Chapter 824: New Species Invasion
Xu Yi leaned back on the sofa, shielding his eyes with his arms to keep himself healthy. When he heard the noise, he just moved weakly. The air was filled with the aroma of food, and faint whispers could be heard coming from the restaurant.
"Has uncle eaten? They have been busy all night and just came back to eat at this time," Zhuang Mingxu explained in a low voice. The healing abilities of the psychics at the Mountain God Base are not strong. There are many seriously injured people in their base alone. Xu Yi has been busy since he came here. He even participated in Zhao Lei's operation last night and just came in at dawn.
"I've eaten. If you haven't eaten yet, go and eat something first. I'm not in a hurry."
Even though Lu Xiao said this, Zhuang Mingxu did not waste time. The situation outside was not good. Every day wasted would mean facing another day of risk.
He went into the kitchen and took out some pancakes, and handed two meat-filled pancakes to Lu Xiao, "Try this. They caught an S-level mutant roe deer in Laoshan before. It is said that it tastes quite good."
At any other time, Lu Xiao would have eaten it immediately. The higher the level of the mutant animal, the rarer it is. Eating it could replenish his superpowers to a great extent. But at this moment, he had just come out of a place with abundant energy, and the energy surging in his body was barely consumed, so he couldn't replenish it.
He stuffed the paper bag into his pocket and said, "I'll go back and try it. I just came out of Xiaoyi Space, and my energy is about to explode."
As they were talking, Lin Yimu and Xi Shi walked out of the restaurant, saw Lu Xiao, and greeted him again. Zhuang Mingxu then took him to the study.
While handing a stack of documents to Lu Xiao, he also gave him a map and said, "We have already discussed whether Lieyan can get through or not. This is the plan we proposed at that time. You can take a look at it."
Lu Xiao took it and read it at a glance. Zhuang Mingxu leaned back in his chair and continued, "You have seen the situation at the base. There is insufficient light, and the crops grown there are not growing well. Some of them rely on supplementary lighting, and the yield is very limited. So we do lack capable scientific researchers."
"But it's not that there is no room for the Flame Team members. It's just that it may be difficult for them to find a way to survive in a strange place. As for the base..."
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head and said, "There's really not much help I can give."
The document provided by Zhuang Mingxu clearly stated the resettlement issue of the entire base after it arrived. The most critical point was that they would be completely under the jurisdiction of the Yuebanwan base at that time.
There is no difference from other ordinary teams. They enjoy the same treatment and obey the corresponding dispatches.
Lu Xiao didn't think anything of it after reading it, but Zhuang Mingxu still emphasized, "This may be more difficult for Lie Yan, but there is too much help right now..."
They really can't afford it, especially the predicted time of the solar storm given by the research institute, it is really not so easy to get through it with tens of thousands of people.
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head. "The base has already started storing all kinds of edible things, including food, meat, and even plants. Going out hunting is at most a little dangerous, but planting..."
He sighed, "The environment really doesn't allow it, and a few days ago Xiaoyi sent me some animals that had mutated again. I sent them to the research institute, and they suspected that it was caused by the radiation brought by the solar storm, which is far from the same as ordinary human disease and death."
"But these mutations only exist in low-level animals. I suspect that plants of too low a level may also have them. The advice here is that it is best not to eat these mutated animals and plants, so as not to aggravate the mutations of ordinary people." This means that the living conditions of ordinary people will become increasingly difficult in the future.
Zhuang Mingxu spoke in a flat tone, and there was no indication that the so-called ordinary people he was referring to included himself.
"So, uncle, if Lieyan comes, we can give you a place to live together, but the pressure of survival will actually be no less."
He stood up, opened the window and pointed to the two mountains on the side of him. "After the earthquake, the terrain here changed. The entire Lao Mountain is estimated to be 50,000 square meters. The mutated animals here have been mutated at a relatively high level from the beginning. It is predicted that the possibility of being mutated by radiation in the future will be low, but it also means that hunting will be more difficult."
It is not easy for the people of Yuebanwan to live here, not to mention the difficulties faced by the people of Lieyan.
"So, you have to think about it carefully," Zhuang Mingxu paused here, "From a personal point of view, I still hope you can come."
Compared with Lu Weiyi, his experience is stronger, "No one can guarantee whether it will be safe tomorrow, so we should try not to separate again."
"Especially this time the distance is too far. After Xiaoyi comes back this time, unless something unexpected happens, he won't be in contact with the outside world for a short time. Once we separate, it means we will cut off all contact..."
Lu Xiao didn't make a decision. When he saw him finish eating, he stood up and closed the document in his hand, and said, "Take me around the base."
Before Zhuang Mingxu responded, there was a knock on the door. Yin Jin came in and told him that there were some decisions in the laboratory that needed him to make. Zhuang Mingxu thought for a moment, called Lin Yimu to come and take Lu Xiao to the base, and then he walked towards the laboratory.
On the other side, Lu Weiyi met Li Zhuang and his group and appeared on the shore. Looking at the disappearing island and the suddenly appearing mountain pile, everyone understood what had happened, and everyone had a look of sadness and relief on their face.
