Just as Wang Dajiang was repeatedly hitting a wall, the progress of Xiao Fan's base vehicle had already been completed halfway.
Inside the middle school campus, the chief engineer Ma Dun wiped the sweat off his brow, a smile on his face.
"Report to the commander that the base vehicle is over halfway done. Tell him to prepare to clear the roads in advance. This thing can't be transported by train - it's even heavier than a train."
Inside the campus, a massive metal vehicle had already taken shape.
Thirty meters long, ten meters wide, and three meters tall.
Underneath were huge metal treads that could reduce the pressure the base vehicle exerted on the roads.
An all-steel structure, its body reflected a dull black light.
Now that the exterior facilities were basically complete, only the interior details remained.
Of course, those details were no simple matter either - it would take at least another ten days before the vehicle could be completed.
The communications officer received Ma Dun's orders and immediately contacted the communications officer on Xiao Fan's side.
Upon receiving the report, Xiao Fan's side immediately dispatched troops to begin clearing the road from Kaoshangnongchang to Yanyunshi.
The base vehicle had to travel this route, so they had to ensure its safe passage. In addition to the necessary security forces, they also had to clear the roads in advance. Otherwise, it would be an arduous journey.
Both sides began working simultaneously, even if the infrastructural construction had to progress a bit slower, to ensure this task was done properly.
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Yanyunshi Agricultural Products Market.
After the trade fair, the market grew quieter for a while.
Only Li Dahai's subordinates remained, with the survivors numbering only around fifty.
The rest had scattered and pledged allegiance to other leaders.
Most of the fifty or so remaining were armed fighters.
They didn't work anymore, subsisting through looting and robbery.
If they could scrounge up some food, they would live another day. If not, they would rob other survivors, as they knew the locations of many survivors.
They didn't accept ordinary survivors, except for women.
After all, for a group of grown men, women still had some use.
That night, the armed fighters were eating and drinking in a building at the agricultural products market.
The food wasn't great, just vacuum-packed rations. The drink was beer.
There was no shortage of alcohol in this apocalypse, and since beer had a short shelf life, they drank it while they could.
The armed fighters bared their chests, guns tucked in their waistbands, hair disheveled, women in their arms - debauchery and decadence.
It was like one final bout of madness.
But they never could have imagined that just twenty kilometers away, a massive disaster was brewing.
There, in a town that had become a ghost town in Yanyunshi, a place with a population of over fifty thousand, there was not a single survivor!
If a helicopter were to film the area from above, this is what it would see:
In the town center, a public square for residents' leisure.
Surrounding the square were teeming masses of zombies!
Countless ordinary zombies swarmed, howling endlessly, wave after wave of foul wind blowing through, deterring even birds from passing overhead.
The number of ordinary zombies had surpassed fifty thousand!
And within the ring of ordinary zombies was an inner circle of over a thousand mutated zombies.
Level one mutants, level two mutants.
These zombies patrolled the inner circle, separating the core area from the outer ring.
The ordinary zombies feared these mutated zombies, staying outside the inner circle. The zombie horde had a clear hierarchy.
Further inward in the core area, agile zombies covered in fine scales crouched, surrounded by massive iron-armored zombies.
There were nearly a hundred of these level three mutants, a force that would be an absolute disaster for any survivor group.
At the very center was an empty area.
In the empty area stood a table, where one zombie - Li Nanfeng - sat drinking wine.
Li Nanfeng took a bottle of expensive red wine and drained it in one gulp.
After finishing, he lit a cigar.
A female agile zombie approached, clumsily trying to light Li Nanfeng's cigar with a rigid claw holding a lighter, but failing to ignite it.
Li Nanfeng looked at the agile zombie with disgust.
This was the most attractive female zombie in the entire horde.
He had specifically found her a dress to wear and applied makeup layer after layer to her face.
Now dressed and made up, the female zombie didn't really look like a zombie anymore.
More like a ghost.
If he hadn't spent these past few days with the horde and grown accustomed to it, he might have vomited at the sight.
But now he couldn't vomit - after becoming a zombie, he had lost his sense of taste.
The fine wines and cigars were just for show, a constant reminder to himself that he was human, not one of these disgusting walking corpses. He lived in fear of the day his mind, too, would become like a zombie's.
So he didn't eat raw flesh and blood, but he also couldn't cook, subsisting each day on human food to stave off hunger.
Finally unable to tolerate the female zombie's inability to learn the simple task of lighting a cigarette, Li Nanfeng kicked her away and lit the cigar himself.
His gaze fell upon a massive zombie standing over two and a half meters tall beside him.
This zombie was at least three times thicker than an ordinary iron-armored zombie and twice as heavy, clearly on a whole different level.
Its features had changed as well, resembling a terrifying giant bear.
Li Nanfeng looked at this zombie, mutated to the highest degree, and his face finally showed a hint of satisfaction.
His raspy voice spoke slowly, like the sound of a rusted machine.
"Lu Leader... now you at least look like a leader."
"I'm growing impatient. I think we can go get revenge on Xiao Fan."
"But before that, I'll let you have another feast."
Li Nanfeng's gaze turned towards the agricultural products market in the distance.
"Heh... hehehehe!!!!"
He didn't seem very good at laughing - his laughter was awkward and rigid.
But he persisted, laughing so hard his shoulders shook, a chilling laughter.
He was laughing at his past, laughing at his present, and laughing at the future of those who had mocked him.
Had he lost?
No, he felt he had won!
In the darkness, Li Nanfeng's eyes glowed an eerie red.
The laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by an emotionless cold voice.
"Humans! I'm coming for you!"
The zombie horde of at least sixty or seventy thousand, like an army emerging from hell itself, began moving slowly towards the agricultural products market!
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!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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.
