Lu Heng looked at the nervous officers and couldn't help but chuckle. "Hehehe, everyone can relax. Can you all put your guns down first?"
Zhao Kai remained relatively calm. He had led Lu Heng here and intended to sit beside him, but before Lu Heng could even settle down, he had said that the person standing beside him was a tiger.
He had never encountered such a situation before. After all, before the apocalypse, people usually saw tigers confined in zoos. Even in wildlife parks, to see those tigers, they had to be in specially made vehicles. 138 Reading Network
"Old Wang, you guys put your guns down first. Isn't Mr. Lu holding the fort in front of the tiger?"
The officers who were called looked at each other, then put their service pistols back into their holsters.
"Everyone, please sit down and talk. Why haven't the tea and water been prepared yet?"
Seeing everyone reseated, Zhao Kai spoke to Lu Heng again, "Mr. Lu, tell us about your pets first. After all, we don't usually get this close to such fierce beasts."
It would be good to put everyone at ease before proceeding with the next topic. Lu Heng had no objections. He nodded, then stood up and walked to the open space at the front of the conference room with the tiger and golden eagle.
He stroked the Siberian tiger's head and then said to everyone, "You all know about my pets. They are all mutated animals, but they are completely loyal and obedient to me. Without my command, they will not harm anyone intentionally."
"Don't be nervous. I'll let my pets demonstrate their abilities now."
"Come on, Siberian tiger, you go first. But don't make too much of a commotion."
The Siberian tiger nodded, then took a step forward. Those nearby quickly saw that with each step the tiger took, its footprints on the ground were accompanied by frost. The frost was crystal clear, and its shape resembled the tiger's claws.
"This tiger actually has ice abilities!!!!" The closest person was so shocked that he instantly stood up. He could already feel the cold radiating from the tiger, a temperature that made him feel like he had entered a freezer.
Those sitting around the conference table, upon hearing the officer's words, also stood up one after another to come and watch.
"Roar..."
"Clang!"
Then the Siberian tiger roared again, and a beautiful ice sword landed on the floor in front of it.
The officers...
"This tiger can already condense physical weapons?"
"It's good that it's claws and can't use them. If it had hands and wielded weapons, its killing power would be immense!"
"......"
As the surroundings began to whisper, the Siberian tiger's eyes rolled. It instantly and silently conjured a pile of ice cones that hung all over the ceiling of the room.
Who said it couldn't attack?
It had just learned this from its master yesterday. Hmph!
Lu Heng's mouth twitched. He had just told the Siberian tiger not to make too much of a commotion and to be more restrained, but what was the meaning of those ice cones hanging above everyone's heads?
Lu Heng glanced up at his own head. Fortunately, there were no ice cones above this area. It seemed this tigress couldn't be provoked, or she wouldn't be able to stop herself.
Seeing the atmosphere in the room become tense again, Lu Heng waved his hand and recalled all the ice cones suspended in mid-air back into his spatial storage.
He then gave an awkward smile. "Hahaha, a humble display."
The officers, "Did their lives almost end again just now?"
It was Zhao Kai who spoke first, breaking the silent atmosphere. "Hahaha, truly remarkable. I wonder what level of ability it is to instantly conjure so many ice cones?"
Lu Heng scratched his head. Such area-of-effect abilities with super killing power were only summonable by seventh-tier ability users. It seemed he couldn't hide too much, because once someone advanced to the seventh tier, everyone would know.
He sighed inwardly with resignation. "Seventh tier. Seventh-tier ability users can create such area-of-effect abilities."
"You actually raised a seventh-tier mutated pet?" Zhao Kai said incredulously.
One had to know that such wild animals were inherently difficult to tame, and after mutation, because they became stronger and their intelligence gradually increased, almost no one in the apocalypse could tame mutated animals.
The Siberian tiger heard Zhao Kai's exclamation and rolled its eyes. It couldn't speak, otherwise, it would tell these people, "It's ninth-tier, ninth-tier! Hmph!"
Lu Heng looked at the crowd that had gathered and had no intention of sitting back down. He said, "Then I'll have this golden eagle demonstrate as well. However, can everyone come with me to the open ground outside to watch? This place isn't very suitable for demonstrations."
The officers, "What kind of ability is this now? Can't it be displayed in the room?"
Led by Zhao Kai, the officers followed Lu Heng to a clearing in the military camp.
This was where the planes were parked. Since some planes had gone out on missions, there was a considerable open space.
Lu Heng glanced at the golden eagle, nodded at it, and communicated with his mind, "You can be a bit more restrained."
Golden Eagle, "Why should I be restrained when it's my turn to demonstrate? I am the third senior brother, how can I be weaker than this sixth junior brother?"
Then, the golden eagle quickly flew into the air. It flapped its wings and swept towards the ground, stirring up gusts of yellow soil that blew at the onlookers, forcing them to cover their eyes to avoid the dust.
After a gust of strong wind, the ground gradually returned to calm. The crowd lowered their hands that were shielding their eyes and looked at Lu Heng.
"Is it over?"
"That's it?"
"......"
"The gap between these two mutated animals is quite large, isn't it?"
Lu Heng, "...... Did it really hold back?"
Golden Eagle, "Tsk!"
"Whoosh.........."
"BOOM!!!!"
Just as everyone thought they could return to the conference room to continue their conversation, a whistling sound came from above them, followed by a deafening explosion from the central clearing, shaking their eardrums until they felt like they would burst.
The people at the scene saw a helicopter suddenly fall from the sky. Then, a deep crater appeared in the central clearing. The helicopter that had fallen into the crater was burning due to the explosion...
Flames soared into the sky, and the scorching heat felt like it was burning the bodies of those nearby.
Lu Heng's mouth twitched. He glanced at the golden eagle that had already flown far away. Was this guy really that troublesome?
He mentally asked the golden eagle, "Where did the helicopter come from? Did you knock down a flying helicopter?"
"How is that possible? I just picked an unoccupied one from this airport and took it to high altitude."
"......"
Lu Heng's eyes welled up with tears. Would the base ask him for compensation for this helicopter later?
Lu Heng suppressed the unnecessary expressions on his face and looked at Zhao Kai, who was standing beside him, with a profound gaze. He pointed to the burning helicopter in the crater and said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hold this one back either."
Zhao Kai's mouth twitched. His helicopter! This kind of thing, losing one now truly meant losing one. No one would ever replace it with a new one for him.