The Empire's legacy and pre-war sealed armaments held too much allure for Feng Jun. After hearing from Li Lu that there was such a treasure trove hidden beneath Shangqing City, Feng Jun immediately decided to embark on a search.
After entrusting the affairs of Longmen Town to Song Peng, Feng Jun and Li Lu set off for Shangqing City Wasteland. Originally, that Silly Song Zhan wanted to follow, but Feng Jun left him behind to supervise the construction of the defense line.
Because Feng Jun had never truly ventured into the wasteland, Li Lu arranged this trip's route. Although it was a two-day journey, Feng Jun chose to ride the dogs directly because he had Old Nine and Old Eight.
Old Nine had a saddle-like design on its back, allowing Feng Jun to ride leisurely. Before the war, Shangqing City's official population was 67 million permanent residents, an unimaginable number. Looking at the holographic map displayed before him, the Doomsday Shangqing City was more than twice the size of the current Shangqing City. However, simply increasing the land area was not enough to support such a large population, so many giant skyscrapers were built in the future Shangqing City.
In the current timeline, the tallest skyscraper is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, reaching a height of 828 meters. However, in the cities after 2100, skyscrapers exceeding 1,000 meters were commonplace. Unlike the wasteland surrounding the city, the closer to the city center, the taller the skyscrapers were built. Some buildings even covered an area of more than two thousand acres; it could be said that one building was an independent small city, with residential areas, hospitals, schools, supermarkets, and parks, planned according to different floors. Some people even lived within one building from birth.
However, due to social development, these buildings followed one principle: the rich occupied the upper floors with sunlight and air, the middle class lived on the noisy middle floors, and the poor lived in the underground structures at the bottom.
Li Lu marked an area on the map, located near a nuclear crater. Blood Nests usually spawned in nuclear craters, and Mutants also nested in nuclear craters to absorb radiation. Therefore, Feng Jun followed Li Lu's advice for this mission, and only the two of them came. Bringing a large group of people would only be more troublesome.
The map was downloaded from pre-war satellites. Although the government carried out some repairs to the city after the war, they were abandoned after the outbreak of the virus. Therefore, the routes on the map could only be used as a reference. Fortunately, Li Lu often ventured into the wasteland, and her guidance could save a lot of trouble.
Li Lu, who was walking in front, suddenly turned her head and asked Feng Jun, "Have you ever entered the city wasteland?"
Feng Jun nodded and said, "Never. I've always been active in settlements before."
After hearing this, Li Lu looked at Feng Jun with a complicated expression but said nothing. She continued to walk forward, riding Old Eight. Feng Jun was a little puzzled and quickly urged Old Nine to catch up.
"What's wrong? Is there something you want to say?" Feng Jun asked.
Li Lu shook her head and said, "The depths of the wasteland are a world completely different from the outside. The ecosystem here has even mutated. The dangers here are not just zombies. Once you go in, you must listen to me in everything."
Feng Jun nodded. "That's natural. Leave any tough guys to me. I've even killed a Sawtooth, so I naturally have the ability to protect you."
A faint smile flashed across Li Lu's face, but it quickly returned to its cold appearance. She was very suspicious of Feng Jun's own strength. After evolving, her senses became exceptionally sharp. Li Lu felt a sense of crisis towards creatures stronger than herself, as well as other human Evolvers, but Feng Jun in front of her felt ordinary.
As before, Li Lu took advantage of Feng Jun's inattention and suddenly reached out and pinched him on his waist. Immediately, a sharp pain came from Feng Jun's waist.
"Hiss~ Why did you pinch my kidney?" Feng Jun grabbed Li Lu's hand angrily. Seeing Li Lu looking at him with a smug expression, he had the idea of teaching this woman a lesson, so he exerted force in his hand, wanting to pull Li Lu from Old Eight's back into his arms.
However, Li Lu was not someone he could pull. Although petite, Li Lu's body's evolution level was far stronger than Feng Jun's. Li Lu simply exerted a little force and pulled her hand out of Feng Jun's palm. "What's wrong? Do you want to do that here? Are men so lustful?" After speaking, she deliberately shook her chest.
"You~ You~" Feng Jun was really angered by Li Lu, not expecting her to start telling dirty jokes with him. After completing the mission and returning to Longmen Town, he would definitely punish her properly, using the spanking trick.
But speaking of which, just now, in order to pull Li Lu over, Feng Jun clamped his legs tightly around Old Nine and exerted force on his waist, almost using all his strength. But even so, Li Lu easily broke free.
Feng Jun checked the values on his IEM, and his strength had improved compared to last time.
Name: Feng Jun Youth
Physical condition: Healthy Evolving
Muscle strength: 13
Bone strength: 15
Neural activity: 12
Brain cell development: 11
……
However, even so, Li Lu still easily broke free from him, and Feng Jun became even more curious about Li Lu's Evolution stats.
