Chapter 102: Evil Will Be Punished by Evil

Last night's two hours of breathing technique practice, plus a full night's rest, left Chen Ye feeling refreshed and energized today.

The temperature was steadily rising.

But Chen Ye's cockpit wasn't particularly stuffy, just hot.

Without a front windshield, or even car doors.

The wind blowing from the desert could directly hit Chen Ye's face.

The truck bed was loaded with full supplies, making the vehicle creak under the weight.

To save gasoline, Chen Ye switched the vehicle to pure electric mode.

The Apocalyptic Pickup Truck's battery had long been fully charged, though the electric drive system still used the power from that chopped pepper fish head.

Pulling this fully loaded vehicle was somewhat inadequate in power, but fortunately still usable.

Only when encountering situations like yesterday's pursuit by Anomalies did the convoy need to flee desperately.

Sometimes before the Anomalies could even react, the pathfinder had already led the convoy away from the spot.

With electricity available, Chen Ye took out the Fruit-brand electronic watch he had obtained from the Village Chief's House in Longevity Village.

When he saw the watch's screen displaying "Charging," Chen Ye felt momentarily dazed.

Such modern items were becoming increasingly rare to see.

After the electronic watch booted up, it displayed the date: December 29, 2030.

In a daze, he realized it was already the final days of 2030.

In a daze, he realized the New Year was approaching.

But this weather didn't feel at all like the New Year season.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it midsummer.

Just then, a small car in front of Chen Ye broke down.

The car shook twice before losing all power, coming to a complete stop.

Chen Ye recognized this vehicle.

This sedan belonged to survivors who had escaped from Deer City earlier.

The original owner seemed to have died in Longevity Village, and later this car was taken over by four brothers.

They could be considered the vehicle-owning class within the convoy.

In the convoy, it wasn't that no one had designs on this car - firstly, due to the convoy's rules, no one dared to steal things right under Captain Chu's nose.

Secondly, these four brothers weren't easy to provoke to begin with.

According to others in the convoy, these four brothers had originally escaped from prison.

Several people got out of the car, cursing and swearing, clearly very angry.

One of them, a bald man, looked toward Chen Ye and quickly jogged over.

Chen Ye's vehicle didn't slow down, so the bald man had to jog alongside, wearing an obsequious expression.

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, our car's out of gas, could you lend us some? When we find a gas station, we four brothers will pay you back double."

Chen Ye raised his eyebrows and pulled his sunglasses down his nose.

"Get lost!"

Chen Ye's blunt refusal made the bald man's face turn red.

Since the distance wasn't great, the other three also heard.

One of them instantly showed ferocity in his eyes, seemingly planning to confront Chen Ye.

But he was restrained by his companions.

The bald man looked extremely embarrassed, clearly not expecting Chen Ye to so thoroughly disregard his dignity.

The bald man hesitated for a moment, then quickly ran toward the modified off-road vehicle at the front.

Apparently also intending to borrow gasoline.

Fortunately, the speed wasn't very fast, so the bald man managed to catch up by running hard.

But the answer soon became clear - Chu Che had no intention of lending gasoline to these four brothers.

This made the four brothers quite irritable.

Without gasoline, they could only follow the convoy on foot, and there were no new camels available in the convoy to assign to the four brothers.

Suddenly, Chen Ye's pickup truck made a U-turn up ahead and came back.

The four men looked pleased, thinking Chen Ye had changed his mind and would lend them gasoline.

Instead, they saw Chen Ye directly take out tools, walk up to the gasless sedan, and start working.

Chen Ye was actually... actually starting to remove this car's windshield.

If the car were still functional, Chen Ye wouldn't touch it.

That would have the appearance of forcible seizure, violating the convoy rules established by Captain Chu.

But now, with the car out of gas, it counted as abandoned property. Taking action now wouldn't put Captain Chu in a difficult position, nor would it leave room for criticism.

After all, Captain Chu Che cared very much about the convoy's rules.

Chen Ye wasn't stupid enough to create conflict between himself and Chu Che.

"Chen Ye, don't push people too far!"

The lead bald man's face turned pale, his fists clenching and unclenching, clearly struggling with inner conflict and anger.

A young man was already rummaging in the trunk for weapons, intending to teach Chen Ye a lesson.

This young man was the same one who had wanted to teach Chen Ye a lesson when he refused to lend gasoline earlier.

