Chapter 202: Goodbye, Mental Type
“White phosphorus grenades produce white smoke and only need a small amount of white phosphorus to ignite human skin. Anyone hit will keep burning until it hurts to the bone marrow. Shotguns are loaded with magnesium and ceramic pellets, unlike normal bullets—they ignite upon contact with air, meaning injured people get burned alive,” Wu Yue’s expression darkened further as he spoke. “Hollow-point bullets have a concave tip. They stay inside the body but don’t wait quietly to be removed. They move around and release all their energy inside, exploding to scatter fragments through the chest—one shot, one kill.”
“Insane.” These weapons are banned internationally because they’re inhumane. Researching them secretly is obviously for nefarious purposes. “Have they succeeded?”
Wu Yue shook his head. “They’ve hit a bottleneck.”
“Looks like finding Lu Xi is for this job.” Lu Weiyi was very confident in Lu Xi’s talent for weapons manufacturing.
“This person is Liu Dali’s subordinate. If something happens here, it will definitely alert Liu Dali. He’s secretly researching these things, and anyone with half a brain would know he’s up to no good. What do we do?” Wu Yue asked.
“Let him be alerted. What can he really do to us?” Lu Weiyi didn’t care. “If he insists on coming here, then we can just collect some jade stones.”
Maybe they could even seize his space. Lu Weiyi was thinking about this quietly.
The three ability users were quietly dealt with.
The next day, the group acted as if nothing had happened and began their daily routines, but the teams inside the base were feeling uneasy.
Although Liu Bei had sent out a force, the number of people watching him had increased. He went out but didn’t return. Everyone could guess what that meant.
When Liu Bei was running around, Jing Yang immediately ordered his hands and feet to be restrained. He commanded He Jun that as long as Lu Xi didn’t come looking for them, everyone was to pretend not to know each other. On Liu Dong’s side, He Kai was told to treat them well and ensure their safe departure.
However, things were not so quiet at Liu Dali’s end. The metal-type ability user who went out, Zhang Qingming, was a trusted subordinate who knew all about the research center’s affairs. Just hearing what he was ordered to research gave an idea of what Liu Dali was trying to do.
After learning about Liu Bei’s foolish actions, Liu Dali both hated Zhang Qingming for greed and thought Liu Bei was really disappointing. But for now, he quietly gathered information from Liu Dong and planned to quietly eliminate the people involved.
After all, their group’s destination was not a secret. Lu Xi’s background was out there, and surviving and leaving would mean leaking information to the the Capital side.
“Exchange the things they want for them,” Liu Dali, a well-fed-looking middle-aged man whose son was already over thirty but who didn’t look old, said directly to Liu Dong after hearing what the other side wanted.
Liu Dong looked up at him, quickly twisting the beads in his hand.
“Also exchange the jade stones. Send them off properly.” Exchanging the jade stones would allow them to see what the others intended to do with them. As for the other supplies, since the people were caught, the supplies would naturally return.
“All right, I’ll arrange it,” Liu Dong said, leaving Liu Dali’s house to call He Kai and then walking toward his own house.
He didn’t believe a word Liu Dali said. A man who could silently hold his children’s and daughters’ forces tightly in his hands couldn’t possibly take a loss so easily. There must be something hidden.
“Brother Dong?” He Kai arrived quickly. He had been observing the other group personally and hadn’t gone out looking for supplies.
“Liu Dali personally ordered that we exchange the items for them,” Liu Dong motioned for He Kai to sit. After everyone else left, he said to He Kai.
He Kai frowned. “What does he mean?”
“He said to send them off properly.” Liu Dong adjusted his glasses and showed a sarcastic smile. “Do you believe that?”
“No,” He Kai said, raising his eyebrows. “The metal ability user who disappeared yesterday was one of his men. He wants to kill them on the way to silence them.”
“That’s what I think too,” Liu Dong slowly twisted the beads. “But just to take revenge for one person? That’s impossible. It should be… Zhang Qingming knows something. He’s afraid it will leak. But what could Zhang Qingming possibly know that he’s so afraid others find out?”
He Kai couldn’t figure it out either. In his view, the things fought over in this apocalypse were just supplies or crystal cores. What else could there be?
“So what do we do?” He Kai asked.
“Of course, cooperate. The dozen or so ability users he has are the base’s strongest. We can’t afford to offend them,” Liu Dong smiled softly, looking down. “But you can secretly warn the other side and also let them know about Liu Dali’s ability users.”
He Kai paused, then understood Liu Dong’s meaning and nodded before leaving.
*
Ning Yuan’s group was accompanied at first by people under He Kai. They exchanged some things, but not in large quantities. Later, He Kai came personally, bringing with him members from the other three small teams of the Wealthy Battle Squad, all claiming they were exchanging for supplies. Even high-quality jade sculptures were being delivered in large amounts.
