Chapter 316: Little Attack Night Talk
"Grandpa should have either done nothing or wiped out the roots. Now everyone is forced to leave their homes..."
Zhuang Chengzheng did not refute their words. If the plan was successful, people would compliment him. If it failed, he would have to bear the consequences. What's more, the whole family would suffer, and his children and grandchildren would just complain a few words.
"The key is that the people below are beginning to lose control. We can still suppress them for the time being, but no one in the first house listens to Mingwu at all."
Now they are considered a whole. Zhuang Mingbo sighed tiredly, "He, an A-level mutant, has completely become a puppet of the family. You haven't seen the situation of my uncle. Even in this situation, he is still acting like a leader."
"My second uncle is the same. He refuses to interact with his own son, who leads a team that everyone wants to curry favor with. He hangs around women and illegitimate children all day long." Zhuang Mingbo only now realizes that these elders who once supported a corner of the family actually relied entirely on the family's protection and have no actual ability at all.
"Talk to the big house and form a team in advance. You will be the unified leader and divide the team into smaller ones. Specific responsibilities will be assigned to each team." Zhuang Chengzheng thought for a long time. "Also ask the people below if they want to take the main road. Although there may be more zombies, the distance is relatively short and the speed is fast."
"Let's contact Mingxu again and see if we can get their team to take care of the situation. Otherwise, we'll have to travel overnight and arrive as soon as possible. If we continue like this, the few people we have will lose their morale."
"If it doesn't work, let the old man and Chengli go and beg. If Mingxu can really let it go, he will not agree to let them go to his base. He will definitely help at the critical moment." Zhuang Chengzheng had a vicious look on his face and looked a little fierce.
"Okay." Zhuang Mingbo took a deep breath and nodded.
After dinner, Zhuang Mingbo went to look for several people from the Zhuang family’s main branch.
Except for Zhuang Chengye's generation, all the younger generations in the Zhuang family have superpowers. However, the eldest brother Zhuang Mingwen is in poor health. Even though he has awakened his water-related superpowers, he has rarely used them. He has been in the base and is still only a B-level until now.
Xia Mingzhi's wood element and Xia Xue's earth element are not at high levels. In addition, they are both very young and have always been protected and not fully utilized.
As for Song Xin, who belongs to the water element, she used to follow her mother's instructions and look for a suitable marriage partner among several major forces. Superpowers were nothing more than decoration to her.
The one with the highest rank and strongest combat power is Zhuang Mingwu, but this young man doesn't have much brains and most of the time he listens to his family. The position given to him by the eldest wife is to lead all the psychics under the eldest wife, and he has been trying hard to fit in. This results in him being the only one working out of more than a dozen people in the eldest wife's family.
When Zhuang Mingwen heard Zhuang Mingbo say that he wanted to merge the forces, he was the first to disagree. The supplies they carried now were enough to rot. Once merged, it would mean centralized management of all supplies. People with special powers would need to work in exchange for food, and even for them, they would need to feed their family members who did not have special powers.
"What do you think? Mingwu?" The Zhuang family gave one of the two plant crystal cores they got from Lu Weiyi to Zhuang Mingbo and one to Zhuang Mingwu, and both of them upgraded successfully. The person Zhuang Mingbo is talking to at this moment is directly the strongest Zhuang Mingwu.
"I..." Zhuang Mingwu looked at his father Zhuang Chengye, then looked at Old Master Zhuang who was no longer in charge, and was unable to make a decision for a while.
"The people with special abilities below have begun to disobey management. If we don't make a decision now, we will always fall apart. They left their hometowns because of our family. Now everyone is still watching Mingxu's attitude," Zhuang Mingbo directly broke down the words.
"If you can convince Mingxu to take care of them along the way, they will naturally have no objections. But if we rely on us all the way, even if they don't take action on the way, after we reach the Cangbei base, we won't be able to keep our supplies once Mingxu and the others leave."
"Without supplies," Zhuang Mingbo looked around at everyone and said in a stern tone, "Let alone finding a foothold, I'm afraid even living will be a problem."
Seeing that no one said anything, Zhuang Mingbo said, "Think about it, we plan to take the main road and travel overnight. We will go to Mingxu to discuss it later, and by the way, see if there is anything we can do to take better care of them on the road. If you want to go, you can go together later."
After a whole day of traveling and something like this happening at night, Zhuang Mingbo was extremely tired. He tried his best to control his temper as he walked out. When he saw Zhuang Mingwu squatting on the ground with a pale face and dull eyes, he sighed.
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After the meal, a circle of torches were lit around the courtyard, illuminating the surroundings. In the absence of zombies, all kinds of mutated plants and animals hiding there need to be vigilant at all times. Since most of them are afraid of fire, this can also make the other side fearful.
In addition to a circle of people on duty, the yard was divided into several teams, dealing with the mutant wolves.
Six of the eleven were collected directly, and the remaining five were skinned and boned.
Now they have enough water-based mutants, so they cleaned the internal organs and put them away.
Gu Qingyue cut the meat that was handed to him into shreds so that he could stir-fry it directly when taking a break on the road. Seeing the basins of blood aside, he sighed, "If only Brother Xi were here, he would definitely be able to make it into blood tofu directly."
