Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH48

Chapter 48: Departure

That night, Li Zhuang heard about this and his face looked a bit unpleasant, but he didn’t say anything. He just went out for a while and came back to hand Lu Weiyi a fully equipped Desert Eagle.

He was originally going to confirm if he knew how to use it, but he saw Lu Weiyi smoothly unload the magazine, take a look, and then skillfully reload it.

Li Zhuang was still waiting for him to ask where this thing came from, but he saw Lu Weiyi unceremoniously stuff it into his pocket and walk straight past him.

Walked straight past him—

Without saying a single word.

Li Zhuang was directly amused by his anger, but he also felt relieved in his heart. If he had really asked, he would have found it a bit difficult to answer.

The next day, a short while after the group went out, the stairwell became lively. This time, without any clearing of the way, several men in their thirties and forties directly started smashing the door.

Dean was startled by the noise and quickly went back to his room to get his pistol, putting it on his body before looking at Lu Weiyi and asking, “Lu, what… to do?”

Lu Weiyi put the pistol on his body, picked up his zombie-slaying knife, and went out. Before they could cut the lock, he took the initiative to open it. “What?”

Coming to the door with hammers and knives, they naturally hadn’t planned on being polite. The leading man sized up Lu Weiyi, then glanced at Dean behind him, licking his lips. “Little brother, it’s been a while since us brothers have eaten anything. We heard you have some leftover food here. Would you be interested in treating us to a meal?”

“Want to eat bullets?” Lu Weiyi glanced at him, clearly needing to look up at the man, but his tone made it sound like he was looking down on him.

However, paired with his slender figure, these words didn’t threaten anyone at all.

The man scratched his head and laughed loudly, asking the people beside him, “What did this little beauty ask me? Bullets? Hahaha…”

The few people beside him also laughed along. Lu Weiyi didn’t even know what they were laughing at, they were just stupid.

“That depends on which gun. If it’s the one on the little beauty, maybe I really would want to…”

The man’s gaze as he looked down was extremely lewd. The words he was about to say stopped when Lu Weiyi pointed a gun at his forehead. He raised his hands and took a step back. “Little brother, let’s talk this out.”

The other men also stopped laughing and silently took a step back.

A man beside the leader said ingratiatingly, “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, little brother, we didn’t know who you were. We just arrived in this community and haven’t eaten for several days. Someone instigated us, that’s why we came. We’ll leave right away, right away… please don’t…”

The man was halfway through speaking when he suddenly bumped into the leader beside him. The leader immediately dodged the head being pointed at, reaching out to grab the gun in Lu Weiyi’s hand. Just then, a gunshot exploded in their ears, followed by a wail. The speaking man fell to the ground, clutching his bleeding leg.

Before everyone could react, there was another gunshot. The leader fell straight backward. The group immediately retreated and made way, seeing the man lying on the ground with wide-open eyes, a bullet hole in his forehead, blood gurgling out and quickly staining the ground red.

Lu Weiyi looked at the crowd with a calm expression. The faces of the group all changed, and they retreated in unison, looking like they wished they could squeeze out of the narrow stairwell. Even the few people at the end of the stairs quietly went downstairs, followed by the sound of frantic running echoing throughout the stairwell.

“Lu, okay?” Dean hadn’t expected Lu Weiyi to be so direct. Although he had been around firearms a lot due to his family, he really couldn’t bring himself to directly shoot someone in the head. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have shot the man in the leg.

Such a direct shot might seem easy, but actually seeing oneself kill someone would cause psychological trauma. Dean looked at Lu Weiyi with some worry.

Lu Weiyi shook his head. He had long lost such a thing as psychological trauma. On the way back to the Capital with Zhuang Mingxu, he had seen all sorts of disgusting people and things. Compared to those, a quick death was a relief.

He looked at the injured man sitting on the ground, this time truly looking down on him. “What were you just saying not to do?”

The man clutched the wound on his leg, looking at Lu Weiyi’s calm face with fear and trembling, unable to say a word.

