Chapter 599: Tracking
"I see." Zhuang Mingxu did not give a definite answer. He looked at Wu Yue and saw that he was not injured, so he asked, "Have the missing people been found?"
Wu Yue shook his head and said, "I was just about to take people out, but when I heard you woke up, I came here first."
"Okay, wait for my news first." Zhuang Mingxu asked someone to go out, looked at Taotao who had been looking at them confusedly, and instructed him to go to Lu Weiyi's space to take out some medicines from the shelf.
He stood up and went forward to pick out the medicine that might be needed, and asked, "Taotao, can you ask the roots of Rose if they have found any strangers around?"
"Okay," Taotao responded in a baby voice while curiously fiddling with the medicines on the shelf. After a while, she replied, "He said there are strangers everywhere."
"..." Zhuang Mingxu, "Can he tell who attacked us?"
Taotao was silent for a while, then pouted her lips and trotted towards the stem of the mutant long-pointed leaf rose. Although she was not very big, her short legs moved very fast and she ran a hundred meters away in an instant.
Wu Yue, who was waiting for news at the corner, was about to ask what was going on when he saw Taotao step forward, grab the arm-long thorns of the long-spiked leaf rose, and start to break them apart with a crackling sound.
Zhuang Mingxu staggered out soon after and asked Wu Yue to go back to the room to check the medicine. He put on a mental shielding helmet and chased in the direction of Taotao. Only when he got close did he hear him mumbling, "I told you not to be disobedient, I told you not to be disobedient."
The long-pointed rose tried to dodge, but looked afraid, and even its struggles were cautious.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu was afraid of affecting Lu Weiyi who was wrapped inside, so he quickly picked up Taotao and left the range of his mental power before asking.
"He asked me for benefits," Taotao complained unhappily, "Father said that if the mutant plant is obedient, it will be kept, but if it is not obedient, its crystal core will be taken out. I wanted to take it out, but it wouldn't let me."
“……”Zhuang Mingxu.
"Hmph" Taotao's chubby little face snorted loudly at the long-pointed leaf rose, "I use you because I think highly of you, otherwise you wouldn't bear fruit and my energy would have been taken away long ago."
As he said this, he stretched out his hand and made a ferocious grasping motion. It was so cute, but the protagonist didn't think so.
"Is this what your father taught you privately?" Zhuang Mingxu felt that his understanding of Lu Weiyi seemed to need to be updated.
"No, I learned it from others, isn't that right?" Taotao tilted her head and asked seriously.
Zhuang Mingxu didn’t know how to educate him for a moment. He felt like a new father, even though Zhuang Aiyi was already seven years old.
Fortunately, Taotao was just asking casually, and then said, "He said, there are a lot of people over there..." Taotao bit her fingers unconsciously, as if she had encountered something she didn't quite understand, but she still described to Zhuang Mingxu, "Cutting meat?".
Zhuang Mingxu frowned, "Where? Can you take us there?"
"Okay, but if he leads the way, father will have to leave."
Given the situation in front of Lu Weiyi, no one should be able to get close without a mental blocker. Zhuang Mingxu thought of those people who reported back that they had eaten the flesh of people with special abilities, and became even more worried about the safety of their team members.
"Let it take us there now."
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After such a big incident, even though Zhuang Mingxu had just woken up and had little strength left, he couldn't rest peacefully.
He ate something in a hurry, gave the medicine he had just taken out to Zhou He to arrange for the wounded, and then he and Wu Yue took Taotao and hurried to the place where the mutant long-pointed leaf rose mentioned.
The underground passage is winding. In order to facilitate their living and defense, the surrounding passages were built in a circular shape to wrap around Lu Weiyi who was in the middle.
The middle passage is based on the original cave and no major changes have been made to its direction, which makes it easy for unfamiliar people to lose their way.
But they are underground, and today's psychics use their powers in all kinds of strange ways. As long as an earth-type psychic investigates, it will be easy to figure out the map of the entire temporary base.
This is also the reason why Zhuang Mingxu was worried about leaving Lu Weiyi alone.
After passing through the winding passage, it wasn't long before the group arrived at the outskirts of the base. Above their heads there was no longer soil, but a roof woven together with dense plants. Gradually, a passage led out, and even those standing below could hear the whistling of the wind above.
It is conceivable that the people who came could not have left from the ground, and it was only possible that they had opened up an underground passage as well.
Thinking that the other party also had an earth-type mutant in his hands, Zhuang Mingxu glanced at Taotao and the mutant long-pointed leaf rose that he had brought with him, and was a little worried about the situation on Lu Weiyi's side.
"Have you found any trace of the other party?" Wu Yueren asked before getting close.
"We've only investigated up to this point," said Guan Wei, the only earth-type mutant in the four teams, towards a cave entrance that was blocked by guards.
The entrance to the cave is only one person wide and at most 1.8 meters high. Anyone who is slightly taller has to lower their head to get in.
