Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH59

Chapter 59: Fly, Motorboat!

After eating in shifts, the group divided the food Xi Shi had prepared into several packs, ensuring there was some in each car, and then packed all the things they wanted to take. Large items were difficult to move through the ventilation ducts, so they had to transport them in batches.

Lu Weiyi stayed behind. When most people had left, he used his mental power to store all the remaining items in the supermarket. It was also at this time that he felt that the areas crushed by the collapse could also be directly taken into his space. However, the broken soil, stones, and bricks needed to be removed with mental power again. He wasn’t skilled at it the first time. He only realized after storing everything that there was still a lot of debris on the shelves and food, making it look like a pile of dirt when placed with other supplies.

It probably won’t affect eating, right?

Lu Weiyi thought. If it really didn’t work, he could just trade it away. If all else failed, he could give it to the refugees who had nothing. Surely someone wouldn’t mind.

However, this was incredibly helpful for clearing out the supplies in the collapsed area. Lu Weiyi’s mood improved a bit.

Li Zhuang and the others went out and returned with a small van. All the back seats had been removed, and various foods were piled up. Only the two front seats remained. The others had to squeeze into the remaining two cars. The spacious off-road vehicle directly crammed in five people.

Lin Yimu drove, Li Zhuang sat in the passenger seat, and Lu Weiyi, Antonio, and Dean sat in the back. As soon as they were settled, Li Zhuang handed over a white backpack. “Saw it and brought a little something for the kid.”

Lin Yimu glanced at Li Zhuang in surprise, seeing that he still had that carefree look and couldn’t discern anything.

Lu Weiyi took it and opened it. Inside were all kinds of jade ornaments, bracelets, pendants, and necklaces.

Lu Weiyi took these for space repair, but he was used to being casual about it. He would bring over a few pieces when he remembered, and if he didn’t, he wouldn’t bother to look for them specifically. Who knew that Little Green Hair had collected twice in the previous residential area, so he remembered.

“Thank you,” Lu Weiyi said, reaching in and taking out a piece to put into his space.

“Oh, say it again. A polite young master is quite rare,” Li Zhuang teased, looking in the rearview mirror. Lu Weiyi rolled his eyes at him, and he chuckled.

Lin Yimu was also looking at the back seat through the rearview mirror. Antonio saw him, and the two of them exchanged a glance before looking away.

Li Zhuang had just casually said he saw it and brought it, but the two who had traveled with him clearly knew that when they went to that shopping mall, next door was a jade shop. People inside were fighting over things. Li Zhuang saw it and casually grabbed a backpack and went over. He was stopped by two people, and he kicked both of them hard enough to probably break a rib before saying to the others with a sneer, “There’s gold and silver on the first floor next door. I only want jade ornaments. Whoever tries to take them will die.”

And that white women’s backpack had been carried by that burly man all the way, not even put down when he was carrying other things later.

But since he didn’t say anything himself, the others naturally wouldn’t say much.

And after Lu Weiyi put the first piece of jade into his space, he saw the little green branch on his wrist sway its leaves and become a little greener. He couldn’t wait to throw the whole bag directly into his space and naturally wouldn’t think about whether such a bag was hard-earned.

Guyang City was located near Shangyang Lake. There was also a large bridge going towards Qingyuan City, but unfortunately, the overly long bridge had broken in the first moments of the earthquake. Now, the only way was by water.

The group, full and satisfied, headed straight for Shangyang Lake. They didn’t make any stops along the way except to avoid zombies. Even so, they didn’t arrive until almost six o’clock.

Near Shangyang Lake, there was a small pier. Large ships were prohibited here, and docked were picturesque ancient-style boats and motorboats, dozens of them arranged according to price.

There was already a group of people there. Five cars were parked by the shore. There were adults and children, with the children locked in the cars. Several men and women were loading supplies onto a manual boat. A young man was operating a motorboat, trying to start it, clearly not getting the hang of it. The people on the shore were calling his name and laughing at him. He cursed back with a smile but didn’t come ashore.

Seeing their cars, that group stopped what they were doing and all looked over.

“Brothers, just passing through,” Lin Yimu said proactively.

“We’ll go first, you follow,” someone over there said.

Neither the boats nor the motorboats were large. It would be good enough to transport supplies; it was impossible to transport the cars together. They could only find cars again after crossing the river. At this time, whoever reached the other side first meant they might get cars first.

Li Zhuang scoffed and patted the car. “Come on, Young Master, let’s practice your shooting.”

Lu Weiyi got out of the car, holding a pistol in his hand. It was still the Desert Eagle that Li Zhuang had given him, and he had used it less than twice in total.

He casually fired a shot at the ground near the feet of the people opposite, causing them to cry out and step back. The man who had spoken earlier immediately raised his hands. “Brothers, let’s talk this over.”

“Fair distribution, half the boats for each side, we keep to ourselves,” Lin Yimu didn’t want to make enemies or make things difficult for them.

“Okay,” the people over there immediately replied, pointing to the boats on the side. “Those over there are all yours.”

Among the twenty-odd boats, there were five motorboats. They clearly didn’t know how to operate them, except for the one the man was learning to play with. Li Zhuang pointed to the remaining four and asked, “Besides me, who else knows how to drive one?”

“Me,” Lin Yimu said.

“Me,” Antonio said.

