Chapter 62: Doomsday Pickup Truck Upgrade Completed

Previously appraising that red leather had cost 100 Slaughter Points.

For this willow branch, Chen Ye had already mentally prepared himself to spend another 100 Slaughter Points.

Though his heart was bleeding inside, Chen Ye still decided to proceed with the appraisal.

However, when the System showed it only required ten Slaughter Points, Chen Ye felt both disappointed and relieved.

The disappointment came from thinking something appraised for just ten points couldn't possibly be anything good.

The relief was because he'd only spent ten Slaughter Points.

The System quickly provided the answer.

So the great willow in Longevity Village was called the Binding Resentment Willow.

The name was actually quite fitting.

Those corpse puppets hanging beneath the great willow were essentially resentful spirits.

Wait a minute!

What does it mean by "unknown nobody"?

Could the System actually mock people?

When appraising the Flayed Ghost's Scalp before, the System had even provided an evaluation saying it could create Wonders within the top two thousand numbered ones.

But this time, the System didn't give any such hint at all.

It seemed the Willow Branch of the Binding Resentment Willow was considerably inferior to the Flayed Ghost's Scalp.

Still, Chen Ye carefully stored away the Willow Branch of the Binding Resentment Willow in the darkness.

Currently, the System still had an upgrade task in progress. He could only proceed with the next task after the System upgrade was complete.

The System could only handle one upgrade task at a time; it couldn't conduct two upgrade tasks simultaneously.

On the other hand, tasks like appraisals or Q&A tasks—

those that the System could immediately respond to—usually didn't occupy the System's upgrade slot.

If he wanted to upgrade the Wonder, he'd have to wait until after seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

Lighting a cigarette, the faint flame illuminated a small patch of light inside the vehicle canopy. The white pupil of his mutated left eye flickered faintly in the darkness.

Chen Ye's thoughts rapidly scattered.

One moment he thought about the time before the apocalypse.

Before the apocalypse, Chen Ye had just been an ordinary person.

Going to work every day, coming home, killing time watching short videos when he had nothing to do...

The next moment he thought about the present.

Like this convoy, for instance.

The convoy's Captain Chu was a young man who appeared quite refined, but was actually stingy at heart, secretly drinking tea without wanting to share.

He was even a pervert who enjoyed using the Eavesdropping Radio to listen in on others' privacy.

Occasionally, he'd even get exposed by the Eavesdropping Radio and suffer social death.

Then there was that alcoholic high school student, the pink-haired long-legged beauty.

He hadn't realized before how alcohol-dependent this woman was. These past few days since she got her hands on liquor, she'd been drunk all the time.

And then there was Iron Lion with his dual personality—usually just a simple, honest fellow, but becoming incredibly violent during fights, like a completely different person.

The scheming bitch Xu Lina, this woman overflowing with feminine charm—she definitely had her own little schemes for getting close to him.

The overly righteous university student Xiao Fu—this guy looked like he wouldn't last long.

The self-righteous Zhou Xiaoxiao, and the mature, intellectual big celebrity Zhou Lan.

And then there was himself, the chain-smoker...

This convoy was really quite interesting, everyone had their own distinct personality.

The vision in his left eye was getting worse and worse; perhaps one day he'd go completely blind.

Having the Upgrade System, it should be possible to cure it, right?

As he thought and thought...

Chen Ye only felt his thoughts growing more and more muddled, his eyelids heavier and heavier...

Time passed quickly.

Almost the instant the upgrade completed, Chen Ye opened his eyes.

He had been looking forward to this apocalyptic pickup truck for a long time.

He had long been fed up with that tricycle.

If he could have gotten his hands on a four-wheeled car, Chen Ye would never have ridden a tricycle through the apocalypse.

Just lying inside the vehicle compartment, Chen Ye sensed something different.

It wasn't that the vehicle had become taller.

But rather, it had become lower.

As if the vehicle had been placed directly on the ground.

Climbing out of the compartment, the low temperatures from last night seemed not to have existed at all.

A golden sun had replaced that eerie blood moon.

The morning sunlight each day also dispelled some of the apocalypse's gloom.

It seemed that aside from Chu Che, everyone else in the convoy occasionally experienced this apocalypse illusion.

What Chen Ye saw before him now was a majestic and domineering apocalyptic pickup truck.

Even without wheels, it still displayed this vehicle's imposing presence.

At the time, to save Slaughter Points, Chen Ye hadn't asked the System to help install the wheels.

Every little bit saved counted.

The chopped pepper fish head had a very short front end, almost like a minivan.

But now the front end was quite long.

Just like those popular rugged off-road vehicles on the market.

When designing this apocalyptic pickup truck, Chen Ye had designed a front engine compartment.

The window sections had also been enlarged, something Chen Ye had deliberately done during the design phase.

The previously pieced-together vehicle canopy now seamlessly connected with the front section, looking completely harmonious.

Originally, to have sleeping space, Chen Ye had designed the tricycle's cargo bed very long, at least two and a half meters.

The chopped pepper fish head originally had a three-meter length. With the extended front engine compartment, the entire vehicle now measured over four meters visually.

Plus the two-and-a-half-meter cargo bed.

The entire vehicle's length appeared to be six and a half meters.

Already longer than typical large off-road vehicles by a section.

Such a vehicle might be difficult to drive in the city.

But in this apocalyptic setting, it was perfectly suitable.

Chen Ye was quite stingy when spending Slaughter Points.

But once a task was confirmed, the System would complete it conscientiously.

Only the paint job looked somewhat ragged in places, with some spots revealing the original material beneath.

This was also a result of saving Slaughter Points.

Anyway, this was the apocalypse; even if the paint was ragged, it wouldn't affect survival.

This kind of vehicle better suited the apocalyptic backdrop.

Chen Ye couldn't be more satisfied with the apocalyptic pickup truck before him.

At least he wouldn't have to be the straggler anymore.

Next came installing the four all-terrain tires.

These tires were taken from that previous Wrangler. One tire had been punctured, but after the upgrade, the System had repaired that tire too.

Chen Ye took the jack from the cargo bed and started installing the tires.

The jack lifted the vehicle into a slanted position, and Chen Ye simply hoisted the tires up to install them.

For his enhanced body, though not as exaggerated as Iron Lion's strength,

completing this work wasn't difficult.

Moreover, because the design was extremely minimalist, this vehicle—which didn't even have an engine installed yet—wasn't very heavy.

Just as he aligned the wheel hub and raised his hand, he saw a face that could shift between anger and delight standing beside him.

This face seemed to have some light makeup applied, and she was wearing clean long sleeves, looking much better than last night when she'd been wrapped up like a zongzi.

This woman was none other than

the convoy's number one heartthrob, Xu Lina.

Xu Lina held a hexagonal socket in her hand, her voice somewhat hesitant as she said:

"Chen Ye, I... I saw you were overwhelmed..."

Chen Ye didn't wait for the woman to finish, taking the hexagonal socket from her and starting to install the screws.

What this woman was scheming, Chen Ye could naturally guess somewhat.

But if she thought she could become his female lead, she was dreaming.

This was the apocalypse, and Chen Ye had no intention of dragging around dead weight during the end times.

Even if this dead weight was extremely good-looking, Chen Ye wouldn't change his mind.

If danger arose, Chen Ye wouldn't mind using this pretty face as a sacrificial pawn once.

Xu Lina had no idea what Chen Ye was thinking, and she even felt somewhat happy that Chen Ye hadn't chased her away.

Only this hint of happiness was buried very deep within her.