Chen Wan and her team swiftly dealt with the group, successfully intimidating the other groups as well.
The lack of gasoline at several gas stations north of Yuezhou City wasn’t a coincidence; these people deliberately transferred the gasoline to specific locations to trap outsiders passing through.
With fixed locations, they could more easily rob passersby, as they only needed to wait for their prey.
However, Chen Wan and her team were clearly not the kind of naive prey to be easily caught.
In the apocalypse, showing mercy to those with ill intentions only brings harm.
To avoid scaring Yang Yang, Jiang Yanxin had already taken him back to their room.
The room’s soundproofing was excellent, so they couldn’t hear the commotion outside.
After Qin Ke returned, she sat next to Chen Wan again.
“Are we going to look for a water source next?”
“Yes, once we fill up the water tank, we can continue on our way,” Chen Wan replied, driving the vehicle south.
She had just seen a road named Qingshui Road, which usually indicated a nearby river.
So, she decided to follow the road south.
After driving for another five minutes, they turned off the road and saw a long river.
Chen Wan parked by the side and instructed the mechanical arm to draw water from the river into the storage tank.
She also had the system check the vehicle to ensure it hadn’t sustained any significant damage, which reassured her.
Ten minutes later, the water tank was full, and the water purification system would filter the water to ensure its quality.
Chen Wan started the vehicle again, asking the system to scan for any large parking lots nearby, as she was still thinking about upgrading the RV.
Since she wasn’t originally from this world, Chen Wan asked Qin Ke and Jiang Yanxin, who had returned to the small dining area with Yang Yang, “Do you know of any large parking lots in Yuezhou City that can hold five or six hundred cars?” Qin Ke thought for a moment and shook her head.
They had mostly been in the mountains for missions and rarely came to the city, so they didn’t know much about Yuezhou City.
Jiang Yanxin, however, spoke up, “I know there’s a large public parking lot near the city center square.
It should be able to hold several hundred cars.
I parked there once when I was on a business trip.” Chen Wan’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly asked, “Do you remember how to get there?” Jiang Yanxin thought for a moment and shook her head, “We used GPS back then, so I don’t remember exactly.
But it’s near the square, and you should be able to see it if you follow the river.”
“Alright, let’s go check it out.
Upgrading the RV to level 3 requires a lot of cars and crystal cores.
The crystal cores are manageable, but we need to find 300 small cars and 20 heavy trucks, so we need a large parking lot,” Chen Wan explained as she drove.
“Is it the same as last time, connecting all the vehicles together?” Qin Ke asked, having had experience from the last time.
“Yes, we still need to connect all the vehicles to upgrade. It might be more challenging than last time, but once we reach level 3, the system will have a pre-absorption function, allowing us to absorb vehicles one by one and upgrade them when needed,” Chen Wan explained, thinking about the other functions of level 3, which she hadn’t asked about in detail since the system would introduce them after the upgrade.
“That’s good. Otherwise, it would be too much work to connect all the vehicles as we need more and more,” Qin Ke remarked from the passenger seat.
“Yeah, let’s first check out the parking lot Jiang Yanxin mentioned,” Chen Wan replied as she continued driving.
Following the riverside road, Chen Wan drove for nearly half an hour, entering the city center.
She lowered the steel plates covering the RV’s windows to help Jiang Yanxin navigate.
“Yanxin, do you recognize this area?” Chen Wan asked, pulling over.
Jiang Yanxin glanced around and pointed north to a mall.
She had visited the mall with colleagues during a business trip, so she had some recollection.
“It’s behind that mall, not far from the square.”
“Alright, let’s go take a look,” Chen Wan said, starting the vehicle again.
Fifteen minutes later, they finally arrived at the entrance of the square’s parking lot.
Chen Wan looked inside and saw many small vehicles parked densely, some even tangled together as if people had tried to drive out in a hurry during an emergency.
In contrast, the trucks were neatly parked in their spaces.
Chen Wan scanned the large parking area, noting that over thirty trucks were parked in more than fifty spaces, which was more than enough.
Chen Wan smiled slightly, exchanging a glance with Qin Ke, and said with a light laugh, “We found the right place this time.”
“When should we go down?” Qin Ke was ready to grab her gun, as the trucks were parked separately and needed to be moved together like last time.
