Sitting in the cab, Lin Hui looked at the furious, vicious zombie outside his window and gave a faint smile.
"Had enough scratching?"
"Now it's my turn."
Lin Hui slammed the gearshift into D and cranked the steering wheel all the way left!
Vrooom!
Boosted by [Infinite Power], the engine instantly unleashed a terrifying ten tons of torque!
The vehicle swung sharply around!
The zombie clinging to the door, trying to find a gap, clearly hadn't expected this hunk of metal to suddenly spin like a top.
The enormous centrifugal force instantly threw it off balance, sending its body tipping backward.
And in that direction...
Was a massive boulder by the roadside!
"Die!!!"
Lin Hui roared and floored the accelerator!
The newly installed row of shark-fin-like side spikes on the RV's left flank carried tremendous kinetic energy. Like a gigantic rasp, they drove hard into the zombie and slammed it against the boulder!
Boom!!!
An incredibly heavy, muffled impact rang out.
It sounded like a hammer smashing a watermelon.
Black blood burst out in a spray, staining the entire boulder black.
The zombie renowned for its agility didn't even get a chance to scream. Trapped between the ten-ton steel beast and the solid boulder, it was brutally flattened into a sheet of minced flesh!
[Ding! Killed a tier 1 Agile Zombie!] [Loot 1: Universal Fuel ×1] [Loot 2: C'estbon Mineral Water (550 ml) ×1]
The vehicle shuddered slightly, then settled.
Lin Hui sat in the driver's seat, breathing hard. Listening to the engine's steady, powerful rumble, he felt every cell in his body cheering.
This was power!
This was what it took to survive in this apocalypse!
However, the loot from this zombie kill was rather meager.
There was no blueprint for advancing his vehicle!
Lin Hui had just stepped out to collect the items dropped by the zombie when he discovered they had already appeared inside the RV.
[Ding! Level 2 vehicle hidden function: Auto-Pickup of rewards]
The corners of Lin Hui's mouth lifted when he saw the system notification.
What a great feature. He wouldn't have to risk getting out to collect items anymore.
He checked the system and saw that the Gray Fog was still seventy-five kilometers away. It would take another two and a half hours to reach him.
Lin Hui was about to inspect the RV's interior and see where the extra two cubic meters from the upgrade had gone.
But just then, a glaring red announcement suddenly scrolled across the top of the [Regional Channel]!
[Congratulations to player "Zhao Tianba"!] [Successfully upgraded his vehicle to Lv.3!] [Achievement reward unlocked: Autopilot Module!] (Note: This is an achievement-exclusive reward, not a standard reward for upgrading a vehicle to level 3.)
The announcement hit Lin Hui like a depth charge, jolting him to his senses.
"Lv.3? Autopilot?"
Lin Hui's pupils abruptly contracted.
He had thought reaching Lv.2 already put him ahead of everyone on the server. He hadn't expected someone to have already surged to Lv.3!
And the reward was actually... autopilot!
For ordinary players, autopilot might only mean they could sleep while traveling and recover some energy.
But for Lin Hui, who had [Infinite Fuel]...
What did that mean?
A perpetual motion machine!
He could race along twenty-four hours a day without stopping! He could rest while his vehicle kept going!
With autopilot and his infinite fuel, he could become a tireless ghost, forever staying ahead of everyone-even ahead of death itself!
"I have to upgrade as soon as possible!"
Lin Hui's gaze instantly burned with intensity, carrying a greed even fiercer than when he saw food.
"To widen the gap, to truly establish myself in this world..."
"I can't keep scavenging so passively."
He glanced out the window.
He hadn't seen a supply crate in a long time. They were becoming increasingly scarce.
That meant the stretch of road ahead had already been picked over by that "Zhao Tianba" or other players ahead of him.
Pick up other people's leftovers?
No.
Lin Hui tightened his grip on the steering wheel and looked at the alloy ram stained red with black blood.
"I'm going to be a hunter."
"If there are no more supply crates, I'll hunt monsters!"
He stomped on the accelerator, and the massive black RV roared onto the highway.
This time, he no longer avoided the zombies on the road.
After driving fifty kilometers, Lin Hui spotted seven or eight wandering zombies on the highway.
A wild grin curled across his face.
"Time to hunt!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Heavy impacts echoed across the empty highway, accompanied by the sharp cracking of bones.
A black steel beast charged into the zombies at eighty kilometers an hour, like a bowling ball smashing into a cluster of pins.
The zombies were as fragile as scarecrows, instantly sent flying, torn apart, and crushed by the vicious [Alloy Spiked Ram]!
Black blood splattered, and severed limbs flew everywhere.
Sitting in the cab, Lin Hui didn't even twitch an eyebrow.
This was the might of a Lv.2 heavily armored RV.
This was the crushing force of ten tons of dead weight!
These were tires with Never Wears Out! No need to worry about broken bones puncturing them!
[Killed tier 1 Strength-Type Zombie ×1, Universal Fuel ×1 portion, Swiss Army Knife ×1] [Killed tier 1 Agile Zombie ×1, Universal Fuel ×1 portion, steel ×1 unit] [Killed...]
System notifications poured in so fast they seemed to flood the display.
His RV gradually filled with supplies.
Lin Hui raced onward, deliberately charging into places where zombies were densely packed.
The zombies that had once been roadblocks had all become his mobile ATMs.
"Is this what grinding monsters feels like?"
Lin Hui glanced at his ever-growing stockpile, feeling utterly satisfied.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint (Lv.2 → Lv.3) ×1]
Finally... he'd gotten an upgrade blueprint!
After running down more than a hundred zombies in succession, Lin Hui finally obtained what he wanted.
Suddenly, three rows of coldly gleaming caltrops appeared on the road ahead.
Another player had set a trap on the road!
Before, Lin Hui would definitely have had to slam on the brakes.
But now?
"Crush them!"
He neither slowed down nor swerved.
The RV rolled straight over the rows of steel spikes!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Sharp metallic snaps rang out.
Those caltrops, capable of puncturing truck tires, were utterly useless against tires with [Never Wears Out].
As for Lin Hui's tires?
They didn't even have a white scuff mark!
"Hell yeah!"
Lin Hui couldn't help slapping the steering wheel.
Ignoring every trap and plowing straight through everything-this was true highway survival!
Who needed caution? Who needed to scrape by?
With overwhelming strength, I would be the one making every rule on this escape highway!
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