Chapter 345 Discussing whether to stay or go
Before they reached the door, they saw a young girl standing by the door, looking forward to seeing them coming. When she saw them coming, she strode over and called out in a delicate voice, "Qingji~"
Lu Weiyi turned around to look at Gu Qingji who was following behind him, and saw that his face was unusually gloomy.
He looked at Zhuang Mingxu to ask what was going on. Zhuang Mingxu pursed his lips, smiled, and patted him on the back to signal him to wait.
"Hello, you must be the captain of the team. My name is Zhao Qianqian, and the chief director of the institute, Director Zhao, is my father." Zhao Qianqian greeted Lu Weiyi.
"Hello," Lu Weiyi responded briefly and was pulled into the room by Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhao Qianqian also wanted to follow in, but was stopped by Ning Yuan at the end, "Girl, our team has a meeting, and it's not convenient for you to come in where a group of men live."
"Okay then," Zhao Qianqian responded, and looked at Gu Qingji inside through the crack in the door, but Ning Yuan closed the door mercilessly.
"What's going on?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Amid the gloating laughter in the room, Ning Yuan told him the general situation. It was nothing more than that he suddenly found out that his former idol had saved him, and he wanted to marry him.
"I really don't know what she was thinking. She pushed Qingji at a critical moment yesterday, causing him to be almost swept away by the mutant plants. Later, she was able to come here and show her presence as if nothing had happened." Lu Xi thought this person was simply weird.
"The main reason is that his father is the head of the research institute, and we don't want to make the relationship too awkward," Ning Yuan explained. He looked at Gu Qingji's lifeless face and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, Qingji."
"When are we leaving?" Gu Qingji really couldn't stand a crazy and vicious girl hanging around him.
Lu Weiyi didn't answer, but turned to look at Zhuang Mingxu.
Zhuang Mingxu directly took out a drawn map from the space, "This is the map of this place before the end of the world. The open-air garage next to it originally stored more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles, but they were later squeezed and buried by the mountain and disappeared."
"There is a weapons storage base underground at this location, which contains many of the most advanced weapons in the country before the end of the world."
"Nuclear weapons? Laser cannon? Electromagnetic cannon? Ballistic missiles?" Qi Lin became excited when he heard this.
"Be normal. Those weapons are scattered among various troops and have special storage locations. This is a research and development site, and it is not the research and development site of those." Ning Yuan broke his fantasy and motioned Zhuang Mingxu to continue.
"The underground laboratory on the east side used to be the largest laboratory here. Zhao Changming and Zhong Qi were both in there. It was said that they were researching something like an ion cannon. There are eight floors in total, and there are a lot of advanced instruments and information inside."
"But the entrance to the nearby mountain is gone. The laboratory should be buried in the mountain. If you want to get something from it, you have to move at least half of the mountain."
"The second one is here. The entrance has collapsed. The situation underground is unknown. I have referred to the changes in the surrounding area and think it should still be in place. If the first laboratory cannot be taken away, then try to take this one away."
After briefly talking about the things here, Zhuang Mingxu looked at Lu Weiyi. These things were not the most troublesome in comparison. The current situation was - the mutated plant outside.
Lu Weiyi nodded, but did not talk about the mutated plants in front of so many people. Instead, he asked about the situation of the people inside.
"They are still hesitating whether to go to our base," Ning Yuan sneered.
Lu Weiyi was also surprised, and after a little thought he realized what they were planning.
"I will communicate with them later. If we can take them away in a peaceful way, we should be as gentle as possible. After all, we still have a long way to go. If it really doesn't work, we can use compulsory measures, but the risks on the road may be too great," Zhuang Mingxu said carefully.
Several people communicated the situation after the two sides separated. After knowing each other's situation, Zhuang Mingxu pulled Lu Weiyi to a corner alone.
"The plant outside can sense my presence. After I used the mental barrier, it seemed to have no effect on it." Lu Weiyi first expressed his doubts.
"Lu Xi also used a mental barrier yesterday, and was completely unnoticed," Zhuang Mingxu said. He glanced at Lu Xi who was talking to Tao Tao in the room and guessed, "I heard that this mutant plant is very targeted at people with special abilities. The higher the level, the more likely it is to attract its attention."
"Is it possible that your crystal core energy has attracted its attention? After all, your use of superpowers will mobilize crystal core energy?"
"It's possible," Lu Weiyi nodded.
"So what did you do in the end? I saw them spread out."
"It was Taotao. He saw that I was about to be attacked, and... shouted." Lu Weiyi himself felt it was weird, let alone Zhuang Mingxu who heard it. Then he told him what happened on Taotao's side.
"The mutant plants know him?" Zhuang Mingxu looked at the child with a naive look on his face and felt a little confused for a moment.
"He said he could deal with this mutated plant. I'll take him to try later," Lu Weiyi said.
"Okay," Zhuang Mingxu responded, and then talked about the arrangements for the people in the research institute.
"It's impossible to save people in vain," Lu Weiyi said decisively. Although there was no loss of life along the way, manpower and material resources were wasted. If they spent this time collecting supplies, they didn't know how much they could gain. "If they don't want to go, let them pay supplies to redeem themselves."
