Mobile Shelter

At this point, the convoy had almost exhausted all its supplies except for fuel.

It could be said that this is the period with the fewest supplies since the team was formed.

Moreover, the fleet, which originally consisted entirely of heavy trucks converted into campervans except for Dong Qi's own truck, now has many "unregular vehicles".

While the convoy was stationed at a temporary camp, some ordinary people in the convoy could not resist the temptation to leave the convoy, or were hypnotized by the mental suggestions in the secret realm and entered the spaceship alone or in a group.

In short, during this period, quite a few ordinary people left the convoy, and even some friends of official members left the convoy.

Of course, there are old members who leave, and there are new members who voluntarily join the team.

The Wind Chaser team didn't impose any restrictions on the ordinary people in the team. So, whether leaving or joining, only Lu Ziye's co-driver was roughly registered, and there weren't many other requirements.

However, the elderly who left could not take with them the supplies that the convoy had left for ordinary people as backup. Newcomers to the convoy had to go through three supply collection operations.

In addition, they must hand over a certain amount of supplies in order to enjoy the same level of support supplies as the elderly in the convoy during times of shortage.

This means that during this period, even when supplies are scarce, the team will provide the veteran members with a minimum living allowance every day.

Even if the new members who join the team starve to death, the team will not provide them with any supplies.

In addition, the heavy-duty RVs driven by ordinary people, which originally had a relatively cramped interior space due to the large number of people, have become more spacious as some of the older members have left.

The new recruits who joined the fleet later were not assigned to the heavy-duty RVs, which is why there are other types of vehicles in the fleet.

At this point, the members within the team once again differentiated into different levels.

At the very top level, without a doubt, are the formal members like Dong Qi who have awakened their supernatural abilities.

Next in line are the newly joined Awakened Ones. Dong Qi has not returned to the team, so he is unaware of the personal circumstances of those newly joined Awakened Ones.

The third category consists of ordinary people who have been following the caravan. Although these people have never awakened any special abilities, they have enjoyed the benefits of the destruction of the secret realm several times because they followed the caravan, so their physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people before the natural disaster.

The last few were ordinary people who had just joined the team.

Of course, this division method, although not explicitly stated, has become an unspoken rule within the team.

With the turnover of new and old personnel, the Chengfeng team now has nearly fifty vehicles and more than five hundred members, making it a medium-sized team.

Dong Qi didn't pay much attention to the situation inside the caravan. After another three days, all the metals Dong Qi had collected in the upper secret realm had been refined, and the level of the car frame had been upgraded again.

My personal item type: Lightly modified vehicles.

Dong Qi's physical strength: comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator

Grade: Spiritual Artifact

Body frame: Reinforcement level LV39

Power System: Enhancement Level 20

Electrical appliances:

Composite Radar: LV10

Oxygen generator: LV10

Thunder Dragon Electromagnetic Cannon: LV20

Intelligent Hub: LV20

Robotic arms (six): LV20

Laser Cannon (Cluster Type): LV10

Laser Cannon (Scattering Type): LV10

Signal communication base station: LV1

Concealment/Invisibility Device: LV1

Other devices:

Hundred Refinement Furnace LV20

Eijin Casserole LV10

Mechanical Guardian: LV25

Swarm of multi-functional drones (40 units)

Mechanical wolves (modified) (five)

Shield Guards: (four)

Four-armed sword-wielding slashers (melee) (2)

Simulated scouts (2)

Farm space:

Planting area: five mu

Breeding area: three mu (approximately 0.2 hectares)

Well water: trace spirituality

Warehouse: Medium-sized warehouse (cannot store live animals, but can preserve the vitality of agricultural and sideline products)

Houses: Villa

Waste treatment plant: (micro)

Miniature power station: (micro)

Manifestation of ideas

Number of occurrences: 5

Origin Energy: 683889

Although no reward of Origin Energy was obtained after destroying the secret realm this time, the amount of Origin Energy stored up was already close to 700,000 because Dong Qi had monopolized the reward for destroying the secret realm last time.

The gap between the million energy required to exchange for the spiritual treasure is only a little over 300,000.

Even if he can no longer obtain the reward of exclusively destroying the secret realm, as long as he destroys two or three more secret realms, Dong Qi can still accumulate enough primal energy to reach a million units.

The amount of metal material obtained this time is several times greater than the total amount of all the metal materials Dong Qi had obtained before.

Even so, they still hadn't accumulated enough metal material to fill the entire vehicle frame.

Faced with a material shortage of only one level remaining, Dong Qi did not hoard the remaining materials. Instead, he upgraded some projects that were too low-level.

For example, Dong Qi had never strengthened the power system of his car before, but after strengthening the body frame this time, he found that his car not only drove very slowly, but also consumed a lot of energy.

After a self-check by the vehicle's AI, it was finally confirmed that the car was in this situation because its body frame was of an excessively high grade and its power system could not provide enough power.

