Chapter 312: Current Situation of the Banker
"Wu Yue is still implementing the resettlement method we used before we left, but it will be difficult to operate if there are too many people, so I have thought of a more systematic resettlement method. Do you want to take a look?"
The real person in charge of the base is still Lu Weiyi. No matter how many strategies Zhuang Mingxu has, they need to be reviewed by him before they can be implemented. Although there is no objection to the decisions he made in the team now, that is also with Lu Weiyi's obvious acquiescence.
He is still some distance away from truly taking power.
"Let's look later, I'm very sleepy." Lu Weiyi could hardly open his eyes.
"Okay, then you go to sleep first. What do you want to eat tonight? My uncle brought me a lot of meat. I'll stew some tomato and beef brisket soup for you. How about something sour and spicy?"
"Okay." Lu Weiyi nodded and closed his eyes.
Zhuang Mingxu waited until his breathing became steady before leaving the cubicle, and his expression immediately changed.
The few people outside who were whispering or playing single-player games silently looked at him with puzzled eyes. Zhuang Mingxu took a look and walked towards Gu Qingyue.
"What's wrong, Brother Zhuang?" Gu Qingyue asked in a low voice.
Dean leaned forward as well.
"Are you sure Xiaoyi is okay?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
"No supernatural powers can be detected," Dean said first.
Gu Qingyue pondered for a moment and said helplessly, "It's obvious that there is a problem with his look. In fact, I suspect it's a problem with the crystal core. He doesn't have a solution of his own, so he didn't say anything."
These words made everyone in the car quiet down. Everyone knew why the crystal core was so serious. At this time, everyone looked at Xu Yi at the same time.
Xu Yi straightened his body silently and took two steps back, looking at everyone nervously, "The healing system is upgrading very slowly, I'm only a little bit above the B primary level."
As in the case of the healing ability upgrade, all healing abilities will not actively absorb crystal cores by default unless they have to save people.
"What if you start absorbing the crystal core?"
As soon as Ning Yuan said this, Xu Yi's face changed immediately.
Seeing that he had misunderstood, Xu Sa hurriedly explained, "I'm not forcing you to die. Our team's crystal cores are all purified, and there is no limit to daily absorption."
Xu Yi had indeed seen them continuously absorbing crystal cores, but he had never put it into practice himself. Even after seeing that the four of them had successfully upgraded to S-level, he was still unwilling to be the experimental subject when it came to his own life.
"I'll do it." Dean raised his hand. Seeing everyone looking at him, he pursed his lips and said, "I absorb the crystal core very quickly."
At first he thought that everyone was like this, or that his healing ability was different from other abilities, until Antonio discovered it and reminded him that it was because of the food Lu Weiyi asked him to eat. Only then did he understand why he was able to successfully upgrade.
Antonio's hand tightened unconsciously when he heard him say that, and Dean patted his arm to comfort him.
Lu Weiyi has saved him and Antonio more than once, so it is his duty to do his part.
He looked at Zhuang Mingxu seriously, patted his chest and said, "I can do it."
Zhuang Mingxu didn't say anything. Seeing that Antonio looked nervous, but didn't want to stop him, he finally sighed and said, "I'll think of a way. If it doesn't work, I'll come to you again."
Dean nodded, and Zhuang Mingxu turned and went back to the cubicle.
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In a year, the number of zombies outside has decreased a lot, but they are obviously stronger than before. The clumsy primary zombies are very rare, and what we encounter are either flexible evolved zombies or various zombies with special powers.
Without Lu Weiyi's mental protection, they were injured from time to time during the battle. It was only at this time that everyone realized that every time before, Lu Weiyi would use his supernatural powers to quietly protect them.
It also made them feel more grateful and guilty towards this little captain who said nothing.
They traveled for several days in a row, and except for the necessary time to hunt zombies, they walked on paths with few people. They didn't encounter many zombies, but there were countless obviously mutated animals and plants.
It has been a year since the end of the world. The mutated animals have adapted to their living environment at a very fast speed and have now begun to reproduce, while humans are still struggling.
Nearing evening, they stopped at a suburban village in a small county town to rest. The team had planned to go to the county town to hunt zombies for a day the next day, and they needed a temporary safe place to stay to ensure the safety of the rest of the people for the day.
It was an uninhabited yard with weeds as tall as a person, and it was impossible to see what was going on inside.
After Lu Xi carefully scanned with his mental power, he said, "There are no signs of zombies."
Ever since Lu Weiyi stopped using his mental power to explore the way, Lu Xi took his place spontaneously.
No one in the team said anything, but everyone was doing their best to protect Lu Weiyi, which indeed achieved Lu Weiyi's goal of training them.
"Then let's rest here tonight," Zhuang Mingxu stood on the roof of the car.
While he was speaking, Liu Rui had already controlled the flames to dance towards the yard. This had become his habit over the past few days. It would be best if there were no plants around the place where he was staying, lest some inconspicuous mutated plant suddenly hurt people.
This was the situation that the banker encountered on the first night. Their own psychics were not alert enough and did not use fire psychics to clean up. No one would have thought that the seemingly inconspicuous dead branch would actually be a section of a mutant plant, which attacked the banker and his group in the middle of the night and caught them off guard.
