Chapter 181: Upgraded to A-level

"...Not bad." Lu Weiyi didn't exercise much before the end of the world, and his physical fitness was entirely supported by his powerful superpowers. At this time, running and dodging without relying on superpowers made him breathless. He took out several bags of crystal cores from the space to restore the superpowers of the three people, and he took a white bead core and absorbed it instantly, relieving the pain all over his body caused by the overdraft of a large amount of superpowers.

"Oh no!" After Lu Weiyi absorbed the white nuclear bead, he immediately found that his ability had broken through the wall and upgraded. Forcing an interruption at this time might cause the upgrade to be damaged, and he didn't know when the next upgrade would be.

"What's wrong?" Antonio asked.

"I'm going to upgrade. You can't stop me. I'm relying on you guys," Lu Weiyi said. He threw out several bundles of explosives, guns, walkie-talkies and other things from the space, then he held the crystal core and began to upgrade.

"Oh my god, you really know how to pick a place." After absorbing the crystal core, Xu Sa had recovered his energy, but his body was a little tired. Having said that, he still immediately took Liu Rui to stay by Lu Weiyi's side.

"Huh, where are you? What's the situation?" Xu Sa said to the group of people who had already left while holding the walkie-talkie.

"Not long after you got off the car, there were no more rats chasing you. We were waiting at the bend ahead. How are you? Is anyone injured? Has the leading rat been killed?" Wu Yue asked immediately.

"Kill them. The mutant rats have retreated and we don't know where they went," Xu Sa replied, "There was an accident. I guess you guys need to come over to provide support."

"What's wrong?" Li Zhuang asked as he started the car and turned around.

"Lu Xiaoyi suddenly wants to upgrade and we can't stop him. Now we can't leave," Antonio replied.

"I'll be there right away," Li Zhuang said as he stepped on the accelerator. When passing the truck behind him, he hesitated for a moment between asking them to stay and going together. He simply decided to go together. It was dark everywhere, and the chances of surviving together would be greater than separately.

The two cars returned to the village. They did not encounter any attacks from mutant rats along the way. From a distance, they could see the bodies of mutant rats forming a circle, and four people, one sitting and three standing, in the center of the circle.

Li Zhuang drove the car directly to the front.

"Was there an attack?" Antonio asked.

"No, they are all gone," Li Zhuang replied. He got out of the car, looked around and saw the situation of the four people. "It looks quite tragic."

"I have overdrawn all my superpowers," Xu Sa said, and let Gu Qingji and Ning Yuan guard the place while he pulled Liu Rui to quickly treat the wounds on his body caused by the mutant rat's claws.

"Is this thing easy to kill?" Li Zhuang took a knife and cut open the head of the leading rat, and took out a shiny crystal core.

"His ability is stronger than Liu Rui's. If Lu hadn't exploded at the end, you might have had to come and collect the body." Antonio saw him and Lin Yimu and Xiong Jie skinning the rat without any scruples, and said in a broken voice, "I think you should be more alert to prevent a counterattack instead of thinking about eating?"

“Aren’t you paying attention?” Wu Yue, who was standing at the outermost edge, replied while keeping watch with a long-range flashlight.

"Antonio, let's take this opportunity to modify the truck together and make the cabin into a motorhome style, and put a bed inside for your rest," Li Zhuang called out to Antonio, who was skinning a rat.

"OK" Antonio wiped the blood off his hands and walked towards the truck with Li Zhuang. The two of them whispered for a long time, and Antonio's hands kept moving.

It took Lu Weiyi nearly an hour to complete the upgrade. Everyone could only see the crystal cores in his hand appearing and disappearing repeatedly from time to time. As time went on, the rate at which the crystal cores were consumed slowed down. At first, some people were still talking, but then they gradually fell silent and waited slowly.

It was almost five o'clock when Lu Weiyi paused in absorbing the energy. After a moment, an extremely strong energy suddenly burst out from his body. Fortunately, there was no murderous intent, otherwise no one around him would be able to escape.

"How is it? How is it?" The moment Lu Weiyi opened his eyes, Xu Sa trotted over and asked, "What does it feel like to be A-level?"

"It feels... a little more powerful, right?" Lu Weiyi said he couldn't describe it, but he felt he could try out the derivative skills that Zhuang Mingxu had tailored for him in his previous life.

He approached the off-road vehicle and reached out to grab Zhuang Mingxu's hand that was extended out of the window. He looked around and saw that the mutated rats from before had now turned into a bunch of meat balls, and even the crystal cores had been dug out in a small pile. He asked, "No more attacks?"

"It is estimated that they were under the command of the mutant rat king. After the rat king died, none of them appeared again," Xu Sa replied, stretching lazily. "We have been tossing and turning all night, and it is almost dawn. Should we leave or find a place to rest?"

"Let's go straight away. They turned the truck into a closed house overnight. We laid out bedding inside so we can take turns to rest," said Zhuang Mingxu, looking at the map.

“It would be nice if there were a few RVs. I could sleep directly in the carriages. It’s so comfortable just thinking about it.” Xu Sa had a sweet dream and handed the sorted crystal core to Lu Weiyi.

