Chapter 56: Effortless Gain
"Ah!"
Lin Fan smacked his forehead.
"I almost forgot to ask. What kind of car did you guys drive here?"
"Hehe, well, um..."
Chu Zhaozhao chuckled and pointed toward an RV.
"Whoa, living the good life. Who has the keys?"
"I... I have them..."
Hearing Lin Fan ask about the keys, Xu Qian stepped forward and spoke up.
"Alright, pull it forward... Hey? How many kWh is the battery in this RV?"
The mention of the RV suddenly reminded Lin Fan that it should have a portable power source. Not just a portable power source—the RV itself was a mobile generator...
Lin Fan didn’t have a girlfriend or many friends and had never been camping, so naturally, he knew nothing about RVs. He couldn’t tell the model just by looking at it, so he had to ask.
"The battery?"
Chu Zhaozhao didn’t know anything about it either. Just then, Xu Qian drove the vehicle over, so she shouted to him,
"He’s asking what our battery capacity is..."
"The battery? Oh, right..."
The sudden question stunned Xu Qian, but he quickly recovered. He turned off the engine, got out of the RV, and said meekly to Lin Fan,
"We rented the cheap one... It’s only 2 kWh..."
Hearing it was only 2 kWh, Lin Fan couldn’t help but purse his lips. Two kWh was fine for an emergency, but even if the RV could generate its own power, he couldn’t just come downstairs to start the engine and charge it every single time...
Seeing the displeasure on Lin Fan’s face, Xu Qian hurriedly added,
"Brother Lin, that one’s better! I saw it when we were renting. That Iveco has at least 10 kWh..."
He said, pointing to another RV at the gas station.
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Lin Fan walked over to the vehicle and pulled on the door. It was locked. He looked back at the two of them.
"But there’s no key. Have you seen where the driver went?"
"I know! I saw him!"
Chu Zhaozhao, having been quiet just a moment ago, eagerly raised her hand to speak.
"It was a fat guy in a blue T-shirt. He kept staring at us when we drove in. I remember it very clearly..."
"Bro... Brother Lin, help! ...Zombies!"
Before Chu Zhaozhao could finish, Chu Zhaotian’s panicked voice echoed from the distance. They then saw him sprinting toward them from the edge of the gas station, with three equally fast-sprinting zombies several dozen meters behind him.
"Brother!" Seeing Chu Zhaotian under attack, Chu Zhaozhao’s heart leaped into her throat. She snatched up an iron pipe from nearby and charged forward!
Lin Fan was startled by her reaction. He caught up to Chu Zhaozhao in a few quick strides, grabbed the back of her collar, and yanked her backward.
"What are you panicking for? Get back!"
With that, he charged straight toward Chu Zhaotian himself!
’Never mind whether Chu Zhaozhao could win or not; even if she could, Lin Fan wasn’t about to give her this walking 15 points of Life Value!’
At this moment, thanks to the activating crystal, Lin Fan’s life had recovered to [296/370], and he had [32] energy remaining.
He drew the short spear hanging from his waist with a reverse grip. His left arm was mostly healed, and dealing with three [300/300] zombies would be a piece of cake.
Dodging the desperately fleeing Chu Zhaotian, he gripped his short spear tightly and swung it with both arms in a wide arc at the head of the foremost zombie!
"SPLAT!"
[-300]!
Like smashing a rotten watermelon, the short spear crushed the first zombie’s head with almost no resistance.
Grayish-white matter sprayed backward in a fan shape. Even the cervical vertebrae were snapped by the immense kinetic energy. The headless body hadn’t even fallen before its head flew several meters away.
The two zombies behind it immediately switched targets and lunged at the now-closer Lin Fan.
Lin Fan, currently equipped with the activating crystal for health regeneration, was effectively under the constant buff of a [Minor Berserk Potion]. Both his reaction speed and physical strength were far superior to that of an ordinary zombie.
