Doomsday Sequence Caravan: I Have a Mechanical Heart

"How is it?" An Xin's expectant voice rang out, "Has your strength increased somewhat?"

"Yes." Su Mu nodded, also excitedly saying, "It's about forty or fifty times that of an average person."

"If we encounter the Lord's Deception again, the fight won't be as difficult."

"That's great." An Xin moved closer and took Su Mu's arm. "Once you've crafted the mechanical armor, your combat power will become even stronger."

"An Xin." Su Mu nodded, pondered for a moment, and decided to tell An Xin about the space. "I'll take you somewhere."

"???" An Xin was stunned, somewhat confused. "Where?"

"Close your eyes." Su Mu smiled slightly.

An Xin did as she was told, then closed her eyes and asked, "Can we go now?"

But the next moment, she felt her figure sway, as if the car had shaken. At that moment, she heard Su Mu's voice in her ear.

"You can open your eyes now."

An Xin opened her eyes and was immediately stunned by the scene before her. The small space, about twenty meters square, was filled with fresh air and bright light, and there was even a small patch of lush green vegetables. "Where...where is this?"

"This is my personal space," Su Mu said, pulling her to her feet. He pointed to the vegetable garden not far away, "Those are the vegetables I planted. They'll be ready to eat in a while."

"Little bok choy, wow!!" An Xin's eyes lit up. She ran a few steps, squatted down, and couldn't help but take a deep breath. "That long-lost fragrance!"

"Grow up quickly so I can eat you."

He couldn't help but chuckle as he spoke, then stood up and looked at the newly added open space. Suddenly, something occurred to him. "Right, there's such a big place. Why didn't you collect more supplies from that supermarket?"

"It grew this big after absorbing those fragments of the domain," Su Mu said, pointing to the instant noodle boxes in the corner. "Hey, the supplies I collected in the supermarket are all stored there."

"That's quite a lot." An Xin looked over and nodded. Then, realizing something, she went to Su Mu and looked at him affectionately, "Thank you for trusting me so much."

"You told me your deepest secret."

"Then you can't tell anyone." Su Mu smiled faintly and took her hand.

"Of course." An Xin nodded vigorously. "Don't worry, I will never tell anyone, not even Yu Yao."

"Do you have any secrets you can tell me?" Su Mu teased.

"Me?" An Xin thought about it seriously for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I have no secrets. I've told you everything about myself."

"Hmm," Su Mu responded, thinking that since he was already inside, he might as well plant some vegetables while the land was empty anyway. He then asked An Xin, "Do you know how to grow vegetables?"

"No, I don't know how." An Xin stepped forward and took his arm. "Teach me."

"By the way, do you have any chili pepper seeds?"

"Yes, there are plenty," Su Mu said, leading An Xin towards the shelf where vegetable seeds were stored. "You can choose whatever you want to grow later!"

Five days have passed in the blink of an eye.

They finally saw Tianlong Mountain in the distance. From afar, it resembled a giant dragon lying prone on the earth, extremely majestic and magnificent. The snow on the mountaintop was gilded with gold under the sunlight, like golden scales on a dragon's back.

Su Mu drove his car northeastward, searching for the highway on the north side of the mountain.

After trekking through the wilderness for two or three hours, we finally found the wide highway, straight as a line, stretching all the way to the horizon.

Not long after arriving at the north side of Tianlong Mountain, An Xin suddenly saw something and excitedly pointed to the southern hillside, "Su Mu! Su Mu!"

"Look over there!"

"The message Yuyao left for us."

Upon hearing this, Su Mu turned to look in the direction An Xin was pointing. He saw a line of large characters written on the hillside: "Su Mu, An Xin, if you see this, hurry and find us!"

The date they passed through this area is also written below.

"It was four days ago." An Xin looked at the date carefully and said happily, "Haha, that's great!"

"We'll be able to meet them soon."

"I wonder if Yuyao has lost weight from missing me so much."

"If they maintain their previous speed, they'll only cover about 400 kilometers a day," Su Mu calculated. "That would be 1,600 to 1,700 kilometers in four days."

"If we run at 100 km/h for ten hours a day, we can catch up with them in about three days."

"That's too fast." Upon hearing this, An Xin quickly looked at Su Mu. "You'll be very tired that way."

"Since we all know they're just ahead of us, there's no need to rush."

"Then let's go for 80 or 90," Su Mu thought for a moment. "It won't be too tiring, and we can catch up with them on the fourth day."

"Okay." An Xin nodded. Just thinking about seeing Yu Yao in a few days made her smile happily, and for a moment she felt that even the wind outside the car window was sweet.

On the canyon highway more than 1,700 kilometers ahead

Ling Hao and his convoy continued to move forward at a steady speed.

Cheng Jun sat in the living room of the RV, gazing idly at the sky outside the window, his thoughts wandering aimlessly.

Just then, the walkie-talkie in the driver's cab crackled to life, and Ling Hao's voice came through: "Cheng Jun, Xiao Ying is awake."

"She couldn't predict the location of Su Mu and the other person, saying that a mysterious force was hindering them."

"But she said it would probably be a while before she met them again."

"I understand." Cheng Jun sighed softly, got up and went to the driver's seat, picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "As long as they are safe."

"There's one more thing," Ling Hao's voice rang out again. "According to Xiao Ying's prediction, we will arrive at a huge open-air garbage dump in about three days."

"But there are a lot of strange things roaming around there, so you might need to take a detour."

"Take a detour?" Cheng Jun frowned. "What if we miss Su Mu and the others?"

"But if we don't take the detour," Ling Hao's voice came again, "with our current strength, it will be difficult to deal with the strange things there."

"Besides, it's just a junkyard; there are no supplies available."

"Besides, Su Mu and the others might not even be right behind us."

"I understand." Cheng Jun didn't say anything more after hearing this. But he still decided to leave a message in a conspicuous place when he rested.

He thought to himself, "What if Su Mu and the others are behind us?"

dusk

They hadn't yet left the canyon road, so the convoy stopped in a sheltered spot on the north side of the road.

Cheng Jun got out of the car, looked at the cliff to the south, found a flat and conspicuous spot, picked up his golden warhammer, and strode over there.