After a long while, someone finally whispered, “…You killed someone.”

“Killing… killing is against the law…”

“Oh, then you can call the police to arrest me,” Lu Weiyi replied, putting away the gun, turning around to close the door and go home, casually saying, “Clean up the mess on the ground before you leave.”

While Lu Weiyi was bravely confronting the evil forces, Li Zhuang and the others outside were having a very hard time.

In just a few days, the number of zombies seemed to have multiplied several times. The road was densely packed, almost everywhere. Their goal for this trip was a small commodity wholesale market near the east. They hadn’t been driving for an hour when they saw more than a dozen cars heading in this direction, including two trucks loaded with supplies.

In the instant they passed by, Li Zhuang’s sharp eyes recognized Zhou Jie, the man who had exchanged supplies for the truck, sitting inside one of the cars.

“Hey, brother,” Li Zhuang rolled down the car window and called out, “Where are you guys headed?” He remembered them saying they were in a pretty big safe zone in the north of the city.

Zhou Jie glanced over and also rolled down his window. “Fleeing for our lives.”

Li Zhuang raised an eyebrow and tossed a cigarette over. “Why leave a perfectly good safe base? Where are you running to?”

“Safe base?” Zhou Jie scoffed. “Only those who stay cooped up in the base all day think it’s safe.”

“How so?”

“You’ve seen it too, the zombies have clearly increased in the past two days. Last night, the place we were staying was attacked. Hundreds of zombies were only cleared by daybreak. The base doesn’t have large-scale fortifications. The little natural debris that surrounds it is useless at a critical moment. If it happens twice more, I’m afraid the entire base will be gone. I’m taking my brothers to see if there are any larger safe zones. You guys should also be careful,” Zhou Jie finished, then sped off. A gust of wind carrying the zombies’ roars brought back the words, “See you later.”

By mid-afternoon that day, their group had returned.

Although the people in the stairwell were gone, the smashed marks on the door and the bloodstains on the ground were still there.

Antonio pounded heavily on the door and shouted, “Dean! Dean, it’s me, open the door quickly!”

Hearing the commotion, Dean flew out like a happy little bird, quickly opened the door, and was immediately embraced by Antonio. He reached out to touch him all over, asking anxiously, “Darling, what happened? Are you hurt?”

The others behind him, still carrying things, were already used to it. Gu Qingji said expressionlessly, “Excuse me,” and sidled in, leaving the two of them in the stairwell whispering sweet nothings, expressing the longing of not seeing each other for a whole morning.

Li Zhuang had been silent the whole way. At this point, he directly called a few people from the community and hired them to carry all the things upstairs for the price of a pack of instant noodles.

“Big Brother Mu, so early today?” Even though Lu Weiyi hadn’t gone out in the past two days, he noticed that they were returning later and later, but the supplies were becoming less. He knew that the zombies outside must have increased. Now seeing them return so early, he thought everything had gone smoothly.

“I came back early to pack the things we’ll take when we leave.” It was the fourteenth day, and Zhuang Mingxu still hadn’t arrived. They had agreed to return to Qingyuan tomorrow morning. Before this moment, Lu Weiyi was still waiting in his heart, but when Lin Yimu said they needed to pack, he truly recognized reality.

“I understand,” Lu Weiyi nodded. “I need to go out for a bit.”

“Do you need to take something? There are more zombies outside now, I’ll go with you,” Lin Yimu said, putting down the box in his hand, ready to go with him.

“No need, I’m going to ask Little Green Hair for the jade ornaments he collected for me,” Lu Weiyi said, and walked out.

Lin Yimu was about to follow when Li Zhuang patted his shoulder. “The kid’s grown up, you have to learn to let go. Before you came, he was the first one to go out of the community to find food, and he killed zombies cleanly and efficiently.”

