Chapter 138: Mutated Vine
The group was really just rushing on the road. Except for half an hour at noon to take care of physiological problems, they even ate in the truck.
Among the people led by Li Qing, there were three people with spatial abilities. All the thirty-odd people ate were compressed biscuits. In contrast, the six of them were too embarrassed to take out the various stir-fried dishes and cold noodles they had prepared during the training. They could only take out a pile of the simplest meat patties and eat them with water.
Even so, Li Qing was still envious, "I'm just curious about how much meat you have stored? Other teams in the base would quickly keep the mutant animals they hunted for themselves to satisfy their cravings, but only your trading hall sells meat every day?"
“After the earthquake, we took over several farms in Wutong City,” Antonio said with a smile.
Lei Jun gave a thumbs up and said, "What a foresight."
"You are greater. I heard that you have been rescuing everyone before and after the base was established. If not, with your abilities alone, you would have collected all the supplies long ago. How could other families have the right to show off?" Lu Xi said at the right time.
The situation of the army in the base is not very good now. At the beginning, they were only concerned with rescuing people and building a safe base. By the time they reacted later, the major families had already occupied the base. Their lack of supplies and various other situations have made their voice increasingly weaker.
Li Qing sighed, "Who knows what will happen in the future?" He looked at Lu Weiyi and said, "Actually, I have something I want to ask you."
Lu Weiyi was actually quite curious about Li Qing, especially about the relationship between him and Lin Yimu, but he always treated Lin Yimu as his elder, so naturally it was impossible for him to go and ask him. Now that the opportunity had come to him, he might as well take it. "Okay, but I'll answer one of your questions and you answer one of mine."
Li Qing was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect him to say that. He thought about it and nodded, "As long as it doesn't involve state secrets."
Lu Weiyi nodded and said, "You ask first."
"Have you upgraded your space?" Once this question was asked, if Lu Weiyi answered it, it would be equivalent to directly confirming that he is a space-based mutant. After all, the space jade pendant will not be upgraded and the area is fixed.
Lu Weiyi nodded, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Do you and Brother Damu like each other?"
Li Qing didn't seem to expect him to ask this. After all, in his opinion, Lu Weiyi was a rather aloof person, and his dignified expression had nothing to do with gossip.
He was silent for a moment, replied "...No", and then added in a low voice, "He doesn't like me."
How is that possible? When Li Qing was injured, Lin Yimu looked more anxious than ever before. Lu Weiyi didn't believe a word of what he said was just ordinary comradeship.
Li Zhuang, who was sitting next to Lu Weiyi, lowered his head and curled up the corners of his mouth, pretending nothing had happened and pretending not to hear what the two were talking about.
However, Lu Weiyi's question obviously touched Li Qing's heart. Lu Weiyi was waiting for him to ask more questions so that he could know more, but he just stopped talking.
"Are you okay?" Lu Weiyi felt that he would not ask for no reason. After all, he brought three people with space abilities, and one of them was a space-based mutant.
Li Qing shook his head, and seeing that Lu Weiyi looked unsatisfied, he said with a smile, "If you want to know, why don't you ask the instructor?"
Lu Weiyi looked at him speechlessly, "Will you ask about your father's love history?"
"..." Li Qing stopped talking.
**
The wilderness was desolate and uninhabited, and we didn't even encounter a few zombies along the way.
The next night, Li Qing held a map and said to several people, "The next village is where the mutant plants appeared. It is about an hour away from here. We will rest here tonight and set off tomorrow morning."
When out of the house, everyone keeps things simple, especially the teammates who are on a rush. Yesterday they even slept on a truck in the wilderness.
Lu Weiyi felt that if Li Qing didn't think that he needed to conserve his strength for the battle early tomorrow morning, he would definitely not have found a village to rest temporarily.
There were no living people in the village, and the scene was desolate everywhere. Li Qing directly led people to a small courtyard. Compared with the dilapidated other places, this place had obviously been cleaned up.
"We rested here on our way back before," Lei Jun explained to a few people, "There are three caves inside, and you can take one. We don't need you to keep watch tonight, so have a good rest, as we'll still depend on you tomorrow."
"OK" Antonio didn't realize his politeness and responded without hesitation.
After seeing them off, Antonio turned and looked at Lu Weiyi, "Can we have some rice in the pot tonight? I really don't want to eat dry biscuits."
"Do you know that the words 'rice in the pot' sound particularly awkward when spoken by a foreigner like you?" Lu Xi said with a smile, "Don't you eat hamburgers, pasta and steak every day? There's no rice in the pot?"
"Oh, it's all Brother Xi's fault. I've tasted too much rice in the pot. I don't miss hamburgers anymore." Antonio was not used to it at first. At that time, their cooking skills were limited. It didn't take long for him to be completely conquered by Xi Shi's cooking skills. He even never mentioned the hamburgers he had earned by earning supplies in exchange for Lu Weiyi.
