Chapter 372: Gratitude
He wanted to mention the confinement period, but he felt that he couldn't bring himself to describe a man in this way.
Fortunately, Lu Weiyi couldn't hear it. All his attention was focused on the little one sucking his fingers on the bed.
In just one month, the child has grown up. Now that no children are born, he is valued by everyone and his quality of life has improved a lot.
"It's a full moon? Eh?" As soon as Lu Weiyi approached, he felt a mental force probing him, gently and cunningly, like a small fish brushing past and then quickly slipping away.
"Tomorrow," Yin Jin said, noticing something was wrong with him. He reached out and touched the tip of the kid's nose. His cold eyes softened. "He has been able to use mental power since he was born, and he often plays tricks on people who come to see him."
Lu Weiyi came closer, took a look, and said with approval, "It has great potential."
Seeing that Yin Jin had recovered well, Lu Weiyi remembered what he had promised him, "Do you want to live up there?"
Yin Jin turned to look at him, as if trying to determine the truthfulness of his words. After a long while, he said, "I do."
"Then you can go up in a few days. Zhuang Mingxu had someone build a small house next to the entrance. It's not big, but there's no heating there in winter. Now the temperature is dropping, and it may soon enter the cold season. Can you bear it?" Lu Weiyi reached out to touch Xiao Qinnian's face, but he grabbed it with his little hand. The soft touch made Lu Weiyi dare not use force.
"I used to be a person with special abilities, Nian Nian..." Yin Jin spoke anxiously, but choked when he looked at Qin Nian who was shaking her finger.
He had been locked up in this environment for too long, and now that he had a chance to escape, he naturally didn't want to stay at all, but he was also aware of how cold it was outside in winter - Qin Nian was still too young and too fragile, and now there was a lack of medical care and medicine, and a little illness could take his life.
Although the base may help him now because he still has research value, what if there is no medicine?
Yin Jin went through life and death several times before giving birth to this child, and she didn't want him to get hurt at all.
Seeing that he was struggling, Lu Weiyi told him that he could think about it. "The weather is very good today. Do you want to go upstairs and buy some things for him? Let's prepare for the full moon tomorrow."
As he spoke, he took out a handful of crystal cores from the space, placed them on Qin Nian's quilt, made a circle around them, and then took out a small gold lock and placed it aside. "When Ai Yi was one month old, Zhuang Mingxu made a circle around it with money, saying it was a padlock, meaning the child will be safe from disasters and live a long life."
"The crystal core is still the only means of transportation in the base nowadays. I will use this to lock you up. I hope you will be safe and healthy in the future."
"This..." Even though Yin Jin hadn't been out for a long time, he had lived outside and knew the importance of the crystal core. He was about to refuse when he heard Lu Weiyi say.
"Take it, you will need it in your future life."
After teasing Qin Nian for a while, Lu Weiyi stood up and prepared to leave, and asked Yin Jin again if he wanted to go out, "I'm going to Beidao, I can take you there."
Yin Jin hesitated for only a moment and immediately responded, "Go."
He quickly asked about the temperature outside, got a sheet that Qin Nian might need, a few diapers, put them in a roughly hand-sewn cloth bag, and followed Lu Weiyi with the child in his arms. The whole process took no more than five minutes.
It seems that I have been holding it in for too long.
A big tree has now grown in the place connected to the laboratory. The trunk has been hollowed out and goes directly underground, with artificial bark. Next to it is a newly built small house.
The house was built directly using earth-related supernatural powers. Its material could not be seen, and the doors and windows had not been installed yet, so one could directly see the empty interior.
Yin Jin glanced around and thought that this might be the place where Lu Weiyi mentioned he would live in the future. He looked around a few more times and saw Lu Weiyi stop and look over there.
There was just an empty room inside, with no water, electricity, furniture or anything else.
Their base has not yet installed a unified electrical circuit. Apart from the base facilities, they have to find their own way to light. As for water, there is a centralized water-drawing point that is managed by special water-related psychics every day.
But Nakajima is not that troublesome. Their team has water-based mutants, and the circuits are already complete. However, connecting them here would probably be quite troublesome and costly. This is why Zhuang Mingxu didn't do it directly - they are not worth such a large investment.
Even though the base can provide daily necessities and other things for the two of them, there is no need to consume more comfort zones. Lu Weiyi now feels that it was a bit easy for him to say that he asked Yin Jin to come up. Life would be difficult for him after he came up with a child.
"Little dad~"
"Father"
Two childish voices were heard from the yard, and then a small tram honked over. Dean, who was following closely, shouted to the two of them, "We're catching up."
"Hurry, hurry, brother, come on~" Taotao shouted while bouncing up and down in her sitting position and waving her two arms that were as thick as lotus roots.
Zhuang Aiyi stepped on the accelerator and rushed towards Lu Weiyi, scaring Lu Weiyi so much that he quickly stood in front of Yin Jin, fearing that he would be frightened and the little Qin Nian in his arms would get hurt.
The car stopped steadily half a meter away from Lu Weiyi. Taotao turned her head and laughed, and saw Dean's car driving over. She hurriedly reached out to Lu Weiyi for protection, "Father, father~".
