Chapter 236: Speed Type
“No. They haven’t cleared their debts yet,” Lu Weiyi answered directly. “B-level upgrades require 300–500 cores; A-level require 400–600 B-level cores. All are purified cores, quantities doubled, to be repaid within three years.”
“You all are the same. You can accept this. Apply in advance for upgrades. No self-upgrading or skipping training.”
“This is the upgrade issue. Next, notify the second item…”
“Wait,” Lu Weiyi was interrupted by Li Qing. “Who handles other ability upgrades? Lightning, space, mental types??? We also have a speed type in our team.”
Speed type!
This was the first time Lu Weiyi had heard of that category.
“…Come to me later,” Lu Weiyi recalled a speed-type user from his previous life and continued, “Let’s talk about salary.”
“Ordinary people’s daily supplies focus on staple foods, meat, and vegetables. No crystal cores for now. Later base development will adjust accordingly,” Lu Weiyi handed down a paper listing ordinary people’s benefits to be passed to Lin Yimu. Everyone glanced at it curiously — it was enough for a normal life.
But…
“What if we want some daily necessities?” Team Four captain Zhou He asked. Besides food and drink, people need many things in life—basic clothes, medicine, and so on.
“You can earn them by doing extra work after regular duties,” Lu Weiyi explained. “In Team One, there’s a little short guy named Dean, a healer with golden hair. His rank is very low, and his contribution isn’t high, but besides his daily life, he constantly gets snacks, clothes, even a room, plus various jewelry and accessories. Anything interesting he collects on outings, he can take a share.”
“That lucky?”
“Team One’s benefits that good?”
Several people in the hall looked to Team One members for confirmation.
Ning Yuan shook his head.
Lu Weiyi answered for them: “His boyfriend is an A-rank metal-type, a big foreigner. He does everything the team needs—from making electronic ID cards, connecting wiring, fighting zombies externally, to managing supplies internally. His only requirement is that the kid’s material life be free and unrestricted. We welcome everyone to actively participate and believe the team will give proper rewards.”
“Tsk tsk, true love.”
“I’m so useless, maybe I’ll just get enough to eat.”
…
After the subordinate members finished their discussion, Lu Weiyi picked up another paper and handed it out.
“For ability users, aside from supplies, small teams get extra crystal cores according to ability rank. Logistics staff and C-rank ability users get 5 cores per day; B-rank get 10 cores daily; A-rank get 10 B-level cores daily. Outgoing members get double cores; team captains get 10 extra; vice-captains 5 extra. All are purified cores for improving abilities, strictly forbidden to privately pass to anyone outside the team!”
“I hope you strictly enforce this with your subordinates. If found, the entire team will be punished,” Lu Weiyi stressed again. “Any questions?”
“Is the canteen going to be shut down?” asked Lin Sheng, vice-captain of Team Three.
Previously, since no one had supplies, Lu Weiyi handed daily consumption to the military department, who assigned people to cook. Several soldiers were injured, and even with Dean the healer around, they couldn’t be fully cured, but life wasn’t too affected. Excess contributions couldn’t be made.
Li Qing assigned some people to cook, and to this day, the whole military still ate in the large canteen.
“No shutdown. This just means these are the daily supplies you can take yourself. If you don’t want to eat in the canteen, you can take supplies and cook for yourself.”
“Then definitely no one will cook. Too time-consuming and requires firewood and so on. Not worth the trouble,” Lei Jun said, sounding relieved.
“You can make as many excuses as you want, but I know you won’t cook,” Ning Yuan called him out.
“Screw you. Like you know how,” Lei Jun tried to kick someone but remembered they were in a meeting and quickly sat properly.
“May I ask what Team One’s treatment is like?” asked Zhao Li, vice-captain of Team Four. The atmosphere suddenly stiffened. Everyone wanted to know but asking so bluntly seemed a bit rude…
“Is that not allowed?” Zhao Li looked around honestly.
“Allowed,” Lu Weiyi replied. He had already been briefed by Zhuang Mingxu and prepared answers for such questions, so this didn’t surprise him. “No difference in crystal cores, but life supplies are better.”
Because of Zhuang Mingxu’s leg, Lu Weiyi had to work hard daily and was generous in other matters, not stingy about life supplies.
He hadn’t lived long last life and didn’t expect to live a hundred years this time either. He aimed to live well day by day while he could.
His teammates were about his age, many things were transparent between them, no one was particularly difficult, and everyone got along peacefully.
“Their workload is heavier than everyone else in the base and must comply with any deployment, such as starting tomorrow, helping others improve abilities. There are other reasons enough to justify such treatment,” Lu Weiyi briefly explained.
Zhao Li nodded seriously with a bit of earnestness. “If my abilities are outstanding, can I apply to transfer to the first team?”