After easily dispatching the first one, Lin Fan threw a left front kick!
[-20]
He knocked one of them over.
Followed by a right roundhouse... spear strike!
"SPLAT!"
[-300]!
The other zombie’s head shattered on impact!
While the one he’d kicked down was still trying to get up, Lin Fan walked over and swept his spear horizontally!
SCREEECH! A harsh, grating sound rang out!
The tip of the short spear scraped a trail of sparks across the concrete, severing the zombie’s skull in two. The immense force even left a deep gash in the pavement!
[-300]!
All of them, easily one-shotted!
And by this point, Chu Zhaotian still hadn’t even made it under the gas station’s canopy...
This fluid, effortless series of moves that ended the battle left the two spectators in the back completely stunned.
"...Wow! He’s so amazing!"
Chu Zhaozhao had been running forward the whole time and was now closest to Lin Fan. Seeing the zombies defeated, she immediately ran up, clapping her hands in excitement.
Hearing his sister’s voice, Chu Zhaotian had just turned his head when he was struck speechless by the scene.
The three zombies that had been chasing him relentlessly like demons from hell only moments ago were all killed in the few seconds it took for him to brush past Lin Fan!
He knew Lin Fan had killed the horde of zombies blocking the door before, but he hadn’t experienced it firsthand.
’Is... is he even human?’
Deeply shaken, Chu Zhaotian silently made a resolution in his heart. From now on, if Lin Fan told him to go east, he would never go west. If Lin Fan told him to chase a dog, he would never go after a chicken.
He had originally been a little resentful of Chu Zhaozhao constantly sticking close to Lin Fan, but now he understood!
’Zhaozhao is the smartest one among us!’
’In this world where zombies eat people, latching onto a powerhouse like him maxes out your survival chances!’
’Besides, looking at the way my sister was acting, what if this powerhouse became my brother-in-law...’
"Hehe..."
Meanwhile, further away, Xu Qian was also silently making a resolution. ’The outside world is too terrifying. Once I reach a quarantine zone, I’m never coming out again...’
Lin Fan, on the other hand, was wiping the foul blood from his short spear on the fat, blue-T-shirt-wearing zombie’s clothes while checking the drops. It was all basic food and water, plus two [Duct Tape (Crafting Material)]...
’He’d been wanting to complain about this for a while now. What the hell was this crafting material even for!’
’If it’s a [Crafting] [Material], then at least drop a blueprint or something!’
’Was he supposed to just DIY something?’
’But he couldn’t control what his abilities made things drop. He could only take the initiative to fight more Mutated Zombies and hope for the best. It was all up to luck!’
’Anyway, he could use that Blade as a kitchen knife when it wasn’t doing anything else. If worse came to worst, he could just use the scrap metal to bludgeon people. It was a big ol’ hunk of iron, after all...’
"Hey! That’s him!"
Chu Zhaozhao, staring at the corpse on the ground, suddenly interrupted Lin Fan’s serious train of thought.
"Who?"
"The driver! The fat guy in the blue T-shirt!"
"Ah!"
It dawned on Lin Fan. He quickly crouched down to search the corpse and, sure enough, pulled a car key and a half-empty pack of cigarettes from a pants pocket.
He tossed the filthy cigarettes aside, wiped the lighter and car key on the corpse’s clothes, and pressed the button while pointing it at the gas station...
The RV received the signal, its lights flashing twice. That was the one!
The helpful driver had even put his key in a plastic cover, so it hadn’t gotten waterlogged in the rain. It still worked!
He’d gotten it without any effort at all. Lin Fan turned to look at Chu Zhaotian, his eyes full of appreciation. ’The kid’s a bit of a coward, but he’s a lucky charm...’
But when he turned, he saw him just standing there, grinning foolishly for no apparent reason.
"Your brother didn’t get scared stupid, did he..."
"It’s fine. He’s always been stupid..."
Chu Zhaozhao replied.