He found paper and pen and wrote down in detail the items he needed to prepare as cover.
An RV—convenient for carrying and concealing the supplies he used in the base.
However, he couldn't take a super large, integrated RV to the base this time. After all, he couldn't drive an RV every time he entered or exited the base; its mobility was too poor.
So, it had to be a trailerable RV, towed by an off-road vehicle.
He also planned to tow an off-road motorcycle behind the RV, which would be convenient for later use.
Inside the trailerable RV, Lu Heng also intended to place various basic supplies, such as rice, flour, oil, and other food items, as well as dried meat and some easy-to-use items.
Additionally, he would pack several black boxes, which could be filled with stones for weight. This way, if he needed to take something out later, he would have a plausible explanation.
However...
Lu Heng looked with a headache at the pets playing outside the door. It was fine to bring the Director out, but other animals...
Bringing them out would not only scare people but also attract the attention of hungry survivors.
After all, edible meat was becoming scarce in the eyes of survivors. Even mutant animals would be killed and eaten by people in the apocalypse.
Although he wasn't worried about the safety of his pets, he wasn't someone who liked trouble.
So, he would only bring the Director and the turtle. This way, he could also maintain the pretense of bringing them for drinking water. Moreover, they were the smallest in size and were among the most common pets before the apocalypse, so they wouldn't arouse too much suspicion from others.
Another characteristic of ability users was that only high-level ability users could see the levels of low-level ability users. Some high-level special ability users could also see the attributes of other ability users, but this was limited to high-level users being able to probe low-level users.
Conversely, low-level users could not see the levels of high-level ability users.
As long as the ability users Lu Heng encountered were not of a higher level than him, other ability users would not be able to see his level or ability attributes in any way.
This also included the mutant animals he contracted, as those contracted animals were at the same level as him.
Of course, he still needed to pay attention to the Turtle Immortal, as people before the apocalypse liked to find turtles to stew for health.
Lu Heng took out the disguise materials he needed from his space, prepared everything, and parked it all, including the car, downstairs in the apartment building.
It was already summer, and the temperature was gradually rising. Moreover, with industrial production basically halted, the sky was exceptionally clear, and the sun's rays were becoming more intense.
Lu Heng remembered that in his previous life, more than a year after the apocalypse, due to the significant reduction in human production activities, coupled with the mutation of animals and plants, the Earth's overall ecosystem had undergone many changes.
Lu Heng planned to set off for the base immediately, striving to establish a foothold there as soon as possible. After all, resources were limited, and the living space within the base was also very limited. He needed to find a good place to settle down as soon as possible.
He glanced at the car parked downstairs. Lu Heng didn't plan to drive that one, as it was inconvenient to drive with a trailer. He intended to switch to the trailerable vehicle when he got close to the base.
Fortunately, he had over ten similar off-road vehicles in his space, so he would drive his original car on the road.
Lu Heng exited his space and drove towards the base.
Along the way, Lu Heng saw that in the small towns with denser populations along the roadside, he would harvest a wave of zombies. After the apocalypse, the circulating currency had been replaced by crystals, so the more crystals, the better.
Moreover, after collecting so many mutant animals, they all needed combat experience and mutual cooperation.
Lu Heng only needed to collect the crystals at the end. With his pets working in front, collecting crystals was incredibly easy for him.
He traveled slowly, stopping along the way, and it wasn't until mid-July that he reached the vicinity of the base.
The base was located in City Y, which was an ancient city before the apocalypse. Some new urban areas had also been developed around it, and the original ancient city walls were relatively well-preserved.
The military had reinforced and heightened the ancient city walls. They had added thick steel plates to the outer perimeter of the walls, and the walls themselves had been raised overall.
The military had enclosed the adjacent new urban areas and the old urban areas. The new urban areas also had city walls built around them, but they did not appear as thick as the old urban city walls. After all, no one had anticipated the events of the apocalypse, so the construction of the outer city walls of the base was rather rushed.
Fortunately, the military had sufficient materials for the initial construction of the city walls, likely reserve materials from before the apocalypse for building military bases.
Each section of the city wall had been reinforced with many heavy machine guns to prevent large-scale zombie sieges.
The entire base had two entrances and exits, front and back. Each entrance and exit had an outer barbican to inspect personnel and vehicles entering the city.
All personnel and vehicles entering the city would briefly stop in the barbican for ten minutes for inspection.
If anyone in the barbican was scratched by a zombie and mutated into a zombie, the army could then encircle and eliminate these individuals within the barbican, preventing the city's residents from being infected.
The old urban area was used as an inner city. Of course, the main personnel of the military and some high-level ability users resided in the inner city.
Low-level ability users and ordinary survivors were arranged to live in the new urban areas on the outskirts.
Of course, people from both urban areas could move around freely. For example, ordinary survivors could also enter the old urban area.
However, the trading markets and densely populated areas were located in the outer urban areas, so ordinary people at the bottom wouldn't want to go into the old urban area to seek trouble.
As he approached the new urban area, Lu Heng switched to the prepared vehicle. He didn't attack any more zombies along the way, and he had also recalled his contracted pets into his space. At this time, only the Director and the Turtle Immortal were left in the car.
As he gradually approached the base, the number of zombies nearby decreased. It was likely that people around the base were constantly clearing them out, so there weren't too many zombies outside.
However, because so many humans were gathered here, the human scent was strong, and many zombies still rushed towards this place every day.
...
On the base's city walls.
The midday sun hung high in the sky. The temperature in mid-July was much hotter than in previous years.
The soldiers on duty spotted Lu Heng's vehicle approaching the base from afar. Normally, vehicles did not return at this time of day; base vehicles usually left the city early in the morning and returned around dusk.
"Why is there a vehicle returning at this time? Which team is it?"
"I don't know. I don't think we have any vehicles with trailers like that here."
"It's probably someone's newly acquired supplies. Everyone get ready."
"Received."
Lu Heng drove his car quickly towards the base. There were some zombies following behind the car. Although the number of zombies was not a problem for Lu Heng, he didn't want to expose his full strength too early, so he decided to wait for the soldiers on the city walls to help deal with them.