Lu Weiyi informed Li Zhuang of the plan. Li Zhuang did not ask any further questions and immediately started the reconstruction with Ji Qian and a team.
Both the land and the personnel were readily available, and implementation was extremely quick.
Unlike the reclamation period back then, when Lu Weiyi was needed as a porter and earth-type ability users were needed to coordinate, now with the increase in their ability levels and their respective control, it has become much easier for them to act.
First, the base that had been piled up like ruins was screened, and those suitable for the foundation and the broken walls were separated. Then an ice bridge was connected to the entire sea surface. The earth-type mutants were several meters apart. The corresponding mud from the first controller built a floating bridge in the air and flowed towards another earth-type mutant, eventually forming a flowing scene controlled by the mutant power and falling into the base.
The psychics waiting there continued to reinforce and raise the island layer by layer, coordinating and cooperating with each other, and soon the entire island was one level higher.
Li Zhuang, who was in charge of supervision, talked to the crowd and came to Lu Weiyi lazily, "Will the energy field in that place on the island be maintained forever?"
Lu Weiyi was sitting between the zombie army and the psychics. Not far away, a huge monkey was acting unusually active, but he was motionless like an old monk in meditation. From a distance, he looked like he was in a daze. Only when you got closer could you see that he was holding a mutant squid tentacle in his hand - Qin Jin had not woken up yet, and only he was here to deter both sides from doing anything reckless.
"Probably not. What do you want to do?" Lu Weiyi yawned and felt sleepy. Compared to everyone else who had some rest time, he was the only one who stayed up all the time.
A deep bloodstain could be seen on the exposed arm. Even after a day, the wound was still as fresh as before, and blood was visible when the gauze was torn off.
"What's going on?" Li Zhuang put away his nonchalant look.
"It's parasitized by mushrooms," Lu Weiyi reminded, "Tell them to be careful and not touch any creatures that appear in the surrounding sea."
During his time at the base, Li Zhuang also gained some understanding of the Abyss Mushrooms. Hearing this, he frowned and asked, "You planted the Abyss Mushrooms near here?"
"No, the mutant shark died from being parasitized by the abyss mushrooms. The mutant squid ate the mutant shark..." and ended up dying too.
When Lu Weiyi thinks about it now, he still feels that he got a bargain.
Li Zhuang frowned and looked at the area around the island where there was a lot of energy. "You put the rest around the island?"
"Yes, the remaining energy is enough for the abyss mushrooms to grow. When they grow up, they can serve as a layer of protection to protect the island for us. It can also be regarded as a way out for the future." Lu Weiyi said with a little pride. He felt that he was really far-sighted.
Li Zhuang looked serious and asked, "Have you forgotten that the spores of the Abyss Mushroom will fly everywhere? If all the surrounding creatures are parasitized..."
Lu Weiyi's face suddenly changed. He thought of the humans in the Yuebanwan base who were parasitized by spores, and the people whose energy and blood were sucked dry by the mycelium of the abyss mushrooms.
Abyss mushrooms have never appeared here. If I am not careful enough, it may bring fatal danger to the surrounding creatures.
He had always been thinking that the mucus produced by the growth of abyss mushrooms could provide more radiation-isolated space for base construction, and completely ignored its danger.
"Didn't Zhuang Mingxu remind you?" Li Zhuang asked, then he remembered that Zhuang Mingxu was drunk and staggering when he returned home in the early morning. He took off his isolation suit and slept directly in the living room without returning to the room.
I'm afraid he didn't react to this at all.
Lu Weiyi stood up quickly, not caring about the wound on his hand. He looked around, called Zhao Gang and Wang Bing over, and asked them to part the sea water and jump into the deep ditch.
Li Zhuang was startled and quickly shouted to the two people, "Catch it quickly."
Zhao Gang and Wang Bing controlled the sea water at the same time, but the one who was faster than them was Phoenix. Lu Weiyi was seen sitting directly on a flying object and flying towards the bottom of the sea.
"Follow me." Li Zhuang gestured to the two of them to walk together using the steps built with sea water towards the bottom of the sea.
In the ditch hundreds of meters deep, the further you go down, the clearer the surrounding scene becomes. The aquatic products they originally farmed have become a pool of bloody corpses, covering an entire layer and dyeing the deep sea water red.
There was no living creature to be seen around, and the lifeless scene was creepy. Only scattered seaweed could be seen floating on both sides of the divided sea water, with the broken bridge buried in it.
"There are... no living creatures here." Wang Bing controlled the sea water and felt it for a long time but found no signs of any living creatures.
Of course there were, but they all exploded after eating the flesh and blood of the mutant squid.
Li Zhuang didn't answer, but trotted towards the direction where Lu Weiyi was standing.
In front of him was a mutant squid head that had been cut into pieces and served cold. Clusters of white, lustrous mushrooms had grown on the squid's skin. They were not affected by the sea water at all and even floated with it like dancing elves.
But the three people behind him were all sweating coldly, especially after experiencing the scene of the abyss mushrooms attacking people. Zhao Gang and Wang Bing stopped in their tracks and dared not move forward at all.
Li Zhuang had heard of the power of this thing and approached it cautiously. Then he heard Lu Weiyi's voice clearly come over without him turning back, "Don't come over."
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