[Rampage Truck] [Sacrificial Item ranking: 4761] [Stability: Reinforces the vehicle's chassis and tires, greatly improving stability. The vehicle will never roll over.] [Never-Wear: The chassis and tires become one. The Pickup Truck's tires and chassis will suffer no wear.] [Repair: Damage to the tires and chassis will be repaired automatically.] [Rampage: The tires transform into boar hooves, increasing speed by 300% and placing additional strain on the vehicle's frame as it charges forward.] [Gas-Electric Hybrid: In direct sunlight, the vehicle consumes no energy. It can store enough electricity to travel at full speed for 1 hour. Fuel consumption is reduced.] [Sacrificial Item: A supernatural item. Every use comes at a cost!] [Cost of use: The souls killed by the Butcher Knife harbor deep prejudice against it. Do not allow the Butcher Knife within ten meters, or you will be crushed by the Pickup Truck. After activating Wild Boar Charge, you must ram something to death. Anomalies or humans—the choice is yours.] [Hidden attribute: If you are Chu Sheng, there is no cost of use!]
Since he hadn't added any supernatural materials, upgrading the pickup into a small truck hadn't added much to its abilities as a Sacrificial Item.
Its fourth ability, Wild Boar Charge, had become Rampage, and it had gained a Gas-Electric Hybrid entry.
But Gas-Electric Hybrid was an ability the vehicle already possessed. Although it now appeared in the description, the improvement was limited, merely cutting most of its energy consumption.
Even so, Chu Sheng was already very satisfied.
The Ramming Pickup had ranked 5761st. Simply upgrading it into the Rampage Truck without fusing in any supernatural materials had raised its ranking by a thousand places.
What more could he ask for?
He also felt that upgrading and fusion had a strangely harmonious relationship.
Supernatural materials could be used to create Sacrificial Items, but the abilities and appearance of the resulting items were random. Upgrading, on the other hand, allowed him to change their appearance and structure during the process.
He could even work on the appearance and structure himself.
Whichever way he looked at it, there was a strange harmony between them.
But he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.
After he finished upgrading the Rampage Truck, his remaining survival points appeared.
[Remaining survival points: 1410]
His twenty-one thousand-plus survival points had dwindled to just over fourteen hundred.
Chu Sheng couldn't help sighing a little.
Survival points really don't last.
And that was without upgrading the Sacrificial Item components themselves. If he did that, who knew how many survival points he would need?
This upgrade had only required a little over nineteen thousand survival points, but including the chassis and tires would have pushed the cost over a hundred thousand.
Shaking his head, Chu Sheng stopped dwelling on it.
There was no point worrying about not having enough. Thinking about it wouldn't help.
Looking at the completely revamped Rampage Truck before him, Chu Sheng liked it more and more. A real man should drive a vehicle like this!
Bigger meant stronger!
Bigger meant fiercer!
Although this upgrade hadn't changed the Sacrificial Item's various abilities and attributes much, the lack of change was itself a huge change.
A pickup's ramming power was nothing like a truck's.
An Anomalies that could bring a pickup to a halt in a collision might simply get sent flying by a truck.
A one-ton object and a ten-ton object moving at the same speed packed completely different amounts of force.
And against Anomalies, overwhelming brute force was the way to go!
"Chu Sheng." An Xi gazed at the truck with envy and tugged at his clothes. She wanted a Sacrificial Item vehicle too.
"What is it?" Feeling her tug at his clothes, Chu Sheng turned to look at her.
"Here, take these." An Xi pulled a supernatural material resembling a Sun Pattern from her pocket, along with a severed tail she had obtained somewhere.
The severed tail looked familiar to Chu Sheng, and he soon remembered the convoy they had encountered earlier.
That severed tail had been on the stall selling supernatural materials.
As for the supernatural material shaped like a Sun Pattern, Chu Sheng certainly wouldn't forget it.
It had dropped from that giant eyeball.
"I'm giving this back to you." As An Xi handed Chu Sheng the Sun Pattern, she gave him the severed tail as well.
"This is for you too. Help me upgrade my vehicle."
"I can't do it today. I'll do yours tomorrow." Chu Sheng accepted the two supernatural materials without hesitation.
His reply to An Xi also served as an explanation to Zhou Dun beside them.
"If I use that ability again today, I'll probably pass out."
"Okay." An Xi knew about the limitations of Sequence abilities. Every use consumed mental energy.
Naturally, Zhou Dun didn't dare object either, and he nodded in agreement.
He still needed to trade with Zhu Qing for supernatural materials, so he wasn't in much of a hurry today anyway.
"Remember to help me tomorrow, okay?" An Xi clasped her hands behind her back, showing none of her earlier sadness and guilt.
"That heart's still beating. Fuse it into the engine, and it'll definitely have plenty of power!"
The engine was a vehicle's heart, the source of its power.
The heart was the source of blood flow, and likewise a source of power.
In some respects, the two were very similar.
"It's still beating?" Zhu Qing interjected from beside them. "These damned things really are tough."
They still remembered An Xi's Supernatural Heart.
It had been taken from the Brat Anomalies, along with a pair of Pitch-Black Eyes.
Chu Sheng had fused those Pitch-Black Eyes with the Scarlet Eyes from the first Eerie Cat to create a Sacrificial Item-the scarlet pair now sitting in his eye sockets.
"It's still beating." An Xi waved a hand. "I keep it in a box, but I can still hear it beating when I go to sleep at night."
"It scares A Xin all the time."
Talking about the heart left An Xi feeling rather helpless. Any other kind would have been fine, even a heart from a chicken, duck, pig, dog, or cat.
But this heart had come from the Brat Anomalies. Aside from its color, it was identical to a human organ in every way.
Never mind A Xin, an ordinary person-even An Xi, a White Tiger Sequence wielder who commanded Geng Metal Power, sometimes got a fright when she stumbled across it while looking for something.
After all, a lone heart sitting there beating away was a little too much for a girl to handle.
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
Wu Meng and Wu Jie had finished taking inventory of the supplies and food Zhou Dun and his two companions had left behind.
"Sis, if we're careful with the food we have now, it'll last us more than two months."
"But when did Zhou Dun get involved with those Sequence supernaturals?" Wu Jie scratched his head. "If they knew people like that, why didn't they just get into their vehicles earlier?"
"Why did they have to give us things to get into ours?"
Wu Meng said nothing in response. She simply watched Zhou Dun and his two companions standing beside the Sequence supernaturals.
Wu Jie kept chattering.
"I saw Zhou Dun take two things over to Chu Sheng earlier, and then he started helping Chu Sheng with stuff."
"Are they keeping something from us?"
"Definitely." Wu Meng took a deep breath. "Those two things must be important. Otherwise, he wouldn't have held on to them even while handing over all his supplies and food."
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