Lu Weiyi was amused by his adjective, "This is what I think. The scientific researchers asked them to sign a contract, a five-year contract. During this time, there needs to be a breakthrough research, I mean one that can be put into use."
"Family members can stay at the base and receive preferential treatment based on their connections. Security personnel can form teams, but they must repay some of the supplies before they can leave the base and go elsewhere."
At this point, Zhuang Mingxu comforted him, "I asked about the weapons reserves in Zheng Jun's underground warehouse. In fact, if we can find that and take it away, our trip will not be in vain."
"Those are limited after all," Lu Weiyi said softly. He still needs those talents more.
"Yes, try to talk." After communicating with him, Zhuang Mingxu asked Ning Yuan to talk to the people here about what will happen next. He and Lu Weiyi took Taotao and left the underground laboratory under the pretext of investigating the surrounding situation.
Zhuang Mingxu asked Taotao about the mutated plants. Lu Weiyi used a small green branch to explore the surrounding underground. Now that the small green branch has been repaired as the space has been repaired, its length has exceeded the range of his mental power.
In a short while, the locations of the things that Zhuang Mingxu mentioned were discovered. He nodded at the other party, and Zhuang Mingxu showed a smile as if he had gotten a great advantage.
"Luckily it's us. It would have been a waste if we had moved to another base." After Zhuang Mingxu sighed, he saw that the mutant plants that originally covered the ground had now shrunk into a ball six or seven meters high.
The vines inside were entangled as if they were trying to tie themselves into a knot. The circle of flowers should have been wrapped inside. It completely left the soil and rolled away, but found that the other side was uphill and it could not roll up.
A few vines poked out from inside, and they pulled at the ground nearby to drag the entire ball upwards. However, it was too big and kept falling down from time to time, causing the entire ground to tremble.
"What is it doing?" Zhuang Mingxu asked.
Lu Weiyi looked directly at Taotao.
Taotao tilted her head as if she was thinking about it, and suddenly her expression became stern, "It's going to run away."
As soon as he finished speaking, he let go of Zhuang Mingxu's hand and rushed out, "Don't run."
Zhuang Mingxu followed him out but couldn't catch up with him. He watched him approaching the mutant plants and could only shout to Lu Weiyi, "Stop him quickly."
Lu Weiyi stretched out his hand, and the small green branch on his wrist stretched out instantly, directly wrapping Taotao up, and then retracted it and returned it to his hand. He picked her up, and her feet were still moving forward, like a little turtle.
"Father, it's going to run away," Taotao said anxiously.
If he let it run away, he would not have so many fruit trees.
Taotao became more anxious when she thought of this.
"We really can't let it get away," Zhuang Mingxu said solemnly. Such a large mutant plant would bring devastating disasters wherever it went. "Can you feel its level?"
"Around A level, probably less than S level," Lu Weiyi said.
"Is it scared?" Zhuang Mingxu asked Taotao.
Taotao thought for a while and said, "That should be it. I told it that I wanted to dig out its energy core."
Zhuang Mingxu looked at the huge monster in front of him and pondered for a moment, then looked at Lu Weiyi, "Do you think we are short of a gatekeeper?"
Lu Weiyi didn't understand what he meant, so he listened to his explanation, "Our island is full of supplies and no one has ever lived there. Although the distance is short and there won't be much loss, it's inevitable that someone will have bad intentions in the future."
When Lu Weiyi heard this, he looked at the plant in front of him, "It?"
"Yes, if we can place it around, it will definitely protect us from those who covet it." Zhuang Mingxu said this and looked at Tao Tao, "Can you control it?"
After all, this thing is a double-edged sword. If controlled well, it can be used for your own benefit, but if not controlled well, it can be a dangerous thing.
"It's afraid of me." Taotao couldn't explain it, so she could only say it bluntly.
"Let's scare them first," Zhuang Mingxu said directly, "and then let the people from the research institute develop some corresponding equipment to control them."
Knowing that the biggest threat had been dealt with, the three turned back to the laboratory.
At this time, Ning Yuan had already communicated with Zheng Jun and Zhao Changming.
Zheng Jun agreed to their request immediately, but with the condition that everyone must be tied up to find their families together.
"Of course, our base has found a group of family members from the Kyoto base and will bring them back to the base soon. I believe more family members will be reunited in the future." Ning Yuan shook hands with him and spoke in an official tone.
Seeing the three people coming down, Ning Yuan explained the situation, and Zheng Jun stretched out his hand to Lu Weiyi, "Please take care of him in the future."
"Welcome," Lu Weiyi said.
After hearing Ning Yuan say that Zhao Changming went downstairs to ask other people from the research institute, Zhuang Mingxu signaled that they should go and take a look together.
Zheng Jun led the three of them downstairs. As soon as they got down the stairs, they saw a lot of people standing in the corridor that was full of debris. Both men and women were in tattered clothes. Some of them were very skinny and sat on the ground with no energy.
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