Opening the door to the small building, Lu Heng and the Golden Eagle were the first to emerge. The moment the Golden Eagle left the building, it shot towards the sky. After all, there were ability-wielding zombies below, and flying too low would easily result in it being injured by them.
Lu Heng quickly materialized an ice sword and began slashing at the nearby zombies. However, while killing zombies, he also noticed the changes in them. Some zombies in the vicinity had already evolved to level four.
In his previous life, he only remembered zombies evolving to level four about half a year after the apocalypse began. Fortunately, he had anticipated that zombies would evolve to level four soon, but he hadn't expected it to be today.
The soldiers who accompanied them on this mission were all fourth-tier elemental ability users. This team composition was chosen to quickly eliminate zombies from a distance. However, they hadn't expected that on this morning, as they were about to face a large number of zombies, the zombies would evolve again. This meant that their progress would likely be slower.
After clearing the surrounding zombies, Lu Heng waved his hand and collected the crystals into his space. However, the soldiers observing from inside the building were unaware of this. They simply thought Lu Heng was waving for them to come out, and they quickly exited.
Lu Heng turned to look at the soldiers who had emerged and said with some seriousness, "There are already level four zombies. Everyone maintain a high level of vigilance. We are heading to the granary now. You must collect crystals quickly on the way."
The soldiers nodded and followed behind Lu Heng towards the granary. The Siberian Tiger remained at the rear of the team. At this moment, it also mobilized its abilities to form a layer of hard frost shield behind itself, which moved forward with its progress.
While constantly using its ability would consume a lot of energy, it at least ensured that it wouldn't be injured by a surprise attack from behind. Therefore, after every period of travel, Lu Heng would give the Siberian Tiger another "Qi Replenishing Pill" so that its energy could be quickly replenished.
Along the way, Lu Heng and the Golden Eagle cooperated. The Golden Eagle had also been summoned back by Lu Heng. It had already reported the zombie situation ahead that it had scouted to Lu Heng. The zombies were in a state of idleness during the day, so their positions would not change significantly.
At this moment, the Golden Eagle also mobilized its abilities, manifesting wind swords to slash at the zombie horde. Waves of zombies were like harvested wheat, their heads split in two by the wind swords. Various red and white liquids splattered everywhere, creating a scene that was difficult to look at.
Lu Heng glanced back at the soldiers behind him. Seeing that their expressions were still normal, he still used his mind to remind the Golden Eagle, "Pay attention, don't make it too disgusting."
The Golden Eagle replied, "Master, there's no other way. With my abilities, it's always a sweep. How about I go to the back of the team and keep watch, and you let the Siberian Tiger come over?"
Lu Heng pondered for a moment, then shook his head and continued to communicate with the Golden Eagle, "Forget it, just kill them like this. It's more convenient, and the soldiers won't have to waste time breaking open zombie heads to find crystals."
Indeed, setting aside the issue of zombie height, the Golden Eagle's damage was almost a sweep, and then Lu Heng would use his ice abilities for the finishing blows. He materialized ice cones and struck the heads of the zombies that were not killed by the wind blades.
Therefore, the speed of killing zombies was not slow. After all, with the cooperation of two ninth-tier powerhouses, the soldiers only needed to quickly collect crystals.
Soon, they arrived near the granary. Lu Heng looked at the soldiers and said to them, "The granary has fences, and there aren't many zombies inside. When you go in later, you should also help kill zombies. Facing level four zombies, everyone still needs more practice."
Everyone nodded in understanding.
At this time, the soldiers' backpacks for storing crystals were almost full. They had encountered large waves of zombies along the way and had been picking up crystals, with Lu Heng and his pets killing those zombies.
It had to be said that ninth-tier ability users were indeed powerful. Even when facing zombies that had evolved to level four, the zombies had barely begun to attack them before Lu Heng and his companions killed them preemptively.
This also ignited the soldiers' desire to become strong. Only by being strong enough could they better protect the survivors of this world and increase their chances of not getting injured.
So, when Lu Heng opened the outer courtyard gate of the granary, they shouldered their packs and began to proactively attack the zombies.
Lu Heng stood aside. He looked at the number of zombies around and felt that these soldiers could handle them.
The zombies here should only be the former granary staff, as well as survivors from nearby who climbed over the walls to collect food.
Therefore, their numbers were far less than those outside. After entering the outer courtyard of the granary, Lu Heng also locked the courtyard gate again.
He had many locks in his space. After destroying the original courtyard lock, he pretended to take out a few sturdy chain locks from himself and re-locked the door. This would reduce the chance of zombies from the outside wandering in.
Lu Heng instructed the Golden Eagle and the Siberian Tiger to pay attention to the situation around them and keep a close eye on the nearby soldiers. However, he did not let his pets take action here. Instead, he wanted these soldiers to get more practice, at least to let them understand the changes after level four zombies evolved.
Lu Heng himself walked towards the giant cylindrical silos storing grain. Lu Heng walked to a silo and looked at its loading and unloading ports. Judging from the appearance of these storage barrels, they should contain bulk grain.
This made collection and storage somewhat troublesome for Lu Heng. After all, piling them up in his space was also an issue. Although they could all be piled up in the plaza of his space city, so much bulk grain piled there would still look messy.
Lu Heng used his mind to scan his space, searching for a place to store the bulk grain.
After searching for a long time, he couldn't find a suitable place. Although there were some warehouses in his space, most of these warehouses had large open doors at the bottom.
Huh? He could modify the buildings in his space. How could he have forgotten that?
With this thought, Lu Heng began to modify those warehouses using his mind. He changed all the openings at the bottom into walls and moved all the original items in the warehouses to the parking lot outside the warehouses.
The space had always maintained a constant temperature, and items could be preserved, maintaining their state when they entered the space. Therefore, Lu Heng was not worried about the items in the warehouses spoiling.
After modifying the warehouses, Lu Heng began to circle the granaries again. As long as these items were exposed to the air, he could put them into his space with his mind. Therefore, he needed to find the loading ports of these granaries.
He chose the loading ports at the top instead of the unloading ports at the bottom, as Lu Heng was worried that suddenly opening the ports at the bottom would scatter the grain onto the ground outside. He could not guarantee whether the ground outside was contaminated.
Generally, the loading ports for bulk grain were located at the top of the granaries, making it convenient to place grain inside. Fortunately, there were maintenance ladders on the outside of these barrels, and Lu Heng quickly reached the top of the barrels by climbing these ladders.