Chapter 115: Patronus 【04】
Cao Yuyue listed the possibility of a bunch of ordinary people holding back Yuan Jia to save his parents, and tried to prevent Yuan Jia from taking Wei Zhi and others with him.
Yuan Jia knew very well about Cao Yuyue's sinister intentions. He just felt that Wei Zhi and others might hinder him from calculating against him.
No matter how Cao Yuyue persuaded, Yuan Jia always shook his head and refused: "That's not good, I promised Wei Zhi and the others that I would take them to a safe shelter. And they have helped me a lot along the way, I can't Cross the river and demolish the bridge."
It's not that only Yuan Jia, who protected Wei Zhi and others, helped them unilaterally. In fact, Wei Zhi and others also helped Yuan Jia a lot, such as collecting supplies, planning routes, and brainstorming plans to rescue Wei's father and mother.
Of course, people like Cao Yuyue can't see what others have paid for.
He is still bewitching Yuan Jia to abandon this group of ordinary people who are holding him back, trying to let Yuan Jia take him on the road alone.
Yuan Jia refused: "Cao Yuyue, if you want to go with me, you can, but if you want me to take you on the road alone, that won't work!"
Cao Yuyue's tone became more and more impatient, and he lowered his voice: "Cousin, you are carrying a group of fuel bottles. If you encounter any danger and ignore them, wouldn't that hurt them?"
Yuan Jia glanced at a figure approaching in the dark, pretended not to see it, but his voice rose, full of anger: "Cao Yuyue, if you don't want to join our team, it's fine, I won't force you, but you Tell me to abandon everyone and leave alone, there is no need to say, I will not do such things as treachery!"
Cao Yu said angrily, "I am here for your own good, not for myself!"
Yuan Jia snorted coldly and said, "What do you think, you know it yourself!" He suddenly got up, turned to leave, just took two steps, and looked at Wei who was holding a bowl of noodles not far away. Zhi, with a little embarrassment on his face, "Uncle Wei Zhi..."
Wei Zhi still had a smiling expression on his face, as if he hadn't heard anything just now, he handed the noodle bowl and chopsticks in his hand to Yuan Jia: "I'm here to deliver noodles to you, Captain, and I even put a gravy in the noodles I just ordered. Eggs and two sausages are very fragrant!"
Yuan Jia took the bowl and chopsticks, but didn't move the chopsticks for a long time. Wei Zhi looked at Cao Yuyue, who was also looking awkwardly behind him, and asked with a smile, "Captain, what are you talking about with your cousin? You are so engaged in chatting, I forgot to even eat the noodles…”
Although he didn't know whether Wei Zhi really didn't hear it or pretended he didn't, Cao Yu thought that Wei Zhi didn't hear their conversation just now, and the embarrassment on his face disappeared.
Yuan Jia looked down at the noodles with marinated eggs and ham sausage in the bowl. The noodles were already a little lumpy in the hot noodle soup, apparently it had been out of the pot for a while.
He rolled up the noodles with chopsticks and said, "I didn't say anything, just discuss with Cao Yuyue whether he should give up this warehouse and go with us."
Hearing Yuan Jia's indifferent tone when he mentioned Cao Yuyue's name, Wei Zhi's eyes flashed, he walked to Cao Yuyue's side with a smile, and persuaded: "Little brother, you should go with us! This warehouse Looking at the safety, in fact, I really encountered a mutant beast, and there is nowhere to run..."
Yuan Jia glanced at Cao Yuyue and Wei Zhi, and went to eat noodles with a noodle bowl.
Wei Zhi looked very friendly on the surface, and persuaded Cao Yuyue to follow their convoy. Cao Yu, who had planned to wait for Wei Yuanjia to be seriously injured, thought about it for a while, and felt that it was appropriate to follow the team and wait for an opportunity.
So he agreed.
The smile on Wei Zhi's face deepened: "That's right! Come on, let's eat noodles. The boiled braised egg noodles are much better than your instant noodles..."
Wei Zhi led Cao Yuyue to the rest of the team and formally introduced Cao Yuyue to everyone.
Everyone's initial favorability to Cao Yuyue is quite high. After all, Cao Yuyue just said that he would invite them to eat. The gas stove and pot were all provided by Cao Yuyue. He is also Yuan Jia's cousin. People are naturally good.
But Cao Yuyue didn't want to spend more time with these unsightly people. After getting to know each other, he went to Yuan Jia with a noodle bowl.
As soon as Cao Yuyue left, Wei Zhi's smiling face immediately dropped.
When others saw Wei Zhi's face change, they were a little strange: "Uncle Wei Zhi, what's the matter?"
"What's wrong?" Wei Zhi snorted coldly, and said with disgust and disdain, "Do you know what I heard Cao Yuyue say to the captain when I presented the captain just now?"
"What did you say?"
"This kid has been telling the captain that we are all fuel bottles, and urging the captain to abandon us! If the captain hadn't been kind and kind, he was really tempted by him, wouldn't he have forced us to die?"
