The journey back to Longmen Town from Yanqing Industrial Park was much quicker, and Feng Jun no longer rode the Crab General as transportation, switching instead to a more comfortable hover troop carrier.
Such hover vehicles were rare in the wasteland, considered a scarce means of transport that had only just become popular before the war.
They did not rely on the widely known maglev technology, but rather had two large and four small thrusters installed under the vehicle's chassis.
When the hover mode was activated, one could clearly feel air currents blowing out from under the chassis, but it would not affect people standing near the vehicle.
The vehicle's chassis was also specially designed, with many visible intake-like areas.
After hovering, the vehicle's chassis could stay approximately 200mm to 400mm off the ground.
Once a person sat in it and activated driving mode, it would hover half a meter above the ground.
Feng Jun tried it, and it could only rise to a height of just over 1.5 meters at most; any higher, and the vehicle would noticeably wobble.
This should be because the vehicle used air-cushion or ground effect hovering, which, compared to maglev, had the advantage of not being restricted by terrain or roads, allowing it to hover freely even in rugged wilderness and over water.
The hover vehicle was found in Yanqing Industrial Park.
Because the Blood Nest needed to be suppressed within a controllable range, Song Zhan ordered his soldiers to clear some workshop buildings occupied by the Blood Nest.
The giant fleshy organs exposed on the exterior walls were merely the tip of the iceberg; inside the buildings, more flesh was covered, and some indescribable organs had grown out.
After the zombie horde and Mutants controlled by the Blood Nest captured fresh flesh, in addition to consuming some themselves, they would also bring some back and scatter it into the digestive organs within the Blood Nest.
Low-level zombies would even throw themselves entirely into the Blood Nest’s digestive wings after eating, and many buildings in the industrial park had grown digestive organs containing strong acid.
To better control the Blood Nest in Yanqing Industrial Park, Yan Xin divided the entire industrial park into nine zones, and any Blood Nest outside these nine fixed zones needed to be cleared.
Although this work was extremely difficult, the Blood Nest would not passively await death when threatened; some thick flesh walls would peel off the main body to attack soldiers, and flesh pipelines would also spray corrosive liquids.
Zombies near the Zombie Tide would also actively approach to protect the Blood Nest, but fortunately, the Blood Nest in Yanqing Industrial Park was relatively weak, and under heavy firepower, there were not many casualties.
Song Zhan also steadily advanced to further suppress the Blood Nest's activity.
While clearing an office area, Song Zhan's soldiers discovered several hover vehicles in a sealed garage.
Because they had been continuously stored in the garage, they were very well preserved, and the fusion batteries and engines were still in a ready-to-operate state.
Feng Jun naturally wanted to personally test drive such a good item.
Since it was a civilian model, it was easier to get the hang of, and the internal auxiliary driving system was quite complete, making it smooth and stable to drive, much better than the feeling of driving a Crab General.
He remembered that the first time he went to Huaicheng District, Jiang Xueling had driven him back in a hover car, which made Feng Jun incredibly envious at the time.
Now Feng Jun finally owned a hover car too.
“I wonder about the difficulty of manufacturing this type of vehicle.
I’ll find some time to have Yan Xin research it and see if it can be mass-produced.”
Feng Jun kept this matter in mind, planning to arrange for Yan Xin when he had time, as they now had a Quantum Computer and professional laboratories, and various high-tech research and technological archaeology needed to be put on the agenda.
Looking at Longmen Town getting closer, Feng Jun’s happy mood gradually began to feel uneasy.
He had been away for over two weeks this time, and he naturally missed Li Lu very much, but now there were two troublesome problems sitting in the back of the car.
Here, one must mention the two sisters, Gu Yunyun and Gu Yaoyao.
Only after Feng Jun chatted with them did he learn that they were both 21 years old.
Although they looked only fourteen or fifteen, excluding the time they spent in the hibernation pods, their normal physiological age was already 21.
Feng Jun suddenly felt that this world was unreal; looking at the two sisters, they in no way resembled mature women of 23 years old.
With their cute smiling faces and petite figures, they looked like two loli girls no matter how you saw them.
It seemed they were the kind of legal lolis who would always look adorable no matter how much they grew, and ever since they reunited, they had been secretly plotting something all day long, their gazes towards Feng Jun occasionally revealing a strange glint, as if they had ill intentions.
Feng Jun had inexplicably picked up two lolis, and they were the legal kind.
However, as Longmen Town got closer, his heart began to feel uneasy, because Li Lu would surely be displeased when she saw him bring back two little girls.
Because the hover vehicle could float directly above the ground, some difficult-to-traverse areas were no longer an issue.
Feng Jun only took less than half the time it took to arrive to return to Longmen Town.
Gu Yunyun and Gu Yaoyao were surprisingly quiet, sitting obediently in the back seat without a sound after getting in the car.
The two sisters looked almost identical, but the younger sister, Gu Yaoyao, was slightly different from her older sister in that she had a small mole behind her left ear, and her personality was more introverted.
