In the apocalypse, there are two essential tasks: killing zombies and gathering supplies!
However, both of these have been successfully managed by the base. While new supplies aren't abundant yet, no one is starving.
As time passes, the base's cultivation areas will expand, leading to more and more plentiful supplies!
Unless legendary or higher-tier zombies appear,
the known creatures on Earth will no longer pose any threat to Wang Luo.
For Wang Luo now, it seems all that's left is to wait for the ground fissures to appear in two years and explore them!
"Two years. In two years, ground fissures will emerge. What emerges from those fissures won't just be zombies, but various monsters, including legendary beasts and exotic creatures!"
But those exotic creatures are hostile towards humans and will even attack human bases.
"No, I remember some exotic creatures from mythical lands appearing before the fog descended!"
Places like Kunlun Mountains, Shennongjia, and coastal areas saw exotic creatures from underground emerge before the fog appeared.
Wang Luo wondered,
have those guys come out yet?
Wang Luo hadn't personally seen those exotic creatures; he'd only heard about them in his previous life. This time, he was determined to see what these exotic creatures looked like with his own eyes!
Just then,
Chen Zhou frowned and said, "What's going on? I feel something moving beneath the base?"
As an earth element awakened user, he was most sensitive to the depths of the earth!
Zhao Qingxuan asked in confusion, "Underground? Zombies shouldn't have the ability to burrow, right?"
"Let me sense it again!"
Chen Zhou placed his hands directly on the ground. After a moment, he said, "Something is indeed moving towards the underground of the villa district!"
This time, he clearly felt something writhing deep within the earth!
Even Wang Luo frowned. Could the zombies be up to something new?
At the crater,
a legendary Tracker zombie sneered.
With its keen sense of smell, it had pinpointed several supply storage locations within the human base. This time, its goal was to destroy the human reserves, and then it would see what humans would use to resist them!
And beneath the villa district of the base,
a giant earthworm was rapidly moving towards the location the Tracker had indicated. This was not a zombie, but an exotic creature, one brought up from the underground world by the zombies, specifically to destroy human supplies from within.
Once the earthworm passed through, no matter how many supplies you had, they would all be ravaged.
"Wang Luo, what do we do?"
Zhao Qingxuan asked worriedly.
She didn't know how to handle this situation either.
The unknown entity was underground, a blind spot for humans – invisible and beyond attack!
This left them helpless.
"Can you stop it?" Wang Luo asked Chen Zhou.
The latter shook his head, "I can only sense the changes in the earth beneath us. I can't control the earth to attack from within!"
"Then just tell me the exact location!"
Wang Luo, along with Chen Zhou and others, arrived above where the underground exotic creature was. This spot was a supply depot within the base, holding a considerable amount of provisions!
Wang Luo waved his hand,
and all the supplies were instantly stored in his Eternal Space.
Indeed, after a short while,
the ground began to vibrate slightly, then cracks appeared.
With a boom,
the ground split open, and the head of a giant earthworm, its mouth filled with countless tiny fangs, lunged out.
"Holy crap, what is that thing?"
Zhou Yiming exclaimed. This creature was too damn ugly!
The giant earthworm paused slightly,
clearly surprised to see so many humans here.
But it didn't panic. It directly opened its fang-filled maw and lunged to bite Wang Luo, who stood closest.
Just mere humans, it had eaten them in the underground world before!
Wondering how humans from the surface world tasted?
"A legendary earthworm?"
Wang Luo's voice held a hint of surprise.
And this earthworm was clearly not a species that belonged on the surface. "Could it be an underground species like the zombies?"
"But since it's an exotic creature..."
Wang Luo immediately unleashed "Dragon's Might" on the lunging earthworm!
*Buzz!*
The giant earthworm, which had been lunging with its mouth wide open, suddenly froze. The next moment, it collapsed onto the ground.
"It's not a zombie, so it's easier to subdue!"
Wang Luo said calmly.
Zombies were unaffected by Dragon's Might, but exotic creatures were.
"Uh, I was getting ready to roll up my sleeves and fight!"
Zhou Yiming said speechlessly.
"But is this thing a prehistoric earthworm? It's so huge?"
An ordinary earthworm would be considered large if it was a foot long.
But this one was as thick as a water vat and dozens of meters long, a true behemoth.
"Whether it's a prehistoric earthworm is unknown, but it's likely from the underground space, just like the zombies!"
"Also, its target was clearly our supply depot. I wonder what its true purpose is? Let's capture it for now and let King Ma and the others try to communicate with it to find out its purpose!"
"Could it be a helper found by those zombies?"
"Since those zombies can no longer break through the base, they've found some exotic creatures with unique abilities to act!"
Yang Shu guessed.
Zombies lacked the ability to burrow, but some exotic creatures possessed such skills.
If it weren't for the earth element awakened user sensing the underground anomaly today, this supply depot, let alone others, would surely have been lost.
"In the future, we must assign more earth element awakened users to constantly monitor underground activity!"
Yang Shu said.
These zombies were too despicable and disgusting. Since they couldn't win directly, they resorted to sneak attacks.
As time slowly passed,
the awakened users' levels continued to rise. After several more months, the zombies were once again pushed back to the vicinity of the volcano.
Now, even if the zombies were reforged, and the resulting ones were legendary, they were no match for the base.
Not long after,
Zhao Qingxuan had people develop another area next to the base for growing crops.
Here, many farmers discovered something: using the ashes of incinerated zombie corpses as fertilizer could accelerate the growth of mutated plants!
This was excellent news for the people.
After daily battles, there were too many zombie corpses, often piling up like mountains. Now that the corpse ashes had a use, they would be cremated on the spot!
As a result, a fire element occupation quickly formed in the base—Zombie Cremator!
They were responsible for clearing the battlefield daily and cremating the dead zombies.
*Roar!*
This scene infuriated the zombies to no end. They could never have imagined that they, the zombies, would one day become fertilizer?
But the human base now had an insurmountable momentum, and they were truly powerless!
They had fought with absolute numbers against humans for over half a year, but they hadn't seen the humans wear down.