One of the henchmen in the truck bed said to the blond-haired guy:

"Brother Mao, just go straight through. I remember there's a residential area right outside the north gate of the botanical garden."

There must be many survivors over there. What could possibly stop us in this botanical garden?

The blond-haired man, who had become somewhat arrogant after his breakthrough in strength, thought so too.

'Your Brother Mao is not the same Brother Mao he used to be!'

"Let's go, let's go straight through this botanical garden!"

He had his younger brother drive a dump truck and smash through the gate of the botanical garden to break in.

Upon hearing the loud crash of the dump truck breaking down the door, zombies near the gate poured out from all over the botanical garden and rushed towards the dump truck.

The team members, who had received hunting techniques from Huang Zhao, smiled contemptuously at the charging zombies.

Amidst laughter and giggles, they maneuvered the dump truck in reverse, then surged forward.

After a few rounds, he crushed all the more than one hundred zombies he had attracted.

The rest of the group then got out of the car to collect the crystals and continued deeper into the botanical garden.

The deeper they went into the botanical garden, the fewer zombies appeared, which didn't seem strange to the blond-haired man.

'Perhaps there are few people in the botanical garden to begin with, or perhaps they have all been drawn away by the commotion in other places.'

"We're just passing through the botanical garden, and maybe killing a few zombies along the way. What danger could there possibly be?"

The blond-haired man lay leisurely in the passenger seat of the dump truck, playing with a mobile terminal he had earned using points.

Being forced to disconnect from the internet for several days really got him really bored.

The botanical garden is densely vegetated, making it inconvenient to take photos with a drone overhead.

After greeting Huang Mao, the reconnaissance team controlled the drone to fly towards other building complexes.

Once inside the botanical garden, dump trucks can only travel on the driveway and cannot access the pedestrian paths.

Therefore, there are many areas that cannot be passed through, and one can only drive around the perimeter.

Following the signs in the botanical garden, continue walking forward to reach a small zoo within the garden.

On the way, the group of blond-haired men deliberately made a loud noise to attract the zombies in the botanical garden.

The driver was now experiencing the same thrill that Huang Zhao had felt when he drove the heavy truck.

Some people let loose, while the other passengers on the bus were shaken and groaned.

As they approached the zoo, there were virtually no more new zombies heading towards the dump truck.

The driver was somewhat disappointed, but he drove the dump truck steadily toward the zoo ahead.

Looking at the other team members ahead from the truck bed, he suddenly noticed that something seemed wrong.

He said to the blond-haired man playing on his phone in the driver's seat:

"Brother Mao, there seem to be a lot of corpses lying on the road and sidewalk ahead!"

Upon hearing his underling's report, the blond-haired man turned off his phone, nimbly climbed out of the car window onto the truck bed, and looked ahead.

Several hundred meters ahead, in the visible area, there were about two or three hundred zombies lying on the ground.

No wonder there were so few zombies on the road.

It's possible that the nearby zombies were all attracted here and killed by something unknown!

Huang Mao was still wondering why there were so many zombies lying on the ground.

After observing the situation, the other people on the dump truck bed added:

"Brother Mao, it looks like some of the zombies' heads have been bitten off!"

"Does this small zoo keep any wild animals?"

The blond-haired man said to the driver:

"Drive slower, this must have been done by the mutated beast the city lord mentioned."

Mutant beasts are animals that have awakened superpowers just like us, but their size and strength will change drastically as they level up.

Compared to human beings with superpowers, they still have a significant advantage.

If a ferocious beast were to evolve into a mutated beast, and its level were higher than mine, we might not be able to handle it.

Only a large, ferocious beast could bite through a zombie's head before it mutated.

"Brother Mao, should we take a detour?"

The dump truck continued moving forward, and Huang Mao looked at the nearly five hundred zombies lying on the ground.

Most of the zombies' heads were still intact, indicating that the phalanges at the back of their brains had not been removed.

These zombies seem to have been dead for quite some time.

And that beast doesn't seem to be around here anymore!

Huang Mao, overcome by greed, stopped his dump truck outside the zoo gate.

"Let's hurry up and take all the crystals off the ground!"

"If anything happens, call me immediately. I'll hold them off while you drive away."

He then got out of the vehicle with five team members and cautiously began collecting the crystals from the back of the zombies' heads.

Although it was a crystal that could be picked up for free out of greed, the blond guy's actions were based on his confidence in his own strength at that moment.

According to the city lord, the number of zombies or mutated beasts that can break through to level two is very small at this time.

The team's awakened flesh system has an advantage in the early stages, and the team also has two level-one awakened superpowers and three level-one evolved members.

Even if the beast suddenly returns, Huang Mao is confident he can stop it.

The six men nimbly used machetes and steel bars to collect the crystals from the back of the zombie's head, expressing their approval of the blond-haired man's decision.

"Brother Mao made a great decision!"

"Haha, there are crystals everywhere waiting for us to collect!"

"We've gotten so many crystals this time! We should be the team that has acquired the most crystals during this mission!"

The blond-haired man felt a sense of smugness upon hearing this.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, the hunting teams from the four directions were somewhat competitive with each other.

Even if I can't save the most survivors, I can still get the most crystals.

While collecting the crystals, everyone was on high alert to prevent being attacked by any possible ferocious beasts.

After absorbing the high-level energy crystal from Brother Jie, Huang Mao felt extremely uncomfortable absorbing the level zero energy crystal.

Huang Mao's current idea is to rescue more survivors and hunt more zombies to obtain crystals to exchange for points.

Then exchange them for high-level crystals in Dawn City!

Huang Zhao has basically achieved his goal of setting up the points system, and it will soon enter a virtuous cycle.

Humans are such wondrous creatures:

One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink, three monks have no water to drink.

The complexity of human nature is something no one can fully comprehend.

With a large population, systems are needed to maintain balance, and Huang Zhao, a social management major, has some insights into this.

At this moment, the six people were about to collect all five hundred or so zombies on the ground outside the botanical garden.

The group moved to the center of the zoo, where some animals that had failed to evolve and died were kept in cages around them.

Some cages have been broken open, and the animals inside are nowhere to be found.

Inside the central animal enclosure, an even denser number of zombie corpses lay on the ground.

'It seems that the zombies were killed by those that escaped from these cages.'

The variety of animals is quite rich, including kangaroos, gorillas, crocodiles, and golden pythons...

Fortunately, they didn't go so far as to keep large felines.

Otherwise, we should immediately consider turning around and running away.

Yellow Hair walked ahead of the group, observing the environment inside the building.