After raising its chassis, the Monster Pickup Truck crushed the fallen leaves in the forest, making a loud rustling sound.

It had to be said that this chassis-raising feature had its benefits.

At least it saved him from wasting Supernatural Power to deal with the leaf problem.

Those glowing characters were like candles in the dark night.

When the Monster Pickup Truck drove up to this line of glowing characters.

Chen Ye's pupils reflected these words.

"Do not leave the forest!"

"Do not let them open the car doors!"

"Do not get out of the vehicle..."

Seeing these words, Chen Ye's heart slowly began to sink.

This was Chu Che's tone.

He should be right here.

But he couldn't see him.

Could it be that this forest had several layers of spatial Dimensional Spaces?

Chu Che was using this method to warn him and the others.

This meant his current situation wasn't great either.

Chen Ye looked up into the endless darkness.

The unbelievably thick giant trees stood towering.

Like trolls that had crawled out from the Abyss.

Chu Che said not to leave the forest, surely because he had discovered that outside the forest was even more dangerous.

Only by staying within the forest was there a sliver of hope.

Looking at the already deformed car door, Chen Ye let out a soft sigh.

Earlier, he had been thinking of finding Chu Che to sound him out before deciding on the next upgrade plan for the Monster Pickup Truck.

Now he didn't need to think about it.

Right at this moment, Chen Ye saw a short glowing horizontal line, the character for "one", begin to appear out of thin air on the empty ground beside him.

The "one" character wasn't finished yet.

Saying it was a "one" character was actually just a short horizontal stroke.

Clearly, Chu Che was in another space, continuing to use his "Marking" ability.

"Stay alive!!!"

These three simple words made Chen Ye realize the situation might be even more troublesome than he had imagined.

Especially the three exclamation marks at the end, which made Chen Ye's brow twitch violently.

Before Chen Ye could have any more thoughts.

Another line of characters appeared on the empty ground beside him.

"Every day, 0:00 to 0:30, be careful!"

What did this sentence mean?

Chen Ye raised his electronic wristwatch to look.

When they had first arrived at this forest, wasn't it just around five or six, or maybe seven or eight o'clock?

Later, someone fell into the leaf layer.

Chu Che didn't let anyone get out of the vehicle, and time had unknowingly passed.

Every night from 0:00 to 0:30?

Did it mean that every night during this time period, the same kind of Anomalies as before would appear?

If that was the case...

More glowing characters appeared beside him.

This time, there were only four words: "Anomaly Tide!"

The words "Anomaly Tide" stung Chen Ye's eyes.

Damn... it's become an Anomaly Tide...

How are we supposed to survive this...

Do we have to go through a wave like this every day?

More glowing characters appeared.

Still three words: "Stay alive!!!"

And another three words: "Persist!!!"

The three glowing exclamation marks stung Chen Ye's eyes.

Clearly, Chu Che was afraid that people like him wouldn't take it seriously, which is why he specifically wrote three exclamation marks.

Chen Ye looked at these rows of glowing characters and fell silent...

He had many methods, so the possibility of surviving wasn't zero.

But what about Xu Lina?

She was just a Black Clothes.

And she only had one "Corroding Marrow Six Eyes".

How could she survive?

What about that reckless brute Iron Lion?

And Ding Dong...

She was only a Sequence 2.

How could she survive?

The sudden Anomaly Tide was like a blood-stained death warrant hanging over everyone's heads.

This time, the convoy's losses would likely be huge.

As for whether Chu Che would survive?

Chen Ye wasn't actually very worried.

This Captain Chu was the person in the team who hid his depths the most.

His mind was like a lotus root, full of holes, so many it made one's scalp tingle.

...

Cold sweat beaded on Chu Che's forehead.

After writing the last exclamation mark.

His whole body seemed drained, covered in sweat. Even his nearly bald head looked like it had been washed and not dried.

A few strands of hair clung stubbornly to his scalp, making him look quite disheveled.

A rope as thick as a thumb was tied around his waist. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Xue Nan was in the driver's seat.

It was this exact setup that allowed Chu Che to write those "Markings" without getting out of the vehicle.

He had just used the "Blood Path" ability earlier.

Now, Chu Che had used the "Marking" ability again.

If it were just ordinary marking, Chu Che probably wouldn't have struggled so much.

But to complete markings that could traverse space was undoubtedly an immense drain for the current Chu Che.

Chu Che could sense the auras of Chen Ye and Sun Xixi.

Because, earlier, Chu Che had placed markings on all the convoy members.

Although these markings were different from the space-traversing ones he had just written.

He could still sense their auras.

Only, he had lost the auras of some ordinary people.

Among them was the aura of the convoy's good-natured Xiao Fu.

In the back seat of the vehicle, a quiet young man sat silently, buckled in with his seatbelt, his eyes already closed.

If not for the apocalypse.

Xiao Fu should have been a junior in university this year, looking for an internship next year.

Xiao Fu was the young man with the best temperament in the convoy.

This young man, who always wore a gentle smile, actually didn't have much presence.

But whenever other convoy members had trouble, they were always willing to ask him for help.

At the very beginning, some even thought Xiao Fu was easy to bully, always pitifully begging this young man for some food.

Back then, Xiao Fu never refused anyone who came to him.

He would give away his own meager food supplies.

Slowly... Xiao Fu was chronically underfed, even coming close to starving to death at one point.