“I’m just a little worried that he’s in a bad mood.” Lin Yimu had gone out with Lu Weiyi once, how could he not know Lu Weiyi’s ferocity in killing zombies? But knowing didn’t mean he wouldn’t feel sorry for him. After all, if someone was protecting him, he wouldn’t need to be like this. Lin Yimu always felt that he hadn’t protected him well, but he was also gratified by his rapid growth.

All the supplies the seven of them had obtained in the past few days were piled up in this house and the one next door. Lin Yimu carried boxes back and forth between the two rooms, sorting and organizing. The Gu Qingyue brothers returned to their own home, and Li Zhuang sat on the sofa smoking.

Antonio spoke with Dean in the room for a while, then came out and stopped Lin Yimu. “Lin, is the place you’re going bigger than this city?”

Lin Yimu nodded. Qingyuan was the provincial capital, more than twice the size of Wutong City.

“Dean and I want to go with you, is that okay?” Antonio went straight to the point.

“Of course, welcome. More people means more support on the road,” Lin Yimu extended his hand, and Antonio gave him a high-five, then looked at Li Zhuang. “Li, do you want to come along?”

Li Zhuang stared at them for a while, then tossed the cigarette butt he had finished smoking. “If I had known, I wouldn’t have looked for so many things we can’t take.”

“We can find more when we get there,” Lin Yimu replied with a smile. “Should we ask the two from Gu Qingyue’s family?”

“Ask us what?” As he spoke, Gu Qingyue’s voice came from the door, and then he looked at Lin Yimu and said, “Brother Lin, my brother and I want to go to Qingyuan with you. We’ll have to trouble you to take care of us on the way.”

“Haha… I was just about to ask you about that,” Lin Yimu said.

“You guys are…” Gu Qingyue was surprised.

“Everyone’s preparing to leave,” Antonio shrugged. “It’s a case of great minds thinking alike.”

So, after Lu Weiyi went out for a while and returned, he found that one of the two big trucks parked downstairs was already full, and Lin Yimu was still stacking things on the other one. “Are we taking too much?” The things he had initially found were all put directly into his space. Only after the two from Antonio’s family came over did he take out a little bit. The later searched supplies were divided among several people, although not a small amount, it was still quite something to fill a big truck.

“We… together,” Dean carried two boxes of mineral water and handed them to Lin Yimu in the truck, happily saying to Lu Weiyi, “All go.”

Lu Weiyi’s gaze swept around, and he saw the Gu Qingyue brothers also helping. “You guys are going too?” Antonio’s home wasn’t here, so it was normal for them to leave. Li Zhuang looked like a free spirit, but the two from Gu Qingyue’s family were definitely locals.

“Yes,” Gu Qingyue briefly told him about meeting Zhou Jie today. “Their place isn’t safe anymore, we’re even less likely to survive there, so let’s find another way out. And I heard Brother Lin say that there are military garrisons near Qingyuan, so if a safe zone is established, it will definitely be much better than here.”

Lu Weiyi nodded. The safe zone in Qingyuan was indeed much better than here, but…

**

The group reduced their belongings again and again, filling two large trucks. Li Zhuang volunteered to keep watch at night, and the others didn’t argue.

Early the next morning, Gu Qingyue got up early and boiled all the eggs they had brought back, cooked a pot of porridge, and cooked all the vegetables they couldn’t take. He packed some for the road and divided the rest among the group.

There were still a lot of toiletries piled up at home. The soap, toothpaste, and shampoo were a considerable amount, which was a pity to leave behind. Perhaps yesterday’s gunshot had a deterrent effect. They packed their things enthusiastically, making a big show of leaving, and Fang Ke’s side didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping them. However, no one wanted to trade for the things they couldn’t take, so they had to leave them behind.

Gu Qingyue said with some regret, “If I had known we were leaving, I wouldn’t have taken so much. I wonder who got lucky.”

“There will be more later,” Gu Qingji comforted him.

“Young Master, let’s go,” Lin Yimu said, looking at Lu Weiyi, who had been standing by the window looking out.

