An unexpected windfall!

"Da Sha, keep up!"

Lin Yi roared at Da Sha, who stood outside the vehicle covered in wounds.

Divine Thief activated.

All three eerie creatures were disarmed.

Lin Yi kept one hand on the steering wheel, but his gaze fell on the broadsword he had just seized.

There was no Anomaly information.

"Not an Anomaly?"

Lin Yi frowned, but still swiftly stole the long blades from the other eerie creatures.

The pressure on everyone eased considerably.

The convoy rumbled onward.

The Sequence Transcendents held off the eerie creatures near the convoy.

Lin Yi casually tossed the black blade into the back of the vehicle, and the Blood Dagger appeared in his hand.

[Anomaly name: Blade of Greed.]

[Rumored to be an indescribable weapon.]

[Anomaly sequence: 1999.]

[Trait 1, Sacrifice: Killing can continuously increase the Anomaly's power!]

[Trait 2, Rend: Wounds inflicted by rending can never heal!]

[Trait 3, Settlement: The Blade of Greed can devour slain eerie creatures. Upon releasing Settlement, all the devoured energy will erupt in an instant!]

[The Blade of Greed does not distinguish friend from foe. Be careful it doesn't settle accounts with you too...]

Lin Yi was somewhat shocked as he read the Blade of Greed's description.

Just entering the top two thousand in the sequence had given it such an outrageous ability.

The Blood Dagger...

Oh, no, it was called the Blade of Greed now.

The Blade of Greed's Settlement should be something like self-destruction, making no distinction between friend and foe...

Looks like when I use this ability in the future, my scapegoats will have to stay farther away from me...

Lin Yi clicked his tongue.

After that last battle.

Of his hundred-contribution-point scapegoats, only one decrepit old man and the body occupied by the skinning ghost remained.

All the other poor old men and women had already been sacrificed...

Lin Yi toyed with the Blade of Greed, liking it more the longer he looked at it.

The armored eerie creatures could not be killed.

Because the biker gang had barged in earlier.

There were now more than thirty armored eerie creatures.

If Lin Yi had not confiscated their weapons, the convoy would never have held out.

"Ah~"

The clear singing rang out again.

All the eerie creatures froze at that moment.

Lin Yi looked up and saw the pale-faced Bai Xiaoyu, who had climbed back onto the roof at some point.

She was clearly at the end of her strength.

"Da Sha, get in."

Lin Yi opened the rear door and shouted to Da Sha.

Covered in wounds, Da Sha leaped up and rolled into the vehicle.

The other Sequence Transcendents were not faring well either. While Bai Xiaoyu suppressed the eerie creatures, they all hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield.

Bai Xiaoyu grew paler and paler, but she still forced herself to keep using her transcendent ability.

Only after they had put some distance between themselves and the creatures did she plop down on the roof, gasping for breath.

"Speed up, speed up."

Elder Qi's voice came over the radio.

Everyone floored the accelerator.

The rough, uneven road almost had Lin Yi dancing in the driver's seat.

No one was in good shape.

Thud, thud, thud.

The heavy footfalls of the running eerie creatures sounded behind them.

They were closing the distance to the convoy.

They were about to pass three enormous gravestones.

Yet a gleam flashed through Lin Yi's eyes.

Logically, people were buried with grave goods after they died.

Eerie creatures should be no exception.

As long as I don't trigger the rules, I won't be in danger.

Greed ultimately overcame reason.

The instant they swept past the three gravestones.

Lin Yi immediately used Divine Thief.

His target was the largest red gravestone.

"The most valuable thing!"

"Hand it over!"

The next moment, an ancient-looking red ring appeared in his hand.

Lin Yi brightened. "There really was something."

But the price was steep as well.

The moment the ring reached his hand, he felt his mental energy explode.

He almost passed out.

"Can't faint, can't..."

Lin Yi gritted his teeth. He was still in the driver's seat.

If he passed out, he could just wait to become food for the eerie creatures!

Vroom, vroom, vroom.

The engines roared without pause.

Finally, half an hour later, a ray of redeeming sunlight fell over everyone.

"We... made it out."

Elder Qi's voice was filled with relief.

One roaring vehicle after another burst out of the graveyard, everyone's face alight with the joy of surviving disaster.

At the very instant they left the graveyard, all the black blades in Lin Yi's trunk turned into clouds of black mist and dissipated into the air.

Looking through the rearview mirror.

The armored eerie creatures merely stood at the edge of the graveyard, no longer pursuing them even a single step.

And the vanished blades appeared in their hands again.

"We escaped."

Lin Yi's face lit up too.

Then his vision went black, and he passed out on the steering wheel.

Honk...

A shrill blast of the horn rang out.

Crash!

The apocalypse ironclad vehicle slammed into the modified pickup ahead.

The impact made Bai Xiaoyu shudder on the roof.

"Master..."

Da Sha was drenched in blood, but he still hurriedly sprang up and dragged Lin Yi into the back.

"Master..."

Tears kept pattering from Da Sha's eyes onto Lin Yi's face.

Creak.

The door opened, and a man scrambled in to take over the driver's seat.

"Don't worry, Da Sha. He's fine. He's just exhausted."

The man slowed his speech as much as he could.

Almost everyone in the convoy knew what Da Sha's condition was.

Elder Qi had sent him over the moment the apocalypse ironclad vehicle went out of control.

"Master..."

Da Sha remained unmoved, still holding Lin Yi and murmuring blankly.

After Lin Yi's little incident, the convoy continued traveling at high speed.

Elder Qi also created a decoy to lure away the pursuing eerie creatures.

They kept running until night fell.

"Where'd this chanting monk come from?"

When Lin Yi woke, all he could feel was a buzzing by his ears.

When he opened his eyes, he discovered that a bed had somehow been added inside his vehicle, and Da Sha was kneeling beside him, murmuring softly.

Da Sha was covered in bandages, looking exactly like a mummy. Coupled with his expression, he looked especially comical.

"What are you doing, mourning me? I'm not dead yet."

Lin Yi rubbed his throbbing head and complained somewhat speechlessly.

"Heh heh heh, Master..."

Seeing this, Da Sha went from sorrow to joy and began grinning foolishly again.

"What's the situation now?"

Lin Yi raised his head and looked outside.

The convoy had formed a barrier.

Weeds had been cleared away in many places to make open spaces.

People sat together in twos and threes.

"Hungry?"

Lin Yi looked at Da Sha.

"Heh heh heh..."

"All right, I want something hot to eat."

With that, Lin Yi was about to get out.

Suddenly, his face lit up. "My Divine Thief broke through to sequence 2!"

"Divine Thief sequence 2-Thief!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Lin Yi could not help laughing out loud.

His laughter soon drew the attention of the sequence users sitting around the fire.

"Lin Yi, you're awake."

Xu Zhong, also covered in bandages, smiled and waved at Lin Yi.

"Heh heh."

Lin Yi returned his smile.

Yet his gaze involuntarily fell on the blood-red ring clenched tightly in his palm...