Ch. 21

Yang Yang's family lives in an old residential area in Qiang'an County. There are two households on each floor of a six-story building, and Yang Yang's family lives in room 401.

The house that Lou Ai rented was room 402. The layout of the house was very simple, and the decoration was the old-fashioned wooden decoration. The drawer doors had colorful round glass handles. The toilet was relatively clean. Lou Ai wasted a little water flushing the toilet, and except for being a little clogged, there was nothing wrong with it.
　　

Lou Ai and Xia Lu had just been assigned the rooms they would live in when Yang Yang came over to call them for dinner.
　　

"We can buy water and vegetables in the small supermarkets here. Those small supermarkets are controlled by the government. They open early in the morning and close at noon." Yang Yang's mother kept picking up vegetables for Lou Ai and the others. "Eat more, eat more. I've been worried these days. Every time there are new people coming in to the base, I go to take a look. When you young people came in, you were all so thin. You looked unrecognizable. Our former neighbor Chong Chong was one of the last wave to come in. The fat guy has now completely lost weight..."
　　

As Yang Yang's mother spoke, she couldn't help but choke up.

"Lou Ai, thank you so much." Yang Yang's father also expressed his gratitude.
　　

"Yang Yang organized himself very well. Even if I wasn't there, Yang Yang could still get to the base safely." Lou Ai said after swallowing a mouthful of rice.
　　

"Okay, Mom and Dad, stop talking. Sister Lou Ai must be embarrassed." Yang Yang interrupted, "Sister Lou Ai, have you found a job? My mom said that the tax we have to pay for collecting supplies alone is very high. If you want to leave the base, you should find a team to take you with you."
　　

"Okay, I'll go to the publicity area this afternoon to take a look."
　　

The billboards that were filled with small advertisements before the end of the world are now filled with recruitment information.
　　

"By the way, uncle and aunt, do you know where the round-faced Taoist priest lives in the base? His name is Song Yi." Lou Ai asked, "I have something to ask him."
　　

"Song Yi?" Yang Yang's father said, "Isn't he a liar? He used to come here often to tell people's fortunes, but he hasn't come since he was beaten up. Yang Yang's mother also asked him to tell her fortune, and Song Yi told us that Yang Yang's return trip would be bad luck, but now it seems that it's not so accurate."
　　

"Ai Ai, wait a minute, I'll go ask for you." Yang Yang's mother stood up, packed up, and went upstairs.
　　

Lou Ai didn't even have time to say anything to stop her.

"I found out that the Taoist priest lives in the newly released model house, No. 302, which is the cheapest model house."
　　

"Okay, thank you, Auntie."

"Your aunt upstairs told me that the stinky Taoist priest got in trouble with the wrong people. Ai Ai, don't deal with such people."
　　

"Okay." Lou Ai nodded. After eating, he said something to Xia Lu, then strolled downstairs with her backpack on her back.
　　

Lou Ai followed the map on her phone to find the location of the model house. It was called a model house, but in fact it was a house built on the construction site for the workers to live in. It was the kind that could be dismantled and moved away at any time. Not many people lived here, and most of the rooms were not locked. Only the last few showed signs of being lived in.
　　

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
　　

Lou Ai was pushed into a corner by five or six big men, who raised clouds of dust as they ran.
　　

Lou Ai frowned as she watched the big man run away, and couldn't help but pat her clothes.
　　

"Song Yi?" Lou Ai walked around and called out to the rooms where people lived. "Sister, do you know where Song Yi lives?"
　　

When Lou Ai followed the path pointed out by others, she saw a large open space behind Song Yi's room.

Song Yi was being grabbed by the collar and cursed at. The sound of a fierce quarrel could be heard from the open space.
　　

The people surrounding Song Yi were none other than the group of big men from before.

　　

"Impossible, I couldn't have calculated it wrong. What I said is, if you don't try to take advantage of small things, it will be good luck, but if you are greedy, it will be disastrous. Before you come to question me, you should ask your brother if he tried to take advantage of small things on the road. Even if it's just a lollipop, it's still taking advantage of others." Song Yi held the hand of the person in front of him that was grabbing his collar, pursed his lips and said stubbornly.

"My brother has always been a well-behaved person. When he was a kid, he picked up a notebook but didn't dare to keep it for himself. He was such a coward. You told me that he came back seriously injured because he tried to take advantage of someone outside?" The leading man was about 1.9 meters tall, and his burly back made Song Yi look petite.
　　

"That's right. If you don't believe me, just wait until your brother wakes up and ask him in person. Then you'll know that I was right."

"Okay, okay, even if you are right about my brother, what happened to my brother? You told my brother not to get close to women along the way, and my brother and I were watching him closely along the way, but we didn't let him touch a single woman, and the result was that he broke a leg."
　　

