Chapter 877: Unexpected Command
When they returned to the place where they had rested before, Cheng Qi and several zombies had returned to normal. When they saw Lu Weiyi appear, they just nodded and greeted him, without any intention of exploring the matter.
Lu Weiyi really liked the tacit understanding between them that left room for maneuver.
Seeing that Qin Jin was still resting, Lu Weiyi did not step forward and asked to make sure that nothing would attack them again after he left. Lu Weiyi even began to suspect that the mutant giant tree liked to attack at night.
That evening, the first group of people gathered. When Lu Weiyi saw the leader from the space, his face immediately darkened. He suddenly felt that Zhuang Mingxu's vague words before might have been for this moment.
"Where is your father?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Taotao didn't say anything yet. The little girl who had grown up a little bit looked confused. Lu Weiyi turned his head to look at Ning Yuan, who looked up at the dark cave entrance to avoid his gaze.
Lu Xiao came up to him with a laugh and pinched his cheek, "Why? Don't you want to see your uncle, or do you think your uncle is not good enough?"
"It's very dangerous here." Lu Weiyi was still protective of his family. In this situation, he really didn't want his family to show up.
"Nothing is safe if I have to take action." Lu Xiao said with pride, as if this was a recognition of his strength.
Lu Weiyi remained silent. Lu Xiao put down Taotao, who was on his neck, and motioned him to go back. He put his hand on Lu Weiyi's shoulder and urged him, "Hurry up, I haven't seen an SSS-level mutant plant yet, and I heard from Zhuang Mingxu that they are very strange."
Lu Weiyi hesitated, followed by Lu Xiao's men and a number of teams gathered in Yueban Bay. He could not clearly express his displeasure at this time and could only sulk alone.
"Hurry up!" Lu Xiao urged for a long time before being taken outside.
The team of more than 200 people immediately attracted the attention of all the creatures around them as soon as they appeared. Some curious small animals came over and quickly disappeared, while others were not afraid of death and came up to challenge them, and then lost their lives.
Ning Yuan didn't want to bring bad luck to himself, so he immediately asked where Qin Jin was. He left quickly with the others under the pretext of wanting to reminisce about the past, leaving Lu Xiao and Lu Weiyi behind.
Feeling that it was not good to remain silent when with elders, Lu Weiyi reluctantly asked how he was doing in the base.
"It's fine, but my bones are almost rusting." Lu Xiao observed the situation around him, fiddling with a palm-sized instrument in his hand. "That brat Zhuang Mingxu assigns me things to do at the base all day long. I don't get a chance to go out for a walk. I can only listen to them talk about what's new outside."
Not knowing what he had confirmed, Lu Xiao put away the instrument and then looked at Lu Weiyi, "He said it was you who told him to do that."
"I didn't," Lu Weiyi denied righteously.
Lu Xiao looked at him with a smile but didn't expose him. Lu Weiyi still felt embarrassed and said after a while, "I want you to be safer. Xiaoxi was scared last time."
He pulled Lu Xi into the water without hesitation.
"In this world, there is no absolutely safe place. The only way to survive is to try to adapt." Lu Xiao looked around. "I took the initiative to apply this time. There are not many people in our base who can suppress Qin Jin. My qualifications have been obvious to all."
Lu Weiyi had been thinking about this matter since he saw Lu Xiao. It had to be said that Lu Xiao was indeed the best person. In terms of supernatural powers, his level was not low. He had been on the front line before and after the apocalypse. Whether it was combat capability or combat awareness, he was incomparable to others. In addition, his position before the apocalypse also made Qin Jin recognize him even more.
This is also the reason why Lu Weiyi did not send the person back directly even though he was unwilling. Now, hearing what Lu Xiao said, he was speechless.
"Okay, stop making such a bad face here. If the other team members see it, they will think you knew it was dangerous and were just protecting your family without caring about their lives." They were not far from where they had rested before, and they were already close while talking. Lu Xiao lowered his voice to remind them.
Lu Weiyi didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and even said confidently, "If I didn't care about other people's lives, I would just abandon them and leave. Besides, I have been ahead of others all these years. What's wrong with keeping my family safe?"
"After all I've done, can't I even protect a few people?"
Since the beginning of the apocalypse, Lu Weiyi's efforts were all to allow Zhuang Mingxu to live a more comfortable life without having to worry about other people's faces. He was always at the forefront, and now there were just more people he wanted to protect, which made no difference to him.
He knew that he had a clear conscience, so he was naturally not afraid to speak out.
Lu Xiao helplessly rubbed his head hard, shook his head and walked towards Qin Jin.
"Major General Lu" Qin Jin was talking to Ning Yuan and took the initiative to greet him, "Ning Yuan just told me that Zhuang Mingxu sent someone I can't afford to offend. It turns out it's true."
"Listen to this little bastard trying to sow discord," Lu Xiao said as he kicked towards the grinning Ning Yuan. Ning Yuan quickly dodged and said, "Everyone hopes that this can be resolved smoothly. There is no such thing as who can be provoked or not. Let's cooperate sincerely."
