The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

Su Mu's eyes lit up; the effect was good. But he didn't rush to confirm, because there was still a fusion direction to consider.

The system continues scrolling down:

[Zombie King's Heart (Yellow Legendary Material): Upon installation, grants the cable car the passive "Building Symbiosis"... The cable car can connect to other auxiliary buildings, absorbing 30% of their defense and health to replenish itself; Special: The cable car cannot be completely destroyed while other buildings are present.]

Su Mu chose the Zombie King's Heart without hesitation.

This passive ability becomes more powerful as the game progresses... The more buildings it carries, the more survivable the cable car becomes.

While the Ice and Fire Staff is good, it's ultimately just an added bonus in terms of effect.

With the Zombie King's Heart, he no longer needs to worry about the cable car being destroyed in an attack... As long as the other buildings are still alive, he still has the potential to turn the tide.

The upgrade progress bar has started to jump.

[Cable car upgrade in progress... Estimated time: 24 hours]

[Because you are the first survivor to fuse materials of purple rank or higher and upgrade the cable car to level 5, this upgrade will be completed automatically.]

[Cable car upgrade complete... Current level: Lv5]

[The space has been expanded to 64 cubic meters, allowing for the construction of 6 additional attack buildings. Existing non-special-level attack buildings can be directly upgraded using Ghost Crystals.]

[New Passive Skill: Building Symbiosis]

Su Mu looked at the line of text and let out a long sigh of relief.

He opened the panel and glanced at the cable car's attributes.

The space was twice as large as before, enough for him to store more supplies and equipment. And the passive ability of "architectural symbiosis" meant that he could hang more things on the outside of the cable car without worrying about weight-bearing issues.

Just as he was about to take a break, another system notification popped up:

[Upgrading the cable car level triggers one of three talent options.]

Su Mu perked up and sat up straight.

He thought he had already gained a lot from this trip, but he didn't expect there to be an unexpected surprise.

Three gilded cards appeared before my eyes.

This time there are no rules or flame icons.

The first is the building category: resource consumption is reduced by 10% when constructing attack buildings.

The second one is a human: When attacking, there is a 1% chance to inflict lightning power, paralyzing the target for 0.1 seconds; when attacked, there is a 10% chance to interrupt the target's spellcasting.

The third category is information: the scope of investigation has increased by 10%.

Su Mu looked at the options and chose the second one.

Although it wasn't a rule-based event, he noticed that the 1% probability, if combined with his other talent... "always getting the best part when facing unknown blind box events that are a mix of good and bad"... might have a special effect. It could directly become 100%.

Even if he can't, the sheer number of attacks he lands each time is enough to amplify that 1% probability considerably in actual combat. It's a decent ability boost.

Su Mu shifted his gaze from the talent panel to the grayish-white, fist-sized object in the corner. A portal to another dimension...

The reward with three question marks that I drew from the Roulette Rift. Number Seven had said before that this item was beyond what they should have at this stage, and the Rift itself was frantically preventing him from obtaining it.

If it weren't for his talent forcibly locking in the "best" result at the crucial moment, he would never have been able to bring this thing out alive. Su Mu squatted down and picked up the grayish-white, translucent stone.

The surface was covered with fine cracks, and a dark red light flowed slowly deep within the cracks, as if something was sleeping inside.

"Let's give it a try." Su Mu walked to the mounting slot on the side wall of the cable car and put the teleportation portal in.

A system prompt popped up: "The portal to another dimension has been installed. Activate?" Su Mu selected "Confirm." The entire cable car suddenly shuddered, as if something within the walls had revived.

The cracks on the portal's surface began to widen, and dark red light surged from them, spreading along the walls like blood, before coalescing into a fist-sized, constantly rotating dark red vortex at the top of the cable car.

The next second, something fell out of the vortex.

It is about the size of a palm, with a grayish-black body, like a skinned bat. Its wing membranes are so thin that light can pass through them, its claws are long and curved, its head is small, and its mouth has a row of fine, needle-like sharp teeth.

Its eyes were dark red, without pupils, only two tiny points of light flickering in their sockets. After falling, it flapped its wings twice, then hovered steadily in mid-air, glancing in Su Mu's direction...

That glance was devoid of any emotion; it was purely a confirmation of its target. Then it turned, slipped out of the cable car, and flew towards the ruins of Ash City below.

Then the second, the third, the fourth...

One by one, they fell out of the vortex, flapped their wings a few times, and then flew off in the same direction. In less than a minute, dozens had flown out of the cable car. Su Mu opened the system panel and found a small map had appeared in the corner of his field of vision...

It wasn't his own perception range, but the perspective of those bats, transmitting images back in real time. In the dim light, he could clearly see the rubble, ruins, cracks in the street, and the monster huddled in the corner.

Su Mu was somewhat shocked. Then, he opened the portal's attribute panel and read it carefully. 【Portal to Another Dimension (???)】

[Integrated with a cable car; if the cable car is destroyed, the portal will also be destroyed.]

[Effect: Generates 1 Lv1 flying attack unit per second]

Unit Attributes: Strength 5, Constitution 5, Agility 5, Spirit 5

[Control method: Uncontrollable, indiscriminately attacks units not owned by the user]

[Attack Priority: Creatures > Mutated Monsters > Other Hostile Targets]

[Upgrade Method: Consume a large number of monster corpses]

Su Mu glanced at the attribute list and quickly began to calculate in his mind...

One per second, that's sixty per minute, six hundred per ten minutes, and three thousand six hundred per hour. Given enough time to accumulate them, he could easily build a terrifyingly large army.

While the damage from level one creatures is low, their sheer numbers can be devastating; the saying "too many ants can kill an elephant" is no longer a metaphor. But he quickly frowned again. "Uncontrollable"—those four words were a major problem.

If these bats fly out and become completely unruly, they are no different from wild monsters, and may even startle the prey that is meant to be hunted.

Fortunately, there's still the option to upgrade... As long as enough monster corpses are fed in, these bats still have room to grow. Su Mu refocused his attention on the bats that had already flown away.