Chang Jianyi originally thought her superpower was very strong, but as she continued to use it, she realized how utterly useless it was. Besides being able to use plants to entangle others, it had no other function. Chang Jianyi was immediately unhappy: "This superpower seems very weak in combat. What's the point of a large area of effect?"
Shen Feng quickly comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay. You can still entangle people, right? That's pretty good."
"Good? Who would stand still and wait for me to entangle them? The speed of entanglement is something even an ordinary person could dodge. Unless the area for hundreds of meters around is filled with vines, who could you possibly catch!" Chang Jianyi said helplessly.
However, Shen Feng immediately said seriously: "Senior sister, I will obediently let you entangle me. I will never dodge. How about we try it tonight?"
"Get lost! You're so indecent. If I could exchange this superpower, I definitely would," Chang Jianyi said irritably. She knew what Shen Feng was implying, but she didn't want to respond. She was clearly angry, yet he was deliberately teasing her!
Shen Feng then said: "In my opinion, this use is too great. If you lack food, you can use this superpower. At the current rate, you can harvest an acre of land in a day. Where else can you find such a superpower?"
"Are you saying I have to farm all day? Working under the sun and wind all day, I'll surely become old and withered in two years." Chang Jianyi didn't want to farm because it was bad for her skin. After all, her ancestors were farmers, and only later did they manage to move to the city. Now, to gain a superpower related to farming, it was truly heartbreaking.
Shen Feng quickly comforted her: "I was just saying. Once we take over all the land in the city, there will always be people willing to farm. Besides, you are the City Lord's wife now, so you won't be made to farm. In fact, our most important task right now is combat."
"We've already taken over the city, why do we still need to fight?" Chang Jianyi asked in confusion. Many things had happened while she was unconscious, but she knew nothing about them. She was starting to get confused. Clearly, after taking over the city, they should be able to rest easy, so why did they still need to fight?
Shen Feng had to explain the recent events. Only then did Chang Jianyi understand that Luzhou's surrender had gained the support of the military, and the price was that Luzhou needed to reclaim all the land in the city and kill all the zombies. Additionally, there was the incident last night where someone stole firearms. Afterward, Shen Feng played a trick of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys and split up the combat teams.
Hearing about what had happened these past few days, Chang Jianyi immediately felt uneasy. She hadn't expected so many things to happen in just four days of sleep. She thought that after reclaiming Luzhou, there wouldn't be any particularly important matters. However, now, after jumping out of one circle, she realized she had entered a new one.
Therefore, Chang Jianyi quickly said: "In that case, let's hurry to the City Lord's Mansion. It seems we have many things to resolve next."
Shen Feng also felt helpless and returned to his post with Chang Jianyi. As for himself, he was still signing and browsing websites. Chang Jianyi, on the other hand, carefully reviewed every document Shen Feng signed to ensure there were no problems.
However, while Shen Feng was browsing information on an underground website, Li Xiang called to inform Shen Feng of a major event: "City Lord, in the town west of Luzhou City, there are over a thousand mutated dogs, and they are heading towards Luzhou!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Feng was stunned and retorted: "Over a thousand? You must be joking. Do you know what over a thousand mutated dogs mean?"
"City Lord, I'm not joking!" Li Xiang led the city defense army. He continued: "I have over eighty survivors from the town. They told me this themselves!"
Shen Feng quickly called Chang Jianyi, and the two of them rushed to the city gate. Chang Jianyi drove the purple sports car. Shen Feng couldn't drive, so he had to sit in the passenger seat, thinking about why there would be over a thousand mutated dogs in a small town. Was it that the mutation rate for dogs was higher?
Later, Shen Feng thought of the mutated rats wandering in the dark corners of the city. These rats dared not attack humans, but they were always stealing food. It was said that all the food in the cafeteria was stolen one night. The rat traps were all triggered, but the traps were too small to catch the mutated rats.
Shen Feng was considering whether to use animal traps to catch the mutated rats, but if he used animal traps, ordinary people could also be easily injured. Moreover, these mutated rats had learned to use the sewers, making them extremely difficult to catch. At this moment, Shen Feng finally understood the anger of having food stolen by rats.
Originally, Luzhou's food supply was already tight and would barely last until next year. If they didn't start farming next year, in another year, there would be a famine, which would be very bad. Therefore, Shen Feng needed a way to deal with the mutated rats. Otherwise, if the food was constantly stolen, it would be equivalent to raising a group of rats, and Luzhou City could not accommodate humans and another species that consumed food.
When Shen Feng arrived at the city gate, he saw that the city wall had been built up by twenty centimeters. The buildings outside the city wall had been demolished, and the removed bricks and stones were used as building materials for the city wall. This would also prevent the outside of the city wall from being obstructed and affecting visibility. At the city gate, which was the road, a gap had been left, which would be the city gate in the future. Zhou Xiaoxiao planned to build a hexagonal city wall with six city gates to maximize the space within the city. If it were a quadrilateral city, a lot of urban areas would inevitably be abandoned.
Li Xiang stood aside with over a hundred people. Behind them were many vehicles. It seemed these people had used these vehicles to come to Luzhou. These people were very nervous and all wanted to enter the city. However, Li Xiang ignored them and told them to stay outside the city obediently. With just a rifle pointed at them, these people immediately stood at attention.
