Lu Heng left the director to Lin Yu and set off again on the Roc, searching for military supplies. Many supplies were difficult to preserve due to lack of maintenance.
For example, the planes seen on the ground of the abandoned base earlier were exposed to the elements, and the wind and rain caused significant damage to the metal.
These items still needed to be brought back to Wuming City as soon as possible. Lu Heng had many storage accessories. After the recovered supplies were maintained, they could be stored in the time-stopped storage space to extend their service life.
Flipping through the documents in his hand, Lu Heng selected a location, identified his current position, and then directed the Roc towards that direction.
These pre-apocalypse military bases really liked to be built in mountainous areas, probably because these regions were sparsely populated.
The location to be explored this time was also in a large mountain. Lu Heng had the Roc fly a circle at high altitude. There was no helipad nearby, but there was a wide road leading into the mountain.
At the entrance to the mountain, the road had a guard post with a metal gate, also hung with barbed wire. It was likely connected to a power grid to prevent others from climbing over.
There was no movement of personnel near the guard post. Lu Heng saw neither living humans nor zombies from the air.
The ground also seemed very clean, without the tragic scene of shattered corpses everywhere that was typical of the zombie outbreak in the apocalypse.
This was somewhat strange. Logically, if the zombie virus had broken out here, there should be traces of zombies.
This could only mean one thing: this area had been cleared, deliberately cleaned up after the zombie outbreak.
Lu Heng signaled the Roc to land on the ground and walked towards the guard post gate alone.
At this moment, they had landed inside the gate. Descending from high altitude, Lu Heng had no reason to choose to land outside the gate.
Furthermore, he had carefully observed from the air that although there were no people at the guard post, two heavy machine guns were aimed outwards.
Lu Heng walked to a small tall tower next to the guard post, which should have been where soldiers kept watch.
The door of the tall tower was closed, but the glass of the doors and windows was broken to varying degrees.
The walls of the tower were covered with many bullet holes, indicating that a fierce gunfight had taken place here.
At present, the items in the tall tower, such as tables and chairs, were all complete. Some soldiers' personal water cups and other items were even placed on the tables.
It seemed they had left in a hurry, so these items were not taken away, or the owners of these items had already died.
A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the tables and items. Lu Heng went upstairs along the stairs. Besides a bunk bed, there were no other items.
Going further upstairs, there was a lookout platform with half-height concrete parapets around it to prevent people from falling.
Standing on the lookout platform, Lu Heng observed his surroundings. The field of vision here was excellent, allowing him to clearly see a long stretch of road extending out from the guard post, and internally, he could see the layout of the area behind.
However, apart from some hastily arranged anti-tank obstacles inside the guard post, Lu Heng did not see any other useful military equipment.
Coming down from the tall tower, Lu Heng walked to the tower where the two heavy machine guns were mounted. This tower was much simpler than the tall tower. It was just a raised metal frame with a simple platform stably erected on it for mounting the heavy machine guns.
"Huh?"
Lu Heng looked down at the heavy machine gun, intending to put it into his storage space. Such high-lethality weapons should not be wasted. However, the trigger of the machine gun had been tampered with. A very thin stainless steel wire was connected to the trigger.
Following the direction of the steel wire, Lu Heng saw that the thin wire actually passed through the metal gate outside and extended outwards.
Lu Heng gently placed his hand on the straightened steel wire. The trigger of the machine gun was pulled, and the heavy machine gun made a "dada dada" sound, its muzzle firing wildly at the open space outside the gate.
Was this why there was no one on guard?
It seemed that the wires were also laid on the ground outside the gate. If Lu Heng and the others had not chosen to land inside the gate, they would have been riddled with bullets the moment they landed outside.
Lu Heng moved his finger away from the steel wire and cut the connection between the steel wire and the machine gun.
The advantage of being able to control metal was evident here. So many items in life were made of metal, and these were difficult to alter manually.
Lu Heng put both machine guns into his storage space, regardless of whether they were still useful here.
"Come on, let's explore inside and see if there are any more surprises."
Lu Heng beckoned to the Roc and leaped onto it, flying into the air again.
This time, they did not fly far into the mountain. Following the road, Lu Heng soon saw the entrance to the underground defense works.
It was another metal gate. It was estimated that all such hidden fortifications in remote areas across the country were the same.
The metal gate was half-open, and the outside was covered with many weeds and vines, suggesting that no one had been here for a long time.
After landing again, Lu Heng put the Roc into his storage space, and then he summoned Lin Xue.
"Lin Xue, see if there are any zombies inside."
Lin Xue, who had not been out for a long time, raised her arm uncomfortably, shielding her eyes with her arm as if she was unaccustomed to the light here.
"Your eyes can see light now?"
Logically, the space was also in a state of daytime all the time. However, Lin Xue was always confined to a room in the space every day. Lu Heng did not allow her to interact with animals outside, but the room she lived in alone also had fluorescent lights on twenty-four hours a day.
So why did she instinctively shield her eyes from the sun just now?
"Yes, it's a bit uncomfortable." Lin Xue nodded blankly. Lin Xue's level had been continuously increasing along with Lu Heng's highest level.
No matter which level Lu Heng's level increased first, Lin Xue would be upgraded to the same level.
This was also one of the reasons why Lu Heng guarded Lin Xue. Although there was a contractual relationship, Lin Xue was, after all, a zombie. Her threat to humans was too high. Before an antibody to the zombie virus could be developed, Lin Xue could be considered the greatest danger.
Lu Heng was keeping a zombie by his side, and this zombie had probably already developed into the highest-level zombie king on the entire planet.
Lu Heng walked to Lin Xue's side and looked closely at her eyes. Her original grayish-white pupils had now turned a dark brown.
"You sense it first. Are there any zombies inside, or nearby."