Chapter 74: Weirdos Come Calling
As soon as they went out, Li Zhuang waved at Lu Weiyi. Xi Shi took the dishes into the kitchen. Lu Weiyi sat down on the sofa, and Gu Qingyue briefly told him about Wang Ning’s visit in the morning.
“What do they want?” Lu Weiyi asked.
“The Yongping City base is barely maintaining a three-way balance right now. Everyone is eager to make a move and is waiting for an opportunity to break this situation, hoping for some new developments. They probably see us as that opportunity,” Li Zhuang roughly explained. “It shouldn’t be long before people from the other two factions come looking for us, openly or secretly.”
Just as Li Zhuang finished speaking, a “bang bang” sound came from outside the door. Li Zhuang raised an eyebrow, giving a “see?” expression.
Gu Qingyue opened the door again.
A moment later, Gu Qingyue came in with four people behind him. Two of them were Wang Ning and Lin Fei, who had come in the morning. The other two were tall and sturdy. Standing next to the first two, they immediately made them look like little chicks.
Before anyone could introduce themselves, Lin Fei pointed at Lu Weiyi and shouted, “It’s you? You cold-blooded executioner, murderer…” As he spoke, he looked like he was about to rush forward.
This sudden opening surprised all three parties. Wang Ning had a headache and cursed Lin Jun in his heart for insisting on letting Lin Fei see the world. He quickly stopped Lin Fei and asked, “Xiao Fei, don’t talk nonsense.”
The other two tall men saw the situation and immediately stood aside, looking like they were watching a show.
“It’s him, it’s him! If it weren’t for him, Wang Qiang wouldn’t have died! He also stole our gasoline. We ran out of gas halfway, and when we went to refuel, we encountered a zombie attack. Wang Ya was also bitten. It’s all his fault…” Lin Fei shouted emotionally.
“What happened?” Wang Qiang was Wang Ning’s nephew, and they were very close. He had originally gone to Wutong City with Lin Fei to listen to a concert but encountered the apocalypse. When Lin Fei returned, he said that Wang Qiang had been killed.
The people on their side also looked at Lu Weiyi, silently asking what the situation was.
Lu Weiyi stared at Lin Fei and said, “Don’t recognize him.”
“You’re talking nonsense! It’s you! I’d recognize you even if you turned to ashes!” If Wang Ning hadn’t stopped him, Lin Fei would have jumped on him.
“Then your eyesight must be very good,” Lu Weiyi retorted sarcastically and casually.
“Pfft,” the two men on the side laughed without hesitation.
Seeing Lu Weiyi look over, they immediately introduced themselves. “Hello, we are from the Military Shield team. My name is Cheng Ying, and this is Zhang Hu. We got your information from the base registration office. Our boss intends to make friends with you all. I wonder if you have time to talk somewhere else?”
Cheng Ying’s gaze swept over the group but couldn’t tell who was in charge, so he simply looked at Lu Weiyi again.
Military Shield Security, this was the name of Liu Qiang’s security company before the apocalypse.
“Oh,” Lu Weiyi wasn’t good at or didn’t like dealing with these things. He replied with a sound, not wanting to waste time arguing with an idiot. He got up, preparing to go back to the room to check on Zhuang Mingxu, when he saw Lin Yimu pushing Zhuang Mingxu in a wheelchair out of the bedroom door.
“General Zhuang?” Wang Ning called out in surprise.
Zhuang Mingxu glanced over but didn’t recognize him. He nodded as a greeting.
Zhuang Mingxu’s Only Technology was a leader among domestic technology companies, so it wasn’t surprising that someone recognized him.
“Why did you come out?” Lu Weiyi got up.
“Heard the noise, came out to see,” Zhuang Mingxu took Lu Weiyi’s hand. “What happened?”
Lu Weiyi glanced at Lin Fei. “Ran into a lunatic.”
