"Then I'll send a helicopter..." Lin Zhongshan swallowed hard as he looked at the monster bird that had shrunk to the size of an ordinary car, cutting off his words halfway.
He actually wanted to ask what kind of mutated animal this was. When they were high in the sky, the Roc's beak creature was the size of a small airplane. But as Lu Heng approached Dragon City, it had been constantly shrinking. By the time it landed on the city wall, it had reduced to its current size.
Lin Yu looked at Lin Zhongshan, then at the ability users on the city wall. "Your ability users here are too weak. The zombies outside are stronger than most of you. After this lesson, you need to hurry up and level up."
Then, a small organizer box appeared in his hand, containing some energy-restoring pills. These were pills he had made during his usual alchemy practice and had kept in his storage ring without taking them out.
"These are pills that can restore the energy of ability users. Distribute them to the ability users in the city, or give them to the soldiers stationed here first. Hurry up and harvest the zombies outside the city gates. By the time the people from Wuming City arrive, there won't be many zombies left in this area."
Without zombies, there would be no crystals, and these ability users would have to travel far to upgrade.
Now that there were ready targets delivered to them, if they didn't go and harvest them, these people would be fools.
He had said what needed to be said. Although these pills were all refined by Lin Yu himself, the quality of his pills was guaranteed, and they were more effective than the pills sold in Wuming City.
"Lin Yu, you're leaving too?" Lin Zhongshan instinctively took the small box Lin Yu handed him and looked at Lin Yu in disbelief.
"Hasn't the crisis here eased? Why are your ability users all for show?" Glaring at his own father, Lin Yu walked to the Roc's beak creature, grabbed the vines on its body, and leaped onto it.
Lu Heng walked to Lin Zhongshan's side, patted his shoulder, and said, "Children grow up and have to leave. You should think about how to deal with the zombies below. Also, the ice covering the city wall can last for about four or five more days in this weather."
Under everyone's gaze, Lu Heng put the Director and Lu Bai into his space, then easily leaped onto the back of the Roc's beak creature.
With a long cry, the Roc's beak creature spread its wings, and its body suddenly enlarged as it took to the air. After flapping twice, it disappeared into the clouds.
They didn't return directly to Wuming City. The city's defenses had been deployed, and there were enough people left to guard it. Moreover, the zombies in the surrounding towns had been cleared out before this zombie attack.
As for Dragon City and Pingcheng, corresponding personnel had been dispatched to reinforce them. All they had to do was wait to harvest a wave of crystals.
Controlling the Roc's beak creature to fly at high altitude, Lu Heng was now manipulating the air around them, eliminating the awkward environment of before.
Lin Yu kept looking down. Most of the towns below had been overrun. After the apocalypse, survivors concentrated all their resources, and there was almost only one human refuge for every few cities.
And after half a year of zombie attacks, a province at most had only one or two bases like Pingcheng.
Fortunately, the Roc's beak creature's flight speed was fast enough, and it only took half a day to survey several neighboring provinces and cities.
As he had guessed, these bases, which had just survived a winter, had all suffered attacks from zombie hordes to varying degrees.
This might be because the zombies, after hibernating through the winter, also needed fresh human flesh and blood. In some ways, zombies were like humans. Although they couldn't feel hunger, flesh and blood had a fatal attraction to them.
For some of the shelters that had been breached by zombies, Lu Heng did not go to support them. With his own strength, it was difficult to take care of all areas at the same time.
His attack skills were all indiscriminate. As long as he made a move, survivors mixed with zombies would not be spared. But if Lu Heng didn't make a move, some of those ability users might be able to escape.
For the bases whose city walls had not been breached, Lu Heng released various elemental abilities from high in the sky to help them alleviate the crisis.
The zombies that tried to climb the city walls by piling up corpses were eventually eliminated by Lu Heng in large numbers, and their corpses were scattered away from the city walls by wind elemental abilities.
For a time, many survivors in the larger bases witnessed a scene they would never forget.
After busy work until nightfall, Lu Heng finally returned to Wuming City with Lin Yu.
Upon finding the duty personnel at the city gate to understand the situation, they learned that only scattered zombies had wandered near Wuming City throughout the day. Those zombies were easily killed by the long-range ability users on the city wall once they entered the city's attack range.
The personnel sent to Dragon City and Pingcheng today had all returned safely. The harvest this time was substantial. Although they didn't get any useful supplies, the number of zombie crystals was astonishing.
The people who had just upgraded in Wuming City had fought the zombies exceptionally smoothly this time, it was simply a one-sided crushing of the zombie army.
Wherever they went, the zombies were annihilated in large numbers by the long-range ability users in the ability user teams before they could even make a move.
Looking at the collected Level 4 and above crystals, Lu Heng nodded with satisfaction. "We'll rest tomorrow. I'll borrow some transport planes from other bases tomorrow. There aren't many zombies around us anymore, so we need to venture further."
It was a bit inconvenient for these people to travel on foot or by car. After all, it would take some time for the zombies in the surrounding towns to gather again.
Wuming City should be very safe for a short period.
With a wave of his hand, Lu Heng collected the storage rings containing the crystals into his space. He would find those contractors to exchange them later when he had time.
He then took out some new empty rings and distributed them to Lin Yu.
The person reporting and Lin Yu left together. Lu Heng recalled all his contracted animals into his space.
Lu Heng also returned to his space to rest. There was no sound there, which was more effective in relieving his fatigue after a day of travel.
"Master, can I come in?" the Director's voice came from outside the apartment door.
"No, you go to your room. I want to rest alone today." Lu Heng had just come out of the bathroom, wrapped only in a bath towel.
"Master, I want to take a bath too."
"Let Lu Bai help you wash." It was hard to find a contracted animal that could transform into human form, so Lu Heng was no longer doing such things himself.
"How can that be? Its clumsy technique..."
"I'm going to sleep. Why don't you go outside and find Lin Yu to help you wash."