Chapter 76: Master of Scams Goes Online
Lu Weiyi shook his head. “This stuff isn’t very useful for us ability users, but it’s scarce, so I can’t exchange it for too few supplies. Too many supplies would be troublesome to carry on the road.”
“Then what do you want?”
“Hmm…” Lu Weiyi pondered for a moment, wanting to take out a piece of jade, only to realize that all the jade he had was already used for the space. He said directly and simply, “I like jade.”
Lin Jun seemed not to have expected that someone would still want this kind of thing in the apocalypse. He looked at the others incredulously. Seeing that although the others looked at Lu Weiyi with a speechless expression, they didn’t stop him, Lin Jun’s estimation of Lu Weiyi’s authority in this small team rose another level. At the same time, he silently believed that his ability must be very strong and quickly said, “Okay, I happen to have a few pieces of top-quality jade.”
“Don’t rush,” Lu Weiyi smiled, took out a zombie core, and handed it to Lin Jun. “And this.”
“This is…” Lin Jun frowned, then immediately said, “This is that thing in the zombie’s head. You haven’t eaten it, have you?” After saying that, he felt it was definitely impossible and added, “No, definitely not. I’ve seen people eat this, and they turned into zombies. You young people just like to read novels, you can’t take the things in novels seriously.”
“Really? I was still thinking of finding someone to try it on later,” Lu Weiyi expressed his surprise appropriately. “But everything that exists has a reason. I need to get some back to the Capital for people to study.”
“Ten jade pendants and fifteen of these in exchange for a fully equipped gun,” Lu Weiyi said. “I want top-quality jade. Forty to fifty pieces worth over a million, ten pieces worth ten million, and five pieces worth over a hundred million. The standard size is one catty.” The better the jade, the higher the possibility of it containing a space.
If not, it would also be excellent for repairing spaces.
“Deal!” Lin Jun had seen zombie cores before and thought all zombies had them. Plus, good jade was nothing to him. This was practically a free gift. Worried that the others would go back on their word, he immediately agreed. “How many days will you be staying here?”
Lu Weiyi glanced at Zhuang Mingxu. “Three or four days, maybe. It’s not certain, we might leave whenever we want.”
The terms were more or less settled, and the person delivering the flour arrived. Lin Jun had them put it in the living room and planned to take his leave. “Then I’ll have people prepare it now. I hope Young Master Lu won’t go back on his word.”
Lu Weiyi nodded, looking rather nonchalant, which made Lin Jun anxious and even more eager to quickly gather the jade for the exchange.
After seeing them off, Xu Sa and Liu Rui happily went to weigh the flour. Lu Weiyi put all the guns away, feeling very pleased.
The others thought Lu Weiyi exchanged for these things because he liked them, but Antonio didn’t think so. He felt that although Lu Weiyi was usually quiet, many of his actions had very clear purposes. However, he wouldn’t delve into it. Anyway, following him would always bring some benefits. But Li Zhuang wouldn’t be like that and directly asked, “Kid, what do you want those beads for?”
He had indeed seen Lu Weiyi collect a lot of jade, although he hadn’t seen him wear it, he might indeed like it. After all, the hobbies of rich people were strange and varied. But zombie cores…
“There’s a lot of energy in here, I haven’t figured out how to use it yet,” Lu Weiyi didn’t directly say he didn’t know, because if he used them later and others saw, it wouldn’t be right to say he didn’t know.
Seeing his curiosity, Lu Weiyi directly threw one of the cores in hisspace. Li Zhuang pinched it between two fingers, looked at it. It was a white one, with nothing particularly eye-catching, and he didn’t feel any so-called energy. “Can’t feel it,” he frowned, handing it to the others beside him.
The few people beside him also pinched it and looked at it, not seeing anything special, and all looked at the other ability users, who all shook their heads.
“Maybe your abilities are too weak,” Lu Weiyi unhesitatingly mocked.
“This is the stuff in zombie heads? Novels say this thing can generally enhance abilities,” Xu Sa glanced at it, then looked at the few ability users. “You want to try?”
“Are you stupid? If we’re going to try, we’ll try it on someone else first. Who would try it on themselves directly?” Lu Weiyi glanced at him, practically writing “idiot” on his face. “Give it to me. Didn’t you hear Lin Jun say someone ate this stuff and turned into a zombie? Be careful holding it for too long isn’t good either.”
Xu Sa shrugged and handed it back. “Whether it’s useful or not is unknown, but are you sure it’s not too cheap to exchange a few guns for this stuff?” This was also what the others meant.
“It’s not,” Lu Weiyi carefully put the zombie core into a metal box specifically for zombie cores in his space, explaining, “Do you think this stuff is common? You might not even see one in a hundred zombies. Fifteen of them will keep him busy.”
“Little Lu, your IQ has increased!” Xu Sa looked at Lu Weiyi with considerable surprise, really not expecting this person to know how to bargain and scam people. He had always thought he was the quiet person from his memories.
“Tch,” Lu Weiyi said dismissively, “Do you think the things in my hands are so easy to get?”
Although Lu Weiyi didn’t do much work in his previous life and lived off others, he had principles. That was, whatever fell into his hands was his, and no one could take it away.
The Ji Heng family clung to him back then, all taking things from Zhuang Mingxu, without even getting a piece of bread from him.