"Brother, don't argue with him. Can you beat a liar?" the big man standing nearby said in a rough voice.
　　

"I'm not a liar. He broke a leg but didn't lose his life. Isn't that a safe return?" Song Yizheng's eyes turned red and his nose became thick. "I have been the best fortune teller in the temple since I was a child. The first time you asked me to tell your fortune, did you do what I said? Didn't you then come back safely?"
　　

"Bah, a blind cat meets a dead mouse." The leading man saw Lou Ai coming forward and yelled at his brothers beside him angrily, "I told you to watch this land and don't let innocent people in. How did you watch? The girls are coming in."
　　

"I think a blind cat that can catch a dead mouse is quite capable." Lou Ai said, avoiding the big man's attempt to chase her away.

"It's you?" Song Yi was stunned.
　　

"This is a matter between me and this liar. It has nothing to do with you. If you don't want to die, stay away from me." The big man looked at Lou Ai and threatened.
　　

While the big man wasn't paying attention, Song Yi pulled the collar out of his hand, smoothed it out, and said, "Disciple, go quickly. I don't need you to save me, and I won't tell them that you used their brothers to practice."
　　

Lou Ai: “…”
　　

How low an IQ does one have to have to be to fall for such a trick!
　　

Lou Ai looked at the big men in front of her and then gradually saw they believed it in their eyes: "???"
　　

"Okay! You said your disciple was a legendary master, but you must have lied to me." The leading man gnashed his teeth in anger, "Brothers, there's no need to argue with them, just beat them up right now. Beat that little girl gently, save some strength, let's beat this liar until the skin is peeled off."
　　

Song Yi: "Who said I was lying? She is the master!"

"If you're lying, choose something that people can believe. If that little girl is an expert, then all our previous affairs will be forgotten."
　　

The leading man was so angry that he punched him immediately.
　　

Song Yi covered his eyes and said, "Lou Ai, prove yourself quickly!"
　　

Lou Ai looked at herself. How could she prove this? She asked tentatively, "You must have heard of the master's name. My name is Lou Ai."
　　

"How can we know the master's name? Besides, you think that just saying the name can prove it. Are you bullying an honest man like me?"

　　

"Then let me put it another way. I am a superpower and you can't beat me."
　　

"Hahaha." What was heard was the laughter of the big men.

Lou Ai looked at several 1.8-meter-tall men walking towards her, but she became calm instead. In a fight, she could beat eight men by herself.
　　

"Run!" Song Yi bent over, ran past the big man like the wind, grabbed Lou Ai's sleeve, and dragged her to run into the alleys in the corners. "These men are all superpowered, otherwise they would come back with broken arms or legs after going out on a mission. Ten of you can't beat the leader. Run faster, why are you running so slowly?"
　　

Lou Ai passively followed Song Yi and ran: "Ordinary people can't outrun people with special abilities. We are wasting our energy by running like this. Tell me first, are your fortune-tellings accurate?"

"Of course it's accurate. I've always been the best at fortune-telling in the temple. His brother is definitely taking advantage. Sometimes you have to see more than just the actual thing to determine if someone is taking advantage. As long as you take advantage of someone else's luck, that's called taking advantage in the world of fortune. His brother may just be unlucky, or he may have been staring at a girl's face for too long." Song Yi spoke fluently as he ran.
　　

"Then do you know the monks from the String Temple?"
　　

"You know them too? But I don't get along well with that group of monks. They always want me to become a monk, saying that Buddha and I have a connection. But it's not up to Buddha to decide whether I have a connection or not... I said there's no connection... then there's definitely no connection." Song Yi's breathing became uneven.
　　

"Okay." Lou Ai confirmed Song Yi's identity and stopped. Song Yi was pulled to a stop by Lou Ai's great strength. After rebounding, he sat down on the ground and screamed. Lou Ai smiled and said, "I believe you. I will help you deal with this group of people."
　　

"Run, why don't you run?" The leading man knocked the wooden stick, and the stick made a sizzling sound on the wall. "Today I will beat you so hard that your mother won't recognize you."
　　

"Then call out."

The wooden stick made a whooshing sound when it was swung into the wind.

Lou Ai stood in front of Song Yi, and blocked the wooden stick swung by the leading big man. With her strength far greater than that of the big man, she pushed him against the wall, pulled out the round wooden stick in his hand, grabbed his collar, and threw him from behind onto one of the big men who were rushing over.

The two of them stacked on top of each other and were thrown far away.
　　

Lou Ai didn't look at it any further. She swung the wooden stick in her hand and poked it straight at the knees of several big men who were rushing towards her.
　　

“Ahhh!”
　　