Lu Weiyi reached out and picked her up. Taotao put her arms around his neck and turned her head to giggle at Dean who had also stopped the car.
"Yin, do you want to play?" Dean stretched out his hands like devil claws, deliberately scaring Taotao. Seeing him jumping in Lu Weiyi's arms and burying his head in his chest, with his little golden hair blown by the sea breeze, he smiled like a little sun and greeted Yin Jin.
Yin Jin nodded, and Dean immediately came over and slightly lifted the sheet that blocked Qin Nian's face from the wind and sun to look at him. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and used his supernatural power to move around the father and son, giving a thumbs up and saying, "Very healthy."
"Thank you." Although there were no injuries that needed to be repaired, as the healing ability moved around in his body, he could still feel a warm sensation emanating from his body, which was quite comfortable.
"You're welcome. Where are you going?" Dean asked.
"Let's go to Beidao. The government is about to get off work. I'll go over to take a look. Yin Jin wants to go to the trading hall to take a look." It was the autumn harvest recently, and everyone in the base was very busy. Zhuang Mingxu didn't come back to wait for him right away, so Lu Weiyi planned to pick him up after get off work.
"I'm going too." There are only so many people on the island every day, and Dean has long been there. However, Antonio feels that it is not safe for him as a healer outside, so he is not allowed to run around. Now that there is excitement, he naturally wants to join in.
Zhuang Aiyi also grabbed the corner of Lu Weiyi's clothes, without saying anything, but his eyes clearly expressed his expectations.
"Then let's go together." Lu Weiyi looked around the space and took out a sightseeing car.
Dean immediately sat in the driver's seat, turned around and looked at the rest of the people, with a bright, carefree smile on his face, "Dean Alfred is at your service, welcome... aboard."
Lu Weiyi held Taotao and sat in the passenger seat, while Yin Jin held Qin Nian and Zhuang Aiyi sat in separate seats in the back.
After getting in the car, Zhuang Aiyi heard Xiao Qinnian's gurgling sound and then saw the child in his arms. He leaned forward and asked, "Uncle, are you holding a baby?"
“Yes,” Yin Jin’s eyes passed through the corridor connecting the two islands, and he came back to his senses from the fishing boats at the dock in the distance. Seeing Zhuang Aiyi’s curiosity, he brought Qin Nian closer, “Do you want to take a look?”
"May I?"
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Yin Jin lifted the sheet covering Qin Nian's face.
"Wow, what a small baby, is he one year old? His skin is so white, he is so handsome, as handsome as my brother." Zhuang Aiyi praised without any concealment. Taotao in front of him curiously lay on Lu Weiyi's shoulder and looked over.
“Not even one year old”
"Then he is younger than my brother, is he my brother or my sister?"
"It's my younger brother."
Zhuang Aiyi kept talking and Yin Jin kept answering him. Soon, Dean drove the car to the parking lot inside the government gate and greeted the old man guarding the gate skillfully.
"We're going shopping. Please tell Zhuang to come out."
"Okay, Therapist Dean." The old man was quite respectful to Dean and answered him, then greeted Lu Weiyi.
Not far from the government building is the prosperous area of the base. Some important places are distributed around it. As you enter the downtown area, the streets gradually become lively.
The waiters at the store doors were making witty remarks to attract customers, the street vendors were talking loudly about prices with people, people were rushing home after work, and the returning fishermen were carrying the day's catch.
They all bear the traces of struggling for life, but you can see comfortable smiles on their faces, which shows the satisfaction of regaining peace after countless survival experiences.
"Good afternoon, Captain Land Forces."
"It's evening now, haha, Captain Lu, good evening!"
"Captain Lu, are you here to inspect the market?"
"Captain Lu, I just caught some fish from the beach. Can you take it back and add it to the dish?"
"Captain Lu, these are peaches I picked from an uncultivated area. Don't be fooled by their small size, they are very sweet. Let me give you a taste of them."
"Captain of the Land Base..."
"Captain of the Land Base..."
Along the way, people kept coming up to Lu Weiyi and greeting him, which surprised Lu Weiyi, not to mention Yin Jin who had never seen such a scene before.
On the contrary, Dean didn't find it strange at all - he often received such gratitude in the base hospital and was used to it.
"Yes"
“Take it home and eat it yourself.”
"Undeveloped areas are unsafe, go with an adult, if there is any danger, call the police for assistance."
Lu Weiyi responded to everyone with good temper. Even though he refused and had only walked two blocks, a bunch of messy things were forced into his hands, including a dying fish, a fresh boiled corn, walnut-sized fruits, and even some wild vegetables that had just been dug out and were covered with moist soil.
"They...are very grateful to you." Yin Jin didn't know what he had done to make people who had experienced cannibalism act like this.
Lu Weiyi shrugged.
To be honest, he is also weird.
Normally he doesn't appear often, and the only people who have seen him should be the captains of the various teams. But the people who saw him just now were obviously ordinary people, and many of them didn't have special powers, so the possibility of them coming into contact with Lu Weiyi was almost zero.
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