Steamed fish head with chopped chili peppers is fine, it's a gold entry for every level.

Shen Wen tossed a treasure chest to Liu Min, after all, Liu Min had also contributed.

"What is this?"

Liu Min looked puzzled, while Shen Wen paused for a moment before saying, "Killing monsters will drop treasure chests!"

"Huh? Aren't treasure chests dropped randomly?"

"You didn't kill any zombies?" Shen Wen was stunned. Could this guy have run away from the very beginning?

"Who would run straight into a zombie the first thing they see!" Liu Min muttered, her tone tinged with regret, and couldn't help but glance at Shen Wen's Wuling MINI.

Could it be that the modification parts that can make him grow bigger came from a treasure chest?

Am I losing out too much?

Upon hearing Liu Min's words, Shen Wen realized that it was indeed true. When he first encountered the zombies, he hadn't intended to just run into them.

Unless you're already tied to a truck at the start, most people would probably just drive away, not to mention there's a black fog chasing you.

Shen Wen opened the other two treasure chests.

[Open 2 white resource chests]

[White Experience Card *2]

[Mineral water *1]

[Dog meat flavored biscuits *2]

Better than nothing, Shen Wen tossed it into the trunk, got back into the car, and looked at the industrial zone in the distance. The strength of this industrial zone was beyond his expectations.

They've only been inside for a short time, and there are already predatory corpse dogs. Shen Wen doesn't even dare to imagine what might happen if they go any deeper.

But fortune favors the bold. Thirty-odd zombies are not a problem for Shen Wen as long as he plays it safe.

This is a blue treasure chest...

Shen Wen tapped his fingers on the steering wheel as he pondered.

On the other side, Liu Min stood outside the car, the wind blowing her ponytail and revealing her slender neck.

She took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, and quickly walked to Shen Wen's car window, bent down and knocked on the glass.

The sound of knocking on the car window interrupted Shen Wen's thoughts. "What's wrong?"

Shen Wen rolled down the car window, and a faint scent of perfume wafted in. He frowned slightly. This woman was wearing perfume even on a road to survival?

"What's your name, handsome guy?"

"Just call me handsome." Shen Wen had no intention of revealing his name, at least not now.

Liu Min seems to be a normal person at the moment, but who knows what will happen as her struggle for survival continues?

Don't test human nature.

"Handsome," Liu Min's voice softened slightly, with a hint of deliberate languor, "How about... we walk together?"

As she spoke, she leaned forward slightly, and the collar of her windbreaker inadvertently opened a little.

Her breath was sweet as orchids, her eyes were alluring, and she even blinked.

Shen Wen: "..."

He stared at Liu Min expressionlessly, his gaze unwavering, as if he were looking at a stray cat trying to scam him.

"First," Shen Wen held up one finger, "you helped me just now, so I gave you a treasure chest and told you the rules of the black mist. We're even now."

He then raised a second finger: "Second, stop slutting around here."

Liu Min's expression froze instantly.

"You..." Her face flushed red, both ashamed and angry. "I was the most beautiful girl in my department in college! You could refuse, but this..."

"The most beautiful girl in the department?" Shen Wen looked her up and down. "This is a survival game, not a beauty pageant. Your tricks won't work here."

Liu Min opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but found herself speechless.

Shen Wen glanced at the sky. The sun had already sunk halfway below the horizon, leaving only the last rays of its afterglow to tinge the gray road with a dark red hue.

He frowned slightly, as if he had caught a sound in his ear.

The sound of the wind.

It wasn't an ordinary wind, but a low, howling sound that seemed to come from a very distant place.

He looked up at the industrial area in the distance. The tall factory buildings cast huge shadows in the twilight, like a lurking beast.

The blue treasure chest was right there, along with over thirty zombies and predatory zombie dogs lurking somewhere.

Not reconciled.

But night is approaching.

This was the first night of their struggle for survival. Shen Wen knew without a doubt that nighttime would be no safer than daytime.

Although the black mist has stopped moving, who knows what might emerge from the darkness?

He glanced at the time on the dial.

Current time: 17:54

Current temperature: 16℃

"16 degrees?" Shen Wen was taken aback.

He remembered that when he first entered this world, the temperature was around 20 degrees Celsius.

It's only been a few hours and the temperature has dropped by five degrees?

Not right.

He looked up at the last rays of the setting sun on the horizon, then glanced at the industrial area not far away that was gradually being swallowed by darkness, and quickly made a decision.

"I plan to stop here for a bit and see what happens tonight," Shen Wen said, rolling up the car window.

Liu Min was left standing outside the car, her face flushing red and then turning pale.

She bit her lip, glared at the pink and white chopped chili fish head car, and turned back to her BMW X5.

But she did not leave.

It's not that I'm reluctant to part with Shen Wen, but rather...

She looked around at the empty wasteland, then at the gloomy industrial area in the distance, and then at her own SUV, which, although nice, was all alone.

Forget it, I'll just have to play it safe for now.

The door of the BMW X5 closed, and Liu Min huddled in the driver's seat, took out half a compressed biscuit, and took a bite out of resentment.

"That straight man is such a jerk! He deserves to be single forever!"

Shen Wen was unaware that Liu Min was insulting him, and even if he did, he wouldn't care.

He is currently busy sorting out today's results.

[7 White Experience Cards (Unused)]

[Green Experience Card *2 (Unused)]

[Steel: 287 jin]

Rubber: 156 catties

[Zombie meat*8, Lizard meat*3, Wild boar meat*4, Dog meat flavored biscuits*2, Luncheon meat cans*3, Self-heating rice*3, Self-heating hot pot*3, Mineral water 12 bottles]

Shen Wenxian used up all the experience cards he had.

[Use 7 white experience cards, experience +70]

[Use 2 green experience cards, experience +100]

Current vehicle experience points: 170/200

Experience isn't the problem; the most crucial factor for upgrading is actually materials.

This afternoon he dismantled more than a dozen abandoned vehicles, yielding an average of thirty to forty kilograms of steel and a dozen kilograms of rubber from each vehicle.

To collect 500 jin, at least a dozen more vehicles would need to be disassembled.

The problem is that he has already cleared out most of the abandoned vehicles in the vicinity.

If you want to find it again, you have to go to even farther places.

"Or..." Shen Wen's gaze drifted to the industrial area outside the window, "...open the treasure chest."

The drop rate for materials from treasure chests isn't low. Especially high-level chests, which can yield dozens or even hundreds of kilograms at a time. That blue chest, conservatively speaking, must contain two or three hundred kilograms of steel, right?

But the prerequisite is that he can get it alive.

Shen Wen withdrew his gaze, deciding not to rush.

Night fell.

The last rays of sunlight were swallowed by the horizon, and the whole world was plunged into darkness in an instant.

There was no moon, no stars, only the gray highway glowing faintly in the darkness and the surrounding wasteland, with shadowy figures flashing by from time to time.