Doomsday Base Vehicle

"Doomsday Base Vehicle (Upgradeable): Length: 10 meters - Width: 5 meters - Height: 5 meters... \nCOM"

"This base vehicle has two forms and can switch freely."

"Note: A large amount of spiritual energy will be consumed after each form switch. Choose deployment locations carefully to avoid wasting spiritual energy."

"1: Safe Zone Form. Once deployed, the base vehicle can transform into a fully metallic mobile fortress covering 100 square meters. It can withstand light weapons (Assault Rifle, pistols, cold weapon slashes). After sustaining damage, it slowly repairs itself by consuming spiritual energy. Once a Safe Zone is deployed, it can automatically absorb spiritual energy."

"2: Armed Driving Form. Once retracted, the base vehicle can transform into a heavy truck for travel. Maximum capacity: 10 people. Maximum speed: 200 kilometers per hour. Defense decreases by 50% while driving, and spiritual energy is continuously consumed."

"Doomsday Base Building: ??? Not unlocked."

A base vehicle!?

And one that could deploy a Safe Zone and absorb spiritual energy!

After coming back to his senses, Lin An was overjoyed.

He had never expected that recruiting Wen Ya would trigger the Team Function under the Savior Template.

The team even came with functions similar to a Party Scroll, allowing him to check Loyalty and prevent team members from betraying him.

Not bad at all.

In his previous life, every Party Scroll or Slave Contract had been sold at an astronomical price, requiring vast quantities of supplies to exchange for one.

An item that ensured no one would stab you in the back was something every Player longed for.

Although checking Loyalty was not as effective as the binding effect of those items, it was more than enough.

As long as he noticed Loyalty dropping, Lin An could prepare accordingly and no longer had to worry about being stabbed in the back.

This saved him the trouble of searching for and exchanging for those rare items in the future.

It had to be said that this reward was simply far too generous.

Lin An's heart burned with excitement as he looked toward the light screen once more.

Within it, an entirely black armed heavy truck brimming with futuristic technology slowly rotated.

Several weapon mounting points could vaguely be seen on it, though no weapons had been installed yet.

At the bottom of the light screen was a three-dimensional image of a metal module resembling a factory building, pieced together from sealed alloy Steel Plates and giving off an immense sense of security.

His heart pounded wildly.

Since being reborn, Lin An had rarely experienced such emotional fluctuations.

Yet upon seeing the Doomsday Base Vehicle, he could not help but feel unbearably eager.

About a year after the Doomsday Game descended in his previous life.

The world had been divided into the Four Major Regions and Sixteen War Zones.

Survivor Players from every country banded together and lived in Safe Zones of varying sizes controlled by different factions.

And Safe Zones were the very foundation of the Players' survival!

The Safe Zones in the Doomsday Game were not merely places that kept out Zombies.

The Safe Zone Lin An had wanted to establish before had only been a place to shelter himself.

He had never imagined that he could establish a Safe Zone capable of absorbing spiritual energy this early.

A Safe Zone in the true sense could strengthen the power of both Players and Awakeners.

After the apocalypse broke out, not only had Zombies appeared on a massive scale.

The Earth would also gradually become contaminated by a type of energy.

People called it spiritual energy.

Animals and plants would gradually be polluted by spiritual energy, mutating into all kinds of powerful Demon Beasts or rare heavenly treasures.

Players, meanwhile, could gradually strengthen their bodies by absorbing spiritual energy.

Though this progress was extremely slow, it was safe.

If an Awakener was too weak to kill Variant Zombies and level up.

Then the best method was to absorb spiritual energy to level up, strengthen themselves, and then form a team to kill Variant Zombies.

And the only way to extract spiritual energy was through the Safe Zones in the Doomsday Game, which drew in the free-floating energy from the air.

Therefore, without a base vehicle, there was no way to extract the spiritual energy drifting through the air.

And to establish a Safe Zone capable of extracting spiritual energy required a rare special item.

That item was called a Safety Token, and it could only be obtained through missions issued by the System.

Those missions were often extremely difficult, time-consuming, and labor-intensive.

They could not be completed without a team of more than ten thousand people or the cooperation of over a hundred Awakeners.

