Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH78

Chapter 78: Brother Appears

“Boss, I have down jackets here, do you need them? Pick and choose as you like, one hundred pieces for one bottle of water, all brand new…”

“Boss, boss, I have cotton overcoats here, all military-grade cotton overcoats. They’re not even cold in Northeast China, the warmth retention effect is amazing…”

“Boss, I have clothes here, for all seasons, all sizes, pure cotton, silk, everything…”

As soon as the price was settled on Lu Weiyi’s side, a crowd of people immediately surged up, clamoring about their respective products, eager to sell to Lu Weiyi. If one hadn’t experienced it, it would be hard to imagine that a bottle of water worth a dollar could now buy thousands or tens of thousands of things. Even in the eyes of others, Lu Weiyi, who was using water to exchange for things, was acting like a fool.

“Speak one by one, what do you all have?” Lu Weiyi heard some of the things these people were shouting about, and he did need to stock up on some of them. He reached out to quiet them down and asked.

Even if he had a lot of water stored, it wasn’t meant to be wasted like this. The few people traveling with him were about to stop him when Zhuang Mingxu spoke first, “Little Yi.”

“Hmm?” Lu Weiyi leaned down to look at Zhuang Mingxu.

“Let’s exchange with other things, keep the water for ourselves,” Zhuang Mingxu didn’t know how many supplies Lu Weiyi had, but although Lu Weiyi didn’t like to care about anything, he was never someone without a plan. He was just giving a reminder.

“It’s okay, if we don’t have enough to drink, we’ll just go out and find more,” Lu Weiyi said nonchalantly, casually squeezing Zhuang Mingxu’s shoulder while pushing the wheelchair.

Zhuang Mingxu paused for a moment and didn’t argue further.

The result was that Lu Weiyi used ten bottles of mineral water to exchange for half a street’s worth of down jackets, overcoats, cotton quilts, and even cotton boots. Anyway, he bought all the things needed to keep warm in winter.

Although everyone’s attention was now focused on food, these winter supplies were unusually cheap, but transporting so many of them was also a hassle.

At first, the few people behind him were still thinking of carrying them back for him, but later they simply told the merchants to deliver them to the villa for payment. Everyone felt like they were following a “money-scattering boy,” and at the same time, they all silently hoped to end this shopping trip quickly.

Lu Weiyi obviously found the fun in shopping and didn’t want to miss a single stall.

After passing this section, it was all toiletries. Lu Weiyi finally stopped using mineral water, but he still used twenty pancakes to exchange for a pile of them. The pancakes were the kind that Xi Shi had baked while traveling on the road. Lu Weiyi even acted like he had gotten a good deal and said, “I must get Brother Xi to make more when we get back.”

Before the apocalypse, Antonio had considered himself a big spender, but seeing Lu Weiyi now, he actually felt a bit unsophisticated. He immediately felt sorry for Dean and told him, “You can exchange for anything you like too.”

Dean nodded, then shook his head. “I don’t think there’s anything I need.” What he said was also true. Antonio had prepared everything he needed in life, and Lu Weiyi occasionally took special care of him, so he didn’t need to worry about anything at all.

“Lu is so good at buying!” Dean’s tone of praise was very exaggerated, making the Gu Qingyue brothers feel a bit sympathetic towards Zhuang Mingxu.

“What’s wrong?” Zhuang Mingxu noticed the undisguised gazes of the few people and asked.

“Excuse me for asking, what did you do before? What was your income like?” Earlier, Lu Weiyi had said that Zhuang Mingxu was his sugar daddy. Gu Qingyue thought he should be a rich person, but after seeing Lu Weiyi’s shopping spree, Gu Qingyue really wanted to ask Zhuang Mingxu if he was going to go bankrupt supporting such a person every year.

“I own a technology company myself. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, Only Technology.” As for income, Zhuang Mingxu thought for a moment, “Income-wise, last year was probably over two billion.”