“…” Lu Weiyi had never received a question like “training.” His subconscious wanted to ask Zhuang Mingxu but quickly thought it inappropriate and shook his head. He carefully said, “Each team is arranged according to the most suitable cooperation of abilities and specially trained to coordinate. Members of each team are generally fixed and not casually transferred.”
“However… if special circumstances arise, people with strong abilities might be temporarily drawn from different teams to perform tasks,” Lu Weiyi asked Zhao Li, “Is it a personal issue?”
Zhao Li shook his head, “No, I just want to eat Team One’s food. It smells so good.”
His serious expression showed no hint of joking, leaving Lu Weiyi stunned.
Team Four’s captain Zhou He couldn’t help but kick him lightly, muttering he was hopeless.
“That’s because our cook is good. You can also pick a good cook,” Ning Yuan smiled. “Maybe when the base expands, we’ll hire a good cook for you.”
Xu Shi still managed the entire team’s meals conscientiously. Besides supplies, he started receiving extra crystal cores for his work.
The group laughed about food, and no one raised objections on serious matters. Lu Weiyi wrapped up with a few words, then dismissed the meeting.
Fuel was limited; to connect the islands without channels, they relied on rowboats.
The leaders had to stay to coordinate members and communicate the next steps. Lu Weiyi simply had Li Qing call over some special ability users.
The first to rush over was Zheng Qiu, his handsome bowl-cut bouncing humorously, looking like a silly mushroom head. Lu Weiyi was speechless.
“I really don’t know how space-type abilities upgrade,” Zheng Qiu said before Lu Weiyi interrupted:
“Why don’t you try? Keep storing supplies inside, and when you can’t fit any more, force it in?”
“Don’t come up with bad ideas,” Zhuang Mingxu, writing some plan nearby, said. He always had countless contingency plans, many of which were useful.
Hearing Lu Weiyi’s tone, it was clear he was bluffing, so he blocked him.
“Team leader, I really have no choice. They’ve all leveled up, and I just watch helplessly,” Zheng Qiu looked even older than Lu Weiyi. He skillfully squatted down and tugged at Lu Weiyi’s sleeve, looking almost about to cry. “I feel so guilty inside.” He wiped away nonexistent tears. “Please think of a solution, team leader—you’re my hope for growth, my guiding light for the future…”
This shameless act even stunned Lu Weiyi. He thought maybe he could learn from him—given his own good looks, it might work even better.
He looked at Zheng Qiu eagerly, as if waiting for him to keep talking.
A giant man strode over—about two meters tall, each step more than a meter long. As he came up to them, he kicked Zheng Qiu first. “Get lost, don’t embarrass yourself.”
Zheng Qiu was kicked down, sitting on the ground. “Hey, you tall idiot…” He quickly got up and swung at the big guy, but was pushed away by one hand, unable to land a hit.
Still, he introduced himself, “Hello, team leader, I’m Qi Lin, a speed-type C-rank ability user from Team Two.”
“…” A whole year and still C-rank, pathetic.
Lu Weiyi thought about the speed users he’d seen last life and immediately got interested. “Let me see how fast you really are.”
He pushed Zhuang Mingxu along with a few curious others directly to the coast.
With a flick of his hand, Lu Weiyi said, “Run to the middle island and back.”
“…” Qi Lin was stunned.
“Pfft”
“Haha…”
“Team leader, he can’t walk on water.”
…
“Can’t do it?” Lu Weiyi was surprised.
“…I’ll try,” Qi Lin pursed his lips seriously, realizing Lu Weiyi wasn’t joking.
“Can you swim?” Lu Weiyi asked first.
“…Yes,” Qi Lin felt this was a more sensible question and glanced at Li Qing.
Li Qing waved his hand, signaling approval.
Lu Weiyi thought for a moment. The seas between the four surrounding islands and the middle island weren’t very deep. According to Li Zhuang, depths were less than a hundred meters. Zhuang Mingxu even planned to farm seafood as base reserves. Water-type ability users had scouted the area—no extreme dangers.
He gestured, “Go ahead.”
Qi Lin felt like Lu Weiyi’s face showed a bit of amused curiosity.
If not for the long dormancy of his abilities…
Qi Lin closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and sprinted toward the sea surface.
Just stepping onto the water, less than five meters in—splash.
Lu Weiyi, full of enthusiasm, was stunned.
He seemed to finally understand the meaning of “start fierce as a tiger, but zero-point-five operation” (meaning great start, poor execution).
Several people ran quickly to the shore. Qi Lin flailed a few times before being pulled up by several hands.
Lu Weiyi looked at the drenched man with complicated feelings. “Ability exhausted?”
Qi Lin shook his head.
Lu Weiyi took out a blindfold from his space pocket and handed it to him. “Put this on, try again.”
Qi Lin stared at the blindfold silently.
He didn’t want to accept it.