“…Okay!” Lu Weiyi replied, taking advantage of the moment to go back to his room and take out a bucket of paint from his space. He had grabbed this when he went to collect gas cylinders before. He had already used two buckets yesterday. Now he opened a bucket of bright red paint, dipped a brush, and directly wrote on the wall facing the door, “Lu Weiyi returns to Qingyuan,” followed by the date, which was this morning, accurate to the minute.

Lin Yimu knew that his heart was still waiting.

After going out the door, Lu Weiyi took advantage of the opportunity to lock the door last and put everything in the house into his space, not even leaving the sofa and stools, let alone the supplies they had worked so hard to find in the past few days.

As soon as the group went downstairs, Li Zhuang handed a few pieces of jade ornaments to Lu Weiyi. “Green Hair sent people over to deliver these, said you asked him to collect them before, and gave half a box of compressed biscuits.” After saying that, he couldn’t help but tease, “Why are you like a little girl, liking jewelry?”

Lu Weiyi was in a really bad mood and ignored him, took the jade, pretended to put it in his pocket, but directly threw it into his space, and got into the off-road vehicle.

The seven of them drove two trucks and an off-road vehicle, heading out of the community towards the morning sun.

Thanks to Lu Weiyi’s deterrent yesterday, a row of people stood at the gate, but no one dared to stop them. Little Green Hair still enthusiastically opened the gate, saying familiarly, “Brother Lu, where are you guys going?”

“Qingyuan,” Lu Weiyi replied, reaching into the back seat to grab a few bottles of water and handing them to him. “If anyone comes looking for me, please tell them I’ve returned to Qingyuan.”

“Hey, Brother Lu, don’t worry. If I see anyone, I’ll definitely pass on the message to you,” Little Green Hair happily took the water.

Lu Weiyi started the car and drove away. Gu Qingyue in the passenger seat looked back, his eyes reddening. Gu Qingji in the back seat reached out and grabbed his hand. He smiled and said, “This is still the house you gave me. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to come back.”

“When we get to Qingyuan, I’ll give you another one,” Gu Qingji said.

“Okay, I’ll be waiting.”

Li Zhuang, who was sleeping in the back of the leading truck, glanced back as they left the community and immediately saw the large green painted characters on the community wall, “Lu Weiyi returns to Qingyuan,” followed by the date. It must have been done during that short time they were out yesterday. He asked Lin Yimu, who was driving, “Will the person he’s waiting for come?”

“If nothing happened, he definitely will.” Zhuang Mingxu had a bit of stubbornness in his personality, and Lin Yimu had never doubted his feelings for Lu Weiyi.

Li Zhuang raised an eyebrow and didn’t say anything, curling back up in the narrow bunk in the back of the truck.

Qingyuan was east of Wutong City. To return to Qingyuan, they had to pass through the east of the city. Given the amount of supplies, they could only drive. The group decided to first go to a gas station. If possible, it would be best to take some extra fuel with them. This meant they couldn’t bypass the city. The number of zombies in the city had increased significantly compared to yesterday, and the number of people leaving the city had also noticeably increased. Cars sped by everywhere in a hurry.

The city, which had been bustling with lights and entertainment half a month ago, had now become a scene of broken walls and ruins, a desolate view everywhere, which made people’s moods also sink.

The group circled around twice, filled up the gas, and then directly left the city. Lin Yimu took over leading the way. The group didn’t need to enter the city to find supplies, so they took rural roads. Naturally, there weren’t many zombies along the way. The truck leading the way ran them over, and the off-road vehicle in the middle didn’t need to exert any effort. When it was time for the afternoon shift change, Lu Weiyi simply lay down in the back seat to cultivate his abilities.

Around five o’clock in the afternoon, Lin Yimu, who was leading the way, slowed down. Gu Qingji, who was driving in the middle, quickly overtook him. Li Zhuang opened the window and said, “There’s a village about a kilometer ahead. We’ll spend the night there. The next closest village is a bit far, and continuing would mean spending the night on the road. You guys go scout the situation first.”

Gu Qingji nodded and accelerated past.