Lu Heng opened the villa gate and stretched in the courtyard.
Glancing at the still-dark sky, Lu Heng knew the abnormality wouldn't be apparent yet. Normally, at this hour, the sky outside would not be lit. It would take until around six or seven o'clock to see the sky's unusual state.
Looking at the cars parked in the courtyard, Lu Heng put his own car into his space.
Goodbye, though not as good as the two parked in the courtyard now, it was still the first car he bought with his own money through his own efforts.
Yesterday, he had filled up both SUVs. Lu Heng ultimately decided to drive the Mercedes Unimog. He had checked online again later, and netizens said this car had better performance.
Getting into the car, Lu Heng took out a long saber from his space. It was a type of ancient martial dao that wealthy families liked to collect. After all, rich people had diverse hobbies, and there were indeed people in this city who liked collecting various types of blades.
Driving away from the villa, Lu Heng headed towards a supermarket in the city. After all, once the apocalypse began, the first places people thought of were large supermarkets. He would go and collect the supplies first, as it wouldn't take much effort.
Driving back into the city, Lu Heng found nothing unusual on the road. Occasionally, cars passed by, but they were all just fleeting travelers.
After more than forty minutes, Lu Heng drove into the parking lot of a large warehouse-style supermarket.
Lu Heng turned off the engine and parked. The supermarket hadn't opened yet. Its business hours were from eight in the morning to ten at night.
This supermarket was not small. Besides the large sales floor open to the public, it also had a very large warehouse attached.
At this moment, only a few warehouse loading doors in the distance were open. The lights were bright there, and many workers were moving newly arrived goods.
Seeing that it was still early, Lu Heng took out two hot steamed buns from his space and ate them. He then drank two cups of ancient well water.
Lately, after drinking this ancient well water, Lu Heng didn't like drinking other water anymore, not even alcohol. After drinking it, they all felt lacking.
With nothing else to do, Lu Heng turned on the car radio, listening while observing the surrounding situation.
After waiting for about twenty minutes, Lu Heng saw a commotion at the area where the supermarket was moving goods. People were shouting and running around in panic.
Lu Heng pulled out a high-powered telescope and looked towards the area from inside the car.
He saw a figure that wasn't very agile lunging towards several people nearby. Someone who had been moving goods just moments ago was caught off guard and tackled by the figure, then let out a piercing scream.
Lu Heng raised his hand and checked his watch. It was now six-thirty in the morning.
Zombies had appeared this early?
Lu Heng started the car again and drove towards the area.
Stopping outside the loading dock, Lu Heng quickly got out of the car and swung the saber in his hand towards the zombie's head.
Having survived in the apocalypse for eight years, he was long accustomed to such bloody and disgusting scenes.
With one strike, he cleaved off half of the zombie's head. The severed part rolled half a meter into the passage.
Lu Heng stood up and looked at the remaining half of the zombie's head attached to its body. There was no crystal inside.
Crystals looked quite easy to identify. For some unknown reason, those crystals all emitted a faint light.
Standing up, Lu Heng looked at the person bitten by the zombie. That person's shoulder had a large chunk of flesh bitten off, exposing the white bone within.
The bitten person was pinned beneath the now completely dead zombie. The groans were gradually weakening, and he was transforming into a zombie at a visible speed.
The few people who had been tripped by items and hadn't escaped quickly got up and scattered.
They hadn't seen such a scene before, but they had all witnessed the changes happening to the person who had been bitten.
Seeing that everyone around had left, Lu Heng swiftly swung his saber at the person who was about to reanimate.
People who were in the process of reanimating did not have crystals in their brains, so Lu Heng couldn't be bothered to check. He walked into the passage and used his saber to flip over the half zombie head. As expected, there was no crystal inside.
Putting away his long saber, since he was already inside the supermarket, Lu Heng continued walking into the supermarket.
After walking for about five minutes, Lu Heng saw rows of warehouse shelves in the distance. However, zombies had also appeared here, and several people had already been bitten and mutated into zombies.
Lu Heng didn't hesitate and killed these zombies one by one.
In his previous life, Lu Heng was always assigned to the front lines. After countless fierce battles, his saber skills were very precise.
Currently, dealing with these low-level zombies, he could almost kill them with one strike, and each strike hit the zombie's head.
After felling several more, Lu Heng finally managed to find two crystals.
Without hesitation, Lu Heng swallowed and absorbed each crystal as he found it.
Unfortunately, these crystals could only be absorbed by putting them into the mouth. In his previous life, many people only discovered this method of advancement after a long time.
After all, no one would immediately think of putting such disgusting things into their mouths.
To advance with these low-level zombies, he needed to absorb about twenty of these low-grade crystals.
Only by advancing to a first-order ability user could he know what his ability was in this life.
However, during the advancement of abilities, there would be a brief headache, so people could know if they had advanced.
After absorbing these two crystals, he only felt some improvement in his body's strength and speed.
Only by truly becoming a first-order ability user would his overall strength double.
Lu Heng collected goods from the surrounding shelves in the warehouse while killing zombies.
He even collected entire shelves into his space. So, after he made a round, the empty warehouse was devoid of anything except the zombie corpses on the ground.
Lu Heng glanced at his watch. It was seven-twenty in the morning. Satisfied, he carried his long saber and walked towards the supermarket ahead.
There were no employees working in the supermarket yet. Apart from the goods left from last night, the interior was very quiet.
Taking out an electric unicycle from his space, Lu Heng stood on it to get accustomed to it, then he rode it to start his "zero-yuan shopping."
Lu Heng happily collected supplies. As he passed by, entire shelves and their contents disappeared from the supermarket.
An hour later, the supermarket was also empty and very clean. Lu Heng even collected the cash registers at the entrance.
He had collected a total of ten crystals in the supermarket. This number was not enough for him to advance. Lu Heng rode the unicycle out of the supermarket and returned to his car.
After storing the unicycle and the long saber, he drove the un-plated SUV towards the suburbs.
Now, he was going to check out the storage center in the suburbs. Since zombies had already appeared, people were likely still in panic, hiding from them.
They still didn't know that the world had descended into chaos. They would hide in their homes for a few days, waiting for government rescue.
However, to their disappointment, only when their food supplies dwindled would they realize that no one was coming to save them.
Only then, unable to bear the hunger, would they come out of their homes in search of food and water.