On the highway, a speeding super-large RV raced down the road.
Lu Heng was driving with full concentration. To help his contracted animals better adapt to life in the apocalypse, Lu Heng had released them into the RV.
Occasionally, when passing by remote villages, Lu Heng would let them fight alongside him to hone their combat skills.
After all, they were mutated animals with special abilities. If they hadn't been contracted by Lu Heng, they would still have to fight for survival in the wild.
Of course, with their initial intelligence, it was extremely difficult for them to comprehend and consume the crystals in zombie brains to improve their levels.
Therefore, for a long time in the apocalypse, supernatural animals were rare, and in the later stages of the apocalypse, supernatural animals rarely surpassed human ability users in rank.
However, at the same level, supernatural animals had completely superior combat attributes compared to human ability users.
Director, as a special-type supernatural animal, currently had no killing skills. It could only sit on Panghu's back and watch everyone else busy.
Fortunately, Panghu and the others also had nature-based abilities and didn't need to engage in close combat. Moreover, their ability levels were shared with Lu Heng.
Lu Heng had broken through again in the past few days. He was now a fourth-tier ability user, so they were also fourth-tier supernatural animals.
This way, Lu Heng was not fighting alone; he was leading a three-person combat team.
Such an overpowered team was a heaven-defying existence when killing zombies. Often, zombies were wiped out as soon as they appeared.
Moreover, he didn't have to worry about these contracted animals betraying him. After being contracted, their spirits were connected to his, and they only obeyed Lu Heng.
Of course, when killing zombies in cities, Lu Heng generally did not bring them along. After all, his own fourth-tier multi-elemental abilities were more than enough to deal with zombies.
He didn't want to reveal all his trump cards. The more trump cards he had, the more secure his survival would be in the future.
Fortunately, this RV was large enough, and Panghu's massive body could move freely inside.
Due to their mutations, the intelligence of several animals had improved significantly. In the past few days, with Director, a psychic cat, teaching them, they could already communicate smoothly with Lu Heng.
Currently, the several pets were gathered around the RV's large bed, watching a mahjong competition on the big screen mobile phone.
If their claws weren't inconvenient for holding tiles, they would have loved to gather around and play themselves.
So, these past few days, they had stopped watching dramas and instead spent their free time watching mahjong competition videos together.
Lu Heng glanced at the four sitting together in the rearview mirror, feeling envious. He, the owner, had to drive laboriously, while they were like pets taken out for an outing. When there were no zombies, they only knew how to sit together and watch their phones.
"Sigh!"
With a sigh, Lu Heng flipped out the map and looked at it again. The forest he had marked was still five kilometers away.
This time, he had found the closest wildlife park to his city on the national map.
He had no choice. He had originally planned to look for animals in the mountains, but after searching the forest near his villa for two days, and even sending out his golden eagle, he hadn't found any more mutated animals.
Lu Heng was gradually approaching the highway exit. To get to that wildlife park, he had to pass through several small towns.
Since this wildlife park was built here, the surrounding small towns had also developed tourism and accommodation projects.
Therefore, the population of the surrounding towns had gradually increased, and some places had even started agritainment projects.
Lu Heng stopped the car about ten meters away from the highway exit. He then put away the RV and switched to an off-road vehicle.
After all, the surrounding roads were country roads, not very suitable for large vehicles like RVs.
After getting into the off-road vehicle, Lu Heng recalled all the pets inside the car into his spatial dimension, leaving only the golden eagle to scout the surrounding situation from the sky.
In recent days, the golden eagle had served as an excellent scout. By utilizing its advantage of high flight altitude, it could quietly investigate the surrounding situation very well.
A moment later, Lu Heng received a message from the golden eagle in his mind.
"Master, there are quite a lot of zombies here."
"Alright, are there any signs of survivor activity nearby?"
"No signs of human activity were found."
"Okay, then you scout the surrounding movements from the sky. If anything happens, communicate with me directly through telepathy."
"Also, don't fly too low. There are already ability zombies now, so be careful not to be attacked."
"Okay."
After receiving the useful information, Lu Heng drove towards the highway exit.
The highway exit, like all city entrances and exits, was piled high with abandoned cars driven by humans trying to escape the town.
Unfortunately, when humans faced zombies, if they had no combat power, they were almost completely defenseless against zombies and could only be unilaterally crushed by them.
As the car approached the exit, some zombies wandering nearby were attracted by the sound of the car.
Lu Heng got out of the car and waved his hand, releasing wind blades towards the charging zombies. Soon, the surrounding zombies were eliminated by Lu Heng in one blow.
After collecting the crystals, Lu Heng released his wind abilities again. This time, the abandoned vehicles and zombie corpses piled at the exit were all swept away to the sides of the road by the wind Lu Heng created.
They had been traveling at a leisurely pace these past few days, not rushing. After all, Lu Heng's advancement speed was too fast, and he had to give the zombies a chance to grow. Otherwise, killing low-level zombies would be a waste of effort.
Therefore, it took Lu Heng half a month to reach the town, which should have only taken a little over a day.
Among the zombies killed just now, Lu Heng had already discovered quite a few second-tier zombies.
Since he had to pass through these towns, Lu Heng couldn't give up on so many crystals. Second-tier crystals were enough for him to advance two more tiers. Of course, the further he went, the astonishing the number of crystals required for upgrades.
Lu Heng did not deploy the drone to attract zombies this time, because ability zombies had already appeared among the zombies, and some zombies would launch ability attacks on drones.
Lu Heng put away the car and released several more pets. This time, Lu Heng made a saddle-like object on Panghu's body. Of course, he wasn't planning to ride Panghu, but to make it convenient for Director and Turtle Immortal to watch from the outside.
The water-type turtle, having reached the fourth tier of abilities, could now conjure water walls, which could protect everyone when necessary, preventing surprise attacks from zombies.
After all, some evolved zombies had also gained some intelligence, and they now knew to attack humans through sneak attacks.