Chapter 123: No Supplies Can Survive
"Lu Xiaoyi, can those of us who don't have special powers also get crystal cores?" Xu Sa asked.
"I think so." These were all decided by Zhuang Mingxu, and Lu Weiyi was not very sure.
"Can I choose the characteristics?" Xu Sa asked again.
"Let's talk about it when we get back." Lu Weiyi rolled his eyes at him and quickened the pace of collecting supplies.
When it was almost eleven o'clock, the number of vehicles on the road gradually increased. People from various teams in the base began to go out to look for supplies. There were only a few roads that must be passed through the city, so it was inevitable that they would bump into each other.
The people in the team had all arrived from other places a few days ago. They didn't know each other at all, and there was no such thing as greeting each other. They didn't even have time to be on guard.
With Lu Weiyi, the cheating tool, the group spent most of their time killing zombies, but they gained a lot of supplies. Although they were tired, they were confident with the supplies in hand. They even did not rest as planned during the lunch break, but took a break to eat and set off again in less than an hour.
With this group of hard-working people around, they visited more than a dozen pharmacies in one day. Although all of them were collapsed, this also proved that the medicines underneath had not been touched at all.
They didn't let go of any of the surrounding shops, and even at nightfall, they walked into a half-collapsed shopping mall. The range of the small green branch was limited, and the group wasted time clearing out a section, and it was dark when they returned.
Even though they had a full lunch, they still worked very hard, and most of them were staggering with exhaustion on the way back.
As soon as I approached the door of the villa, I could see a figure waiting under a light, and my fatigue from the day immediately dissipated a lot.
"Dean, I'm back," Antonio opened the car window and shouted from a distance.
"David" Dean shouted excitedly and jumped twice.
As soon as the car stopped, Antonio got out quickly and hugged Dean who was jogging over.
"Why are you so late?" Zhuang Mingxu pushed the wheelchair forward a few steps, took Lu Weiyi's hand, and looked at him with heartache.
"Little daddy," Zhuang Aiyi shouted.
"Yeah," Lu Weiyi yawned, poked Zhuang Aiyi's face, and replied, "I went to the mall and wasted some time."
"The meal is ready, we've been waiting for you," Xi Shi said, looking Xiong Jie up and down, touching the parts of his body that were injured by his supernatural powers.
"It's okay." Xiong Jie took Xi Shi's hand and walked into the villa.
"Brother, I've poured some water for you. Just wash yourself and eat first," Lu Xi and Bai Miao shouted as they placed a dozen washbasins in the yard.
"Okay," Lu Weiyi responded.
After the group washed up and woke up, the food was already on the table, waiting for them to eat. The feeling of having someone waiting to serve you as soon as you get home obviously makes people feel good after working hard all day. They sit down enthusiastically and start to eat voraciously right away.
"Don't wait for us to eat in the future, eat first." Lu Weiyi drank a bowl of mung bean soup to relieve the heat first, and then said to Zhuang Mingxu who was picking up food for him.
"How can we eat if you don't come back?" Zhuang Mingxu was not good at expressing his emotions so directly before, but maybe now that his leg was injured, Lu Weiyi began to express his concern. His heart stabilized and many words came out naturally.
"It'll be okay," Lu Weiyi said, "Maybe in the future he'll go to a far place and not come back for a day."
“We’ll talk about it later.” Zhuang Mingxu was unmoved. “Eat more.”
"Most of the nearby pharmacies have been searched. We dug out the things from the collapsed area, and we need a lot of people to pick and sort them out." Lu Weiyi briefly described their itinerary and gains for the day.
"I'll have someone arrange it tomorrow," Zhuang Mingxu said. He planned in his mind that he had to find a reliable person to keep an eye on it, otherwise someone would inevitably embezzle the supplies. After all, any medicine could be exchanged for some food.
If it was just a little stealing in the past, Zhuang Mingxu wouldn't have cared about it, but now, seeing that Lu Weiyi had worked hard all day to find, and someone else took a little of it, Zhuang Mingxu felt that it was a waste of Lu Weiyi's efforts.
After dinner, Lu Weiyi took out a small amount of the medicines and piled them on the truck. He privately talked to Zhuang Mingxu about the crystal cores he had harvested today, asked him to determine everyone's income each day, and then went to bed.
By the time Zhuang Mingxu had planned everything and arranged tomorrow's affairs, and returned to the room to talk to him about Ji Heng, Lu Weiyi had already fallen asleep.
For several days, Lu Weiyi and his group went out early and came back late, and Zhuang Mingxu didn't find a chance to talk to him about it. Ji Heng didn't come again, so Zhuang Mingxu forgot about it.
It was not until noon again that someone from the military came and said that someone was causing trouble in the trading hall and asked Zhuang Mingxu to go over and see how to deal with it.
After borrowing a patrol car again, Zhuang Mingxu was considering whether to exchange the supplies for a patrol car. Five kilograms of rice a day is not cheap.
After thinking about it carefully, I decided to forget it. Nowadays, there are unattended cars everywhere. One day, I can plan to go to a store with electric cars to find supplies. Then it should not be difficult to ask them to bring one back.
Zhuang Mingxu felt that given how much Lu Weiyi cared about him now, he would probably find a way to get one back the next day once he asked, and if he couldn't find one, he would even spend all his supplies to exchange one with the base.
