Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 168 Bizarre Rules! Hope for the Survivors!

The next day, as the convoy was traveling, Chu Sheng woke up in his large bed.

Under his renovation, the bedroom now has four doors.

It has a gate on each of the four sides.

The front door leads to the driver's cab, the left and right doors connect to the side doors, and the rear door connects to the cargo box.

The gate ahead is now open, and you can see the Butcher driving the Netherlight following the off-road vehicle in front.

The cab is not large, with seats on the left and right, and a space of about two meters in the middle.

Only the seats on the left and right sides can see outside through the glass; the glass in the middle aisle is blocked by red scales and the vehicle's frame.

Chu Sheng sat up, took the red and white bone bow from beside the bed, walked to the driver's seat, and sat in the passenger seat, sizing up the butcher.

The butcher is different now.

The butcher used to be shirtless, wearing only a pair of shorts, but now he's wearing a dark white vest.

At this moment, the butcher was driving, holding the panting cat's head in his left hand, gripping the steering wheel with his right hand, and eight tentacles attached to the seat with suction cups behind him.

Hmm, the butcher looks even stranger now.

If this were placed before the apocalypse, an ordinary person would lose sanity just by looking at it.

Its hands are cat and dog paws, its feet are chicken claws, its skin is blue, its mouth has protruding zombie fangs, and eight octopus tentacles sway behind it. With its blue face and fangs, it is ferocious. Its left hand is holding a baring cat head, and even though it is holding the steering wheel, its right hand still holds a pig-slaughtering knife.

Even in the apocalypse, seeing it unexpectedly would be quite startling.

(This will have to do; the cat's head should be in the other hand.)

Not only the butcher, Chu Sheng also observed the Netherworld Light.

There was no longer any wriggling flesh inside; he made full use of the properties of the shredded cloth, wrapping the wriggling flesh inside.

The skull on his head was gone; he had turned it into flat bones, and the green will-o'-the-wisps spread from the skull's eye sockets to all the bones.

The framework of the Netherworld Light is formed of bones, so the entire interior of the vehicle is filled with eerie green ghost fire, which cannot be stopped even by the writhing flesh and cloth covering it.

"Aside from the will-o'-the-wisps being a bit eerie, everything else is pretty good," Chu Sheng commented with satisfaction.

He only changed the exterior of the vehicle and the layout of the cab and bedroom; the interior of the cargo box remained largely unchanged, except that it was divided into two spaces.

The two spaces each occupy half of the space.

One is a freezer, and the other is at normal temperature.

He had noticed earlier that the supplies inside the cargo container were overfrozen.

Apart from some foods that need to be stored for a long time, other supplies will freeze and spoil if placed at such low temperatures.

So when he was upgrading the Nether Chariot, he also made some modifications.

Even during the renovation process, various materials were separated.

He placed supplies such as blankets, clothes, plastic buckets, laundry detergent, cups, and toothpaste in the room temperature area.

Items like rice, flour, cured meat, leftover dried goods, drinks, and beer are still kept in the freezer.

After surveying the Netherworld Light, Chu Sheng returned to the passenger seat and looked ahead through the mist, frowning particularly at the obvious black aura in front of him.

The eerie black mist was too obvious to him; even from a thousand meters away, he could still see it through the mist.

"The captain miscalculated again?" he muttered, frowning.

Just as he was speaking, the SUV at the front stopped.

As he stopped, the convoy also slowly came to a stop.

Zhu Qing, An Xi, and the others got out of the car. Seeing this, Chu Sheng summoned the butcher back, tucked him into his waistband, and also got out of the car.

Hui, Zhu Qing, and An Xi were talking, while Xingzi and An Xi listened from the side.

The sound of Chu Sheng closing the car door drew everyone's attention to him.

Upon seeing Chu Sheng, Xingzi was visibly taken aback, then exclaimed happily, "That's great! Brother Chu Sheng is awake!"

"If I didn't know you were recovering your mental strength, I would have thought something had happened to you!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Sheng frowned. "I just took a nap, what could possibly happen?"