“No rush, we still need more crystal cores for the RV, and we should check how many zombies are in the parking lot.
It wouldn’t be safe to go down and drive with zombies around.” In fact, it wasn’t that they lacked crystal cores.
According to the system’s conversion method, Chen Wan currently had 3,050 crystal cores and 3 mutant animal crystal cores, with each mutant animal core equivalent to 1,000 zombie cores.
So, she effectively had 6,050 cores.
However, Chen Wan was reluctant to use the mutant animal cores, as they were harder to come by.
Using her usual method, Chen Wan boldly honked the horn at the parking lot entrance.
The piercing sound quickly broke the surrounding silence, and soon even the air seemed to stir.
Zombies wandering in the parking lot and inside various vehicles began banging on the glass, rushing towards the RV.
The military had only cleared the zombies on the streets once, so the streets appeared relatively safe.
However, they hadn’t cleared the zombies in parking lots or residential buildings, though they had cleared those in large malls, as the military needed the supplies inside.
In no time, zombies from all directions were converging on Chen Wan’s RV, but the number wasn’t satisfactory.
There were only about five or six hundred zombies.
“Why are there so few?” Chen Wan blurted out her thoughts, while Jiang Yanxin, sitting in the back with Yang Yang, was taken aback by her words.
In the apocalypse, most people couldn’t avoid zombies fast enough, but Chen Wan was complaining about there being too few.
“Should we go somewhere else to find more zombies?” Qin Ke asked, as the number of zombies was indeed far from the two thousand Chen Wan needed.
“I’ll drive around this road, honking the horn, to see if we can lure out more zombies,” Chen Wan replied, already pressing the gas pedal.
The RV was moving along the road around the square, honking the horn, making a piercing noise on the empty street.
A few survivors sheltering alone in their homes heard the horn and looked out at the street below, seeing an RV driving along, honking as it went.
A male alpha mumbled by his bed, “I’ve never seen someone so eager to die.”
However, what Chen Wan was doing would indeed seem like courting death to ordinary people.
She was honking her horn loudly to attract zombies all over the street.
At this point, she couldn’t care less about whether her actions would draw attention from others.
After all, finding a place like this wasn’t easy, and they didn’t plan to stay in Yuezhou City for long.
Once the RV was upgraded, they would leave immediately.
With Chen Wan’s continuous provocation, zombies from various corridors began to gather on this street.
Seeing more and more zombies gathering on the road, Chen Wan finally felt relieved.
“This should be enough,” she thought.
With that, Chen Wan drove the RV straight into the oncoming zombies.
To keep the RV’s secrets from being discovered, Chen Wan didn’t use the mechanical arm this time.
After all, the destructive power of level 1 zombies was much less than that of mutated animals.
Just by ramming them with the RV, she could kill all these zombies.
With the sound of “bang, bang, bang,” zombies that rushed onto the windshield were continuously knocked away by Chen Wan, and some that fell were directly run over by the RV.
The zombies crowded the RV tightly, but the RV’s performance was excellent, capable of accelerating in place, though it consumed more gasoline.
Chen Wan then suddenly accelerated the RV, sending zombies flying continuously.
Chen Wan drove the RV back and forth on this road for about 20 minutes.
By then, there were no zombies left standing on the road.
The ground was covered with the black-purple blood of zombies and their shattered bodies.
Only then did Chen Wan turn the steering wheel and drive the RV into the parking lot.
The male alpha who had just said Chen Wan and her group were courting death was now stunned by the scene before him.
After a moment, he felt a bit relieved.
The people in the RV had essentially wiped out all the zombies in this area, making it much safer for him to go out scavenging later.
Thinking of this, the man even wanted to thank the people in the RV in person, though he didn’t dare to actually do so.
Chen Wan and Qin Ke didn’t rush to get out of the RV.
Instead, they used the RV and the mechanical arm to push as many small cars together as possible.
This way, later on, they would only need to bring over twenty large trucks to proceed with the upgrade.
As Chen Wan drove and kept ramming, the rows of small cars originally parked in the spaces were pushed together.
Chen Wan worked row by row, and in no time, over a hundred small cars were tightly packed together.
Using the same method, Chen Wan had the system count the number of small cars.
Once they had gathered three hundred, she parked the RV with its front tightly against one of the small cars.