He explained awkwardly, "We have too many injured psychics, and many are missing. I dare not take away too many earth-type psychics, so I can only ask them to save their powers as much as possible."
"It's okay, as long as we can get through." Wu Yue didn't care at all, and he didn't even intend to expand the cave entrance by relying on his earth-type ability. "Is anyone going in?"
"Not yet, the captain asked me to wait for you here," Guan Wei said.
"Okay, you ask someone to wait here, and I'll explore the rest of the way," Wu Yue said, leaning over and preparing to go in first, but was stopped by Zhuang Mingxu.
"Let me do it," he said.
Wu Yue was surprised and was about to say something when he noticed Zhuang Mingxu holding his hand and squeezing it slightly.
He moved aside to make room for the front seat, and Zhuang Mingxu pulled Taotao to stand at the front.
There was no light at all in the dark cave entrance, and Taotao couldn't help but move closer to Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhuang Mingxu turned on the flashlight, picked up the child, and signaled him to let the mutant long-spiked leaf rose follow and lead the way.
After walking for about twenty meters, the group reached the end.
"I've only explored this far. I haven't had time to find the rest of the way." Guan Wei's voice came from behind.
The soil layer that has been changed by supernatural powers will leave different signs. Wu Yue touched the wall with one hand and was about to use his supernatural powers to sense it when he felt something touching him.
The sharp touch made him want to resist, and he changed the direction of his hand pressing on the wall.
Zhuang Mingxu's voice came to my ears, "Follow me."
Wu Yue didn't think about anything else. He opened up a new passage along the plants that were pulling him and walked in first.
Even with the plant leading the way, the group still walked for nearly an hour. Just when Wu Yue was beginning to doubt the reliability of the plant, a psychic suddenly spoke up, "Captain Wu, a psychic energy ball has appeared ahead."
"How many people?" Wu Yue was surprised.
"Can't be sure." They are still using the first generation of energy detector that Lu Xiao had originally sent them. It can only display a ball of dense energy and cannot distinguish individuals. "From the range and intensity analysis shown on the instrument, the superpowers are most likely AB level, and may even be S level."
"S-level?" Wu Yue frowned. There weren't many S-level people left behind this time.
"Captain Wu, should we go back and ask for help before taking action?"
Without waiting for Wu Yue to answer, the man holding the detector said, "They moved."
"Moving?" The entrance of the cave could only accommodate one person. Wu Yue wanted to check the instrument but found that he couldn't move no matter what he did.
Fortunately, the person behind had good eyesight and immediately passed the instrument over.
Wu Yue saw on the screen of the instrument a line of energy connected together, moving rapidly away from them, and soon the distance between the two sides was widening.
"Could they have discovered us and are chasing us?"
"That shouldn't be the case. We made so little noise."
"Is it possible... to move those people, our people".
Amid the buzz of discussion, someone suddenly spoke.
Wu Yue turned his head suddenly and rubbed his head against the wall, causing him to hiss.
Zhuang Mingxu patted him on the shoulder, signaling him to make a decision quickly, as the opponent's tail was about to leave the capture range of the instrument.
"Guan Wei, how many S-level psychics did we bring with us?" Wu Yue asked.
"Three".
"Chase!" Wu Yue said, and his supernatural power quickly went in the direction shown on the screen. A passage immediately emerged from the dead end in front of him.
After a few hundred meters, the road suddenly opened up and an open space of several dozen meters in radius appeared.
When the light shines over, you can see that the ground is bumpy and there are naturally formed stalactites above your head. Thin air blows in from the cracks above your head, bringing with it a biting cold air that is particularly noticeable.
There were traces of someone lying on the ground, leaving behind human-shaped imprints, and bloodstains soaked the ground, leaving spots of blood.
After shining the light around, no trace of human presence was found. Wu Yue left two psychics to patrol the area, and he led the rest of the people to chase in the direction shown on the energy detector.
The entrance to the cave in front was a naturally formed karst cave, wide open with no signs of being covered. They seemed to be in a hurry to leave, but also seemed to be not afraid of being chased...
"This mark on the ground..." Guan Wei, who was following Wu Yue and Zhuang Mingxu closely, shone the flashlight towards the ground at the entrance of the cave. He saw a mark in the middle of the ground that was clean as if it had been swept, which was obviously different from other places.
The bloodstain appeared to be a long, even streak, as if it had been left there intentionally, extending along the direction of the passage into the distance.
"Is this the mark caused by dragging?" Someone added what Guan Wei did not say, but no one responded.
Most of the people present were soldiers before the end of the world, and many of them could see this mark. Although no one spoke, everyone tacitly quickened their pace.
The speed of the person in front was not slow at all, and he maintained a distance and speed that could be detected by the instruments, but it was not easy to catch up.
This made Zhuang Mingxu and Wu Yue feel bad. Wu Yue spoke first, "I suspect..."
"Captain Wu, there's someone here!"
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