Therefore, Dong Qi had no choice but to upgrade the power system.

Besides the power system, Dong Qi also used the remaining metal materials to slightly upgrade the levels of some other commonly used projects.

Therefore, the metal materials that were originally going to fill the material storage space of the Hundred Refinement Furnace were squandered by Dong Qi in a short period of time.

The metal materials that had been painstakingly collected over the past month or so were instantly transformed into nourishment for strengthening various projects related to the vehicle.

Despite having used up all the reserved metal materials, Dong Qi still wanted to upgrade the vehicle frame from level 39 to level 40.

Although it also requires a huge amount of metal materials, after testing, it is estimated that if we use primal energy to exchange for them, it will only consume about 300,000 units of primal energy to solve the problem.

Therefore, Dong Qi still needs to continue collecting metal materials, but it is no longer an urgent need.

After several days of trekking, the convoy did not encounter any hidden realms or fallen cities, but it was fortunate enough to come across some abandoned villages.

In these abandoned villages, there were only a few scattered mutants. After clearing them out and conducting a thorough search, the convoy actually obtained a small amount of supplies in the villages.

To be honest, if modern people only eat staple foods for a short period of time, each person can't eat that much each day, just two or three pounds of staple foods is enough.

The reason why people in ancient times ate a lot was that there was a lack of oil and nutrients in ancient times. A small amount of staple food could not replenish the body's daily nutritional needs. Therefore, when there were no other foods, they could only meet their daily needs by eating a large amount of staple food.

Unlike other teams, the Chengfeng team may have had ample food reserves beforehand. Therefore, although they only ate two meals a day, since everyone was traveling and did not get much exercise, their bodies did not experience a significant energy deficit.

Therefore, in the short term, let alone just reducing the food supply, even if there is a two or three-day food shortage, it can only be considered a light fast for the veteran members of the team.

However, this situation cannot last long, because if people go hungry for a long time, the taxi fleet's morale will drop rapidly.

After a few days of getting to know each other, Dong Qi also got to know the newly joined Awakened members of the team.

Wang Xiaoai was a quiet and reserved girl who usually seemed a bit shy. But when Dong Qi saw her for the first time, he felt that she was a bit fake, after all, several months had passed since the natural disaster.

Let alone ordinary people, even awakened individuals, especially those with shy personalities, would not have survived to this point unless they were constantly protected by others.

Through their conversation, Dong Qi learned that when Wang Xiaoai joined the team, she was the only one with a car, which is why Dong Qi felt that her performance seemed somewhat fake.

However, Wang Xiaoai awakened a water-based superpower. Although, according to her, her superpower does not have any powerful offensive capabilities, it can directly condense water molecules in the air, as if creating water out of thin air, and obtain a continuous source of fresh water no matter where she is.

Whether Wang Xiaoai's superpower includes combat ability is not important to the team, but when they learned that she could create water out of thin air, everyone except Dong Qi, who was not present, agreed to her joining the team when Lu Ziye voted.

After all, obtaining clean drinking water has become almost impossible now, as the pollution sources have penetrated deep into the ground with the rainwater, resulting in the complete contamination of underground drinking water.

Therefore, at this time, unless there are some special methods that are difficult to popularize, the only way to obtain clean drinking water is to either have awakened individuals with water-based abilities create it directly or to look for unopened bottled water.

Now, an awakened individual with water-based superpowers has voluntarily joined the team. Although most of the team's official members can sense that this person is somewhat two-faced, no one cares too much, as long as she can provide water in dire situations.

Apart from Wang Xiaoai, the other awakened individuals all awakened physical-related superpowers.

Through conversation, Dong Qi learned that ordinary people could survive enough secret realms, or make a great contribution when destroying a secret realm.

So if they strengthen their physical abilities to the limit, they can awaken physical superpowers.

Of course, their awakened abilities are not like Kou Hai's, which involve enlarging their bodies; rather, they simply enhance their physical defenses or increase their personal strength.

Although everyone knows that strength-based superpowers become invincible once they reach their limit, throughout history, only the one who wielded an axe to split the heavens has ever reached that limit.

Most power-type ability users would find it very difficult to defeat other ability users at the same level.

Feeling a bit bored, Ji Yunting casually complained, "Brother Lu, how long do you think it will take our convoy to reach that so-called safe zone?"

"Who knows? Anyway, the further we go in that direction, the farther we get from the safe zone. Instead of getting shorter, the farther we get from it."

Hearing Lu Ziye's helpless sigh, everyone else also sighed helplessly.

It wasn't that they hadn't found the right direction to the safe zone; it was just that everyone knew that the primal energy reward obtained from destroying the secret realm could directly enhance physical attributes and even strengthen supernatural abilities.

Many awakened individuals began to form teams to explore the secret realm. Some teams entered the secret realm to obtain survival resources, so even if they found the core attachment of the secret realm, they would not destroy it, but would carefully hide it.

