The broadcasts had continued all night, but they were only playing on a loop.
Lin Qi and Xia Chu rested for several hours.
As a First Rank Wizard, Lin Qi's body was also at First Rank strength, and he was full of energy.
Xia Chu was somewhat tired, but after holding a Crimson Crystal under her tongue, she felt much more invigorated.
"Let's go. We're saving people."
Hearing Lin Qi's voice and the words "saving people," Xia Chu immediately perked up.
They went down to the second floor, then climbed straight into the mech's cockpit.
As the mech strode forward, its heavy footsteps echoed across the campus of M University. Survivors nearby gazed from afar in its direction.
"It's moving! It's moving! The rescue team is here!"
The keen perception Lin Qi gained from Psychic Vision let him sense those gazes.
Compared with the broadcast's instructions to "put up clearly visible signs," this ability to sense people's gazes made it much easier for Lin Qi to find the survivors.
Piloting the mech, Lin Qi headed toward the parking area nearby.
"Big shot, you're going the wrong way!"
In the dormitory area, the survivors grew anxious when they saw Lin Qi heading in the opposite direction.
But when they saw the mech's next move, they couldn't help exclaiming, "Holy shit!"
The mech was heading for a box truck—or, more precisely, its cargo box.
The Chainsaw Sword whirred to life, its chain racing at high speed.
As easily as a knife cutting tofu, it severed the cab from the cargo box, leaving the front of the box open.
The mech put the Chainsaw Sword on its back, where it was held in place by magnets.
The mech lifted the cargo box in both arms and shook it twice, dumping out everything inside.
With the cargo box resting on its shoulder, Lin Qi changed direction and headed toward the dormitory area.
Before long, he reached a dorm building.
The mech was only tall enough to reach the third floor.
The Chainsaw Sword came into play again. It was aimed at the third-floor wall, and the mech easily cut an opening.
The mech broadcast its voice: "Survivors in the building, enter the cargo box from the third floor."
The moment the announcement rang out, it stirred up the zombies between the dorm buildings.
It was as if the zombies had sensed living creatures inside the mech.
"Lin Qi, look over there."
Xia Chu pointed toward several zombies inside the cockpit.
Compared to ordinary zombies, these few seemed unusual.
Their speed was clearly abnormal.
"At last, I've found them..."
Lin Qi grew excited.
Through Psychic Vision, he could see that the Crimson Crystals in the abnormal zombies' heads were distinctly different from those in ordinary zombies.
After the Crimson Moon event, ordinary zombies had grown stronger, but their nature had not changed. Although the total Spiritual Energy Particles in their Crimson Crystals had changed, they were still the same kind of Extraordinary Item and could not be analyzed by a Wizard more than once.
By contrast, the Crimson Crystals in the heads of the unusually fast zombies had visibly changed shape. They had become angular cubes.
Their color had also shifted from crimson to pale red.
Most importantly, Lin Qi's Mental Power felt unfamiliar to these new crystals.
That was the true basis for identifying a type of Extraordinary Item.
On the top floor, the survivors who saw the strange zombies felt their hearts clench.
They hurriedly hung up a large notice written on an A1 Blueprint: "Those monsters are dangerous! Dangerous! Dangerous!"
Lin Qi could see the survivors' warning. Psychic Vision covered a very wide area.
Where did the danger come from?
Was it only their speed?
Not entirely.
Under Psychic Vision, Lin Qi saw the strange mouthparts of this type of zombie.
They were no longer human mouths. "Mouthparts" was the only way to describe them.
Their mouths had split into five sections, with extremely sharp teeth inside, spinning like the blades of a high-speed blender.
"They're pretty tough, around M-level. This mech is M-level overall, but its materials are its weak point."
His judgment was spot-on. The zombies' mouthparts might be able to tear at the mech's outer shell. If he fought them with the Chainsaw Sword, the mech might suffer heavy damage.
But the mech had more than just the Chainsaw Sword.
"Xia Chu, get ready to cool them down."
As he spoke, two Six-barreled Machine Guns extended from the mech's shoulders.
The survivors upstairs could see them clearly.
"Holy shit, a six-barrel Vulcan cannon?"
"Is that even legal? How did a mech major make one of those by hand?"
"No, even if he's a mech major's top student, where'd he get the gunpowder?"
The six barrels did not spin. They simply stood there, still and silent.
A high-frequency hum rose as the electromagnetic weapons charged.
The next second, a hail of projectiles poured out.
With the computing power provided by the Collecting Robot's chip, every projectile avoided the zombies' heads, so their Extraordinary Items wouldn't be damaged.
The strange zombies were blasted into bloody chunks before they could even reach the mech.
After dealing with the special zombies, Lin Qi did not fire another volley.
There was no need.
Ordinary zombies still couldn't break through the mech's outer shell.
Upstairs, the survivors' heads were buzzing.
"Holy shit, it's a Railgun! Not a six-barrel Vulcan!"
Electromagnetic weapons were more technologically advanced than a six-barrel Vulcan and didn't need chemical propellants.
The mech had yet to finish astonishing the survivors. The projectiles that had not been blasted away and were still embedded in the ground were pulled back under the control of directional magnetism.
The ammunition was even reusable!
Even the students of M University, a top university, had never seen anything so outrageous.
Was this the god-tier genius of M University's mech department?
Had he really built such a weapon of mass destruction right after the apocalypse broke out?
No, he couldn't have come up with this on the spur of the moment. He must have planned it long in advance.
The big shot had been preparing this back in peacetime.
What was he planning to do with it? Bomb the school?
The survivors had no time to think about it. Lin Qi began urging them on.
"Survivors, get into the cargo box quickly. There are more people waiting to be rescued."
While he waited for the survivors to move, the Collecting Robot, which was handling the mech's computing, popped out and landed on the ground.
It brought back several cubical crystals and put them in the mech's storage compartment.
The crystals had come at just the right time. Lin Qi had been worried about lacking an Extraordinary Item to advance his Wizard rank.
A few minutes later, all the survivors in the building had entered the cargo box.
The mech turned and headed for another building.
The cargo box was not full yet; it could still fit survivors from several more buildings.
The mech tilted the cargo box slightly and gave it two jolts, packing the survivors together more tightly.
"Holy shit, big shot, take it easy!"
A survivor shouted, but Lin Qi paid no attention.
There were even fewer survivors in the next building—only three.
It was a women's dormitory.
Lin Qi sighed. The apocalypse had indeed put women at a physical disadvantage, so a low survival rate was to be expected.
The mech tilted the cargo box again and gave it a shake, figuring there was still room for plenty more survivors if they squeezed together.
"Holy shit, big shot, give it two more shakes!"
Inside the cargo box, the same voice said something entirely different.
Xia Chu quietly cursed, "Shameless!"
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