Only Technology, a leader in the technology industry. Although he didn’t know who the boss was, he had definitely heard of the company name.

“Sorry, never mind I asked,” Gu Qingyue covered his face and looked aside. The lives of rich people were simply unimaginable.

The others also tacitly stopped looking at Zhuang Mingxu. After all, they weren’t worthy of pitying a billionaire with an annual income of billions.

Further ahead was the food section. The few people thought that they weren’t short of supplies and that Lu Weiyi should know how to restrain himself. Who knew that the first thing that appeared in front of them was a fruit stall, neatly displaying apples, plums, pineapples, cantaloupe, and other fruits. Although they were a bit wilted under the August sun, seeing a world full of devastation all day long, this bit of bright color was so eye-catching that they couldn’t move their feet.

“Young man, buying fruit?” The stall owner was an old man who asked Lu Weiyi directly with a smile. After all, everyone on half the street had seen that this was a “money-scattering boy.”

Unsurprisingly, Lu Weiyi immediately asked, “They look pretty fresh. Where did you get them, grandpa?” He was thinking of getting some back himself.

“My family used to run a fruit stall. These were kept for my child, but now the child is sick, so I have to sell them,” the old man didn’t hide anything. “I don’t want food, just medicine. Young man, do you have any?”

“What medicine?” Lu Weiyi said, glancing at Gu Qingyue, after all, although he had a lot of medicine, he didn’t really know what any of it was for.

“Medicine to treat childhood asthma. The medicine my child had stored at home is all used up,” the old man said, “Four bottles, and all these are yours.”

Four bottles weren’t cheap, especially since hospitals were inaccessible and medicine was extremely scarce, but the problem was that fruits weren’t common either.

Gu Qingyue said a medicine name, and the old man immediately nodded. “Then grandpa, why don’t you go directly to our villa later, and I’ll look for it for you.”

“Okay, okay,” the old man said, immediately packing up all the fruit.

After settling the time and place for the exchange, the group continued forward. Ahead were vegetable stalls. Lu Weiyi still adhered to his “buy, buy, buy” style, leaving nothing behind. Even tomatoes and cucumbers, which could still be found in the countryside now, he didn’t let go of.

After all, he knew that although these things looked plentiful now, once the heavy snow came and the temperature plummeted, vegetables and fruits would be gone for a short time.

As for the eggs and meat that appeared later, the group had already decided not to say anything. As a result, wherever they went, they were surrounded by a circle of people eagerly introducing their goods.

They had thought this trip would be spent watching Lu Weiyi buy everything, but halfway through, Xu Sa suddenly appeared and stopped Lu Weiyi’s continued spending spree.

“Did you get the jade?” Lu Weiyi had just seen a few barbecue grills and a pile of charcoal and was checking the quality. Hearing Xu Sa call him, he immediately remembered his task.

“I had Little Liu go get it,” Xu Sa replied, then remembered the purpose of his search. “Little Lu, do you have a younger brother named Lu Xi?”

Lu Xi was the only son of Lu Weiyi’s only maternal uncle. In his previous life, he was kidnapped, and the kidnappers asked the uncle for military weapons. Lu Weiyi used his ability to secretly sneak in and steal him away.

Lu Weiyi’s mother was the only daughter of his maternal grandfather’s family. His grandmother’s health was damaged when she gave birth to her, and she wanted another child, so his grandfather adopted a boy who was twelve years older than Lu Weiyi. Before he joined the army, he had a very good relationship with Lu Weiyi. At that time, his grandfather was still alive, and he would take Lu Weiyi out to play all day.

But in his college years, he was tricked by a classmate and had a child. The child’s mother’s family caused trouble, so his grandfather paid to keep the child and severed ties, sending his uncle to the army.

The child, Lu Xi, had always been raised by his grandfather. When Lu Weiyi was still an innocent and lively young master, he often held his fair and tender younger brother to play. Later, due to family changes, Lu Weiyi left the Capital with Zhuang Mingxu and went to Qingyuan.

