Chapter 131 Encountering a Betrayer
"Why did it take so long? That group of people are from the Li family. I just saw them driving away. Did something happen to you?" Lin Yimu asked worriedly.
Xiong Jie briefly talked to them and said, "I really don't have the strength to continue. Let's find a place to rest and bandage our wounds."
"Okay, let me see where to go." Lin Yimu looked around at the buildings on the roadside.
Not long after we walked, Chen Zhong's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "There's a truck following us."
Li Zhuang glanced through the rearview mirror and said, "Those people abandoned by the Li family are not a threat."
They chose a motel on the side of the road as a temporary resting point. It had only five floors in total, and they estimated that there would not be many zombies upstairs. Several people went to clean up the zombies, and three cars directly surrounded the gate to ensure that no zombies could come in, and then they walked inside.
They had just finished clearing out the zombies and met up on the first floor. The people following in the truck behind them also followed closely in.
"They don't have special powers," Li Zhuang whispered to the equally vigilant person beside him. He stood at the door holding a triangular knife that was still dripping with rotten flesh. His fierce image made the people on the opposite side dare not take a step forward.
Just as he was hesitating whether to let them in, he heard someone inside shouting, "Chen Zhong, let us in. We are all old colleagues in the same company. Please..."
"Mr. Wu, please, there are zombies coming."
"Manager Chen, please save us!"
"Shen Xing, Shen Xing, I was wrong, save me, save me"
The expressions of the three people whose names were called were not very good. Lu Weiyi turned to look at Wu Yue, and heard Ning Yuan reply, "They are the people who followed Mingxu before."
In the past... because of the betrayal...
"Oh." Lu Weiyi didn't say anything, turned around and walked to the second floor, "Qingyue, help everyone deal with the wounds."
"Okay." Gu Qingyue followed him upstairs, and the others also left one after another.
Shen Xing and Chen Zhong, who were left at last, looked at Wu Yue. Does Wu Yue hate them?
Naturally he hated it to death. There were people here who were dug out from the rubble by him and Zhuang Mingxu, but they turned away without mercy when he was having the most difficult time, and even cruelly took away a large amount of supplies.
Many times, Wu Yue didn't dare to think about what kind of situation he would have faced if Lu Weiyi had not appeared at that time.
But now, looking at their miserable appearances, Wu Yue suddenly felt relieved, as if the saying was true: "I feel relieved when I see that you are not doing well."
"Come in, first floor, don't make any noise," Wu Yue said, making way for the door.
More than a dozen people pushed and shoved each other, came in quickly and slammed the door shut, as if the not-so-thick glass door could block anything.
Wu Yue looked around. Except for one or two unfamiliar faces, the rest of the dozen people were basically the betrayers. "What's wrong with you?"
“The Li family… the people of the Li family are nothing. We joined them, and they asked us to search for supplies with the psychics, just to lure zombies. Today, after the black dog appeared, they just abandoned us and ran away. If we hadn’t risked our lives to save a car, we would have all died there,” said a man about the same age as Chen Zhong, squatting on the ground with his hands weakly pressing his head and crying, “My son, my son was bitten by a zombie, and my wife committed suicide…”
His words obviously evoked painful memories in the others, and for a moment the entire first floor was filled with the sound of low weeping.
Wu Yue nodded, with nothing more to say, and turned to walk upstairs.
"Wu Yue, I saw you. You were inside the flour mill..." The man looked up and said when he saw that Wu Yue didn't say anything.
"Oh." It was the people from the Li family who were scared away by the black dog. They took the supplies, so this was not a robbery. Wu Yue was not worried at all and responded calmly.
"Aren't you afraid that I will tell the Li family?" the man spoke again.
"What did you say? That they didn't have the ability to kill the mutant dogs and were scared away? Or that others killed the mutant dogs and left the supplies for them?" Wu Yue sneered and looked at the man as if he was a fool.
Just as the three people turned around and walked upstairs, a woman's voice sounded again with a crying tone, "Shen Xing".
Shen Xing paused when he heard the voice.
"Shen Xing" the woman's voice sounded again, with a soft sob.
Shen Xing sighed and turned to look.
The woman had a dirty face and was wearing inappropriate clothes. The clothes were covered in dust and were even torn. The ambiguous traces inside could not be concealed no matter what. She was nothing like the pretty girl in the memory, "Bai Lu".
"What's going on?" They were standing on the second floor, with two rooms facing the stairs, so they could naturally hear the sounds downstairs clearly. Ning Yuan asked Wu Yue curiously to Shen Xing who had not come up from downstairs.
"His fiancée ran off with a psychic under Li Ji's command." Wu Yue did not lower his voice, as if he was speaking to Shen Xing.
There are a bunch of men upstairs. Even if they look down on someone, they won't say much. Besides, there's nothing wrong with being a little selfish.