“You’re the lunatic! Your whole family are lunatics! You murderer…” Before Lin Fei could finish, a flying knife shot straight past, cutting off a lock of his hair, then circled around and aimed directly at Lin Fei’s eye.
Wang Ning immediately pulled Lin Fei back a few steps, his gaze sweeping around. He saw a tall, sturdy foreign man, his fingertips twitching, and the flying knife also trembling up and down. “Everyone, let’s talk things out calmly.”
This sudden move had a warning intent, and also carried a sense of deterrence.
“Does he look like he wants to talk calmly? Are you blind?” The “poison-tongued” Gu Qingji went online again. “Biting people as soon as you see them, are you a dog? Don’t you wear a leash when you go out?”
Lu Weiyi quite liked listening to Gu Qingji’s retorts, but it wasn’t often. Hearing him speak now, he even couldn’t help but want to applaud him.
“Misunderstanding, misunderstanding,” Wang Ning swallowed his anger, his face also a bit unpleasant.
“It’s not a misunderstanding at all, it’s him…” Lin Fei’s eyes turned red with anger after being cursed like that. He glared at Lu Weiyi and questioned, “Dare you say you haven’t seen me? At the gas station north of Qingyuan City on the tenth day after the earthquake, dare you say you haven’t seen me—?”
At this time and place, everyone else looked at Lu Weiyi. Lu Weiyi stared at Lin Fei for a while. “Oh—you’re that lunatic!”
“You—” Lin Fei was furious.
“Little friend, what’s going on?” Li Zhuang had an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, reclining on the sofa without any regard for his image, still with his usual amused expression, asking Lu Weiyi.
“I went to get gas, and I ran into them also getting gas. They hadn’t fought zombies before and got bitten, so they blamed me for not helping them kill the zombies. I saw there were several of them, and I didn’t take anything from the gas station supermarket, left it all for them. I just took a few gas cans, and he insisted that I had come later and that what I took was his,” Lu Weiyi still had a pretty strong impression of this weirdo.
Thinking of what happened then, he interlocked his fingers with Zhuang Mingxu’s and chuckled, “The funniest thing was, he kept staring at me. His companion was bitten by their zombified companion, and he blamed it on me, even chasing my car for a while.”
“Who did you say I killed? What did I steal from him?” Lu Weiyi asked Wang Ning, looking speechless.
“You clearly saw that we couldn’t fight those zombies, why didn’t you help us?” Wang Ning didn’t speak, but Lin Fei said.
“Are you people from Longteng?” Gu Qingji asked Wang Ning.
“Yes,” Wang Ning said.
“There are so many refugees outside without food, why don’t you give them some of your many supplies?” Gu Qingji asked Lin Fei.
Everyone else present laughed upon hearing this.
“I don’t know them, why should I give them food?” Lin Fei said.
“Then others don’t know you either, why should they save you?” Gu Qingji’s voice was clear and cold, and even his questioning sounded pleasant.
“I…”
Gu Qingji didn’t wait for him to continue and turned to Wang Ning, who seemed more reasonable. “This shameless thing is a product of your Longteng? Bringing him out to bite people represents your Longteng? Are all of you at Longteng this crazy?”
“This gentleman…” Although Ning Yuan had brought people to their door seeking talent, he was an ability user and had been fawned over since the apocalypse. Being directly cursed in the face was a bit too much to bear. His face darkened, and a very thin ice needle stealthily attacked Gu Qingji.
Others might not have noticed, but several ability users could feel the energy fluctuation. Lu Weiyi was the first to react, manipulating vines to flick away the ice needle while neatly wrapping Wang Ning’s neck and hanging him from the ceiling light fixture, coldly questioning, “Is this your place to run wild?”
Although Gu Qingji didn’t know what was happening, he clearly saw Lu Weiyi’s little green branch wave in front of him before binding the person, and immediately understood what was going on.
“Uncle Wang—let him go!” As soon as Lin Fei saw the person being tied up, he rushed towards the group, only to be kicked to the ground by Xiong Jie, who was closest to him. Immediately after, Lu Weiyi’s little green branch bound him again.
