Xiao Fan let the Lin sisters stay in the hotel while he went out to check on the status of supplies collection.
In the heavy truck's carriage, about one-fifth of the space had already been occupied by supplies, mainly food.
There was not only staple food, but also quite a lot of things like eggs, sausages, cured meat etc., and even a small amount of vegetables and fruits.
Vegetables and fruits were very hard to find now. It had been almost a week since the apocalypse began and many vegetables and fruits had already rotten. The ones they found were the only remaining edible ones.
Xiao Fan pondered to himself that perhaps he should find a generator and connect it to freezers and the like to better preserve the food.
"Commander, the surrounding hotels have collected most of their supplies. With this food we can last two months."
"Good. Leave some space for fuel."
Xiao Fan left the Lynx vehicle parked there and took his men from the hotel to the gas station.
Soon, Xiao Fan met up with Xu Qiang.
"Commander, look."
Xiao Fan climbed onto the abandoned vehicle flow and looked at the zombie horde about 40 meters away downwind.
They couldn't smell the humans' scent from here so the zombies didn't notice their existence. Xiao Fan could safely observe them.
At this distance he could see things his naked eyes couldn't through the radar screen.
Soon Xiao Fan noticed something strange.
He realized the zombie dots on the radar were different colors.
Most zombies showed up as light red dots.
What was strange was that at the center of this horde there were two darker red dots.
"The crater is at the center right?"
"Yes commander. The zombies are standing around the crater edge but haven't entered it. From this angle I can't see what's inside."
Xiao Fan stroked his chin. "There are stronger zombies inside the crater."
Xiao Fan thought of the large zombie he met at the hospital and the female zombie on the beach. He was now quite sure zombies could evolve.
But how did they evolve? What would they evolve into? He had no idea and had to find out.
His gaze turned back to the gas station as he spotted something he wanted - the armored truck.
The truck was parked near the gas station's tanks with its doors wide open. The crew were nowhere to be seen, having likely joined the zombie horde.
He turned to Xu Qiang. "Are you skilled at lock picking?"
"Yes commander. It's a basic scout skill but armored truck combination locks are tricky. I can crack the code but we need the special key. Without it we'd have to use explosives or a power saw."
Lacking either explosive or saw, Xiao Fan looked back at the zombie horde.
"The truck crew should have been wearing helmets and bulletproof vests. The key should be on one of their bodies if we can find them in the horde."
"From ground level it'd be hard. We should get elevation to snipe them and scout more easily."
Xiao Fan considered the gas station roof about 7 meters up before abandoning the idea.
That left heading upstairs indoors.
With the horde 20 some meters away they could sprint up if fast enough.
"Bring the Lynx around back out of sight and park. Get a bus or container truck to barricade the doors once we're inside. We'll defend the second floor."
"Yes commander!"
Xu Qiang parked the Lynx then found a bus.
"Everyone gather!"
The soldiers assembled around Xiao Fan.
"Full ammo?"
"Checked supplies at noon commander, all full."
Xiao Fan did a quick count. Seven privates with 360 bullets each for the four 1-stars, 90 each for the three no-stars.
Xu Qiang had 60 bullets between rifle and pistol. 60 more including Xiao Fan's 6 bullets meant barely over 500 total.
The Lynx machine gun had 1,000 but spraying inaccurate fire would be lucky to drop 300 zombies.
With over 1,000 zombies their ammo was clearly insufficient.
Upgrading could significantly improve their firepower though.
The truck might have gold bars and fuel to loot but wiping out this horde could net a small fortune in jewelry from the nearly 50% female zombie portion alone.
Xiao Fan gave his orders.
"Charge on my signal. Xu Qiang, park the Lynx out back. The rest barricade us inside with the bus. Fight defensive on the 2nd floor. Priority shoot any zombies in helmets and body armor - those should have the keys. Understood?"
"Yes commander!"
Xiao Fan checked his watch. 4:30 PM.
"Let's end this by 7. Move out!"
The Lynx roared to life and wove through the abandoned vehicles straight toward the gas station.
The sudden noise stirred the horde. Blood red eyes turned upward from around the crater rim like ghosts emerged from hell!
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