The motorboats were smaller than the boats. Three probably wouldn’t be enough to carry all the supplies. Li Zhuang hesitated whether to make a second trip or take a boat when Lu Weiyi raised his hand.

Li Zhuang smiled. “The little friend is very capable.”

Lu Weiyi raised an eyebrow and didn’t say anything.

“Bring all the supplies up,” Li Zhuang said.

The others gave an OK sign and went to work. He then turned to Lu Weiyi. “Come on, Young Master, sit here and play.” He settled Lu Weiyi at a distance that wasn’t too close or too far from the people on the other side, ensuring a position where he could spot any trouble from them at the first sign.

The four motorboats were quickly filled. Apart from the three cars, not a single thing was left behind, and even the gasoline inside only had a thin layer remaining. Lu Weiyi touched his off-road vehicle, feeling a bit reluctant to part with it. After all, it had accompanied him from the beginning of the apocalypse until now. But this place was too open. If he directly stored it in his space, everyone would definitely see it, and his space would no longer be a secret.

Lu Weiyi directly put the keys back into the car, hoping it could help someone else.

As soon as the motorboats stopped, Li Zhuang arranged for Lin Yimu and Antonio to go find cars, while the others unloaded the supplies.

The team on the other side was clearly thinking the same thing, but the electric boat was a bit slower.

In just a short while, Lin Yimu and Antonio were gone.

Both teams had a similar amount of supplies, each piled up separately. While wary of each other, they also wanted to get closer. Li Zhuang wasn’t an unreasonable person, so he gave a look to the seemingly kind Gu Qingyue. Gu Qingyue immediately started chatting with a middle-aged woman on the other side.

After a few sentences, he had figured out where they came from and where they were going. Coincidentally, they were also going to Qingyuan to seek refuge with relatives.

Seeing no immediate danger, Gu Qingyue didn’t engage in deep conversation. He chatted casually, and soon Antonio and Lin Yimu drove over with cars.

Antonio stayed behind to load things, while Lin Yimu took Gu Qingyue on a trip and brought back another car.

Seeing that the supplies on their side were almost loaded, the people from the other team who had gone to find cars hadn’t returned yet. The middle-aged woman who had been trying to get close to Gu Qingyue earlier spoke up. “My son-in-law’s family is a big clan in Qingyuan. Everyone is going to Qingyuan. If you give us two cars, I can ask my son-in-law to take good care of you when we get there.”

“That’s right, that’s right, brothers. It costs a lot to get into even a small safe zone, let alone a big one. If there’s a big shot inside to look after you, it’ll definitely be different…” The man who had wanted them to leave first immediately chimed in.

“As the old saying goes, it’s easier to get things done with acquaintances. Even if you reach the safe zone with these few supplies, it might not even be enough to pay the entrance fee.”

“Let’s make a good connection now, and we’ll definitely speak up for you later.”

…

Their group kept talking non-stop, while the people on this side quickly loaded the cars without saying a word.

Around eight o’clock, it would be completely dark. The people on the other side were clearly getting anxious. Seeing that they were unmoved, the woman compromised. “One car is fine, just leave one. I’ll definitely have my son-in-law arrange for you to get in then.”

Seeing that the group was still unmoved, the woman became agitated. “If you don’t leave a car, I’ll definitely…”

Before she could finish her threat, she saw Li Zhuang, who was fiddling with his pistol, tap his ear and turn his head to ask, “What did you say? I didn’t hear clearly.”

“You… you…” The woman stammered for a long time without saying a word. The person next to her pulled her back and said with a smile, “She’s talking nonsense, don’t mind her, don’t mind her.”

“The weather is just bad, mosquitoes buzzing everywhere are annoying,” Li Zhuang said with a smile, got into the car, and said to the two cars behind, “Let’s go.”

It was getting dark, so the group didn’t travel far. They drove for less than an hour to the next village and stopped to rest.

At the same time, at the Shangyang Lake pier, a haggard man with a scruffy beard drove a car and directly crashed into several cars parked at the pier.

His eyes suddenly lit up as he passed a few cars. He grabbed a hammer, jumped out of the car, walked over to the off-road vehicle in a few steps, knocked and tapped around the body, opened the car door to look inside, felt the engine, and looked towards the opposite shore of the lake.

He only paused for a moment. Before the zombies attracted by the crash could pounce on him, he quickly drove an electric boat towards the other side.

The team on the opposite shore had just found a car and were about to leave after loading their supplies. Seeing a menacing figure get off the boat alone in the dark, their hearts all sank.

“Did you see the person who drove that off-road vehicle?” Ning Yuan didn’t have time to look for supplies. He only grabbed some fuel and took things from abandoned vehicles he encountered on the road that had been attacked by zombies.

He wasn’t lacking in food, just water. A bottle of water had lasted him two days, plus two days and two nights without sleep. Constantly on guard against zombies and highly stressed, he had stretched himself taut like a bowstring, unable to withstand the slightest unexpected event.

“We saw him. He… fell into the water and became a zombie,” the woman who had asked Li Zhuang for a car replied.

“Became… a zombie?” Ning Yuan turned his head and stared blankly at the lake.

“Yes,” the woman said, urging the others to drive away quickly.

The taut string in Ning Yuan snapped as if struck hard, emitting a buzzing sound, trembling as if it would break completely in the next moment.