Chapter 116: Eight-limbed Human Face

The entire down jacket specialty store was filled with the excited voices of survivors.

They had never realized that staying warm could be such an important matter.

Before the apocalypse, supplies were extremely abundant - every household had several down jackets and winter coats for the cold season.

It wasn't until they arrived in this frozen world that everyone understood clothing was also crucial supplies.

Of course, these clothes needed to be brought back to camp, as many survivors there were still wearing summer clothes.

Outside the specialty store, goose feather snow continued to fall heavily.

Ding Dong walked out of the store wearing a black short down jacket, accompanied by a thin young man.

"Are you sure you can do this?"

The thin young man quickly nodded: "Sister Ding Dong, don't worry, there's no vehicle Fourth Brother He can't start."

This person was indeed one of the four who escaped from Deer City, the lowest ranked - Fourth Brother He.

This guy had also ended up in prison for theft, and after joining the convoy, when the original owner of that vehicle stayed behind in Longevity Village and never came out, it was Fourth Brother He who stepped up and managed to drive the vehicle away.

When many survivors escaped from the city, there were indeed many vehicles on the roads.

But most survivors simply didn't have the ability to drive a vehicle away without the keys.

Smashing car windows was easy, but actually starting a vehicle and driving it away was difficult.

The movie trope of pulling out two wires under the steering wheel and connecting them to start the car was clearly very difficult to achieve in reality.

And this method only worked on older model vehicles.

More than half of vehicles on the road today are electric cars, making this method completely impossible.

In this day and age, unless you're a professional, ordinary people shouldn't even think about it.

For average people, stealing even an electric scooter without keys is challenging, let alone a four-wheeled sedan.

And the Fourth Brother He before them was clearly a professional among professionals.

His current expression showed complete confidence, and even the sleazy aura on his face had diminished considerably.

Ding Dong looked around, her eyes lighting up when she spotted a panel van.

The van's cargo compartment still bore the advertising slogan of some delivery company.

Ding Dong wanted to acquire a vehicle, and Chu Che strongly supported this idea of hers.

The convoy currently had a major problem - their cargo loading capacity was very poor.

Previously, all those camels had to be abandoned because they couldn't fit in the vehicles, which Chu Che deeply regretted.

This time when they came out, Ding Dong wanted to get a panel van - it would make a good supply support vehicle for the convoy.

After learning that Fourth Brother He had this skill, she had someone bring him along on this trip.

No one had expected that when the apocalypse came, Fourth Brother He's particular talent would become highly sought after.

"This one, give it a try!"

"Just watch me work my magic!"

Fourth Brother He gave a sneaky smile, pulling a piece of iron wire from his pocket...

A moment later, the car door opened.

Fourth Brother He climbed into the vehicle and started tinkering around.

Several minutes passed.

Fourth Brother He was drenched in sweat.

Ding Dong looked around cautiously and said, "Are you done yet?"

Fourth Brother He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Sister Ding Dong, give me a moment!"

After speaking, Fourth Brother He ran back to Zhou Xiaoxiao's vehicle, opened the trunk, and took out a bunch of items.

He had previously guessed that vehicles might not start due to the extremely low temperatures.

Fourth Brother He was determined to cling to Ding Dong's coattails and had made thorough preparations before coming.

No one knew where this guy had gotten these things - they looked quite crude - but he appeared completely confident.

You had to admit this guy was truly talented in this area.

Ten minutes later.

The panel van's body shook as the engine sputtered to life.

The vehicle had started.

"Sister Ding Dong, success!"

Fourth Brother He's face beamed with excitement.

Ding Dong was overjoyed, quickly slipping into the driver's seat...

When Chen Ye emerged from the specialty store, he had already changed into a set of winter clothes.

Then he spotted the panel van at the entrance.

Ding Dong poked her head out the window: "Chen Ye, Xixi, Iron Lion, what do you think?"

"Sister Ding Dong, you're amazing..."

Xixi circled around the panel van, clicking her tongue in admiration.

"This vehicle has great capacity, we can load all future supplies here. Hehe..."

Iron Lion chuckled foolishly.

"This vehicle is really good, Sister Ding Dong has great taste!"

"But time is running short, everyone move quickly."

With this vehicle, the job of transporting cold-resistant supplies back to camp no longer needed to rely on Chen Ye's vehicle.

Chen Ye flipped his wrist to check the digital watch on his arm - they had already wasted thirty minutes, time was indeed short.

Hearing Chen Ye's reminder, everyone quickly started moving clothes out from the specialty store.

Regardless of whether it was men's or women's clothing, they stuffed everything indiscriminately into Ding Dong's panel van.

Soon they had filled about seventy to eighty percent of the van's capacity.

"Xixi, you guys go look for a pharmacy - there should be one ahead. Ding Dong and I will search for supplies. Everyone move quickly, let's try to solve this within an hour."

Finding a pharmacy wasn't actually difficult - in any residential area with concentrated population, each street would have at least one pharmacy, some streets even had three or four.

There was no need for everyone to stick together.

But just at that moment.

Chen Ye felt the hairs on his back stand up, a shuddering sensation instantly sweeping through his entire body.

It was!

This feeling... was an Anomaly!

Chen Ye inwardly cursed - this was bad.

Chu Che's jinxed mouth truly spoke things into existence.

Previously, Anomalies only moved at night, rarely leaving traces during daytime.

Back then, Chu Che had speculated that as time passed, Anomalies might evolve, with more and more capable of appearing during daylight.

And so, in the desert they encountered the Human-Faced Scorpion and the Headless Sand Snake.

And now...

A drop of cold sweat slid down his temple.

The Pink-haired Girl looked tense, her body adopting an attacking stance.

Iron Lion's other head, Mad Lion, suddenly opened his eyes, face full of ferocity.

Ding Dong quickly came over to stand with Chen Ye and the others.

As for the other ordinary survivors, they were already frightened out of their wits, crouching in corners trembling uncontrollably.

Anomalies were like humanity's natural predators.

Chen Ye exhaled a puff of Smoke Breath, surrounding the ten-meter radius with misty smoke.

Previously, one exhale of Chen Ye's Smoke Breath could create a seven-to-eight-meter radius of smoke mist.

After this period of cultivation, his power had surged dramatically, now able to create a ten-meter radius smoke mist with one exhale.

After three consecutive exhales of smoke breath, a large area of smoke mist had risen around them.

"Waa waa..."

"Wuu wuu..."

A series of unsettling cries descended from the sky.

Through the smoke that hadn't completely obscured their vision yet, the group looked up at the sky.

Amid the snow falling all over the sky, an... octopus descended from the heavens.

The octopus was as tall as two or three-story buildings.

Each tentacle was as thick as an anaconda, densely covered with suction cups that made people's scalps crawl.

But the most terrifying part wasn't these tentacles.

It was the octopus's head.

There were exactly eight human faces.

Old man and old woman, young man and young woman, teenage boy and girl, young boy and girl.

The eight faces were distributed across all directions, each with different expressions.

The elderly looked energetic and kindly, like retired seniors with over ten thousand monthly pensions dancing in the square.

The young adults appeared dejected and resentful, as if they'd just finished working 996 shifts only to have their boss announce this month's performance bonuses would be deducted.

The teenagers looked utterly exhausted, as if carrying backpacks weighing dozens of pounds.

The young children looked arrogant and fearless.

If these faces were on separate individuals, they might seem ordinary.

But these eight faces were all growing on a single octopus's body.

It was simply... bone-chilling!