NFBE Chapter 169 The traitor
Chapter 169 The traitor
In Su Xuan's view, her daughter's behavior was actually a bit... hard to judge. Sooner or later, she would probably go crazy, even if she didn't, like doing something like locking someone up in the basement.
Although we don't know what she went through, fortunately, Lu Yize accepted her somewhat twisted feelings, which can be considered a kind of fulfillment.
Having rushed from Beicheng overnight, Su Xuan looked exhausted. Seeing this, Lu Yize stopped bothering her and left with Jiang Yue.
Su Xuan stood up, hesitant to speak, but in the end she just watched their backs disappear into the distance.
After Lu Yize brought Jiang Yue out, the large group of scattered people had dispersed, leaving only Chen Mingzhang standing in the center talking to Zhu Lei about how to rebuild the base.
The central base was mostly destroyed by the previous flood. Even with the help of superhumans to rebuild, they could only manage to create some simple rooms in a short period of time.
"Zhu Lei, you take a few earth-type ability users to rebuild the house, water-type ability users to clean it up, fire-type ability users to reinforce the house, and the rest of you to cooperate."
"Zheng Mu compiled a list of missing persons, provided comfort and subsidies to their families, and sorted out and distributed the supplies brought by Mu Fei and others."
Reconstruction is not a difficult task for people with superpowers. In fact, there are quite a few people with superpowers among those who came from the second and fifth districts. They originally came here with the mission of providing assistance.
Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui felt embarrassed to just stand by and watch, so the two grown men also helped out.
There were many ordinary people in the base. Watching the superhumans use their various abilities to rebuild the base, their previously anxious hearts instantly calmed down.
Chen Mingzhang noticed that Lu Yize was standing behind him at some point, and his gaze followed Lu Yize's to Zheng Lei and Fan Jian, who were using their supernatural abilities to build a house.
“A base that brings together various supernatural abilities makes everything much more convenient. Are you interested in joining our base?” Chen Mingzhang asked, seizing the opportunity.
He had been trying to recruit Lu Yize for a long time, but Lu Yize remained uninterested.
"Everyone in the base knows about Jiang Yue's situation, and most of them can accept it. Besides, his parents are also at our base. Don't you want your family to be reunited?"
If Lu Yize was initially just uninterested in joining the Donggu base, after hearing the remaining half of Chen Mingzhang's sentence, he revealed a sinister smile: "Family reunion? Dream on."
"A family reunion?" Lu Yize's voice was low and hoarse, but it was hard not to hear the sarcasm in it. "Erasing the records, making it impossible for people to check, and having to investigate in the dark whether to recognize each other, such a family is better off not recognizing each other."
Having spent so many years in the apocalypse, Lu Yize knows the dark side of people best and is most adept at guessing people's thoughts with the greatest malice.
If Jiang Yue's parents truly loved her as much as she claimed, why would they have erased all records related to her in the first place? Now that Jiang Yue's condition is gradually stabilizing, they're trying to jump out and reap the benefits—it's utterly ridiculous.
He estimated that Jiang Yue's father, who valued experiments far more than his daughter, might subject her to repeated experiments and analyses under the guise of doing what was best for her if she went back with them.
Lu Yize's eyes were sinister; he had loathed this kind of person for both of his lives.
Chen Mingzhang was a smart man and naturally knew what Lu Yize meant by those words. He stood awkwardly to the side, unable to offer any explanation.
Jiang Yue stood next to Lu Yize, seemingly understanding but not quite, picking at her hands. Her black nails looked like they were poisoned. From any angle, she could no longer be considered human.
The atmosphere was awkward, but luckily Fan Jian happened to come over and brought a bucket of ice to Jiang Yue and Lu Yize. "Brother Lu, here you go. I don't know what's wrong with the weather. It suddenly got hot again. It's unbearably hot."
"Are you feeling hot?" Lu Yize asked Fan Jian, staring at the ice that was beginning to melt.
"Isn't it hot?" Fan Jian wiped the sweat from his forehead; his clothes were almost soaked. "In the short time we've been talking, I feel the temperature has risen by more than ten degrees. Good heavens, it's so hot and cold, it's unbearable!"
The temperature is like a mad concubine in the cold palace, unpredictable and fickle. The thermometer has become useless, almost exploding several times. Now it's completely malfunctioning, jumping back and forth, and the thermometer is starting to break down.
Jiang Yue is afraid of the heat, and she was already hugging an ice bucket and snorting. It was so hot that she felt like she was going to die. Jiang Yue took off her heavy clothes, and Lu Yize glanced at her. Only then did she restrain herself from taking them all off.
Zheng Lin formed a huge tree cage around the entire base, with dense trees creating an interwoven canopy that instantly lowered the temperature by several degrees.
To cool things down, Fan Jian kindly ran over to help, bracing himself with his hands on the ground, and instantly several icebergs, each over ten meters tall, rose from the ground. Xian Wenrui, standing beside him, cooperated perfectly, immediately throwing out water blades.
The water blade scraped against the ice shards on the iceberg, falling like snowflakes and frost, instantly calming the restlessness in my body.
"It's so cold."
"Come alive."
The ordinary people below gasped in amazement.
Zheng Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked up at the giant tree he had formed, and frowned.
He walked over to Chen Mingzhang and Lu Yize and whispered, "Brother Mingzhang, I feel like my superpower won't last much longer. I'll probably be dried out and left with only a bare branch."
"It's alright, we can reinforce it later."
Before Chen Mingzhang could finish speaking, Mu Fei pushed up his glasses and came out with a smirk, "Actually, these weather conditions aren't entirely unpredictable. Although they seem to change a lot, in reality... they are indeed hard to fathom."
Zheng Lin and Fan Jian, who had leaned forward, twitched at the corners of their mouths. "What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"
Seeing this, Mu Fei's lips continued to curl upwards, probably wanting to make a big show of it. "Although it's a bit difficult, I still managed to find a trace through calculation. This should be able to detect it..."
Before he could finish speaking, the legendary detection device in his hand exploded on the spot, startling everyone present into taking a step back.
If Lu Yize hadn't sensed the impending explosion first and kindly set up a spatial barrier for Mu Fei, his entire arm would probably have been blown to pieces by now.
The explosion was a huge commotion that attracted a lot of attention. The people from Zone 2 rushed over immediately. When the thick smoke dissipated, they breathed a sigh of relief when they found that their fragile but mischievous captain was alright.
"Captain... I already told you not to test your inventions on your own. What if something happens to you?"
His subordinates treated him like an old father, because this lousy job made them feel ten years older.
Mu Fei stared at his hands, puzzled and confused. "It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this, how could this be? I clearly calculated it, how could this be..."
Mu Fei was very confident in his work. He had designed it meticulously, and even if it failed, there shouldn't have been such a big mistake. Why would he expose it on the spot and not give him any face at all?
If you're going to expose something, you should do it discreetly when he's alone, you unfilial son!