Hearing this, Lu Li rolled his eyes at Jun Shutong.
Reputation was sometimes very useful, and sometimes completely useless, but this time it happened to come in handy.
After the group entered the villa, Lu Li made a point of visiting Zhao Limin’s mother.
Mother Zhao was already nearly seventy years old, but after hearing Lu Li’s request, she agreed without hesitation.
“However, young man, I can only try my best. After all, I’ve never woven cloth from demon beast silk before, so I’m not sure whether I can do it,” the old woman said modestly.
Lu Li hurriedly replied, “That’s fine. Just give it a try. If it really doesn’t work, then forget about it.”
Seeing how gentle Lu Li’s attitude was, Mother Zhao finally nodded in relief.
She had actually been worried the entire time, afraid that if she failed to get the job done, Lu Li might maliciously retaliate against her.
But judging from their interactions so far, she could also tell that Lu Li was not a bad person.
After Lu Li had everyone put the supplies in Zhao Limin’s kitchen, he specifically sought out Zhao Limin again.
“We’ll leave this matter to you. Is there anything else your family needs? We’ll be gathering some supplies nearby later. If you need anything, we can bring some back for you as well.”
“We’re running low on diesel at home. If possible, could you spare us some diesel?” Zhao Limin asked somewhat embarrassedly.
“If we find any, of course that won’t be a problem.” Lu Li nodded in agreement.
Now that it was the apocalypse, Zhao Limin’s family naturally had nothing they could use to entertain guests.
After everyone sat down and rested for a while, Lu Li led them out to begin exploring the villa district.
Although Zhao Limin had said that the Torterra had already migrated away, given the density at which Pokémon had descended, there were definitely still other Pokémon left in the villa district.
Jun Shutong was also worried that if everyone split up, Lu Li would not be able to properly protect each person, so she did not dare let the group separate. Instead, they searched the villas one by one together.
For villas with tightly locked doors, Jun Shutong skipped them entirely, only searching those that were unlocked or already open.
Actually, with Lu Li’s current strength, whether the villa doors were locked or not made little difference.
After all, no matter how sturdy a villa’s security door was, could it really withstand a Tackle from Feebas?
Even taking ten thousand steps back, if those security doors were as strong as bank vault doors, the villa walls certainly were not.
Never bullying the weak and never abandoning the old or young had always been principles Jun Shutong lived by, and Lu Li had no objections to them.
The villa district was rich in supplies, and there really were very few Pokémon here.
Lu Li suspected that perhaps because a Torterra had also descended in this area, the other Pokémon in the vicinity had all been frightened away.
In the games, Grotle had to reach Level 32 before it could evolve into Torterra. According to the Pokémon world’s level and rank divisions, Level 32 was already at the ordinary rank, which was the limit for the vast majority of wild Pokémon.
There was relatively little food in the villa district, but there was no shortage of all kinds of power-generation equipment, such as generators and diesel.
Most importantly, most households in the villa district had solar power equipment installed.
Jun Shutong sighed enviously, “Honestly, I’m starting to want to move over here to the villa district.”
Lu Li knew that what Jun Shutong envied was the solar power equipment installed in every household, but the villas here were too spread out, making the area unsuitable as a centralized camp.
After searching for nearly three hours, everyone returned to Zhao Limin’s home. Lu Li deliberately left quite a large amount of diesel for Zhao Limin’s family.
The villa district’s main supplies consisted of various high-end branded liquors, along with expensive cigars and similar items. It could be said that they had returned with a full haul.
Although they encountered several Pokémon along the way, everyone carefully detoured around the villas occupied by Pokémon.
On the way back, although everyone remained vigilant, they could not hide the joy on their faces.
After all, the alcohol and tobacco they had obtained this time were definitely top-tier luxuries in the apocalypse.
Just as everyone was chatting and laughing, a bulging plastic bag was suddenly thrown into the middle of the group.
The moment the first plastic bag hit the ground, it was as if it had signaled the start of an attack. Immediately afterward, dense volleys of plastic bags mixed with all kinds of severed limbs were continuously hurled into the crowd.
When the plastic bags burst open, the pungent smell of fresh blood instantly splattered everywhere.
“It’s people from the Demon Camp! It has to be those animals!” a middle-aged man shouted angrily.
Jun Shutong reacted immediately and shouted, “Everyone, don’t panic! Retreat into the nearest building!”
With Jun Shutong’s reminder, the originally somewhat panicked crowd orderly withdrew into the nearest building.
Lu Li’s face was livid. His collar and shoulders were stained with blotches of blood, and the most nauseating part was the chunks of severed limbs that had deliberately been thrown at them.
The people from the Demon Camp had no intention of confronting them head-on. Instead, they had chosen to kill with a borrowed knife.
The people packed inside the building were both shocked and furious, their expressions all changing.
On one hand, they were worried that the scent of blood clinging to their bodies would attract predatory demon beasts. On the other, they were enraged by the sinister and vicious methods of the Demon Camp.
Old Xu’s voice trembled as he said in panic, “What do we do? If we go back like this, demon beasts are definitely going to hunt us down!”
Lu Li swept his gaze over the crowd, then his eyes landed on the red wine everyone was carrying. His eyes suddenly lit up.
“Take off the bloodstained clothes and open a few bottles of red wine. Pour it over yourselves and see if it can cover up the smell of blood.”
Lu Li did not know whether this method would work, but it was still better than sitting around waiting to die.
Hearing this, Jun Shutong decisively opened a bottle of red wine and poured it over herself.
Taking her clothes off was out of the question. After all, she had barely gotten any blood on herself in the first place, which was thanks to Lu Li shielding her behind him.
Although everyone felt distressed about wasting these treasured bottles of red wine, in order to save their lives, they all followed suit.
“How far is the Demon Camp from here?” Lu Li asked again.
The middle-aged man who had just cursed the Demon Camp explained bitterly, “It’s quite a distance away. That’s why I was so surprised earlier.”
“They came all this way just to mess with us. Those b*stards are completely insane.” The middle-aged man kept cursing, wishing he could go kill those scum who had launched the sneak attack right now.
Lu Li, however, remained unusually calm.
In the early stages of the apocalypse, many resources were nonrenewable.
Simply put, every extra share you took was one less share your opponent could get. In this kind of survival environment, as long as a leader was ruthless enough, they would definitely think about eliminating their competitors as early as possible.
Dawn Camp occupied an entire shopping mall, so it was obviously one of the targets the Demon Camp wanted to eliminate.
Lu Li had also considered whether he should take this opportunity to wipe out the Demon Camp, but out of caution, he ultimately suppressed the killing intent in his heart.
With sufficient resources, it would basically take only half a month for Weedle to evolve into Beedrill.
Besides, Weedle was about to evolve soon. In ten days at most, Weedle would be able to evolve into Beedrill. Acting then would be the safest option.
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