Qin Shi Lei carried the Seven Star Sword and turned to look at the lucky man.
As soon as the lucky man met Qin Shi Lei's icy gaze, his heart trembled, and he quickly said, "I am just a poor soul in the apocalypse. This is my ring, please spare my life."
After speaking, he took off the spatial ring from his hand and threw it over.
"Anything else," Qin Shi Lei said indifferently.
The lucky man quickly unfastened another string of rings from his waist and threw them over.
Because spatial rings do not disappear after a human dies, many people have collected several spatial rings.
"Scram!"
Qin Shi Lei shouted and then bent down to collect his spoils.
In the end, he counted over a hundred spatial rings. The contents inside were nothing special.
There were also various ordinary weapons.
Seventeen blue crystal cores, ten ability pearls, and sixteen bronze treasure chests.
One bronze treasure chest was missing.
The lucky man he had just dealt with had given him two bronze treasure chests in the second string of spatial rings he threw over. It was unlikely he still hid one.
He wondered if a member of the Heavenly Mandate Guild had taken advantage of the chaos to pick up a treasure chest and left early.
"Heh, can't be too greedy."
Qin Shi Lei consoled himself in his heart.
The elites and the patriarch of the Heavenly Mandate Guild were all dead. As for the remaining ordinary members, Qin Shi Lei had no intention of finding them all and killing them one by one.
As for the feud between himself and the Heavenly Mandate Guild, he believed that the ordinary members would not dare to seek revenge.
This matter was considered concluded.
After packing up his spoils, Qin Shi Lei continued to help defend the breakthrough channel.
Perhaps it was because the zombie king had escaped and more than twenty mutated zombies had died, but the remaining mutated zombies did not reappear.
The defense line remained intact until the very end.
As the breakthrough entered its final phase, Qin Shi Lei saw the Dark Moon members' convoy pass through, followed by the Ning An Martial Arts School's convoy.
Zheng Shao An, the hall master in his early forties, even stopped to greet Qin Shi Lei.
After all the civilians had left, military trucks followed.
With permission, Qin Shi Lei climbed onto a truck and retreated towards the bridge.
As the twenty to thirty tanks providing rear guard passed the bridge, ground-to-ground missiles that had been locked on accurately hit the bridge.
"Boom!"
Several loud explosions echoed, and the bridge collapsed with a roar, also intercepting the pursuing zombies on the other side of the great river.
"Hoo!"
Qin Shi Lei let out a long sigh.
Most of the survivors from Ning An City had finally broken through successfully.
Just then, a Tiger Assault Vehicle drove up and stopped in front of Qin Shi Lei.
Yang Yue stepped out from the back seat and said with a smile, "Mr. Qin has made significant contributions to this successful breakthrough. On behalf of the vast military and civilian population, I thank you."
After speaking, he bowed to Qin Shi Lei.
Qin Shi Lei quickly helped him up and said humbly, "Commander, you are too kind. Our breakthrough was entirely due to the brave fighting of the soldiers."
Yang Yue patted Qin Shi Lei's shoulder and said cordially, "Where are you from, Mr. Qin? Are you interested in serving in our military? I will make you the captain of the special forces, with the rank of Colonel."
Qin Shi Lei was surprised.
Yang Yue was truly making a great effort to win him over.
He also roughly understood that the highest rank in their unit was Yang Yue, the only Major General.
As soon as he agreed, he would be second only to the supreme leader.
If he played his cards right, he might even be able to overthrow Yang Yue and become the supreme ruler.
While fighting alone might offer freedom in the apocalypse, holding military power would make many things more convenient.
Unfortunately, he had to take Zhang Xiao Li home.
Qin Shi Lei shook his head and refused, "I need to travel to a city thousands of miles away, so I can only regretfully decline your kind offer, Commander."
"It is my regret, Mr. Yang, that I cannot fight alongside Mr. Qin."
Yang Yue said regretfully, "To express our gratitude, Mr. Qin, please ask for anything you need. If we have it, you can have it."
"A helicopter?"
"A tank?"
Qin Shi Lei said with a smile, mentioning two powerful military assets.
Seeing a hint of difficulty appear on Yang Yue's face.
Qin Shi Lei continued, "I have also dreamed of piloting a military helicopter or tank across the battlefield, but unfortunately, even if you were willing to give it to me, I wouldn't know how to operate it."
"If Commander is willing to part with it, please give me an armored vehicle."
"Certainly," Yang Yue readily agreed.
Soon, a wheeled armored vehicle, about 6 meters long, 2.6 meters wide, and 2.7 meters high, was driven to Qin Shi Lei.
The vehicle was equipped with two machine guns and one cannon.
To show his sincerity, Yang Yue also sent one hundred artillery shells and several large boxes of ammunition.
"Commander, perhaps we will meet again."
Waving to Yang Yue, Qin Shi Lei excitedly got into the armored vehicle and sped away.
Following the sense of his pet Xiao Qiang, Qin Shi Lei found An Qian and the others in the northeastern corner of a small town dozens of miles away.
Seeing Qin Shi Lei get out of the imposing armored vehicle, Zhang Qiang was full of envy.
"Want to drive it?"
Qin Shi Lei tossed the key in his hand and asked with a smile.
Zhang Qiang nodded quickly and replied, "Brother Qin, just let me have a go."
Qin Shi Lei and the few women sat in the back, letting Zhang Qiang, who was visibly excited, drive the armored vehicle forward.
The women in the carriage touched things and sat around, discussing.
"This car isn't comfortable to ride in at all. I really don't understand why you men are so fascinated by it."
"It's so big, it's hard to even make a U-turn in many places."
"It's not fast, but it's very noisy. Why is Zhang Qiang so excited?"
Qin Shi Lei smiled and explained, "Just like you don't understand why you are so obsessed with handbags, you don't need to understand why men like these imposing armored vehicles."
"That makes so much sense!" The women suddenly understood.
Zhang Qiang had his fill and drove for three to four hundred kilometers. It was already deep into the night.
Reminded by Xie Hai Mei, he finally found a two-story building by the roadside and stopped.
Xiao Qiang was released to keep watch, and everyone chose a room to rest.
As soon as Qin Shi Lei closed the door, he took out a pile of bronze treasure chests, filling the bed.
Before encountering the zombie king, Qin Shi Lei had obtained five treasure chests, and after encountering the zombie king, he had obtained sixteen more.
A total of twenty-one treasure chests.
To avoid any speculation, Qin Shi Lei chose to open the treasure chests alone.
"All the gods and Buddhas, bless me with great luck," Qin Shi Lei murmured softly.
With a touch of his hand, the first bronze treasure chest was opened.
A machine gun, a piece of bulletproof vest.
It's okay, this is just the first one, let's continue.
A bottle of Golden Wound Medicine, one blue crystal core.
This doesn't make sense. I clearly washed my hands just now when I went to the restroom.
Qin Shi Lei, unwilling to believe it, opened the third treasure chest again.
A sharp alloy Tang knife (blue), one bottle of Golden Wound Medicine.
I already have Zhang Xiao Li, the healer, and you're giving me so much Golden Wound Medicine. Are you doubting Zhang Xiao Li's healing abilities?
"Hoo!"
Calm yourself.
Let's do a ten consecutive draws.
Qin Shi Lei closed his eyes and quickly opened ten treasure chests.
When he opened his eyes, Qin Shi Lei felt like he could chop off his own hands.