"What?" Everyone who heard Wei Zhi's words was shocked.
They didn't suspect that Wei Zhi was lying. After all, after getting along along the way, everyone saw Wei Zhi's contribution to everyone. In the team, except for Yuan Jia, Wei Zhi had the highest prestige. Moreover, Wei Zhi is an upright person, and he is also very fair when distributing materials. He never shows favoritism. It makes no sense to deliberately frame the captain's cousin now.
The impulsive young man in the team couldn't help his temper: "I'll go and ask that boy to clarify!"
Wei Zhi hurriedly stopped the person: "Don't go! Going to make trouble now, wouldn't that embarrass the captain? After all, that's the captain's cousin, can we force the captain to throw the person away? Is Cao Yu getting more and more the same?"
"Then what should we do?"
Wei Zhi smiled a little bit badly: "Although Cao Yuyue is the captain's cousin, the captain doesn't like this despicable villain. Since he wants to go with our team, he should treat everyone equally along the way. Can't do anything special..."
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Yuan Jia ignored the increasingly chattering voice of Cao Yu in his ears, his consciousness enveloped the entire warehouse, and he naturally 'heard' the words discussed by Wei Zhi and others.
Regarding this result, Yuan Jia glanced at Cao Yuyue, who was still beside him inquiring about the special cultivation methods and unique tricks of his Thunder-type abilities, and had some anticipation in his heart.
For Yuan Jia, Cao Yuyue, who is still an ordinary person, is just an existence that can be pinched to death, but the problem is that Cao Yuyue is now just his cousin, a cousin who has done nothing bad.
If Yuan Jia killed his own cousin in front of so many people, what reason should he use to explain?
So Yuan Jia planned to take the person first, and then find a suitable opportunity to let him die in the mouth of the mutant beast. On the bright side, it has nothing to do with his cousin.
Yuan Jia has no idea that Cao Yuyue hasn't done bad things yet. If he is in the ordinary world, no matter how disgusting Cao Yuyue is, when he doesn't do bad things, he won't do it himself. Kill it, this principle still exists.
But this is a world of the end of mankind. The secret technique of plundering powers that Cao Yuyue has mastered is destined to kill a power user, especially Cao Yuyue's chosen target is Yuan Jia himself.
Yuan Jia is also afraid that Cao Yu will spread the secret method of plundering powers, causing turmoil in the entire human society, and causing power users and ordinary people to become incompatible with each other...
In Cao Yuyue's previous life, when the research institute under the command of the top federal government researched the secret method of plundering power, it was already the tenth year of the end of the world. At that time, the power users had grown to the point where they were not afraid of hot weapons, and it was easy to counterattack. Destroyed the high-level forces of the federation.
But now is the beginning of the apocalypse, and all the power users have not fully grown up, so they have a great disadvantage in the face of hot weapons. If Cao Yuyue spreads out the secret method of plundering ability, those top federation leaders who master hot weapons and have powerful power but have not awakened the ability will be crazy to capture the ability person.
The power user who should have become the hope of mankind in the last days will only become a street rat in the early days of the apocalypse. When the human power is consumed by infighting, the mutant beasts rapidly develop and become stronger. When the mutant beasts develop to the point where hot weapons do not have much effect on them, Power users are either killed or have no time to grow up, and human beings will perish faster and earlier than in the original plot.
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, the secret method of the plundering ability must disappear forever, and must not be leaked out!
Cao Yuyue, the only person who knows the secret method of looting, must also die!
After Yuan Jia made up his mind, he was much more tolerant of Cao Yuyue who was chattering in his ear.
After dinner, Yuan Jia said to the crowd: "Everyone is divided into two groups, one group will stay in the middle of the night, and the other will stay in the middle of the night. We will continue our journey after breakfast when it is dawn!"
Wei Zhi and the others responded in unison, "Okay, Captain!"
Cao Yu's heart sank as he saw Yuan Jia's prestige among these dozens of people.
He originally wanted to sow discord in front of these people and make them dissatisfied with Wei Yuanjia, so he had better make a scene.
Wei Yuanjia will naturally feel chilled at that time and abandon them to go on the road alone, won't he have a chance then?
In the apocalypse, it is never uncommon for the bad things to happen in the end of the world.
But why the **** are these people so convinced of Wei Yuanjia?
In fact, Cao Yuyue didn't know that Wei Zhi, who always seemed to be smiling and very kind to him, was actually the CEO of a company before the end of the world, and he was quite good at managers.
Wei Zhi regards Yuan Jia as the boss of the company and the rest of the team as employees. He continues to be an executive president himself, and manages the entire team properly, even if there are any thorns, he will press him down.
Moreover, Yuanjia has traveled through so many worlds, and the emperor has done it many times. Isn't it easy to convince these dozens of ordinary people?
The people in the convoy are all from their families, and they have seen the horror of mutant beasts and the power of Yuan Jia who waved his hand like a thunder god. Which of them dares not be honest? Aren't you afraid of being thrown over by a thunderball and blown up to pieces?
