Chapter 63: Sugar Daddy Not in Service Area
“You… this is—storage space?” Gu Qingji exclaimed in surprise.
Being the same age, he had read a few novels and found it easier to accept.
“Wow, Lu, so awesome!” Dean, who had turned into a little fanboy, spun around twice in the spot where the car had been, then directly picked up a bag and walked towards Lu Weiyi. The not-so-light bag made him stagger, and he almost fell if Antonio hadn’t supported him. He looked at Lu Weiyi excitedly and called out, “Lu, Lu, Lu!” looking like he was waiting for a monkey to perform tricks and was ready to applaud at any moment.
“Idiot,” Lu Weiyi muttered, reaching out and storing the bag in his space. Then, amidst the others’ silence, he stored the other two cars as well and said calmly, “We can go now.”
Lu Weiyi didn’t offer any explanation for not revealing the existence of his space earlier, but everyone was an adult and could guess. As for whether they blamed him for not taking it out sooner or had other thoughts, who cared so much?
Lu Weiyi didn’t care, but Lin Yimu couldn’t afford not to. He turned and stood silently next to Lu Weiyi, his gaze sweeping around. “Please keep our Young Master’s secret.”
After all, in the early days of the apocalypse, everyone was hoarding supplies. Having a space ability user was like having an extra human-shaped backpack, and countless people would be envious. What’s more, Lin Yimu wasn’t sure if there was only one space ability user. If that was the case, it would probably attract the attention of some malicious people. With Zhuang Mingxu’s situation unclear, they still needed to keep a low profile.
As soon as Lin Yimu said this, Ning Yuan also realized and immediately stood next to Lu Weiyi.
“I definitely don’t have anything to say,” Xu Sa’s relationship with Lu Weiyi was definitely one where he would protect him even if something happened. “Stutterer, even if he wants to talk, no one will listen.”
Liu Rui nodded and said, “Won’t say.”
“Don’t worry, we’ve come all this way together, and Lu saved many of our lives. We won’t be ungrateful,” Antonio stated. As for Dean, he was just a little fool and had long been following Lu Weiyi’s orders.
“If it weren’t for Weiyi, we would have died long ago. We definitely won’t be gossiping,” Gu Qingyue said, and Xi Shi immediately nodded in agreement.
The last one, Li Zhuang, didn’t say anything, but asked with a smile, “Little friend, you’ve kept quite a few trump cards, haven’t you? When did this appear?”
“From the beginning,” Lu Weiyi didn’t hide it.
“Then haven’t you stored a lot of supplies?” Xu Sa asked without any formality, then said solemnly, “For the sake of our many years of friendship, take care of me! I’ll accompany you for meals, drinks, chats, and sleep. There’s nothing my brother can’t do if you can think of it.”
“Didn’t store much,” Lu Weiyi ignored his teasing.
The others thought he might be being modest, until Xu Sa directly asked, “Why didn’t you store supplies?”
Lu Weiyi replied with a puzzled look, “Zhuang Mingxu will definitely store supplies, why would I need to?”
Xu Sa was really shocked by his friend’s way of thinking. Not to mention the others, only Lin Yimu and Ning Yuan felt that this was truly Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi turned around to collect the few bags of supplies they had unloaded earlier, and Dean ran around helping.
Xu Sa looked at him speechlessly and asked Lin Yimu, “How did Zhuang Mingxu raise him like this?”
“Probably by taking care of everything, from food and clothing to housing and transportation, looking after every detail of his life,” Ning Yuan replied for Lin Yimu, then looked at Xu Sa with a somewhat speechless expression and held up eight fingers. “A full eight years! Eight years!”
Xu Sa silently gave a thumbs-up and quickly caught up with Lu Weiyi, making all sorts of promises of loyalty and asking to be taken care of.
Without having to load and unload supplies, the group saved a lot of trouble. Each carried a backpack, and in a moment, they were all on the motorboats. With Ning Yuan, Lu Weiyi didn’t drive again. Going to Dongshan by water meant going to the broken bridge from before. There were corridors on both sides of the riverbank. Going up the steps, they could directly reach the bridge deck. The river water had calmed down, and they didn’t have to worry about zombies along the way. The motorboats sped along, and they arrived in no time.
“Luckily we have Weiyi, otherwise we would have had to carry all this stuff up,” Gu Qingyue said, a little out of breath after climbing dozens of steps.
“You need to exercise. If zombies chased you like this, you wouldn’t even be able to run,” Xiong Jie said.
“Getting old, getting old,” Gu Qingyue patted his lower back. Before he could finish sighing, he saw Xi Shi standing beside Xiong Jie without even panting, and he didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Lu Weiyi put down the car and was about to leave when Li Zhuang called out, “Little Young Master, store all the supplies in the trunk.”
“Oh,” Lu Weiyi said, storing the contents of the three cars. Everyone had gotten in, and they were about to drive off when they saw the four motorboats floating alone under the bridge, swaying with the water. He hurried back down to the bridge and stored them directly.
“Knows how to live,” Li Zhuang gave a thumbs-up in praise. After he sat down, he immediately started the car and drove off.
**
Going to Dongshan County from here indeed wouldn’t take too long. Although Ning Yuan didn’t remember very clearly, Lin Yimu had also traveled near this area before. After the two of them discussed it, they roughly figured out the route and entered Dongshan County after driving for more than an hour.