Thinking of Lu Weiyi's concern for him now, Zhuang Mingxu's heart was warmer than the August day. He had waited for seven or eight years without getting any reward, but now that he was disabled in the last days, he got more. It really proved the saying - a friend in need is a friend indeed.
"Mr. Zhuang," Ji Lin's voice interrupted Zhuang Mingxu's thoughts, and the smile on the corner of his mouth disappeared completely when he saw the two people opposite him.
Knowing the people around Lu Weiyi very well, he naturally recognized this cheap sister Ji Lin and her follower Fang Wan at a glance.
The place where the military office and patrol is located was converted from a hotel on the street. The front desk was used as a duty station, and two tables were placed in the hall next to it, which served as a temporary resting place for patrol personnel.
At this time, four men in military uniforms were sitting there. Lu Xi was chatting enthusiastically with someone, and the two girls were standing in the corner, looking a little pitiful.
"What's going on?" Zhuang Mingxu glanced at her and then looked away, turning to look at Lu Xi.
Speaking of which, it's not a big deal. Ji Heng lost face that day, and he didn't dare to show it in front of Ji Zhong after he returned home. Naturally, his anger was borne by his wife and children, coupled with Ji Jin's instigation and indirect criticism.
On the one hand, he wished he could tear a piece of meat off Lu Weiyi, and on the other hand, his attitude towards Li Xiang and Ji Lin softened a lot, and he even hinted at Ji Lin twice.
Ji Lin grew up in a pampered environment, so naturally she looked down on Li Xiang's behavior. She felt very resistant to it, and when Ji Heng mentioned it again, she talked back to Ji Heng and was scolded.
In addition, Fang Wan mentioned the space in Lu Weiyi's hands, and she felt unhappy, so she ran directly to the trading hall, thinking that if Lu Weiyi compensated for the materials and the situation at home improved, she would naturally not match him with Li Xiang anymore.
The trading hall is now run by Lu Xi and Dean. It is natural that they would not let anyone take advantage of them, especially by someone Lu Xi hates. Lu Xi does not care that the other party is two girls and directly disparages them as worthless.
Ji Lin was so angry that she simply resorted to violence, and the supplies were damaged. This time there was no way she could let it go. Dean directly called the street patrol and detained the two men.
"Their family is so shameless. It's understandable that an old man is shameless, but it's really eye-opening for a girl to be like this. She shamelessly said that my brother got his space by stealing the fucking jade pendant. Ha, it's a joke..." Lu Xi heard about Lu Weiyi's family situation when he was very young. He grew up with this brother and they have a close relationship.
Later, when he had mental problems, I still cared about him, but we didn't interact for a long time, and he forgot about it as he got older. Now that it is the end of the world, he has become dependent on his brother again, and naturally he will not tolerate anyone saying anything bad about him.
"It originally belonged to my family. Before the earthquake, Lu Weiyi extorted a whole set of antique jewelry from my mother. Those were the only remaining antiques, worth hundreds of millions." Ji Lin had been very aggrieved at home, and now she refused to give in.
Zhuang Mingxu ignored her and asked Lu Xi, "Are all the damaged materials recorded?"
"Yes, I asked this soldier to check it, and brought them all here," Lu Xi pointed at the pile of broken fruits on the table, "One 5.3 jin watermelon was broken, and there are three crystal cores in one jin of watermelon, a total of 15.3; eight 5.2 jin apples were cracked, and there are two crystal cores in one jin of apples, a total of 10.4; four 2.5 jin pears..."
Most of the things Ji Lin damaged were fruits and vegetables, which were not valuable before the end of the world, but are worth a lot of money now. Although there are wood-type mutants who can induce labor, not every wood-type mutant can do so. Only a few can do it.
The base has a large population, and the trading hall is full of vegetables, fruits, and meat. Dozens of crystal cores can be exchanged in a day. This is just the beginning, as many people have just started hunting zombies. Zhuang Mingxu believes that things will only get better in the future.
Lu Xi took into account all the numbers after the decimal point, listed them one by one, and calculated clearly. Finally, he said, "The total is one hundred and twenty-six point eight crystal cores. According to the current exchange rate of the base, one crystal core can be exchanged for three kilograms of rice and flour, which makes a total of three hundred and eighty point four kilograms."
After Lu Xi finished speaking, she raised her tender little face and looked at the soldier beside her, "Brother Soldier, am I right in my calculation?"
"Yes." The soldiers had received news that their superiors had asked them to take care of them. Lu Xi and Dean were also very considerate. When they passed by on patrol, they would occasionally hand out a few popsicles. Although they were not worth much, refrigerators were everywhere in this hot weather, so everyone was grateful for having a cool bite to eat.
"That's good." Zhuang Mingxu waited for Lu Xi to finish speaking before speaking to Ji Lin, "First of all, Xiaoyi's space is the spatial ability that he awakened himself, not the jade pendant space. It has nothing to do with you, so there is no talk of so-called compensation."
"You...you're talking nonsense..." Ji Lin was about to become a victim because of the lack of supplies at home. Now when he heard that such a large batch of supplies might be compensated, he insisted that it was absolutely impossible.
"You must have told your parents about compensation, right? Do you know why they don't dare to come and ask for it?" Zhuang Mingxu looked indifferent, staring at Ji Lin and continued, "Because the jewelry originally belonged to Xiaoyi's mother. Your mother and her mistress occupied it for many years. Now it has returned to the original owner, so even your father doesn't dare to come and ask for it with a clear conscience."
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