Thus, many Small Safe Zones in his previous life were Safe Zones in name only; in reality, they were merely branches of Medium Safe Zones.

They had no Safety Tokens and no ability to extract spiritual energy. They had merely constructed some defensive facilities.

The man Tang Wan had been willing to betray Lin An for before his rebirth, even offering herself to him, was the leader of one such Small Safe Zone.

And the Players in those Safe Zones could only obtain the right to cultivate by periodically handing over supplies to a Medium Safe Zone.

It was only the second day after the apocalypse, yet as long as Lin An recruited three more team members, he would obtain the Safe Zone that all Players dreamed of.

This was undoubtedly a surprise beyond all surprises.

And what he had obtained was not an ordinary token used to establish a Safe Zone.

A base vehicle that could move and deploy a Safe Zone was worth who knew how many times more than a Safety Token.

Lin An's steps became light with delight, while Wen Ya behind him could only grit her teeth and barely keep up.

"W-Wait... wait for me..."

The icy wind howled, and Wen Ya nearly stumbled from the biting chill.

Hearing her, Lin An turned around and only then realized that he had pulled nearly a hundred meters ahead of her.

While waiting for Wen Ya where he was, Lin An suppressed the joy in his heart and swiftly adjusted his state.

Although he wanted to claim the Team Mission reward immediately, the priority was still to increase his strength, kill the Stitcher, and save An JingTian and An Xia.

Not only were those two the only people he cared about now, they were also people worthy of trust.

An JingTian had come from a scout background, and his base attributes were much higher than an ordinary person's.

If he could become an Awakener in the future, he would become a major asset to Lin An.

Although the Team Mission was simple, he had no intention of recruiting people carelessly.

The Team Function Panel had a limit on the number of members. Though that limit appeared to increase after upgrading.

Once someone joined the team, they received a boost to their strength, and they could not be replaced.

Naturally, he had to choose carefully.

An JingTian, An Xia, Wen Ya.

Including himself, there were already four people.

One more to go.

Lin An's gaze turned thoughtful as he rapidly searched through his memories for a suitable candidate.

Four Emperors Six Kings.

There had been ten peerless powerhouses in the China War Zone during his previous life.

The four Fourth Order Awakeners had been called Emperors, each ruling over hundreds of millions of people.

The six Third Order Awakeners had been called Kings, each ruling over tens of millions.

And Lin Jiang City had one Third Order King whose strength was still quite weak at the moment.

If Lin An could recruit him while he was still weak, it would be a great help in establishing his own faction in the future.

"Um... I still don't know your name."

"How should I address you from now on?"

Wen Ya ran all the way over, not daring to delay Lin An's time.

She stopped before Lin An, panting heavily, and carefully asked her question.

"Lin An."

"Call me whatever you want."

Lin An did not care about forms of address, nor did he have any perverse tastes.

In his previous life, many Awakeners had recruited subordinates, even slaves.

They made those followers call them master.

"Then I'll call you Lin An, or Captain."

"You should be the same age as me, right?"

"I'm twenty-four. I just graduated from college this year."

Lin An glanced at Wen Ya when he heard that. He was also twenty-four this year, so they were indeed the same age.

"Fine."

Wen Ya gradually grew used to Lin An's indifference and continued asking.

"You still haven't told me why you wanted me to join."

"And you seem to be... different from us?"

Thinking of the strength Lin An had displayed, Wen Ya was somewhat curious.

"I asked Li Zhiping before. He unlocked the Player Template just like I did."

"My Strength is 3, and his is 4."

"How much do you have?"

Lin An nodded. After pondering briefly, he decided not to conceal anything.

"First, I asked you to join because you're a Mutant."

"Mutants can provide me with Mental Strength. You can think of it as something that increases my strength."

"People like you are extremely rare. Once someone discovers you're an Awakener, others will fight to claim you."

"So don't reveal that you're a Mutant in front of outsiders."

"Second, I'm an Awakener. Unlike ordinary Players, I have another panel alongside the Player Template. My strength is approximately..."

"Five times yours!"

Wen Ya's heart jolted.

Five times?

Wouldn't that make him practically superhuman?

"Third, my Strength is 12 points."

