Chapter 93: Speed and Passion
“I heard his stomach growl,” Xiong Jie had been in prison, and being tall, sturdy, and bald, he looked intimidating. Sitting with Zhuang Ai Yi made him look even more menacing. “Maybe he didn’t wake up properly this morning and couldn’t eat.”
Lu Weiyi had never taken care of him before. After waking him up in the morning, he had made a bottle of milk, and he had drunk half of it. Lu Weiyi thought he was full and didn’t say much.
“Are you hungry or not?” Lu Weiyi frowned and asked again.
Zhuang Ai Yi sensed Lu Weiyi’s displeasure and didn’t dare to lie again, carefully nodding.
“Then what do you want to eat? What do you usually eat?” Lu Weiyi didn’t know how to get along with children. Although he had promised Lin Yimu to be nicer to him, and Zhuang Mingxu had also hinted at it, there hadn’t been a child around him for many years. Thinking about what he ate as a child, he asked uncertainly, “Hamburgers, fries, cola?”
“Didn’t Zhuang Mingxu say he wasn’t feeling well? Those things aren’t easy to digest, are they?” Xiong Jie was now a bit suspicious of how Lu Weiyi had been taking care of Zhuang Mingxu these past two days. “Do you have any hot porridge, preferably the kind you can drink with a straw?”
Porridge to drink with a straw…
Lu Weiyi’s mental power quickly covered the space, and he shook his head.
“Then just any hot porridge will do,” Xiong Jie said. “I’ll feed him. You guys drive a bit more steadily.”
“Okay,” Lu Weiyi nodded, took out a portion of bird’s nest porridge that he had packed before the apocalypse, thinking it was the most nutritious, and handed it over. He then continued to manipulate the small green branches to push away zombies, trying to make the truck ride smoother.
Xiong Jie lifted the lid of the lunch box, and the fragrant steam spread out, even Li Zhuang smelled it. “What kind of porridge is so fragrant?”
“Bird’s nest porridge,” Lu Weiyi replied.
“This is my first time even seeing bird’s nest porridge, let alone eating it,” Xiong Jie said, carefully bringing the box closer to Zhuang Ai Yi, his voice as gentle as possible. “You’re bringing us good fortune, Ai Yi. Grandpa will feed you, drink as much as you can, and leave the rest if you can’t finish it, okay?”
“Is he secretly trying to gain seniority and take advantage of us?” Li Zhuang said to Lu Weiyi in his spare time.
“It’s okay, my youngest uncle is younger than him. Calling him uncle doesn’t put me at a disadvantage,” Lu Weiyi said nonchalantly.
“Okay, thank you, Grandpa,” Zhuang Ai Yi in the back seat replied obediently, pursing his little lips and taking a small sip.
“What taking advantage? At my age, I’d be in jail, otherwise I would have been a grandpa in the village long ago,” Xiong Jie thought, his heart instantly filled with warmth at the sound of the child’s milky “Grandpa.”
“Wow, we’ve been together for so long, I didn’t realize Brother Xi could have a son,” It was the end of the world, and with Antonio and Dean being so open all the time, everyone could clearly see the situation between Xiong Jie and Xi Shi. Li Zhuang joked with a smile.
“Get lost, still teasing your Brother Xi. If you do that, he won’t make you delicious food later,” Xiong Jie kicked Li Zhuang’s seat, his voice immediately softening as he asked Zhuang Ai Yi, “Ai Yi, is it too hot?”
“Not hot,” Zhuang Ai Yi replied, taking small sips from his hand.
“Please don’t, I really don’t want to eat Qingyue’s cooking,” Li Zhuang quickly begged for mercy, after all, Xi Shi’s culinary skills were truly excellent.
“Didn’t you say Qingyue’s cooking was delicious before?” Lu Weiyi looked back at Zhuang Ai Yi and exposed his lie.
“That was the first time. He brought out his specialty dishes, and I thought they were good. It’s like Lin Yimu. That chicken stew with mushrooms is really good, but would you dare say his cooking is delicious?” Li Zhuang dragged the other two only people who could cook into it. However, Lu Weiyi really had nothing to say about this because he knew Lin Yimu’s cooking skills very well.
“Another group of people has come and blocked the cars behind,” The sudden sound of the walkie-talkie interrupted their chat. Li Zhuang and Lu Weiyi simultaneously looked in the rearview mirror and saw several cars cutting in horizontally where they had just passed, colliding with the cars closely following, causing both groups of cars to stop.
“It’s Military Shield people,” Lu Weiyi narrowed his eyes and said, “I saw Cheng Ying. He was driving the car that got hit.”
Cheng Ying, they all didn’t know what to say about this person, and there was a moment of silence. Only the sound of Zhuang Ai Yi sipping porridge softly could be heard in the car.
Finally, Li Zhuang broke the silence, “Looks like the people before were Zhang Xun’s.”
With the people behind them blocked, they officially entered the city center. What was speechless was that the road they were taking was the bustling area of Yongping City. The zombies, hearing the sound of the car driving by, came in droves, making everyone’s scalp tingle.
“It’ll be better after we pass this section,” Li Zhuang had scouted the road in advance. This road was the shortest, and they were in a hurry. It was best to go directly. They feared the large number of zombies, and the people following them wouldn’t dare to attack.
There were so many zombies that even Lu Weiyi felt it was laborious to push them aside with the small green branches. They finally left that area, but before they could relax, several more cars followed from a side intersection. They didn’t know if they were with the previous group, but the car models looked different.