“You’ve slept for a day and two nights!” Ah Xin said from the side. “We’re all exhausted, a good night’s sleep will do the trick. Who else has slept for more than thirty hours like you?”

Chu Sheng: "???"

Hearing what Xingzi and Ah Xin said, Chu Sheng was stunned. He had actually slept for more than 30 hours!
Just as he was in a daze, Captain Hui breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him, and said, "You woke up just in time!"

"I calculated yesterday that our team would encounter an opportunity around this time today."

"So I've been calculating, and I just happened to figure out that the opportunity was just ahead."

"If you hadn't woken up, you would have missed this opportunity."

Chu Sheng: "."

Chu Sheng, who had been somewhat stunned, fell silent upon hearing his words.

If he wasn't mistaken, there was a strange creature in front of him.

For a moment his expression was somewhat strange.

Zhu Qing, oblivious to his strange expression, exclaimed with some delight, "What a stroke of luck!"

"If the captain says it's something he got by chance, it must be very useful!"

"Maybe I can go straight to Sequence 7!"

"I never thought there would be a chance even in the apocalypse."

Not only him, but the others were also somewhat happy.

After all, this is good news.

"The opportunity you're talking about is that strange creature?" Chu Sheng remained silent for a moment before looking at the motionless black mist in front of him.

Chu Sheng's words made everyone turn to look at Team Leader Hui.

Hui was covered in sweat.

After all, it was already common knowledge among the team members that Chu Sheng could see things that they couldn't.

Team Leader Hui wiped his sweat, felt everyone's gaze, and coughed lightly, "Don't rush, let me calculate."

As he spoke, he took the tortoise shell out of his pocket.

He shook the tortoise shell, pausing occasionally, while his right hand continuously made calculations.

A minute later, he slowly exhaled, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

"You didn't miscalculate! You didn't miscalculate!"

"That strange creature was indeed a stroke of luck!"

"That's a creature with bizarre rules!"

"The rules are bizarre?" Kyoko asked疑惑地. "What are they?"

She had lived in the walled compound for a long time, and although she had witnessed some strange occurrences, the intellectual woman had kept her presence to a minimum, so there weren't many. Strange occurrences with established rules were even rarer.

Upon hearing her words, Hui explained, "The supernatural can be roughly divided into two types."

"One type is the kind of weird we often encounter, which only rely on their own abilities and physical strength to fight."

"This kind of strangeness is less like strangeness and more like monster."

"Another kind of weirdness is the weirdness with special rules. For example, if someone calls you from behind while you are walking at night, as long as you turn around, no matter how strong you are, you will die instantly."

"They kill people with rules; if you defy their rules, you will die."

"This strangeness is the strangeness of the rules."

Kyoko nodded in sudden realization, but then stared at him with wide eyes, "The one ahead has weird rules, let's just run!"

"Why go there?!"

She wasn't the only one who thought this way; Zhu Qing, An Xi, and Old Man Li all thought the same thing, and Chu Sheng even ran towards the Netherworld Light.

He's going to drive away!

Seeing Chu Sheng turn and run towards the Netherworld Light, Captain Hui hurriedly said, "Don't go!"

"That strange creature isn't too dangerous! Besides, it can't move!"

"That's why I mentioned the opportunity!"

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng stopped what he was doing and returned to their side.

"I didn't leave, I just slept for a while and wanted to stretch my body," Chu Sheng said without changing his expression.

Xingzi watched him from the side, somewhat worried, "Brother Chusheng, let me check you out later."

An Xi curled her lip in disapproval. "Simp!"

Chu Sheng is clearly just being stubborn; can't you see that?

No wonder he was tricked into becoming crippled by Chu Sheng.

Everyone except Xingzi knew what kind of person Chu Sheng was, and even Lu Guan roughly understood Chu Sheng's personality.

So they didn't take his explanations to heart and simply ignored them.

Chu Sheng glanced at Xingzi, thought for a moment, and nodded, saying, "No need, I'm fine."

"But."

Before Kyoko could say anything more, Captain Hui interrupted her, saying, "Alright, let me tell you about that weird ability of the one in front of us."