Most of the thorns are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard. After all, there are only a few elites with abnormal brain circuits, and the elites are also afraid of death.
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When sleeping at night, the people in the convoy lay on the ground and fall asleep with the clothes on.
Anyway, it is summer now, the weather is hot and not afraid of cold.
Cao Yuyue took Yuan Jia to the second floor of the warehouse where he lived before, dragged out another folding bed, and said to Yuan Jia, "Cousin, sleep in this bed! The bed is more comfortable than the floor."
Yuan Jia thanked him, then lay down and said to Cao Yuyue, "Go to bed early!"
He lay down and closed his eyes, soon snoring softly, clearly tired.
Under the dim light of the desk lamp, Cao Yuyue looked at Yuan Jia's sleeping face. Sitting on his camp bed, he subconsciously reached under the pillow and touched the smooth handle of the watermelon knife...
He stared at Yuan Jia's face tightly, and with his right hand he slowly pulled out the watermelon knife from under the pillow.
His heart was beating like a drum, and his blood was surging with nervousness.
There was a voice in his mind bewitching him, and while Wei Yuanjia was asleep, he could just do it! As long as he stabs him with a single stab to the heart, no matter how strong he is, he will die!
For this day, Cao Yuyue prepared a doll model of equal height before the end of the world, practiced such a stab to the heart, and already knew the specific position of the human heart by heart.
Suddenly, in Cao Yuyue's mind, the scene in his previous life that he wanted to do something to a child who had just awakened to his fire-type powers reappeared. Before he could do anything, the child instinctively sensed the danger, and the violent flames engulfed him in an instant. Burn him alive.
After his personal experience, he has a deep understanding of the power of the psychic.
Cao Yu's action of drawing the knife stopped for a while, and his sense returned. He slowly stuffed the watermelon knife back under the pillow.
He got up, turned off the lamp, and lay down on the camp bed, getting ready to sleep.
But what he didn't see was that after he turned off the lights, Yuan Jia, who should have fallen asleep until he was snoring slightly, opened his eyes and quietly watched him in the dark...
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At two in the morning, Yuan Jia woke up on time.
He quietly went downstairs and said to the first group of people who had been guarding for six hours since 8:00: "Go to sleep, we will guard in the second half of the night!"
Then he woke the man who had slept in the middle of the night to wake up with him.
Although Yuan Jia can keep watch all night alone, and he uses his spiritual sense to detect it is much easier and more convenient than letting people keep watch, but Yuan Jia did not make these people rely on him all the time, but consciously cultivated their vigilance and organization.
These people who stayed with Yuan Jia in the middle of the night started to sleep at 8 o'clock in the evening and slept until 2 o'clock in the morning. They slept for six hours, and they were much refreshed.
Those who stay in the middle of the night and stay up until two o'clock in the morning are not particularly tired. After all, staying up until two o'clock in the morning before the end of the world is not called staying up late, it is called normal work and rest time. Now they go to bed, slept until eight in the morning, slept for six hours, and got up just after eight o'clock to have breakfast and get ready to go on the road.
Yuan Jia sat on a chair and started the night watch. A young man named Wei Min who was on the night watch with him sat beside Yuan Jia, with a adoring light in his eyes, and cautiously spoke to him: "Captain, a supernatural power like you is. I don't know how many…”
Yuan Jia glanced at Wei Min. This young man was quite familiar to him, because he was Wei Zhi's own son and had a lot of contact with him.
Wei Min is in his twenties this year and is still in college. When the apocalypse broke out, it happened to be during the summer vacation. He was at home with his parents and his family was fine, very lucky.
Wei Min, who has not yet passed the second phase of the middle school, admires Yuan Jia very much, but is in awe. This time he really mustered up the courage to talk to Yuan Jia.
Yuan Jia did not refuse the approach of the young boy. He smiled and said, "There should be more! After all, there are so many mutant beasts. If there are fewer people with abilities, the survival rate of human beings will be reduced to a terrible level."
The number of mutant beasts in the early days of the apocalypse was not large, but the base of animals and plants was there, no matter how small it was, it was far more than the number of human psychics.
Although as time goes by, more and more people will awaken their abilities. In Yuan Jia's view, the time to awaken their abilities represents each person's aptitude. Those with good aptitude will wake up early, and those with poor aptitude will wake up late.
But at the same time as the number of power users is increasing, the number of mutant beasts is also increasing rapidly, and humans have always been at a disadvantage.
In the early days of the apocalypse, the hot weapons that humans relied on so much would gradually become useless as the mutant beasts became stronger and stronger.
Even now, it is difficult for ordinary hot weapons to kill huge mutant beasts. If the reaction speed of the person holding the weapon is slow and the accuracy of the head is not enough, they will not be able to hit the extremely fast mutant beasts like mutant cats. Also powerless.
A large-scale thermal weapon bombing is a good way, but there are too many mutant beasts, and when the communication is cut off and the connection is lost, it is a problem to replenish the ammunition.