Chapter 183 Collecting Jade
"Oh." Lu Xi touched his nose embarrassedly.
"How long will it take you to level up?" Wu Yue and Bai Miao, who awakened later than him, are already at level one. Although the mental system is a bit slow, Lu Xi is also a bit too slow.
Lu Xi was like a primary school student whose homework was randomly checked. He said nervously, "I feel..." He looked into Lu Weiyi's clear eyes without any emotion and said dejectedly, "It's not the right time yet."
Lu Weiyi rubbed his head helplessly and sighed inwardly, he was indeed not cut out for combat abilities. "It's okay, just learn some basic combat skills and focus on your research."
"Yeah, can I put some small equipment on the truck for research these days?" Lu Xi immediately became excited when he mentioned research.
"Okay," Lu Weiyi said, and walked with him towards the truck, "If you need any equipment, I'll get it out for you. If you can't do it yourself, ask someone for help."
"Got it, thank you brother." Lu Xi's tone was a little cheerful.
They were unfamiliar with the area and were carrying two trucks of supplies. Not long after they stopped, someone came up to cause trouble. Liu Rui sent a half-human-high fire dragon around the place where the group stopped to scare them away, and they finally calmed down.
The result of their friendly words was that a group of propagandists appeared. Within a short while, the news that they were going to exchange jade spread throughout the refugee area at the entrance of the base, and even many people with connections were already passing the news into the base.
That night, someone came with jade to exchange for other things. Lu Xi was busy researching his own experiment. The others didn't know anything about jade. The only two who knew about it were Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi.
During the day, Lu Weiyi was either driving or exploring the road. After what happened with Antonio that night, he would also devote some of his attention to paying attention to the environment when he slept at night. In just a few days, he had visibly lost weight.
"You go to sleep, I'll take care of you." Zhuang Mingxu was sitting in a wheelchair, his whole body was tidy and neat. He and Zhuang Aiyi were the only two people who were not injured along the way.
"But..." Lu Weiyi was a little worried.
"With what the stutterer did just now, no one will be so blind as to come and cause trouble. Besides, we are all nearby, nothing will happen," Xiong Jie instructed Zhuang Aiyi, "Go and take your little dad to sleep for a while. If he keeps holding on any longer, he will be exhausted."
"Little Daddy" Zhuang Aiyi obediently went over and held Lu Weiyi's hand, looking at him eagerly without saying anything of his own request, which made people feel soft-hearted.
"Go ahead, we'll keep watch at night, nothing will happen," Wu Yue said as he stood beside Zhuang Mingxu.
"Okay." Lu Weiyi was indeed tired. He used his supernatural powers almost non-stop day and night. Even though it was at level two, he still needed to constantly replenish it along the way to ensure that he would not be attacked by mutant animals or zombies that suddenly appeared on the road. He was mentally tense the whole time. "Call me if you need anything."
"Okay." Zhuang Mingxu nodded and watched Zhuang Aiyi pull him into the tent.
"This child has lost a lot of weight in just a few days. I'll make some nutritious dishes for him and put them in the space so he doesn't have to eat empty buns all the time." Xi Shi was the oldest and thought that everyone in this group was a child.
He hurried over to the makeshift kitchenette.
Many people have to eat bread and biscuits, and their buns have become dry foods.
"Hey, has the bite on your leg healed? Why are you busy now?" Xiong Jie was worried and chased after him.
"It's okay, it's scabbed over, it doesn't hurt at all." Xi Shi's voice was full of energy.
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After Ning Yuan, Xu Sa, Antonio and He Ping entered the base, they were taken by the youngest sister to live in the living area of their peace team. For safety, the three of them shared one room.
He Ping was considerate enough to prepare all the items in the room except for food, and the beddings were all thick.
"Brothers, I live next door to you. You can call me if you have any problems. Of course, you can also call me if you have nothing to do." Ever since seeing her strength, the youngest sister has spoken much more seriously.
"Can we walk around the base? I want to go out for a walk after dinner," Ning Yuan asked with a smile.
"...Of course you can, but it's dark now and everyone is resting at home, so there's nothing to see outside. The only place to go around in the base is a trading market, which is open during the day and in the afternoon. Do you want to go?" Youngest sister.
"Of course, it's a good opportunity to see if there is anything we need?" Ning Yuan said.
"Then let's do it tomorrow. Maybe you guys are going to the trade market to do some promotion. I'm familiar with everywhere. How about I be your guide?" The youngest sister recommended herself.
"It couldn't be better to have a beautiful lady accompany us," Ning Yuan said, "Also, did Sister Ping say how to help us promote the place? After all, our time here is limited, and if the promotion is not in place, our trip would be in vain."
"I'll ask when I get back and tell you tomorrow," said the youngest sister.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, sister," Ning Yuan said, taking out a set of cosmetics from the things he brought and handing it to the youngest sister.
