Chapter 193: Massacre
Visible fire, lightning, invisible ice needles, earth shields, vines, and metal—all kinds of abilities scattered around like they were free.
Lu Weiyi gave the order to kill without hesitation. Unlike the other side, who still hoped to keep survivors for information, they left no mercy, seizing the initiative completely.
By the time the other side realized and tried to resist fully, even their numerical advantage was lost. With the difference in ability levels, it was a massacre.
“Surrender!”
“We were wrong, sorry…”
“We were confused, we surrender…”
As the first person loudly admitted defeat, others quickly started begging for mercy. Lu Weiyi said nothing.
He considered himself reasonable—money for goods. Although the price was a bit high, it was fair trade. But if you try to rob us, you have to bear the consequences of failure.
As for begging?
In a fight for life and death, there is no room for mercy.
If their strength was insufficient, death would likely be their fate anyway.
The enemy had stopped resisting. The group paused, waiting for Lu Weiyi’s order, but Lu Weiyi remained silent. Antonio and Li Zhuang each controlled their abilities to sweep around. Those who had just been begging suddenly dropped to the ground dead.
Warm blood sprayed onto Gu Qingyue’s face, who couldn’t take it and stood stunned for a moment before turning to vomit.
Gu Qingji beside him put an arm around him gently patting him.
Lu Weiyi jumped down from the truck roof, waved his small green branch to absorb all the corpses into space, and said coolly, “Li Zhuang and Liu Rui, follow me. The rest clean up the traces quietly.”
He didn’t blame them for not striking earlier.
They had not lacked supplies since following him and had never experienced the true cruelty of the apocalypse. It was normal to hesitate. Of course, without experience, there was no need for explanation.
Like summer insects talking about ice—they wouldn’t understand.
That was just Lu Weiyi’s way of thinking. In reality, the few people outside—Antonio was doing the killing and looting. Li Zhuang, though not explicit, didn’t seem ordinary either. Ning Yuan, Wu Yue, and Lin Yimu were all battle-hardened soldiers, their hands stained with blood.
As for Xu Sa and Liu Rui, they were still very young when they were falsely accused and imprisoned. Such places hardly have any light left for humanity. If anyone found it hardest to accept, it was probably the two Gu brothers. However, Gu Qingji was clear-headed and naturally didn’t need much explanation; after some thought, he could understand on his own.
Lu Weiyi quickly ran off into the darkness toward a somewhat distant place, with Li Zhuang and Liu Rui following behind at a measured pace. Only after putting some distance from the base did he stop.
“Dig a pit, make it big,” Lu Weiyi told Li Zhuang.
Li Zhuang didn’t ask what for and immediately used his ability to dig a pit over thirty meters deep. Lu Weiyi then tossed all the bodies from the space into the pit. After hesitating for a moment, he reached in and took out the crystal cores from all of them.
This was not uncommon in some chaotic places within the base. Compared to the crystal cores on zombies, human crystal cores were easier to absorb and didn’t cause violent energy reactions—though it was against human ethics, it just hadn’t been made public.
“Burn it,” he said to Liu Rui.
Liu Rui showed no signs of hesitation or remorse. He unleashed most of his ability, and the pit instantly became a sea of fire. The smell of burning flesh made Lu Weiyi slightly nauseous but he showed no expression.
He was already learning to appear calm and reliable in front of everyone—like a true leader.
The bodies burned to ashes were buried again by Li Zhuang. They returned to the base, with all traces of blood and life energy carefully concealed.
Several campfires burned, the idle people had gone to rest, and the night guards greeted them lightly while remaining vigilant on all sides. The scene was so calm that it seemed as if they were simply taking a normal night watch.
No one would have guessed that just minutes ago, a bloody battle had taken place here with over a hundred dead.
Early the next morning, Su Yan appeared outside the tents driving a truck.
“Luckily I made it in time,” he thought as he saw the group already packing, not waiting for him. He felt relieved. “Come look, I found something for you.”
Just the smug look on his face made Lu Weiyi think it must be something good—and he felt a bit embarrassed to take anything casually.
Lu Weiyi pushed Zhuang Mingxu forward, while Zhuang Ai Yi happily bounced over first. Su Yan scooped the little one up and looked inside the truck.
“Chickens! Daddy, daddy, they can move!” Zhuang Ai Yi’s baby voice rang out, attracting even the others to put down their things and gather around.
“Live chickens? These are… ordinary chickens, right?” Wu Yue looked surprised at the six chickens in the cage and slapped Su Yan’s shoulder enthusiastically. “Your base is pretty good. I haven’t seen live chickens since the apocalypse.”
“There are roosters and hens. Maybe they’ll hatch chicks later,” Xi Shi reached out to touch them but two big roosters suddenly pecked him hard. Xi Shi laughed, “They’re quite lively, but some of the hens look a bit droopy. If they were still at our base, the rabbits I raised would probably already have had babies.”
