Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH62

Chapter 62: With Space in Hand, I Have the World

“You…” Ning Yuan’s words choked in his throat. He looked around at the group and said, “Those few leaders were criminals before the apocalypse. The base isn’t small. Just the three of us might not be able to…”

“I’ll go with you,” Antonio said first. He had already decided that he would follow Lu Weiyi no matter what.

“Yeah, together,” Dean nodded in support.

“Let me also help our little friend,” Li Zhuang, who was resting on the kang but had been listening to their conversation, also spoke up.

“He’s my only friend. I have to do my part,” Xu Sa said, putting his hands in his pockets and looking at Liu Rui. “Little stutterer?”

“I… I’ll go… with Brother… Sa,” Liu Rui’s stutter didn’t stop him from stating his position.

“Let’s go together. Can’t help much, but at least we’ll have each other’s backs,” Gu Qingyue patted Lu Weiyi’s shoulder.

“Mmm,” Gu Qingji replied as always, concisely.

“Then shall we go take a look too?” Xiong Jie asked Xi Shi beside him. Seeing Xi Shi nod, he smiled. “Maybe they even escaped from a prison.”

Ning Yuan hadn’t expected this result at all and was speechless for a moment. But looking back at Lu Weiyi’s calm face, he felt that maybe this was within Lu Weiyi’s expectations.

But in fact, Lu Weiyi hadn’t considered the others’ thoughts at all. His plan was to go alone, secretly infiltrate using his mental power, and steal the person out. As for the rest, Zhuang Mingxu would definitely have the next steps planned.

“Eat something first. There’s still some water in the vat. Wash up after eating,” Xi Shi brought out the food they had just eaten. “It’s all freshly eaten, still warm. The buns are also freshly steamed.”

“I’ll have another one too,” Xu Sa was the first to take one and stuff it into his mouth. “I was just focused on Brother Li earlier and didn’t have the mind to eat.”

“Me too, me too…”

…

The atmosphere became lively again amidst the few people’s clamor.

After the meal, Lin Yimu asked Ning Yuan to roughly describe the situation in Dongshan County.

“The leaders all have guns in their hands. Judging from what they said, they seem to have just acquired a batch of weapons. Li Mingli and Li Mingliang are earth and fire abilities respectively. Zheng Xin is ice. The leader is called Li Ji, and he seems to be fire too. I’m not too clear about the others since they didn’t show their abilities. That group looks like they’re all criminals, definitely not easy to deal with.” Ning Yuan had only stayed for a short while, so his understanding was very limited.

Lin Yimu nodded without saying anything. It was already remarkable that he could survive being thrown into a zombie horde, run day and night to Wutong City, and then chase after them here day and night.

“Why don’t you go rest first? We’ll discuss things and set off at dawn tomorrow,” Lin Yimu patted Ning Yuan’s shoulder.

Ning Yuan had just gotten up, preparing to go sleep on the kang for a while, when he heard Lu Weiyi ask, “Ning Yuan, what’s your ability?”

In his previous life, Lu Weiyi hadn’t met Ning Yuan. Zhuang Mingxu didn’t seem willing to mention his death, so Lu Weiyi naturally didn’t know if he had awakened his ability initially. But looking at the obvious bite mark on his chin now, he should have already triggered his ability.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived at all.

“I don’t have an ability,” Ning Yuan thought Lu Weiyi hadn’t heard him clearly.

“Open your hand and gather all the strength in your body into your hand,” Lu Weiyi didn’t know how to describe the energy flow when using an ability, so he could only resort to the most direct method.

The few people who were resting all looked over, wanting to see the initial manifestation of an ability. Ning Yuan followed his instructions, opened his hand, and tried hard to gather all his strength in his hand. After a moment… nothing happened.

Ning Yuan looked at Lu Weiyi somewhat awkwardly. Lu Weiyi didn’t explain anything, only saying, “Sense it carefully, it’s definitely there.”

When the zombie energy erupted, those who experienced coma and high fever might not necessarily develop abilities after their bodies recovered, but everyone who was bitten by a zombie and still survived would awaken an ability. This was the conclusion drawn from multiple inhumane experiments on living humans by a laboratory in his previous life.

Ning Yuan tried again, but still nothing appeared. Lu Weiyi said to Antonio, “Why don’t you teach him how the energy flows when using an ability?”

Antonio gave an OK sign and invited Ning Yuan to the next room, planning to explain it to him in detail before going back to sleep.

Lin Yimu discussed the watch schedule with everyone and walked over to Lu Weiyi, who was still looking at the map. “Young Master, do you have any plans?”

Lu Weiyi thought for a moment and replied, “Two scenarios: Zhuang Mingxu is still in Dongshan County, and we sneak in to rescue him; Zhuang Mingxu has been taken back to Qingyuan, and we chase after him.”

Lu Weiyi looked up at Lin Yimu, “…sneak in to rescue him!”

Lin Yimu: “…”

“Pfft,” Li Zhuang laughed without any restraint, looking at Lu Weiyi’s serious expression and saying with a smile, “Little friend, how can you be so cute?”

The other few who heard also laughed, probably thinking Lu Weiyi was just a naive child with wild ideas. But in fact, that was exactly Lu Weiyi’s plan.

