Hey, I know you, your name is… Zheng Hao, right!
Zhang Chen smiled and took the initiative to greet him.
Zheng Hao nodded and replied, "Mm, yes…"
His guard was raised to the extreme.
He knew that Zhang Chen should have possessed his current strength a few days ago.
After so many days, who knew if he had become even stronger?
What if Zhang Chen wanted to kill him and seize his crystal core?
Zheng Hao had killed too many people, and naturally assumed that Zhang Chen might also kill him.
The two big men exchanged glances.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"There's nothing else, I'm leaving!"
Zhang Chen didn't know what else to say.
He had greeted Zheng Hao before because Zheng Hao was one of the few people he could talk to in this apocalypse.
"Mm, you go ahead…"
Watching the SUV speed onto Yongyu Bridge and quickly disappear from view.
Zheng Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
On the other side, Zhang Chen was somewhat surprised by Zheng Hao's growth.
Because when he saw Zheng Hao a few days ago, his strength was only at the unusually strong stage.
But today, he had reached the early awakened 1st stage, and he was a dual-talent user!
Dual-talent meant he had obtained a large number of crystal cores in a short period, thus improving his strength!
Even the most formidable warriors among the brutal and vicious Japanese were only single-talent awakened individuals.
How had Zheng Hao grown so quickly?
Zhang Chen put a question mark in his mind.
However, these things were not an urgent concern.
Getting stronger quickly was the key.
Zhang Chen had almost used up all his crystal core reserves to upgrade his ring!
Fortunately, Er Pang had left him a big gift package.
Accumulated so far, Zhang Chen still had 892 [Energy Crystal Cores].
He was still more than 80% short of the 5000 [Energy Crystal Cores] required for the upgrade!
But Zhang Chen wasn't worried.
Because he was facing a super zombie horde of hundreds of thousands!
The thing he wouldn't lack was crystal cores!
What Zhang Chen needed now was to scout these zombie hordes and then determine an efficient combat plan!
Today's morning mission was clear: to determine the effective range of explosive kills for zombies with automatic collection.
Zhang Chen drove back to the location of the Jiangbei Auto City Wall.
The laser tripwires here had already been detonated.
The collapsed cars had just blocked the gap Zhang Chen had previously reserved.
The corpses of three zombies lay there.
Their heads were blown to pieces, and the ground was a mess.
The power of the laser tripwire was indeed impressive!
It had actually taken down three zombies at once.
Zhang Chen reached out and gently touched them, recycling the three zombie corpses.
He peered through the gaps between the cars to the other side.
The street, which had been empty before, was now filled with zombies, hundreds of them at least.
They had all been attracted by the explosion.
At this moment, they were wandering aimlessly in place.
Zhang Chen perked himself up, then lightly jumped onto the top of the Auto City Wall.
He spotted a skinny zombie, leaped down, and grabbed the zombie by its hair.
The moment he touched the zombie, the energy armor enveloped him again.
"Roar~"
The zombie discovered Zhang Chen and let out a fierce roar.
However, by then, Zhang Chen had already run a couple of steps with the zombie in tow and jumped back outside the Auto City Wall.
The other zombies were stupid and hadn't noticed anything here.
These hundreds of zombies were constantly groaning, and zombies were almost immune to the sounds of their own kind.
Zhang Chen's movements were too fast and silent.
Naturally, he didn't attract the zombies' attention.
Back on the other side of the Auto City Wall.
Zhang Chen threw the zombie into a dead-end alley and quickly jumped back to the other side of the wall.
Now that the zombie couldn't see Zhang Chen, and without external stimuli, it returned to a state of aimless wandering.
Zhang Chen quickly returned to the entrance of the alley and set up a laser tripwire.
He also set a timed alarm clock for 10 minutes and placed it on the road opposite the alley entrance.
This was to ensure it wouldn't be accidentally hit by the tripwire.
Then he jogged all the way to the designated location.
This place was three kilometers away from the zombies.
Soon, the timer went off.
The alarm clock rang.
"Roar… Ugh…"
The zombies, attracted by the sound of the alarm clock, rushed frantically towards the alley entrance…
"Boom!"
A loud explosion echoed…
Zhang Chen received no prompt…
Still too far away!
"Continue!"
He repeated the same method.
Zhang Chen grabbed another zombie and threw it into the alley.
This time, he stood at a distance of 2.5 kilometers.
"Boom!"
Another explosion sounded.
Still no prompt…
"One more time!"
This time it was 2 kilometers!
"Boom!"
"Ding! You have killed a zombie!"
"Automatically collected [Energy Crystal Core] *1 (80% bonus less than 1, accumulated for next collection), [Mutated Fertilizer] *2, [Damaged Key] *1…"
It worked!
Zhang Chen adjusted the distance back to 2.1 kilometers.
"Boom!"
Still no prompt.
This indicated that the furthest automatic collection range was between 2 kilometers and 2.1 kilometers!
There was no need to test it more precisely to tens of meters; it would be a waste of time and not very meaningful.
Two kilometers!
Therefore, Zhang Chen needed to design a defense line within a radius of two kilometers.
This would maximize the benefits of collecting crystal cores and supplies!
Zhang Chen returned to the Auto City Wall.
He took out the [Reconnaissance Drone], launched it, and flew north.
Zhang Chen wore VR glasses and watched the scene through the camera in first-person view.
At first, everything was normal.
Except for the hundreds of zombies blocking the Auto City Wall.
The streets in the distance had scattered zombies, not very dense.
There were also many bloodstains on the ground, as well as wrecked cars and scorched houses from explosions.
Zhang Chen knew that the entire world had been restored.
Therefore, these remains could only be the result of survivors crossing over.
Survivors in Jiangbei had also fought fierce battles against zombies.
But now…
The entire Jiangbei regional channel was dead silent.
It was likely that there were no more survivors!
The drone continued to fly north for more than ten kilometers.
Finally, it discovered traces of the zombie horde.
From a distance, the zombies were packed tightly, one after another, squeezed together.
Dense and vast, a dark expanse.
It looked like a black tide, filling all the streets.
Looking into the distance, dust filled the sky.
The sky and the zombie horde seemed to merge, with no end in sight.
Zhang Chen knew that this smoke was the dust kicked up by the passage of a large number of zombies.
Because the zombies were constantly moving, the dust was constantly stirred up.
Thus, this phenomenon occurred!
Based on this scene.
Even a hundred thousand zombies might be a conservative estimate.
Zombies moved quickly at night and slowly during the day.
The explosions last night seemed to have greatly accelerated the southward progress of the zombie horde.
At this speed, it was estimated that the zombies would reach the Auto City Wall by tomorrow noon at the latest.
The time left for him to prepare… was running out!