji Jin was bitten to death by a mutant animal on the way of their relocation. After they settled down here, Jiang Mo would take Ji Li to work, but Ji Heng... this guy was lazy and was abandoned by Jiang Mo after several attempts."
Lu Weiyi thought he would feel relieved after hearing this, but in the end he found that he felt nothing. He glanced at Ji Heng's crying face from a distance, and it seemed that he had almost forgotten all those years of suffering.
Su Yan's team originally lived in the center of the base, and the noise soon attracted a crowd of onlookers. Ji Heng shouted Lu Weiyi's name and said that he was wrong, which made everyone focus their attention on Lu Weiyi.
At this time, only the guard at the door was stopping them. Ji Li and Ji Lin also discovered Lu Weiyi. The difference was that one of them had a vicious look in his eyes, while the other one was filled with fear.
Seeing that Lu Weiyi had no intention of recognizing him, Su Yan immediately waved his hand and called a group of people to push Ji Heng to the other side and let him move to the intersection.
"Don't talk nonsense." Qin Jin followed Lu Weiyi and reminded him not to give others something to talk about just for the sake of momentary satisfaction.
"In today's chaotic world, it's still unknown whether you can survive for a few days. How long can a piece of gossip spread?" Lu Weiyi didn't care at all, otherwise he wouldn't have torn his face in public when he left.
When the three of them reached the gate and were about to leave, Ji Heng somehow found the strength to break free from the people who were trapping him. , pounced on Lu Weiyi, Qin Jin pulled Lu Weiyi back a step, and Ji Heng, who missed his target, fell directly to the ground, kneeling in front of Lu Weiyi.
"Xiaoyi, Daddy was wrong, please save Daddy, Daddy really can't live anymore." Ji Heng knelt down and walked forward to protect Lu Weiyi's thigh. His miserable appearance made many people around him whisper that he was too cruel.
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