October, before the second winter of the apocalypse arrived.
Wuming City, in conjunction with several larger bases in the country, launched a counterattack against zombies in the province where their bases were located.
For several bases with weaker combat capabilities, Wuming City even dispatched a small team to each as support.
Soon, humanity's full-scale counterattack against zombies began.
Starting from their own bases, they began a carpet-style extermination of the surrounding towns.
Wherever they went, although humanity suffered casualties, compared to the unorganized passive combat of the past, humanity achieved ultimate victory in this battle.
While they could not completely clear out all the zombies, as they cleared them, they also began to re-enclose the cleared cities.
These areas would undergo more detailed clearing later. After ensuring sufficient safety of the cities, some human survivors would be organized to return to these areas, gradually expanding the habitable regions for humanity, thereby promoting human reproduction and development.
Reports of the locations of breached cities were submitted, and Lin Yu, in his office, looked at the electronic screen in front of him.
The green dots displayed on the screen represented cities that had been re-controlled by humans.
"Tell all bases to pause for now. Winter is coming, let everyone get through the winter first, and then we'll act uniformly in the spring."
The advancement into cities in the apocalypse couldn't be too aggressive. With the advent of the apocalypse, the human population had drastically decreased, and it was also an issue to have cities occupied by no one.
Expanding the area of human survival couldn't be rushed.
"Has there been any news from Brother Lu?"
Since Lu Heng went out with Sun Qiang, there had been no further news of him in Wuming City.
During this period, Lin Yu had also called Lu Heng several times, but the calls had always gone unanswered. He didn't know if Lu Heng had put his phone in his spatial storage.
Lin Yu knew that Lu Heng had spatial storage. Perhaps Lu Heng had gone to other planes of existence, which was why there was no signal from Lu Heng's end.
However, fortunately, in the apocalypse, under the leadership of Lin Yu and Wuming City, the fight against zombies had proceeded without any unexpected incidents.
...
Lu Heng had not actually returned to his spatial storage. During this time, he had started raising zombies again, separating high-level zombies to provide him with advanced crystals.
The calls Lin Yu made to him were all unreachable because he had stored all his belongings in his spatial storage, and the signal was being blocked by the space.
Beside Lu Heng, Lin Xue repeatedly commanded the zombies to kill each other and absorb to upgrade.
The remaining zombies within the wall this time were all level ten. However, the number of these zombies was not large, and after merging again to level eleven, there were only a few dozen left.
Lu Heng could no longer feel the energy in the level twelve zombie crystals after absorbing them, so by the time the zombies condensed to the level he desired, there would likely be only a few left.
Lu Heng weighed the last level thirteen crystal in his hand. It seemed he would have to let Lin Xue control the zombies here and have them head to other cities.
Now, the zombies in a small city could no longer condense many high-level crystals that he could use.
To obtain higher-level zombies, he needed to merge zombies from two to three towns.
"Take this wave of zombies and go."
Herding zombies was a laborious task.
Although these zombies were not low level, even so, when controlled by Lin Xue, their movement speed was not fast.
Lin Xue controlled the zombies to walk together on the ground, while Lu Heng followed in the air on a Roc.
Lu Heng chose to merge zombies in cities that had been completely abandoned by humans, and there were no large bases in the vicinity of these areas.
These areas not only had more zombies but also a lower chance of encountering human survivors.
This was to avoid the situation where these controlled high-level zombies lost control and killed humans when encountering them on the road.
However, a low probability did not mean it was impossible. Since killing Sun Qiang, Lu Heng had started collecting high-level crystals himself. This was the first time Lu Heng had seen a team of human ability users.
It was a convoy of dozens of people. Lu Heng had seen them from high in the sky long ago.
Although he had already instructed Lin Xue to have the seven or eight level twelve zombies below prepare to change direction.
But for some reason, that group of people, still driving their cars, headed towards Lin Xue and the others.
The convoy gradually approached Lin Xue and the others. The noise of the cars was very loud in the open wilderness, attracting the attention of the controlled zombies.
High-level zombies had already regained their intelligence, but their brains, having just regained intelligence, could not react quickly. Everything still relied on the conditioned reflexes of being zombies.
Hearing the loud noises, the zombies, who were walking quietly, became agitated.
They all looked towards the source of the sound and occasionally roared at Lin Xue.
Lin Xue: "Master, they say there are humans over there. I think they are becoming a bit uncontrollable."
As the level of the controlled zombies increased, it became more difficult for Lin Xue to control them.
The loud noise here had agitated the zombies, and they were gradually losing control.
"Control them and keep moving, I'll handle it."
Upon receiving the order, Lin Xue let out a few high-pitched sounds towards the zombies. Although the zombies temporarily stopped their commotion, a few of them still roared at Lin Xue.
Lu Heng bypassed the zombies below and headed towards the approaching convoy.
"Brother Du, there's a wild beast above!"
A shooter in a modified car, from a protruding shooting position, saw Lu Heng approaching them.
However, from below, he could only see the Roc and not the human sitting on its back.
The person called Brother Du leaned out of the passenger seat and looked up at the sky.
Indeed, a giant bird was flying towards them.
"Shoot!!! What are you all standing around for!!!"
The Roc's flight speed was quite fast. To the people on the ground, it looked like this giant bird was going to attack them.
They had encountered mutated animals in the apocalypse, but such a large one still shocked everyone.
Lu Heng, from high in the sky, watched as the people below had stopped moving, and they were all aiming their heavy weapons on the front of their vehicles towards him.
He knew that these people were likely going to attack him and the Roc.
Fortunately, when he flew, he always controlled the surrounding wind for comfort, so there was a wind wall around him and the Roc.
Therefore, when the first burst of bullets was fired at him, the bullets hit as if hitting an invisible wall. As soon as they touched the wind wall, they were carried by the wind, changing trajectory and scattering in all directions.
"Ah... the giant bird on the opposite side is also shooting at us, hurry and defend!"
"Damn it, are you an idiot? Can a bird shoot a gun at you?"