"I saw him just add some salt. How about we do it ourselves?" Gu Qingji hesitated while holding the salt jar.
"Forget it, don't break them and waste them. Take them back and let Brother Xi fix them." Gu Qingyue didn't want so many pots to be ruined in their hands.
"I also miss Brother Xi's cooking skills." Xu Sa held a piece of hairy grass in his mouth and chopped the overlong bones with a bone-chopping knife. "This thing is best for making soup in winter."
"Then save it for later when we return to the base in winter." Zhuang Mingxu was skinning the rabbit that the others had brought back in a hurry, and gave Huang Rui a bitter melon seed, "Grow some bitter melon and stir-fry it. We're all a little sore from traveling for a few days."
"No way." Xu Sa immediately looked bitter.
"Hahaha, you don't expect to have any extra fire-reducing medicine for you to eat, and getting a sore throat can easily lead to hemorrhoids, you guys..." Zhuang Mingxu looked at the people in front of him and made a rare dirty joke, "You'd better pay attention to your health."
Xu Sa didn't understand what he meant at first, but Antonio immediately reached out and took one, and asked Zhuang Mingxu curiously if he could eat it raw.
"It's okay, but the taste is a little..." Zhuang Mingxu said.
Antonio frowned, took a bite himself, his face wrinkled, looked at Dean, and finally put it down and sighed, "I've never seen a maintenance set for sale."
After seeing his reaction and thinking for a while, Xu Sa finally understood what Zhuang Mingxu meant by his previous words and suddenly felt embarrassed. Fortunately, no one cared at this time.
Gu Qingyue, who still didn't understand, interrupted and asked, "Wei Yi should have a collection of skin care products, but... I didn't see you still using this stuff?"
"Of course not," Antonio looked at him and smiled frankly, "it's the daisy skin care product."
"..."Gu Qingyue was blocked on the spot and his face turned red instantly.
Seeing his reaction, Xu Sa felt that it was nothing. He shouted at Dean, who was teasing the wolf cub with the two children, "Dean, your man is making dirty jokes."
"Dirty jokes? What are they? Piupiu?" He made a gun gesture with his hand and made the sound with his hand. His fair face was chubby and he looked surprisingly cute.
Antonio burst into laughter immediately, and Xu Sa waved at him speechlessly.
Over there, the straight man Huang Rui took the seeds and quickly induced growth. After a while, he came back with more than a dozen bitter gourds and a handful of seeds.
Zhuang Mingxu marked the number of times the seeds were induced to produce, and then put them into the space. He saw Antonio squatting beside him with a huge body like a hill, and the metal in his hand turned into a thin knife to help peel the rabbit skin. He whispered, "What do you use to maintain it?"
Zhuang Mingxu reacted for a moment and whispered, "There are ointments and medicinal jades, as well as those for oral administration."
"Reliable?" It was the first time Antonio had heard of such a complicated thing, so he couldn't help but ask a few specific questions, especially after the end of the world, many things were inconvenient to buy, and maintenance was even more difficult.
"A century-old inheritance, I spent 15 million to buy the formula, and I signed an agreement not to pass it on to outsiders." Zhuang Mingxu looked rarely proud, "The effect..." He couldn't help laughing and gave him a thumbs up.
"How do you use it?" Antonio asked humbly.
“Specially formulated ointment is used when doing things. It is boiled in advance and taken orally for a period of time. After each treatment, the boiled medicine is placed on the jade... overnight to allow the medicinal effects to be absorbed. It is used for a month and the effects can be ignored after a year. A second course of treatment can be carried out the following year.”
Zhuang Mingxu finished speaking mysteriously, and then someone beside them whispered, "Is the medicinal jade a jade stone of that shape?"
He looked back and saw that Gu Qingyue had left for some reason, Gu Qingji was still in his original position, and Liu Rui, who was replaced to rest, was holding a cucumber and listening to them quietly. Li Zhuang next to him was still in a nonchalant look, but it did not affect his eavesdropping at all.
Zhuang Mingxu cleared his throat awkwardly, made sure Lu Weiyi was no longer nearby, and whispered, "Yes, mutton-fat jade is the best."
Antonio nodded seriously and said, "I'll go find it. When you configure it, help me with it."
"Brother Zhuang, please help me configure some too."
"I...I...I also..."
After Gu Qingji and Liu Rui finished speaking, Li Zhuang immediately said, "Let me have some too."
"Who are you giving it to?" Zhuang Mingxu couldn't help but ask.
Then Li Zhuang said, half sincerely and half falsely, "Keep it for yourself."
"What?" Antonio couldn't help but blurt out his native language.
Gu Qingyue and Liu Rui also looked at Li Zhuang with disbelief. Only Zhuang Mingxu gave him a thumbs up and said, "You are cruel."
"Haha..." Li Zhuang laughed loudly, attracting the attention of everyone around him.
In the interval between the laughter, Zhuang Mingbo called out to Zhuang Mingxu from afar.
Zhuang Mingxu threw down the knife in his hand and said, "Let's wait until winter settles down before doing anything else. Let's deal with this thing first."
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