Lu Heng understood the situation in the building. The two people didn't need him to specifically look after them. After being given a map, whether they chose to continue hiding or leave was no longer his concern.
"I opened the iron door on the rooftop when I first came in. You and I will go up together later and lock it again. I'll give you this light too; it should last for a while."
In the apocalypse, there was no power supply, so this self-powered light should be enough for them for some time.
Before leaving, Lu Heng also gave the man a long saber. These two were at a somewhat low level and didn't have a suitable weapon, making it difficult for them to deal with zombies outside.
Having done enough, Lu Heng didn't delay any further. With a few leaps, he reached the first floor. Together with Lu Bai, who was waiting below, they disappeared into the abandoned city.
"Cai Ge, are there still zombies outside?"
The woman, hiding behind the door of the rooftop safety passage, poked her head out and looked at the man standing on the rooftop.
"No more, really no more."
The man repeatedly scanned all directions around. The city was very quiet. Apart from the sound of the wind, there were no more occasional roars of zombies.
Not far below, a large pile of zombie corpses had accumulated.
"Then, are we really going to go out and live with other humans?"
The woman heard the man's murmuring and gradually walked out from behind the safety door. She squatted at the edge of the rooftop and looked down.
Only after seeing with her own eyes that all the terrifying zombies below had truly disappeared did she look up at the man standing beside her, gazing into the distance.
"Do you want to leave?"
The reason the two of them had survived until now was, as Lu Heng had thought, entirely due to their newly acquired survival-suitable abilities.
However, the two, having not killed zombies for a long time, felt a bit daunted even by looking at the zombie corpses below.
But if they didn't leave here, their supplies were truly dwindling. Once everything was eaten, they would only be able to survive the rest of their lives on the vegetables they cultivated and the water the man produced.
"I want to go and see."
The woman looked down at her clothes. This was the outfit she had been wearing since before the apocalypse.
She rarely washed it, afraid of it tearing and leaving her with no replacement clothes.
If she went to a human settlement, perhaps she could get herself a change of clothes.
Moreover, she didn't want to live in places without sunlight all the time. Being in a dark environment for extended periods could truly drive a person mad.
"Then let's pack up. We'll leave tomorrow."
If they wanted to leave, the best time to do so was now, before new zombies gathered here.
"Then I'll pack up quickly today."
After Lu Heng left that building, he continued to search for supplies in the city.
The Golden Eagles flew high in the sky for a while, circling all areas of the city, and found no more strange places.
Lu Heng stayed here for two days. There were no zombies at night, and he was not affected by the inability to see in the dark. Utilizing the time difference in his space, as long as he rested well, he would come out to continue collecting supplies.
In two days, more than half of the items in this place had been plundered by him.
Finally, he reached the edge of the city. Lu Heng looked back at the empty city and couldn't help but shake his head.
How many abandoned cities had appeared due to the outbreak of this zombie virus? These were all hard-built by humans before the apocalypse. A virus had caused these cities, built over decades, to be instantly abandoned.
The human population had also drastically decreased, with numbers less than a tenth of the original.
Lu Heng gathered all his animals and brought them back into his space.
This was the direction Sun Qiang had left. Lu Heng needed to monitor Sun Qiang's situation.
There was no contractual relationship between them, so he had to be constantly vigilant.
He absolutely could not allow a zombie king to be cultivated to fight against humans.
Leaving the city, Lu Heng could still see many zombie corpses from high in the sky along the way.
Some zombie corpses were gathered in piles, likely having been summoned together and then killed.
But most were scattered zombie corpses in the wilderness. Perhaps because they were too dispersed in the wild, they were cleaned up as they passed by.
The sky gradually darkened, and night was approaching.
Lu Heng was about to find a place to stop so they could return to his space to rest.
Suddenly, the sharp-eyed secretary bird spotted something dark and moving on the right.
It reported the information to Lu Heng.
"Master, what is that dark mass over there?"
"Let's fly over and see, won't we know then?"
Lu Heng couldn't see clearly from such a distance.
As they got closer, Lu Heng finally saw what that large mass was.
It turned out to be a swarm of rats, or more precisely, a swarm of mutated rats.
These rats moved at a not-slow pace. They were gathered together, and there should be a leader, a rat king, at the front.
The rats, having mutated, were not small in size, about the size of a medium-sized dog.
As these rats gathered, wherever they went, some zombie corpses were instantly gnawed clean.
This made Lu Heng feel somewhat disgusted watching from high in the sky.
These mutated rats were truly more disgusting than before the apocalypse; they even gnawed on zombie corpses now.
However, Lu Heng was somewhat surprised that these mutated rats did not turn into zombie rats after eating zombie corpses.
Could these rats have developed antibodies?
No, he had to capture a few to be studied by the people at the base.
Lu Heng urged the secretary bird to fly towards the mutated rats.
As if sensing danger, the mutated rats suddenly stopped moving and all turned their heads towards Lu Heng's direction.
"Damn it, have these rats really become intelligent?"
However, even so, apart from zombies, humans were still the top species on the food chain.
Humans with abilities did not find it too difficult to deal with these mutated rats.
With a wave of his hand, Lu Heng instantly sliced several rows of rats into pieces with a gust of wind.
The rats behind them, sensing the fate of their companions in front, began to squeak and chirp loudly.
Some even stood up straight and screamed loudly at Lu Heng, as if trying to scare him away with this method.
Lu Heng paid no attention. He waved his hand again, and the wind blades reaped another wave of mutated rat lives.
Sensing the danger, the rats behind them began to frantically dig holes into the ground.
They wanted to escape by burrowing.
But digging holes on the spot was too late to escape.
Lu Heng waved his hands several times consecutively, and the number of mutated rats had already been reduced by two-thirds.
However, even so, the reproductive ability of rats was too strong, and their numbers were too vast.
There were still quite a few rats that were not eliminated.
Lu Heng drew a circle towards several mutated rats. The area enclosed by his drawing instantly had a metal barrel appear.
The metal barrel trapped the rats inside. However, the rats were not stupid. Seeing that escape was impossible, they began to dig holes in the ground within the barrel.