Jing City.
The base gates, which were originally opened only once in the morning and once in the evening, were opened again.
Five hundred soldiers from Wuming City, sent to support Jing City, emerged from the gates in ten orderly groups.
The soldiers at the front were a line of strength-type soldiers, leading the way with shields that enhanced their strength attributes.
They held back all the zombies attracted by the sound of the gate opening.
The zombies frantically slammed against the shields, trying to break through the defensive line. However, before they could scatter the shields' defenses, plant-type ability users behind the shields controlled the root systems of plants on the ground, coiling around the zombies and dragging away those blocking the path.
The convoy encountered no obstacles, and the soldiers' footsteps continued forward.
The various nature-type ability users behind them manipulated various natural abilities, unleashing them furiously towards the nearby zombies.
In an instant, ice rain, fireballs, lightning chains, and other attacks struck the zombies.
The zombies suffered heavy casualties in a single moment. The zombies at close range had no ability to resist and were killed by the advancing soldiers.
After the zombies were killed, the plant-type ability users again controlled the branches and leaves on the ground, coiling around the zombie crystals and collecting them all.
The earth-type ability users in the rear dug pits and buried the zombie corpses, restoring the ground outside the city to a clean state.
Continuing without stopping, the ten groups of soldiers advanced in ten different directions.
This scene stunned the Jing City soldiers standing on the city walls.
They had never imagined that killing zombies could be so neat and orderly.
The people from Wuming City barely paused their steps, walking a long distance.
Those on the city walls could clearly see that wherever the Wuming City soldiers passed, the surroundings were thoroughly cleared.
On the orderly ground outside the city, there wasn't a single zombie in sight.
"How powerful do they have to be, and how long do they have to cooperate to achieve this?"
"Yes, I've never seen zombie killing done so cleanly..."
The ten squads advancing in parallel headed towards ten different locations. Two captains followed behind two of the teams, not only collecting supplies but also overseeing any unexpected situations that might arise outside.
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Inside Jing City.
Lu Heng spoke with Lin Yu using the new communicator, briefly explaining the situation in Jing City.
In fact, Lu Heng didn't need to report this specifically to Lin Yu. The people in Jing City, after receiving the communicators, would also find reasons to contact Lin Yu.
However, Lu Heng felt it was better to share the information he had analyzed with Lin Yu, to prevent others from providing incorrect information.
After all, with the distance, it was difficult to make correct judgments on important decisions relying solely on conversations.
"Mm, I understand. Are you coming back now, Brother Lu?"
"I'll stay for a few more days. There are too many ordinary people here. I estimate that other official bases are similar. This also needs to be handled."
Lu Heng thought about helping to restore power here first. This way, it would be easier for them to build production bases nearby in the future.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Heng returned to the conference room from the small room next to it.
The meeting originally scheduled for the afternoon was still on. Lu Heng declined Elder Fei's invitation to dine.
Although Jing City appeared to have many people, they didn't have much food to offer at the moment.
Therefore, even if they prepared the current ingredients from Jing City, the food wouldn't be as delicious as the food Lu Heng had stored in his own spatial dimension.
In the conference room, people had already gathered, the same group who had attended the earlier meeting.
Now that they were all together again, and having learned that Elder Fei had also evolved a strength ability, everyone was very curious.
A group of people surrounded Elder Fei, bombarding him with questions.
Elder Fei smiled and told everyone about the changes in his body but did not reveal how he had evolved his special ability.
"Elder Fei, you don't need to hide this anymore, did City Lord Lu enhance you?"
In fact, everyone already knew without that person asking. The City Lord of Wuming City had just arrived today, and Elder Fei, who was considered unable to evolve into an ability user in their perception, had evolved.
"You don't need to guess. City Lord Lu also helped me enhance it because he saw that I was still useful."
Elder Fei's spirits had improved considerably. He sternly interrupted the still-inquiring crowd.
As the conference room door opened, the people with their own thoughts turned their heads towards the entrance.
"It seemed quite lively just now."
Lu Heng walked to his previous seat as if nothing had happened. The attitude of the people in the room towards Lu Heng was now noticeably more friendly.
"City Lord Lu, you've rested well."
"Mm. The people from Wuming City have gone out to clear the surrounding zombies for you. If there's anything else you need them to resolve, you can say it now."
"There's nothing else. Previously, it was just that the nearby zombies were too overwhelming, and we were struggling to cope," the person in charge of city defense said to Lu Heng with a smile.
"Mm, then if there are no other issues, they will all withdraw after they finish clearing."
"Heh, we've already troubled you enough with this."
"By the way, many of you were in the military before. Do you have any domestic military deployment maps?"
Lu Heng wanted to collect some military supplies for Wuming City. He assumed there were still many abandoned military bases in China, and their supplies needed to be collected quickly.
Firstly, storing them in the spatial dimension would protect them from moisture and prevent many items from being affected and unusable later.
Secondly, people in the post-apocalyptic world currently lacked the ability to collect such supplies. They couldn't organize large numbers of people to travel long distances and safely bring back those resources.
"Yes, but this cannot be disclosed to non-military units."
"So, you'd rather wait for those supplies to rot, rust, and turn into a pile of scrap?"
Military supplies were not just weapons and ammunition; there were also many military food items, such as canned goods.
These needed to be stored in a fresh-keeping environment.
"But..."
Someone wanted to refuse, but Elder Fei stood up again and expressed his stance.
"Little Zhao, give City Lord Lu a copy of the map. What time is it now? You can't bring those things back yourself, and if you leave them for too long, many things will spoil."
"It's just..."
"Forget it. I think your sincerity is only this much. After helping you this time, we should try to contact each other less in the future."
Lu Heng stood up and made a move to leave. Elder Fei quickly walked from his seat to block Lu Heng.
"City Lord Lu, don't be angry. These young people are just short-sighted."
Even if Lu Heng wanted them, they currently couldn't get large transport planes and a lot of aviation fuel to go and retrieve those supplies.