Fortunately, it was Liu Rui who was on guard that day. He went over to help and the mutated plants were quickly dealt with, and no one was killed.
Zhuang Mingxu looked towards the yard next to him and said to Zhuang Mingbo while holding the intercom, "This yard is safe, you guys clean it up..."
"Hey, wait..." Lu Xi suddenly spoke, and Liu Rui's flames were instantly retracted, but everyone around him became alert.
"I saw some...vegetables in it? They looked like tomatoes," Lu Xi said excitedly, "and cucumbers."
As he was speaking, something moved quickly in the grass, causing a bunch of branches to shake.
"It's a rabbit!" Lu Xi shouted happily, frowned, and clenched his fists tightly, as if he was trying hard to poop. Whenever the team members saw him like this, they always wanted to laugh.
The grass not far away was attacked from all directions by invisible sharp blades, cutting off a lot of weeds, followed by the sound of small animals flapping their wings and the hissing of screams.
Lu Weiyi laughed loudly, "I killed it, Brother Mingxu, and roasted it for my brother to eat."
"Okay," Zhuang Mingxu said, looking towards the yard, "Are there many vegetables in there?"
"I don't know, I don't know many of them," Lu Xi said embarrassedly.
"Li Zhuang used his earth-related ability to cut off the roots, and Qingji used his wood-related ability to tie them up. Let's pick and see what they have?" Zhuang Mingxu said.
The two of them took action and the yard was cleared in a short while. They then asked Liu Rui to sweep it again with the fire element, and Zhuang Mingxu felt relieved.
The yard next door was not like them. They directly used their fire abilities to burn all the plants in the yard.
"Be careful of mutant animals. There was a rabbit here just now," Ning Yuan shouted at them.
The relationship between the two sides has always been a little subtle. The people in the only team basically ignore each other, helping out when there is something to do and ignoring each other the rest of the time.
The other party didn't come closer, but Ning Yuan gave him a few more suggestions from time to time for Zhuang Mingxu's sake.
"Okay, thank you," Zhuang Mingbo thanked Ning Yuan politely.
In the yard, Gu Qingji was making sure that there were no mutated plants, while Lu Xi had already started searching among them. After a while, he pulled out a tomato vine that was more than half a person's height. It was full of tomatoes, which looked pink and tender and fresh and delicious.
“Pick some and have them as an addition to your dish tonight.” Lu Xi picked a few ripe ones and handed them to Zhuang Aiyi who was looking at him eagerly, asking him to share them with Taotao.
Zhuang Aiyi held the baby in his arms, stuffed one into Taotao's pocket, then turned around and went into the carriage to look for Lu Weiyi.
After a while, Lu Weiyi was pulled off the bed.
"Brother, I caught a rabbit. I'll ask Brother Mingxu to roast it for you later. It will definitely taste delicious if you coat it with honey." Lu Xi had already pulled out the rabbit he had killed by its two ears.
The rabbit was the size of a piglet, and it looked quite big when he was carrying it.
Lu Weiyi gave him a thumbs up, and the beautiful Lu Xi's eyebrows and eyes turned into crescents when she smiled.
"This is a wild rabbit, and there is usually more than one. How about we go take a look nearby and have a bite?" Ning Yuan suggested.
"Go." Antonio saw Dean swallowing secretly and immediately supported him.
The others had no objections. Ning Yuan and Antonio took two wood-type mutants who were more suitable for the wild and walked out of the yard.
Li Zhuang and Lu Xi went to familiarize themselves with the surroundings, while the others cleaned up the yard and prepared dinner.
Lu Weiyi sat on a recliner, lazily basking in the sun, while two children beside him were picking vegetables from the roots.
People were coming in and out of the yard, tidying up their resting place for the night, and there was a lot of noise and commotion in the yard next door.
From time to time, one can hear people with special abilities expressing dissatisfaction and arguing with the people from the banker's family.
Old Master Zhuang and Master Zhuang San sat together in silence. They aged at a rapid speed. In just a few days, the hair on their heads had turned completely white and sparse. Especially Master Zhuang San, he was already showing signs of becoming bald.
Leaving homeland at old age, fallen leaves cannot return to their roots, still wandering at such an old age.
Lu Weiyi couldn't help but sigh.
His mental power radiated in all directions, and Lu Weiyi "saw" that except for the two old men, the rest of the banker's people were clearly distinguished.
The eldest son of the first family, Zhuang Chengye, sat in the car with a sullen face, maintaining his status. His eldest son, Zhuang Mingwen, stood quietly in an inconspicuous corner, with a gloomy face, observing everything around him like a poisonous snake.
The second son, Zhuang Mingwu, and a group of supernatural people who heard that there were wild rabbits nearby were preparing to go out to try their luck. After a few days, the previous innocence on his face was gone, and instead there was some confusion about the future.
The second son, Zhuang Chengli, was hunched over and sighing, Xia Xiaorong was crying while hugging her daughter, and Xia Mingzhi had been injured at some point, with a bandage on his arm. The white bandage looked like it hadn't been changed for several days and was covered in dirt.
The youngest daughter, Zhuang Chengyan, no longer had the high and mighty status she once had, and had to help with the cooking, while her little princess-like daughter...
He was being blocked by a superpower and was about to confess his love.
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