Old Bao had seen all these things.

But he had never said anything.

It wasn't until Old Bao felt he was no longer up to it.

That he recommended Xiao Fu to come to Chu Che's side.

It was also under the influence of Chu Che and Xue Nan that this kind young man gradually learned how to survive in the apocalypse.

Sometimes, survivors didn't dare to deal with Xue Nan.

So they would find Xiao Fu.

Even though he clearly understood the cruelty of the apocalypse, even though Xue Nan often lectured him sternly.

Xiao Fu's learning ability was really poor.

He could never learn to be completely selfish, to refuse those unreasonable requests.

But...

Who would have thought he would die here...

Chu Che and Xue Nan had gone through tremendous effort to preserve Xiao Fu's body.

They didn't want this young man's body to fall into those leaf layers, ending up as if he had never come to this world.

Chu Che wiped the sweat from his forehead, his gaze sorrowfully sweeping over Xiao Fu's body in the back seat.

Then he looked at the glowing markings in front of him.

He wasn't sure if they could see them.

Nor was he sure if they could survive!

All he could do now was wait...

Wait for the Anomaly Tide to pass.

The reason Chu Che knew about the Anomaly Tide.

Was because he had the Eavesdropping Radio.

The Echo ability of the Eavesdropping Radio was enough to let Chu Che obtain information others couldn't find in many situations.

Six months ago, another convoy had also come here and ultimately disappeared here.

The four words "Anomaly Tide" were what he heard after using the Eavesdropping Radio's "Echo" ability.

Chu Che had done his best to transmit the information he knew to the other team members.

...

After reading Chu Che's warning.

Chen Ye finalized the next phase upgrade plan for the Monster Pickup Truck.

The car door had already been pulled out of shape.

According to Chu Che, the next wave of the Anomaly Tide should be in twenty-three and a half hours.

Meaning he currently had twenty-three and a half hours for upgrades.

Moreover, during the earlier contact with those Door-Opening Anomalies, their obsession with opening car doors was simply horrifying.

Also, after he killed so many Door-Opening Anomalies, that black Qi surged into the depths of the darkness.

The sharp, piercing sounds coming from those dark depths had exerted an extremely strong pressure on him.

Clearly, formidable beings were hidden in those dark depths.

It was only because the time was up that those beings didn't appear.

Those sharp screams also only appeared after he had finished off those Door-Opening Anomalies.

From this, a preliminary conclusion could be drawn.

If he didn't kill the Door-Opening Anomalies, would those terrifying beings not appear?

But if he didn't kill those Door-Opening Anomalies, given the Monster Pickup Truck's current condition.

It would be difficult to withstand the next wave of the Anomaly Tide.

Combat was always the last resort.

Survival came first!

As long as he could survive, everything else could be discussed later.

Therefore, the direction for the Monster Pickup Truck's next wave of upgrades was clear.

Improve the overall rigidity of the vehicle body.

It was urgently needed.

And, most importantly, killing those Door-Opening Anomalies earlier had actually earned him over ten thousand Slaughter Points.

These Slaughter Points could all be fed back into upgrading the Monster Pickup Truck.

Thinking of it, he acted.

Chen Ye immediately called up the System's upgrade interface.

Conveying his requirements to the System.

Within twenty-three and a half hours, maximize the reinforcement of the vehicle body's overall rigidity to resist unpredictable future dangers.

Most importantly, the door system.

Chen Ye's request was that directly generating steel plates would be most suitable.

But the System rejected Chen Ye's plan to replace the doors with steel plates.

Instead, it offered Chen Ye a better suggestion.

This round of modifications and upgrades primarily focused on strengthening and transforming the Monster Pickup Truck's exterior.

It was quite different from previous modifications.

As for whether it looked good or not, Chen Ye didn't really care.

As long as he could survive, any modification was acceptable.

It was just that the scope of this upgrade was somewhat large.

Because not only did the front of the vehicle need upgrading, but the cargo compartment as well.

Remember, the door of the cargo compartment had also been pulled out of shape by those Door-Opening Anomalies.

If not for the Little Monster inside the vehicle using its tentacles to brace it, those Door-Opening Anomalies would have probably pulled the door open long ago.

Chen Ye even had the System design protective nets for the window positions.

This made the Monster Pickup Truck look even more like a monster from the apocalypse.

In the System's renderings, the Monster Pickup Truck appeared much more ferocious.

Everything was upgraded according to the tightest timeline.

After confirming the upgrade.

The System directly deducted thirty-six thousand Slaughter Points from Chen Ye.

This also included vehicle body repairs.

Repairs alone consumed a significant amount of time and Slaughter Points.

Originally, he had over three hundred thousand Slaughter Points. Even after adding the points earned from dealing with the Door-Opening Anomalies.

Chen Ye's Slaughter Points balance had dropped to two hundred and ninety thousand.

It had finally fallen below three hundred thousand.

When Chen Ye saw the "23:29:59" countdown appear above the Monster Pickup Truck.

Although he felt a bit of a sting, Chen Ye still felt quite gratified.

It was just a pity that the plan to upgrade his cultivation method would have to be postponed again.

He raised his hand to look at his electronic wristwatch.

The time displayed now was: "00:42:36".

This...

Damn...

Doesn't this mean I have to hold out on my own for twelve minutes tonight?