Chapter 96: Escape
"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi..." He could be heard mumbling softly when he got closer. Lin Yimu carried him on his back and approached, and saw the pile of zombies below. "I want to save him, I want to save him..."
Zhuang Mingxu struggled to get off Lin Yimu's back. The two men were about the same height and weight. Zhuang Mingxu had lost a lot of weight after being tortured for a while after the end of the world. But at this moment Lin Yimu couldn't control him. It was Ning Yuan who stepped forward to help and subdued him.
"Mingxu, calm down, I'll go down and take a look," Ning Yuan said solemnly. He knew what Lu Weiyi meant to Zhuang Mingxu. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was his life.
"I'll go too," said Antonio.
"I..." Xu Sa just opened his mouth and was interrupted by Antonio, "Let the two of us go down, the rest of you take care of the wounded and pay attention to the surroundings to prevent the zombies from approaching."
After Antonio finished speaking, he looked at Ning Yuan and said, "Let's climb down directly from the bridge pillar."
"Okay," Ning Yuan said, flexing his wrist and said to Zhuang Mingxu who was staring at him, "I will find him," he added silently in his heart, no matter if he's dead or alive.
The people in the front gave up their seats. Ning Yuan and Antonio stepped forward and were about to bend down when they saw a very thin green branch sticking out. Then Lu Weiyi's cold voice came from below, "Give me a hand."
Zhuang Mingxu's eyes widened instantly, and he reached for the little green branch that was hard to notice with his trembling hands. The little green branch came close to his fingertips and circled around them a few times. He shouted in a hoarse voice, "Xiaoyi!"
Xu Sa, who was near the bridge railing, leaned over to take a look and saw Lu Weiyi lying on a bridge pillar more than a person's height from the bottom of the col. Small green branches had tied him up several times, tightly tying him up to it to prevent him from falling.
"Lu Xiaoyi!" Xu Sa shouted in surprise.
When Lu Weiyi realized he was falling, he went straight into the space, which was more than ten meters high in total. He could reach the bottom in the blink of an eye. Even after entering the space, he was only two or three meters away from the bottom of the depression. He would still fall when he got out, but he was cushioned and did not get smashed into a pulp. However, there were still a bunch of zombies waiting below. It would not be a problem if they grabbed him or bit him once or twice, but it would be terrifying if they were eaten by him.
But if he stayed in the space all the time, people outside would definitely notice it, and Zhuang Mingxu was obviously frightened. Lu Weiyi just thought about it and went out of the space directly. But at the moment of leaving, he asked Xiao Luzhi to tie him to the bridge pillar based on his memory.
Lu Weiyi also saw Xu Sa and said, "I have no strength and can't go up." A group of zombies facing five psychics, no matter how strong they were, he couldn't avoid being caught and bitten a time or two. In addition, his use of psychics accelerated the spread of the zombies' energy, and he could already feel the pain at this time.
Lu Weiyi always knew that it would hurt after being bitten by a zombie, and the higher the level of the zombie, the more painful it would be, but he had never been bitten. In his previous life, Zhuang Mingxu protected him perfectly. Every time he went out, if there was anything wrong, he would definitely use his body to protect him first.
He had seen Zhuang Mingxu grit his teeth and endure the pain countless times. His muscles were tense and sweat dripped from his forehead. He gritted his teeth and forced out a hideous, comforting smile to Lu Weiyi who was watching over him.
It hurts so much...
Fortunately, it was me who was caught, otherwise Zhuang Mingxu would have turned into a zombie now. Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth and endured the pain that came from between his bones, and felt extremely lucky.
As soon as Xu Sa's voice fell, several people immediately leaned over the bridge railing and looked down. Ning Yuan shouted, "Wei Yi, do you have a rope? We will go down and pull you up."
Lu Weiyi controlled the little green branch to take out two bundles of ropes from the space and threw them up. The people above also moved quickly. After a moment, Antonio came down with the ropes. He let Lu Weiyi's little green branch loosen a little, and directly tied Lu Weiyi into a knot with another rope, and shouted upwards, "Pull."
With the full efforts of the people above, Lu Weiyi was pulled up in a few breaths, and Antonio also climbed up by himself pulling the rope.
Lu Weiyi was put on the ground, and they hurriedly untied the ropes on him. Zhuang Mingxu crawled over from the side, dragging his legs and holding the man on the ground in his arms. Lu Weiyi, who was very strong, felt that he could be strangled to death. He murmured in a low voice, with a broken heart, "Xiaoyi".
"I'm fine." Lu Weiyi leaned the person against his arms and said in a low voice, "I'm entering the space."
At this moment, Zhuang Mingxu also remembered that he had a space he could enter, but the feeling of having lost him forever could not be relieved for a while.
"I will never be so reckless again," Lu Weiyi gritted his teeth and said slowly, enduring the pain.
The reason why things became so out of control this time was entirely because Lu Weiyi was too high-profile and attracted the covetousness of others. He subconsciously always felt that Zhuang Mingxu was still the omnipotent man, and no matter what he did, he would have someone to support him and get through it safely.
But at this moment, Lu Weiyi looked at the blood on Zhuang Mingxu's body after he fell off the carriage, the dust on his body after he crawled over, his casual pants torn by the stones on the ground and leaving a bloodstain on his skin. For a moment, he finally felt that the current Zhuang Mingxu was not the strong man he remembered.