He looked at Lu Weiyi, "We have already eaten four meals of pancakes, even instant noodles are fine, OK?"
Lu Weiyi brought out six large bowls of steaming instant noodles from the space, which were already cooked. Inside were cooked meatballs and sausages made by Xi Shi, as well as a few slices of lush green vegetables, which looked extremely appetizing.
"Brother Xi is so nice. He has prepared everything for us." Antonio quickly took a bowl of his favorite curry and took a big sip.
"Space...spatial...abilities...are really great, and...it's...warm..." Liu Rui looked envious.
"Not aggressive," Lu Weiyi said. If he was just a space system, he might have been forced to "move bricks" by some big family.
The meals prepared during the training were all in large portions. After eating a large bowl, there was no possibility of not being full. The six of us had a delicious meal and didn't even leave any soup.
"The whole yard is filled with the smell of instant noodles. I guess the space was prepared in advance." Li Qing waited until everyone had finished eating before bringing the two young boys in.
"Let me introduce you. This is our unit's space-based psychic, Zheng Qiu, a kid who just joined the army a few months ago. The other one is a psychic, Xing Zhou. I came to see Master Lu and wanted to see if you have time to give some guidance. Zheng Qiu has never known how to upgrade the space, and Xing Zhou also wants your team's psychic to give some pointers."
"Space upgrade?" Lu Weiyi himself was also confused, "I don't know either."
When he saw the two people looking at him, he explained, "My space appeared when the first batch of people with super powers appeared. At that time, who knew that the space could be upgraded? I kept putting things in it, and later it was just like upgrading my super powers. I felt like I hit a barrier, and I got upgraded somehow."
"Don't you need a crystal core?" Zheng Qiu asked.
"I didn't have a crystal core when I upgraded," Lu Weiyi said.
Li Qing was a little disappointed for a moment, nodded, and looked at Lu Xi, "Xing Zhou felt that you were a psychic during the day, and he always felt that his ability was useless, but seeing that you used it very well, he wanted to ask you something and asked me to come over and introduce you. Is it convenient?"
Lu Xi's psychic abilities were all taught by Lu Weiyi himself. His first reaction at this moment was to look at Lu Weiyi, and Li Qing also looked at Lu Weiyi.
"Go ahead, teach those who understand, and don't explain to those who don't understand. Don't mislead the students," Lu Weiyi warned.
"Got it, brother." Lu Xi stood up and walked towards Xing Zhou.
"Thank you. I'll treat you to dinner when I get back," Li Qing said to Lu Weiyi.
Although he knew in his heart that there was definitely nothing delicious to eat, Lu Weiyi had now improved to the point where he could occasionally greet people, nod his head, and say "okay".
**
The next day, at dawn, everyone packed up and set off.
On the way, Li Qing recalled the situation from last time again and explained it in detail to several people.
More than forty minutes later, the voice of the scout driving ahead came through Li Qing's walkie-talkie, "Captain, the vine has appeared, and its range has expanded."
Li Qing stood up, took a look, and ordered, "Stop the car."
Lu Weiyi and a few others also stood up and looked ahead. They saw that the whole mountain was covered with vines. Except for the only empty road, the two sides were densely packed with vines. Compared with the bare mountains and frozen weeds elsewhere, this green scene made everyone feel relaxed and happy.
"It has expanded by three kilometers since the last time we came, which took ten days." Li Qing got out of the car with a map and said while checking the location.
Lu Weiyi and his men walked closer, and Antonio took the lead in throwing out a flying knife. With a few swipes, the leaves of the vine were directly cut off and thrown on the ground at random.
"It looks no different from ordinary grass?" He looked at Li Qing.
Li Qing also frowned, picked up a stone and threw it over, but there was no reaction at all, as if this was really just a piece of grass that couldn't be more ordinary.
Just when Li Qing was thinking about whether to send someone to take a closer look, Lu Weiyi raised his chin towards Liu Rui beside him. Liu Rui stretched out his hand and threw a fireball, which fell among the vines. The vines on the ground seemed to have touched a forbidden object, and they retracted a section with a whoosh, perfectly avoiding the range of the fireball.
"..." Li Qing and other soldiers, "Can we burn it now?"
"Try...try it," Liu Rui said, throwing out a few more fireballs.
However, the moment the heat touched it, the vines dodged perfectly, avoiding an area and could not be burned at all.
"We had the same situation last time," Zhang Peng said suspiciously. "I was thinking before I went back. Do you think this road in the middle was left intentionally to let us enter its territory?"
"Luring the enemy deep into our territory?" Lei Jun said, his expression becoming more grim. "Could this thing have become a spirit?"
After he said that, the other people's expressions also didn't look very good. Li Qing said seriously, "It must be eliminated, otherwise, at this rate of spread, it will soon enter the territory of Qingyuan City."
"Do you have any solution?" Li Qing looked at Antonio and the others.
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