"In the future, if there is a place with upper and lower bunks, you can move two beds and rest on them," Antonio pointed to the closed compartment, "The space reserved on both sides can be used to install glass."

"Then keep an eye on the road," Lu Weiyi said as he exchanged the off-road vehicle for a truck. He collected the mutant rat meat, and the group quickly drove out of the village. When it was bright, they found a safe place to prepare and have breakfast.

On the first day of their departure, the group was covered with wounds from either zombies or mutant animals, which fully demonstrated the meaning of the word "Africans". But once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back, and they can only keep moving forward.

There were two trucks, separated according to their abilities and alertness. Lu Weiyi was driving the front one, with Lin Yimu sitting on the passenger seat, and Zhuang Mingxu, Zhuang Aiyi and Ning Yuan sitting in the back. Wu Yue was driving the rear one, and with him were Li Dongsheng, Lu Xi and Bai Miao. The others were divided into another group and were now sleeping in the carriage.

"When we passed through Qingyuan city, I saw that many places in the city were flooded. A large part of the supplies must have been missing. Digging supplies from the flooded ground is more difficult than before. I'm afraid they will have a hard time finding supplies in the future." Ning Yuan said softly, looking out the window at the withered and desolate environment.

"Searching is not a long-term solution, only production cycles can work," said Zhuang Mingxu. "Nowadays, everything is in ruins and all industries are short of talent. There are just not enough resources to integrate them."

"It's hard to survive now, so how can we have the energy to develop other things? Just look at our situation in the past two days. Rats and snakes have become a threat. Who knows what incredible things we will encounter in the future." Ning Yuan felt a little scared when he thought about this "good start". "But... it seems that we haven't seen zombie animals for a long time, right?"

"Yeah," Lu Weiyi responded, "maybe they disappeared." In fact, no zombie animals appeared after the heavy snow. Instead, mutant animals sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, grew and multiplied, and eventually became a powerful enemy of mankind.

"I hope so. Otherwise, with zombies, zombie animals, and mutant animals, there will be no way to survive." Ning Yuan said, thinking of Lu Weiyi's ability, "How many crystal cores did you use to upgrade to A-level?"

"More than two thousand," Lu Weiyi said.

"Oh my god, it seems we have to hurry up and hunt zombies, otherwise it will take tens of thousands of people just to upgrade this group of people." Ning Yuan slumped on the back of the chair, "Tens of thousands of zombies, how long will it take to kill them day and night?"

Zhuang Mingxu looked at Ning Yuan with a look that said "are you stupid?" and said, "The best way is to obtain the supplies that others need and exchange them with others. Our trading hall used to earn hundreds of dollars a day, but places like Kyoto have more capable people, and scarce supplies... we still have to think about it carefully."

"Plant crystal core," Lu Weiyi replied.

"Hmm?" Zhuang Mingxu looked at him.

"Lack of plant crystal cores." Lu Weiyi stared at the bumpy road ahead and replied, "A mutant needs a large number of crystal cores to upgrade, but if too many crystal cores are absorbed from zombies, it will easily cause a mutant riot. Only the mild plant crystal cores can smooth out this riot. When upgrading, prepare a large number of plant crystal cores to increase the success rate of the upgrade."

In the previous life, plant crystal cores were often sold at sky-high prices. The higher the level, the scarcer they were. Even mutant plants that appeared in some places would become something that everyone fought over.

"But... don't we just have a mutant plant in Gu Qingji's hand? We can't dig out the crystal core and sell it, right?" Ning Yuan said, and then persuaded, "I see Qingji likes his mutant plant very much. He has even fed it with crystal cores in private. Otherwise... let's just forget it."

Lu Weiyi took the time to glance at him, speechless. He took out a deep green crystal core from the space and handed it to Ning Yuan.

"This? This is what the plant crystal core looks like?" They had only encountered one mutant plant, and it was finally harvested by Gu Qingji. As for the plant crystal core, they had naturally never seen it before. Ning Yuan looked at it carefully for a moment, then took out a wood-type zombie crystal core from his body, "Uh... this doesn't look any different, it's just that the color is a little darker."

"That's the wood crystal core, disguised as such by adding some stuff." This is what Lu Weiyi obtained by soaking the energy from snow water into a wood crystal core. Compared to ordinary wood crystal cores, this contains a large amount of snow water energy, which is integrated into the crystal core. It can achieve the same effect as the plant crystal core. When absorbed and upgraded together with ordinary crystal cores, it can achieve the effect of calming restlessness and increase the success rate of upgrading.

Lu Weiyi has long known that crystal cores will always be scarce, so he has been thinking about how to earn more crystal cores. Leading a team to hunt zombies is not his ideal source of crystal cores. After all, they are few in number and no matter how hard they try, the amount they can get is limited.

However, taking out the snow water, which has the most direct effect, would easily lead to a crime of possessing a treasure, so they simply hid the energy in the crystal core, disguised as a mutant plant crystal core. Although this thing is rare, it really exists. It can only be said that they are lucky, but it is not coveted by others.