Qin Jin held the hand that Lu Xiao extended to him and said, "Let's work together sincerely."
"Xiao Yi didn't explain it clearly. I don't fully understand the current situation. I heard that the mutant plant likes to attack at night. Why don't we communicate the information and prepare for deployment before it gets dark."
Qin Jin made a gesture of invitation and took Lu Xiao to the room they had prepared in advance.
Zhang Qing simply reinforced and renovated the entire building where they had rested before and used it as their temporary resting place. The zombies' life was simple and there was nothing in the room.
Lu Xiao didn't mind. He sat down on a stool made of mud. After Lu Weiyi, Ning Yuan and Qin Jin were done, he motioned for them to tell him everything that had happened in the past two days in detail.
Not a lot happened in those few days in total, and the two of them supplemented each other's information, and within a few minutes they had told each other everything.
"So now we are facing not only a city's zombie army, but also an SSS-level zombie king and an SSS-level mutant plant." Lu Xiao concluded and asked, "Are SSS-level mutant plants afraid of fire?"
"Afraid," Qin Jin added, "ordinary flames... may cause limited damage."
"Yours is fine," Lu Xiao concluded.
Qin Jin nodded, he turned to look at Ning Yuan, "Let Liu Rui try it later to see if his flame works."
Ning Yuan nodded and took notes carefully.
"The other side has two spiritual bodies. Can your spiritual bodies deal with them?" Lu Xiao looked serious, as if as long as the two said they could, he would believe them completely without any doubt.
But Qin Jin didn't say anything, and Lu Weiyi said bluntly, "Phoenix hasn't had much contact with them, so I can't be sure. What do you think of their fighting ability?"
"The energy body of that plant has not yet fully formed. Its combat power is not weak, but... the opponent may not be able to control it well. This is a loophole, but..." He frowned, "Do you know what kind of creature the energy body of that zombie is?"
"..." Lu Weiyi, "...Sea urchin?"
“Are you sure sea urchins have whiskers?”
Lu Weiyi thought about it and played the role of an art student. He took the paintbrush directly from the space and painted the spiritual body he saw.
A small creature with a snail-like head and seaweed-like things on its body appeared in front of the three people. Unfortunately—
I don't know anyone.
"It's such a pitch-black mass. Can you see the snail-like horns on its head?" Qin Jin began to doubt.
"Of course, those of us who study art are more observant." After Lu Weiyi finished drawing, he thought about it and extended the length a little bit, which made the whole thing look like a caterpillar.
"It's a bit like a fusion of a snail and some plant. Is this possible?" Ning Yuan asked the only two SSS-level ones.
"It's hard to say. Gu Sheng's spirit body was originally a big tree, and the branches growing out of it were snake heads and bodies. I didn't understand what that thing was until I died," Lu Weiyi replied.
"It may also be that the promotion is incomplete." Qin Jin told the two of them about his original situation again.
"It's possible that Gu Sheng hadn't succeeded in his full promotion back then." Otherwise, he would never have been the opponent's match.
"Let's send this picture back to the base first and let them see if anyone recognizes it." After Lu Xiao made the decision, he simply began to plan for tonight, "We need more effective information."
"Our main goal tonight is to find out the opponent's strength and explore their background." Lu Xiao held a sensitive document in his hand, and he divided the team on it while speaking, "Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin, your task is to draw the attention of the mutant giant tree and the zombie king to you first. I will send fire-type mutants to let them test the fire resistance of the mutant giant tree as much as possible to facilitate the deployment of weapons."
"Are the weapons in our base usable?" Lu Weiyi was surprised.
With the collapse of electronic products, he remembered that weapons were also facing the situation of being scrapped frequently, which caused some powerful and difficult to manufacture weapons to be hidden and never even taken out.
"Xiaoxi has returned to the weapons research and development center." Lu Xiao couldn't hide the boasting in his tone.
"Heroes emerge young, and the Lu family is full of talented people." Qin Jin is very good at dealing with people, and he immediately took the lead.
Lu Weiyi nodded proudly and said, "I will give him a reward when we get back."
"Don't spoil him. As a family, it's his duty to help you share your worries. Besides, if he didn't have more contact with you, he wouldn't be able to get in touch with emerging issues and wouldn't be able to research them out."
"It is still necessary to have it. Children need motivation."
Seeing that he insisted, Lu Xiao did not refute and continued to return to the topic, "As for the remaining zombies, I will send people from different directions, but there will be no head-on conflict tonight. The main purpose is to survey the terrain."
After making the general arrangements, Lu Xiao changed the subject and turned to Qin Jin, "Do you have any requirements for the distribution of the harvest this time?"
"Crystal Core" Qin Jin said concisely, "I want the crystal core of an SSS-level zombie."
Lu Xiao nodded with a look of approval on his face, "For us high-level psychics, crystal cores of too low a level are useless for upgrading. I think the same goes for you zombies."
After he finished speaking, his tone suddenly changed, "However, high-level zombie crystal cores are equally precious to us, especially this SSS level, which is hard to come by."
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