With speed and strength far exceeding that of the big man, the whole fight became a one-man show of Lou Ai.
　　

Song Yi looked at it in surprise. He had actually had his own fortune told before going out today. It said that all bad luck would turn out well and his destined benefactor was coming.
　　

The benefactor of his destiny? Could it be Lou Ai?
　　

"I'm from the patrol team. Who is fighting over there?" Several big men fell to the ground. The fight was finally discovered by the patrol team in the base. Lou Ai paused when she heard the sound, and immediately threw away the stick in her hand, and pulled Song Yi to squat in the corner next to her.
　　

Lou Ai Jiaojiao squatted there, looking like an innocent little poor thing who was implicated in the comparison with several big men.

"You guys, you just came back and you're fighting here, what's the reason this time? Come with me and let me do an investigation!" Lou Ai looked up, and the patrol team that came was still acquaintances, a female colleague who played with Xiang Chunyan at the base. The two of them had met a few times. The person who saw Lou Ai was surprised and said, "Master, it's you, why are you here? My name is Su Xi, do you remember me, are you scared by this group of people fighting?"
　　

Lou Ai immediately met the shocked expressions of those big men.
　　

"Commander, we were beaten by this woman." Although shocked, the leading man screamed and complained.
　　

Su Xi looked at Lou Ai, then at the big men in front of them, restrained his expression, and kicked the man: "What a joke, don't I have eyes?"
　　

Lou Ai had already prepared for the trip, but was stunned when he heard the words. She remembered that Su Xi did not graduate from the police academy, and was only pulled into the patrol team because he awakened his special powers. Naturally, it was easy for him to act based on his own subjective assumptions.

　　

This is actually a good deal for her.

"Thank you, I just came here to comprehend something. My friend and I will leave first."
　　

Lou Ai nodded, stood up calmly, pulled Song Yi up and left. Even from a distance she could still hear the voices of those big men arguing with the police about her.
　　

*
　　

Lou Ai followed Song Yi back to his home.
　　

Song Yi's house had nothing but a high platform and a simple folding bed. On the platform were an incense compass and a paper fan. The incense must have been lit just today, and there was still a faint fragrance lingering in the room. However, this fragrance was not very friendly to her. Such a strong fragrance was already a bit sour.

She took the cushion Song Yi handed her and sat down next to the drafty door.
　　

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Song Yi sat cross-legged on another cushion, his round face full of seriousness. "Just tell me, I will tell you everything I know. In fact, you came to see me because you should have expected such a trouble. But you still came, so there must be something you couldn't predict and wanted to confirm with me."
　　

"I want to ask you about Professor Meng. Which road did Professor Meng take to return to the Academy of Sciences?"
　　

"They took a country road, the road to the west, from the Bai Ze Expressway." Song Yi said, "In fact, when I first calculated Professor Meng's travel route, it was always bad luck. Then one day, it suddenly turned out to be auspicious, with noble people helping them, and the hexagram did not change. That's when I told Professor Meng and his group my hexagram."
　　

"Meng Yuanxi?" Lou Ai frowned, thinking about Meng Yuanxi's name, "Is Meng Yuanxi really that powerful?"
　　

"Great! Professor Meng is very important to our future." Song Yi said, "At least, in my divination, he is very important. Besides, if he wasn't important, the country wouldn't have sent Lin Ze to pick him up."
　　

"Who are you talking about, Lin Ze?" Lou Ai couldn't help but ask. She was not familiar with Meng Yuanxi, but she was familiar with Lin Ze!
　　

A few months later, the leader of the Fengcheng base sent by the country was named Lin Ze.

The target of revenge of Meng Linlin and Meng Langlang.
　　

This made sense. No wonder she couldn't remember Meng Yuanxi's name. Meng Yuanxi did have an accident on the way of escort, so that's why Meng Linlin and Meng Langlang took revenge. Lou Ai squinted her eyes and carefully recalled the scenes of her past interactions with the two Meng sisters, trying to find out the truth about Meng Yuanxi's accident.
　　

Meng Linlin and Meng Langlang never said anything bad about Lin Ze.
　　

But one time when they were on a mission together they encountered a pack of mutant wolves. The wolves were particularly ferocious and attacked fiercely. At the critical moment, they inserted the mutant crystal core into the interference instrument to drive away the wolves. That day, Meng Linlin and Meng Langlang felt something was wrong. Meng Langlang explained to her that the crystal core was left to her by her brother before he died. It was the crystal core of a mutant wolf leader and could drive away the wolf pack.

Wait, Lou Ai stood up suddenly.

Although it is not a crystal core that can directly drive away zombies, it can drive away mutant wolves. The energy inside the crystal core should be similar.

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