"Half an hour! There's a gas station five kilometers ahead! We only have half an hour!"
This time, Elder Qi's voice came over a loudspeaker, giving everyone a shot in the arm.
Elder Qi's modified heavy truck naturally carried plenty of fuel, but he had no way to distribute gasoline to everyone.
The modified heavy truck was an even bigger gas guzzler!
They covered the five kilometers in no time, and a gas station appeared before them.
The blind Da Hu took the lead, darting into the gas station.
Without even giving it much thought, he charged into the small convenience store.
Before long, the sounds of fighting came from inside.
Lin Yi finally understood how they had carved out that half hour.
Everyone looked grim.
No one dared approach the convenience store. They all frantically refueled their vehicles.
Crashes rang out from inside the store from time to time.
It was Da Hu being sent flying again and again.
Bai Xiaoyu stood at the entrance, providing support.
Whenever the horror tried to step outside, Bai Xiaoyu slowed it down, and Da Hu would then punch it back into the darkness.
"Is Divine Fist really that good at taking a beating?"
Lin Yi silently marveled.
His vehicle wasn't particularly short on fuel.
After all, he had gotten quite a lot of fuel when he looted Liu Ruyan's car earlier.
What surprised him was that Lu Sheng hadn't fallen behind. His dust-covered red sedan was weaving through the convoy.
Half an hour passed in a flash.
"Move out!"
At Elder Qi's command, the convoy rumbled into motion again.
Bai Xiaoyu got into the vehicle first.
Da Hu punched the slowed horror away, then quickly leaped up and landed squarely on the modified off-roader.
"Roar!"
The horror roared helplessly, racing across the ground on all fours.
Unfortunately, the convoy eventually left it far behind in the darkness.
"Huff, huff, huff."
Crouched on the roof, Da Hu panted heavily, injuries covering his body.
Yet they were slowly healing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Without Sequence Transcendence, the world probably wouldn't exist anymore.
Lin Yi couldn't help thinking.
But remembering the willow tree he had seen earlier, he sighed again. "I really wonder what sequence level it would take to stand up to something that terrifying."
The flight had left everyone in the convoy utterly exhausted.
Only when a streak of pale light appeared on the horizon did Elder Qi's voice ring out again.
"We can rest for forty-eight hours."
"Yeah!!!"
"Great!!"
Cheers erupted from the convoy.
No one had the strength left to light fires and cook. They ate some dry rations and lay down in their vehicles to rest, leaving only a few people on watch.
Night fell in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yi woke feeling refreshed.
Inside the circle formed by the vehicles, quite a few people were already building fires and cooking.
Elder Qi gathered the others again, as before.
"Everyone, according to my scouting, we'll soon enter a grassland. We need to stockpile a large amount of supplies," Elder Qi said gravely.
"A grassland?" Lin Yi looked up. "That can't be right. How could there be a grassland around Shanghai?"
Elder Qi shook his head. "The apocalypse seems to be a fusion of two worlds. Blue Star is expanding. That huge tree, for example-I strongly suspect it's a product of the fusion."
Lin Yi looked at Elder Qi in puzzlement. "How do you know so much?"
"Perhaps it's an ability of the Guide Sequence."
Elder Qi was clearly not telling the truth.
No one pressed him further.
Everyone had secrets of their own.
But at Elder Qi's words, Lin Yi instinctively touched the Blood Blade tucked against his chest.
The Blood Dagger's description was still vivid in his mind.
Did that so-called indescribable being come from another world?
"But don't worry. The fusion isn't happening as fast as you imagine. At the very least, we'll have some breathing room." Elder Qi sighed.
Breathing room...
Lin Yi pondered, wondering whether he could survive until the indescribable being descended...
"Do we have to cross the grassland?"
Bai Xiaoyu blinked her large eyes.
"I sensed the presence of horrors in all three other directions. Entering the grassland is our only option." Elder Qi nodded.