In his previous life, after returning to the Capital, his little uncle’s son was captured and threatened by a team of ability users. Lu Weiyi had single-handedly broken into their basement and rescued him. At that time, Lu Weiyi’s ability had just been upgraded to SS-level. In the heavily guarded basement, it wasn’t until he had taken the person out the door that they were discovered. By then, in broad daylight, they didn’t dare do anything more.

Although his mental power was low now, he was familiar with it and could achieve the minimum consumption with maximum utilization. The protective membrane he formed around himself could probably last for two and a half minutes, and his detection range had reached over fifty meters.

In two and a half minutes, as long as people weren’t constantly focusing on him, they would basically ignore his presence, enough time for him to run a short distance and hide. And within a fifty-meter radius, he could detect any information within that range. From confirming Zhuang Mingxu’s location to sneaking him out, as long as he was careful along the way, it shouldn’t be too difficult.

Since they didn’t know much about the actual situation, further discussion was just talking on paper. The few of them simply went to sleep early, waiting to figure out the situation on the ground before making plans.

The next day, as dawn broke, Ning Yuan eagerly approached Lu Weiyi, holding out his hand in surprise. “I really have an ability!” A cluster of bright water droplets was condensing in his palm.

“Water type,” Li Zhuang said. “Looks like we won’t have to worry about drinking water in the future.”

“We’ll rely on you if there’s no water,” Antonio patted Ning Yuan’s shoulder.

Ning Yuan nodded, looking at the water droplets in his palm, feeling a bit sad again. “If I had an ability earlier, they definitely wouldn’t have dared to…”

“Hey, I just want to ask, if the newly awakened ability is so weak, how could they be stronger than you guys?” Li Zhuang had always wondered how the earth, fire, and ice abilities could be so strong when they first appeared, enough to suppress two people who came from the military.

Ning Yuan shook his head. “They rarely used their abilities, but when they were killing zombies, you could clearly feel that they were cutting them effortlessly, like slicing watermelons, very easily.” After Ning Yuan tried out his ability, he also realized that his ability seemed particularly weak, and he didn’t know how they did it.

“Covering the ability onto weapons,” Lu Weiyi explained for the two of them.

“How to cover it?” Li Zhuang waved the triangular knife in his hand, and an earthy color appeared on the blade, making it look even duller.

“Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are just the manifested energy of the ability, not the energy itself. You need to circulate the energy within your body and then cover the weapon with that energy,” Lu Weiyi explained with rare patience.

This was the most common way to use a primary ability, and most people knew how to do it.

“Weiyi, where did you learn all this?” Ning Yuan felt that Lu Weiyi seemed a bit different this time.

“Studied a lot,” Lu Weiyi explained vaguely.

“Young Master’s ability appeared the earliest,” Lin Yimu said with pride.

While the other three ability users practiced, Lin Yimu pulled Ning Yuan aside and spoke with great pride about Lu Weiyi’s growth along the way.

After eating, the group set off again.

With important matters at hand, no one lingered over the wheat and corn in the house. This made Ning Yuan feel embarrassed, and he kept promising everyone along the way that he would compensate them with supplies when they reached Qingyuan. In fact, those things had long been quietly stored away by Lu Weiyi.

All the jade ornaments that Li Zhuang had given were thrown into Lu Weiyi’s space. The little green branch on his wrist could now extend about seventy meters. Lu Weiyi believed this was because the little green branch was also upgrading as the space was repaired. It just wasn’t very useful, otherwise, he would definitely put more effort into finding jade in the future.

“Going to Dongshan County is a return trip. If we’re in a hurry, the best way is actually by water. Taking a motorboat from Shangyang Lake to Dongshan County would only take an hour at most. From there, going directly to that group’s base…” Li Zhuang looked at Ning Yuan.

“Should be more than an hour? Sorry, I wasn’t very clear-headed when I was bitten by the zombie. I was just driving recklessly, so I don’t remember the exact time,” Ning Yuan said.

“Then let’s count on two hours. We’ll definitely arrive before noon,” Li Zhuang looked at the others. Seeing no objections, they temporarily decided on this.

Compared to yesterday, over a dozen zombies had gathered by Shangyang Lake. It was probably due to the increased number of people and vehicles coming and going. The few motorboats that their two teams had driven over yesterday were still docked on the shore. After Li Zhuang checked the gasoline, everyone began unloading the supplies.

“We looked for three cars for nothing. I quite liked that SUV, the seats were spacious, and it could carry a lot more stuff than the other cars. I wonder if we can still find it when we go back,” Xu Sa said, holding an oil drum, ready to siphon out the gasoline they had put in yesterday.

“It’s good enough to have something to drive. The bridge over there is broken, so there are no passing cars. I don’t know if we’ll see any on the sides of the road,” Xiong Jie said. “If we really can’t find any, we’ll just have to carry a bundle each.”

“Yeah, that would really have the atmosphere of fleeing from disaster,” Gu Qingyue said with a smile.

Lu Weiyi watched the few people quickly unloading things, hesitated for a long while, and then said with a determined look, “You guys step aside.”

“Huh?” Gu Qingyue put down the box he was carrying, looking at Lu Weiyi with confusion, and took a few steps back. The others also tacitly put down what they were holding and made way.

Lu Weiyi stepped forward and reached out to touch the car, and then—

The entire car in front of him suddenly disappeared.