He had no special powers at the moment and any zombie energy could kill him. He was now a cripple and couldn't take care of himself, especially since this place was so far away from his home.
"If I die, no one will take care of you."
"Yes, I'm a cripple and a burden to everyone. No one will care about me. You must not get into any trouble." Zhuang Mingxu buried his head in his hair, breathing in his scent.
He was sweating all over from running for his life and the hot weather, and the smell was not actually very pleasant, but it was mixed with a faint scent that belonged to Lu Weiyi, which made him feel at ease, especially since the body under his hands was still warm.
After his leg was broken, Zhuang Mingxu took the initiative to say for the first time that he was a burden. He took out the bloody thing that he cared about most in his heart, just to make Lu Weiyi worry.
Even though he knew that Lu Weiyi still felt heartbroken, he struggled out of his arms, looked at him seriously and said, "It will be fine, you know."
Zhuang Mingxu nodded, leaned in and kissed him on the forehead, and the atmosphere suddenly became extremely warm.
Everyone was immersed in the joy of rebirth, Ning Yuan suddenly said, "Wei Yi, were you...bitten?"
The clothes on Lu Weiyi's back were torn, and there were several clear black scratches on his fair skin. Zhuang Mingxu's heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly rose again. He looked at Lu Weiyi in horror and reached out to check.
Lu Weiyi stopped his hand, and only then did he realize that Lu Weiyi's face was pale, with cold sweat on his forehead. When he was not speaking, he clenched his teeth so hard that his entire masseter muscle bulged. He seemed to have no strength, and his hands were limp when he tried to resist.
"People with superpowers won't be infected." Lu Weiyi knew what he was going to ask and spoke first. He leaned back on Zhuang Mingxu's shoulder and began to use the superpowers in his body to resist the zombie energy that had already spread. Every piece of skin and every cell seemed to be pulled by the two energies.
This feeling is like what they described as the process that the first people with super powers had to go through when they experienced that heavy snow. No wonder many of the first people with super powers died during that heavy snow.
Everybody has to live with this.
Although Lu Weiyi did not have a good life in the Ji family, it was more of a mental one. No one had ever dared to attack him. The number of times he had been injured was limited, let alone experiencing this kind of pain. It was really unbearable for a while.
Better to suffer a short pain than a long one, he bit Zhuang Mingxu's shoulder, exerted a little force, and with a groan of pain, he suddenly infused all his supernatural powers into it, dirty blood spurted out from the wound, and he fell softly into Zhuang Mingxu's arms.
"Xiaoyi, how are you?" Zhuang Mingxu hugged him, wanting to use force but not daring to.
Lu Weiyi shook his head slightly, and Antonio said, "It should be okay. I saw the blood turned red." Zhuang Mingxu looked up at him, and Antonio had to say one more sentence, "When Brother Li was bitten, the blood turned red, and Lu said it was okay."
Zhuang Mingxu turned his head to look at Li Zhuang who was sitting by the bridge, wanting to get a positive answer from him. Li Zhuang glanced at Lu Weiyi with a smile and nodded.
"It's okay, go get some sleep." Zhuang Mingxu leaned over and hugged Lu Weiyi to his neck, coaxing him in a low voice.
After all this trouble, Lu Weiyi was indeed tired. He blinked his eyes and was about to sleep when he heard Xu Sa squeeze in front of him and said, "Lu Xiaoyi, don't sleep yet. Liu Rui has also been caught. You should see how to save him."
Several people turned their heads to look at Liu Rui who was leaning against the bridge railing. He was now lying on the ground, curled up into a ball, his body trembling slightly. There were several holes on his shirt from being burned, and there were two rows of teeth marks on his arms.
"It will be fine if you just bear with it," Lu Weiyi said softly, and then he fell asleep.
There were gunfights and car chases, and several people in their group were bleeding and injured. Even if the zombies behind were cut off, the zombies in front might still be attracted at any time. Several of their main personnel had no fighting ability at this time, and it was not safe to stay here. They unanimously decided to move immediately and find a safe place to give everyone time to rest.
On the truck, Zhuang Mingxu ignored his injured leg and held Lu Weiyi tightly in his arms, stunned. Also in a daze was Xu Sa, who was holding Liu Rui, who was trembling in pain. He lowered his head and buried his face in Liu Rui's tattered clothes. His expression could not be seen clearly, but Liu Rui could hear him whispering, "Bear with it, just bear with it a little longer."
Xu Sa's attention was indeed on Lu Weiyi at the beginning, but when he saw that Lu Weiyi was fine and turned to look at Liu Rui, he found that the man who was originally leaning against the bridge railing was now lying on the ground curled up in a ball. The look of enduring pain was very similar to the scene when he saw him being beaten up by a group of people in prison. Xu Sa knew something was wrong. When he took a few steps forward and saw the bite mark on Liu Rui's arm, Xu Sa felt his legs go weak for a moment.
He was a man of 1.80 meters tall who had fought to the death with a group of murderers in prison, but he felt his legs go weak. Xu Sa found it a little funny, but more of a fear.
"Brother Sa..." Liu Rui gritted his teeth and looked up at him. His eyes were so bright that they seemed to contain the entire starry sky. He loosened his tense arms and hugged Xu Sa instead, rubbing his head lightly against his chest.
Well, like a puppy, Xu Sa thought.
Loyal, protective and fearless.
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