When Feng Jun talked to her, no matter what he asked, Gu Yaoyao would only communicate with “Mm” or by nodding and shaking her head.
Only when it was absolutely necessary to speak would she utter a brief and concise phrase, always using two words if possible, never a third.
“Later, I’ll arrange a room for you two first, and you can stay there for now.
Remember not to run around, I will arrange for someone to bring you food and take care of your daily needs.”
Feng Jun turned his head and instructed.
“Ah ~ Big Brother Jun, don’t you have any spare rooms at home?
Yaoyao and I want to live with you.”
Gu Yunyun quickly said, her small hands clenched into fists on her chest, her eyes wide as she stared at Feng Jun, looking very scared and pitiful.
Looking at Gu Yunyun’s pitiful appearance, Feng Jun’s heart softened, but then he immediately thought of Li Lu at home.
Goodness, if he brought the two lolis home today, Li Lu would probably sit on his leg and break it overnight.
Thinking of this, Feng Jun couldn't help but shiver.
“No, I don’t have the patience to take care of you two old lolis.”
Feng Jun said righteously.
Just then, the hover vehicle had arrived at the entrance of Longmen Town.
Feng Jun got out of the car himself and instructed Zhong Chen to properly settle the two sisters.
After Feng Jun got out of the car, Gu Yunyun sat on the seat with an angry expression, her arms crossed over her chest, her small face flushed, and her mouth pouting high.
It was obvious that Feng Jun’s remark about “old lolis” had angered her, and her small legs impatiently kicked back and forth in the car.
“This big clumsy oaf, calling me an old loli, I’m so mad ~” Gu Yunyun muttered.
Her sister, Gu Yaoyao, still showed no significant reaction, simply looking out the car window at the street by herself.
Longmen Town could no longer be called a small town; its fixed population had reached approximately forty thousand, not counting the merchants who came daily for trade and exchange.
Through continuous trade, Longmen Town had become the largest trading market around Shangqing City, with daily transaction volumes reaching astonishing numbers.
The various grains Feng Jun had brought back last time were now almost depleted, so upon his return this time, the first thing Feng Jun had to do was go back to reality and transport more grain.
Currently, Longmen Town was divided into an inner city and an outer city, and beyond the outer city, there was also a trade market.
That was the marketplace where various merchant teams came to trade, and it was currently jointly managed by Feng Jun’s Blackwater Merchant Guild and Zhu Hong Business Association, though the enforcers there were only Feng Jun’s people.
After reaching an agreement, the Blackwater Merchant Guild and Zhu Hong Business Association successively sent soldiers to assist in guarding, but these soldiers were very well-behaved, basically staying within their assigned areas.
Feng Jun also distributed forty percent of the market’s daily income to the two families as agreed upon, after all, he had received so many benefits from them before.
During the days Feng Jun was away, Longmen Town had been managed by Song Peng, and under his management, Longmen Town had been developing in an orderly manner.
Feng Jun strolled around the streets and found many more black and white people in the town, but these black and white people all wore slave collars around their necks, clearly indicating they were slaves of some faction or passing mercenary groups.
However, Feng Jun did not delve deeper into this, as fully armed soldier patrols passed by every ten minutes on the streets.
Moreover, the Power Armor standing at the traffic arteries was even more intimidating; no one would be foolish enough to challenge the 10.59 caliber Bolter in their hands.
Seeing that the streets were peaceful, Feng Jun postponed his idea of going to the command center to find Song Peng.
After leaving a message for Song Zhan via IEM, Feng Jun prepared to go straight home.
This personal terminal, IEM, in addition to monitoring personal data, also had communication capabilities within a certain range, though the distance was only one or two kilometers, belonging to a type of local area network composed of multiple clients.
However, after returning this time, Feng Jun was already considering setting up his own communication channel here in the Doomsday.
He wondered what Li Lu had been doing at home for two weeks; women in the modern world could watch TV when bored, but there was no TV to watch here in the Doomsday.
Because there were no land area restrictions in the Doomsday, Feng Jun had been continuously expanding his home’s building area and yard.
Before he left, he had also told Li Lu to expand the yard by another circle, and it was clear Li Lu had listened.
Feng Jun could clearly feel that his yard was more than double its original size, as for the surrounding neighbors, they must have been relocated elsewhere.
Pushing open the courtyard gate, Feng Jun saw Lao Ba and Lao Jiu lying in the yard.
These two mechanical dogs immediately sat up and wagged their tails when they saw it was Feng Jun.
It was evident that Li Lu had made some modifications to them again; their appearance looked better, no longer like a pile of broken metal parts, somewhat resembling a dog-shaped terminator T800 improvement.
It seemed Li Lu hadn't been idle at home; she had gone back to her old ways.
Fortunately, there were only two more mechanical dogs in the yard, and no more piles of broken parts.
Two clotheslines had also been strung up in the yard, and many of the clothes Feng Jun had brought back for Li Lu from the modern world were hanging on them.
It seemed Li Lu was truly bored at home.