Sequence 2!

Wrench in hand, Lin Yi glanced at the five abandoned cars and strode toward Li Yong.

"Li Yong, can I have those cars?"

Lin Yi pointed at the cars as he spoke.

"Huh? Those cars are beyond repair. What do you want them for?" Li Yong was somewhat puzzled.

"Oh, I found an Anomaly."

Lin Yi waved the Universal Wrench.

This thing was bound to be exposed, so he had no intention of hiding it.

"You mean you can fix those cars?" Li Yong's eyes widened as he kept examining the Universal Wrench in Lin Yi's hand.

Was this the luck of a good person?

First he had awakened Sequence Transcendence, and he had the Blood Dagger Anomaly. Now he had another Anomaly.

Even his boss, the blind Da Hu, only had one Anomaly!

"Heh, just tell me whether anyone wants those cars." Lin Yi flashed his white teeth.

"Scrapped vehicles count as abandoned property. If you need them, help yourself."

"Great."

With an answer secured, Lin Yi grinned and walked over to the five abandoned vehicles.

The five cars looked utterly miserable.

Never mind the holes punched through them and the broken parts.

The tires, seat covers, and other things in many of the cars had already been stripped clean by the survivors who had once ridden in them.

After all, things were different now.

Back in the city, abandoned vehicles had been everywhere.

Now that they were on the grasslands, vehicle parts would all be important resources.

The survivors had no use for them, but they could give these resources to Li Yong in exchange for supplies.

Lin Yi looked at the bare vehicle frames.

He was not particularly discouraged.

"Hmm, five tires, all punctured."

"Four of the frames are still usable."

Lin Yi studied them as he got to work.

As for engines and the like, the good ones had been removed, leaving two broken ones.

He simply put the motorcycle he had just bought together with the five heaps of scrap.

With a few swings of the Universal Wrench, he soon dismantled the motorcycle into a pile of parts.

Next came extensive modifications.

With so much work involved, the modifications took an entire day.

Quite a few survivors came over to look along the way.

At first they were curious, but after watching for a while, they grew bored and dispersed.

As night gradually fell, Lin Yi stopped working.

The Universal Wrench could only modify existing resources, not create anything out of thin air.

And so, after Lin Yi's haphazard assembly work,

a five-meter-long heap of scrap metal appeared!

Its appearance had a distinctly ragged, apocalyptic style.

The whole vehicle was a patchwork of white, black, and green.

Layer upon layer of sheet metal covered its exterior.

A shotgun would definitely not penetrate its body with a single shot now.

It had six wheels, all protected with simple sheet-metal coverings.

In the apocalypse, appearances were no longer so important. What mattered was practicality.

Opening the door revealed seats only for the driver and front passenger.

All the space in the back was empty, left by Lin Yi for supplies.

There was no helping it. The original seats had all been removed, and he had barely cobbled together his two seats using those of the motorcycle as a base.

And thus, a cobbled-together vehicle was born at Lin Yi's hands.

"What do you think of my Doomsday Tinplate Car?"

Lin Yi looked proudly at Xu Zhong, who was watching, amusement in his eyes.

"Uh..."

The corner of Xu Zhong's eye twitched. Could this thing that looked ready to fall apart at any moment really run...?

"You spent all day making this thing?"

Upon hearing that Lin Yi's tinplate car was finished, Bai Xiaoyu immediately came over to join the fun.

Seeing this enormous thing, five meters long and two meters high, she could not help making a snide remark.

"What would a little brat know? Go play somewhere else." Lin Yi glared at Bai Xiaoyu in displeasure.

Bai Xiaoyu wanted to say more, but a commotion came from up ahead.

The three of them looked up.

They saw Elder Qi stepping down from the heavy apocalypse truck with his cane, his face glowing.

"Elder Qi reached Sequence 2!"

Xu Zhong could not help saying, "I've got to take a look."

"Wait for me." Bai Xiaoyu also hurried over.

Every Sequence Transcendent cared deeply about their sequence level, and Lin Yi was no exception.

He had been working away for so long and still had not reached Sequence 2.

He hurried toward Elder Qi as well.

The three arrived.

The survivors made way on their own.

"Sequence Transcendents, come with me."