No one pursued the subject further.
Li Yong spoke up. "How far away is the nearest city?"
"The nearest city is City C, which is also the provincial capital of City C. I detected several very powerful horror presences there."
At this point, Elder Qi noticed everyone's grim expressions, but continued, "If we don't make the most of this chance to search for supplies, we may go a very long time without replenishing them once we enter the grassland."
"Let's do it."
Li Yong was the first to state his position, and Da Hu nodded in agreement beside him.
He clearly regarded Li Yong as his mainstay.
"I'm in favor." Bai Xiaoyu raised her hand.
"No problem here either." Lin Yi nodded.
"All right. Li Yong, go make arrangements with the survivors at the back." With that, Elder Qi left the group, leaning on his cane.
Li Yong also headed to the rear with the loudspeaker.
Lin Yi returned to his off-roader, toying with the Blood Dagger in his hand.
[Anomaly name: Broken Blood Dagger.] [Rumored to be the weapon of an indescribable being.] [Anomaly sequence: 2025.] [Trait 1, Sacrifice: Killing can continuously increase the Anomaly's power!] [Trait 2, Rend: Wounds inflicted by rending can never heal!] [Trait 3: Locked...]
After binding the Blood Dagger, he could conceal its bloody aura.
He had also more or less figured out the convoy's situation.
Elder Qi's heavily armored pickup carried around twenty people, all members of his own crew.
Li Yong's group consisted of just him and Da Hu.
Bai Xiaoyu's modified pickup, on the other hand, carried over a dozen people.
According to Bai Xiaoyu, she didn't actually know any of them. They were all people she had rescued along the way while fleeing.
There were also over fifty survivors following the convoy.
That accounted for everyone currently in the convoy.
With nothing else to do, Lin Yi went to pay Xiao Chusheng another visit.
"Chusheng, what are you busy with?"
Huang Nana, another woman, and the man with the jeep were sitting together, eating.
Xiao Chusheng was still sitting off to the side.
Lin Yi's arrival made Huang Nana and the other woman jump.
Even Xiao Chusheng was ready to turn around and leave when he saw Lin Yi.
He didn't know why, but whenever Lin Yi came looking for him, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
"Getting ready for bed." Seeing that he couldn't escape, Xiao Chusheng could only give a perfunctory answer.
"Bed? What time do you think it is?"
Grinning, Lin Yi pulled a deck of cards from his trouser pocket. "Hey, brother, let's play Fight the Landlord!"
Lin Yi looked at the man with the jeep beside them.
"Oh, sure."
The man looked a little bored too. He brought over a few bricks, one for each of them, and they sat down on the ground.
"Brother, stop calling me that. Just call me Lao San." The man with the jeep smiled and rubbed his hair.
"Sure, Brother San." Lin Yi didn't mind.
He pulled Xiao Chusheng down.
Xiao Chusheng could only steel himself and start playing.
"I call landlord."
"I'll take landlord."
"Pass."
"Pair of threes."
"Bomb!"
Amid the laughter and chatter, Lao San's expression grew increasingly grim.
Xiao Chusheng, by contrast, gradually began to smile.
Lao San looked awkwardly at Lin Yi. "Little brother, that's not how you play Fight the Landlord. He's the landlord. Why do you keep bombing me?"
"Uh, we're all brothers. We're all brothers."
Lin Yi chuckled, then played his next card. "A little three."
"I win." Xiao Chusheng played his last card, a four.
Lao San: ...
Why do I feel like you two are teaming up to mess with me?
"Can I stop playing?" Lao San asked miserably.
"No." Lin Yi looked utterly serious.
Lao San: ...
Oh well, I'll just treat it as entertaining the kids.
Lin Yi watched the contribution points above Xiao Chusheng's head keep rising.
His smile widened.
Playing Fight the Landlord racks up points much faster than giving away supplies.
Look, in just this little while, I've already farmed fifty from Xiao Chusheng!
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