Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH68

Chapter 68: My Sugar Daddy is Injured

How could that Zhuang Mingxu, who always smiled gently, exuded elite confidence, and was always composed, have become like this?

He should have been the person with the most powerful ability, the one who could negotiate calmly with the highest leaders of the base, the one who led his team to survive impossible situations time and time again. How could he have been humiliated like this?

Lu Weiyi felt a heavy weight in his chest, not just pity for Zhuang Mingxu’s wretched state, but also guilt that his rebirth seemed to have changed Zhuang Mingxu’s situation for the worse.

For a moment, he didn’t know if this miserable reunion in life was better, or if the heroic death in his previous life was better.

“Little Yi…” As the hoarse voice came out, Lu Weiyi cried even harder. Zhuang Mingxu anxiously wanted to go forward to see, but his broken legs had no ability to move at all. He only shifted forward by an inch. From the time his legs were broken until now, enduring hunger, thirst, and even humiliation, Zhuang Mingxu, who had managed to hold on, slammed his fist hard on the ground.

“Your leg… what happened?” Lu Weiyi asked, his voice choked with tears.

“Li Ji broke it,” a sudden voice said, drawing Lu Weiyi’s attention.

Seeing Lu Weiyi look over, Zheng Xin unconsciously pressed the ice pick against Zhuang Ai Yi’s neck a little deeper. Little Zhuang Ai Yi was still so thin, forced to tilt his head back, his eyes filled with tears as he called out, “Little Papa.”

“Zheng Xin, you actually laid a hand on a child!” Lin Yimu shouted.

Zheng Xin didn’t even look at Lin Yimu, his gaze fixed tightly on Lu Weiyi, while also pressing himself against the wall, wishing he could melt into it.

His nose and mouth resembled Zhuang Mingxu’s, only his eyes were exactly like his own. Lu Weiyi had never felt anything for this child before, but now, with his soft call and seeing the little face that combined their features, his heart felt as if it had been gently stroked, incredibly soft. But his attention was still focused on what he had just said.

“You… what did you say?”

“President Zhuang’s leg was broken by Li Ji,” Zheng Xin repeated, seeing Lu Weiyi’s expression change from surprise to resentment, he pinched Zhuang Ai Yi hard. Amidst Zhuang Ai Yi’s suppressed cries, he said, “Young Master Lu, let me go, I won’t hurt him. As long as I leave, I’ll immediately…”

Before he could finish the words “let him go,” both his shoulders were simultaneously shot. Lin Yimu grabbed Zhuang Ai Yi at the first instant, and then Ning Yuan behind Lu Weiyi shot Zheng Xin in the head. Zheng Xin’s eyes widened as he fell directly to the ground, dying with unfinished business.

“No matter how good your kung fu is, you’re still afraid of a kitchen knife. No matter how strong your ability is, you’re still afraid of a gun,” Ning Yuan spat at him, then turned his head to look at Zhuang Mingxu huddled on the ground, various emotions surfacing, and for a moment he didn’t know what to do.

“Lu Xiaoyi, a lot of zombies are coming this way, hurry up!” Xu Sa’s voice shouting from downstairs came up.

“Young Master,” Lin Yimu called to Lu Weiyi, who was still in a daze.

“Ah? Oh,” Lu Weiyi took a few steps forward and grabbed Zhuang Mingxu’s hand, pulled, turned, didn’t move, and then remembered what Zheng Xin had said again.

“I’ll do it,” Ning Yuan slung his gun behind him, his voice choked as he walked towards Zhuang Mingxu.

Before Ning Yuan could get close, Lu Weiyi directly bent down and picked up Zhuang Mingxu in a princess carry. He didn’t know if it was his ability strengthening his body or if Zhuang Mingxu had just lost a lot of weight, but Lu Weiyi felt that Zhuang Mingxu was surprisingly light to carry.

Zhuang Mingxu had originally been feeling self-loathing, but this sudden princess carry by Lu Weiyi immediately embarrassed him.

Before he could say anything, Lu Weiyi carried him downstairs and then got into the car and closed the door in one smooth motion.

