The oil depot in J City is more than 100 kilometers away from the previous grain warehouse. She drove very fast, but due to road conditions, it still took her more than an hour to reach the vicinity of the oil depot in J City.
This place is located on an artificial hill created by filling in land in J City. From a distance, the hill looks like a small mound, only a little over 100 meters high. It is in a remote location, which is intended to protect the oil depot from flooding and ensure its safety.
Lin Ruo scanned the area with her mental energy and found that there were actually seven or eight residential areas here. In her previous life, when she came here with the team, all the buildings except for the oil depot in the middle had been razed to the ground.
Looking at these buildings, a small town ecosystem has already formed here. Outside several super-large residential areas are large supermarkets, convenience stores, breakfast shops, restaurants, and milk tea shops. It includes not only all kinds of essential shops and facilities, but also a kindergarten and a primary school.
These were all built for the workers who worked in the oil depot and their families, which shows how large the oil depot is.
However, by this time, these school shops were already deserted, and there were many cracks and signs of collapse on the buildings. The shelves in supermarkets and convenience stores were overturned, and some useless goods were scattered on the ground inside.
The streets were littered with flyers and billboards, and some vehicles were dented and damaged, creating a desolate scene.
Lin Ruo sat in the car and looked at the huge oil depot in the distance under the night sky. Rows of white oil tanks were placed inside, which looked particularly pleasing.
If she hadn't discovered some "uninvited guests" inside these buildings, she would have already run in to collect the oil tanks.
Lin Ruo was very familiar with these "uninvited guests"—mutant rats. The mutant rats in City B were blown to smithereens by missiles, but the mutant rats in City J came to the oil depot to make their home.
Lin Ruo frowned slightly. What's wrong with these rats? There's a grain depot 100 kilometers away, but instead of settling there, they've chosen to settle in the oil depot. And the food here isn't edible!
She then realized that, firstly, there should have been many humans and mutated beasts here when they arrived, enough for them to have a good meal.
Secondly, there are mutated locust trees in the granary. Although there are many rats, as long as a little bit of that thing is left, it can grow back. It's obvious who wins and who loses. Otherwise, these rats wouldn't have been driven here.
People from J City would keep sending people over to obtain refined oil resources, and these people became the "food" for these mutated rats. Over time, these rats made their home here.
But these rations are still not enough. Now, in order to survive, these mutated rats not only have to go out and hunt other humans and mutated animals, but when they are very hungry, they will also devour their own kind, just like raising poisonous insects.
The number of mutated rats in these buildings was only about one-thousandth of that in the B City base at the time. It is unknown whether this was due to some method used by the J City base or the result of these mutated rats devouring their own kind.
Devouring one's own kind isn't all bad. At least among the rats within Lin Ruo's mental range, there are already 5 level 2 crystal cores, and their growth rate is quite fast!
Lin Ruo's lips curled slightly under her mask. No matter the reason, wasn't this a gift from heaven?
She originally came to collect finished oil, but she didn't expect to run into such a good thing. She thought that she would not have such a large opportunity to collect crystal cores after the insect swarm!
Unexpected windfall!
However, before dealing with these rats, we need to store the finished oil in the oil depot into our spatial storage space to avoid any unforeseen problems.
Instead of driving in, she turned around, put the car away in her spatial storage, and then quickly rushed into the oil depot with her invisibility water shield.
She stood atop the tallest oil tank and used her mental energy to examine it. She discovered that one or two tanks had been bitten open. The mutated rats probably thought the tanks contained food, but after biting them open, they found that they were full of finished oil.
Fortunately, the extremely cold weather froze all the finished oil, otherwise, if this stuff had spilled all over the ground and there had been even a tiny spark, the place would have exploded.
After a thorough search, finding no other dangers, Lin Ruo jumped off the oil tank and used a skateboard to weave between the large oil tanks. Her eyes flashed with white light as she used her spatial blades to sever the pipes on the oil tanks, storing the finished oil along with the huge tanks into her spatial storage.
As large quantities of refined oil were loaded into her space, Lin Ruo was overjoyed. There must be hundreds of thousands of tons of refined oil, enough for her to use for several lifetimes!
After loading the finished oil, she narrowed her eyes slightly. Now it was time to deal with that huge pile of crystal cores.
She stealthily approached the center of these buildings. The commotion in the oil depot had been minimal and hadn't attracted the rats' attention. She first approached the location of the five level 2 crystal cores, where she discovered that there was also a rat king among the group of rats.
This rat king wasn't as cautious as the rat king in City B. That rat king was intelligent and knew how to play it safe. This rat king, on the other hand, brazenly sat in the very center of the rat swarm, happily enjoying the flesh and blood offered to him by the surrounding rats, constantly chewing on it.
As expected, he hasn't experienced the harsh realities of society!
A bright blue light shone in her eyes, and ice instantly spread outward from her. This time, because her mental strength had increased significantly, the ice spread even faster than before, reaching several hundred meters in an instant!
The rats sensed danger and began to run desperately away, but Lin Ruo was too close to them; how could they possibly keep up with Bing's speed?
Before they could even escape the range of Lin Ruo's superpower, they were all frozen into popsicles.
After using this move, Lin Ruo's face was only slightly pale, but his eyes shone brightly with white light as he collected all the frozen mutated rats into his spatial storage.
"Ah Liu's fruit is indeed amazing. In just half a year, I used this move and not only did the range increase a lot, but I also still had energy left after using it!"
This trip was very fruitful. In addition, she did not feel tired when she used the large-scale freezing technique, which made her even happier. She then focused her mental energy into the space and added another mutated beast to A-Liu in the space.
Ah Liu's willow branch was groping around the remaining few mutated beasts, wanting to eat them but unable to, when suddenly another mutated goat appeared in front of it!
A-Liu's willow branches first darted to the side a few times, and then two branches tentatively pierced into the goat's body. Seeing that Lin Ruo didn't stop it, it began to eat happily. What a great day! There's an extra meal!
Lin Ruo withdrew her mental energy from the space, still smiling. Ah Liu was just too cute.
With all the dangers here resolved, Lin Ruo took out the oversized truck from his spatial storage and drove back to the grain depot.
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