Finally, under Feng Jun's constant harassment, Li Lu finally opened her IEM panel. After seeing the values on it, Feng Jun felt numb all over.
Name: Li Lu Youth
Physical condition: Healthy Evolving
Muscle Strength: 28
Bone Strength: 29
Neural Activity: 28
Brain Cell Development: 27
......
None of the values were below 20. Looking at Li Lu's porcelain-like, slender, and fair arms, one couldn't tell that she possessed such terrifying power. With Feng Jun's current physical fitness, if he were to return to the present world and participate in the Olympic Games, he could easily break multiple world records, but Li Lu's physical fitness was more than twice as strong as his. While Feng Jun was clicking his tongue, he secretly cursed in his heart, "This isn't a tigress, she's simply a female Tyrannosaurus."
Soon, Feng Jun and Li Lu went deep into the outer reaches of the Shangqing City Wasteland. The buildings around the street gradually became taller, no longer the high-rise buildings with only a dozen floors on average in the outer city. Along the way, Feng Jun and Li Lu encountered very few zombies, only a few standing in the middle of the road, but with Lao Ba and Lao Jiu as mounts, these sporadic zombies couldn't get close to them and were thrown behind them.
However, as the two gradually went deeper into the ruins of the city, the surrounding zombies began to increase, and some mutated zombies with naked bodies, sharp teeth, and sharp claws gradually began to appear. These zombies had extremely ugly appearances, were blood-red all over, and had huge red and yellow cystic organs on their body surfaces. Compared to the ragged, staggering, and muscle-withered zombies that Feng Jun usually saw, they were much stronger and faster.
When these zombies appeared, Lao Ba and Lao Jiu had to speed up their pace. Even Li Lu took out a laser gun to kill the approaching zombies. Feng Jun's marksmanship for shooting moving targets has always been poor, but seeing the zombies getting closer and closer, he had no choice but to raise the Bolter and prepare to shoot.
"Don't use the Bolter. The closer you get to the center of the wasteland, the easier it is to encounter Mutants. The sound of the Bolter will attract them," Li Lu said, looking back.
"Where did these mutated zombies come from?" Feng Jun asked, as he switched to using a laser gun to shoot, but his marksmanship was still terrible. Moreover, these blood-red zombies moved extremely quickly, and they were swarming in from almost all directions. Li Lu and Feng Jun kept shooting, but they could only barely stop these zombies from getting close to them.
"Products of the Blood Nest."
Li Lu had already emptied an energy magazine, and continuous shooting caused her laser gun's barrel to turn red. Her shooting was very accurate, almost headshotting every shot. Looking back at Feng Jun, it took five or six laser beams to hit a zombie's head.
"Hey! Honey. If you're bad, practice more! Remember, if you're bad, practice more!" Li Lu didn't forget to mock Feng Jun after changing the energy magazine.
"I can't find the feeling of riding," Feng Jun defended.
Although the two had been working hard to kill the zombies, the density of zombies around them continued to increase. Even with Lao Ba and Lao Jiu's agility, they were almost knocked down by the zombies several times.
"Should we go to the top of the building?" Feng Jun pointed to a building on the side of the road. The last time he encountered Sawtooth in the suburbs, Feng Jun stayed on the top floor to avoid being disturbed by low-level zombies and fought Sawtooth.
Li Lu shook her head. Going to the top of the building would not avoid the increasing number of zombies. Some Mutants with flying abilities liked to settle in the high floors of skyscrapers.
"Come with me!" Li Lu looked at the map and immediately found a place to break through. After pointing to a building in the distance, she patted Lao Ba's head. Lao Ba immediately understood what Li Lu meant, and his four metal claws exerted force, shooting out like an arrow.
Bang bang bang, the zombies encountered along the way were directly knocked away.
"So fast!" Feng Jun was surprised by Lao Ba's sudden burst of speed, and Lao Jiu under him also suddenly accelerated. The sudden acceleration almost threw Feng Jun off, but fortunately, he grabbed Lao Jiu's neck in time.
The two mechanical dogs suddenly burst into a run, knocking away the zombies blocking the way, and the two rode the dogs and rushed directly into the underground garage entrance of a building like afterimages.
Da Ming in this world also used underground garages and subways as civil defense facilities. After running a distance in the underground garage, Li Lu stopped in front of a sealed isolation door.
Li Lu jumped off Lao Ba's back and walked to the isolation door to enter a string of passwords. The heavy isolation door slowly opened a crack, just enough for the two to enter.
Feng Jun had already come to the isolation door, followed by a group of violent and bloodthirsty zombies.
Li Lu pointed to the open door behind her; "Go in quickly."
Feng Jun didn't think much, riding Lao Jiu directly through the gap. Then Li Lu also entered the isolation door and closed the isolation door again before the horde of corpses rushed to the door.
The hungry horde of corpses rushed directly to the isolation door and hammered it violently. The zombies behind were still pouring in, and the number was so large that they even squeezed the zombies in front to burst open.