Li Xiang knew that the guns his patrolmen had were without bullets, but he also knew that the other party didn't know he had no bullets, so he chose to take a gamble. He didn't expect to win the gamble. The people from the town were actually scared.
When Shen Feng appeared, Li Xiang quickly walked over and said: "City Lord, these people said there are mutated dogs in the town to the west, over a thousand of them. I'm not lying. For the specific situation, you should ask these people!"
When Shen Feng stepped forward, the people from the town quickly came forward, chattering about the situation in the town, all describing how ferocious the zombie dogs were, painting the town as a living hell. When they escaped from the town, the mutated dogs were still chasing them from behind until they could no longer keep up, and then they stopped.
"Since they didn't chase you, why do you say the mutated dogs are advancing towards here?" Shen Feng asked.
The townspeople all turned their gaze to a middle-aged man. It was evident that everyone thought this way because of what this man had said.
This middle-aged man stepped forward and introduced himself: "My name is Niu Baiye, and I am a biologist. I was previously leading students in the town to research an animal in Shuzhong. I predicted that these mutated dogs would come to Luzhou. Please take it seriously."
Upon hearing this strange name, Shen Feng immediately wanted to laugh, but he knew that as the City Lord, he absolutely could not laugh at this occasion. So, he said seriously: "Hello, Teacher You. Why do you say the mutated dogs will come to Luzhou? Please analyze it."
"My surname is Niu. Please pronounce it correctly." Teacher Niu was somewhat displeased that Shen Feng had mispronounced his name. He seemed to hold a grudge, but with the enemy at the gate, he still explained: "Although dogs are domesticated wolves, they like to move in packs. Solitary wolf-like actions are less common. The town is actually running out of food. These dogs will definitely follow our tracks to find desperately needed food!"
"Do you have any evidence? For example, photos or anything like that. You need to prove that what you're saying is true," Shen Feng asked.
Teacher Niu then took out his phone from his pocket and said helplessly: "Before the zombie outbreak, I did take some photos, but later the town lost power, so I can't turn on my phone now."
Shen Feng looked at the over one hundred people from the town and shrugged helplessly, saying: "Let's enter the city first. Rest for a day, and tomorrow everyone will go to repair the city wall. In Luzhou, except for the elderly over sixty and children under fourteen, everyone is required to work. No work, no food."
The townspeople finally breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't mind working as long as they could live safely and didn't have to worry about being attacked by mutated dogs every day. Moreover, when they saw the rifles in the hands of the city defense army, they felt reassured. Mutated dogs couldn't possibly withstand gunfire, right?
Afterward, Shen Feng looked at Niu Baiye, the biologist, and said: "You come with me to the City Lord's Mansion. Introduce the situation of the mutated dogs properly. By the way, I also want to ask you, a biologist, why animals are mutating on a large scale."
Teacher Niu nodded, then pointed to the young man beside him and said: "This is my student, Lu Kaiwen. Let's take him with us."
Shen Feng nodded. The others were taken to a nearby residential area to be settled. Tomorrow, they would go to repair the city wall. As for Niu Baiye and his student, they were taken to the City Lord's Mansion for questioning. Upon returning to the City Lord's Mansion building, Shen Feng first instructed Luo Qing: "Send a message to headquarters, requesting satellite surveillance of the town west of Luzhou to check the number and movements of the mutated dogs."
Then, Shen Feng had Niu Baiye charge his phone. After turning on the phone, he began to look at the photos. These photos were mostly of zombies, some eating people, some sleeping, seemingly covering all aspects of the zombies' routines. It seemed Teacher Niu wanted to thoroughly understand the zombies' every move.
Shen Feng then saw pictures of mutated dogs. On the phone, he could see packs of stray dogs wandering the streets, but these dogs were as large as lions. It was imaginable that a thousand lions would attack Luzhou City. With such a large number, if any mutated dogs managed to break into the city, it would be a disaster.
Of course, these mutated dogs would have to get past the city wall first. As for the people guarding the city wall, they were people from the three combat departments holding guns.
"These mutated dogs should have escaped from Luzhou. At that time, there were too many zombies in Luzhou. These dogs couldn't defeat the zombies and were afraid of being eaten, so they ran to the town. There were only over ten thousand people in the town. After the zombie outbreak, a thousand or so people survived, but these stray dogs came to the town and started eating the zombies' flesh," Teacher Niu began to introduce the situation of the town. Shen Feng and Chang Jianyi were listening patiently. Shen Feng had also calmed down. It was just a thousand lion-sized mutated dogs. With a burst of gunfire, how many would fall!
Teacher Niu continued: "There is a leader among this group of dogs, a husky. Huskies are originally large dogs, and now it has grown even bigger, as big as a cow! At least four to five hundred pounds. Don't underestimate this dog. When it was chasing us, it directly bit through the tire of a car, causing over a dozen people to not escape!"
"A husky's intelligence can make it a leader?" Shen Feng's expression was strange. He couldn't quite believe what he was hearing. When did a husky become a leader? Every time he saw those dull, silly eyes, Shen Feng felt there was something wrong with this dog's intelligence, but he never expected this creature to become the leader of the mutated dogs.
"I'm really not joking. Please take it seriously!" Teacher Niu said angrily. He was talking about something very serious, so why was the City Lord of Luzhou so flippant, seemingly not trusting his words at all?
Shen Feng quickly apologized: "Please continue. I just thought of something funny."