Once again, it descended, and the outer city was basically completed.
Lu Heng had also killed all the zombies within the city, so it was very safe here, in the area he had deliberately demarcated.
"I'm handing over the management of this city to you. I believe you can defend it."
"Yes." Sun Tao nodded with utmost seriousness. As long as I am alive, I will defend it.
"This... you will have to guard against not only zombies but also those ability users in the future. Develop your team as quickly as possible. However, you must also be cautious. Those two brothers from before were good, but they had a weakness."
After speaking, Lu Heng frowned and looked at the mother hiding in the crowd. She was still gazing at the suddenly appearing city wall, her attention not on Lu Heng.
"This, I can't do anything about it. I can't destroy their mother-son relationship."
"Your brain is a bit slow. I told you not to believe everything, just be more observant. Well, I can't teach you everything. You are much older than me, you should know that if you were an idiot, you wouldn't have reached the position of second-level inspector."
After finishing, Lu Heng called Sun Tao to his side again, had him get on the back of the rhinoceros, and took him to the top of the city wall first.
Shaking off the group of people below, Lu Heng took out a storage ring from his spatial dimension.
"This is a storage accessory. You can store supplies in it. As long as it's not a living thing, you can put it in. Moreover, items placed inside will be eternally preserved. Only the person who has dripped blood to recognize the owner can use this ring, so don't let others snatch it away."
"I understand." He understood the principle that possessing valuable items can lead to trouble.
"However, you have given me such a precious item, and we have nothing to repay you with."
"Eliminating zombies is your repayment to me. Fortunately, the zombies here are not too active due to the low temperature. You also need to upgrade as soon as possible. Zombies will develop high intelligence in the later stages."
"Okay." Sun Tao nodded heavily, then gave Lu Heng a standard salute.
"Then you should upgrade your level first. Those people will probably be back soon."
This time, Lu Heng did not take out crystals. Level four crystals had greater uses, so a pile of ice-element magic crystals was placed in front of Sun Tao.
"Why does this look different?"
"This is a magic crystal. There aren't many high-level zombies in the apocalypse. If you want to reach level six, it will consume too many level four crystals, which is too slow. This is the same. The attributes in this are fixed, so I've brought you all ice-attribute ones."
"Alright."
Without further ado, Sun Tao picked up the magic crystal and began to absorb it. Soon, he upgraded from level three to level six.
Exhaling a breath, Sun Tao stretched his body. An ice cone appeared in his right hand, which was much sturdier than the ice bodies he had created before.
"Alright, I should go. Develop well here, and remember to lead these people to upgrade quickly. It's best not to keep too many ordinary survivors. The apocalypse doesn't support the weak."
Lu Heng nodded, leaving him more food, clothing, and other supplies on the city wall, then got onto the back of the rhinoceros.
"Aren't you going to check if they obtained crystals?"
"No, I'm just forcing them to grow. Haven't they already gone out to face zombies?"
With that, the rhinoceros spread its wings and quickly flew to a higher position, instantly disappearing from everyone's sight.
Lu Heng didn't need to clear the remaining zombies in the vicinity anymore. Leaving them for these people, they also needed resources for upgrading.
Sun Tao looked in the direction Lu Heng had left, then looked at the pile of supplies in front of him. With a wave of his hand, he put all the supplies into the storage ring.
Half an hour later, people began to walk onto the city wall one after another. They looked around the city wall with surprise. The view here was excellent, and they could see far away.
Lu Heng had also cleared all the buildings near the city wall into flat ground, to prevent zombies or other humans from climbing over from the outside.
"Brother Sun, did that person leave?"
"Yes, he left."
"Brother Sun, what level are you?"
"Level six."
"Wow, that person really helped you reach level six. Brother Sun, you are truly the undisputed leader here from now on."
"There is no leader, I just need to lead everyone to survive together..."
...
For more than ten days, Lu Heng had been pushing his way through the chosen route.
In the areas he passed, wherever there were many survivors, he would specifically select a few places as future development points for the survivors there, helping the people build some basic bases.
However, there were indeed not many high-level zombies in the north. The ones collected during these days did not exceed level four.
"Could it be that this place was not affected by his rebirth, so there was no butterfly effect here, and the zombies' evolution speed is the same as in the previous life?"
Looking at the map in his hand, Lu Heng decided to go south first, or to check the few provinces near Wuming City.
After all, the main purpose of him coming out personally was still for high-level crystals.
Midway, when passing near Wuming City, Lu Heng specifically found a route that Lin Yu and others had chosen for their expeditions. After so many days, he was also eager to see the combat capabilities of these people whom he had specially helped to improve.
However, he appeared at a high altitude and silently, so the humans fighting zombies below could not sense his presence.
Lu Heng looked down at the battlefield from a high altitude with binoculars and nodded with satisfaction.
These people, all of whom he had helped to reach at least level six warriors, were completely overwhelming the zombies when facing them.
Rows of ability users with ranged attack capabilities controlled their respective abilities, orderly attacking the zombies that rushed out of the city.
The people arranging the formations were not randomly assigning them. The front row was occupied by a line of people holding special shields. Lu Heng could tell they were all strength-type ability users. These people stood at the front to prevent zombies from suddenly getting close and impacting the formation.
Behind this row of people were groups of ability users of various elements. They mobilized their energy from time to time, unleashing various abilities to attack the zombies. After their energy was depleted, these people would retreat, and another wave of magic-type ability users would immediately replace them to continue the attack.
Facing so many humans, the scent constantly emanating from their bodies was a fatal attraction to the zombies.
They were completely fearless, only howling and continuously charging towards the humans.
"Good, it seems there is nothing to worry about."
This time, Lin Yu also seemed to have prepared quite a few elixirs for them, which were said to be for emergency use when encountering difficult situations. They would then send people back to Wuming City to report, and the city would also send people to support them, so that these cultivated backbone members would not be buried outside.