A giant rat standing beside the tribal chief, watching Lu Heng and Xiao Liu leave, asked the chief who had been motionless for a long time, "Chief, won't Xiao Liu be sad if you say that just now?"
"No, that child's heart is higher than any of us rats. We can't let our tribe restrain it. It should go further." The giant rat chief looked at a handful of rat fur in his hand, which he had just plucked from Xiao Liu.
"Put this in a bottle and keep it safe. This is Xiao Liu's fur."
After speaking, the giant rat chief placed the fur in his hand into the giant rat who had just asked the question and turned his body to drill into a nearby hole.
...
Here, Lu Heng disappeared with Xiao Liu. There was no time to return to Jinyang City now. He still had to hurry and take Xiao Liu to dig a hole.
When the scene changed again, Xiao Liu and Lu Heng arrived inside the earth wall that Lu Heng had just built in the apocalypse.
"I just discovered that you are a metal-element giant rat. The last time I saw you, you had no abilities at all." Lu Heng asked Xiao Liu, who was sniffing around on the ground.
"Yes, that day I went out to dig holes, uh, no, I went out to temper myself. I fought a giant snake for three hundred rounds. After that, I finally gained the upper hand and killed the giant snake, and then this ability appeared in my body."
After speaking, Xiao Liu stood on the ground, pointed at the ground with his hand, and instantly a metal plate appeared under his feet.
Lu Heng controlled the metal plate and placed it in his hand. Then he also tried to feel the ability of metal, and immediately the metal in Lu Heng's hand changed its form, and a small metal shovel appeared in his hand.
Well, that's good. He finally had metal abilities. This way, in the future, when he encountered metal objects that couldn't be opened, he would have more security.
Lu Heng could also personally research the metal storage items from the other world through this.
However, these would have to be put aside for now. He should go to the research laboratory in Longcheng first.
"Dig a hole from here. There is a special room inside, and I need you to break through it."
"But, Master, I haven't been there before. How do I know where you are looking for?"
"This..."
He forgot that these giant rats were still in their wild state. Unless they were tamed for a period of time and became familiar with the situation here, perhaps they could accurately find the location themselves.
But how to break this situation now? Was all his time just wasted?
"How did you find me accurately before?"
There were many scents in the Cloud Mist Forest. Giant rats could accurately track him in the forest full of magical beasts, so they must have had a special method.
"I smelled the master's scent."
"Then I will go to a distance for now, and you can accurately find me from underground?"
"Yes, and I found that after drinking that bowl of water, I like the master's scent even more."
"Then I'll go there and leave something I usually use. Can you find it?"
"Shall we try?" Xiao Liu asked cautiously. He wasn't sure about this either. Before, he relied on scent to dig holes and find things. He just didn't know how strong the scent of the item the master mentioned was.
Lu Heng, "......What do you mean? Strong scent? Could it be..."
"You wait for me here. When I come back later, you can dig the hole."
Lu Heng didn't want to take Xiao Liu to dig a hole near the research institute. Last time, he saw that the security there was too tight, and there were many surveillance cameras.
He instantly disappeared from his spot, and Lu Heng quickly ran towards the city wall of Longcheng.
This place was chosen quite secluded. Although there were many zombies wandering around at night, Lu Heng used his rapid movement ability, combined with the ability to return to the space instantly, his figure had already gone far away before the zombies could smell him.
Standing under the city wall, Lu Heng also controlled his ability, indirectly using the created metal spikes to insert them into the city wall to assist himself in climbing.
This was the first time he used his metal ability, and Lu Heng felt that he was quite flexible in his control. At least at this moment, the metal was inserted into the city wall continuously. Every time he pulled it out, Lu Heng would reshape the metal to reduce the wear and tear on the city wall and slow down the force of his next insertion.
He quickly climbed onto the city wall, and Lu Heng fixed a metal spike on the outer side of the top of the city wall without pulling it out. Then he quickly attached a vine to the metal spike.
Clutching the vine tightly with both hands, and pushing off the outer city wall with his feet, Lu Heng's figure flipped to the inner side of the city wall at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Then he quickly descended to the ground along the vine.
The moment his feet touched the ground, Lu Heng quickly moved towards the research institute again. In a few breaths, he arrived outside the research institute, at a place that was not visible to the surveillance.
He took out a transparent cup from his space. Inside, some liquid could be vaguely seen sloshing. Lu Heng controlled the vine to slide the cup to the outside of the research institute's door. With a flick of the vine, the liquid in the cup was splashed onto the large door.
The liquid slowly flowed down the large door. Lu Heng quickly retracted the cup, turned around, and disappeared from his spot, returning outside the city.
"Master, you're back so soon."
Xiao Liu, who was left behind and was lying on his back basking in the moonlight, said with some surprise as he saw the figure jumping in from outside the earth wall above his head, "Master, I kept hearing unpleasant sounds outside, and it seemed like something hit the earth wall outside. I was afraid those things would break the earth wall, so I added a circle of metal reinforcement inside."
Xiao Liu had an expression that expected praise, and his small green bean-like eyes were shining brightly in the moonlight.
Hearing Xiao Liu's words, Lu Heng then noticed that there was a circle of metal inside the cylindrical earth wall. From the inside, it looked like an iron bucket.
"I forgot to ask, where did the metal you created come from?"
"I don't know. When I wanted to use it, it just appeared in front of me."
"Alright, then you can start digging. Can you sense the scent I left inside?"
"Yes, how could I not sense such a strong scent? But, Master, that smell doesn't smell good. What did you leave there so quickly?"
"Hurry up and dig, or it will be dawn if you delay any longer."
With an awkward urge, Xiao Liu sniffed in the air and then began to dig into the ground.
In a short while, it dug a small hole and drilled into it.
Lu Heng... With such a small hole, how could he get in?
He forgot to tell this guy to dig it bigger!
Using his mind, Lu Heng said to Xiao Liu, "Come out and dig again. Dig a hole at least big enough for me to get in."
"Okay."
Xiao Liu did not come out, but after a while, Lu Heng suddenly felt the soil under his feet loosen, and he instantly fell down. However, there seemed to be something soft cushioning him, so he wasn't injured.
"Master, you're going to crush me."
The soft thing below moved.