Leaving only those words, Elder Qi headed toward the clearing enclosed by three modified vehicles.

Everyone hurried after him.

Elder Qi sat on a little stool, swept his gaze over everyone, then slowly said, "I know everyone wants to survive. I won't hold anything back. I only hope that when you advance your sequences in the future, you'll do everything you can for the convoy."

Everyone nodded, their expressions utterly serious.

"First, let's talk about advancing to Sequence 2."

"Everyone who advances to Sequence 2 gains four new abilities."

"I don't know exactly how to advance to Sequence Transcendence 2, but after advancing to Sequence 2, I can feel that my mental power has grown stronger!"

"Perhaps the key to advancing sequences has to do with mental power!"

"For example, you should all have noticed that using your sequence abilities frequently causes brief spells of dizziness!"

"Advancing your sequence is like draining a lake of mental power over and over, then filling it back up. Repeating that cycle expands the lake of mental power."

"Once it reaches a certain point, you can advance your sequence!"

At this point, Elder Qi could not help looking at Da Hu. "However..."

"My judgment isn't necessarily correct. Everything so far has been my own exploration."

"Perhaps the method I used to advance only suits ability users, such as my Pathfinding and Xiaoyu's Songstress..."

"A physical sequence like Da Hu's probably has a different method of advancement..."

Elder Qi rambled on at length, and everyone listened attentively.

Da Hu, however, showed little reaction to what he heard.

Xu Zhong, on the other hand, clenched his fists.

His Scavenger sequence ability increased his combat strength the fewer companions he had around him. It had absolutely nothing to do with mental power.

Elder Qi noticed the change in Xu Zhong as well and patted his shoulder. "Sequence Transcendence is a new path to begin with. There always have to be pioneers to explore the way."

"Thank you, Elder Qi. I was too fixated on it." Xu Zhong took a deep breath and suppressed his irritation.

A lake of mental power?

Lin Yi silently committed this crucial piece of information to memory.

The Divine Thief sequence probably advanced this way.

Holy Mother, however, did not consume mental power, so he would have to explore its method of advancement himself.

"All right, everyone, head back and digest what you've heard. We leave first thing tomorrow morning."

With that, Elder Qi returned to his heavy apocalypse truck, his cane in one hand and the little stool in the other.

Lin Yi took Da Sha back to his Doomsday Tinplate Car.

After moving his supplies back from Li Yong's vehicle, he began repeatedly using Sequence: Thief inside his car.

That night, it was not just Lin Yi. Almost every Sequence Transcendent tentatively searched for an opportunity to advance.

In the darkness, Xu Zhong's cries could still be heard from time to time.

"Zhao Xing, give Clown a break. He's already mentally unstable, and you keep messing with him..."

"Attention, attention. The convoy will depart in five minutes."

"Attention, attention. The convoy will depart in five minutes."

"Attention, attention. The convoy will depart in five minutes."

Elder Qi's voice looped over the loudspeaker. Inside the Doomsday Tinplate Car, Lin Yi opened his eyes. Last night's training had left him somewhat dazed.

"Da Sha, can you drive?"

Lin Yi looked at Da Sha.

"Heh heh, heh heh heh..."

"Forget it. Pretend I didn't ask."

Helplessly, Lin Yi climbed back into the driver's seat and waited for the convoy to move.

But just then,

"Ah~~~"

a sweet voice rang through the convoy.

Lin Yi felt instantly refreshed, the fatigue throughout his body swept away.

Even his flagging mind became invigorated in an instant.

He looked up ahead.

On the roof of a modified pickup, a figure in white was singing at the top of her lungs.

Her skirt swayed in the breeze, like a holy mother descending to the mortal world...

"No way. Even that girl Bai Xiaoyu has reached Sequence 2?"

Lin Yi was shocked. Bai Xiaoyu had not possessed this ability before.

Now that she was displaying it, aside from dispelling the convoy's fatigue, wasn't she probably showing off more than anything?

Sure enough, when the song ended, Bai Xiaoyu even shot Lin Yi a smug look before ducking back into the vehicle.

Bai Xiaoyu's advancement brought the atmosphere in the convoy to another peak.

The convoy set off again, and everyone seemed full of hope for the future.