The roar of motorcycle engines closed in from every direction.
Riding the motorcycles were figures dressed in black clothes and black jackets, wearing skull masks.
The masked riders held shotguns, letting out wild, unrestrained howls.
"Fuck, the Biker Gang?"
Li Yong couldn't help swearing at the sight.
Bang. Bang, bang, bang.
Without wasting a single word, they opened fire.
Gunshots rang out in succession. Several survivors' vehicles instantly went out of control and began swerving from side to side, accompanied by the screams of the survivors inside.
"Motherfuckers."
Lin Yi cursed under his breath and hurriedly pushed Da Sha down.
After so long in the apocalypse, he had almost forgotten firearms existed.
Bzz, bzz, bzz.
"Everyone, stop moving!"
Elder Qi's voice came over the radio.
The already slow convoy came to a complete halt.
Clack, clack, clack.
Mechanical clattering rang out.
Braving the hail of bullets, Lin Yi raised his head to look.
He couldn't help marveling inwardly.
Firing ports appeared one after another on Elder Qi's modified heavy truck, followed by an even fiercer barrage of gunfire.
A Machine-Gun Turret even popped out of the top of the heavily armored pickup...
"Li Yong, what exactly did Elder Qi do before all this?"
The instant Lin Yi saw the machine gun, he was stunned.
"No idea."
Li Yong shook his head.
Lin Yi asked no more questions. Watching the Biker Gang members die one after another beneath the spitting muzzles, he pondered.
Why hadn't Elder Qi used such powerful firearms before?
Could firearms have no effect whatsoever on the supernatural horrors?
Bullets poured onto the Biker Gang members like a waterfall.
Yet these masked figures in leather jackets didn't let out a single scream.
Once hit, they simply dropped dead.
Not one of the nearly fifty Biker Gang members fled.
Soon, they lay dead in heaps.
The Sequence Transcendence climbed out of their vehicles, Lin Yi among them.
They quickly walked toward the dead Biker Gang members.
Lin Yi pulled the mask off the dead Biker Gang member in front of him.
It was an utterly ordinary person.
"Something's wrong."
Elder Qi was the first to notice something amiss.
"What's wrong? Aren't they just a bunch of Biker Gang members?" Bai Xiaoyu blurted out.
Xu Zhong crouched beside a corpse. "These people were already dead."
At those words, everyone fell silent.
"You mean a bunch of corpses rode motorcycles over to attack us?" Li Yong asked with a frown.
"That's right." Xu Zhong nodded.
They all took it in stride.
With the apocalypse here, any bizarre occurrence had become normal.
Xu Zhong looked at Elder Qi. "Did you sense any supernatural presence on them?"
"No." Elder Qi shook his head. If he had sensed them beforehand, he wouldn't have been caught so completely off guard.
"Li Yong, tally the casualties. We'll rest here for a while."
Elder Qi gave the order, and Li Yong quickly relayed his words.
Li Yong looked grim when he returned. "Elder Qi, five survivors died, all killed by shotgun fire."
"Five vehicles were totaled. The others can be repaired, but thirty people have lost their transportation."
"Mm, understood. We'll set off again once the vehicles are repaired." Just as Elder Qi finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurried toward the Apocalypse Heavy Truck. "I feel like I'm about to break through to Sequence Level 2. Unless it's something major, don't disturb me for now."
Elder Qi's words shocked the other Sequence Transcendence nearby!
They hadn't even found any clues to breaking through to Sequence 2, yet Elder Qi was already about to reach it?
Still, it was good news for them too.
The convoy cleared an open space, then began resting and regrouping.
A dozen or so people came out from the core convoy. Under Li Yong's direction, they quickly gathered the scattered Biker Gang motorcycles and shotguns.
Even the Biker Gang members' leather jackets didn't escape their clutches.
Many days had passed since the apocalypse began. No one cared anymore whether something had been stripped off a corpse.
Their collection of supplies had drawn everyone in the survivors' convoy over.
Once Li Yong saw that things were more or less ready, he picked up a megaphone and announced, "Everyone, we'll be distributing motorcycles to survivors who have lost their transportation."
Cheers rose from the crowd at his words.
Those who had looked miserable over losing their transportation were now nothing but excited.
"We'll also give priority to motorcycle riders when distributing the leather jackets."
"Boss Li, you're the best!"
"Thank you, Boss Li!"
The cheers grew even louder.
Li Yong pressed his hands downward. "However, Elder Qi seized these supplies, so they're still convoy assets. You only have temporary rights to use them."
"If you want ownership, you can trade supplies for them."
The survivors showed no dissatisfaction upon hearing this.
Instead, they remained delighted.
"Trade me a shotgun, and get me some ammunition too. Hmm, and a motorcycle."
Lin Yi walked straight up and poured the supplies out of his hiking backpack in a clattering heap.
He didn't know the exchange rates.
He was loaded. He could afford it.
Li Yong picked through the supplies and ultimately took only half, giving him ten shells and a shotgun in exchange.
Lin Yi curiously handled the shotgun. In all his life, this really was his first time touching one.
Bzz, bzz, bzz.
Just after Lin Yi left the supply exchange, something in his pocket began vibrating without warning.
"Hm?"
Lin Yi took out the screw.
The screw, which hadn't done anything for quite some time, was enveloped in a cloud of red mist.
Once the red mist dispersed, it had become a gleaming silver wrench...
"Huh? A wrench?"
Lin Yi stared at the wrench, dumbfounded.
What use was a wrench?
He looked at the mechanic working urgently to repair the damaged vehicles and unconsciously walked over.
"Hm? Ah, Lin Yi?"
The mechanic was a middle-aged man. He stood up the instant he saw Lin Yi.
Everyone knew by now that Lin Yi had become a new Sequence Transcendence.
"Yeah, step aside. Let me try."
Lin Yi stepped closer and, without another word, aimed the wrench at the damaged area.
The wrench seemed to have a mind of its own. The instant it touched the damaged area, it began swinging Lin Yi's arm rapidly, turning into a blur of afterimages in the blink of an eye. The middle-aged man's eyes widened at the sight.
In less than a minute, the wrench went still.
The middle-aged man darted over to the damaged area.
The damaged area was now as good as new, with no sign it had ever suffered any damage.
"Holy shit, that's amazing!"
The middle-aged man's forty-year career in repairs made him instinctively blurt those words out.
He simply couldn't understand how a single wrench could accomplish this.
It defied science completely!
The middle-aged man was so absorbed in the work of art before him that he didn't even notice Lin Yi leave...
Lin Yi gazed at the wrench, equally shocked.
What on earth was this thing?
As he stared at the wrench, a notification suddenly appeared.
[Anomaly name: Universal Wrench.] [Anomaly description: An upgradeable Anomaly component stolen from some poor sap.] [Anomaly sequence: 2091.] [Trait 1, Repair: The Universal Wrench can consume resources to perform repairs autonomously!] [Trait 2, Assembly: Provide enough resources, and the Universal Wrench will help you build new finished products!] [Trait 3: Locked...] [Usage cost: Already paid on your behalf by the poor sap who lost it!]
Lin Yi: ...
I seem to have swiped something incredible.
The victim probably won't come through the internet to beat me up...
Surely not...
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