Chapter 70 I have a financial sponsor, so who am I afraid of?
"Oh, my dear, my poor dear, who is this blind bastard who dares to hit someone in broad daylight? Is there any justice in the world?..."
"Dad, are you okay? Dad, you are already eighty years old. Your body can't stand being hit by anyone. Where are you injured? Please don't be in any trouble..."
"Grandpa, where does it hurt? Wow, my grandpa..."
An old woman came out from somewhere, bringing a man, a woman and a child with her. She started crying and wailing at the old man lying on the ground. The sound immediately attracted a group of onlookers.
"We didn't meet him," Xi Shi explained to the two people in the back seat at a loss.
Their car hadn't even started, so it was impossible for it to hit anyone. Gu Qingyue's face looked grim, "He's trying to scam me."
"Then...what should we do?" Xi Shi had never experienced this kind of thing before the apocalypse, and he didn't know how to deal with it after the apocalypse. For a moment, he just felt that he shouldn't mention giving food to those children. After all, nothing happened to the two cars in front. "Big Bear..."
"It's okay, it's not your fault," Xiong Jie comforted him.
There seemed to be a lot of people queuing at the entrance of the base, but in fact, many of them were people who did not have enough supplies or had no supplies at all, and they surrounded the inspectors and begged for mercy.
Lu Weiyi even saw some people kneeling on the ground, crying to the prosecutors at the door, asking them to let the children in at least if they couldn't let the adults in.
But what can a group of children do when they go in? The future of the base? Stop joking. It’s the end of the world and we are in an uncertain situation. We can’t even live well now, so who can care about the future?
Lu Weiyi turned his head back expressionlessly, touched Zhuang Mingxu's forehead again, and urged Li Zhuang, "Have you got in line? If not, just cut in line and give some things."
"We're here," Li Zhuang said, got out of the car, looked back and was about to call Xiong Jie to hand over the supplies, only to find that Xiong Jie's car had not caught up at all.
"Where are the people?" Li Zhuang asked Ning Yuan who was in the middle.
Ning Yuan shook his head in confusion and said, "I don't know, I'll just follow you."
When the people who got off the car saw that there was one less car behind them, they immediately looked back. They were surrounded by a crowd and could not see the situation clearly. Li Zhuang said to Lin Yimu, "I'll go and take a look, you take care of it."
"I'll go too," Ning Yuan said, turned around and told Antonio to be careful, and followed him.
Lu Weiyi opened the car door, glanced back, and immediately guessed what was going on.
These refugees at the door had experienced countless comings and goings. They would never dare to stop the supplies from people who looked difficult to deal with. It was only because they gave things voluntarily that people thought they were kind or easy to bully. Thinking of the four people in the car, Lu Weiyi felt annoyed.
Under normal circumstances, he actually didn't care. They were all people who had never experienced the end of the world. The darkness of human nature needed to be discovered bit by bit. Only by facing it again and again and suffering losses could one become more adaptable. However, Zhuang Mingxu's breathing became hot at this time. He really had no mood and no time to give them time to slowly adapt.
He simply took a pistol, opened the car door, and said, "Watch out" as he slammed the door shut.
Before Lin Yimu could say anything to stop him, Lu Weiyi had already squeezed into the crowd.
The sound of the car door closing with a bang did not wake up Zhuang Mingxu in the back seat. Lin Yimu sighed and just hugged Zhuang Aiyi tightly in his arms.
At the entrance of the base, there are two people who are specifically responsible for checking the surrendered materials, two people who are specifically responsible for checking whether there are any injured people in the car, and one person who registers whether there are any people with special abilities. There are also four burly men who look like thugs outside, who are there to deal with various emergencies of people who have no supplies and are scoundrels, as well as these refugees.
At this time, the matter of Xiong Jie was shouted by a family. More people gathered, blocking the traffic, which naturally attracted their attention. At this time, two strong men came over.
When I saw it was that family again, I was speechless. The two of them pushed each other and just didn't want to go over. Li Zhuang and Ning Yuan, who rushed over, did not go directly over, but instead tried to get close to the two of them.
"Two brothers, what's the situation with this family?" Ning Yuan took two cigarettes and handed them to the two men.
Both of them were heavy smokers, and cigarettes were in short supply nowadays, so the two of them took the cigarettes immediately. Ning Yuan took the initiative to light one for them. One of them took a puff, looking intoxicated. After a moment, he smiled at Ning Yuan embarrassedly and introduced, "That's the deadbeat family. The whole family lives in a refugee area. They try to scam people and cars, and have to confiscate something from them."
"Is there no one taking care of this?" Ning Yuan actually saw it at a glance, but he was trying to find out the attitude of the people in the base towards this.
"What should we do? Beat them to death? The world is already like this, why not leave people a chance to live? Besides, it must be because they lost money that they are being targeted, otherwise they wouldn't go and extort other beggars," said another man, "Just give them some compensation, just to teach them a lesson."
"Can they blackmail us every time? What if they get beaten up?"
"It's not us who beat him up," said the man who spoke at the beginning, looking at Xiong Jie sitting in the car, with a hint of expectation on his face.
Lu Weiyi came over at this moment. He squeezed in from the outside of the crowd and listened to people around him muttering about this family's "glorious history". He became more and more annoyed with Xiong Jie and the others, and his face couldn't help but look a little ugly.