This person ranked third among the four brothers, reckless and foolish.

Before the apocalypse, relying on his family background, he had beaten someone to death over a verbal argument and ended up in prison.

Surprisingly, thanks to his family connections, he only received a three-year sentence.

He had planned to wait for the fuss to die down, then have his family pull strings to get him out, avoiding even those three years in prison.

He never expected the apocalypse to come so quickly, escaping from prison with the others.

After joining the convoy and experiencing initial panic.

This third brother began reverting to his original arrogance and insolence.

If Iron Lion had been the one removing the car's glass, the third brother probably wouldn't have dared to act.

After all, Iron Lion's intimidation was too strong - just looking at those two heads made people's scalps tingle.

But with Chen Ye, the third brother didn't feel particularly afraid.

After all, Chen Ye and Chu Che both looked pretty similar to themselves.

The other three didn't stop him either, even intending to let the third brother show Chen Ye what's what.

These people weren't unaware of Sequence Superpowers' potency.

But their habitual thinking made them instinctively resort to violence when encountering problems.

Plus, Chen Ye was alone.

Of course, there was also Chen Ye's truckload of supplies that made their eyes red and clouded their normal judgment.

Among the survivors, everyone seemed to agree that Chen Ye was the weakest.

After all, he only had smoke control ability - what attack power could light, floating smoke possibly have?

Moreover, it had always been bad guys bullying good guys - since when did bad guys get bullied?

"Go to hell, you motherf..."

The third brother raised the steel pipe in his hand and walked behind Chen Ye, who was removing the windshield, preparing to strike down.

If this hit connected, even with Chen Ye's enhanced vitality as a superhuman, he would likely be seriously injured.

"Get lost!"

A puff of Smoke Breath exhaled.

The smoke transformed into a large hand that slapped out fiercely.

The entire process was lightning fast.

The young man was thunderstruck, blasted away like a cannonball, kicking up a trail of dust as he flew over ten meters before crashing to the ground, unconscious and bleeding profusely.

The other three stood dumbfounded like wooden chickens.

The previously arrogant bald man was experiencing Chen Ye's Sequence ability up close for the first time.

A wave of hot urine came.

The three men's legs trembled, their pants wet in the crotch area.

Chen Ye hadn't expected to achieve this level either, feeling slightly surprised internally, though his facial expression showed no change.

"Get lost!"

The three men fled in panic, not even daring to take their belongings from the car.

As for the third brother lying there unconscious, no one dared to check on him.

Not far away, the third brother trembled all over, blood overflowing from his mouth.

He suddenly remembered that youth he had beaten to death on the street - had he lain on the ground like this too, waiting for death's arrival?

Was this what they meant by "the wicked will be tormented by the wicked"?

Chen Ye glanced at the convoy that had moved some distance away and sped up his work.

There were still many usable parts on the sedan.

If the pickup truck had enough power.

Chen Ye even considered towing this car with a tow rope, planning to remove all its components later and modify them onto his pickup truck.

With the System's existence, Chen Ye didn't need to worry about compatibility issues at all.

Unfortunately, this idea could only remain a thought.

That chopped pepper fish head's power was already impressive enough to pull the fully loaded pickup truck.

It definitely couldn't pull a gasless sedan too.

After all, in the desert, the roads weren't flat, and most of the time the paths weren't that easy to travel.

The front windshield, both side mirrors... even all four wheels were removed.

But by now the convoy had moved quite far away.

Chen Ye could only reluctantly give up.

If he fell too far behind, he might attract Anomalies' attention again.

Plus, the pickup truck's load had already reached its limit.

Chen Ye gritted his teeth, pulled out the machete, and delivered two strikes at the door hinges.

The Apocalyptic Pickup Truck's doors had all been lost yesterday.

The Blood Resentment Machete was now a Wonder, so cutting through door hinges wasn't difficult.

He threw the two doors into the truck bed, and casually placed the ill-fitting car glass where the pickup's original windshield should be, tying it loosely with rope - temporarily functional was good enough.

After all, in apocalyptic driving, there was no such thing as traffic police.

When the System mission completed, he could have the System handle the compatibility.

As long as he spent some Slaughter Points, the System could adapt these components to be like original equipment.

Chu Che in the front vehicle watched Chen Ye's situation, particularly clearly seeing that slap.

Captain Chu marveled: "This kid, it hasn't been that long - could he be another genius too?"