"Mm, 14.4."

For a moment, Lin An had forgotten that all his attributes had been increased by 20% through the Team Function.

"Fourteen!?"

Wen Ya cried out in shock, her eyes widening into ovals as she could not help clicking her tongue.

Fourteen points of Strength.

No wonder Lin An could blow apart a Zombie's skull with a single punch.

Lin An paid no attention to Wen Ya's astonishment.

If Wen Ya knew that after surpassing the Limit Attribute of 10 points, every additional point of Strength amounted to a 30% increase, she would be even more shocked.

If he encountered that Licker again now, as long as he activated Strength Burst.

He was absolutely confident that he could kill it without having to circle around and wear it down.

And if he drank the Potion as well...

He could even face it head-on.

"Your attributes should have received a boost too. That's one of the benefits of joining my team. You can check for yourself later."

Upon hearing that, Wen Ya hurriedly opened her Player Panel, her face filled with delight.

When she saw an entry on her panel reading (Savior Squad Member), her expression suddenly froze.

Savior?

Wen Ya was puzzled. No matter how she thought about it, that title seemed to carry some special meaning.

However, since Lin An did not explain it himself, she did not dare ask casually.

The already strange image Lin An held in her eyes was veiled in another layer of mystery.

Had she somehow encountered someone extraordinary?

"Get on."

Without turning around, Lin An spoke calmly.

Wen Ya came back to her senses and obediently followed behind him.

Lin An turned and swung himself onto the motorcycle.

Wen Ya looked at Lin An's back, her eyes flickering as she sat on the rear seat.

"Vroom!"

The motorcycle roared, and the body shuddered.

Amid Wen Ya's startled cry, the motorcycle sped away.

With the bike racing at high speed, the biting wind forced her to wrap her arms around Lin An's waist.

Warm. Safe.

She had not rested for an entire day and night, and her mind had remained tense for far too long.

After wrapping her arms around Lin An, Wen Ya inexplicably felt a sense of peace.

Like a black phantom, the motorcycle carved a black line across the highway.

A short while later.

Exhaustion washed over her, and she could no longer hold on as she fell into a deep sleep.

Yet her hands instinctively tightened around him a little more.

Noticing that Wen Ya had fallen asleep, Lin An slowed down slightly.

At the distant end of the road leading into the city.

Tens of thousands of Zombies gathered in a dense mass.

Over a thousand cars had crashed into one another, and shattered corpses and debris littered the ground.

At the center of the highway, a boy crouched atop a small mountain built from corpses and wreckage.

He irritably toyed with a severed arm in his hand, as if searching for something.

Finding nothing, he casually flung the arm away and began searching through the pile of corpses beneath him again.

"No."

"This."

"One."

The childish voice came out haltingly.

Not far away, the gathered Zombies surrounded the Corpse Mountain but did not dare approach.

A blank circle lay between them.

It was as though the harmless-looking Little Boy atop the Corpse Mountain filled them with intense fear.

"Clang."

A Zombie at the edge of the Zombie Crowd was shoved into that empty circle by its companions.

It lost its balance and fell to the ground, striking a discarded sheet of iron.

The boy suddenly raised his head, his eyes scarlet.

"Roar!"

An invisible shockwave burst from his mouth, instantly blasting that Zombie to pieces.

The Zombie Crowd fell into chaos.

Mindless Zombies actually displayed strange emotions under the boy's intimidation.

If Lin An had been there, he would have realized it.

This was the instinctive intimidation of a Mutant above Third Order toward Zombies within a Zombie Crowd!

"Also."

"No."

"Not this one!"

Anger and frenzy became almost tangible, turning into a shockwave that swept across everything.

In an instant, the surrounding Zombie Crowd and the wrecked cars were Annihilated into ash.

The boy finally gave up searching and stood upright.

A black shard was embedded in the chest of his small body.

It trembled without wind.

He slowly floated into the air, like a puppet pulled through the void by strings.

The boy stiffly looked around.

A moment later, he turned in another direction.

The remaining Zombie Crowd at his feet followed in the same direction.

The Zombie Crowd surged onward in a mighty stream.

Their target: the center of Lin Jiang City!