What Lu Heng had been worried about did not happen. After standing by and watching for a while, Lu Heng was pleasantly surprised to find that Lu Bai's combat ability was incredibly strong.
He realized later that he had been overly anxious. After all, Lu Bai had been a terrifying magical beast when he was contracted, at least terrifying to the animals in the Cloud Mist Forest.
Lu Bai first observed how his companions killed zombies, and then he understood that he had to pierce the zombies' heads to kill these disgusting monsters.
And his master seemed to need the things inside the monsters' brains. That thing was very similar to the magic crystals in the brains of magical beasts, but it seemed to be slightly different.
Looking at the zombies constantly surging from the distance, Lu Bai controlled his earth abilities, directly creating solid earth pits under the zombies' feet.
As the zombies fell into the earth pits, the walls of the pits instantly closed in, trapping the struggling bodies of the zombies.
Then, he controlled thin vines, which suddenly shot out from above the earth pits. While piercing the zombies' brains, the vines also extracted all the crystals and gathered them at his feet, piling them up.
The zombies, with their crystals removed, were instantly buried by the earth again. Soon, a patch of green grass covered the area where the yellow earth had been, with many unknown small flowers blooming among them.
Lu Heng's lips twitched. This guy really had ać´ç (germophobia/cleanliness obsession), didn't he?
Comparing the surrounding environment, all the zombies that Pang Hu had fought were scorched, with black corpses scattered everywhere, some even reduced to ashes. Only some crystals emitted a soft glow amidst the black ash.
The places where the leopard had fought were not much better. The zombies struck by lightning were also black, piled up like charcoal on the ground.
The places where the golden eagle had fought were even more disgusting. Zombies with half their heads severed by wind blades had their bodily fluids splattered everywhere.
Although the blood wolf and the antelope were still finishing up, one digging pits and the other controlling vines to drag the crystal-less zombie corpses, the path they traveled always left some disgusting liquid or black marks.
"You guys, look at Lu Bai. Who can tell that there was a fierce battle after seeing the scene over there?"
"Yeah, then I'll plant some flowers and grass on the ground later." Antelope looked and nodded its head in agreement.
"Mhm, I'll loosen the soil on the top layer later to make it easier for Antelope to plant flowers and grass," Blood Wolf said again, creating a deep pit. "But I can only dig pits and bury them. My single element ability can't achieve such seamless execution like him."
Indeed, to achieve Lu Bai's level, Blood Wolf and Antelope would probably need to strengthen their coordination training.
"What about me? My fire element burns everything, and it's definitely black afterward." Pang Hu also wanted to achieve that clean look, but burnt things always left black marks.
"Then you can just stay black forever." Glancing at Pang Hu, he hadn't settled the score with it yet about his mate being pregnant.
Pang Hu shrunk its neck and instantly shook its fur. "Master, look at my performance. I definitely burned the most today."
"Okay, I see you burning." Looking at Pang Hu's pathetic state, Lu Heng really couldn't get angry again.
Under the absolute suppression, no matter how many more zombies rushed from the surroundings, they couldn't stop Lu Heng and his group from advancing.
Those that came were just sending heads, with no ability to stop them at all.
Standing outside a tall building, Lu Heng observed the environment around it.
This was a standalone building, with no connection to the adjacent buildings, at least as far as the structures on the ground were concerned.
Currently, there were no signs hanging outside the building, so Lu Heng couldn't determine its previous purpose.
However, regardless of its purpose before the apocalypse, for the survivors now, the only concern was whether the environment inside was complex.
"Master, it's upstairs." As they reached the building's main entrance, Lin Xue, who had been silent, reminded Lu Heng with her thoughts.
"This one is different from other zombies."
Other zombies liked to hide in dark places like basements, but this one was the opposite. If Lin Xue hadn't reminded him now, his first step would have been to search the basement below the building.
"Let's catch a turtle in a jar."
Controlling the vines, Lu Heng accurately located all the underground exits of the entire building, and then he controlled his earth abilities to seal all the exits.
Looking at the glass walls on the first floor, Lu Heng again controlled the vines to wrap the entire glass wall. After they all entered the building, Lu Heng also blocked the only exit, the main door.
"I'm coming to catch you," Lu Heng said cheerfully to the upstairs, his laughter echoing in the building.
Inside the building, Lu Heng did not let his mutated animals search this time, as it was not suitable for them to fight here.
Since all the exits were sealed, except for zombies jumping out of windows to escape, the number of zombies trapped inside was controllable.
The zombies gathered outside kept banging and crashing against the building. Some broke through the glass on the first floor, trying to squeeze into the building through the vines.
But how could low-level zombies penetrate vines created by a level fifteen wood element ability?
The moment the vines touched the zombies, they pierced their heads, sending their internal crystals into the building.
In a short while, a pile of crystals had accumulated in the first-floor lobby, waiting for Lu Heng to collect them directly into his space.
Scanning the floors one by one, Lu Heng only needed to control the vines to kill zombies, as the vines' extensibility was easier to control in enclosed spaces like inside the building.
This continuous scanning of the building upwards made Lu Heng recall the scene of Tang Sanzang sweeping the pagoda.
He chuckled self-deprecatingly. By killing these zombies now, wasn't he also helping them transcend, allowing their bodies to finally find peace and no longer be controlled by the zombie virus?
By the fifth floor, the surrounding zombies had reached level six, indicating that it had no more subordinates.
A smile tugged at his lips as Lu Heng walked upstairs step by step.
A sharp roar suddenly came from upstairs, the piercing sound hurting people's eardrums.
Accelerating his ascent, Lu Heng and his group finally reached the top floor.
"Master, it's right there."
Lu Heng looked at a large door in front of him. By this floor, Lu Heng no longer saw any zombies.
At this moment, various messy items were scattered everywhere in the corridor, and there were residual sprays of brown liquid on the walls and floors.
"Found you."
With a bang, Lu Heng used his wind blade to split open the door in front. The windows in the building were also completely blocked by the vines that had spread up from downstairs, allowing only a sliver of sunlight to penetrate into the room through some gaps.
The vines on the upstairs windows were only to prevent zombies from escaping and did not completely block the building's light.
After all, zombies moved more easily in the dark, while humans were passive.
However, upon pushing open the room door, Lu Heng was somewhat surprised by the scene inside. The room was piled high with zombie corpses.
And Lu Heng was certain that these were not killed by humans, but by the zombie in front of him.
Because the zombie in front was still furiously killing the zombies around it, extracting the crystals from their brains and consuming them, then tossing the corpses aside.
"How do you explain eating yourself?" Lu Heng murmured.