Bai Lu naturally heard what Wu Yue said. Her body stiffened and she looked at Shen Xing. Tears were already streaming down her face before she opened her mouth. Shen Xing just looked at her silently without saying a word.
After a moment, seeing that she had no intention of speaking, Shen Xing turned over his backpack, took out all the food inside, and handed it to Bai Lu.
Bai Lu shook her head and cried.
"Take it. It's a remembrance of the past. I haven't blamed you, but there's nothing to talk about in the future. Next time we meet... just pretend to be strangers." Shen Xing pushed all the things to her and turned to go upstairs.
Are you saying you’re sad?
She must be sad. They had planned to get married before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, he found her and protected her behind him as soon as possible. Even when Li Ji showed up with a group of psychics and with the supplies stored by Zhuang Mingxu in advance, she and he had never suffered at all. Shen Xing didn't understand why for a long time, but now he suddenly didn't want to think about it anymore.
It's unnecessary and meaningless.
People should always look forward.
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With the harvest from the flour mill, the group did not go anywhere else to look for supplies. After resting, they just swept the streets nearby, clearing out zombies and collecting crystal cores.
A dozen people downstairs were following them. No one was trying to protect them, nor did they tell them to get rid of them. If they could keep up, they would follow. If they couldn't keep up and something happened, no one would care.
At the beginning, some people were cursing, but later they became numb or maybe they were frightened by their enthusiasm for killing zombies. In the end, no one dared to say anything and they just silently focused on killing zombies or picking up the leftovers.
At noon, as reminded by Zhuang Mingxu, they rested for more than three hours and did not continue until four in the afternoon. In the evening, the group naturally followed them back to the base safely.
No one knew what signal their attitude gave to the group. After they followed them into the base, they actually wanted to rejoin the only team. Wu Yue scolded and ridiculed them in the face, and no one said a word.
Then, the next day, Li Ling, the head of the Li family, brought a few psychics and a few of these people to knock on the door of the villa.
During the day, Xi Shi is usually the only one in the villa, and the door is always locked. As long as the people outside the door are not their own people, don't expect Xi Shi to open the door for them.
Although the Li family is leading the base, there are countless people waiting to stab them if they make a mistake. They dare not sneak in quietly but dare not break in openly.
After knocking on the door for a long time, Xi Shi didn't open the door and only replied that he had something to do and went to the Green Land Community.
Except for a few residential buildings, the rest of the Green Land Community has been transformed into farmland by Zhuang Mingxu, where various plants are planted in pieces, most of which are used to preserve seeds. Except for the fixed time when the plants in the soil are stimulated to grow, all the wood-type supernatural powers are uniformly promoting the growth of fruits.
The space reserved for entry and exit is made into a door with raised railings, so that the situation inside can be seen at a glance from the outside.
Most of it can be turned into fields. A row of simple sheds have been built next to several houses. This was where the people who picked supplies used to "work". Now, only a few wood-type psychics whose powers have been exhausted are sitting there to rest.
Although Li Ling had heard about the big moves of Zhuang Mingxu and his group a long time ago, they were few in number and it was impossible for them to cause any trouble to him, so he just listened and ignored them. This was the first time they came.
He asked someone to call for someone to open the door. He looked around and asked the people around him, "Is this area surrounded by collapsed houses?"
"Yes, it just took one night," said the person next to him.
"One night?" Li Ling was surprised. This was no small project.
"Well, the rumor spread quite a lot in the base. Everyone thought that their team had some extraordinary powers. Later, he came out to dispel the rumor and said that he asked all the space owners to pack up the collapsed objects and put them in a fixed location."
"You are really willing to use space to load soil and rocks," Li Ling said, and then paused and said, "When we look for supplies, we should be able to let the space ability user collect the things and put them on the car. This will save time in transportation."
When several people with special abilities around him heard this, they also reacted and immediately agreed to give it a try next time.
Li Ling didn't expect to have such a gain from this trip. He felt happier. "You should learn to be more flexible in the future. Have you found out how many spaces they have?"
"It seems that Zhuang Mingxu is inside the base, but the team that went out doesn't know. They are few in number and don't interact with others much, so we can't find out anything."
After shouting a few times at the door, someone inside asked questions. After a while, someone came over, opened the railing door and let them in.
Vehicles were not allowed to enter, and although the temperature was still high in the morning, the group could only walk in. There were several rooms built with color steel plates at the innermost part.
Zhuang Mingxu was sitting on a closed four-wheel electric vehicle and nodded at Li Ling from a distance, "Mr. Li."
"It's the end of the world, there's no need to call each other by their names. Just call each other by their names." The Li family's previous businesses had no intersection with Zhuang Mingxu's, they were just acquaintances. "You have a nice car, is it electric?"
"Yes, it's not disabled. There must be a tool to act as it is. Xiaoyi specially found one." In fact, when Lu Weiyi passed by the dealer, he took it directly.
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