Two more days passed with our stop-and-go travel. The plants along the national highway grew wildly, covering some sections completely.
The number of novice zombies has gradually increased. They come from nowhere and appear in groups of three or five. Now it is rare to see those clumsy mud-like creatures.
Apart from Yao Yao and Sun Youmei, the other people had all had some experience dealing with these low-level zombies.
Zhou Lerui even managed to decapitate a zombie with a single slash, and with the added effect of screaming, she was exceptionally effective at killing zombies, becoming a major force in eliminating them.
Her injury healed quickly; she was back to her energetic self after only one day in the minibus.
Lin Xuan felt that her power was stronger than that of other ability users, and her ability recovery speed was also faster. Perhaps she could become a high-level ability user in the future.
Zhou Xinran watched his younger sister hopping around killing zombies, with almost no chance to intervene, so he was happy to be idle. He and Peng Yu stood guard behind her to prevent any sudden danger.
After their battle with the ancient tree, Xia Feng and Lin Xuan both felt their supernatural abilities had increased.
Over the past few days, I've been practicing with low-level zombies and some aggressive mutated plants from time to time, and I'm gradually becoming more proficient in using my superpowers.
Once, when Zhou Lerui saw Lin Xuan using Xia Feng's superpower to hit a zombie on the head with a modified baseball bat, she dragged Peng Xiaozhe over and trotted over, much to everyone's annoyance.
"Little Bao, your weapon is so cool!"
Zhou Lerui touched and explored the weapon with envy, while Lin Xuan was also very proud of the weapon her brother had modified.
This baseball bat is different from ordinary hollow baseball bats. Its interior was filled with scrap metal by Xia Feng to make it solid, and it gets thicker towards the top.
The front end of the rod is shaped like a hexagonal date pit, covered with iron spikes, making it look extremely imposing and powerful.
"My brother made this for me. Do you want it? I'll have him make one for you too."
Zhou Lerui rubbed her hands together, "Oh dear, I can't accept this. Thank you so much, Brother Xia. Mine needs to be a bit heavier, yours is too light, it doesn't feel heavy at all. Could you make the spikes on it a bit longer and sharper?"
Although he was humble, he made no shortage of demands. Xia Feng patiently revised the project several times, gradually developing a fear similar to that he had felt when he was working on engineering projects and being controlled by the client.
After coating the modified hammer with a pink coating, Zhou Lerui was finally satisfied.
She waved it around a couple of times, feeling incredibly powerful and domineering, practically a human weapon of mass destruction walking through the apocalypse.
Peng Ze watched for a while and then started rubbing his hands together next to Xia Feng.
Xia Feng...
I got the same style as Zhou Lerui's for the child, but this one is much lighter and the thorns aren't sharp, so the child might accidentally hurt himself.
Peng Ze was overjoyed to receive this chibi-style weapon.
For the first time ever, he thanked Xia Feng, then followed Zhou Lerui with his little stick, furiously torturing the mutated plants by the roadside.
Around noon, they unexpectedly found a service area by the national highway. It was lunchtime, and everyone was starving.
In the past two days, the mutated deer they collected in Pengze Space have been eaten up, and they haven't encountered any more mutated animals. Lin Xuan has decided to provide them with some rice and flour.
If she could find food at the service area, she could save several bags of food.
It wasn't that she was stingy or unwilling to part with these things; she was afraid that others would think she had too much material possessions and would take it for granted to ask for more in the future, which would hurt their feelings.
Don't be fooled by how well she gets along with Zhou Lerui now; you can't judge a book by its cover. The lessons learned from her past life haven't even faded yet. If she doesn't learn her lesson in this life, she'll be a fool.
Although she wasn't much smarter in her life.
The area outside the service area was full of large trucks, and the parking lot contained quite a few low-level zombies and mutated plants.
Yao Yao and Sun Youmei remained hidden in the minibus, while everyone else got off to kill the zombies.
Xia Fenglei led the way with a net, followed by Lin Xuan, Zhou Lerui, and Peng Ze, who used modified baseball bats to smash the zombies.
Zhou Lerui swung the stick wildly, smashing the hard skull of the low-level zombie until brain matter splattered everywhere.
The invisible vine blocked another shower of brain matter, its transparent stem shaking in disgust to shake off the sticky substance clinging to it.
Peng Ze's eyes were bright even though they were blocked.
"Is this a Kagune?" he asked Lin Xuan loudly as he finished hitting the zombie that hadn't quite died yet.
"This is an invisibility vine!" Lin Xuan explained seriously.
"Do you eat corpses?" Peng Ze continued to ask.
"I won't eat it!" Lin Xuan knew what Peng Ze was thinking. Although it was cool, it really wasn't her.
"Is it because these corpses aren't fresh?" It was rare for Peng Ze, who was usually silent, to take the initiative to start a conversation, but the content was really something that made people not want to cooperate.
"This really isn't a Hex! And I don't eat corpses, not even fresh ones!" Lin Xuan slammed a stick into the zombie's chest, but she wasn't tall enough to hit its head.
The zombie retreated a few steps, then roared and pounced again. The invisibility vine split into two sharp branches, whoosh! They pierced through the zombie's eye sockets, swirled around in its head, and the zombie's brain was destroyed, causing it to collapse.
Lin Xuan couldn't understand Peng Ze's thought process at all. Didn't he say she was a little octopus mutant before? A few days later, she turned into a DJ ghoul.
While fighting, the two also argued about whether or not Bian Nini ate corpses.
Zhou Xinran, Peng Yu, and Shen Youan, who followed behind, were also busy.
Peng Yu used his supernatural abilities to stir up the soil near the service area, uprooting the mutated plants.
Zhou Xinran has also gained some experience in controlling flames, and can accurately set fire to those mutated plants, which saves more of his supernatural power.
Cao Zhiyong hid behind the two men and pretended to brandish his machete, but he didn't even touch a zombie's skin.
Shen Youan brandished his Tang sword, aiming straight for the zombies' eyeballs and temples—vital points. His agile movements allowed him to take down a zombie with just a few swings of his sword.
Although the speed at which he kills zombies isn't fast, it's still quite impressive for an ordinary person to be able to kill a low-level zombie single-handedly.
Her injuries were no longer serious, and Xia Feng had reinforced the Tang sword once, repairing the chipped edges and nicks.
After some effort, the zombies and mutated plants around the service area were cleared away.
Lin Xuan didn't put in much effort killing the zombies, but she explained her invisibility vine to Peng Ze until her throat was hoarse, and she still couldn't explain it clearly to him.
She has given up arguing with the imaginative boy about this.
They went back and called the two people out of the car, parked the car, and then the group entered the service area.
There were quite a few zombies in the service area. Many people stopped here to rest when the apocalypse broke out, but none of them escaped.
Having worked together to deal with the zombies inside, everyone was finally able to search for supplies with peace of mind.
This service area isn't very big, and the facilities inside are all new, but it's splattered with zombie blood and brain matter everywhere.
I found quite a lot of rice and noodles in the kitchen of the canteen inside.
The vegetables, meat, and fruit were already rotten and rancid, swarming with mosquitoes and flies.
They picked out the well-packaged rice and flour and put them into Pengze Space first, planning to sort them later. As they walked in, they saw a small supermarket.
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