This was something he had specifically asked Lu Weiyi for before he left, and it was just right to give it as a gift now.
The youngest sister was stunned for a moment, then took it with a happy look on her face and said, "You're welcome. I'll go first. See you tomorrow."
After seeing off the youngest sister, the three of them simply washed up, had their meal, and went to bed early.
Not long after the youngest sister went out, she went directly to the home of Tao An, the person in charge of the base.
Tao An was a gangster before the end of the world, but he was not as big and strong as traditional gangsters. Instead, he had a gentle and delicate demeanor.
After the end of the world, he relied on the munitions in his hands to build a safe base here, but with more and more people in the base, and the emergence of people with special powers and various forces, although the base is still called the Safe Base, his position as the person in charge has become unstable. When he heard He Ping talk about bringing back a few people, he also agreed not to make enemies with them.
"Brother An, Sister Ping," the youngest sister greeted.
"Sent it? Did they say anything?" He Ping asked.
"We just said we were going to visit the base tomorrow, and I offered to accompany them. They agreed, and they also asked us how we could help promote them?" said the youngest sister.
"Is there a metal-type psychic among them who is stronger than you? How about stronger than Sun Yucheng?" Sun Yucheng is the captain of another small team in the base, and the strongest of the only four metal-type psychics.
"That's a lot stronger than me. He can control more flying knives than me." The youngest sister said this with a bit of discouragement, and the words disappeared in a flash. "As for Sun Yucheng, anyway, that move just now seemed stronger than Sun Yucheng. But I haven't seen Sun Yucheng at his full strength, so I can't make a comparison. Tomorrow I will ask them what level they are. It would be best if I could find out why they are so powerful."
"Well, get more information out of them, especially about the fire system. It should have been upgraded. Find out how they upgraded. As for the matter of exchanging the jade..." Tao An was silent for a moment, "Tell them that we will talk to people from all major forces in the base. As for no one going to exchange, that is something everyone is willing to do. Also, be careful not to let them get involved with other forces in the base."
"Is this...appropriate?" He Ping hesitated.
"We are telling all the major forces honestly. We are not hiding anything. What's inappropriate about that?" Tao An said, and stretched out his hand to pull He Ping to sit on his lap. After thinking for a while, he said, "Jade is something that is priceless or useless nowadays. The key is whether it has some other uses that we don't know about."
"If we act openly now, and if they find a more valuable use in the future, everyone will blame us for the loss. Our team now...cannot be targeted by everyone."
Thinking about the current situation, He Ping also sighed, "It would be great if they could rely on us."
"What are you talking about?" Tao An smiled, looking even more harmless. "If they are really as strong as you said, I would have to think twice before they agree to be under our control."
The three of them talked for a few more words, and then the youngest sister went back to eat.
The next day, the youngest sister came to report on time.
"Aren't you going out to look for supplies?" Ning Yuan and his companions had eaten at dawn and packed up.
"We had a good harvest yesterday. I will be responsible for promoting the jade exchange for you these days. Sister Ping said that she has already told the people from several major forces in the base about your jade exchange, and asked them to come to us to inquire if they want to exchange," said the youngest sister.
"That's it?" Ning Yuan looked at the other two and asked with a smile.
If I tell them in private, it would just be a matter of a word. If I don't tell them, there would be no evidence. Ning Yuan thought this was a really good idea.
"Yes," the youngest sister replied innocently, and it was unclear if she was really innocent. "Let's go, I'll take you to our trading city area. At this time, except for the fixed trading shops of the major forces in the base, no private shops have come out."
Now that they were in someone else's territory, Ning Yuan couldn't say anything openly. He just lowered his eyes, smiled and nodded, "Let's go."
There was really nothing to see early in the morning. The youngest sister kept talking to Antonio along the way, but when Antonio didn't want to pay attention to her, he was very aggressive and the little girl kept hitting a wall, and her cheerful mood dropped a lot.
Ning Yuan and Xu Sa found it extremely funny. After walking around for a while, Ning Yuan gestured to Antonio to chat with the girl, while he and Xu Sa went somewhere else to look around and do something.
Antonio pursed his lips and asked reluctantly, "What do you want to ask?"
The youngest sister seemed to be frustrated by his attitude all along, and she didn't plan to get close to him. She just said straight, "I am a metal-type mutant. The other day I saw that you are also a metal-type, but much stronger than me, so I wanted to ask, have you upgraded?"
"Yeah, that's right." Antonio saw Xu Sa and Ning Yuan quietly leaving, and attracted the youngest sister's attention, "Didn't you upgrade? To what extent?"
"I don't have any, and I don't know how long it will take to upgrade." The youngest sister sighed and asked, "We can only absorb a limited amount of crystal cores every day, is it the same for you?"
"Yes" although, probably, several times more than you.
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