“Lu Xiaoyi, the tanker, the tanker!” Xu Sa said, quickly swerving the car to the east side of the house where the oil tanker was parked. Lu Weiyi immediately jumped down. Saying he reached out, he had already let the little green branch touch the oil tanker, but strangely, the oil tanker wasn’t taken into the space.

“What’s wrong?” Xu Sa saw him pause for a long time, with the oil tanker still in place, and asked anxiously.

“It’s full,” Lu Weiyi hadn’t entered his space since living with Antonio and Dean. He hadn’t paid much attention to the existence of his space all along, just casually putting things in when he saw them, not paying attention to the size. Now, seeing that the oil tanker couldn’t be taken in, he focused his mind and glanced at the space. It was packed full, with things piled up to the edge of the well in the yard.

Lu Weiyi quickly threw out a bunch of unimportant things like bed cabinets from his space, and then he saw the problem.

Looking at the space with mental power only showed a miniature version, like a place shrunk countless times. Before, he had just put things in without paying attention to how much he had put in. Now, looking closely, it seemed the space had become much larger. He remembered that when he first entered the space, the surrounding area was only about a hundred square meters. Now that he thought about it, a hundred square meters would have been a bit insufficient just to store the five oil and gas tankers from before, let alone the dozen or so large trucks he had stored in the very beginning.

But now wasn’t the time to think about these things. Xu Sa was already urging him to hurry up or they would leave first. Lu Weiyi quickly threw out some electrical appliances he had collected from the mall earlier, and then he managed to store the oil tanker before turning around and jumping into the car.

“Hold on tight, we’re going to speed up,” Xu Sa said, who was driving. The car suddenly lurched forward, bumping so much that people could almost jump up. Zhuang Mingxu, whose legs were injured, almost bounced under the seat, but Lu Weiyi quickly grabbed him.

Lu Weiyi’s face was cold, and he didn’t have time to scold. Xu Sa glanced at the rearview mirror and proactively explained, “Brother Mingxu, sorry, if we don’t hurry, we’ll be surrounded by zombies.”

“Xu Sa?” Zhuang Mingxu recognized Lu Weiyi’s friend at a glance.

“Looks like I’m still so handsome that Brother Mingxu recognized me at a glance,” Xu Sa said with a smile while pressing the accelerator without any hesitation.

Zhuang Ai Yi, who was being held by Lin Yimu in the passenger seat, had just witnessed Zheng Xin being killed and had also been injured in the neck. Although he was being bumped around and could hit his head at any moment, he was finally a bit safer and immediately turned his head to look for Zhuang Mingxu, crying softly.

“Ai Yi be good, let Uncle Mu hold you for now. There are monsters outside. Daddy will hold you when we get out,” Zhuang Mingxu coaxed him patiently.

“This must be little Ai Yi, right? I’m your… godfather,” Xu Sa said to Zhuang Ai Yi with a beaming smile, actually taking out a bottle of yogurt from his pocket. “Here’s a bottle of yogurt for you. After you finish it, Godfather will have shaken off the monsters, okay?”

“Okay, thank you, Godfather,” Zhuang Ai Yi replied in a soft voice, took the yogurt, and immediately handed it to Zhuang Mingxu in the back, his little milky voice unable to hide his excitement. “Big Papa, drink quickly.”

Zhuang Mingxu’s heart softened incredibly at that moment. Although his own situation had been extremely bad these days, under his compromise, Zhuang Ai Yi hadn’t been made things difficult. Although the amount of food and water every day was small, they had it. Zhuang Ai Yi, who was not even three years old, always secretly saved some for him, and relying on that mouthful or two of water, he had managed to survive in this hot July.

“Papa won’t drink, Ai Yi drink it yourself,” Zhuang Mingxu said gently.

“Then Ai Yi will save it, and we’ll drink it together when Papa wants to drink,” Zhuang Ai Yi said, still with a sob in his voice, but he no longer struggled to find Zhuang Mingxu, holding the yogurt in his arms and obediently being held by Lin Yimu.

The car fell silent for a moment. Zhuang Mingxu turned his head to look at Lu Weiyi beside him. Seeing Lu Weiyi’s dazed and blank expression, with tear tracks still on his face, he reached out to wipe them away, but seeing the dirt on his own hand, he didn’t touch him after all, only calling out softly, “Little Yi…”

Lu Weiyi slowly met his gaze, his usually cool face looking somewhat lost, with a hint of bewilderment and helplessness. It made Zhuang Mingxu’s heart ache. Since Lu Weiyi had been by his side, he had protected him extremely well. The sudden apocalypse without him by his side must have made him feel anxious and insecure. Now that he himself had become like this, Lu Weiyi must feel even more uncertain.