“Hang them from the roof?” Lu Weiyi asked for the others’ opinions.
When the little green branch suddenly appeared, Zhuang Mingxu was still marveling in his heart, wondering whose ability was so strong. When he heard that it was actually Lu Weiyi’s, he immediately remembered what Lin Yimu had said earlier about Lu Weiyi’s wood-based ability, feeling a sense of pride for his own baby.
But in the blink of an eye, both of them were tied up. He didn’t recommend directly confronting them like this, but not knowing the details of these people, he didn’t speak rashly, just finding Lu Weiyi’s “do it if you don’t agree” attitude a bit peculiar.
Things had escalated to this point, so trying to resolve it peacefully was probably impossible. It was better to take the opportunity to intimidate the three factions, lest they cause more trouble.
Li Zhuang was the first to voice his support. “Hang them, see if anyone comes to claim them.”
The other two from Military Shield had initially been watching the fun, but now they silently tried to lower their presence, afraid of accidentally getting blood on themselves. In the end, they still couldn’t escape being noticed. “Hey, you? Cheng Ying, right?”
“Yes,” Cheng Ying looked at Li Zhuang warily, feeling uneasy about this person calling his name at this time.
“We’re new here and unfamiliar with everything. Trouble you to make a trip and inform the person responsible of this Longteng thing. Just say his people tried to kill someone here and were caught on the spot. Ask him…”
“Ask him if he still wants them? Two thousand catties of flour. If it’s not delivered within an hour, I’ll tear up the ticket,” Lu Weiyi interjected before Li Zhuang finished speaking.
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked over. The two from Military Shield thought this was simply banditry. Li Zhuang was surprised by his cleverness. Antonio was pleasantly surprised that things could still be done this way. The others were shocked by his outrageous demand, but immediately followed by joy. Free food was for fools to refuse.
Lu Weiyi, however, was oblivious and even turned to ask Zhuang Mingxu, “It’s called tearing up the ticket, right? That’s what the kidnapper said the last time I was kidnapped, wasn’t it?”
“…Yes,” Zhuang Mingxu felt that in the more than half a month they had been separated, his cold and indifferent Lu Xiaoyi seemed to have been possessed by something.
Lu Weiyi turned his head again, his face serious as he looked at the two from Military Shield. “Hmm, you two also saw what they did earlier, you can be considered witnesses. This is self-defense on our part, so compensation is only right. Please testify for us then. This isn’t us deliberately causing trouble, it’s purely because someone is crazy and shameless.”
“Justified”… my foot.
Cheng Ying and Zhang Hu exchanged a look, both regretting this trip a bit. Li Zhuang, however, urged them, “Trouble you, brothers.”
“…You’re welcome,” Cheng Ying squeezed out these words and went out to notify people for them, leaving Zhang Hu trembling alone.
“Let’s go, we’ll wait outside in the yard,” Antonio urged, eager to see what would happen next.
“Let’s go, let’s go…”
“Hurry up, hurry up…”
“Little Lu, got any peanuts and melon seeds?”
“Beer, drinks, mineral water…”
“Peanuts, melon seeds, eight-treasure porridge…”
“Hahaha…”
Amidst the laughter, Lu Weiyi really did take out a few packets of peanuts and melon seeds. So when Cheng Ying returned again, a table had already been set up outside the villa, and a row of onlookers sat on the benches, each with a handful of peanuts and melon seeds, and a pile of shells at their feet, even Zhang Hu was no exception.
Of course, in exchange, Zhang Hu very kindly introduced the two hanging people to them, such as one being Lin Jun’s only son and the other being Lin Jun’s confidant.
To sum it up in one sentence: they could ask for a lot more.
Of course, Lu Weiyi felt that he wasn’t one to inflate prices on the spot, he just silently gave up the room for negotiation.
They should leave before things get messy.