Lu Xi was taken to the military compound by his father. Lu Weiyi’s mental state had problems, and the two of them actually had a much weaker relationship in the later years. Probably in Lu Xi’s memory, only such a person existed.

But in Lu Weiyi’s memory, it was a boy in his previous life who was ravaged and covered in scars, with a gloomy face. That was a year after the apocalypse, when sixteen-year-old Lu Xi learned weapon manufacturing and was the first person to research crystal core weapons.

As a result, in the first use of the weapons he researched, he wiped out a not-so-small team in the Capital, leaving no one alive. Later, he disappeared with those weapons. Not long after, they heard that a base in the southwest was completely destroyed by weapons. Later, before Lu Weiyi died, he heard that his uncle had found him, but he never saw him again.

“Yes, my uncle’s son,” Xu Sa had been with Lu Weiyi since childhood and knew Lu Xi. He was just surprised by the sudden mention of him. “What’s wrong?”

“The two of us just passed by the red-light district over there and saw that group of people forcing someone to take customers. It was a beautiful little boy. I heard someone mutter something, seemed like his name was Lu Xi. It sounded familiar, so I thought I’d ask you,” Xu Sa finished speaking, then felt it was impossible. “It shouldn’t be him. Lu Xi should be in the capital with your uncle, right? There’s no way he’d appear here, haha… I’m just overthinking it.”

Lu Xi… northwest direction… Yongping base…

Lu Weiyi immediately threw down the tongs he was using to poke the charcoal. “Where is he? I’m going to take a look.”

“Keep going straight,” Xu Sa’s smile faded.

“Boss, I know where it is, I’ll take you there,” Little Liu, who was following Xu Sa, immediately said, “That area is specifically run by a small organization here. There are men and women inside, specifically for people’s entertainment. If it’s your relative, you should go take a look quickly.”

Lu Weiyi turned to leave, but the boss selling things here, although knowing he shouldn’t stop him, didn’t want to give up such a rare big customer and immediately blocked his way. “Hey, little brother, do you still want this stuff?”

“I’ll wait for you here and help you take a look in the meantime,” Zhuang Mingxu said to Lu Weiyi.

His uncle Lu Xiao never remarried after what happened when he was young, and he valued this only son very much. Lu Weiyi still remembered his red eyes and trembling hands when he saw the rescued Lu Xi.

He felt a bit anxious and looked at the others.

Gu Qingyue understood his meaning and immediately said, “Qingji, Dean, and I will wait for you here with Ai Yi. Brother Li and Antonio will go with you.” There were guards in the trading area, so there wouldn’t be too much conflict. The few of them together would be fine.

But if that person was really Lu Xi, it was hard to guarantee that Lu Weiyi wouldn’t get agitated and have some conflict. Having Li Zhuang and Antonio with him wouldn’t hurt.

“Thank you,” Lu Weiyi said, turning around and following Little Liu, running back the way they came.

Living in the apocalypse, all sorts of shady characters began to flourish. For survival, there was only the darkness you couldn’t imagine, nothing others couldn’t do.

The pressure of survival, the precarious days, coupled with the zombies that could appear at any time, meant that everything around them needed a place to release and alleviate stress, and the red-light district came into being.

Lu Weiyi had never been to such a place, but he had heard of them. The business done inside was flesh trade. There were those who were willing and those who were forced. Of course, besides the sex trade, they also catered to guests with special fetishes, and abuse and humiliation were commonplace.

Lu Weiyi had once gone with Zhuang Mingxu to exchange goods at another base and had seen a boy who had been tamed like a dog being given to Zhuang Mingxu by the base people. That boy hadn’t even reached adulthood yet, and there was no hope in his eyes. The long period of taming had slowly eroded his awareness of being human, and he only knew how to please his master.

Lu Weiyi closed his eyes, not daring to think further, and his footsteps quickened slightly.