However, most explorers of secret realms, upon entering a secret realm, immediately search for the object attached to the core of the secret realm, and upon encountering it, destroy it immediately.

After all, when a secret realm is destroyed, the person who destroys its core will receive a large amount of primordial energy as a reward.

Therefore, this thing is first come, first served; if you're slow, you're out.

However, as the number of destroyed secret realms increases, the strength of the awakened ones also continues to grow.

But as the strength of the awakened ones continues to increase, the original will of Blue Star seems to have become addicted as well.

He discovered that this method would allow awakened beings on Earth to work for him and continuously obtain primordial energy.

Therefore, upon discovering that the Awakened Ones were rapidly clearing the secret realms, they also began to continuously attract remnants of otherworldly consciousness into Blue Star to form various secret realms.

With each destruction of a secret realm, the original will of Blue Star continuously gained a great deal of primordial energy, thus replenishing Blue Star, since the will of Blue Star and the physical body of Blue Star are two sides of the same coin.

It is precisely because of this that, as the fundamental will of Blue Star continues to strengthen, the size of Blue Star is also constantly increasing.

Sometimes, even though the convoy travels hundreds of kilometers in a day, due to the expansion of Earth, the distance between them and their destination not only doesn't decrease after they wake up, but actually increases by hundreds of kilometers.

The convoy is now really like rowing against the current; whenever the convoy stops to rest, the distance between the convoy and the safe zone will continue to increase.

The speed is certainly not as exaggerated as sailing against the current, but now the Blue Star will expand and grow in size once every ten days to more than a month.

The convoy stayed at the last temporary camp for more than a month, almost two months, and at the temporary camp for taking classes, it also stayed for more than half a month.

During this long period of rest, Earth expanded in size more than once.

Therefore, it is quite normal for the distance between the convoy and the safe zone to increase.

Of course, as the size of Earth continues to grow, and with the continuous emergence of awakened teams actively destroying secret realms, the situation has changed from being harassed by mutated insects to being blocked by secret realms.

Now, the convoy often encounters a safe period while on the road, during which few accidents occur.

Just as Dong Qi was figuring out how to obtain metal materials, the supplies of most of the team members were exhausted again in the past few days, and their team finally encountered a secret realm.

However, compared to the various secret realms I've encountered before, this one looks rather eerie from the outside.

In fact, unlike before when all the secret realms were in independent spaces, you could only see the environment of the secret realm by passing through the secret realm passage and truly entering the secret realm.

Now that the secret realms have descended directly onto Earth, most of them are so vast that even without actually entering their coverage area, one can see the interior of the secret realm from the outside.

Therefore, exploring the secret realm is actually much safer now than it used to be.

To give an analogy, in the past, exploring a secret realm was like gambling on a rough stone; no one knew what was inside, and everything depended on luck.

Exploring the secret realm at this time is like gambling on rough stones. Choosing those rough stones that have already been exposed is still gambling, but at least you can gather some information before buying.

The secret realm ahead of the convoy was a desolate industrial area that looked like it had been abandoned.

Outside the secret realm, the sun shone brightly, while inside, dark clouds shrouded the area.

This environment, combined with the desolate and abandoned state of the secret realm, makes it clear to anyone with a brain what dangers lie within.

However, on the other hand, most of the secret realms that were drawn to Earth by the original will of the Blue Star and transformed into otherworldly remnants are extremely dangerous, with very few exceptions.

Faced with such a seemingly dangerous secret realm, the best approach is actually the same one they used to do: drive right along the edge of the secret realm and avoid it altogether.

But that was a choice made when the caravan still had enough supplies. Now, most of the caravan members have almost exhausted their supplies, and if they want to survive, they have no choice but to risk entering the secret realm to search for supplies.

It was at this moment that Ji Yunting sighed helplessly, "If only we had a guide like those in novels in our convoy, who could not only determine which direction was dangerous, but also directly find out where we could obtain supplies."

Hearing Ji Yunting's complaint, Lu Ziye snorted coldly: "Just because our team doesn't have a guide like in the novel doesn't mean other teams don't."

If you're not happy staying in the Wind Chaser team, you can leave; no one will stop you.

Although everyone knew that Ji Yunting's earlier remarks were just a joke, no one paid much attention to Lu Ziye's reaction.

Lu Ziye reacted this way because some ordinary people had left other caravans because there were Awakened Ones in the caravans who could locate the approximate location of supplies, much like guides.

Actually, if those ordinary people had simply left the convoy, Lu Ziye wouldn't have cared too much. But when those ordinary people left the convoy, they actually tried to drive away the heavy-duty RV they were riding in.

It's important to know that the heavy-duty RVs in the convoy weren't ordinary people's private cars. They were vehicles that Lu Ziye had asked the other official members to generously contribute money to purchase for the convoy.