Xu Sa saw this situation and exchanged a glance with Ning Yuan. They sensed something was up. Smiling and chatting, Xu Sa said he would take a batch back to the captain to get supplies. They left the base early, accompanied by people helping to deliver the goods, although Xu Sa wasn’t sure exactly whose people they were.
“Captain, thanks for Captain He’s help. The base is willing to give us a lot of unused jade stones. We didn’t bring supplies, so I sent a batch over first. It’s a hassle for others to help, so I feel a bit embarrassed. You better get the supplies ready for them quickly,” Xu Sa shouted as soon as they entered the territory of the Only Squad.
“Here they come,” Wu Yue whispered, standing beside Zhuang Mingxu and looking at the four people who came with Xu Sa to deliver things. They claimed to bring supplies but had nothing with them.
“Hello, we are the first squad of the Wealthy Battle Squad. Captain Liu Dong sent us to deliver some things. This gentleman is from the second squad, and this one from the third,” a middle-aged man said to Lu Weiyi, stepping aside to reveal three men behind him.
It seemed they weren’t from the same group. Lu Weiyi nodded.
The middle-aged man continued, “Our Captain Liu Dong asked us to bring some supplies over.” He stepped aside to reveal a young man behind him. The young man stretched out his hand, and immediately a pile of supplies appeared on the ground: at least a thousand pounds of jade and jade carvings, stacks of bottles of oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and so on. Then he looked at the others and asked, “There’s also some frozen meat. Should we just put it directly on the ground?”
“Put it here. Thanks,” Gu Qingyue said, moving the dining table they ate at and calling them over.
The man nodded and threw the supplies on the table. The meat was frozen solid, looking like it had just come out of a freezer. One table clearly wasn’t enough, so Xiong Jie immediately brought a tea table out from the tent, which was also piled high.
So many things just given away like that? No one would believe it was out of kindness. Lu Weiyi glanced at Wu Yue, and both understood each other’s thoughts.
After placing down his supplies, another person from the second squad also took some things out from the space and put them on the ground. “These are from our second and third squads.” The amount of items from these two squads wasn’t as much as from others, which looked a bit awkward, but no one showed it on their faces.
“Lu Xi, Dean, calculate how much the supplies should be. I’ll pay immediately,” Lu Weiyi said.
“Please sit, everyone, just a moment,” Gu Qingyue moved a stool over, inviting the group to sit down.
The middle-aged man leading them shook his head, refusing to sit, and followed by his young companion went over to verify the supplies with Lu Xi. The other two looked around with eyes that seemed to want to search every inch of the small few dozen square meters, as if unwilling to leave anything unchecked.
“Excuse me,” the middle-aged man casually approached Lu Weiyi and smiled. “I’m Zheng Guohui, under Captain Liu Dong. Captain Lu is still so young but leading a team all the way back to the Capital. Truly a young hero.”
“Pfft,” the man from the second squad scoffed dismissively and turned his head elsewhere, completely ignoring the others’ attitude.
The man from the third squad looked around and found nothing unusual, then went to check the supplies with Dean and Lu Xi.
Zheng Guohui ignored the second squad man’s attitude, slightly turned sideways, and using the excuse of looking into the vehicle, turned his back to the second squad man and set up a mental energy shield between himself and Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi raised an eyebrow.
Zheng Guohui said, “Captain Lu, don’t get excited. This is just my ability. Our conversation here won’t be detected by others.”
Lu Weiyi nodded slightly. Zheng Guohui continued, “Our captain asked me to remind you that the Wealthy Battle Squad’s leader might be targeting you. He has fifty ability users under his command, all at a high level, thirteen of whom are at least B-level.”
The message said the Dai Xi county base only had eight B-level ability users total, so this information seemed off. Lu Weiyi looked at him and asked, “Leader?”
“Liu Dali. He’s metal type,” Zheng Guohui said. “Among the other thirteen ability users, there is one mental type, three metal types, two fire types, four earth types, two water types, and one wood type.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the mental energy shield suddenly dropped, and Zheng Guohui looked a bit pale—likely from exhaustion.
Lu Weiyi roughly estimated the time and recalled that when he first awakened, he seemed stronger than Zheng Guohui, although he didn’t know why the other party was being friendly. It didn’t stop Lu Weiyi from accepting the gesture. He nodded at Zheng Guohui, accepting the favor.
After both sides verified the trade, Lu Weiyi ended up with extra supplies, which he had brought into the base. He said to Xu Sa, “Be back before five. Take whatever you can. We’re leaving tomorrow.”
“Got it, I understand,” Xu Sa said happily, feeling he had brought the necessary information, and left again with others.
After everyone left, Lu Weiyi put the items into space, watching it expand again, feeling much more at ease.
“I just sensed mental energy?” Li Zhuang looked at Lu Weiyi.
