As someone stood up from the monster's body, the surrounding crowd finally withdrew their attacks.
Lu Heng, however, did not retract his wind wall. It was invisible to the naked eye as long as these people didn't touch it.
"Are you an ability user too?"
"As you can see, indeed."
"What are you doing here?"
The crowd surrounding them understood Lu Heng's strength and knew they were no match for him.
But with such a powerful person coming to their place, were they trying to steal their already scarce resources?
Moreover, this person came to their small town alone. Even if they stole something, they shouldn't be able to take it all.
Lu Heng, constantly listening to the thoughts of the crowd, smiled at them. "I've come to understand your situation here and want to talk to your leader."
"I am the town mayor here. What is it you need?"
A man walked out from the crowd. His face showed no fear, only a slight wariness as he watched Lu Heng's actions.
"Can you make the decisions?"
"Yes."
This man had been the town mayor before the apocalypse. In the early days of the apocalypse, he had organized the townspeople to resist the zombies.
In the end, he had organized the townspeople to enclose a part of the town into a safe zone, saving most of the survivors in the town.
Therefore, he had a good reputation in the town, and everyone trusted him.
Lu Heng leaped from the back of the Direwolf and then waved his hand, retracting the Direwolf into his spatial storage.
Seeing the giant monstrous bird disappear instantly, the surrounding crowd involuntarily took a step back.
However, some brave individuals still walked up to Lu Heng and pointed towards him with a long stick.
"That... that monster, where did it go?"
"I put it away. I saw you were quite afraid of it, and it was a bit too large to avoid scaring you further."
"But, but that monster, so big, where did it go?"
"Naturally, to where it belongs. I can't explain it clearly to you, and besides, this is my personal privacy and inconvenient to disclose."
Lu Heng refused to answer their questions. His main purpose here was to help them, to consolidate them into a stronger base.
Lu Heng could see that the base built by these people had exhausted all the materials they could find. Otherwise, after more than a year since the apocalypse, this place would still only be of this scale.
These self-built urban bases were certainly not as sturdy as those built by the military or government.
If there was another major zombie tide here, this place would likely be completely overrun.
"Hehehe, alright, everyone, disperse for now. I'll take this gentleman to have a chat." The mayor quickly stepped forward, persuading the still-wary onlookers to leave.
He knew that Lu Heng would not harm the people here, and with Lu Heng's abilities, he likely wouldn't be interested in their resources.
As usual, Lu Heng was taken to their conference room.
However, not many people accompanied them, indicating that the leadership here was not complicated.
"My name is Zhao Guodong, and I am the mayor here.
What do I call you, sir? You are so young yet so capable. Are you the leader of a nearby base?"
It had to be said that those who were mayors before the apocalypse had keen eyesight.
Lu Heng smiled. He could see that these people were quite friendly, just a little wary of him.
"My name is Lu Heng, and I am the City Lord of Nameless City."
Lu Heng was unsure if these people had heard of Nameless City, but he still announced his affiliation.
"The City Lord of Nameless City?" Zhao Guodong stood up excitedly. He had heard of Lu Heng. After all, his town had a considerable population, and there were people who traveled around selling rare supplies who would come here.
Therefore, he had heard of Nameless City from some people.
"It seems you have heard of it, which makes communication easier."
Lu Heng gestured for the excited Zhao Youcheng to sit down first, then said to the people in the room, "I just surveyed your base from the air. While the scale is acceptable, the city walls are still a bit rudimentary.
There is a military base nearby. Why don't you go there?"
Zhao Youcheng smiled awkwardly. "To be honest, we have many people here, and many of them have families. The ratio of ability users to survivors is imbalanced, making it difficult to be absorbed into large bases."
The reason for this was somewhat related to Zhao Guodong.
His initial efforts to organize the townspeople to resist zombies were well done. Many people, through killing zombies, had trained and become quite good ability users.
However, the families they protected became too dependent on them, causing those who had not killed zombies to lose the courage to face zombies directly.
Almost every family had one or two ability users, but most families had more ordinary people.
Fortunately, they eventually managed to build a wall that could resist a small number of zombies, thus protecting the safety of those ordinary people.
Lu Heng had no objection to the condition that large bases did not accept ordinary survivors.
It was the apocalypse. Facing thousands upon thousands of zombies, and with so many ordinary people who had not evolved into ability users, it could only be said that these people had given up their chance to survive in the apocalypse.
Now, if these people were asked to kill zombies again.
Firstly, there were no longer enough low-level zombies for them to practice on.
Secondly, these people, accustomed to comfort, had no courage to pick up their blades and face a large number of zombies.
But with so many ordinary people, this city was truly doomed sooner or later. Being able to last until now was a miracle.
"Your town has not been attacked by a zombie tide."
"No, at most a thousand-plus zombies have come to attack us, and that is also thanks to the nearby base."
Lu Heng raised his eyebrows, waiting for Zhao Guodong to continue.
"Heh heh, their population is several times larger than ours. More people naturally attract more zombies, which is something we figured out later.
Another point is that they have a considerable number of ability users who frequently kill zombies in the vicinity, so the zombie population here is not large now."
"Zombies wander, and it's possible that more zombies will come here.
Moreover, advanced zombies have evolved among the zombies. They possess adult-level thinking abilities and can organize zombie attacks on human bases."
Zhao Guodong and the others were unaware that zombies had evolved to be like humans, with intelligent zombies appearing.
"But there aren't many zombies here, so won't large numbers of zombies migrate?"
Still holding onto a glimmer of hope, someone in the room did not believe that zombies would migrate too far.
According to their estimations, after the apocalypse, each province and city would have some human gathering places, and the survivors in these gathering places would fight with nearby zombies.
This would also serve to contain the zombies. Humans would eliminate zombies to obtain pre-apocalypse supplies, while zombies would constantly attack humans to satisfy their craving for human flesh and blood.