Closing the yard gate and fence, Lu Heng returned to the villa, and then turned on the power for the fence. With solar panels, he wasn't worried about not being able to afford electricity.
Then, with a thought, he returned to the apartment in his space.
Lu Heng remembered that as soon as he opened his eyes this morning, he saw Pang Hu looking at him with a resentful expression, and then, very unremarkably, quickly ran upstairs to find the Siberian tiger.
Right, he hadn't checked the genders of most of his pets. Were the two of them a male and a female?
And those two leopards, no, he had to go back to his space now to check their genders.
Summoning back the pets playing in various parts of his space, Lu Heng placed a mattress on the floor of their resting hall.
"Pang Hu, you go onto that mat," Lu Heng said, pointing at the white tiger.
Pang Hu "......"
After hesitating, Pang Hu obediently walked onto the mat and sat down.
"Lift your leg so I can see."
Pang Hu "Master... what are you doing?"
"Nothing, I just want to see if you usually take baths."
"Then do I need to lift my leg to see? Can't you just look at my fur?"
"No, I need to see if you've washed clean. Just washing your face isn't enough."
Pang Hu...
Pang Hu humiliatingly lifted a hind leg.
Oh! It was indeed a male.
"Alright, you can get down. It's the Siberian tiger's turn."
For the pets he had acquired later, he was too lazy to name them, so he just called them by their appearance or species. Anyway, he hadn't acquired two pets with the same appearance so far.
The Siberian tiger hesitated for two seconds, then walked up.
"You do the same as Pang Hu. I want to see if you've washed clean."
The Siberian tiger obediently lifted its hind leg.
Heh, as expected, this one was a female!
"Alright, next, Black Panther."
Male.
"Next, Leopard."
Male.
Fortunately, these two weren't a pair. He was still single.
How could he pair them up before he was paired himself.
After checking the remaining pets one by one, Lu Heng created a file for each of them, detailing the time of their contract and their basic information.
What he didn't expect was that the black bear was a female. He wondered why the bear looked so small. He had initially thought he had caught a cub.
In the evening, the villa had an extra layer of security. Lu Heng could rest assured in the villa. He had placed the Turtle Immortal on the first floor to guard it. If there was any movement, the Turtle Immortal would communicate with him mentally, and he would know immediately.
......
Base Mission Hall.
As the doors of the mission hall opened, people who had been waiting outside for a long time swarmed in.
Lu Heng was a little late. He hadn't expected so many people to come to pick up missions, so by the time he could enter the hall, many people had already taken their missions and left.
Due to the current scarcity of supplies, the base did not provide any free supplies to survivors, including accommodation.
Everyone had to exchange crystals or complete missions for points. Of course, they could also directly exchange crystals for the supplies they needed.
It had been several months since the apocalypse. Those who had not yet evolved abilities could only be the timid, weak, or those without the strength to even hold a chicken, such as the old and the young.
They could not kill zombies to obtain crystals, and therefore could not stimulate their abilities by absorbing crystals.
But ordinary people also needed to survive. The base had not abandoned them, but their food, clothing, housing, and transportation also had to be obtained through labor.
If they couldn't kill zombies, they could take on some ordinary missions issued by the base, earning points by selling their labor, and then exchanging those points for the supplies they needed for survival.
In the base's mission hall, missions were divided into two types: simple missions issued to ordinary people, such as various construction tasks in the base, or washing and cooking, jobs that did not require abilities.
There were also missions specifically for ability users, such as killing special zombies in a certain area, or mutated animals of higher levels.
Of course, providing the base with information about where large quantities of supplies were stored could also be exchanged for certain supplies, but this information had to be reliable. Only after the information was verified could they receive corresponding mission rewards.
Otherwise, if everyone came and reported false information to trick for supplies, it would be chaos.
Lu Heng entered the mission hall and first looked at the ordinary mission pickup area. The missions there were a waste of time for ability users. With that time, it was better to go out and kill zombies or search for supplies.
After a few glances, Lu Heng turned to the ability user mission pickup area. The missions here were displayed on an electronic board above the hall, which was scrolling through some unclaimed missions. Once an ability user found a mission they believed they could complete, they could go to the staff at the mission pickup area to register, and then the claimed mission would disappear from the scrolling screen.
Lu Heng stood and watched for a while. He saw a few missions that interested him, but he didn't take them. After all, he didn't lack supplies or crystals. If he lacked crystals, he could go out and clear out zombies himself.
While Lu Heng was observing the mission information, he felt many probing gazes. Moreover, because he could read minds, he could also hear the true thoughts of the people around him.
Some people really wanted to know his true situation. After all, when he entered the base, the information about him being a fifth-level ability user was something he had said himself. None of this had been officially confirmed, nor had he used his abilities in front of outsiders.
Ignoring the curious crowd around him, he looked at the information about exchanging supplies in the mission hall to understand the current prices. After all, he had a lot of supplies, and he could sell some to exchange for crystals.
However, the highest level of crystals that could be exchanged in the mission hall was only level two. He was currently absorbing level three crystals, so there was no need to exchange them here.
He had heard from Li Lei of the base that there was a trading market in the outer city, where various teams or individuals usually set up stalls to freely exchange supplies. There were often rare items there, so he might as well go and have a look.
Leaving the mission hall, Lu Heng drove his car directly to the trading market.
Compared to the mission hall, there were significantly fewer people here. After all, ordinary people didn't have much to trade here, and those who could come were all ability users.
There were many stalls in the trading market. Ordinary teams or ability users simply laid a cloth on the ground, or directly used their goods to form a stall. The goods sold were mostly easily obtainable supplies.
Larger factions or organizations had their own shops here, with a richer variety of supplies.
Lu Heng browsed the trading market carefully. There were indeed many level three crystals available for exchange here, but the required supplies for exchange were also quite a lot. For example, a level three ordinary crystal actually required one hundred catties of rice or flour for exchange.
This exchange ratio was too frightening. This was much more expensive than exchanging for supplies by doing missions in the mission hall. However, perhaps because level three crystals were difficult to obtain, the exchange price here was so high.