This group was clearly unreasonable and directly fired a shot at the rear car tire. With a “squeak,” the car Xu Sa was driving swerved sharply. If he hadn’t stepped on the brakes in time, they would have crashed into the wall.
“Damn it!” Xu Sa’s cursing voice came from the walkie-talkie. “Our tire blew. Does Weiyi have a car?”
At the same time they fired, Lu Weiyi immediately threw three guns into the back of the truck. There were three veterans from the special forces in the truck bed, and no one was more familiar with guns than them.
Lu Weiyi replied, “Yes,” while saying, “Take care of Zhuang Ai Yi,” and opened the car door and jumped out.
The three people in the truck bed had already skillfully started attacking the approaching cars. The other side hadn’t attacked people, they had only blown out the tires of a few cars. With the sound of several emergency brakes and the sound of vehicles that didn’t brake in time crashing into things, the surrounding zombies were also attracted.
They had just left the bustling area, and the sound of the car was still attracting a group of zombies chasing after them. The sudden appearance of various loud noises immediately attracted the zombies from further away.
“Change cars!” Lu Weiyi shouted loudly, running towards Xu Sa and the others.
“Lu Xiaoyi, you… you hurry up!” Xu Sa and the others got out of the car nimbly, attacking the zombies around them with their respective weapons while moving towards Lu Weiyi’s direction. But seeing the zombies rapidly approaching behind them like a zombie tide, his voice calling Lu Weiyi was a bit shaky.
Lu Weiyi swung a car towards the space between them, while manipulating the small green branches to strangle and break the necks of more than a dozen zombies approaching them. While relieving their pressure, he gave them time to get into the car. Xu Sa got back into the driver’s seat, started the car, and shouted at Lu Weiyi, “Get in!”
After strangling more than a dozen more zombies, Lu Weiyi turned around and got into the passenger seat. “Drive in an S-shape.”
“Got it,” Xu Sa replied.
The car swayed as it drove. A large number of zombies chased after them. Several cars didn’t bother to change cars and could only barely get on the road. The zigzagging route made their shooting inaccurate. Several shots hit the car body, and the crackling sound of bullets hitting metal attracted even more zombies. They were clearly attracted by the sound from both front and back. What was even more speechless was that because of their delay, the truck was already some distance away from them, and the zombies in between were purely coming towards them, forming a siege.
“The car can’t handle so many, what do we do?” Being besieged by so many zombies wasn’t as simple as a bite. They might be eaten directly. Xu Sa thought of the process of being devoured and felt both disgusted and scared.
“Drive straight,” Lu Weiyi said, manipulating the small green branches again. Actually, compared to pushing the zombies aside to detour, directly strangling their necks was more effortless. But the car’s chassis was too low, and steep roads were easy to get stuck on, let alone a pile of corpses.
Perhaps realizing that if they didn’t run now, it would be too late, the cars following behind stopped targeting them and started attacking the zombies. Various abilities were used against the zombies simultaneously. This was the first time Lu Weiyi had seen an ability battle since his rebirth. Although it was weak, he had to admit it was somewhat familiar.
However, there were still idiots. Instead of aiming their guns at them, they started shooting at the zombies. Even Xu Sa couldn’t help but say, “Did they bring an idiot with them?”
The two ability users in the truck bed saw the battle behind them and also used their abilities to join the escape. Compared to Antonio’s two blades, Liu Rui’s fire dragon was more useful.
But Lu Weiyi was controlling plants, and Liu Rui was a bit worried about burning his plants, asking cautiously, “I… I… how do I… help you?”
“Towards the front,” The effective range of the small green branches was limited. As the car sped along, Lu Weiyi dealt with one batch, and before he could free his hands, the second batch of zombies was already close.
“Okay,” Liu Rui took advantage of Lu Weiyi’s opening and directly launched a fire dragon.
It had to be said that high-level abilities were really good for dealing with zombies. Once a fire dragon went out, the approaching zombies seemed to melt away a part of their bodies before falling to the ground.
The two took turns using their abilities, tearing a path through the zombie encirclement. When they could see the tail of the truck in front again, Xu Sa exhaled heavily, glanced at the car behind them that was surrounded by zombies and no longer visible, and said with lingering fear, “I thought we were going to die here.”
“How are you guys doing?” Zhuang Mingxu asked on the walkie-talkie.
“We’re fine, we’re out,” Xu Sa said, accelerating to catch up.
After this terrifying experience, they didn’t encounter any more chasing cars after leaving the city. Just when they thought they would be safe after crossing the bridge, roadblocks appeared before the bridge.
On the two-lane road, two cars were parked horizontally in a bold manner. The people sitting in the cars were Wang Ning, with five or six men.
Sensing their intentions, Li Zhuang slowed down and told the two cars behind them about the situation on the walkie-talkie, “I feel like there are more than just these people.”
Li Zhuang’s gaze went to the farmland on both sides of the road. The corn planted in the fields had already tasseled and pollinated, dense and thick, making it impossible to see if anyone was hiding inside. But Li Zhuang was directly certain there were people, just unsure how many.
Lu Weiyi, following behind, manipulated the small green branches to take a look ahead. The road wasn’t wide, and they had directly blocked it. “Can we detour?”
“…No, this is the only way through.” If he were the one blocking the road at this time, Li Zhuang would definitely think it was clever. If it was the opponent, then there was only one word: “bastard.” “Use Lin Fei?”
The raised board on the rear of the truck bed had been removed at some point. Zhuang Mingxu, who was clinging to the side of the truck, had been paying attention to the rear. At this moment, he spoke, “Xiaoyi, do you have binoculars?”
