Chapter 266: Shen Que, When Will the Herbs Be Found
"Eggplant, get over here."
Seeing that three psionics were about to gang up on Eggplant, Meng Ci quickly called it back.
Although Eggplant hadn't had its fill, it obediently returned at its master's call.
"We heard there's a psionic here who can heal serious injuries, so we came to ask if you'd help us."
The man spoke as if he had every right to demand help, with no hint of respect or courtesy.
Of course, even if he had been groveling, Meng Ci and the others wouldn't have let Qiao Moyan go with them.
"No!"
"We only have a few psionics here. Do you want to give it a try?"
With that, Meng Ci manipulated green plants to rise from the ground, swaying as if choosing their targets.
The man who had been knocked down by Eggplant had gotten up, spitting on the ground, feeling humiliated and determined to regain his pride.
They had six people—more than enough to take on three.
"Let's give it a try."
Without waiting for a response, the man unleashed a crackling bolt of lightning from his palm, aiming straight for Meng Ci.
Meng Ci dodged, and Shen Que and Liang Xiu also made their moves.
The three worked in perfect sync, luring the six outside so they wouldn't damage the vegetables in the yard.
Meng Ci's vines wrapped around two of them, while Eggplant and the eagle pounced.
The two were occupied fighting the wolf and the dog and didn't notice Meng Ci's plants moving toward their heads.
Crack!
For a moment, the two felt a numbness in their brains, as if something inside had shattered. It happened so fast that they barely noticed, but they kept fighting the wolf and the dog.
However, this time, they couldn't use their powers.
"What the hell? My powers are gone!"
"My powers are gone too!"
Eggplant and the eagle pounced on them again, knocking them down. Their strength faded, and they could no longer push the two off easily.
The others stopped fighting upon hearing this.
Hell, these guys can not only heal people but strip others of their powers—terrifying!
The remaining four huddled together, eyes wide with fear as they watched Meng Ci and the others.
"What did you do to them!" someone asked.
Meng Ci sneered, "If psionics are only used to prey on the weak instead of fighting zombies, then I don't think they need to keep their powers."
With a cold smile, Meng Ci moved to strike again, and the remaining four, terrified of losing their powers, fled in panic.
The two people on the ground mourned the loss of their powers.
With no powers left, the two posed no further threat, so Meng Ci called back the hound and the eagle.
"Remember, we don't have any psionics here who can heal. We only have psionics who can nullify other psionics' powers."
"Get lost."
After saying that, Meng Ci let the two leave.
As for why they didn't kill the six people, it was not only because of the base's rule against psionics killing each other.
Meng Ci also wanted the news of their ability to nullify powers to spread, so that Zhao Jingyu and the others would be safer.
As for the four psionics, Meng Ci patted the eagle, confident that both animals had memorized their scents and would eliminate them silently outside the base.
He then instructed the two to remember the scent of those four and inform them when they left the base.
Howl, howl.
It wasn't two days before the hound came running back.
Realizing the hound had likely spotted the four men leaving, Meng Ci quickly left the base.
Since the car made noise, Meng Ci and Shen Que usually walked when the destination was nearby.
After leaving the base, it only took them half an hour to find the four men.
The four men, using their numbers to their advantage, were bullying two other psionics.
Meng Ci snorted in disdain. He had expected them to be hunting zombies, but instead, they were preying on the weak.
Meng Ci and Shen Que immediately acted, shattering the four men's crystal stones, turning them into ordinary people.
They then left the bodies for the zombies to feed on.
Once the four had turned into zombies, they killed them and set them on fire.
If psionics refused to use their powers against zombies, they would become zombies themselves, only to be killed by other psionics.
Over the next few days, rumors in the base shifted from claiming Meng Ci's group could heal psionics to saying they could strip psionics of their powers.
After hearing this, the psionics in the base avoided Zhao Jingyu's area, terrified of losing their own powers.
When Lu Chen heard about this, he came to ask Meng Ci how they managed to do it.
Meng Ci explained truthfully.
Lu Chen was shocked to learn that psionics had crystal stones at the base of their skulls.
But when he heard that breaking the crystal stones wouldn't harm the body, he had an idea.
During this time, with fewer mutated zombies and plants outside, some psionics, for the sake of crystal stones and points, began to kill each other.
When Lu Chen and the others caught people, thinking that too many humans had perished and the remaining ones shouldn't die, they only gave light punishments.
Those with malicious intent, emboldened by the lenient punishment, resumed their criminal activities once they were released.
Now that they knew breaking the psionic crystals wouldn't harm their lives, they decided to simply break the crystals of anyone causing trouble, turning them into ordinary people.
A month passed, and the psionics who bullied the weak in the base gradually disappeared, leaving the base appearing peaceful on the surface.
Meng Ci heard from Lu Chen that researchers studying the zombie vaccine had made significant progress.
The experts tested the vaccine on a group of lab mice and found that it could prevent the zombie virus from mutating inside them.
But it was only a temporary suppression.
Within one to three days, the mice would mutate again, becoming animal zombies.
For now, it seemed the vaccine was still missing the key ingredient that Shen Que had in mind.
Thus, the officials could only organize expeditions to gather herbs in the deep mountains, bringing back any suspicious plants for the experts to identify.
"Shen Que, when do you think we'll find this herb?"
That day, Meng Ci lay at home, asking with some distress.
Once the zombie situation ended and Lu Chen and his team restored human civilization, Meng Ci could roam around with Shen Que, along with Qie Zi and the eagles.
Shen Que rubbed Meng Ci's head and said, "We'll find it eventually."
Hearing this, Meng Ci immediately brushed away Shen Que's hand and mentally grumbled, if you don't have anything meaningful to say, just don't say it.
And what's with rubbing his head, treating him like he's just another pet.
Shen Que chuckled softly and got up to go to the kitchen to make food.
Spicy rabbit head, cold cucumber salad, and Meng Ci's favorite, braised eggplant.
Even though there were only three dishes, the portions were substantial, enough to feed Meng Ci, the wolf, and the dog.