"I want to talk with you face to face."
Although it would be difficult for the other party to kill him instantly now, as long as they didn't beat him into a pulp.
But Lu Heng felt a lack of security constantly having his back exposed to these people while lying on the car.
"Alright, answer a few more questions, and then they'll notify us inside whether to bring you in."
"Then ask."
"How did you kill so many zombies? As far as we know, there are quite a few zombies in the towns outside."
"Oh, I have many skills, and I'm very powerful."
"Cough, answer the questions properly."
"I'm serious, do you want me to show you?"
"No need. Then what stage are you? What abilities do you have?"
"This, if I finish talking, will you let me in? What if I tell you the truth and you're too afraid to let me in?"
"No."
"Ice and fire, two heavens." Lu Heng still held back.
"What stage are you at?"
"This, I'm not a bad person, there's no need to be so specific, is there?"
"Then what are you here to do?"
"I was just walking around and ended up here. I saw that there didn't seem to be any zombies, so I thought I'd look for some food or something."
The two soldiers finished their inspection and retreated to their own car, but their guns remained pointed at Lu Heng.
"Wait a moment, let's see what answer they give us shortly."
Lu Heng felt that if they didn't agree to let him in soon, he would switch to his Eagle-beaked Beast and break in from the air, find where the spacesuit was stored, and just take the suit and leave.
He felt his patience was running out, but the other party's demeanor was very official.
Fortunately, before Lu Heng lost his patience, a reply quickly came from inside.
"Let's go, follow our car. Don't wander off. There are many shooting positions in the base, and it wouldn't be good to injure you by mistake."
Lu Heng nodded in agreement; at least he was getting in.
Back in the car, Lu Heng drove, following the car in front, all the way to a row of bungalows.
"Get out. Leave the car here. Our leader wants to talk to you in person."
"Okay."
After getting out of the car, Lu Heng didn't lock it. This was an original car, with no supplies on it.
A soldier led Lu Heng into one of the rooms, where a young man was waiting for him.
"Sit," the man said concisely.
Lu Heng looked at the few tables and chairs in the room and sat down in the nearest one.
"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhang Ting, and I'm the deputy captain responsible for security here."
"Mm, my name is Lu Heng, from Wuming City."
"Wuming City? A new city after the apocalypse?"
"Mm. There are hardly any old cities left, are there?"
Towns before the apocalypse generally didn't have city walls, so after those cities were overrun by zombies, they were basically abandoned.
"So, you came here purely by coincidence, just to see if there was any food?"
Zhang Ting already knew the results of the search of Lu Heng's car, knowing that Lu Heng's car indeed had no food.
"Do you have any higher leaders here? Someone who can make decisions?" Lu Heng asked, looking at him.
"Mm? What's the matter? The leader is very busy." Zhang Ting could tell that Lu Heng definitely wasn't here for food.
"This place seems to have been a space launch base before. I want to borrow a spacesuit." Lu Heng didn't want to waste any more time beating around the bush.
"This, I can't make that decision." Zhang Ting stood up, walked to the door, and said a few words to the guards outside.
"You wait a moment, I'll find someone to ask for instructions."
Lu Heng nodded; it was the same old process, sigh.
"Your base isn't going to be doing manned space flights anymore, right? Those spacesuits are useless to you now."
"But spacesuits make the body very clumsy. Are you getting this equipment to fight zombies?" Zhang Ting also voiced his question.
"Mm, it's indeed not for fighting zombies. I've had a dream of space since I was a child, dreaming of one day wearing that suit to explore unknown territories." Lu Heng adjusted his posture and gave a reason that even he didn't believe.
"You went to all this trouble to fulfill your dream?"
Zhang Ting could see that Lu Heng hadn't suffered in the apocalypse. His clothes were neat and clean, and he seemed to be wearing new clothes.
Although he was a bit thin, it wasn't a sickly thinness, and his face still had a normal flush.
The car outside, it was said, was also very new, with even the tires showing little wear. Zhang Ting was very skeptical about how Lu Heng had arrived in this remote western region.
This was also why the base had let Lu Heng in. Lu Heng's condition was not what one would expect in the apocalypse; it was too strange.
Soon, the sound of a car stopping was heard from outside, and then the door was pushed open.
"Major General Liu!" Zhang Ting immediately saluted when he saw the person arrive.
"Mm, sit down and talk." Major General Liu nodded to Zhang Ting, signaling him to sit down, and then turned his gaze to Lu Heng.
"I am currently the person in charge here, Liu Guodong. What do you call yourself?" Liu Guodong sat opposite Lu Heng.
"Lu Heng."
"I heard you're here for a spacesuit?"
"Mm, I've had a dream of space since I was a child..."
"Hahaha, young man, you're interesting. You've come specifically to fulfill a space dream at this time?"
Liu Guodong laughed heartily; he didn't believe it.
"Uh, I just want a spacesuit. What supplies do you want in exchange?"
"As far as I know, you haven't brought anything. Are you planning to trade that car outside?"
"That's fine too."
Lu Heng had plenty of cars in his spatial storage.
"Without fuel, that car is just scrap metal." Liu Guodong sat opposite, smiling at Lu Heng. He didn't need the car.
"But spacesuits are also trash to you now, since you can't go to space anymore."
"That's different. That's our life's work."
Lu Heng rolled his eyes. Really. "Then you want fuel? How much?"
"Do you know where the oil depots are?"
Liu Guodong knew that Lu Heng was definitely not talking about one or two boxes of fuel, because they were all smart people, and they all knew that the amount of fuel they were asking for was not small.
"You name a quantity."
Liu Guodong lowered his head slightly to think. If Lu Heng was talking about an oil depot, and no one had emptied the resources, it shouldn't be too large a gas station, at most a Level 3 gas station.
A Level 3 gas station could store about twenty-five tons of gasoline. Excluding the normal empty oil capacity of gas stations before the apocalypse, he estimated that this gas station would have about ten tons of reserves.
"Eight tons of gasoline."
— That's quite a demand.
Lu Heng had heard all of Liu Guodong's calculations. This guy had been calculating just now.
A spacesuit that was of little use in the apocalypse, and these people wanted so much gasoline in exchange?
"Okay, but I want the latest model, and I need to ensure that this spacesuit is not damaged, and that the equipped oxygen and other items are complete."