For a moment, the ability users below all activated their powers, resisting the bullets that were reflected back.
The shooter also stopped firing.
Lu Heng controlled the eagle-beak beast, landing not far from them.
The instant he landed, Lu Heng also jumped from the beast's back to the ground.
"Brother Du, someone, someone actually got down from that giant bird."
"Yes, I'm not blind, I saw it. Everyone, be alert, but don't attack them casually. He should be able to resist everyone's attacks."
Judging from the bullets that were reflected back, Lu Heng's abilities were definitely not low.
Moreover, Lu Heng could control such a large giant bird, which made these people even more wary and hesitant to attack Lu Heng again.
Lu Heng waved his hand, retracting the eagle-beak beast into his spatial storage. The wind wall around him spun continuously, so fast that it was impossible to perceive any anomalies around him.
However, if one looked closely, they could still see a circle on the ground about a meter from his feet.
"Brother Du, he's coming. The giant bird is gone, should we..."
"Shut up!"
As Lu Heng approached step by step, the powerful aura emanating from him began to make everyone feel a sense of suffocation.
The person who had thought that without the threat of the giant bird, they could suppress Lu Heng with their numbers, now realized how foolish he had been.
He felt his breathing becoming difficult, as if the air around him was being drawn away.
But his feeling was not wrong; Lu Heng was indeed controlling the air around them, reducing the oxygen content.
As he approached, he released more of his abilities.
Those with lower ability levels were already starting to faint, falling into a state of oxygen deprivation.
"We, we don't seem to know each other. What just happened was an accident. Can you let us go?"
A person got out of the convoy and walked towards Lu Heng with difficulty. He had no impression of having seen Lu Heng before. The attack on Lu Heng and the giant bird just now was purely out of self-preservation instinct.
They all knew that many mutated animals in the apocalypse would attack humans, which was why they had attacked Lu Heng just now.
Receiving the thoughts of these people, Lu Heng released his control over the air around them.
With their breathing restored, some coughed incessantly, while others leaned out of their vehicles to gasp for air.
"Thank you. My name is Du Hao. What do you call yourself?"
"You should not drive any further, or you should stop here for half a day before moving on."
"Why? I mean, is there any danger ahead?"
"Yes, there is a zombie squad ahead."
"We have dozens of people here. If it's a small-scale zombie attack, it's not a problem..."
Before the person could finish, Lu Heng spoke again, warning, "That zombie squad consists of level twelve zombies. Are you sure you won't be sending yourselves to your deaths?"
"Ah!!! Twelve, level twelve? Zombies?"
"I have warned you. You can do as you please, but if you insist on going to your deaths, I won't stop you. Also, try not to make loud noises for the next six hours."
After speaking, Lu Heng summoned the eagle-beak beast again.
He lightly tapped the ground with his toes and leaped onto the beast's back. As he sat down, the eagle-beak beast instantly lifted off the ground and flew into the high sky, heading towards Lin Xue and the others.
On the ground, as the eagle-beak beast departed, Du Hao and the others felt the pressure on them instantly disappear.
They looked at each other and got out of their vehicles, gathering around Du Hao.
"Brother Du, what do you think?"
Du Hao was the captain of this team, and major decisions were made by him.
"Rest in place. Those on watch should start their shifts now. Pay attention to the surrounding situation."
"Brother Du, are we really not going anymore?"
"Otherwise? Why don't you go ahead and take a look."
"Heh heh, that won't do at all. I'll just listen to Brother Du."
Thus, a small disturbance was quickly quelled.
Lu Heng, riding the eagle-beak beast, caught up with Lin Xue and the others not far ahead.
Without the noise of the cars, the surroundings fell silent again, filled only with the heavy breathing of zombies.
Lu Heng issued a command to Lin Xue from high above.
"Speed up."
There was a chance that some foolish people among them might not heed his advice, so Lu Heng wanted the zombies below to move away quickly.
Once they entered the unoccupied city ahead, Lu Heng would seal it off, and he wouldn't have to worry about people coming.
After all, the stone walls he had created prevented the zombies inside from getting out, and made it difficult for humans outside to get in.
As dusk approached, Lu Heng and his group finally arrived at a town ahead.
Lu Heng observed the town from above. There were no signs of human activity here either.
He used stone walls to trap the high-level zombies in a separate space.
Lu Heng then took Lin Xue to other parts of the town to merge with the zombies.
The high-level zombies trapped in a certain area, after being freed from Lin Xue's control, regained their consciousness and began to attack the lower-level zombies around them.
They wanted to absorb the zombies' crystals to further increase their levels.
After the low-level zombies in the trapped area were all slaughtered, these level twelve zombies gradually adapted to their newly enhanced intelligence.
They gathered together, sensing that each other was at the same level.
Some zombies let out heavy breaths, their throats making gurgling sounds, as if they were trying to speak.
However, perhaps because it would take some time to regain their ability to speak, they still communicated using the simple language of zombies.
"I want to leave here. I felt like I was being controlled just now."
"I've already tried. There's something blocking the surroundings, and I can't get out."
"Try again, maybe trying a different spot will work. Have you all tried?"
"No."
Following this, these seven or eight zombies began to move in an orderly fashion towards a certain location.
They stopped in front of a stone wall.
One zombie raised its hand and swung it towards the stone wall in front of it. The stone wall remained undamaged; instead, the zombie's arm was broken by the immense force.
The zombie's arm was still connected by flesh and skin, dangling limply.
Another zombie walked up behind it. It also extended its arm, but this time it didn't use physical force. Instead, a thick ice spike shot out from its arm.
The ice spike, once created, directly pierced the wall in front of it. The ice spike hit the hard wall and instantly turned into powder, falling to the ground.
Several zombies tried it one by one. They each used the abilities they employed when killing other zombies, but without exception, their skills were useless upon contact with the stone walls created by Lu Heng.
The zombie with the broken arm swayed its damaged body and consciously retreated.
As a strength-type zombie, its damaged arm at this moment significantly reduced its combat power.
It was now the weakest among these zombies of the same level.