Zhuang Mingxu had always thought it was because there weren’t many supplies in the apocalypse and he felt insecure, but in fact, it was because he hadn’t held many things in his own hands since childhood, and he wouldn’t easily give up anything that completely belonged to him.
However, this habit was also very good, preventing him from being scammed as a naive fool.
“Since you think it’s useful, why don’t we just go to the trading market to exchange it?” Antonio felt that those things might be very useful in the future and actively came up with ideas. “Lin and Ning have been to the trading market and said that many things can be exchanged there. Why don’t we entrust someone else to exchange supplies for jade and beads?”
“Okay,” this was a good idea. Casting a wide net would definitely yield more results. Lu Weiyi immediately became interested.
“We don’t need to go ourselves. Call Little Liu over and have him do it. Paying a commission will save us trouble and be efficient,” Gu Qingyue suggested amusingly, seeing him eager to try. “Shall we take a look at Mr. Zhuang’s leg first?”
“Oh, okay,” Lu Weiyi immediately pushed Zhuang Mingxu over, not forgetting to order Xu Sa, “Go find Little Liu.”
Xu Sa made an OK sign and left with Liu Rui.
Gu Qingyue checked Zhuang Mingxu’s knee again, which was slightly less swollen, asked some questions, and then looked at Lu Weiyi. “We still need a CT scan to confirm the bone condition, but for a knee injury caused by a strong impact, the probability of needing surgery is relatively high. We can find the equipment, but you need to think clearly about when to do the surgery.”
“My suggestion is to do it after we settle down in Qingyuan. Doing it here, the bumpy ride wouldn’t be conducive to recovery. But if we delay for too long, the bone injury will heal on its own. If it heals incorrectly, we might have to re-injure the partially healed area to fix it again, which would increase the difficulty of the surgery and wouldn’t be good for later recovery. On the other hand, we also need to consider that if the nerves are damaged, the longer we wait, the lower the possibility of recovery.”
Gu Qingyue professionally analyzed all the pros and cons for Lu Weiyi, wanting him to think clearly. This was only possible because they had the ability. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably just let it go.
Although healing abilities can treat injuries, they cannot help with bone repositioning. That is to say, if someone has a dislocated rib and needs treatment, they must first have surgery to connect the broken ends of the rib, and then use the healing ability to recover. Otherwise, if they use the healing ability directly, the rib will still be dislocated after recovery, just a healed dislocation.
Now, it couldn’t be determined whether there were any minor misalignments in the bones in Zhuang Mingxu’s knee. Even with a healing ability, it couldn’t be used directly. Furthermore, at this point in time, healing abilities hadn’t even appeared yet, and the place they were in wasn’t safe, not suitable for surgery.
“Let’s talk about it after we get to Qingyuan. Now is not the right time,” Zhuang Mingxu decided while Lu Weiyi was still thinking.
Now they were in an unfamiliar place, and after returning to Qingyuan, there was still Li Ji to deal with. The situation wasn’t clear, and there was no time in the short term. His words indirectly meant giving up.
The others all understood, but Lu Weiyi obviously didn’t.
He thought about it very seriously, nodded after a moment. When healing ability users appeared, even if something bad happened to his knee, having an ability user there could directly treat it, avoiding the risk of accidents during a rushed surgery now, which would lead to a second surgery later.
The others didn’t know if he had thought of this, and ultimately no one directly reminded him.
“Then I’ll do some anti-inflammatory treatment first,” Gu Qingyue said. “Should we get the surgical equipment from the Yongping City Hospital or wait until we get to Qingyuan?”
“What do you think?” Lu Weiyi asked Zhuang Mingxu.
“Let’s go back to Qingyuan. There are more acquaintances there, and we can cooperate with others,” a hospital wasn’t a place you could just go to whenever you wanted. Zhuang Mingxu’s words were just a delaying tactic. Lu Weiyi didn’t think much about it, nodded, and said, “Okay.”
“Then when do we leave?” Ning Yuan asked. “Li Ji and Li Mingli’s brothers might have some conspiracy in Qingyuan? If Mingxu isn’t brought back on time, I’m worried Wu Yue will suffer.”
“Tomorrow, maybe,” Zhuang Mingxu was also a bit anxious.
Lu Weiyi glanced again at his knee, swollen like a steamed bun, and said, “The day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ll find a less bumpy car and we’ll travel a bit faster on the road.” There was a large truck in his space. He wanted Zhuang Mingxu’s knee to feel a bit better before leaving.
Zhuang Mingxu nodded.
“Since we’re leaving the day after tomorrow, should we go out and find some supplies tomorrow?” Lin Yimu held a hand-drawn map, pointing to the suburbs of Yongping City. “Should we go take a look here?” The suburbs of Yongping City were the industrial district, close to the neighboring province. Before the apocalypse, transportation was convenient, and some well-known enterprises’ production and processing plants were located there.
The place Lin Yimu was pointing to was a large instant noodle processing plant, next to a canned meat factory. The area it covered was huge, and the supplies inside should be considerable. “The canned meat factory needs a lot of meat, so there must be independent power generation equipment inside, maybe even frozen meat we can take.”
“Isn’t that a factory under the Longteng Group?” Gu Qingji held a phone with an electronic map on it.
“I’ve inquired, they haven’t had time to go yet. And even if they have, there are other food processing plants nearby. It won’t hurt to take a look around, we won’t come back empty-handed,” Lin Yimu was always thorough in his work, and he had inquired clearly about everything during his trip out.
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