Turning the corner of a building.
Lu Heng watched as many people were still gathering towards the commotion they had just created, shaking his head.
In this apocalypse, many people were bored. Besides killing zombies, everyone was almost always suppressed.
The little accident just now had livened up the surrounding people, but the man who was being watched as part of the spectacle was a bit pitiful.
—Well, I’ll find someone to investigate later and give that man some compensation.
After the minor interlude, Lu Heng, carrying the director, went to the research center.
“Lord Lu.”
“Hmm, is Wang Tian here?”
“Yes, I just saw him run towards that building,” one person from the research center said, pointing to a building.
Wang Tian, not having a major research topic, was responsible for being the administrator of the research center.
His main job was to cooperate with various research projects, and wherever there was a need or missing materials, he was responsible for contacting the base to apply.
Lu Heng wanted to ask him if there had been any research progress on the items delivered this time.
Of course, since they had only been delivered not long ago, Lu Heng didn’t have high hopes.
Walking into the building, Lu Heng quickly found Wang Tian’s location through mind-reading.
It was lively in the room at the moment, and it seemed they had made some discoveries.
“You guys move aside a bit. This thing definitely can’t be pried open. Don’t break it. This is a product of high technology, and there’s only one.”
“Oh, I’m telling you, find a screwdriver to pry it, or get a sharp knife and see if you can cut it open. I feel like the outside is just a shell, like a lampshade.”
“Yes, if we don’t open it, we can’t research it by just leaving it like this.”
“Don’t just give random ideas. But Sun Zhentao, see if you can cut it open with a special metal knife.”
“I’ll try… No.”
“I knew it. This isn’t a job for brute force. Could it be fingerprint controlled?”
—This must be about the lamp he brought back.
Lu Heng didn’t go in. He tried to control Wang Tian inside with his mind.
—Wang Tian, come out for a moment.
Standing outside the door, Lu Heng experimented.
“Wang Tian, where are you going? Aren’t you going to watch? What if it opens later, and the City Lord asks you, and you can’t explain? Hey? What’s wrong with you…”
With a bang, the room door was forcefully pulled open, and Wang Tian walked out slowly.
Lu Heng watched Wang Tian, who was getting closer and closer. Wang Tian’s eyes had lost their focus, and he was walking towards them blankly.
—Squat down and retie your shoelaces.
Controlling Wang Tian again with his mind, Wang Tian indeed squatted down, untied his shoelaces, and prepared to tie them again.
—I can control people too.
Having done this, Lu Heng was sure that he had indeed gained the ability to control people. He released his control over Wang Tian and walked towards the door that had just been opened.
“Huh? Why did I come out to tie my shoelaces?”
“Lord Lu.” Seeing Lu Heng enter, the person standing at the very front greeted him.
“Hmm, how is it?”
“No direction, we’ve tried prying it, but it won’t open.” The person inside moved aside to make space at the table.
“Could it be voice-controlled?”
“I don’t know, but if it’s voice-controlled, it will be a bit troublesome. We don’t know the sound of the creatures from that world.”
Although Lu Heng had the projection device for the images from that world, the device also had no sound, only images. Moreover, Lu Heng felt that now was not the time to take it out.
As if thinking of something, Lu Heng summoned Xiao Liu. The previous image device was found by Xiao Liu, so perhaps this one could also work.
“Xiao Liu, go and touch it with your hands to see if you can open it.”
Receiving Lu Heng’s signal, Xiao Liu jumped onto the table and quickly felt around the flashing luminous object.
“Is this a rat? Did a mutated rat grow this big?”
“It doesn’t look like it. It’s too mutated.”
Xiao Liu’s appearance was indeed different from the rats in this world. Although there were some commonalities that made it clear it was a rat at first glance, it didn’t match any previous perceptions.
After feeling it several times, Xiao Liu felt its forelimbs were a bit sore, but the luminous object still showed no reaction.
“Master, this won’t work.”
Lu Heng nodded, guessing it wouldn’t work. He put Xiao Liu away. “You guys continue researching. There are more of these things, not just this one. If it can be opened by damaging it, that’s fine, but we don’t know what kind of energy source is inside. It’s best not to be too violent. What if it explodes?”
Instantly, the people surrounding them instinctively stepped back.
At this moment, Wang Tian, who had just wanted to enter the door, was pushed out again by the people retreating.
With the technological level of this world, it was indeed very difficult to research items from higher civilizations.
Lu Heng was not in a hurry. To break through a field of technology, Lu Heng felt that he needed to bring more things from that world for everyone to research, especially if he could find some items with sound or text. This would speed up research and breakthroughs through comparison.
“Have the gases I brought back been researched?” Wang Tian walked beside Lu Heng after leaving the room.
“That has yielded results. We tested several batches of rats. In live experiments, the rats are currently all surviving. It’s just that they seem to have some unsuitability or other reasons, and their movements are a bit slow.”
“The gas contains oxygen, but there are also some other gases. Some are found on Blue Star, but some cannot be analyzed yet, though their proportion is small. It should not be the reason affecting the rats’ movements.”
Indeed, on Blue Star, besides oxygen, there are also other rare gases in the air, but their quantities are very small.
“Could it be that those rare gas components that you haven’t researched still have an effect on them, for example, they are temporarily unaccustomed to it?”
Wang Tian pondered for a moment. “Is that so? Then let them stay in that air for a longer period, and we’ll observe them again.”
“Okay, then find a large gas tank, and I’ll get some more.”
“Alright, I have one, I’ll have someone bring it.”
The core personnel of Nameless City knew that Lu Heng did not often stay in the city, so someone quickly brought a giant sealed tank.
Lu Heng put away the tank, returned to his space to fill it, and then had the tank brought back to the research center.
His space was still a secret. As for where Lu Heng obtained these items that did not belong to this world, everyone only thought that Lu Heng had encountered some opportunity.
And Lu Heng’s strength made many people unable to question him.