Chapter 31: Wood-Type Ability?
Without a unified standard for the distribution of various foods, conflicts were inevitable. This was a situation that every base would experience, but it appeared particularly early in this community.
These were all people who had been high and mighty before the apocalypse. Once the outside world was safe, food, drink, and sanitation became the primary concerns.
The next morning, Lu Weiyi gave a fully charged phone to Li Zhuang, only to find a large number of residents gathered at the management office, demanding an equivalent valuation of various foods, like a rebellion.
Li Zhuang had to help Fang Ke stabilize the situation, so the planned building sweep was suspended. Lu Weiyi gave him the prepared phone and decided to go outside for a walk.
Lu Weiyi, who hadn’t initially planned where to go, knew what to do as soon as he got in the car and saw the almost empty fuel tank. In the few days since the apocalypse, many households had run out of supplies, and there were many cars on the road. Lu Weiyi drove towards the gate, and many people stopped his car, wanting to team up.
The barrier gate at the community entrance had become manual, leaving only one lane for vehicles. The rest were blocked. Three people guarded it to prevent wandering zombies from entering.
Seeing Lu Weiyi drive out, a tall, thin young man with a few strands of hair bleached green and sticking up ran out of the guardhouse with a folder, patted the car door, and flipped a page in a businesslike manner. “Register.”
Lu Weiyi glanced at his low-crotch pants that almost reached his knees, reported his name, and the little green-haired man tapped his chin with a ballpoint pen, made two strokes on the paper, and scratched his head with the pen. “Those characters? How do you write them again?”
“6-3-1,” Lu Weiyi reported his room number.
“Eh,” the little green-haired man wrote with a smile, glancing into the car. “Dude, you’re going out alone? Awesome.”
Lu Weiyi nodded and closed the car window. Seeing that he had no desire to talk, the little green-haired man ran to the front of the car and manually opened the barrier gate.
There weren’t any gas stations too close. Lu Weiyi compared the map and chose to go north. There were a total of four not far away. If any were damaged by the earthquake, he could just make a detour to the next one.
Compared to the few zombies he had encountered last time he went out, today they seemed to be everywhere. Stiff figures wandered the streets, and coupled with the desolation everywhere after the earthquake, the atmosphere alone was enough to make one realize the arrival of the apocalypse.
There were no military garrisons around Wutong City, and most people hadn’t gone out much. They didn’t know if there was a unified safe zone in the city. At this time, most people were still staying in their homes, not all heading out of the city as in the novels, unless they were originally from elsewhere. Otherwise, with the world like this everywhere, going anywhere was the same, so it was better to stay in a familiar place.
There weren’t many vehicles coming and going, and they all drove by in a hurry, followed by a string of zombies. Besides that, some temporary teams composed of groups of people, both men and women, had appeared in the shops along the roadside. They held various weapons, some fighting off the approaching zombies, and some quickly prying open the doors of convenience stores. These should be the initial resource scavenging teams.
Human adaptability was always terrifyingly strong.
Lu Weiyi relied on the good quality of his car and drove without stopping. At first, zombies crashed straight into the car, banging constantly. Some were directly crushed under the car, while others would climb onto the carriage. Lu Weiyi was wondering how to get them off when the little green branch on his wrist reached out along the car window.
Lu Weiyi opened a crack in the window, and the soft little green branch, like a boneless vine, powerfully whipped towards the zombie, directly flinging it off.
This… was a bit like a wood-type ability.
Wood-type abilities were gentle and could soothe the ability riots caused by the excessive accumulation of lost energy in ability users. Although they couldn’t achieve a healing effect, their tireless soothing during advancement might save lives at critical moments. Moreover, their abilities could promote the survival of plants, which was simply cheating for crops that couldn’t survive due to environmental changes.
What’s more, abilities of the same origin could soothe ability plants, making wood-type users almost essential for dealing with high-level ability plants in the later stages.
But it had to be said that plant-type ability users were basically useless in combat. Most could only infuse their abilities into weapons for use. Lu Weiyi had only heard of one person in his previous life who could directly manipulate plants to fight like this.
That was a safe base in the coastal area. It was said that the base was founded by that person alone. Not only could he manipulate plants as his weapons, but he could even control lower-level ability plants for his own use. But these were all legends because that base didn’t interact with the surrounding bases, and they didn’t participate in the safe base conference organized by the Capital at that time, so Lu Weiyi never got to see it.
