The crowd turned their gaze towards the European-style building ahead, curious about what special features the house Lu Heng had specifically brought back possessed, beyond its unusual exterior.
Lu Heng had mentioned it was a fusion of human technology and alien knowledge, but currently, they couldn't discern any differences.
Knowing the doubts in everyone's minds, Lu Heng no longer kept them in suspense.
"Let's go, everything is inside the house."
Lu Heng silently took out the alien communicator. With this key, the doors inside would automatically open.
The group followed Lu Heng. Fortunately, they had only brought back personnel specializing in alien technology, so the number was not too large.
Lu Heng walked ahead with Lin Yu, speaking to him as they went, "Have someone guard this house separately. This is a teleportation device, and foreign ability users will likely be teleported here periodically."
Although Lu Heng was not yet certain whether the alien robots, after the house's coordinates changed, could still transmit back those who had been sent to other regions to search for alien life, it was always necessary to make preparations and guard against unforeseen events.
"You mean the group of foreign ability users our base intercepted?"
"More or less. I'll discuss this with you in detail later, but that previous group is already dead."
Lin Yu glanced back at the people following them. As they were led into the house, their attention was already captivated by the automatic doors and other objects within, so no one was listening to Lu Heng.
These scientists were like that, utterly devoted to science. Upon seeing these products not of Earth, they had forgotten where they were, focusing all their attention on the items here.
Although the automatic doors here used some Earth metals in their construction, the sensor devices were unmistakably products not of Earth.
Therefore, without Lu Heng's specific introduction, these individuals had already begun researching the sensor devices.
Some took out their phones to photograph the sensor devices from different angles, as they wouldn't be able to study them immediately.
"City Lord Lu, can this sensor device be removed?" Chen Dong was asked by a scientist, who dared not approach Lu Heng directly.
Due to their fear of the highest authority in Wuming City, they would usually compile their questions and have Chen Dong ask Lu Heng.
"Let's see. The ones in the passageway cannot be dismantled for now. Some rooms also have these sensors, but can you dismantle them?"
It wasn't that Lu Heng doubted these people's skills, but rather that these items could not be forcefully dismantled. They had to be removed intact to have research value.
"Hmm... we'll find someone skilled in mechanics later." Chen Dong pondered for a few seconds. Although they had translated the alien knowledge, many technologies were still in the exploratory and learning stages, and he genuinely didn't know if anyone could dismantle these items intact.
"Let's go, there are many more things inside. If you want to research, you can come here directly. There are many rooms, so you don't have to dismantle anything."
However, passing through these doors required the communicator Lu Heng held, which Lu Heng hadn't mentioned.
After this, he still needed to go to Luocheng to get another communicator.
Firstly, to see if Bona had any results on why the zombies were attracted to them.
Secondly, there were some matters he needed to discuss with Bona.
"That's good then."
Chen Dong nodded, then said to the engrossed scientists beside him, "Let's go, there are many more things inside. Today is everyone's first time in here. In the future, if you want to research something, report it and come over."
Everyone nodded, but their gazes were still drawn to everything around them.
"These walls are quite mixed, there's steel plate and iron plate."
"Yes, why use so many metal plates? The ground is also covered with metal plates."
"I thought it was just an ordinary house with some equipment inside. Looking at this, this place is truly extraordinary."
Hearing the discussions about the walls being entirely covered with metal plates, Lu Heng couldn't help but frown.
Indeed, the alien robots had gone to great lengths to wrap areas with existing walls in metal substances. What was the purpose?
Logically, the alien robots weren't afraid of zombies, and there were no living alien beings here. Absolutely none...
Wait...
A thought flashed into Lu Heng's mind.
Lu Heng even stopped his steps, standing frozen in place.
He had overlooked something.
Luocheng, with Bona and the others there, attracted zombies, surrounding it.
The alien corpses buried in the ground in Country Y also attracted zombies.
Even the spacecraft parked in the wilderness, without any alien life, attracted many zombies.
But this small building, used for teleportation, when Lu Heng first emerged from it, although there were zombies outside, they were in a completely dazed state.
Lu Heng had previously realized that these alien creatures and their belongings could attract zombies, but only this place would not be attracted by zombies!
There were also a large number of alien items here. The energy of the teleportation platform alone was not low; it was impossible for it not to attract the attention of the surrounding zombies.
The alien robots had covered the entire interior of the building with so many metal plates, and then placed alien items in the metal rooms, all to isolate them from the zombies outside.
The robots weren't afraid of zombies, but they likely didn't want to be surrounded by them, which would hinder their movements.
It didn't have Bona's shielding device, so it couldn't isolate the harassment from zombies.
Therefore, it had developed a method of using Earth metals to shield itself from attracting zombies.
This robot was very intelligent!
It seemed he needed to postpone his plan to find Bona.
"Lu Ge, what's wrong?"
Seeing Lu Heng stop, Lin Yu and the others thought something had happened inside and looked at Lu Heng nervously.
"Oh, nothing, I just remembered something."
Lu Heng looked at Lin Yu, "Are there also fixed metal plates outside our city?"
"Yes, as our population grew and we officially formed teams, we started organizing personnel to put a layer of metal plates on the outside of the walls."
Lin Yu was a little confused as to why Lu Heng suddenly asked this, but he answered truthfully.
"Before the zombie outbreak, did Longcheng and Pingcheng put metal plates outside their cities?"
"No, those two places haven't put up metal plates to this day. However, the outer city walls have been reinforced by our earth-element ability users, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"From now on, all bases under Wuming City must have metal plates added to their outer walls. Everyone should actively search for various metals when they go out, bring them back, and let metal-element ability users modify and reinforce them."
It seemed that having more people was indeed necessary for collective wisdom; thinking about things alone always had its limitations.