"Yesterday I only calculated that there is something here that will boost the team's overall strength, but I didn't calculate what exactly it is."

"I just did a detailed calculation."

"Although the strange creature in front is a rule-based strange creature, it cannot move and poses basically no threat to us."

"Stop beating around the bush, just tell me what that weird rule is," Zhu Qing said impatiently from the side.

Hui glanced at him but didn't take it to heart. He said directly, "Its rules are simple: it swallows food and then spits out offerings, extraordinary materials, or other items."

"There's such a strange thing?!" Chu Sheng was puzzled. "Aren't all strange things supposed to be chasing and hunting us, preying on humans?"

“That makes sense, but since it’s a rule-based anomaly, it can’t be judged by logic.” Team Leader Hui shook his head. “Actually, this anomaly might be capable of hunting humans.”

"But it can't move," Xingzi asked疑惑地. "If it can't move, how can it hunt us?"

Upon hearing this, Hui simply smiled and looked at Chu Sheng.

Chu Sheng sighed and explained, "The strange creatures hunt humans because they want to eat us to obtain life force."

"Although that strange creature in front can't move, if it really can swallow food and spit out offerings and extraordinary materials as the captain said, then someone will feed it."

"Isn't it a form of hunting if someone feeds him humans?"

"Huh?!" Kyoko's mouth dropped open in disbelief.

Zhu Qing was also somewhat surprised.

"These weird things have all started using this trick?"

"Chu Sheng is right. This strange creature can't move and can only wait to be fed, so it's not a threat."

Hui added from the side, "Any team that discovers this will simply take it with them."

"But food is finite."

"Especially during the apocalypse, because new food cannot be produced and food from before the apocalypse will expire over time, food shortages are inevitable."

As he spoke, he glanced at Old Man Li out of the corner of his eye and continued, "Once food is scarce, there won't be enough for us to eat, so naturally we won't be able to feed this monster. But monsters can eat people."

"At this time, those who want to obtain the offerings will kill each other and exchange their own kind for the offerings."

Hui's expression turned serious. "Moreover, in my calculations, the probability of it giving a sacrifice when fed normal food is very, very small, and even if it does, it will only give a relatively weak sacrifice."

"However, there is still a chance of getting extraordinary materials. It's about one in ten out of every hundred catties of food."

"And when you feed a human, no matter how heavy it is, as long as it is a corpse, there is a 30% chance of obtaining a sacrificial offering."

"If a living person feeds him, there is a one-in-five chance that he will receive a sacrifice."

"However, most of the offerings are relatively weak, and their ranking will not exceed nine thousand."

"Tsk." Chu Sheng gave a somewhat disdainful assessment upon hearing this, "It's tasteless but a pity to throw it away."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Just as Chu Sheng said, it was tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.

There is only a one in ten chance of obtaining extraordinary materials from one hundred kilograms of food.

They've all been through the Penguin gacha system before, so they don't believe in this stuff at all.

Even for them, 100 jin of food is considered quite a lot.

"It won't be of much use to us, but it's a glimmer of hope for the survivors." Hui shook his head. "There has to be some hope in the apocalypse."

An Xi nodded rather nonchalantly.

Survivors need hope, and so do those with sequence abilities.

The survivors' hope lies in the bizarre creature that spews out offerings, while the hope of these sequence ability users lies in the City of Dawn!

She firmly believed this!
Thinking it over, she gripped the black jade bone spear tightly and said with a determined expression, "I'll go and bring that strange creature back."

"I'll go too!" Zhu Qing pulled the telescopic steel baton out of his sleeve, transforming it into a two-meter-long baton.

Hearing what the two of them said, Captain Hui nodded, "Then you two go."

"But be careful. Although I calculated that the strange creature has no offensive power, no one can guarantee anything about this kind of thing."

"Okay!" An Xi nodded, picked up the black jade bone spear and ran forward, leaving her voice behind.

"I'll be careful!"

Zhu Qing, on the other hand, directly transformed his body into a height of fifteen meters, taking a stride of more than ten meters.

(End of this chapter)