“Their base is in the elementary school area,” Ning Yuan enlarged the map and pointed. “People live in all the elementary school classrooms. They live in the residential building next to the elementary school, and the walls in between have been knocked down. When I left, I went along Jianhe Road outside. It seems to go around this way?”
Ning Yuan’s memory of that time was very hazy, which further proved how difficult his journey had been.
“I, Lu Weiyi, and Lin Yimu will go scout ahead first to check the situation. The rest of you clear out this building,” Li Zhuang pointed to a distant high-rise on the opposite side of the map. “This place is convenient for observing the surroundings. If anything happens, we’ll come here to find you. We’ll definitely come over by tomorrow at the latest.”
“I’ll go too,” Ning Yuan said.
“No need, to avoid being recognized,” Li Zhuang replied.
“I’ll go by myself,” Lu Weiyi said.
“Little friend needs to be obedient,” Li Zhuang said, glancing at the others, finally looking at Antonio. “It’s up to you.”
Antonio gave an OK sign, and then the group quickly got out of the car and went to their respective vehicles. Lu Weiyi took advantage of this time to direct the little green branch to pick up half of a zombie’s severed jawbone on the roadside and store it in his space.
“We’ll pretend to be people coming to seek refuge and see what they need to let us in…” Li Zhuang said.
“No need, I’ll go by myself.” Although these two were indeed skilled, following Lu Weiyi would only hinder his actions.
“Young Master…”
Li Zhuang looked at Lu Weiyi in the rearview mirror for a moment, then said, “Alright, then we’ll park here and sneak into the building directly opposite this residential area. If anything happens, come find us immediately. Don’t be reckless.”
“Okay,” Lu Weiyi said, pointing in the direction of the side gate of the residential area. “Just drop me off on this street.”
“You’re going to climb over the wall?” Li Zhuang glanced over and asked.
“Yeah,” Lu Weiyi replied.
“Give him a hand,” Li Zhuang said to Lin Yimu, directly driving towards that direction.
“Young Master, please be very careful,” Lin Yimu instructed.
As soon as the car stopped, Lin Yimu and Lu Weiyi jumped out. Lin Yimu directly lifted Lu Weiyi onto his shoulders, raising him to almost the height of the courtyard wall. Lu Weiyi used the momentum to climb up and then jumped down. Lin Yimu quickly returned to the car, and Li Zhuang immediately started the engine.
As soon as Lu Weiyi was on the courtyard wall, he covered himself with mental power. In less than a minute, he flashed into the nearest building. He only used his mental power to scan the location of people before immediately retreating, sending out the little green branch.
Constantly using mental power was an energy-consuming process. His current level was not enough to support continuous consumption. Without crystal cores for temporary replenishment, completely depleting his energy was too dangerous. His main goal this time was to first find out Zhuang Mingxu’s location and then make further plans.
It was a little past ten in the morning, and most people here were out. Those who stayed at home were either elderly or children. Lu Weiyi went through two buildings in a row without finding any key figures, so he simply went directly to the building where their leader, Li Ji, was according to Ning Yuan.
The little green branch’s detection range was seventy meters, and the height of over ten floors was less than half of these high-rise residential buildings. Lu Weiyi had originally thought he would need to go to the middle of the building to get information, but who knew that Li Ji was also quite capable? No one lived above the sixth floor; it was all used to store various supplies. The first to sixth floors, however, were full of signs of life.
According to the plan, Lu Weiyi had intended to directly use his mental power to listen to information within a radius of dozens of meters. However, when he put it into practice, he found that most of what they were saying was nonsense. If he really did that, he didn’t know when he would hear the information he wanted, and his mental power would probably be almost completely depleted.
Lu Weiyi used his mental power to detect that, apart from the two people patrolling with guns at the entrance of this building, there were four people playing poker in a second-floor room. He thought for a moment and decided to go in directly, control the four people inside, and ask for information.
The building door was locked from the inside. Lu Weiyi first directed the little green branch to open the door, then quickly covered himself with mental power. Taking advantage of the moment when the two guards passed each other, he entered the building door and went straight to the second floor.
Presumably, they had to go out to check or open the door from time to time, so the door to the second-floor room was directly open. Before even going up, Lu Weiyi had already smelled a strong smell of smoke. After confirming that there was no one else in the entire building, he directly directed the little green branch to wrap around the necks of the four people and hang them up.
“Heh,” none of the four people had noticed anything before being directly hung in mid-air. While struggling and tearing at the green plants around their necks, Lu Weiyi went in with his watermelon knife and closed the door.
Looking closely, they were still acquaintances.
One of them was actually one of the people who had captured Dean before. Lu Weiyi had a very deep impression of him because, among a group of burly men, he looked extremely petite but had two full-sleeve tattoos.
Flower Arms obviously recognized Lu Weiyi too, his eyes wide with shock.
Since they were all acquaintances, Lu Weiyi chose him. “I’ll let you down. You answer whatever I ask. If you shout for help, you should believe that before anyone comes, you’ll definitely die, understand?”
Flower Arms nodded.
Lu Weiyi directed the little green branch to lift him into a bedroom and released him.
Flower Arms’ legs went weak, and he fell directly to the ground. “Mr….”
“Shut up,” Lu Weiyi interrupted him before he could finish, sitting on a stool beside him and patting the watermelon knife in his hand. “Where’s the boss here?”
“Went to Qingyuan City.” Flower Arms slumped on the ground, showing no intention of moving, looking particularly honest.
They are so close to being reunited!!!!