Hearing this, Lu Weiyi immediately recalled when Xi Shi had spent 50kg of rice at the trading market to buy those little rabbits, which never mutated.
When the flood was coming, Lu Weiyi had anxiously used his small green branch to bring everything it touched away. Afterwards, they only ate the food on the table and never touched the rest. He scanned the space with his mental power—an area where time was frozen.
There was a messy pile of stuff—coffee tables, sofas, and heaps of supplies thrown together. Two big rabbits were squeezed inside, still in the posture they were in when stored in space: standing on tiptoe. Looking closely, one’s belly was visibly swollen.
He didn’t know if they were still alive. Nervously, Lu Weiyi used mental power to put the two rabbits into the sunlight area. The rabbits immediately collapsed, completely lifeless.
“This freezer is full of frozen meat. How much did you bring?” Ning Yuan jumped into the truck and slapped the freezer noisily.
“Isn’t this how I treat you guys? I traded mutated meat with other teams—it was a steal for them,” Su Yan said with some regret. After all, for them with abilities, mutated meat was more beneficial than ordinary meat.
Su Yan had his companion Wang Ming take out a pouch of crystal cores from the driver’s seat and looked at Lu Weiyi meaningfully. “These are 4,300 crystal cores. That’s my entire savings. Look…”
Lu Weiyi nodded. The nearest, Antonio, took the crystal cores and handed them to Dean, who, like a little money lover, pulled Bai Miao aside to count them.
Lu Weiyi handed a finished crystal core back to Su Yan.
“Don’t let people know we gave this,” Zhuang Mingxu warned when he saw more people coming from afar.
“Don’t worry,” Su Yan followed his gaze and saw Xu Sen arriving. He squinted, “I’m just here to deliver a comrade.”
As they spoke, Xu Sen came over with others, even accompanied by Gao Tianpeng and Fang He, who had previously followed Meng Da.
“Delivering someone with such a big group?” Su Yan, busy with the supplies and unaware of the big events inside the base, asked Xu Sen.
“On one hand, it’s to see you all off. On the other, they have some questions,” Xu Sen gestured toward Gao Tianpeng and Fang He.
Gao Tianpeng smiled at the group and asked, “Have any of you seen the young girl who used to follow me?”
“Hahaha… Bro, your wife’s gone missing and she’s come here to ask? Doesn’t seem right,” the base folks said, all joking that the girl following Gao Tianpeng was his girlfriend. Ning Yuan laughed and pointed at everyone in the squad. “Our whole team takes care of ourselves. We have no place for stealing someone else’s woman. Maybe she ran off with someone? Did you do something bad to piss her off? If you ask me, it’s the apocalypse—if you find a girl you like, you should cherish her. There’s no time to bully anyone now.”
Gao Tianpeng’s mouth twitched awkwardly and he replied coldly, “No.”
“Then maybe you should think about whether you did something wrong or offended someone. If they can’t get to you, they’ll go after your wife,” Ning Yuan said seriously. “This kind of thing happened plenty before the apocalypse. It’s nothing new. Just pity your wife.” His tone turned serious, face darkening. “But—your wife is missing. Why come ask us? Could it be that her disappearance has something to do with us?”
If there was a connection, that would be equivalent to admitting he had sent people to provoke them. Gao Tianpeng naturally could not admit that and could only silently swallow his anger. Still, he couldn’t help but wonder if this was the work of another squad.
“No worries, it’s better to be clear about these things so we don’t mistakenly blame the wrong people,” Ning Yuan said with a smile.
Gao Tianpeng had no response and reluctantly accepted that statement. Meanwhile, Fang He, standing to one side, apologized outright, “Everyone, our captain is impulsive and has offended you. This is our squad’s compensation. We hope you won’t hold grudges against us.” As he spoke, he stepped aside, revealing several hundred people behind him, all carrying various supplies—a grand procession.
Zhuang Mingxu lowered his eyes and smiled slightly. Lu Weiyi didn’t bother with him at all. Ning Yuan, again acting as diplomat, said, “What nonsense is this? We’re new here and don’t even know your captain. How could we have offended him?”
“…” Fang He looked troubled and confessed, “To be honest, our captain has coveted the items you hold. Ignoring our team’s advice, he led a night raid last night and has not returned since…”
Ning Yuan raised an eyebrow. What Fang He said made it seem like the captain stubbornly acted without listening to others. Especially since Fang He was taking a very low posture now—if the captain had succeeded, his position wouldn’t be affected. But if the captain and his team got into trouble or died, it wouldn’t be Ning Yuan’s problem, and he might even be appointed to replace the captain.
Ning Yuan thought this “stubborn captain” was probably egged on by Fang He.