Li Zhuang had just seen Lu Weiyi and had no time to say hello when he saw the young master with an ugly face, took out a pistol and shot at the feet of the crying family.
The cries that had already reached the throats of the family suddenly seemed to be strangled, and they could not move up or down. The old man lying on the ground immediately climbed up, his movements were so agile that he did not look like a wounded person at all.
Li Zhuang covered his face helplessly. Ning Yuan looked surprised, as if he didn't know Lu Weiyi. A person next to him looked like he was enjoying the show and said with a smile, "Look, we've run into a tough guy."
The other one slapped him in the face and said seriously, "He has a gun in his hand, go back and tell the boss."
Over there, Lu Weiyi didn't know that he had attracted the attention of the people inside before he even entered the base. He stood not too far away, pointed his gun at the old man, and asked coldly, "Want to die? Can I give you a ride?"
The old man stopped pretending, the old lady stopped howling, and the man stopped blackmailing. They all took a step back, raised their hands in tacit understanding, and smiled. Lu Weiyi glanced at the car, said nothing, and turned away.
The group of people who were watching the excitement behind them quickly made way for them. Xiong Jie took this opportunity to start the car and followed them.
"I'm afraid it's impossible to keep a low profile now," Li Zhuang shook his head and said to Ning Yuan beside him, then followed him.
Thanks to Lu Weiyi's shot, they entered the base extremely smoothly. Even Zhuang Aiyi only collected half of the supplies for one person before entering.
As soon as he entered, he was immediately met by another group of people. This time they were all people who wanted to earn some food by introducing the base situation. Li Zhuang picked out a smart-looking one among them.
"My last name is Liu, you can just call me Xiao Liu. I am very familiar with the situation here. Whether you want to find someone to live with or want to inquire about something, you can ask me. I promise to tell you everything I know and you will be satisfied." Xiao Liu is a young man in his twenties, very lively and slippery.
"We want to find a place to live first. How much does a small villa that can accommodate more than a dozen people cost?" Li Zhuang felt that if they didn't find a place to settle down, the young master would probably get angry.
"The villa is quite expensive. If you buy it, you will need 2,000 kilograms of grain, and if you rent it, you will need 200 kilograms a month." Xiao Liu saw that Li Zhuang had a cigarette in his mouth and added, "It will be cheaper if you use cigarettes or water."
Li Zhuang nodded without asking too many questions, "Can we pay by day?" They were only staying temporarily, and paying a month's fee would be too wasteful and a bit eye-catching.
Xiao Liu was stunned for a moment and said, "It's okay, but it's not very cost-effective, ten kilograms a day."
"Okay, let's go now." After Li Zhuang finished speaking, he asked Ning Yuan, Xiong Jie and Gu Qingyue behind him to take the supplies and go with Xiao Liu to the place where they could register for accommodation.
After seeing Lu Weiyi's rage, the three of them worked much faster. Not long after, they came back with a simple check-in certificate and a bunch of keys. Xiao Liu led the way, and after more than ten minutes, the group stopped at the door of a small three-story villa.
Gu Qingyue opened the door, and three cars immediately drove into the yard. In the courtyard, Gu Qingyue was asking Xiao Liu about the situation of the base. Li Zhuang and Antonio went in first to take a look around. After confirming that it was safe, Li Zhuang asked Lu Weiyi to take the others in first.
The villa has three floors in total. In addition to the kitchen, there are three bedrooms on the first floor, only one of which has a bathroom. There are two bedrooms and a study on the second floor, and there is only a small flower hall in addition to a gym on the third floor. Apart from a bed in each bedroom, there was only dust with footprints left by Li Zhuang and Antonio.
"It's like this every time no one has lived here before," Xiao Liu explained, and then said with a smile, "There is a trading area in the base, which is dedicated to the exchange of various materials. Daily necessities are also sold there, including bedding, toiletries, and everything else. If you don't want to make a trip, you can tell me and I'll have someone deliver it to you directly."
"Let's take a look first and clean up. We'll contact you as soon as we need anything." Gu Qingyue gave the person a pack of instant noodles and sent the guest away in a very kind manner.
Lu Weiyi held Zhuang Mingxu in his arms and entered the villa first. After looking around, he chose a room with a bathroom on the first floor and walked in. He put Zhuang Mingxu on the bare bed board, walked out of the room, and threw out more than a dozen buckets of purified water, "I want to take a shower and have hot water."
Li Zhuang, who was connecting the circuit with Antonio while carrying a generator, was shocked by his extravagance again, "Young master, should we be frugal? We don't even have water to drink now."
"You don't know how to use water?" Lu Weiyi turned to look at Ning Yuan who was preparing to clean the house, his eyes full of disbelief.
Ning Yuan felt that he was thought highly of. Although he was very happy, he also felt a little innocent. After all, this was the second day after he discovered that he had superpowers. He stretched out his hand and concentrated all his strength, and finally a stream of water came out. Under the eager gaze of everyone, the water flowed to the rag in his hand, but... the rag was not even wet, and the water was gone.
"Tsk..." After everyone made a disgusted sound, they went back to doing their own things.
Li Zhuang first took out a few electric cookers and asked Xi Shi to help boil some water for Lu Weiyi.
"Yeah," Xi Shi nodded. He was about to apologize to Lu Weiyi for what happened at the gate of the base just now, but Lu Weiyi had already turned around and walked into the bedroom.
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