"It's too dark here."
As he spoke, Lu Heng took a lighting lamp from his spatial storage, but before the other party noticed, a backpack to conceal the item he took out appeared in his other hand.
Blinded by the sudden light, the man opposite him instinctively raised his hand to shield his eyes.
"Dim the light, it will attract the zombies outside."
"I already told you, there are no zombies outside."
Lu Heng didn't pay it any mind, but he did dim the light slightly.
After a moment, the man opposite could finally see. He also saw clearly the person standing in front of him.
It was indeed a man, and not very old, with clean clothes.
He didn't look like someone who had survived in the apocalypse for a long time, more like a tourist who had come here before the end of the world.
Sensing the other party sizing him up, Lu Heng walked towards the man, holding the lighting lamp, and occasionally glancing at the rooms on either side.
There was no one in these rooms. The man had chosen to live in the innermost room, likely to have some buffer time in case zombies did manage to break in.
"You live on a whole floor by yourself? Nice conditions."
Lu Heng stopped when he was about two meters away from the man.
He could tell that the man opposite him was becoming a bit nervous as he approached.
"Are we going to talk while standing here?"
"Come in."
The man turned and entered the room. It was a while later before Lu Heng followed him in.
The original office furniture in the room had been cleared to the side, and a large mattress was placed inside.
Some food and bottled water were piled in a corner.
Lu Heng pulled out an office chair and sat down.
"Is it just you and that woman downstairs in the building?"
The man hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Yes."
"Did you modify this building before the apocalypse?"
"I had only modified the first and second floors before. Before the apocalypse, the company went bankrupt, and many creditors would often surround the building to demand payment. I added sheet metal to the outside to prevent them from breaking in and ransacking it."
The man explained the reason for modifying the building before the apocalypse. It was indeed reasonable, and it was precisely because of this that the man had survived the calamity of the apocalypse.
"Then why are there only two of you in the building?"
"I was bankrupt, how could anyone possibly stay?"
The man placed the iron rod he was holding in front of him, still in a defensive posture.
"What about the person downstairs?"
"The company accountant."
Lu Heng smiled and looked at the food and water piled in the room.
There wasn't much of this, and he wondered if there were any other supplies in the other rooms. This little bit of food wouldn't last that long.
"You said just now that the zombies outside are all dead, what's going on?"
Seeing Lu Heng start to examine the items in the room again, the man asked nervously.
"I don't know. When I got here, all the zombies outside had already died. I didn't encounter a single zombie walking around the city." Lu Heng pointed to the sealed window outside.
"The zombies were very noisy yesterday. In the past few days, the zombies have been a bit abnormal, not as quiet as they used to be."
Sun Qiang still found it hard to believe how all the zombies in the city could have been wiped out so easily. One person certainly couldn't have done it, so a very large army must have arrived. Was the government mobilizing its forces to save the people again? The zombies' actions were very peculiar; when they didn't detect any living beings or were not attracted by sound, they were generally very quiet. When Sun Qiang let the zombies fight and upgrade each other, those zombies became somewhat different, and the entire city fell into chaos with zombies roaring and killing each other.
"You've been living on this for over a year?" Lu Heng pointed to the food and bottled water piled in the corner.
"We've almost eaten everything," the man said after hesitating for a long time.
"Have you thought about going out? Now that the zombies are all dead, you could leave here and find a survivor base to live in."
"Is the government still maintaining order?"
The man was clearly severely disconnected from the outside world, and Lu Heng could clearly see his ability level. This person was only at the first tier, and a water-element ability user at that. He should have killed a few zombies in the early stages and become an ability user, and then never went out again. Living in a closed environment for a long time, without water or electricity, this person probably couldn't estimate how many days he had been living here.
"No, there is no government outside anymore. However, some military personnel have formed some bases and taken in survivors to live."
"Are there many people still alive?"
"You'll know if you go and see. If you stay cooped up here all the time, you'll go crazy sooner or later." Humans cannot always live alone. This is why Lu Heng, despite having such a perverted spatial ability and special powers in this life, still chose to build a nameless city. He couldn't talk to animals every day or idly watch old movies and TV shows to pass the time. Humans are social animals by nature. Even if you are a loner, you still need to interact with people to some extent. That so-called wilderness survival is just a gimmick, a show put on by the filmmakers to make money. They still return to human-inhabited cities to recuperate after each episode.
"Wait for me, I'll go ask my companion."
The man looked at Lu Heng, got up, and walked to the door. He then turned back to Lu Heng with some concern and said, "Why don't we go together?"
"Alright."
Is he afraid I'll take the supplies here and leave? Lu Heng also got up with the man and they walked downstairs together. The woman was on the fourth floor. The stairwell on the fourth floor was also sealed with steel plates. Therefore, these two had been living on the fourth and fifth floors. When the woman saw the man coming, she quickly ran over and embraced him, finding a sense of security. This woman was also a first-tier ability user, a plant-element one. That's why these two could survive in this enclosed space for over a year. With a clean water source and the ability to catalyze plants, it seemed the two of them must have had some intimate relationship. Otherwise, two people wouldn't have been able to endure such a long time.
"Zhao Ying, this person says the zombies outside are all dead. Do you want to go out?"
"Outside?"
"Yes, go outside. There are survivor bases there, and we won't have to live without seeing the sun every day."
"But I'm scared..."
Lu Heng rolled his eyes. He felt that trying to persuade these two was a waste of time.
"I've already told you, the choice is yours. As for the direction of travel." Lu Heng took out a compass and a map and handed them to the man.
"Head west, around Jiangcheng, you should be able to find a survivor base. Let me add one more thing: your levels are too low. If you encounter any straggling zombies on the way, it's best to kill them. Take the crystals to upgrade yourselves, otherwise, you won't be able to make a living out there."