Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 478: Chapter 478: Lian Zongren Pays a Visit

Chapter 478: Chapter 478: Lian Zongren Pays a Visit

The Wei Family’s base in B City welcomed a visitor completely unfamiliar to Wei Junhao.

After stating his name, Lian Zongren anxiously waited to one side, having never had any dealings with the Wei family. He wondered whether they’d bother with someone like him, showing up unannounced and alone.

Wei Junhao, covered in mud, was dispatched by his father to greet the visitor, while Wei Wei was still in the yard mixing the soft mud with a large iron shovel.

“I haven’t finished mixing my soil yet, I still need to add some fermented manure and river sand later, you go first,”

Wei Wei said without lifting his head.

“Dad, I don’t even know who Lian Zongren is,”

Wei Junhao muttered, but he still washed his muddy legs by a nearby hose.

He was just a brick in the Wei family, moved wherever needed.

Thinking back, it was more fun in S City, where people chatted and joked with him, and watched plays. As soon as he returned, he was either hauled off by his uncle for errands or dragged to the vegetable garden by his father to play with mud.

Lian Zongren just saw a young man rolling up his trousers in the dead of winter, exposing a section of mud-wrapped calves walking toward him.

Only when he saw the person’s face clearly did he recognize him as Wei Yinghao, the young master of the Wei family, though the latter probably didn’t know him.

Wei Junhao hadn’t expected that this person came specifically to ask him about the Heart Talk Team.

“Your son?”

The cup of water Wei Junhao offered to Lian Zongren stopped mid-air. That silent Metal Element man was this person’s son?

“Yes, I’ve been busy recently in B City with Special Ability User training, and I haven’t had time to return to E City. But I accidentally saw my younger son in the Heart Talk Team in S City through a video, so I wanted to inquire about it. If Young Master Wei knows anything, I’d ask you to share,”

Lian Zongren maintained a polite tone, and after thinking it over, Wei Junhao relayed only what he thought he could share.

He didn’t actually know much about Lian Jiyue, only having heard about him from Liang Jiuhui.

Lian Jiyue was brought back by the Heart Talk Team from an external mission because he had lost all memory and couldn’t speak. Lu Hao, who knew him from before, took him back to the base, and that’s how Jiyue became part of the Heart Talk Team.

Lian Zongren’s brow furrowed deeply.

Complete memory loss? Unable to speak?

How could this be possible?

He was the revered Base Leader of E City Base!

“Sorry, Uncle Lian, that’s all I know. But I can tell he’s willing to stay with the Heart Talk Team,” Wei Junhao said.

“Thank you, Young Master Wei. It seems I must make a trip to the S City base to see for myself,”

Lian Zongren said, having been in B City to learn effective Special Ability User training methods from the Han Family. He was confident in leaving E City Base in his youngest son’s care; it was only for a couple of months. What exactly had happened there?

Han Wan and Han Yizhou hadn’t sent anyone to notify him about the matter. Could it be…

“Uncle Lian, I too am due for another visit to the S City base in a couple of days. You could come with us,”

Wei Junhao said. He had to inform them about the Heart Talk Team winning against the SS class Super-rank Mercenary Corps, and it was time to set out.

“That would be wonderful. S City is even further from E City, and neither I nor the people with me know the way well. If that’s the case, I owe you a great debt of gratitude, Young Master Wei,”

Lian Zongren said with appreciation.

“It’s nothing, it’s nothing, everyone in the Heart Talk Team is a friend of mine, Uncle Lian is being too polite,” said Wei Junhao.

Wei Junhao looked at Lian Zongren, his meaning should have been very clear; he hoped that even after Lian Zongren went to S City, he wouldn’t carelessly cause trouble for the Heart Talk Team.

Lian Zongren naturally could tell that Wei Junhao was protecting the Heart Talk Team at all costs. He was becoming more and more curious as to why all the information he had received from Han Jin was nothing but negative news about the Heart Talk Team, while the information from Wei Junhao’s side was completely the opposite?

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However, since Wei Junhao said that Lian Jiyue knew people inside the Heart Talk Team, he felt considerably reassured.

Although his youngest son’s character wasn’t likeable, he was faultless when it came to making friends.

He could tell from the competition video that besides confirming his youngest son’s wood element ability, his son had voluntarily joined the match and his physique seemed much stronger than before.

“Young Master Wei, rest assured, I, Lian Zongren, will not cause you any trouble. I am deeply grateful that you could give me a ride,” he said.

After exchanging pleasantries with Wei Junhao for a while longer, Lian Zongren got up and left.

Originally, he had planned to return to E City first, but it now seemed unnecessary.

Wei Junhao found, speechlessly, that during this time, his father had been diligently mixing the soil he had prepared in the yard, and now he was crouching on the ground, using his wood element ability to quicken the growth of the seeds he had buried…

What about letting him go first and then following after?

Wei Wei quickly cultivated several tender green vegetables from that patch of earth and said happily, “Quick, quick, quick, take these few to your mother as well, tonight we’ll have vegetables to eat again.”

“Oh, all right…”

It seemed like he had completely forgotten the visitor from earlier, Wei Junhao thought, but he honestly took the sizable vegetables and went towards the inner courtyard.

This was Wei Wei’s unique method of accelerating plant growth; he could use his wood element ability to let plants fully absorb the nutrients from the soil and cultivate them.

Wei Junhao knew that next, his father would spur the wheat to grow in those patches of earth, and then transplant it to the Wei Family’s farm.

The entire Wei Family fully supported Wei Wei’s venture, even his uncle Wei Yinghao, a man of considerable standing in the base, willingly let himself be bossed around for the cause.

Wherever there were seeds and fertilizer, he would personally lead his team to collect them for Wei Wei.

No wonder everyone said the Wei Family had peasant roots; prior to the apocalypse, they were engaged in agriculture, and after the apocalypse, they had successively awakened to both wood and earth element abilities—it seemed they were naturally cut out for farming!

…

Meanwhile, inside S City Base, exhilarating news had spread—a first cabbage had been successfully cultivated!

Although a few other cabbage seedlings had also broken through the soil, the first cabbage that Ren Yingjie had grown, had now developed its shape. This event had sent the entire base’s management into an uproar.

What did this imply? It implied that if they continued with large-scale cultivation, they might soon have vegetables to eat!

“Cabbage is great, it’s both nutritious and rich in vitamin C, Yingjie, well done!” Liang Wei said, patting Ren Yingjie’s shoulder with great force.

“Uncle Liang, cabbage is indeed frost-resistant and can withstand poor soil, but sadly, I just can’t grow other crops,” Ren Yingjie said regretfully as he looked towards the other plots of experimental farmland where nothing was growing.

“For the time being, grain isn’t an issue, the Heart Talk Team is out there collecting food, and our base’s reserves can last a while. As long as we can grow something to eat, anything is good! Hahaha,” Liang Wei responded.

Liang Wei then squatted down next to that rare cabbage, which was even more precious than gold!