In the spatial apartment.
Lu Heng was woken by a brush, wet and working from side to side, its barbs still a little prickly.
Lu Heng opened his eyes and saw two tigers, one on each side, washing his face.
But the washing water didn't smell good. It seemed they also needed to learn to brush their teeth.
Seeing Lu Heng wake up, the two tigers each took a step back, crouched on either side of Lu Heng's large bed, and looked at him with eager eyes.
Lu Heng, it seemed, was about to feed them.
Ever since he learned that the director could also freely use the materials in the space, Lu Heng had revoked the spatial usage permissions of his contracted animals.
His initial intention was to prevent the director from exposing the space outside of it. After all, animals didn't care about time or place. As long as they wanted to eat, the food they imagined in their minds would appear before them at any time.
Lu Heng got up, took a quick shower, and then took all his pets back to their own rooms.
Lu Heng used his mind to bring out their favorite foods one by one. It was then that he noticed that one bowl, filled with minced meat, seemed to be missing.
After checking them one by one again, Lu Heng summoned the golden eagle back to the room with his mind.
As long as they were in the space, no matter where these pets were in the space, he could summon them to his side with a single thought.
When the golden eagle was summoned back, it should have been in flight the moment before. Now, it still hadn't retracted its wings. It flapped its wings to maintain its glide, heading straight for the wall of the lounge.
"Thump!"
Golden Eagle, "My head hurts so much."
Lu Heng, "I didn't do anything."
After a moment, the golden eagle got up unsteadily, turned around, and saw that all the pets were eating. It momentarily forgot what had just happened, hopped twice, and went to its meat bowl.
Each of them was fed enough, so even if it hadn't been there just now, it didn't have to worry about its food being eaten by other companions.
The golden eagle ate while looking at Lu Heng, "Master, I went out for exercise early this morning. I just discovered that the mist in the space has thinned a bit. I vaguely saw houses outside, but I tried to fly and couldn't get through..."
Lu Heng was giving several pets ancient well water. He had felt that the breath of the two tigers was not good and planned to add some ancient well water to detoxify them today.
But...
"Golden Eagle, what did you just say?"
Lu Heng suspected he had misheard. There was indeed a layer of mist at the edge of the city in the space. He had known this since the first day he discovered the space.
Before the golden eagle could reply, he moved with his mind and appeared at the edge of the space.
The position Lu Heng was standing in now was one of the four entrances and exits in the city where he worked. It was now near the western road entrance.
The first thing Lu Heng saw upon arriving was that the mist here had indeed thinned. He could vaguely see something like a building on the other side of the road exit, but he still couldn't see the specific appearance of that building.
Lu Heng tentatively walked towards the mist. The golden eagle had also said that it had tried to fly towards the mist but hadn't entered it, which meant the mist was not poisonous.
And he was now a seventh-tier ability user. With the power attribute boost from the black bear, his seventh-tier level could already withstand ordinary external forces without injury.
As expected, Lu Heng's hand, reaching out towards the mist, felt like hitting a wall, but it wasn't cold to the touch, vaguely close to normal human body temperature.
Lu Heng glanced again at the building behind the thin mist, and with a thought, he went to the entrances and exits of other cities.
As expected, the mist at several entrances and exits had thinned considerably, but the mist in other parts of the city was still very dense.
At several entrances and exits, there were buildings behind the thin mist, but the buildings at each location seemed to be different.
Because from behind the thin mist, one could roughly see the size of the building on the opposite side, and the sizes of the buildings behind the four entrances and exits were different.
Lu Heng used his mind and looked around several familiar places within the city. The other buildings within the city had not changed.
Afterward, Lu Heng returned to the vicinity of the western entrance and found a sofa to sit on, observing the thin mist and the buildings behind it.
He sat alone for a long time, and Lu Heng couldn't figure out why this space had appeared, nor what was behind the thin mist.
Lu Heng waved his hand and summoned recording equipment, setting up several units near the entrances and exits.
Since he couldn't always stay in the space and couldn't keep track of the changes in the mist in a timely manner, Lu Heng decided to record these changes to facilitate his analysis of the space's secrets later.
After securing the recording equipment, Lu Heng returned to the apartment.
At this time, the pets had all finished their meals, and the food bowls were still placed in the lounge. Lu Heng waved his hand, and the food bowls disappeared.
Lu Heng looked around at the pets and asked, "Besides the golden eagle, has anyone else noticed any changes in that mist?"
The pets all shook their heads. They couldn't fly as well as the golden eagle. Even when they went out to play, they wouldn't go to the edge of the city.
Without getting any useful information, Lu Heng returned to his room.
His mind was a bit chaotic. He really didn't know what this space meant to him.
Although in the apocalypse, having a space that could store supplies, and the space itself containing inexhaustible supplies, he had already reached the pinnacle of life.
Shaking his somewhat confused head, Lu Heng rummaged through his maps, looking for several bases he knew from his previous life.
His strength was already sufficient. He now needed to interact more with other survivors so that he could better understand the changes in this world.
In his previous life, as someone at the lowest level of ability users, he couldn't access some information. But in this life, with his absolute dominance, he wanted to stand at the pinnacle of the world's survivors.
Drawing circles and lines, Lu Heng marked several bases.
These bases were all places he had visited in his previous life.
The large bases after the apocalypse were all built by the original military, and these bases were only built and put into use by the military more than a month after the apocalypse descended.
This was also one of the reasons why Lu Heng did not look for survivor safe zones after the apocalypse descended in this life.
Lu Heng remembered that one of the bases he circled was the largest, with the best city walls and basic infrastructure. Since he was going to find a base to explore information, it was natural to find the largest base to get useful information.
Also, since he was going to find a base to survive, some necessary disguises also needed to be prepared.
For example, he couldn't go to that base empty-handed. After all, if he were to survive in crowded places in the future, he couldn't conjure food and other supplies out of thin air.
He needed to plan.