In the high sky, Lu Heng compared the surrounding buildings and found the location from the video footage.
He released his Golden Eagle, allowing it to clear a patch of ground. As the Ground Sloth rapidly approached the ground, Lu Heng stepped off its back, using it as a springboard to jump down.
He rolled with the momentum upon landing and steadied himself.
Immediately after, he summoned all his contract animals capable of long-range, group attacks. These animals hadn't fought alongside their master for a long time, and seeing the surrounding zombies, they were all energized, facing the zombies with keen attention.
"Clear the zombies in the vicinity."
As Lu Heng's command fell, Pang Hu and the others unleashed their abilities upon the surrounding zombies.
For a time, various attack effects continuously flashed. One moment, a gust of wind blades mowed down a swarm of zombies; the next, countless ice spikes appeared above a group of zombies, instantly piercing their skulls. As the ice spikes pierced, they also pushed out the crystals within through the small holes, causing them to fall to the ground.
Lu Heng, from the rear, simply waved his arms, collecting the exposed crystals into his spatial dimension.
"Alas, how lonely it is to be invincible! Hahahaha..."
Several of the spirit animals fighting nearby felt goosebumps ripple across their bodies...
Within the spatial dimension, the Turtle stood on the plaza, watching the ever-increasing variety of crystals. It created streams of water to wash them clean.
Subsequently, newly added crystals within the dimension would accumulate on a new open space.
Outside the spatial dimension.
Blood Wolf manipulated earth abilities, creating deep pits around the area. Following that, Antelope controlled vines, dragging all the defeated zombies, after their crystals were extracted, into the pits.
Blood Wolf then manipulated the soil again to fill the pits, creating an extremely tough, cement-like layer on the uppermost surface.
"Hmm, this strength is already sufficient to construct the outer walls of a city."
Stepping on the land that buried the zombie corpses, Lu Heng nodded at Blood Wolf.
This time, with his level increased to fifteen, all objects created by natural abilities had become more robust.
For instance, the weapons created by ice abilities could now completely rival various metal cold weapons from before the apocalypse, and were even superior.
Creating an ice throwing knife, Lu Heng flicked it towards a metal guardrail not far away.
The ice knife first pierced through several zombie bodies. Without its speed diminishing, it cleanly severed the metal guardrail. The ice knife was not affected by the resistance of the metal guardrail and continued to fly forward. Finally, after piercing the wall of a building, the ice blade disappeared.
"The effect is quite good."
Looking at the relatively tidy streets, of course, one had to ignore the zombie fluids splattered everywhere. At least on the streets, in the areas they had swept through, there were no longer zombie corpses piled up on the road.
The original ground had all turned to soil, but it felt good to step on, very firm.
"I remember the zombies were facing that direction last time."
Summoning Lin Xue, Lu Heng pinched her cool little face. "Sense it for me, where are the high-level zombies in the city? And what are their levels?"
Lu Heng looked at the zombies still frantically gathering towards them. "It seems the surrounding zombies have all been mobilized. Are they trying to lure all the zombies in the city here?"
Were they trying to eliminate him, or was that high-level zombie planning to protect him?
Lin Xue stood motionlessly for a moment, then quickly adjusted her facing direction and pointed to a location, saying, "In that building, there are dozens of level six zombies, and inside, there's a level eight zombie."
"Level eight? Skipping level seven and jumping directly from level six to level eight?"
"Yes, one level eight zombie."
Looking at the zombies fighting the spirit animals around them, the highest level among them was only level four, but there were more level three or level two zombies.
How could there be dozens of level six zombies and one level eight zombie in that building?
"Push towards that building," Lu Heng communicated with his contract animals through telepathy.
Soon, Pang Hu and the others adjusted their direction and formation. The Golden Eagle, from high above, directly killed zombies in front and swept the surrounding zombie corpses to the sides, piling them up.
Pang Hu and his mate killed from the left and right flanks, while the Leopard provided rear guard, creating various lightning orbs to form a net-like shield for the rear.
Blood Wolf and Antelope continued to cooperate in burying the zombie corpses that no longer had crystals.
"Eh, Northeast Tiger, you've really put on quite a bit of weight recently."
At this moment, Lu Heng finally noticed the Northeast Tiger's physique. Its plump body was truly as the Director had said, much rounder.
Especially its bulging belly... belly?
"Damn it, Pang Hu, is your mate pregnant?"
With a roar, Lu Heng looked at Pang Hu. Pang Hu shivered, and a massive fireball erupted from its mouth, striking a wave of approaching zombies.
"Master, what's so strange about my mate being pregnant?" Pang Hu said while killing zombies.
Damn it, it's actually pregnant?
And, after fighting for so long, he was only noticing the Northeast Tiger's abnormality now.
"Northeast Tiger, return to the spatial dimension. I won't exploit a pregnant woman, cough, a pregnant tiger."
With that said, the Northeast Tiger vanished from its spot. Lu Heng then created a wind wall himself to block the zombies attacking from that direction.
"Pang Hu, I'll deal with you later."
Saying that sternly again, Lu Heng also joined the battle.
He vented his anger onto the zombies, which also accelerated their forward progress.
"Master, are you angry?"
The Director, being a psychic spirit animal, could feel his anger even though it wasn't by Lu Heng's side.
"Yes, that Pang Hu got my Northeast Tiger pregnant."
Speaking of this, Lu Heng unleashed another furious strike, causing the opposite building to be riddled with holes by the wind blades he created.
"Master, that little fox hasn't gone out to fight yet, has it?" At this moment, in a room within Nameless City, the Director scratched its head with its hind leg.
"Huh? I forgot about him." Lu Heng always made Lu Bai revert to human form, so he had forgotten that Lu Bai was also a contract animal. Moreover, Lu Bai was even more useful and was a dual-elemental one.
Bringing Lu Bai out of the spatial dimension, Lu Heng pointed to the right. "You go over there and kill all those strange things. Remember not to let them get too close to us."
After thinking for a moment, Lu Heng added a reminder, "Maintain a distance of about one-third of your original territory."
Lu Bai had never killed these zombies before. Lu Heng wasn't worried about its capabilities, only that it might not understand the danger of these zombies and let them get too close.