“Don’t be afraid, I’m still here,” the thought of wishing he had died earlier vanished instantly from Zhuang Mingxu’s mind. If he died, the simple and harmless Lu Weiyi would definitely be schemed against and left with nothing in this world where people ate each other alive.

Although his legs were gone now, as long as he was still alive, he could still protect him a little.

Zhuang Mingxu was still as gentle and reliable as ever, as if no circumstances could change him. This made Lu Weiyi, whose emotions were complicated, gradually calm down. Yes, a broken leg was nothing serious.

In his previous life, someone had their arm cut off. With a healing ability user present, they had still been completely restored, and later their arm could still wield a knife and write, without any impact. Now that Lu Weiyi had placed the healing ability user Dean under his watch ahead of time, he believed that he could also restore Zhuang Mingxu in the future.

If Dean couldn’t do it, then he would find other healing ability users. Although they were rarer, the supplies and weapons in his hands should be enough to trade with them. If all else failed, he had participated in several missions to national large-scale material storage sites in his previous life. He could just take a step ahead now and seize those things for himself. With those resources, he didn’t believe he couldn’t exchange for a few healing ability users.

“Mmm,” Lu Weiyi nodded heavily, grabbing Zhuang Mingxu’s hand. “Don’t overthink it, I have a way to get you healed.”

Zhuang Mingxu hadn’t thought about being healed since Li Ji’s two blows. He was from the field army and was adept at examining injuries. With shattered kneecaps, even before the apocalypse, the chances of a full recovery were too slim, let alone now in the apocalypse where even a decent doctor couldn’t be found.

But seeing Lu Weiyi no longer sad and tearful, and even faintly showing some fighting spirit, Zhuang Mingxu didn’t discourage him after all, nodding and smiling, “Then I’ll rely on Little Yi.”

“Mmm,” Lu Weiyi nodded, serious and solemn. After a moment, he frowned again, touched Zhuang Mingxu’s forehead, and asked, “Do you have a fever?”

Zhuang Mingxu also touched himself and smiled, “Seems like it.” Actually, he had been burning for several days. After Li Ji broke his leg, he had been locked up, followed by hunger and thirst, and he constantly had to worry about Zhuang Ai Yi and Lu Weiyi. With his mind unsettled and the wound infected, he had started to have a fever not long after. But with only a child under three years old by his side, he could only endure it.

Lu Weiyi took out a bottle of water from his space, wanting to wet a towel to cool him down, but the car was shaking so much that most of it spilled. Zhuang Mingxu stopped his hand and said, “I’m fine, let’s talk when the car stops.”

“Then you drink some first and rest.”

Zhuang Mingxu nodded, barely taking two sips to moisten his throat.

The original plan was to stop at the next village after rescuing him for a temporary day of rest, but the commotion was too great, directly attracting a horde of zombies. Going to the neighboring village would be a bit unsafe. After communicating on the walkie-talkie, they simply decided to go directly to Yongping City.

Yongping City was located between Wutong City and Qingyuan City. Before the apocalypse, taking the highway directly wouldn’t require going through the city, but now most of the highways were damaged. Rather than taking the highway and encountering wilderness without any roads or facing collapsed tunnels, it was better to go through various counties and cities, and they could take detours when roads were blocked.

After a brief discussion, they decided to choose a small villa area in the suburbs as their destination. Before the apocalypse, this was a place where wealthy people lived, with a small population base. After the apocalypse, wealthy and influential people would definitely go to the provincial capital city to seek safer refuge in the first instance, leaving few behind. Moreover, this place was far from the city center, so the number of zombies would definitely be small.

Imagination was beautiful, reality was cruel.

The group arrived at dawn only to find that their ideal resting place was now the location of Yongping City’s safe zone.

Stay or leave?

That was the question.

Lu Weiyi glanced at the feverish Zhuang Mingxu and the dirty Zhuang Ai Yi and decided to stay.