The continuous work of deployment for several days left Lin Yu feeling tired as he rubbed his temples.
Longcheng was more complex than Pingcheng. Not only did they have to clear out hidden dangers within the management team, but they also had to thoroughly investigate every corner of the city.
What was even more difficult to manage were the numerous esper teams. They were not previously under Longcheng's jurisdiction and existed in a relatively independent state within the city.
Furthermore, for the sake of wealth and resources, they had all participated, to varying degrees, in many of Longcheng's affairs.
Ultimately, three small teams from Wuming City were assigned to Longcheng. Over fifteen hundred people replaced the original management and defense personnel of Longcheng.
As for those espers who could not be controlled, they were either driven out of Longcheng within a specified time limit or permanently eliminated.
"Bang bang bang..."
A knock sounded at the door.
"Enter."
"City Lord Lin, to the east, the team we dispatched has sent an urgent letter."
"Bring it here." Hearing this, Lin Yu couldn't help but frown.
"Assemble the first and second teams for an outbound mission. Wait for my news at the airport."
Clenching the paper in his hand, Lin Yu quickly left his office and headed towards his residence.
"Brother Lu!"
Before he even entered the building, Lin Yu called out to Lu Heng in the hallway, his voice trembling with anxiety.
"I'm here, what's wrong?" Since Lin Yu began managing Wuming City's affairs, he had never lost his composure like this.
"Brother Lu, look at this."
Lin Yu handed the crumpled paper in his hand to Lu Heng.
"A team we sent to the east encountered trouble in Luocheng. We had received news before. Initially, it was some foreign espers who wanted to come here to snatch crystals and supplies, which we didn't take seriously.
However, over the past period, survivors from that team have been continuously disappearing, and the foreign espers who had contacted us several times have also vanished."
"No reason found?"
The ordinary combat personnel of Wuming City's teams were all sixth-tier espers. Even if they encountered large-scale zombie hordes when venturing out, as long as they were careful, eliminating the zombies was not a problem.
At this time, foreign powers would not pose a challenge to their level either, especially since Wuming City's teams were numerous, with a balanced overall level and reasonable distribution of various esper types within the team.
This was why, when the first team reported encountering foreign espers, Wuming City did not take it seriously, and Lin Yu didn't think much of it.
But this time, the note contained several very messy characters, indicating the situation in which it was written.
"I plan to go and see for myself," Lin Yu said with a grim expression.
"I'll go with you," Lu Heng stood up and walked to Lin Yu's side.
"No need, I should be able to handle it. Brother Lu should stay in the city. We can't both be away."
"It's not like we haven't left together before. Those people are doing a great job. Wuming City can still operate normally for a while without us."
With storage rings to keep supplies, Wuming City could fully cope for half a year even in Lu Heng's absence.
Moreover, Wuming City had already begun developing new crop cultivation, and the cultivated crop seeds were expected to become more mature and stable this year.
With a source of food, humanity in the apocalypse would have more hope. They could kill zombies while simultaneously resuming production.
"Alright, I've already told teams one and two to gather at the airport. Shall we head over then?"
Wuming City had four teams. Lu Heng had upgraded all of them to eighth-tier in the later stages, so they didn't usually need to venture too far to kill zombies.
Soon, Lu Heng and Lin Yu arrived at the city's airport, where the personnel from teams one and two had already gathered.
"City Lord Lu, City Lord Lin, the teams are assembled and ready to depart at any time."
"Mm, you will travel in two planes. Land at a location near Luocheng. Select some personnel to take helicopters to facilitate clearing landing spots. We will rendezvous outside Luocheng afterward."
"Understood."
This was also something they frequently did when venturing out, as large transport planes had specific landing requirements.
The helicopter team personnel were responsible for clearing a landing area before the large transport planes could land.
Afterward, the personnel near the transport planes would guard the aircraft, while other personnel would go out to execute missions in areas requiring zombie elimination.
With preparations made, Lu Heng summoned a Gorgon. He and Lin Yu would still travel by Gorgon.
Lu Heng and Lin Yu went directly to Luocheng. The Gorgon's speed, with Lu Heng's manipulation of wind and air pressure, was considerably faster than airplanes.
Therefore, by the time they arrived, the Wuming City personnel were still some distance away from Luocheng.
Lu Heng cleared a patch of ground from high in the sky, and they landed silently.
"Let's go see if the team sent their previous location?"
"Initially, they said it was near the government building in Luocheng."
"Let's go take a look."
Lu Heng put away the Gorgon and summoned both the Golden Eagle and the Falcon-Beast. They could survey the situation below from high in the sky and also possessed combat capabilities. If they encountered danger, they could attack the enemy and report information to Lu Heng through their consciousness.
"So many people have been here, and the zombies haven't been cleared much."
Looking at the astonishing number of zombies outside Luocheng, Lu Heng was somewhat surprised.
Even if the Wuming City teams encountered obstructing foreign forces, all of them were sixth-tier personnel. There was no reason for the zombie numbers in the towns they passed through to still be so high.
Lin Yu had also mentioned earlier that they had sent back information stating that the personnel were near the government building within the city.
This indicated that those people had passed through the city. However, the number of zombies on the outskirts made Lu Heng feel that something was not right.
As he spoke, Lu Heng also moved towards the nearby zombies that were attracted by the scent of their companions and began to kill them.
The zombies were drawn by the roars of their companions and were rushing towards Lu Heng and Lin Yu.
Some seemed to be speed-type zombies, running particularly fast. Of course, these were also the fastest to die.
Before they were even close to Lu Heng, he had already unleashed several layers of wind blades, slicing the zombies into pieces.
This was also to ensure that some zombies, with their bodies intact or their original hosts being small in stature, wouldn't slip through.
Lu Heng simply transformed the wind blades into multiple layers. The zombies that were cut were as if sliced by several parallel scythes. Maintaining their forward momentum, they turned into layers spread across the ground.
Looking at the layers of zombie flesh spread on the road ahead, Lu Heng waved his hand to clear away the debris and, incidentally, collected the crystals into his spatial storage.
Meanwhile, Lin Yu was not idle either. After a long time spent handling various affairs in Wuming City, he hadn't had a chance to train outside for a while.