The base, at noon.
Lu Heng's villa gate within the base finally opened again.
Although the air here wasn't as good as on the Shen Yuan Continent, looking at the survivors passing by the gate, Lu Heng still felt more at ease here. After all, this environment was familiar to him.
Opening the gate, Lu Heng keenly noticed a military sentry post had appeared opposite his villa. The soldier inside immediately saluted him when they saw Lu Heng emerge.
Lu Heng nodded, then went around to the garage and drove out his car.
The golden eagle had already shot out the moment the gate opened. The feeling of flying freely in the high sky was wonderful, and the busy crowds below and the noisy surroundings were much better than the silent space.
The golden eagle didn't fly too far. If it flew too far, it couldn't communicate with Lu Heng through telepathy, so it only circled above the base.
The base also knew that Lu Heng kept a pet with supernatural powers, a golden eagle, so the soldiers on the city wall wouldn't shoot it down when they saw it.
However, for a tenth-tier golden eagle, whether it could be hit by gunfire was still a mystery, as they had never encountered a tenth-tier supernatural animal.
Leaving the villa, Lu Heng drove directly out of the base.
Those who later heard that Lu Heng had finally come out of the villa were all disappointed. They first checked outside the villa, and the soldiers guarding opposite said that Lu Heng had left.
Afterward, they all went to Lu Heng's shop in the base. People in the trading market said they hadn't seen Lu Heng.
Among those looking for Lu Heng were people sent by military officer Zhao Kai, as well as members of supernatural teams who had been waiting for Lu Heng in the base.
Several supernatural teams had already gathered enough crystals to purchase the weapons Lu Heng was selling. They were eager to get their hands on those weapons that would improve them, fearing that if they were late, weapons with the same supernatural attribute as theirs would be bought by others.
They hadn't expected that after Lu Heng came out of the villa, he would leave the base directly without going anywhere else.
When Lu Heng had come out of the villa earlier, he hadn't planned to leave the base, but his range for perceiving others' thoughts had expanded considerably.
On his way, he heard that a certain base had been occupied by a group of powerful villains. Those villains had killed all the survivors who refused to obey them, and then began to recruit villains from all sides. These people rarely went out to kill zombies, but instead attacked survivor teams with fewer people and weaker forces.
They had taken up robbery, and these people were actually gathering in ever-increasing numbers, forming a considerable scale.
That base had also been transformed into a place for underground trading, where all sorts of stolen goods were sold. What's more, they also abducted female survivors and sold them like commodities.
The other bases near that base initially didn't consider these people a threat. After all, in the post-apocalyptic world, ordinary bases, besides reinforcing their own defenses, also had to deal with increasingly powerful zombies and were already struggling to cope.
By the time they realized that the villains had become insane, they had already gained the ability to contend with other bases. If any single base went to encircle them, they wouldn't gain any advantage.
This was because the villains, through robbery, collected all sorts of resources more quickly, and the number of crystals they looted was also not small. Dealing with weaker survivors was much easier than dealing with zombies.
By quickly collecting crystals, they could ensure that the bandit leaders could upgrade rapidly, so there were quite a few high-level superhumans there.
Although living in the apocalypse, some survivors still adhered to certain bottom lines, because everyone was a part of the world.
Lu Heng was very surprised to hear this. Although he couldn't change the threat of zombies to human survivors in this apocalypse, survivors should still have their bottom lines.
The golden eagle had also flown out when Lu Heng left the base. It was now circling in the sky, helping Lu Heng find roads with fewer zombies.
...
Fallen City.
Lu Heng joined a queue of people preparing to enter the city.
These people all looked burly and had scars on their bodies, which were likely from fighting with humans.
After all, being scratched by a zombie could only turn them into fellow zombies.
Most of them were small teams of over ten people. It was already getting dark, and they were all waiting for the inspection ahead before entering the city.
Ahead was the place where those villains gathered. The city had been renamed, and they had given this city an unpleasant name: [Fallen City].
It was said that there were six large villain organizations within the city. These organizations jointly managed the entire city. The leaders of the six organizations had formed a small group, similar to a council, and important decisions within the city were made by unanimous vote.
Lu Heng, driving his off-road vehicle, appeared very out of place among these teams waiting to enter the city, because he was alone with just one car.
And his car looked quite new, which was rare in the nearly one year since the apocalypse.
Some people had already set their sights on Lu Heng, muttering softly.
"Hey, this car looks very unfamiliar. From the looks of it, there's only one person."
"Yeah, he's brave enough to come to Fallen City all by himself."
"Should we rob him? I like his clothes too."
"Let's wait and see. Someone who dares to come alone like this might be someone's lover, hahaha..."
"Well, listen to Brother Qiang. Let's wait and see. Anyway, our city is different from other bases where robbery isn't allowed. If this person has no background during the inspection after entering the city, we'll just rob him."
"Okay..."
Lu Heng, "Heh heh..."
It seemed that killing and robbing within the city was already tacitly permitted. Since they dared to plot against him, they should be prepared to pay the price.
Lu Heng, who didn't usually smoke, reached behind him into his coat, then took out a cigar from his space and slowly trimmed it.
Because the driver's side window was not closed, everything happening inside the car was clearly visible to people outside.
When some people saw Lu Heng take out a cigar from his coat, their eyes showed even more greed.
Others deliberately squeezed themselves on both sides of Lu Heng's off-road vehicle, peering into the car with tinted windows, wanting to see what supplies Lu Heng had in his car.
Lu Heng ignored those people, but glancing at the vehicles of others, he considered asking the people at the base to help him add some spikes to his off-road vehicle later, which could both defend against zombies and prevent such scrutiny from survivors.