Sun Zhentao spread his palm, revealing a small piece of metal.
"This is it. I've made some samples and carry them with me. If I happen to meet others with metal abilities, or some metallurgy experts from before the apocalypse, I can ask them about it."
Picking up the metal object from Sun Zhentao's hand, Lu Heng couldn't tell anything special about it. He didn't have metal abilities himself, so his understanding of metal was still limited to common items from before the apocalypse.
"Is there anything special about this thing?"
"Nothing discovered yet, but its strength is higher than any known metal."
Previously, he had made a metal plate of this material. Although it was less than a centimeter thick, bullets couldn't penetrate it, and fire abilities of the same level couldn't melt this new metal.
"By the way, since you have special control over metal substances, have you analyzed the storage rings and weapons that enhance abilities?"
Sun Zhentao's old face flushed, and he scratched the skin behind his neck, replying awkwardly, "Well, regarding this, I have actually made some tentative studies, but I haven't gotten any clues."
Sun Zhentao was a member of the management in Wuming City, so Wuming City had also equipped him with a storage ring.
In fact, anyone above the rank of squad leader was equipped with storage rings, weapons that enhanced abilities, and defensive armor as welfare from Wuming City.
"It's nothing. If this could be figured out easily, these items wouldn't be so precious."
"Yes, but it would be great if there was any reference material on this."
Sun Zhentao's words struck a chord with Lu Heng. Although such information would certainly not be sold in the other world, if he could find someone who could make these items and enter Jinyang City, he would have a way to obtain information about them.
It seemed he needed to go back sometime to ask Wuchenzi if he could find someone with this skill to come to Jinyang City, or directly ask Zhu Di to find a way.
"Since this metal is so sturdy, make a few cages to contain these giant bees. The cages don't need to be too large, but it would be inconvenient for them to get close for sampling while researching these giant bees."
Lu Heng was worried about the researchers being in danger when taking samples from the giant bees if their activity space was too large.
Sun Zhentao nodded in understanding. "Where should these cages be placed? To be honest, this metal is quite heavy."
Lu Heng looked around. This area was to be used as an airport, and having a research facility nearby wouldn't be an issue.
"Lin Yu, I mentioned earlier that you should get the zombie research project going. Where did you choose for the location?"
"It's nearby. When we were planning, I also thought that research institutions should be separated from residential areas. So, I chose this place where there were originally few buildings."
"Yes, your consideration is correct. Then, the giant bees will be taken there. I'll go with you. The mouthparts of these giant bees are too sharp, and I'm afraid what they make might not be able to contain them."
Lu Heng took out the engineering vehicles found in the underground base from his space, then selected two transport vehicles and loaded the giant bees, along with the vine cages outside, onto the truck beds.
"City Lord Lu, these are military vehicles. Did you rob some base? Dragon City?"
Zhao Youcheng looked at the familiar military vehicles in surprise, opened the door of one of the transport trucks, and got into the driver's seat.
"I'll drive this." Zhao Youcheng lowered the window and excitedly patted the metal outside the car door.
"Alright. Are there any other people who can drive these large vehicles? Figure it out yourselves, and find someone to register the vehicles. Lin Yu, you don't need to come with us. Make arrangements to store the items we brought back from the base. I'll bring out the aircraft materials later."
"Okay, Zhao Youcheng knows the place and is familiar with his base. Let him go with you."
Lin Yu indeed had a pile of things waiting for him to arrange upon his return. Although specific matters were delegated, and others would handle them, some decisions still required his input.
After Lu Heng and the others left, Lin Yu used the walkie-talkie to call several management personnel for a meeting.
The supplies obtained from the underground base were too vast, and Lin Yu needed to arrange places for various items to be stored in categories.
However, canned food still needed to be stored in storage rings, as food in storage rings could be preserved.
A portion of the ammunition and weapons would be distributed as essential supplies, while the rest would be stored by Lin Yu himself. Moreover, records would be kept of the distributed supplies.
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Meanwhile, Lu Heng sat beside Zhao Youcheng, watching him hum a tune with excitement. "Do you like these military supplies so much?"
"Yes, I do. I haven't touched them in a long time. You don't know, but ever since the apocalypse, whenever I saw the vehicles and guns in the bases established by the military, my heart would itch."
"Then why didn't you join them?"
As far as Lu Heng knew, after the apocalypse, these bases built by the military had specifically recruited retired soldiers.
"No interest. I went to a base before, but those people seemed different from before."
"How else could they be? They still seem very rigorous."
"Hmph, what's the use of being rigorous? This, forget it, I won't talk about it."
"Well, following me, you might not get to touch these. You know Wuming City was a bandit stronghold before, and there were very few military supplies here."
"It's precisely because it was a bandit stronghold that you took it over. For this alone, I, Zhao Youcheng, will follow you."
"Hey, we've arrived. This is the research center that City Lord Lin mentioned."
Lu Heng looked through the car window at an independent courtyard not far away.
Outside the courtyard, people in Wuming City's standard uniforms were guarding it. These uniforms were not ordinary styles; it was very difficult to find a matching one after the apocalypse.
When Lu Heng took out these clothes from his space, Lin Yu was also surprised. These were work clothes from an international brand before the apocalypse.
Thinking of those work clothes costing tens of thousands of yuan each, even though Lin Yu's family was quite wealthy back then, he hadn't bought one to wear.
When Lu Heng chose to uniform the guards of Wuming City, he took out a pile of these clothes.
Of course, when distributing them to the people below, many who didn't recognize the brand just thought they were ordinary work clothes.
Lin Yu had even laughed at the time, saying it would have been better to give each of them a security guard uniform, as long as the style was unified, and they wouldn't understand these things. Lu Heng had also stated his reasoning at the time: Wuming City had to be different. Think about it, who outside could find so many luxury items? This way, no one would impersonate their personnel.